Electric car rapid charging costs soar, says RAC - BBC News
"Right now, VAT on electricity from a public charger is levied at a rate four-times that which applies to domestic electricity, which makes it far more expensive to charge on-the-go than it should be,"
Z.
Add more solar? That simply doesn't help does it B, what happens on wet, dull, winter, or other useless days, is charging then not allowed? This whole scam is crazy, yet few see it for reasons which are completely beyond understanding. Electricity has to be dispatchable, there is no alternative. I know Boris and co cannot understand this, but Engineers?
Right Dave.
I still not got mee heed round hybrids of the type that are electric yet solely powered from the fossil fuel in yer fuel tank. Can`t be green energy at all can it?
The way I see it anyway.
1/ If you drive your fossil fuel car up a hill purely to charge your batteries on the downhill journey = poor use.
2/ If you are going to drive up that hill irrespective and on the downhill journey you may as well charge your battery up anyway, well I suppose a little greener than option 1/.
3/ If you charge your batteries from the grid and/or renewables (hoping the grid is more efficient that your fossil fuel car engine plus some grid power might derived from renewables) then I can see a bit of sense in that.
4/ If you are using Electric as primary and a fossil fuel tank ONLY as a mostly do not use reserve , well yes OK I suppose
Do the Swiss still have those buses with a giant concrete flywheel inbuilt that they spun back up on downhill journeys?
Right Dave.
I still not got mee heed round hybrids of the type that are electric yet solely powered from the fossil fuel in yer fuel tank. Can`t be green energy at all can it?
The way I see it anyway.
1/ If you drive your fossil fuel car up a hill purely to charge your batteries on the downhill journey = poor use.
2/ If you are going to drive up that hill irrespective and on the downhill journey you may as well charge your battery up anyway, well I suppose a little greener than option 1/.
3/ If you charge your batteries from the grid and/or renewables (hoping the grid is more efficient that your fossil fuel car engine plus some grid power might derived from renewables) then I can see a bit of sense in that.
4/ If you are using Electric as primary and a fossil fuel tank ONLY as a mostly do not use reserve , well yes OK I suppose
Do the Swiss still have those buses with a giant concrete flywheel inbuilt that they spun back up on downhill journeys?
And, the wonderful thing about liquid fuels such as petrol or diesel in a vehicle, is that the further you drive the lighter the vehicle gets.
Flywheel Energy Storage - TheGreenAge
In June 2011, the Beacon Power Corporation completed the company’s first flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York at a cost of $60m. The plant utilises 200 flywheels spinning at a maximum speed of 16000 rpm to store excess energy and help regulate the supply to the local grid.
Z.
yeah I think about 70s to 90s Swiss had these flywheel buses, used spin to go flat/uphill and recharged the spin on downhills, lasted half day to one day on one spin charge so they reckoned at the time. Musta been a big heavy load of concrete in that flywheel
I still not got mee heed round hybrids of the type that are electric yet solely powered from the fossil fuel in yer fuel tank. Can`t be green energy at all can it?
How about a new M-B? https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/mercedes-benz-cars/models/amg-gt/4-door-coupe-x290-fl/e-performance/footnote.module.html
600-odd bhp from the ICE plus a couple of hundred from the battery, except that it only goes 8 miles on 'lectric only.
I am sure that the extra grunt is thrilling, but having cut 1.5 sec off the petrol version's 0-60 time, that thrill is so much briefer.
Naturally, 'cos it is hybrid, it squeezes into a lower tax bracket.
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