Joe the Plumber wrote:

As the idea is to get rid of fossil fuel powered cars, I was actually joking!

And can you imagine how popular you'd be running one outside someone else's house, at least until it was nicked.

seriously it has a 600cc BMW 2 stroke driving a generator under the boot floor. Traction battery gets to 3% Range extender kicks in and charges the traction battery (it doesn't drive the wheels) like how Locos work. you can drive it like its stolen and still get full BEV performance and the battery never goes flat. Ours only every kicks in on a maintenance cycle every so often.


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Was that a factory fit option and what is the vehicle? Seems like a brilliant idea as back up.

Zed wrote:

Smilesapart wrote:

But how is this going to work for the 100’s of 1000’s of people living in terraced houses and flats? Often they can’t even get to park anywhere near their homes at the best of times. How are they all going to charge their cars up?

London will have all the street chargers it needs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-5...-of-london

Bows wrote:

Personally i can’t understand the obsession with electric vehicles, surely a switch to hydrogen fuel would be far easier, its easy to make hydrogen and as quick to refill as petrol or diesel. The amount of work needed to produce the amount of extra electric needed to charge these vehicles all over the country would be unthinkable. Not to mention the enviromental impaxt it would have, and after all, isn’t that the issue we’re trying to solve??