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Ideal for camping in the city ..
Hydrogen uses quite a lot of energy to crack the water, some of the scottish islands have such a surplus of wind energy from their wind turbines that all their cars are already electric and they can't use all the power. Hence they're using the untapped electricity to create the hyrdrogen and selling it on.The concept of hydrogen fuel cells has been around for a while, but has never taken off because hydrogen is difficult to store safely in fuel tanks. Unlikely to catch on imo.
Like many technologies, the commercial or political dimension decides whether a technology attains mass adoption, so unless some big players get behind an idea it doesn’t take off. EV’s despite their limitations seem to be gaining momentum (pun intended) and have a nice green label, despite their currently questionable overall environmental credentials.
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A neighbour drove his Tesla from South Lincs to French Med. coast with an overnight stop mid France plus meal breaks with rapid charges, so had no issue as he'd previously done the same trip a few years ago with a mid France overnight stop etc.I think this would be great for a daily driver locally, I am personally ready for an electric vehicle. I can see an electric Beach being a potential goer but an Ocean for me wouldn't be practical.
Charging a tesla with its 300 mile range on a 10amp connection takes 4 days, yes you read that right, 4 days! So a 300mile range on a van is likely to take even longer than that... A special charger is 32amps so much faster but thats unlikely to be available on campsites for a long time. That's assuming that campsites could take even 10amps for a pre-longed high throughput, I wager not.
So for me it's probably be OK for a week long holiday in the same spot but you couldn't tour in that could you? Even with the proper chargers it would be 20-30hours to get it full from what I've heard.
I have a dream one day to convert my T25 to Electric, I'm waiting patiently for the tech to advance and these products are only bringing that date ever closer. Exciting times.
One thing will be certain, it will be a lot faster than todays vans.
So VW are releasing an all electric powered version of the T6.1 including a California version in Autumn 2019.
It states a range of upto 300 miles, but how do you all feel about a 300 mile range? Is that enough? Its the charging that worries me?
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Quote from Top Gear
"Alongside a bunch of 2.0 TDI diesels (topping out at 196bhp) there’s now a fully electric version, developed with the help of tuning and motorsport specialists ABT and possessing 110bhp. With the option of a humongous 77.6kWh battery, it can travel almost 300 miles on a charge. Though we suspect that’ll fall depending on how you drive it and how heavily you load it"
I’ve heard a story about someone in a Tesla who had to wait 4 hours to get a charging bay, having been just pipped to the post for the last one. Maybe there was some exaggeration, maybe not.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...-electric-car-charging-motorway-services.htmlOut of curiosity, how much does it actually cost to charge an e vehicle at motorway services, in price per kw?
I agree. Because the Cali is an all rounder, the combination would well for short trips and then leisure runs. However anything that burns carbon has now fallen foul of the politicians (*) so hybrids must die too.I think that Hybrid would be the best if both worlds. I travel 10 miles to work so a range of 30 minutes would be ok for me. At the weekends I travel a lot and a 300 mile range would not be good for me.
A friend at work has a hybrid car but has said that he won’t get another one. To charge it it is like boiling a kettle for 3 hours plus the company car tax is rising so cutting down the savings.
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Pete
The latest diesels are much better than expected so I am not concerned except for the attitude of politicians ( a breed I dislike). Anyway who has costed the price and replacement cost of these large batteries. One thing is certain they will not go down in price due to numerous factors.
I think most people miss the fact that in most (all?) e cars you lease the batteries and never own them. They are actually worth more than the RRP of the vehicle so if you read the Ts and Cs carefully then this is where it generally lands. FWIW I work for Tesla.
That’s what an e-Cali will need, one of them on the back for when the battery goes flat!Wow HC, here’s what’s sat in the garage in the project queue. Full race kit spec.
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Dont forget the Gov will have a close eye on diesel sales falling so diesel tax falling, so we'll be driving ev cars and then boom, the gov will start adding more taxes on electricity and will hit us all and it will go from 4p per mioe to 14p. No way the gov will not want their slice of the cake soon.Pricing makes sense then - at my nearest VW dealer the other week they had an eGolf with a big banner saying 4p per mile, matches the above.
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