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hybrids are the future.I have commented on this before, possibly even here.
But, as an ancient, I 'm sure a little amnesia can be excused.
EVs predated the IC engined vehicles by nearly a century.
The constraints then were the same as they are now. Plus some.
Cost, range, and recharge time.
For sure, they had niche markets. Milk floats in the early morning were quiet, had a defined route, and hours to recharge before they did it all again. Electric fork lift trucks have intermittent duty, no toxic fumes so no problems operating inside a closed building, and not usually never very far from a charging station.
Road going cars.....
For many people doing commuter hops, range is manageable. My round trip to the office is about 50 miles so that could work for me - for that part of my job at least. Getting to, say Kent, and back, about 200 miles would challenge most EVs.
Then there is the recharge time. Maybe 30kWh.....without a special charger, you're looking at ten hours plus. Not altogether convenient if you get called out at 02:00.
But, I think the greatest constraint is the finite capacity of our electrical infrastructure.
If everyone in my street had to rely on an EV and charged it overnight, the distribution system couldn't come close coping.
hybrids are the future.
bassically a genny on wheels with electric motor powering the wheels.
electric cars are consumers.They are a consumer, not a generator.
The energy to propel the vehicle has to come from somewhere.
For a hybrid, it is usually petroleum or a derivative of an oil based fuel.
Yes, hybrids have electric motors driving the wheels. The merits hybrids have over the IC only vehicles are mainly twofold. The more efficient operation particularly in urban stop start situations and their ability to capture and store regenerative energy that would otherwise be dissipated/wasted as heat in the brake discs.
For F1, the pinnacle of motor sport, cars have gone through several iterations in the last few seasons. From V12 3.0 to V10 and now 1.6 V6 with a turbo. And the introduction of KERS. Kinetic energy recovery system.
The aim is to make the sport "greener". Or perhaps to develop greener solutions. Or to give a greener image. The 100kg fuel allowance per race and maximum fuel consumption of 100kg per hour as Daniel Riccardo evidently fell foul of are all to do with that greener PR. All nonsense in my opinion - but I don't run the show.
Oh, yes. I did have a point here.
Hybrids still consume oil. It's a finite resource that we are consuming at a hugely, enormously, vastly greater rate than it was/is ever being produced. At current rates of consumption we will run out. Most experts, including those from oil companies put it at decades.
A proliferation of hybrids and more fuel efficient vehicles may spin it out a bit - but it is still a finite resource.
No, I'm not a greenie, I have no time for Greenpeace and their antics. Or environmentalists of any hue who don't have an ounce of common sense between them.
I'm just an ugly and pragmatic old fart.
By the time the problem comes round to seriously bite us, or you, on the bum I will have long since shuffled off my mortal coils.
As are hybrids.electric cars are consumers.
Well in that case it's just a case of installing a socket just like any other socket
The most important part is making sure you qualify for the subsidies.
have a look at amendement 2With the Fork lift chargers, some require a type C MCB, I seem to recall?
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