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Old 8th December 2019, 23:51   #161
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That has just made me think - you could buy a £500 R75/ZT every year, and scrap it, every year for 50 years before you get to the price of a new Nissan Leaf. So I hope Nissan use only renewable energy in their Leaf factories, bearing in mind that the energy used in building a car is the approximate equivalent of what the car would use in 100,000 miles. Actually, a Nissan Leaf uses more energy than a 75/ZT, as it weighs around 50% more - around the same as my 2.5 diesel 4x4!
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Old 9th December 2019, 18:46   #162
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I would have thought something like this might appeal.........



However look at the prices

Who fancies one then?

Brian

P.S. I'd prefer the K2 in the background personally
That’s probably not a bad price for a fully restored converted car. I’m looking to have the mini re done and some of the quotes are eye watering. There is a company that convert minis to electric and they charge 20k to supply and fit as a drive in conversion.
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Old 9th December 2019, 20:50   #163
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I'm leaning towards a Leaf - but always been a sucker for the MG badge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQg71EZyOk
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Old 11th December 2019, 16:35   #164
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Greta Thunberg named Time magazine's person of the year!
Well done her.
Must be hard having all those who deny Climate change being caused by human activity, against you all the time.
EV vehicles are a start, maybe not the end, of trying to address the situation.
Just saying.
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Old 11th December 2019, 17:32   #165
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Endurance Sports car racing are seriously working on hydrogen power - article from Oct 2019:

https://racer.com/2019/10/18/hydroge...mans-24-hours/

The aim is to race at the Le Mans 24 hour event by 2024 with five 2 hour endurance Le Mans Cup events in 2020.

As an example Spa is about 7km long, in the 2 hours the lead cars cover 49 laps at an average (I think) speed of around 185kph (115mph).

My simple maths calculates that they cover 230 miles in those 2 hours..

I can't find any references to EV's being looked at for the series. I'm guessing because of the distance issues which means that refuelling is required - or maybe weight issues that make them uncompetitive? Very happy to re-educated.

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Old 11th December 2019, 17:36   #166
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Interesting how the argument started. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/f...swap-horse-car
and it'll go on for another hundred years without a doubt.

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Old 11th December 2019, 18:12   #167
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Ahem! See post no.2.
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Old 11th December 2019, 20:53   #168
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Greta Thunberg named Time magazine's person of the year!
Oh dear.....
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Old 11th December 2019, 21:06   #169
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Greta Thunberg is an immature teenager. Time is no longer a magazine of any importance.
EV make far less sense than hydrogen powered vehicles.
And apart from that, man made climate change is a hoax, designed to increase taxes, increase control and further globalize the theft of assets by the elite.
And people generally are too stupid to see it.
Just thinking!
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Old 11th December 2019, 21:37   #170
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As for man made heating, it is a fact, that solar energy reaching the earth amounts to 10000 times the total human energy consumption.
Or to put it simply: total energy produced by man kind in a year, is of the order of the suns energy radiated to earth in one hour!
That is the idiocy we are up against.
I am far more concerned about pollution in general and over population specifically.
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