What happens when the en route charge points are occupied? Do you add an extra 40 minutes to your wait time for the people already using the chargers? If so, I think I will stick with the three to five minute fuel fill up process.
Maybe we all need to stop rushing around all the time like lemmings. It’s no wonder mental health issues are spiralling out of control. Like it or not ICEs will be banned from most city centres by the end of the decade. Sheffield introducing their ULEZ tomorrow. This is where EVs make so much more sense.
I think this is where hiring ev’s will take off? Environmental measures in large cities is fine where they have a good public transport alternative but in large towns like where I live I wonder if the councils have measured the financial and social impact all these measures have cost? It’s a vicious circle, in the name off environmental planning they claimed to encourage alternative travel, they started selling off their car parks and putting the price up on those that remained to offset the loss in revenue, then the shops started to close because of the reduced footfall so they upped the rates to offset that, those that did use public transport stopped because there was nothing left to visit the town centre for anymore so they sold that off too, which went bust last year. I can easily see them next being one of the first towns to introduce an ULEZ just to hammer in the last death nail?
With respect, this is a very simplistic attitude. Both my kids live some distance away and my football team is 150 miles away. All of these journeys I make reasonably regularly. It’s not always a question of wanting to rush around, I want to be able to reasonably undertake my journey, driving and stopping when I want to, not because the car needs a charge. That is a fundamental problem with the EV technology at the moment. Of course in a purely urban environment it makes sense but it just doesn’t elsewhere.
So we just go on polluting the world until we make human life on the planet impossibly difficult? I'm not saying we don't travel, just that we have to find a better and cleaner way of doing it.
Agreed but until the source power is all from renewables and battery technology actually makes sense, EVs alone are not the answer. My point with your original statement is that simply saying “just slow down & take life a bit easier” is not always an option for everyone & every journey so any actual solution has to take that into account
Isn't the bigger problem that there are just far too many of us than the planet was ever "designed" for, but actually addressing that is something we're not comfortable doing?
I hear Termi have already looked at ‘performance upgrades’ for any future Ebikes…, though they will only fit Ducati with spoked wheels..
No I don't think it is. Its more the case that a very small proportion of the world are polluting it way more than the rest. We burn fossil fuels knowing that's warming the planet but no one has the balls to tell us when enough is enough. It's snowing in California today.
We do need to find a more collective solution. Rail travel will be the distance solution in years to come. The problem is the UK rail network is a decade or more behind many other countries.
& yet when anyone tries to upgrade it, all the nimbys & anyone anti-government says no, spend the money elsewhere. You just can’t win
Doesn't really matter how good the network is, or isn't, all the time it's held to ransom by the drivers. I'm going to Edinburgh from Surrey in July. Do I want to drive? Hell, no. Flying is ridiculously expensive and irresponsible if a viable alternative is available, but there's a big question market over whether the viable alternative will actually run...
That's a great use case and a perfect example of just a slight adjustment in behaviour needed. Most "normal" EV's will have a range of ~250 miles so you've already got ~100 miles contingency to play with. You're going to a football game so have hours to plug in and recharge whilst at the game. Plugshare will help find someone who will let you park and recharge whilst at the game. You have a parking space sorted and recharge at the same time for a fraction of what it will cost for fuel and paying for parking. Same applies when visiting the kids - either find a plugshare nearby or plug in using the 3 pin plug. Granted the latter is slow but depends on how much extra you need. You don't always need to fully recharge. In reality getting to 80% is the quicker part and it's the remaining 20% that takes time. If I'm travelling a long way for work then starting with a full charge and then a quick top up when stopping for a snack, drink, toilet break will be sufficient. I have customers who have taken their EV's to Spain and Germany through France and made it there and back. For the vast majority of drivers EV's are fine for 90% of the time - it just takes a little thought and planning for the other 10%.
“You're going to a football game so have hours to plug in and recharge whilst at the game. Plugshare will help find someone who will let you park and recharge whilst at the game. You have a parking space sorted and recharge at the same time for a fraction of what it will cost for fuel and paying for parking” … & when we’ve all got one? Where are all these free/cheap parking & more importantly charging spaces then? Seriously your “solution” is not real world, at least not yet & tbh I just can’t see it. By the way something else that isn’t real world out is finding an EV that has a realistic 250 mile range
Nice press release from Damon… way to promote yourselves by pushing your market, competitors and customers down… “With over 160 million motorcycles produced annually, the industry is responsible for being the 2nd worst emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet this staggering figure is overshadowed: motorcycles on average produce 16 times more hydrocarbons than passenger cars, which are outnumbered by motorcycle usage daily. To compound matters, a report from Ian Savage at Northwestern University finds today’s motorcycle accidents account for 212 deaths per one billion passenger miles, compared with cars at just seven. The majority of these accidents occur in intersections caused by car drivers, but are also attributed to a lack of evasive action by motorcycle riders. It was these facts combined with his passion for motorcycling that led Mr. Giraud and Co-Founder Dom Kwong to found the company.” I hope the performance numbers for their own bikes which look a bit “neat” at 200 hp / 200 mph / 200 miles range / 200 kg are more accurate than these figures. They appear to have added 100 million to the in-reality approx 60 million motorcycles and scooters actually produced annually! making all of their other related info garbage. Still waiting for actual machinery from Damon. Hope the evident blend of characteristics of Norton and Tesla start-ups does not yield the worst of both.
