Quote from: galpinos on January 12, 2017, 08:42:11 amAs an aside, Es Tressider (ex-Cullin Ridge record holder, runner, climber, GB ski mountaineer) wrote something about living in the highlands having an electric car as your only car. I'll see if I can find it.I've also read this and was trying to find it earlier... was an interesting read.. IIRC it was all fine apart from a round trip to Manchester airport in shitty weather when their range crapped out badly...
As an aside, Es Tressider (ex-Cullin Ridge record holder, runner, climber, GB ski mountaineer) wrote something about living in the highlands having an electric car as your only car. I'll see if I can find it.
Is it on his website?Maybe this onehttp://www.es-on-ice.co.uk/article/show/2
Hybrid for me with the next motor. Diesel is a burning platform (literally and metaphorically) - and the NO2 emissions are sonething I'm not cool comfortable with as an owner. Latest Korean offerings wedding electric with 6-7 speed auto's rather than toyota's cvt look promising. Full electric is a way off (infrastructure more than car tech) and would only become viable for me when it reliably cracks 200-250 miles (as in that distance when its cold, wet and with a headwind!!). But I love the idea of electric cars. Anyway - driverless will be here in a big way in ten years time.
Es-on-cars, it's food for thought.
Quote from: tomtom on January 12, 2017, 09:17:01 amQuote from: galpinos on January 12, 2017, 08:42:11 amAs an aside, Es Tressider (ex-Cullin Ridge record holder, runner, climber, GB ski mountaineer) wrote something about living in the highlands having an electric car as your only car. I'll see if I can find it.I've also read this and was trying to find it earlier... was an interesting read.. IIRC it was all fine apart from a round trip to Manchester airport in shitty weather when their range crapped out badly...https://twitter.com/EsTresidder/status/793227965626736640
Quick write up of 4 months of life with an electric car in the Scottish highlands:....The second was driving to Derbyshire (400 miles from here) to see family in stormy weather with gale-force southerly winds....I thought having an electric car would be one of those things, like rarely flying and heating my house at 19 degrees, that I do because I’m concerned about climate change, but that I’d rather not do. On the contrary I’d say for our lifestyle it’s a nicer, more convenient car to have. The experience so far has been really positive and it gives me hope that electric cars can very rapidly take over from ICE cars in the years to come, especially as cars with double the range of ours for a similar price are on the horizon in the next 2 or 3 years.
Full electric is a way off (infrastructure more than car tech) and would only become viable for me when it reliably cracks 200-250 miles (as in that distance when its cold, wet and with a headwind!!). But I love the idea of electric cars. Anyway - driverless will be here in a big way in ten years time.
Electric-only cars wouldn't currently work for us because of the street charging issues and requirement to do 300+ miles (Portland) in a short day. Or would they?
In an attempt to be as prophetic as possible I'm going to lay it on the line here. I reckon in 10-15 years we're all going to wonder why.t.f. we didn't push for electric sooner
Yep, it'll be like when the ban on smoking in pubs came in.
Over the medium/long term I think hydrogen will win out over leccy...
Out of interest, why?