Electric cars

[Ivan Cloherty]

Ivan if the Black cabs on diesel can no longer run what will they be replaced with?
Electric is all well and good but where ae the re-charge points going to be? and what happens to the cabs already on the road?

Cabs will be hybrid and electric, Sadiq Khan (Mayor) said there will be a scrappage compensation scheme as now being practised by some car manufacturers, up to £6000 for diesel cars built prior 2006, and Khan is seeking additional compensation from Govt coffers for Black Cab owners. I would have thought it would not beyond the wit of some entrepaneur to set up a re-engining facility for Black Cabs as new ones are currently running at £50,000.

Plenty of recharging points in London and no doubt there would be more installed on all taxi rank vicinities at all major rail stations

[John Pruden]

surly disposal of the batteries are more of a problem are they still acid powered {I don't know} but why not start the fracking and cars could run on gas from our country running our cars no pollution coming out no won't work the tree huggers society would be up in arms?jp

[Keith Tindell]

Apparently as things stand the batteries have a mileage capacity for cars of about 150 miles, some quotes for replacement batteries are at about£800, so this is not going to be a cheap method of transport i think. Although the development of batteries is improving, they are always going to be expensive, another idea is to have solar panels on the roof of the cars. At the moment it seems a hybrid is the only real choice, but battery replacement is still expensive, kt

[Ivan Cloherty]

surly disposal of the batteries are more of a problem are they still acid powered {I don't know} but why not start the fracking and cars could run on gas from our country running our cars no pollution coming out no won't work the tree huggers society would be up in arms?jp

Unfortunately common sense does not suit the Green Party or their dogma, nor does it suit the politicians as they would have to try and justify another tax source and those who object to fracking want us to be totally reliant upon foreign sources for everything

[Lewis McColl]

Well as methane is being produced at an alarming rate according to some, g1-760x520.jpgwe could always go back to this idea lol.

[John Pruden]

ivan what would this country have done if the green party had their say at the turn of the last century no mines no gas but a small hole in the ground pumping the gas out making hundreds of thousands of jobs and yet people listen to them? no logic at all is there. they want to save the planet yet just talking for the sake of making a noise me thinks? jp

[cappy]

Well as methane is being produced at an alarming rate according to some, we could always go back to this idea lol.

###you probably will in france lewis when we get out and herr junker has the reins lol cappy

[Lewis McColl]

Cappy the amount of gas and wind that comes daily from the houses of Parliament and the house of Lords could power the city of London.

[vic mcclymont]

Apparently as things stand At the moment it seems a hybrid is the only real choice, but battery replacement is still expensive, kt

Hi Keith, you selling the batteries of cheap?
The new Renault electric car is approx £14k to purchase, if you don't want to rent the batteries, car costs £19k.
The range of this car is 120 miles in winter and 184 in summer, requires 7 hours to charge the batteries.
Vic

[Keith Tindell]

I see they are having a pop at Lord Lawson, as he believes global warming is a con. I tend to agree, the world is undoubtably warming up , but to believe mere humans can change it is arrogant, we can of course cut back on some of our extremes, but its a means of tax revenue. ``they go on about switching tv, s off instead of standby etc etc, more heat generated by firing bloody rockets at one another all over the world kt