[arista]

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15mins on - Good Debate on Newsnight
Friday


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[Dogeatdog]

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]

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog

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]

Originally Posted by James

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.