New Gearbox

That's very interesting but with the push to electric everything I wonder if it'll ever be used in any powered transport.
 
Well, I suppose the answer to that is it depends if electric becomes the dominant technology. I imagine it could be used in hybrids, or some other form of drive.
 
Absolutely fascinating and an aspect of it's function reminded of the workings of the Wankel Engine.

I can perceive, as mentioned above, it's usage in Hybrid drive trains. Also potentially in electric vehicles drive trains e.g. small scale versions at each wheel.... AFAIK this would make fully independent 4 wheel drive = very useful on off road terrain!
 
ecoleman said:
There is simply no way that electric will be the only method of powering transport.
Click to expand...

When all UK and European manufacturers have gone woke and gone bust it'll be up to the Chinese what we drive, if our leaders will let us drive at all and lets be honest we wont need to as everything we need will be just 15 minutes walk away.
 
woof woof said:
When all UK and European manufacturers have gone woke and gone bust it'll be up to the Chinese what we drive, if our leaders will let us drive at all and lets be honest we wont need to as everything we need will be just 15 minutes walk away.
Click to expand...
If everything is battery powered there won’t be anything anywhere near 15 minutes walk away from you. Ships, trains, trucks, vans, heavy plant to excavate all that lithium and colbalt, cranes to hoist wind turbines. None of them can be powered by batteries.

Thankfully not all car manufacturers are going the same route as faguar with many of them pulling out of EVs as they just can’t sell them.
 
Plenty of electric vans available...
 
As a person who has no interest in motorised vehicles (of any kind), and who does not drive, let me play devils advocate for a moment.

I just came a cross this it is part of an article from a the newspaper, ( The Guardian 2 months ago).

"The UK is expected to rely on record levels of imported electricity this winter, the first since the world’s longest high-voltage power cable began importing enough clean electricity from Denmark to power 2.5m British homes."

If this is true, then where do people think the extra capacity needed for chargine electric vehicles or indeed the extra 1.5 million homes reportedly being built in the next 5 years will come from?.
 
Carpy2001 said:
If this is true, then where do people think the extra capacity needed for chargine electric vehicles or indeed the extra 1.5 million homes reportedly being built in the next 5 years will come from?.
Click to expand...
The electric car mania was funded by using taxpayers' money to bribe customers to switch. That hasn't worked, so what do the manufacturers do?

www.bbc.co.uk

Ford calls for incentives to buy electric cars as backlash grows

The government faces pressure from the industry to make changes to electric vehicle sales quotas.
www.bbc.co.uk

Because if it doesn't work, just do it again and again and again..... :tumbleweed:
 
Carpy2001 said:
If this is true, then where do people think the extra capacity needed for chargine electric vehicles or indeed the extra 1.5 million homes reportedly being built in the next 5 years will come from?.
Click to expand...

The government (and some people) don't have the mental capacity to question things like that. They think that wind and solar are going to solve everything.
 
Last edited:
Carpy2001 said:
As a person who has no interest in motorised vehicles (of any kind), and who does not drive, let me play devils advocate for a moment.

I just came a cross this it is part of an article from a the newspaper, ( The Guardian 2 months ago).

"The UK is expected to rely on record levels of imported electricity this winter, the first since the world’s longest high-voltage power cable began importing enough clean electricity from Denmark to power 2.5m British homes."

If this is true, then where do people think the extra capacity needed for chargine electric vehicles or indeed the extra 1.5 million homes reportedly being built in the next 5 years will come from?.
Click to expand...
They missed a bit from their explanation of why we are importing so much power.....we just shut down the last coal fired power station this year. And if we can buy cheap clean power from Denmark then why shouldn't we? Nobody seemed that bothered when we had to import oil from countries we otherwise wouldn't want to do business with.
 
ecoleman said:
Just because they're available doesn't mean people are buying them.
Click to expand...


Plenty around here. Amazon, university, council as well as a fair few tradesmen.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top