Are we being forced to go electric?
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cougie uk
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The average car in the UK does about 140 miles a week. Just about any EV would do that off one charge now.
Towing you may not !? Also battery optimisation, apparently to get the best they need to be kept between 20-80% . So don’t run them flat and don’t over charge when not needed . Ensures a longer life ? So range is now less than whats advertised!
Or tow trailers or have roof boxes on their cars ? All will have an effect in range with a battery powered car. By how much I don’t know. Right now the only advantage EVs have are running costs that’s it everything else is a compromise. However that’s where we are heading isn’t it. The more I read up on EVs the more I need to keep the Death Star running for as long as I can 
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Or tow trailers or have roof boxes on their cars ? All will have an effect in range with a battery powered car. By how much I don’t know. Right now the only advantage EVs have are running costs that’s it everything else is a compromise. However that’s where we are heading isn’t it. The more I read up on EVs the more I need to keep the Death Star running for as long as I can
Well no, the main advantage is zero emissions. And that is the reason they are being mandated by law in the future. Hopefully, by the time we are all using Evs, the electricity generation will also all be renewables.
I disagree , there is nothing zero emission about an EV. That’s already been pointed out and as for renewables , well I’d like it to be a future to look forward to but I’m just not seeing it. Going to be larger demand for electricity.
Lets hope hydrogen comes available for cars who would buy a used electric car .With the cost of petrol/diesel going up by the day and now teaching £1.50 a litre, I wonder if it is a conspiracy by the automotive industry and the government to force us to buy electric cars?
Mrs G wants to go to Bideford soon to visit our daughter and it is going to cost me £100 just on petrol !!This is mad. Many families are going to be price out of motoring as electric cars are far too expensive for most of us.
A simple Clio is around £28000 !!
I despair for the future.
PCP or lease , after all that’s what most folk are doing these days . Not many have £90k to splash down on a Tesla .
Alex321
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False, of course.
The fact that the production (and decommissioning) produce emissions does not in any way mean "there is nothing zero emission". They are absolutely zero emission in terms of polluting the air in our cities.
Yes, there is an awful lot of "hope" in that, rather than any properly justified plans.
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The Boss has an E-Pace. When it was in for a repair, they gave him a 90k Tesla as a courtesy car.
He hated it and said it felt cheap and the interior was nasty and plastic, not a patch on the Jag
Shhhh you will get hung drawn and quartered for saying stuff like that in here ! ? Ps I’ve heard similar mentioned !
Absolutely zero at tail pipe , well they don’t have one
! However everything else with them has a huge environmental cost .- Status
