"Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery that charges in five minutes"

What, that couldn't be 'Autocleaned' by the system (even if not necessary with a properly designed interface).

Yeah, nothing to do with gravity or bipeds re-fuelling whilst standing then?

Cheers, T i m

Flights to Knock are often not available (even with plenty of notice) - routes are often not even available for months at a time and at short notice (particularly on certain nights) there is no capacity. Hence having to travel to Dublin or Belfast.

But we can get to Ireland with *existing* vehicles. The problem is that we are being pushed to replacement vehicles that cannot make the same journey. We simply want to maintain the same ability that we have now and not go backwards.

FTAOD I'm not disputing the likelihood of climate change, just the hyperbolic (not to say hysterical) exaggerations of its effects.

And of course the dishonest accounts of what it will cost. Eg have you seen how terraced houses with solid walls and suspended floors are meant to be brought into the brave new world* while still occupied? And what it will cost (especially if you pay attention to the risks of rot which may well militate for replacing timber suspended floors by block-and-beam or solid)?

I am pretty sure that they were issued, but never put into use. Individual garages typically put their own limits of 3 gallons on instead.

Not a conspiracy as such, just a general approach of not scaring the sheep. See my reply to your earlier post (which I sent before seeing this) for one example. Another are assumptions about reduction in ownersip and use of private cars: may be necessary and delioverable but, I suggest, are delioberately kept low profile.

Sure, that's what we want. But *if* climate doom is true and *if* stopping fossil fuel was the answer then need would replace want.

Meanwhile, no-one seems to be blocking roads with demos because of the rampant increase in the world population

And the last bit is what I understand happens already, no charge is applied until all the right signals come back (as a make learned with his re-badged Chevy Volt and 'faulty' charging socket connector). <snip>

Already happening in many 'pedestrianised areas of course.

There is no suggestion they will (in the foreseeable).

Agreed.

Mostly in the form of better more granular Public Transport.

Agreed, even if only at 'Super' (more expensive) charging points.

Range could increase a lot when we realise that luxuries and speed affect range.

In your dreams.

In your dreams.

Except that particular nuclear reactor is 151.39 million km from us so much safer and less likely to be used for nefarious purposes. Best to make better use of that by collecting it's output using a mixture of techniques.

Cool.

Nuclear powered long range high speed electric ferries / transports with (onboard vehicle) charging will replace much aero / freight movement.

Cheers, T i m

But unless you are of a certain religion, there is plenty of warning about when the funeral will take place, allowing a bit of forward route planning.

Just because you can does not automatically mean that you must.

So that sounds like a business opportunity: quick access to ICE cars for EV owners who need them on an occasional basis.

It almost already exists: car clubs where you can pick up a car from the street and use it for an hour or two. You just book the vehicle with your phone, swipe your phone/card on the vehicle and it opens. The only thing is the pricing of those doesn't work for long journeys, because they're designed to be close enough for people without cars to walk to and are priced to prevent people hogging them for a long time.

Given you might have an EV already, it would be feasible to drive say 10 miles to a car rental place where you can rapidly pick up an ICE car at any time of the day or night (without humans with all the annoying rental paperwork and upsell you get from traditional firms). You leave your EV there (charging?) and continue in the ICE.

This way you get the benefits of an EV for the rest of the time.

This would address another market too: people who drive an enormous SUV just because they need to tow a boat or a caravan once a year, and pay for it the rest of the year in terrible fuel consumption.

It just requires a tiny amount of adjustment from your current lifestyle.

Theo

Except your reply was premature, that aren't spread across the country or operated by 'Joe Public'.

See above.

See above.

I know they 'can' pump all sort of stuff fairly long distances (Dad was on Shell Tankers for 12 years) but it's funny that after 100 years of the IC engine, they still don't (for Joe Public to access)?

Cheers, T i m

One giant step for those humans, one small step for humanity?

Relocate back to Ireland and 'work from home' ?

Only takes one difficult-to-extinguish EV lithium battery fire on a ferry or in La Shuttle and suddenly there will be new restrictions.

And Olive oil for food preparation.

I predict a very high demand for new ICE and Hybrid vehicles in the final years of production leading up to 2030/35 and the owners running those cars for as many years as they can, also the prices of used ICE/Hybrids after 2030/35 will rise due to higher demand.

You can lead a horse to water..............