Are we being forced to go electric?

[DRM]

Why would they need to?

Most armed forces vehicles run on diesel, and are likely to continue doing so for many years.

They aren't going to have electric tanks in main army use until there have been sufficient improvements in the technology that their downtime will be little more than current diesel powered ones.

That’s my point, they all use diesel, and are set up with with fuel bowsers, Jerry cans etc, they will not go electric, ever imho

 

[Baldy]

Tanks are a thing of the past, they'll be drones from now on. They refuel mid-air and the operators just change shift so they can stay up indefinitely.

 

[cougie uk]

Not if we can’t defend the UK, as all our fighting vehicles are charging up!

I'm pretty sure our drones and the largest subs don't run on diesel.

Good job we don't buy our gas from Russia eh ? They'd have us over a barrel literally.
Oh.

 

[MrGrumpy]

My 2018 Nissan Leaf made a futuristic sound below 20mph. I think the Leafs have done this way before any concern.

What ever happened to taking personal responsibility? You know, when we were taught as kids to look and listen twice before crossing roads.

Every other f****r these days just needs to blame somebody/something else for their own ineptitude

My 2018 Nissan Leaf made a futuristic sound below 20mph. I think the Leafs have done this way before any concern.

What ever happened to taking personal responsibility? You know, when we were taught as kids to look and listen twice before crossing roads.

Every other f****r these days just needs to blame somebody/something else for their own ineptitude

I was talking about guide dogs , you know the ones the blind people use ???

 

[CXRAndy]

Dogs have amazing hearing-far superior to any human. They tend to come with working eyes too, several years of training

 

[MrGrumpy]

Dogs have amazing hearing-far superior to any human. They tend to come with working eyes too, several years of training

I’m well aware of that however they are trained to certain sounds etc . It was obviously a problem hence the change from 2019 as quoted above ?!

 

[CXRAndy]

No, its not a problem

What it is, is a contrived problem by anti change lobbyists.


If you dig a bit deeper, you may find some oil or ICE manufacturer is a sponsor of this fictitious news

 

[MrGrumpy]

No, its not a problem

What it is, is a contrived problem by anti change lobbyists.


If you dig a bit deeper, you may find some oil or ICE manufacturer is a sponsor of this fictitious news

Oh ffs . I’m outa here

 

[simongt]

Recent 'report' by whoever is now saying that there's currently not enough of the metals around to make all the batteries that the world's electric cars will need.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Recent 'report' by whoever is now saying that there's currently not enough of the metals around to make all the batteries that the world's electric cars will need.

Really !!?? Never surely not ….

 

[figbat]

We’ve been running out of oil for as long as I can remember. Still plenty left though.

 

[simongt]

We’ve been running out of oil for as long as I can remember. Still plenty left though.

Like the North Sea gas that was going to keep the UK going for however long and now we're buying gas from Russia - !

 

[newfhouse]

Recent 'report' by whoever is now saying that there's currently not enough of the metals around to make all the batteries that the world's electric cars will need.

Build fewer cars.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Like the North Sea gas that was going to keep the UK going for however long and now we're buying gas from Russia - !

Plenty gas I believe the problem was storing it , well storage needed upgraded so rather than spend the money they just didn’t bother

Edit plenty oil as well just a bit expensive to get out of the seabed !

 

[Slick]

Plenty gas I believe the problem was storing it , well storage needed upgraded so rather than spend the money they just didn’t bother

Edit plenty oil as well just a bit expensive to get out of the seabed !

Probably still not enough but Ineos at Grangemouth spent rather a lot of cash upgrading their facilities to store more Gas. Agree about the oil, I think it is now widely accepted that we will run out of the need for oil long before we actually run out if oil.