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I disagree. Mid electric motor brings back all the transmission disavantages of propshafts, extra UJs etc. Battery replacing the fuel tank is a non starter, far too rear-heavy and crash vulnerable. The EV battery underslung with low C of G and protected between the two axles is the only right...

MGUY and all those like him just dont get the whole picture. Since I joined the trade as a trainee motor mechanic in 1950, I've always wanted an e-car, even though they didnt exist. Talk of climate change didn't exist back then, my reasons being that I knew how much better the e-car was at...

It's not about strength, it's about the stupidity of the multiplicity of those grooves and angles trapping soiling for a miniscule saving of energy, more notional than actual. Clearly a boffin who doesn't do the washing up, no doubt his wife does that while he dreams up more crackpot ideas. .

Quote: "The rocket-inspired fins create an oven-like effect and improve heating efficiency by up to 80%." And make the pans far more difficult and awkward to wash up after cooking. .

Batteries in laptops, buses, cars and e-bikes have all caught fire in explosive ways because of dendritic crystals forming in cell electrolytes, causing shorts. It's also what is holding up the introduction of solid state lithium batteries. Just Google the subject for any number of scholarly...

We are never going to be able to compete with the Orient, so our western manufacturers are on the right lines by going upmarket with fewer sales at high margins. Our consumers seem to like that too, few ever bought Citroen 2CVs and few buy Dacia now. That fewer cars policy suits governments...

Not so, you really are prone to gross exaggeration. Rather like back in January when you reckoned we would soon have no e-buses left in London at the rate of two lost a week, since two had just burnt out in one week. In fact that didn't happen since the charging routine causing the problem...

I think not, since for almost the first decade of e-cars it was by far the largest seller, yet with the least problems, especially compared to their nearest competitor Tesla and their many fires. Not only that, it was clear that the fires the Leaf suffered were often easily identified as...

One point often overlooked is that e-cars still have the 12 volt normal car system powered by the usual lead acid battery for all the usual electrical functions. The traction battery only powers the traction motor through its controller and a low level charger to top up the lead acid battery...

It wasn't a suggestion, the occasional fire starting from dendrites forming in common cylindrical li-ion cells is firmly established fact. As is the cause, inadequate manufacturing control. Don't you remember the very large number of laptops exploding in flames when not on charge or in use...

As you know, common Li-ion cells can and sometimes do self ignite through dendrite crystals forming and piercing internal insulation, creating shorts. It just needs one defective cell out of the thousands that are often used in an e-car battery to create a runaway uncontrollable fire. That is...

Of course I'm sure, I live here. Read my post. Your examples are both in flat central Croydon where there and in North Croydon quite a few e-bikes are used for meal deliveries. Indeed I saw two Saturday midday as I drove away from a scan appointment at Croydon University Hospital in London...

His accent is fine, very understandable English. What he doesn't understand is the purpose of the EU Commission. Its sole purpose is to work towards integration of all the member countries into a single country called Europe, opposing all attempts to do the opposite. That is why it is silly...

The GLC monitor routes doing physical vehicle counts, but a high proportion of th e-bikes they see in Westminster will be those of the three e-bike hire companies, Lime being the largest of them. Those e-bikes are in use all the time for quite short journeys. Sinces the users are not doing...

Neigh. It's never been about efficiency and economy, it's only ever been about pollution produced by the vehicle. I.C.E. vehicle exhausts pollute wherever they are. EVs don't have an exhaust, their "exhaust" pollution is produced elsewhere where it hopefully can be dealt with. .

In London we restrict our use of hydrogen fuel cell buses to the very few unavoidable longer routes. Re-planning routes had enabled our battery buses to cope with almost any need. The hydrogen for London's buses is produced at Air Liquide's plant in Runcorn, which uses waste hydrogen as a...

As Aristotle said, "There are those who are born to rule and those who are born to be ruled". And both conspire to ensure that it remains ever thus. .

That's historic, the early first series Leaf with the lower voltage and capacity battery. There's been lots of changes since then, including the batteries far cheaper now than that quoted £10k. Here's the chassis and battery of my current model:

That is largely correct. Not having a true gearbox, just a single stage reduction, they can only have an electrical "neutral" to allow them to be moved slowly a short distance. For example in a conveyer belt car wash, or winched onto a collection truck inclined platform, or pushed to the side...

Nobody is pretending there are no e-car disadvantages, least of all me. There are pluses and minuses for each, I just ask everyone to look at the whole picture to comment fairly. In this respect there is an emergency top up on route for e-cars, both the AA and the RAC carry top up equipment...