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Rossy.

GRM wrote: »

You've not seen a Tesla Roadster then?

No i haven't actually

Don't do much reading up on car's if i'm honest.

I'll have a quick google

EDIT: Had a look.. Looks like a lotus to me.. Nice looking but still impracticle. does 245 miles on a full charge. don't say how long it takes to charge it though.

Still it don't matter how pretty they make them, I'll still never be convinced to change over

Hammyman

saver_1 wrote: »

If you put down a deposit of £3850 and take advantage of the governments £5000 grant it will cost just under £100 a week so it will certainly be in a lot of peoples scope due to not having to buy petrol the £100 i would have thought you could recoupe. It's costing me £54 for just over a week in petrol now.

Its costing me £20 a week in diesel, I do 200 miles. Add car finance at £25 a week and for most people, it'll cost TWICE AS MUCH as owning a "normal" car.

saver_1_2

Hammyman wrote: »

Its costing me £20 a week in diesel, I do 200 miles. Add car finance at £25 a week and for most people, it'll cost TWICE AS MUCH as owning a "normal" car.

Not if it's bought outright. The same goes for any other car with finance owing on it.

TVR2

Hydrogen is the answer. This is a highly compromised stop-gap.

Also, you can guarantee the govt will find a way to pile tax on electricity bound for cars if these sell well (or if that's too hard to implement, just tax ALL electricity to silly rates).

vikingaero

GRM wrote: »

You've not seen a Tesla Roadster then?

A Lotus Elise in drag with a £80-100k price tag. Still looks ugly compared to the pretty Elise.

The_Biff

I've just invented the internal combustion engine. It's great but the huge drawback is the fuel. We'll have to import it from the Middle East & retail it at special refilling stations all over the place. These will cost a bomb to build & how do I get the fuel from the Middle East to the UK.
I think I'll drop this idea & think of something a little more sensible.

[Deleted User]

It's not really clean is it. Not while we still have coal burning power stations.

Lum

It was an awful lot easier to deploy infrastructure 100 years ago compared to these days. Plus we were using oil long before the internal combustion engine was invented, and we didn't get it from the Middle East either.

Hammyman

saver_1 wrote: »

Not if it's bought outright. The same goes for any other car with finance owing on it.

Which part of the included finance on the conventional car did you miss?

vikingaero

The electric car still has a long way in terms of improvements and longevity. Imagine the scene. You live in London (good urban environment suited to electric cars and I'm not using a motorway or cross country scenario which favours combustion engines). You have 10 miles to go home. Except it's dark and London is as usual gridlocked. You have your lights on, crawling in traffic, you daren't listen to the radio for fear of draining the battery. Do ya feel lucky punk? Range anxiety is a real problem when things are unpredictable.