Electric car.

[harry]

I thought we had proved we can't afford the cost?

[Chris J Dixon]

"The impact of lorry weights on roads and bridges

8:- The force transmitted to a road by a vehicle depends on its total weight and how that weight is spread via the axles to the road surface. It is the weight on each axle, rather than the total weight of the vehicle, that determines the amount of road wear. Road wear is approximately proportional to the weight of an axle raised to its 4th power. Thus, an 11.5 tonne axle causes about 45% more wear than a 10.5 tonne axle."

Chris

[polygonum]

I assume that is at the same speed for each vehicle/axle? Or is this wear speed-independent?

If not, how we compare the damage from, say, a car at 90 mph against a lorry at 56 mph?

[dennis]

Drain?

Where can we dam without destroying lots of wildlife? Its not like Chernobyl where wildlife thrives.

[dennis]

Wouldn't that be very different between a close coupled axle pair and a steering axle pair.

[harry]

It thrives because people have moved out. Nothing to do with Chernobyl. Try to keep up Dense

[dennis]

The people moved out because of Chernobyl, do try and keep up thicko.

[harry]

You're telling me now the wildlife knows about the Chernobyl accident? Pretty Dense even for you Denis.

[Tim Streater]

Wildlife is doing OK around Chernobyl, by all accounts.

[John Williamson]

Because there are no people round there and the radiation, while it caused a lot of deformed animal births at the start has now reduced to a level that the wildlife can cope with without too many problems. Mostly, though, it thrives because nobody lives there, and nobody's spreading poison on the land to kill it all off.

[Andrew May]

What's the range when it is cold?

[harry]

Reduced in our climate when it's cold.The handbook reckons around

10%. It helps if you have the car garaged I suppose. Early days to give you a first hand account, Have only had the car for two weeks..

[Huge]

Tell me about it.