What type of fuel in the future

I can appreciate it if you want pure waft, but I'm not really like that at all. I don't plan on having more than one car at once, so i'd like it to be decent in town, on a B road, or on the motorway or even on a track.
 
Tute said:
I'd just get one petrol car to use all week?

I appreciate why people have a weekend car but it doesn't do anything for me at all. I'd rather just buy something that I can always enjoy. :)
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If you can afford to use it as a daily driver.
Rather than a track car. With ever increasing congestion, it's a rare opportunity you can actuall enjoy a drive these days. Although I did have a nice blast on the bike last evening. Shame it was just one road about 5 miles long in a 30mile + ride. The rest is just traffic and or lights.

And that's ignoring the real possibility of v2v communicatin becoming mandatory in the future. Which will limit you speed wise, brake for lights if you don't and the like.

Seeing as petrol usage has slumped, I would suggest cost of motoring in conjunction with other costs, is allready limiting people non essential traveling. Let alone in another 10,20,30 years time. When alternatives will be far cheaper, much better than they are now and have the needed infrastructure.
 
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Well that would depend on a number of things. I can't predict what my wages would be when/if fuel ever reached £5 a litre, for example. But if I could pay it, I would certainly try to.
 
sigma said:
Neither is being stuck in traffic on the M25.
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being stuck in traffic is a PITA regardless of what powers your vehicle. :confused:

[TW]Fox;21560805 said:
Whereas sitting at the lights in a 2 litre TDI is?
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I don't not have a 2litre TDI so this doesnt really apply.

I can see a need for an EV to take over from a derv as an economic mode of transportation but I just cant see performance vehicles moving away from petrol engines until every drop of oil is depleted.

Jonnycoupe said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqs_DtL83w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shocker in EV isn't silent.
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it might not be silent. but its hardly exciting now is it? :o
 
Any reason why not?
Electric has lots of advatages higher and faster torque delivery, lower COG due to where you can place the motor and size of motor.

We just need one of these battery developments to be proven successfully in mass production and economically viable. Which should happen well before petrol runs out. Due to effeciency we need an energy/weight density just 1/3rd of petrol to be directly comparable.

Can't wait to see results of IBMs test in 2013, that could be a massive breakthrough. Also love the fact they used supercomputer to find a suitable compound to make it stable. That's always been the issue with air batteries. They are by nature unstable. So if computer is right then we have a massive step forward in battery tech.

Also I think new generations will be far more into Electric than our generation and they'll have little care about having an ICE car.
 
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rjkoneill said:
being stuck in traffic is a PITA regardless of what powers your vehicle. :confused:
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That's my point. For most mundane stuff (i.e what the majority of people use their cars for) there is no need to have a 5.0 V10 which is why the EV is fine for most people and most journeys; most daily journeys aren't exciting.

Glaucus said:
Can't wait to see results of IBMs test in 2013, that could be a massive breakthrough. Also love the fact they used supercomputer to find a suitable compound to make it stable. That's always been the issue with air batteries. They are by nature unstable. So if computer is right then we have a massive step forward in battery tech.
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Sounds interesting, do you have any more information about that?
 
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