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Agreed, Vauxhall really knew how to make towing cars back then. I had two of those Victor 2.3 litres in a row, then followed by a Carlton in 1979/80, all towing mine and others boats like that neighbour's yacht with ease. Something not widely known was that the Carlton was released in October...

This one was heavy and very tall, but the 2.3 litre Victor company car made light work of it from London to Southampton, including the launch:

It will compete with the home grown Citroen Ami at around that price. .

The range loss without a gearbox is the dominant factor though. To cope with the extremes of load variations, akin to towing, gearboxes already exist on some e-vans and will be in the forthcoming e-trucks. Any brake deficiency can easily be overcome with higher regen modes increasing the...

Having to plug in daily to top up the battery, as well as having to fill with hydrogen is offputting to say the least. A bit like the plug in ICE hybrid's inconvenience. Hydrogen is still a far more expensive fuel than mains electricity and likely to remain so for a very long time. Very few...

Very true, there's no way any new car is justified if the existing one still does the job well. Only when replacement is due can it make sense. And on consumption grounds towing is out for e-cars, unless wastefully designed to a greater but unknown weight specification or a gearbox is added...

Indeed, I abandoned the idea of one very quickly, even at £7k plus monthly battery rental charges. I'm guessing the £12k includes a battery. .

Thats just a four wheeled moped, not a car. And they were £7k when launched !! .

Again as in my long post above, different thinking is required. The low cost true equivalents will be dearer, but given e-car reliability, more suitable for long life. So over that long life they are very much cheaper to run in fuel, servicing, spares etc, saving the capital cost difference...

Not really comparable to a Ford Ka though for all round use, though ok for the supermarket run. .

True, but of course it's all over for ICE now in our home and many other western markets. Climate change and pollution are unavoidable brick walls. .

In market terms the game for the Prius and it's kin is over though, just look at the retreat. First they gave it a plug in option to extend its life, now they've launched pure battery electric, hiding it under their Lexus name to avoid it looking like defeat, and the hybrids will be banned in...

Although I agree with your post Danidl, it's no longer relevant to how the market is operating these days. People buying ICE cars are rarely choosing between a ICE car and a hybrid, they just buy ICE. It's people considering an e-car who are choosing between an e-car and a plug in hybrid and...

The BMW i3 let the market down with its short battery life compared to other e-cars. BMW set the performance far too high for its original battery, unnecessarily stressing it. And the range extender engine with it's far too small petrol tank and tendency to overheat made matters worse. That...

It could have made a huge difference without the way he handled things. His bullying approach caused immense harm in the fight against Covid. It got the public's back up, then multiplied that effect through provoking the police to inappropriate and even illegal excessive enforcement. The...

Euro 7 probably won't happen for a while longer, by which time the e-car or plug-in hybrid only rule will be in force, And whether hybrid can be banned before 2035 depends on how production of pure e-cars goes. We had similar nonsense with Euro 6, supposedly in force for all vehicles but not...

Perhaps we need Martin Bashir to interview him, to find out what was really said last year. .

The Dominic effect, nudge one and they all fall in the same direction. .

If we could just drop all aspects of that military pretence and stop being the USA's servile servant, we would be far better yet. .

That cryo air approach could work well for such as the C90. If the French can get 200 km range from a small car on compressed non-cryo air, a C90 should go far and well on cryogenically compressed air, assuming India could set up the universal distribution of the cryo air. Of course how green...