Electric car.

[Jim K]

and the meat tastes better....

Jim K

[Graham.]

370v? Best not test it with your tongue.

[Jim K]

you might be testing it with other sensitive parts of your anatomy when driving through the increasingly prevalent flood waters....

Jim K

[harry]

The very same!

[Dave Liquorice]

Has it get pedals? As in pedalo not stop/go.

[Bill Wright]

How much is a new battery?

Bill

[Dave Liquorice]

Thought they had come to the conclusion that the batteries wern't faulty but there was something wrong with the charger.

[harry]

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The traction battery is in a steel container. Quite dangerous potentially. There's an automatic isolator if there's a crash.

The auxilliary battery is just an ordinary lead acid. It needs topping up with distilled water, long time since I had to do that. I thought I'd be finished with antifreeze and distilled water etc but there's actually more stuff to watch than a petrol car. No belts. No filters except on the AC. There's oil to change in the reduction gearbox.

[Bill Wright]

Yesterday I went shopping to Sheffield and Retford and visited a friend near Thorne, then called to collect some stuff from a mate's house at Goldthorpe. I did the whole thing by the shortest route, and planned everything so I could include six destinations in one trip, so as to save fuel. I did 90 miles. Leccy car would have let me down.

Bill

[Dave Liquorice]

That would only just do the weekly supermarket shopping run, 60 miles round trip and 1400' to sea level and back up...

[Dave Liquorice]

At least you admit it. B-)

Will the traction battery last that long and how much does it cost to replace? How much will electricity als go up? I'm sure you'll have to use the grid some of the time.

[harryagain]

I paid just over £16k.

[harryagain]

There are two new diseases with electric cars. Range anxiety. And I hope my bttery won't deteriorate/fail anxiety.

The rumoured current price for a new battery is £15K Supposed to fall in the future?

The battery is supposed to have 80% of it's capacity in 10 years if you treat it right. It has forced air cooling for when on charge. There have been problems in very hot/very cold climates.

[Steve Firth]

[John Williamson]

Once is an isolated problem, twice is worrying, three times is a design fault.

That's what they used to say about ship engines, which are made in about the same numbers as aircraft parts. How many 787s have had to land because of this particular problem? A lot more than three...

If you want to worry some more about flying in one, it's the largest non-metallic aircraft fuselage ever built, and life testing them is at the stage that metal fatigue testing was at in the days of the Comet.

[John Williamson]

That difference still buys an awful lot of petrol, even before you add in the cost of a new set of batteries in five years or so, assuming average use.

Another problem might be getting parts, as there are only 28,000 in existence worldwide, as against hundreds of thousands per model for most normal cars.

[harryagain]

Our longest trip is around thirty miles. Ideal for city driving, uses no power at all stood in traffic. Also great accelaration and easy to park, very narrow. Very chuckable in traffic. No gearshifts, just constant accelaration. Difficult to keep track of the speed as it's so quiet. Weird when stopped in traffic, you think the engine has cut out.

Optimum speed is around 40 mph. Drag varies as the square of speed. So not ideal for motorway though goodfor 83 mph. You might get 20 miles at that speed, maybe not.

[polygonum]

You do indeed use up stored energy when stood in traffic - if you wish to keep warm in the winter.

[harryagain]

Well. I hope they've had time to get the bugs out of it.

[tony sayer]

In article , harryagain scribeth thus

What's the heater like when its rather cold like now?..