Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.

JimH · Post by **JimH** » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:14 am

Not even the UK. As long as London's air gets a bit cleaner who gives a fuck who suffers?

AMCrebel · Post by **AMCrebel** » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:49 am

Since we don't have many reserves of any kind of minerals etc, we have always relied on fucking up the rest of the world to get things we want - electric cars aren't new in that respect, just fucking up different people/places.
As London and other big cities - I would rather set fire to my own hair than live there - but I don't blame them for trying to have a bit of clean up. Not sure I'd be doing it the same way mind you.

Asimo · Post by **Asimo** » Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:51 pm

Cities have been ruined by meeting the needs of vehicles rather than the needs of the people who live there. Electrifying cars will improve air-quality a bit, but will do nothing at all to mitigate all of the other problems.
What might help is mandating a maximum weight for city cars, 500kg.
No off-road parking place? No car.
Delivery, Taxis, utilities in cities? Electric only.

LynehamHerc · Post by **LynehamHerc** » Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:19 pm

Isn't Japan a bit like this which has driven the development of their Kei cars?

JimH · Post by **JimH** » Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:23 pm

Asimo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:51 pm Cities have been ruined by meeting the needs of vehicles rather than the needs of the people who live there. Electrifying cars will improve air-quality a bit, but will do nothing at all to mitigate all of the other problems.
What might help is mandating a maximum weight for city cars, 500kg.
No off-road parking place? No car.
Delivery, Taxis, utilities in cities? Electric only.

I would argue the opposite. Cities have been choked and in turn made life significantly worse by refusing to meet the needs of personal transport.

Old Wrinkly · Post by **Old Wrinkly** » Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:05 pm

Possibly a leisure market for these, but not at £35995 on the road.

https://mokeinternational.com/gb-en/?ut ... qeZRQjz0WE

LynehamHerc · Post by **LynehamHerc** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 11:36 am

I wasn't certain where to put this but here seems as good as anywhere:

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physi ... test-finds

FatherJack · Post by **FatherJack** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:20 pm

This cunt started it all....

Eddie Honda · Post by **Eddie Honda** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:41 pm

LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 11:36 am I wasn't certain where to put this but here seems as good as anywhere:

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physi ... test-finds

Designers want a ”clean” interior with minimal switchgear, and the financial department wants to lower the cost.

Bloody bean counters!

borniteidentity · Post by **borniteidentity** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:41 pm

I rather like mine. It costs, when charged privately, about 10ppm and I claim it at 45.

I took it on lease because of the overhanging cloud of a congestion charge in Cambridge. It’s paid for by the business.

The power delivery is amusing. 320d hero’s trying to hand me my arse on a Monday morning always gets a smile.

Are they the future? Probably not. Do they have a place? I think so. Does everyone have to be so fucking adversarial about it? Absolutely.

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