Electric cars

Martyn1981

AdrianC wrote: »

Well, yes, diesel-electric is hardly new tech, is it?

Which kinda makes it even stranger that you were trying to argue diesel over electric for heavy plant just yesterday, when you were already aware that for serious grunt work electric motors are already the go to choice.

Tum te tum ...... problems for solutions .... tum te da ..... no solutions to problems ...... sing along Ade ..... tum te tum ....

AdrianC

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Which kinda makes it even stranger that you were trying to argue diesel over electric for heavy plant just yesterday

You do understand the difference between simply using electricity as a transmission medium and as a power source, right?

Martyn1981

AdrianC wrote: »

You do understand the difference between simply using electricity as a transmission medium and as a power source, right?

Yes thanks.

Herzlos

AdrianC wrote: »

You do understand the difference between simply using electricity as a transmission medium and as a power source, right?

Yup. The latter is the far better option in the long run because you don't need to muck about with diesel.

AdrianC wrote: »

Anyway, you'll have to excuse me - I must get packed for a 250-mile-each-way weekend, with no idea what the parking's going to be at our friend's house in the centre of a small, historic East Anglian town... Next weekend's going to be 200 miles each way for camping in a Yorkshire village pub's beer garden.

Just think how much you'd save on fuel if you did all of that in an EV. It's such a shame you'd need to stop somewhere and eat lunch with your savings.


Give it another generation and you probably won't even need the food stop.

Martyn1981

AdrianC wrote: »

And, returning to the subject...

The SMMT have released August 2019 new car reg figures.
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

Ade, how many of those August BEV's were TM3's? And as a follow up, have you licked them all yet to check they are real, not vapourware?

DrEskimo

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Ade, how many of those August BEV's were TM3's?

I suspect you already knew the answer and wanted someone in particular to say, but in my excitement I am going to spoil it and tell you...

2,082!

zeupater

DrEskimo wrote: »

I suspect you already knew the answer and wanted someone in particular to say, but in my excitement I am going to spoil it and tell you...

2,082!

Hi

I looked at the SMMT website just after the data was released ... amazing how 'snobbish', 'uninterested' or 'anti-EV' their publications actually paint them to be ...

... third best selling vehicle in the UK for the month of August from a manufacturer that's been selling considerably more vehicles than many other marques in their various reports for quite some time and all the provider of sales data & other statistics is capable of providing is a catch-all category of 'other'!! .... quite shocking & bordering on pathetic really, but I suppose that they don't want to upset the long-standing members by highlighting deficiencies!

HTH
Z

Martyn1981

DrEskimo wrote: »

I suspect you already knew the answer and wanted someone in particular to say, but in my excitement I am going to spoil it and tell you...

2,082!

I've no idea what you could possibly be eluding too?

Martyn1981

Being lazy just mentioning something I watched yesterday, but the new Mini-E (being sold as a Cooper S version/equivalent) is also priced the same after plug-in grant as the petrol Cooper S, around £25k.

That sounds very interesting to price them similarly. The car is shortish range (130 miles I think), but equal pricing, nice.

Car_54

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Top trumped me thinks! Or sticking with the nautical reference, hoisted by your own petard.

A petard is not nautical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard


And the word wot Shakespeare wrote is "hoist", not "hoisted".