SwingsitlikeHogan
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If I want to buy a new car in a few years time, current petrol engined new vehicle phase-out timescales mean that I am going to have to. But not yet.
You would want to buy new, not nearly new?If I want to buy a new car in a few years time, current petrol engined new vehicle phase-out timescales mean that I am going to have to. But not yet.
Does your cable not lock in when the car is locked?
It should do or else the cable could be stolen.
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While it is an unteathered charging point, it has an electronic lock. So it stays lock all the time. I will be in the market to get a longer charging cable since the current one needs the car to be parked in a certain way. It is easy at the moment, but it is not my car's historic natural parking position..
That's why I went tethered, 7.5m cable which is just right. When it was the Corsa it was ok to charge anywhere I parked apart from was bit of a stretch if I parked one spot one way round. Still doable
Kia tho has the charge point on the front so it's perfect
I like the Tesla approach.. chargers on both sides at the back.
Charging in front is good for home charging, but if you use a public charger, then you will have reverse out rather than drive away..
Whilst it's a valid point, and a concern if we do nothing we are doing the same / worse damage constantly just standing still.
At least with increased mining of materials it's for a long term plan to reduce usage rather than carry on as we were forever
Can you connect the dots between these statements (my emphasis) being drawn from the report? Already high impact, reducing availability and increasing demand. Doesn’t sound like a long term plan to me.
The stripping of Earth’s natural materials is already responsible for 60% of global heating impacts, including land use change, 40% of air pollution impact, and more than 90% of global water stress and land-related biodiversity loss, says the report, due to be released in February.
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Higher figures mean higher impacts,” he said. “In essence, there are no more safe spaces on Earth. We are already out of our safe operating space and if these trends continue, things will get worse.
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Electric vehicles, for example, use almost 10 times more “critical raw materials” than conventional cars, and reaching net zero transport emissions by 2050 would require increasing critical mineral extraction for them sixfold within 15 years.
It's pointless. Apparently, 2 wrongs do make a right.Can you connect the dots between these statements (my emphasis) being drawn from the report? Already high impact, reducing availability and increasing demand. Doesn’t sound like a long term plan to me.
The stripping of Earth’s natural materials is already responsible for 60% of global heating impacts, including land use change, 40% of air pollution impact, and more than 90% of global water stress and land-related biodiversity loss, says the report, due to be released in February.
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Higher figures mean higher impacts,” he said. “In essence, there are no more safe spaces on Earth. We are already out of our safe operating space and if these trends continue, things will get worse.
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Electric vehicles, for example, use almost 10 times more “critical raw materials” than conventional cars, and reaching net zero transport emissions by 2050 would require increasing critical mineral extraction for them sixfold within 15 years.
It's pointless. Apparently, 2 wrongs do make a right.
I can't speak for Bunkermagnet, but here's my response to your question...Again I'll ask. What would you rather do? Continue as is just burning fossil fuel?
It may not be the best alternative but it's the best we have right now and better than what we are doing.
I can't speak for Bunkermagnet, but here's my response to your question...
What I would rather have is for the governments of the world to remove their blinkers and take a step back from pushing pure EV as THE SOLUTION via legislation.
Doing that dissuades research into other potential alternatives to ICE cars burning fossil fuels.
Suppose we lived in a perfect world where clean electricity was cheap and plentiful. Then it might actually be a good idea to manufacture gasoline (or similar) from H2O + CO2 + electricity so that vehicular transport could continue to use a fuel that is far more energy dense and quicker to replenish than any kind of battery. (Gasoline has ~9kWh per kg, about 30 times that of lithium batteries, and you can easily get 500kWh of gasoline into a car in a couple of minutes).
Yes, I know that this is far less efficient than just using the electricity directly to power cars. But if using batteries to power cars is significantly less convenient and the electricity is cheap enough, that's not an issue.
The above is just one possible scenario. There might be others yet to be discovered. Green hydrogen might still be worth investigating. (It doesn't look very promising right now, but with more research that might change).
By rushing headlong into a purely EV future, we are constraining ourselves. And legislation is actively placing such constraints on us. It's not worth spending the money to research possible other technologies if the law makers have already made up their minds, so those other technologies which might turn out to be way better than EVs in both practicality and environmental impact might never be found. Politicians need to think before jumping on bandwagons.
Did you actually read it? Because for example:What's the other option? Do nothing at all?
Problem is, its never going to be an either/or situation.Again I'll ask. What would you rather do? Continue as is just burning fossil fuel?
It may not be the best alternative but it's the best we have right now and better than what we are doing.
Did you actually read it? Because for example:
More remote working, better local services and low-carbon transport options such as bikes and trains could be as effective as ramped up vehicle production in meeting people’s mobility needs, with less harmful environmental impacts, the report says.
Problem is, its never going to be an either/or situation.
Fossil fuel extraction will still continue, at least, in the form of oil.
EVs still need lubricants. They still need tyres and they will, judging by the demand for cheap over anything else, still need plastic, and lots of it.
These are all petroleum by-products from crude oil. So whilst we might need less petrol and diesel, because these are by-products, we’ll still need a load of crude to produce them. All that will happen is the 60-odd percent thats not currently by-product will swap round and we’ll be drowning in excess petrol and diesel that now has no purpose.
So in addition to batteries as a power source, someone needs to be also looking at mass produced plastic replacement for interior parts and also proper synthetic oils. Unless you want to trust your old chip fat to stop your wheel bearings glowing red and sheering off at speed, of course.
My experience is that "recycled" plastics aren't always all that they are cracked up to be (having worked with a manufacturer a few years ago) and use only a small percentage of recycled material as "new" plastic is needed to make it viable.Whilst I agree and I'm not saying we stop fossil fuel entirely but we still need to tail off our usage. I'll give the example of the Kia. Vegan leather , the roof lining? Recycled wall paper, plastics ? Recycled , paint? It's some kind of low oil paint
Now that's not perfect but more manufacturers need to start doing the same.
Repair where possible rather than replace
All new builds should be constructed with solar and battery storage