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arista 06-10-2024 12:31 PM

People are not buying Electric Cars in the UK
 
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Dogeatdog 06-10-2024 01:09 PM

The problem I have with electric cars is that they’re not really long term. The batteries in these cars will perform so badly after 6 or so years that it will just be a similar situation we have with mobile phones. A battery in an IPhone 8 would be pretty poor compared to one in an iPhone 16, and that phone is only 7 years old so imagine if it was a car that you are using everyday, especially if you commute long distance.

Also I can’t see how they’ll work for logistic firms. How could a lorry go fully electric and if it did, how heavy will that battery have to be to power it? It would literally take all the weight of the lorry, you’d have this massive 18tn lorry but the payload weight would be tiny.

arista 07-10-2024 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog (Post 11516725)
The problem I have with electric cars is that they’re not really long term. The batteries in these cars will perform so badly after 6 or so years that it will just be a similar situation we have with mobile phones. A battery in an IPhone 8 would be pretty poor compared to one in an iPhone 16, and that phone is only 7 years old so imagine if it was a car that you are using everyday, especially if you commute long distance.

Also I can’t see how they’ll work for logistic firms. How could a lorry go fully electric and if it did, how heavy will that battery have to be to power it? It would literally take all the weight of the lorry, you’d have this massive 18tn lorry but the payload weight would be tiny.


Yes PM Starmer needs to get more Chargers Built
and tell us

bots 07-10-2024 12:29 PM

Starmer will postpone the deadline unless he wants to put the new car industry out of business in the uk. People will just buy 2nd hand cars and the price of older cars will rocket

James 07-10-2024 01:58 PM

Electric cars are just too expensive.

The point about technology is to build on what has gone before. Not through it away and start again.

Beso 07-10-2024 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog (Post 11516725)
The problem I have with electric cars is that they’re not really long term. The batteries in these cars will perform so badly after 6 or so years that it will just be a similar situation we have with mobile phones. A battery in an IPhone 8 would be pretty poor compared to one in an iPhone 16, and that phone is only 7 years old so imagine if it was a car that you are using everyday, especially if you commute long distance.

Also I can’t see how they’ll work for logistic firms. How could a lorry go fully electric and if it did, how heavy will that battery have to be to power it? It would literally take all the weight of the lorry, you’d have this massive 18tn lorry but the payload weight would be tiny.



Very insightful...

arista 08-10-2024 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James (Post 11518543)
Electric cars are just too expensive.

The point about technology is to build on what has gone before. Not through it away and start again.



Yes, the main problem.


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