When are you going fully electric?

Simon said:
How long does it keep versus E5 currently used in all UK pump gasoline ?
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I cant the answer but AA and RAC and plenty of others are saying it will be much harder to start a car which has been stood with E10 petrol.

E10 shouldnt be used in anything pre 2002 apparently so thats 600,000 cars still on the road.

And cars on E10 may will produce 6% less pollution but they will do 3% less mpg so everybody will spend more on their petrol each week.
 
Greebo said:
I cant the answer but AA and RAC and plenty of others are saying it will be much harder to start a car which has been stood with E10 petrol.

E10 shouldnt be used in anything pre 2002 apparently so thats 600,000 cars still on the road.

And cars on E10 may will produce 6% less pollution but they will do 3% less mpg so everybody will spend more on their petrol each week.
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Awe man I was waiting for Nasher to reply. I think he is still busy googling though.
 
I see Fiat have got round to releasing an electric 500 to compete with the (relatively) cheap runaround market in a couple of battery sizes (and cabrio version) here. Starts at £20k. Not sure if it's exactly the same as the limited release e500 they did for a couple of states in the US but another car on the market.

Then of course we have the Model S Plaid (cliff-notes video):

 
SDK^ said:
There have been some automated battery swap station concepts reported to be in development on some EV websites.

The problem I see is that it appears to take 15-25 mins to swap a battery and the stations can only handle one car at a time. As EV’s get more popular these stations would be overwhelmed with queues forming. The cost to require land for more stations would be very prohibitive.

Also, public charging speeds are improving and 20mins is the time it takes for newer EV’s to charge from 10-80%.
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go 6 mins in for the battery swap...3 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsrDpsYHrw&ab_channel=FullyChargedShow
 
Greebo said:
Surprised at that. It seems there is no Uk legislation which states that you have to have a "round " steering wheel. Lokms like there is in the US though and that is where they may struggle.
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The US market is the only place the new Model S will be sold initially. So obviously they've considered the legislation there. :)
 
Greebo said:
Seems not resolved yet and Tesla also has the new Model S with a round steering wheel in pictures in case it doesnt pass US regulators.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-tesla-model-s-x-steering-wheel-details/
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That article was from Jan '21, and of the 25 or so cars delivered at the launch event last week it seems that many of them had the newer steering wheel design. NHTSA haven't made a public statement regarding the regulations in place, but I doubt delivery would have been allowed unless they were due to advise accordingly.
 
Journey said:
That article was from Jan '21, and of the 25 or so cars delivered at the launch event last week it seems that many of them had the newer steering wheel design. NHTSA haven't made a public statement regarding the regulations in place, but I doubt delivery would have been allowed unless they were due to advise accordingly.
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Well presumably then they got it passed by them. But interesting none the less they had a round steering wheel ready just in case they did hit problems with the regulators so it certainly wasnt cut and dry.
 
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