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Post by OldGit on Mar 13, 2024 21:22:52 GMT 1
Does anyone actually 'want' BEV's though? - certainly in their current L-Ion powered form they're like having the pin for a grenade in one hand and the grenade in the other... Aluminium batteries are coming on-stream soon (apparently) and Hydrogen is starting to play catch-up. Hydrogen infrastructure can be installed pretty much in tandem with existing fuels and doesn't require the whole upstream infrastructure to be beefed up.
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Post by Noberator on Mar 13, 2024 22:49:56 GMT 1
Also in our local rag.More to this so will try and keep you posted as it wasn't far from me where he ran out of battery power between junction 10 Croft and junction 11 Birchwood on the M62.
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Post by remmington on Mar 14, 2024 7:26:12 GMT 1
There is that, but CRD's rarely burnt down your workshop and removed your ability to make an income... I don't think there were any special insurance price hikes or the requirement to have additional detection and spread-of-fire prevention equipment either.Don't get me wrong, I don't mind working on EV's, I just wouldn't want one within 50 metres of my house. The problem for an insurance underwritter is: And I get it... Car repairers are only gonna get faulty EV's with flat battery's. And that is where the biggest risk is - faults and flat batteries - for fires! Plus insurers are insisting on spaced parking for EV/PHEVS with faults (so you gonna need a bigger car park). We had to get Level 4 training and we cannot get cover for inside charging.
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 14, 2024 11:55:34 GMT 1
There's a Nissan out now with a petrol engine that just powers the motors..Like wtf is the point?!!
LPG never took off because of about two incidents..How many EV fires have we had in the UK in the last couple of years?!!
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Post by chippie on Mar 14, 2024 12:18:32 GMT 1
There's a Nissan out now with a petrol engine that just powers the motors..Like wtf is the point?!!! Well it’s nothing new or innovative.. It’s how diesel electric trains work..except with a diesel driven generator rather than petrol…..but I agree for a car, wtf is the point?
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Post by rhyds on Mar 14, 2024 15:33:05 GMT 1
There's a Nissan out now with a petrol engine that just powers the motors..Like wtf is the point?!! IIRC the Nissan setup is that you have a battery electric hybrid with a petrol engine running as an onboard generator. The theory is because the engine is only there to run a generator it can be tuned to run very efficiently and with low emissions as it only has to run at a single fixed speed. LPG never took off because of about two incidents..How many EV fires have we had in the UK in the last couple of years?!! I don't think it was safety that was the main blocker for LPG uptake in the UK, more a combination of few cars being sold with LPG from the factory (IIRC it was only Vauxhall that did it in any real volumes)and the aftermarket kits being very variable in quality. A mate had his Kia 4x4 LPG converted with a Prins kit, and despite being a professional conversion from new it still managed to burn out valves.
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 15, 2024 8:34:01 GMT 1
There's a Nissan out now with a petrol engine that just powers the motors..Like wtf is the point?!! IIRC the Nissan setup is that you have a battery electric hybrid with a petrol engine running as an onboard generator. The theory is because the engine is only there to run a generator it can be tuned to run very efficiently and with low emissions as it only has to run at a single fixed speed. LPG never took off because of about two incidents..How many EV fires have we had in the UK in the last couple of years?!! I don't think it was safety that was the main blocker for LPG uptake in the UK, more a combination of few cars being sold with LPG from the factory (IIRC it was only Vauxhall that did it in any real volumes)and the aftermarket kits being very variable in quality. A mate had his Kia 4x4 LPG converted with a Prins kit, and despite being a professional conversion from new it still managed to burn out valves. Nissan: still seems a bonkers idea. The whole point of EVs is that they are supposed to be zero emissions. Lpg: Yes I used to fit kits to brand new Vauxhalls..Punter thought Vauxhall were doing them! A lot of so called professional firms were fitting kits and not setting them up correctly. I've seen some real shockers.
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