New battery tech?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

My petrol car has a thermostat in the cooling, which limits the water flow until the water gets pretty hot.

Could they do the same with your electric car, if cab heating were more of a priority?

Ah - right. My local service is Southern which has been electric for all the time I've lived in London, and has always split trains on some routes.

Makes sense.

Indeed.

What platform staff? And would it make more sense to have someone kicking their heels on a quiet station platform just for the purpose of helping out when a train splits? Rather than having a guard on the train who can also check tickets, etc?

No need to tell the world when you've farted, Timmy.

I'd hope not. A decent car heater with an IC engine can produce the equivalent of about 5 kW of heat.

except the point is that TPTB aren't considering this a problem

there is nothing in planning regulations to make sure all new properties electric car "friendly" and the current trend for as many houses as possible per acre contrives to make them less electric car friendly without even trying.

tim

Really this happened to a friend less than a month ago. On his way back to worhtin gthe train split carriages he forgot that some of his luggege was in the next carriage by the time he realsed the train had split and gone it;s sperate ways.

hey plug it into.

saturday too in the last 14 months h';es only been able to park outside my home ONCE and even then it's in the street I;n need to find a way of getti ng the charging cable to the car he usually has to park on the other soide of the road the last two weekend he had difficulty finding a space in the s ame road.

I would expect to see at least a few locally, I wouldnlt expect to drive 2 miles to see one. It hardly encourages anyone to go electric does it. A friend is considering a new car he's a bit of a greeny but I doubt he's s tupid to get an electric car. Unless of course someone can explain to him how to get a charging point and who pays for it etc. and whther it's your own or do you share it with the rest of the block or street.

The ones I see on the platform all the time at Ashford.

Why would a train split at a quiet station? Much more likely at a busy station, a junction such as Ashford is.

Not very close to that are we.

Oh and of the 3 places that have charging point in my borough none charge f or the electric but two charge for the parking. £6.40 for 2 hours at blackhourse road.

Given that there are so few electric cars presently and so many people charge at home, one public charge point per 20 cars sounds about right to me.

In my local shopping road, all the parking places were taken yesterday afternoon, except for the two electric charging bays.

But as with LPG the supply infrastructure has to be in place to persuade the consumer to make the switch - then as with LPG the greedy government comes along with its tax talons and screws up the whole thing.

You may reduce the number of cars but it's the number of journeys that matter. Many people who do not own cars or can't drive (the elderly and the young) will suddenly be able to avail themselves of private transport.

In terms of mass transit there is no way cars, driverless or otherwise, can replace trains. HS2 is an essential project to upgrade capacity on the west coast main line.

TPTB doint have to interfere.

In 20 years time 'included off road parking and charging point' will be as important as 'good broadband' is today, and as other have pointed out urban populations are FAR more likely to not own a car, but to have a subscription to a driverless electric taxi service...

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Nor can they provide the capacity. Just imagine all the Pendelinos thundering down the west coast mainline carrying 700+ people being replaced by a snail of cars

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So I want to join this track at some intermediate point. Do I have to wait for a "train" to come past to tag on to or do I just join and tootle along on my own until I get hit up the arse by a faster "train".

Ah so I have to wait for a "train" to form?

To replace one 11 coach Pendelino would require about 350 cars. Say 10 per hour out of Euston that's 3500 cars

Your car will still be stuck at Watford

And what if a car breaks down or runs out of energy?

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No one wants driver only trains, They are actually driver only operated trains.

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That's why driver only operated trains will still have conductors - some thing which your fellow thickos it the RMT don't seem to be able to get their heads round.