Milzy
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We’ve just had some. Our battery technology isn’t good enough yet to store the wind power long term either.
Are we being forced to go electric?
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We’ve just had some. Our battery technology isn’t good enough yet to store the wind power long term either.
Not were i live, had plenty of wind and the wind turbines upon the mountains have been churning away nicely….
midlife
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Jameshow
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Great until the grid has nicked your power, then the grid goes down so you plug in the car and then your mother has a heart attack 100 miles away and you have 20% charge...
FishFright
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Then you find yourself lost on the moors, in the dark lost on the moors and in a hole, lost on the moors in the dark in a hole with an owl !
Milzy
Guru
Our friends visiting family in some north Scottish island. Leaving the MG electric at home & taking the Merc DERV as there’s hardly any power points up there.
Electric isn’t the silver bullet. Talk about kicking the can down the road. Imagine if they had to pay their cobalt miners a fair wage and the whole supply chain charged more, the final price would be even more crazy.
Electric isn’t the silver bullet. Talk about kicking the can down the road. Imagine if they had to pay their cobalt miners a fair wage and the whole supply chain charged more, the final price would be even more crazy.
FishFright
More wheels than sense
There's a huge cobalt mine opening in the US , with the associated infrastructure. Plus others in Canada and Australia already in advanced planning stages.
No private cars is the only silver bullet but lifestyle blah blah blah
Milzy
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I’ll believe it when I see it. Most of the cobalt is in the Congo. The big companies will buy it much cheaper from there thank you please.
Alex321
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Presumably, you think commuting means only driving in cities, for a few miles.
That isn't the case for a lot of us. Probably for most who don't walk or use public transport.
Here are at least two places in each direction on my commute to work where I get over 28mph on my bike. And if I'm taking the car, it is about 16.5 miles, with only about 2 miles of that in 30 or 20 limit roads, and 5 miles on a 70 limit dual carriageway.
cougie uk
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What's she doing 100 miles away ? I only saw her an hour ago and she was 10 miles away.
I guess you never have a glass of wine or beer either just so you're always 100% ready to go.
cougie uk
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Really ??
I bought my EV through a bloke who lives in Orkney.
He picks up EVs all over the UK and drives them home or vice versa.
What remote island doesn't have electric points but does have electric to pump diesel ?
cougie uk
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Every cyclist knows there's no shortage of wind.
Why would the grid nick my power…..you dont send it to the grid, you use it via your hybrid inverter to run the house, now if an ev is fully charged with a 50kwh battery, that would run my house for about 10 days based on current usage. We havent had a power cut were i live in the 18yrs i have lived here, so we actually woukdnt use the cars power. Mother has heart attack, no probs, she lives 5miles away….can jump on the ebike and be there in 20mins, mother in law has heart attack, no problem, she lives next door…
stop thinking that every one has the same situation life wise as everyone else, because we dont.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Storm Arwen. Many were without power for days.
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