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?"
(707 posts)- Started 15 years ago by chdot
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Posted 6 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 6 months ago # -
If we must have electric cars, can they please look like this:?
Posted 4 months ago # -
A lovely red and white Citroaen Ami came past me on New street the other night. Such a lovely small vehicle
Posted 4 months 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.
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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 4 months 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.
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The online vehicle platform expects a “seismic shift” towards electric vehicles (EV) in the next 10 years as affordability improves, from 1.25m in 2024 to 13.7m. The EV share of the new car market will rise from about 18% to 23% in 2025, according to Auto Trader.
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While Toyota has remained relatively financially resilient because of its early lead in hybrid vehicles, Japan’s other carmakers are struggling to come up with the money to invest in the switch away from polluting petrol and diesel to cleaner electric vehicles. Hybrids, which combine a petrol engine and a smaller battery, remain less expensive to produce for manufacturers.
At the same time, Chinese manufacturers such as BYD and SAIC have aggressively targeted electric cars as a way of grabbing a much bigger share of the global car market. China’s Foxconn, which makes iPhones under a contract with America’s Apple, had reportedly started early discussions about an approach for either Honda or Nissan, prompting accelerated merger talks.
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https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/honda-nissan-mitsubishi-merger-talks-deal-china
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“The inclusion of full hybrid technology would be a catastrophic misstep and make a laughingstock of the UK government’s world-leading zero-emission vehicle policy,” he told the PA news agency.
“If lobbyists do persuade government to include full hybrids it would be a big backward move.
“The ramifications for the nascent EV industry and for fragile consumer confidence could be profound.
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Posted 2 months ago # -
Plug in EVs still seem to sell. Prius model popular with taxi trade of course. Their modest all electric mode good for the tiny LEZ if they care to engage it.
They are a bit crazy though in terms of weight with two engines etc. In future VED will maybe have to be on vehicle weight as the pollution aspect will diminish.Article linked below shows how the vehicle share is swinging towards Chinese brands. New make BYD just supplied buses to TfL. Something Tesla are unlikely to do as South African born Musk doesn't 'get' public transport. Local new build house has a BYD battery so they're going for all sorts of markets.
Don't agree with all of it but interesting graphs. Rest of the world is of course a tiny amount of sales - currently only about same as UK which is only double that of Norway (with EVs zero VAT rated)
https://autonomy.paris/has-the-european-auto-industry-hit-rock-bottom/Posted 2 months ago # -
The figures also confirmed the SUV’s rise to dominance in Britain. The “dual purpose” vehicle class, which contains many of the models marketed as sports utility vehicles, outsold other types of car such as the supermini for the first time. SUV sales were helped by the shift to electric, as bulkier cars have more space for a battery.
Bigger car = bigger battery = more weight = even bigger battery
21st Century Vehicle Logic. The answer is always more. Weird.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I recently bought an electric car - MG5 range 235 miles. Reasons for doing so
1) a lot cheaper than I originally thought
2) our existing car was a Ford Ecoboost and I was spooked by the timing belt stories so I wanted rid asap
3) we have already invested in green living eg solar panels etc
4) I can often get electricity very cheap so 'fuel costs' will now be negligible most of the timeIt is really nice driving it but I would recommend you look at both pro and anti videos before getting one.
Posted 2 months ago # -
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But of late the sheen of owning a Tesla has begun to wear off. For years the brand has been synonymous with Elon Musk and his stance against the climate crisis. Recently, Schwede watched aghast as the Tesla CEO poured hundreds of millions into backing Donald Trump as he made promises to ramp up domestic oil and gas production.“
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