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One for the Greens bless em`& Anti 4X4 lot..

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Bulli:
or the infinately recyclable Land rover...id prefer that :wink:

rollazuki:
As long as its a series or basic 90 type model.
For all you guys with discos and such like with fancy electric windows, power/heated seats, interior trim, carpets, Id guess you are are driving the wrong car

mike142sl:

--- Quote from: "rollazuki" ---As long as its a series or basic 90 type model.
For all you guys with discos and such like with fancy electric windows, power/heated seats, interior trim, carpets, Id guess you are are driving the wrong car
--- End quote ---
:roll: That's all we need, a splitter in the ranks  :wink: - and you from Sheffield as well, what ever next.

Speaking of progress, have you seen this new engine technology http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html Looks very interesting but WHY do they have to put it into a shell that looks so toy town???????? There is also no detail about what it sounds like - I suspect it's close to a steam engine! Interesting though.

Range Rover Blues:
Anyone who tells you that a rechargeable battery has an infinite life, just take a look at your cell-phone.

I've had mine a year and it's spending a third of it's life on the charger now.

Plus I can get 5 adults into my Micra, it will do about 60 to the gallon, real world figures, the manufacturer claimms better.  Why, because I'm not dragging around half a tonne of Nickel foam that I wouldn't want to be near in an accident.

Thing is they are using something called regenerative braking.  It's not a new idea at all, the railways have been doing it for ages.

I read a study years ago that concluded the worst thing to happen for the electric vehicle was the forst world war.  Before 1914 most comecrial vehicles were steam or electric (or horse-drawn) but the demend for a relieble power source miles form anywhere lead to the rise of the IC engine, after the war the large number of surplus vehilces added to the 'new' technology saw the IC engine take off and electic power was all but abandoned.

We were supposed to be electrifying the railways in the 30's and 40's but then came WW2 and that got shelved for 20 or 30 years too.  Woodhead being one of the few electric lines in Britain (and that was pulled up shortly after, causing a masive outcry) and the network hasn't been completed to date.

What makes me laugh is all these people in their electric cars like the g-wizz, they think it's so clean but they don't see the massive polution at the other end of the cable.

Truth is if we want personall mobilty it comes at a cost and untill we make our cars solar powered then it will always take a certain amount of energy to do a certain amount of work.

Oh, solar powered, that's like using a fuel that's based on crops which absorb the same amount of carbon to grow as the fuel relases when it's burned.

Like Biodiesel then?

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