Toyota

[Ivan Cloherty]

Ivan, you been watching Dad's Army, when Jones lorry was fitted with a gas bag. Lol
Vic

Remember seeing them in the Yorkshire flatlands where we eventually ended up after being bombed out three times

[happy daze john in oz]

You lot are well behind.
Here in Oz two states have already introduced a ten cents per kilometer tax on electric cars.

But the biggest development in cars now is Hydrogen, in time many of the rare earths needed for batteries will push the price to such a level they will no longer be cheap.

[Doc Vernon]

Imagine Travelling from Perth to Sydney in one then, if you could ! Mmmmm?? Waste of time for me that is!

[j.sabourn]

#11. Reckon Hitler had you on his Hit list Ivan, knew you were going to be a danger to him in the future. A Messerschmitt came strafing down Richmond Park Road as they used to do to get rid of all the weight for their return flight across the channel and my mother managed to get back in the front door followed by a hail of bullets. She reckoned until she died that they were out to get her. I went back to the house years later and sure enough the bullet holes were still there. The blitz in the early days was brazen as were in full daylight , later the Luftwaffe lost too many aircraft and were more prone to do raids in the dark , which was the time of the night time spitfire . My mother worked in the factory where they were built. As a kid we progressed from the Mickey Mouse gas mask to the grown up ones . JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

The only thing I have to thank Hitler for is that he gave me a taste for travel, having been bombed out in three different cities and also being an evacuee, also got to love the taste of cardboard! Naturally my mother blamed me everytime, my older sister never got blamed for anything, how my mother located us at times when evacuated I don't know. Makes you appreciate every day you are alive and today's lot couldn't envisage that world, and hopefully never will, but the constant moaning about not being able to celebrate Christmas together, just gets up my nose, its not the end of the world, but then again if you do spend Christmas together, it may be the end of your world.

How we went from Toyota to Bombs, is just one of those strange things on this site, but then again there is a connection, because if we went fast in our old cars we called it 'bombing along' something to do with the speed of bombs I suppose.

[Tony Taylor]

I see the chancellor has been saying that after 2030 there will be a big hole in his coffers from electric cars and the road tax, so stand by, he will be looking else where, kt

That hole is pretty well dug already.

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes the war, or maybe removal van, always at the ready.
Moved more times that you could poke a stick at it.

Drinking tea from jam jars as the cups were all broken, bread and milk for breakfast just before the next bombing raid.

The younger generation have no idea what they missed and now say they are doing it tough, well all I can say to them is maybe you over cooked it because you have not the slightest idea what t was all about.

Now where did I park that Toyota I borrowed??

[Keith at Tregenna]

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[happy daze john in oz]

Victoria, yes there have been a number of fires from such batteries even in some cars.

But the battery system will not survive, it requires too much in materials such as copper to make them and the major mines are coming to the end of their useful life. Plenty more out there but in harder places to mine.

Some of them ae so big, but will only give a few hours of power at a time.

The long term solution for all power source is Hydrogen which slowly is gaining momentum.

[vic mcclymont]

Trouble with hydrogen is that it requires energy to produce the gas.
Vic