When are you going fully electric?

OspreyO said:
Actually all I'm doing is mirroring your posting style. You don't seem to like it. That's the Irony.

Cable doesn't reach or two cars can't fit side by side is an infrastructure layout problem. it's not something a driver can fix with positive mental attitude.

We can cover petrol pumps. High speed EV chargers should be the same. Simple as that. I'm all for convenience. Not sure why you want drivers who could be old, or other types of people dragging cables though mud getting soaked. It's not like you didn't complain about it.

This is just stupid design and poor thinking.. Why you'd want to defend that I've no idea.
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Poor thinking. I’m on about a 7kw post charging of course I’m not putting a 100kw cable in my boot!
 
Simon said:
Dunno. Why you have to be a dick cause I said I just put a wet cable in my boot is beyond me too. Little man syndrome I feel?

So it isn’t an issue they are not covered and too far. Got it.


Can we talk about something more interesting now.
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Conscript said:
In an ideal future, every single car park would be covered with awnings with a charging outlet for every space. Top the awnings with solar panels to assist the output. Cars can charge regardless of where they park, and you can stay dry carrying your shopping back from the shop entrance :)
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In lordrobs' utopian idea of an ideal world there would be no need to worry about charging at all as you simply pull up into a space and either via inductive charging or some doo-hicky that pops out of the ground and makes connects with some contact points under the car.

Then I wouldn't even have a minor counter point to the horrors of ICE refuelling while scrounging a few free kWh from a Tesco PodPoint :p
 
lordrobs said:
In lordrobs' utopian idea of an ideal world there would be no need to worry about charging at all as you simply pull up into a space and either via inductive charging or some doo-hicky that pops out of the ground and makes connects with some contact points under the car.

Then I wouldn't even have a minor counter point to the horrors of ICE refuelling while scrounging a few free kWh from a Tesco PodPoint :p
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Wireless chargers under every road - charge while you drive!
 
Simon said:
Dunno. Why you have to be a dick cause I said I just put a wet cable in my boot is beyond me too. Little man syndrome I feel?

So it isn’t an issue they are not covered and too far. Got it.


Can we talk about something more interesting now.
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I'm just mirroring your comments though I refrained from your name calling. If your comments are civil mine will mirror that.

I'm all for convenience. Life to hard and too short not take advantage of positive changes.
 
lordrobs said:
Honestly, Scalextic had this licked years ago. Tiny battery to get you to the nearest major road, drop the brushes and boom, you're off.

The only spanner in the works being a build up of carpet fluff :p
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Oh man I used to love slot cars cars. Happened to be somewhere in Spain off peak in when the WRC rolled in for a few days. They had a massive Scalextric display on at the same time, was awesome.
 
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Conscript said:
My GFs use case is a bit weird. She works from home and only occasionally has to do a long drive to her office. She owns a horse and has to go to the stables daily, but it's only a few miles, as would be any local driving for the shops, etc. Usually this would full BEV territory; even her office commute would be no more than about 140 miles a day. But...she also needs to tow a horsebox every so often. For obvious reasons you absolutely don't want to be caught short for range, and can't stop to charge up for long periods with a horse in tow. So I reckon that a PHEV, even with a modest battery-only range of maybe 30 miles or whatever would be ideal - that would be enough for all the daily local driving, could do all the short trips into town without even firing up the engine. But then if she needs to go to the office, that's not a problem, and it would be less worrisome when towing Trotter McLong-face around.

Still looking at options at the moment. I did consider starting a PHEV thread for ideas and discussion but didn't know if it would step on the toes of this thread too much.
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Horse box could be more tricky one in both PHEV and EV land due to towing capacities. EVs that can tow any meaningful weight tend to be both large and at the more expensive end.

My Model Y maxes out at about 140 miles with a standard caravan on the back. It should go a further with a horse box on the back as they are typically smaller and closer to a compact caravan which I’ve seen people get 160-170 out of the same car but the car can only tow 1600kg which isn’t a lot. But yeh I can see you don’t really want to be having to stop and rapid charge a car with a loaded horse box.

How much weight does she need to tow and how far?
 
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