Electric car sales

[T i m]

Typical low EQ fanatical Brexiteer statement.

Cheers, T i m

[dennis]

So the 1800s then. Electric cars then had about the same range as the leaf at about 75 miles. The only really practical electric car appear to be the renault zoe which can easily do 130+ miles on a charge and can use fast DC chargers. The leaf does less than 100 miles on a charge.

The big drawback is you can't charge a zoe for 16 hours from a 13A socket without paying for a ~£550 option, you just have to make do with the 6 hours charge from the free 32A outlet they install for you. The leaf comes with a 13A charge cable but no 32A charger outlet.

[dennis]

So there should be no on street parking wherever you want to go. I think we all agree you should do as you say harry. No more parking on the street for you.

[Bob Eager]

It'll be blamed on the EU.

[T i m]

Nice catch. Stupid fanatical Brexiteer harry. ;-)

Maybe he never stops anywhere because nobody likes him? ;-(

His valet parks his cars for him and the driver just goes off and waits till he's called again (obviously not very far when in the EV). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Steve Walker]

So if I can't get into my drive, can I claim that I need access to couple up and drive off with my trailer rather than for parking? Failing that, I suppose I could tell them that I need to get the kit-car out.

SteveW

[Huge]

On 08-Feb-18 6:13 PM, harry wrote: ...

People with no brains (*) should be allowed on the Internet. They are a menace.

(* That's you, harry, that is.)

[Roger Hayter]

On the contrary, there would be more parking available for visitors to the area if residents weren't allowed to keep their vehicles on the highway permantly.

[T i m]

The problem being much of England was put together when few could afford to own a horse and cart themselves and those who could, also had the land to store them.

There are many estates that were built with narrow streets and apart from the garage (often too narrow to take a current vehicle), little in the way of off-street parking.

We asked the council to put us a dropped kerb in so I could park the kitcar (or electric car) on the front. I measured it up as requested and submitted the application. A week or so later I saw a guy wandering around our front garden and I asked him what he was up to. He was from the council and had come down to see if he could get their minimum dimension requirements by say going on the side of the garden rather than the front. It turned out he couldn't and so we weren't allowed to have the dropped kerb, because the room wasn't long enough for their rules, even it was far longer than the vehicles we may want to put on there?

When I contested that point they said that if it was less than their minimum and I park a vehicle longer than that on there and it overhangs the pavement it would be considered 'their fault'.

I asked whose fault it would be if the front was large enough and I then bought a stretched limo and 'that' ended up across the path? They said it would be my fault?

From my POV, I would be responsible for *anything* that obstructed the public footpath and I could still use the dropped kerb to allow me to put my motorcycles on there? They didn't seem to have the facility for that which leaves me wheeling (rather than riding / driving) motorised vehicles across the public footpath?

Luckily, where we live the road is very wide and you can have vehicles parked both sides and still (easily) get two articulated lorries passing each other. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The brave new world of harry.

I'd say harry shouldn't be allowed to drive anywhere that doesn't have an off road car park.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I don't know anyone who uses their garage for their car. ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

The latter. They did it with parking meters already

If urban user-owned BEV becomes a reality, this is something that local councils might look into, along with e.g. making every point a wifi or

4G hotspot.

However te way te modoern urban spaceman^H^H^H^H^H^snowflake is going, is away from ownership of anything towards service rental a la Uber.

[harry]

Ah yes. The idiot syndrome. Leaves twenty grand car out in all weathers and fills the garage with junk. I have two cars, two garages and......a shed for the junk. Car insurance is cheaper too. And they all have electricity.

[harry]

Why should I need to park on the street?

[harry]

I have two cars thanks. The electric one is perfect for shopping/local journeys. I use the Roller for longer journeys. I rarely park the electric car on the street. I never park the Roller on the street. I never leave either outdoors overnight. I have room on my driveway for about ten cars if I have visitors. Plus more on the patio if necessary.

[harry]

I don't know anyone that has to park their car on the street. Council house chavs do it I suppose.

Always seems stupid to me. Living in a shithole and two or three cars parked outside. I thought council houses were for poor people?

[harry]

Do you live in a "sinkhole" council estate Dave?

[harry]

There's plenty of drivel out there on this topic. Most people will go to work in their electric car and slow charge it by night on economy seven. As I do when the sun isn't shining. So, for the immediate future, there is no problem about the system being overloaded. In fact it will improve the electrical system efficiency You do talk a lot of bollix.

[harry]

I thought council house car owners put a plank in the gutter so they could park on their front lawn?

[charles]

my wife's car gets into just over half of our garage. Being built in the early 1970s, the double garage isn't wide enough for two modern cars. We managed a Cortina & a (real) Mini at one time.