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I agree, personally I would prefer to be dead before I am cremated. Though the environmentalists will probably tell you cremation is bad for the environment also.After the recent spate of folk getting locked in their EVs and fires I’m now considering getting a clockwork car:
The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires — BBC News
Dealing with an electric car fire takes up to 10 times longer than tackling a conventional fire.
Probably have a better range than some EV’s if you did!After the recent spate of folk getting locked in their EVs and fires I’m now considering getting a clockwork car:
The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires — BBC News
Dealing with an electric car fire takes up to 10 times longer than tackling a conventional fire.
Well Ive just taken the plunge. Ive bought................ an Aldi battery mower. 1st cut was performed with ease and, touch wood I am pleased. In another 50 years I will be in the right frame of mind to buy an EV. The mower does take a battery change mid job however rather than doing 2 cuts on a tank. I think thta illustrates my doubts about evs. That and the fact its half the width and has no power drive....After the recent spate of folk getting locked in their EVs and fires I’m now considering getting a clockwork car:
The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires — BBC News
Dealing with an electric car fire takes up to 10 times longer than tackling a conventional fire.
So not a "ride on " then?
And it took many decades before that technology was fully understood.
And it took many decades before that technology was fully understood.
Wow, I didn’t realise they had light hearted car forums back then? You learn something everyday on here!
I’m not having a go about their future worth or their ‘newness’ teething…but, if you’ve read the article, I don’t want to be trapped in a fiercely burning car that has its credentials ‘conveniently’ abstracted
Wouldn’t be so bad if the fiercely burning car actually had a physical connection from the interior door handle (probably now a button) to the door latch mechanism so you actually had the option to exit the vehicle whether it had lost power or not! Each to their own though
You are of course right. Top Gear illustratedcthey kept doing it into the 60s with their tests of the AM. DB5 and E Type Jaaaag. Of couse then EU got a hand on it and things (emiisions etc) are now all sorted.... Like the 90hp Panda Waze. Oh no, that was a website error. . .
In fact petrol engines are the worst culprits emmitting the finest particulates. A properly sorted diesel with dpf and cat is less harmful AND, uses a LOT LESS fuel. We just need to use a lot less fuel. Smaller lighter and slower where its possible. This does not just mean where we feel like it. The source of motive power is important but secondary. Now we have paticulates from the tyres of super high torque Ev tyres as well which are another substantive issue / pollutant
No, the british have always had their car cliques, most car owners are very insecure that way.
I see. Now i get it
Usual media hype, just about every manufacturer has had a car ready to go up in flames.
I’ve never been locked in one, to be fair to all, yes, anything electronic/electrical can fault and lock, look at the scare stories about folk being submerged and the cars central locking and windows trapping people in their cars. It’s just the speed and intensity of EV battery fires and the environmental disaster that they are. There’s a lot of greenwashing about EVs and by ‘abstraction’ I meant that their ecological impact is in sourcing the raw materials, both ecological and ethical, and disposal…it’s as far removed from the EV as possible, the generation of electricity is more an abstraction than oil/gas/coal/wood
I’m not knocking EVs as such, we need to combat climate change, but like pandanut says, small, light, economical, not the huge three ton SUVs and certainly, especially here in ‘yummy-mummy’ SUV kids-run rural North Yorkshire, why? Just why?
The mass public are stupid, always have been.
