I had a sit in an Ami when my wife bought her ec4. I'd be really tempted to wear a helmet, they are literally made of cardboard and plastic. :D
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"Are Electric Cars the future of Low Carbon Transport?"
(699 posts)- Started 15 years ago by chdot
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Posted 2 months ago #
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I'd be interested to see if there's a trail of fossil-fuel money behind the clearly staged stunt of rolling over an Ami in Monaco...
"Make the inexpensive and innovative threat to fossil consumption look dangerous, small, and for clowns. Not for the real people who drive petrol land-yachts*"
*Also easily capable of being rolled over at 20mph on a roundabout when it mounts the rear of a small car:
Posted 2 months ago # -
If we must have electric cars, can they please look like this:?
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
A lovely red and white Citroaen Ami came past me on New street the other night. Such a lovely small vehicle
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
This is a very interesting article. BYD car batteries don't use cobalt.
Northvolt in Sweden has gone bankrupt without producing anything.It appears that Northvolt will enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week; a troubling development given that no other European startup has raised as much money and carried as much responsibility for Europe’s green industry ambitions. Europe has little chance of success in battery manufacturing and for the sake of decarbonization and for its own productivity it should reconsider its play in the battery space.
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"Less than 2% of private cars in Scotland are electric. What's stopping you from buying an EV?"
Today's phone in on Radio Scotland. Not suggesting you listen but the figure for EVs is amazingly low considering how much money has been thrown at promoting them! Car ads abound but outside of wealthy Edinburgh I don't see so many. In village and around here there are maybe four and two of these are publicly owned. That's quite high I suppose.
Posted 1 week ago # -
The proportion of new cars which are electric is presumably higher, and also relevant.
Petrol & diesel cars have also had an enormous amount of money spent on promoting them, too!
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Interesting snippet from the 2023 edition of the annual Transport and Travel in Scotland publication, which is hot off the press today:
4.7% of driving licence holders owned an electric car or van in 2023. This is up from 0.3% in 2016. 54% said they wouldn’t consider buying an electric car or van in the future, up from 42% in 2022.
That is 54% of the general population, not current EV owners!Posted 1 week ago # -
The report also illustrates just how glacial the increase in active travel is. Walking is pretty much unchanged over the last ten years, and cycling up barely half of one percentage point (though you might spin it by saying it's increased by about a third in ten years...).
It certainly isn't the case though that the 54% of people who say EVs are too expensive or too hard to charge are buying bikes instead.
Posted 1 week ago #
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