Big Kev wrote:durbster wrote:Almost certainly going electric this year for Mrs Durbs next car to replace her Suzuki Swift Sport.
You can be my carbon offset then cos I'm thinking of going the other way with a 5.0L V8
Really funny you should say that because that's
exactly what I'm planning too (been seriously looking at Jag XKs...)! So I'm sorry, you may have to find another way to offset yourself.
Big Kev wrote:
But I think they've gone about this electric stuff all wrong. Most of the pollution they're trying to solve is in the cities so if you could encourage people to use electric there with very cheap leases then I think more would take it up rather than trying to push everyone in to it. I would not be averse to something like a Fiat500 that I could lease for £50-100/month just for commuting and then keep the petrol for weekends and longer trips. That way my local pollution is nothing because I'm commuting on electricity and if I want to go further afield or have a nice trip out somewhere any pollution I'm making is blowing away in the wind over the fields.
From an environmental point of view it makes more sense to get city-dwellers on to public transport (or bikes) rather than encouraging them into cars though doesn't it?
But that's what I have in mind - a small EV to do all the local journeys and a bigger ICE car for
fun longer trips. As we do have a driveway we can charge it at home and won't have to deal with the ropey charging network too much.
I've no idea how you solve the problem in remote areas of a country as big as Australia. Some journeys can already take days so adding 40 minutes of charging every couple of hours isn't going to sit well. At least charging times are improving and you have a lot more potential for solar based power.