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Hmmm, sure beats the electric cars they were building in the 70s/80s ;D ;D
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Nov 22, 2004 10:26:17 GMT
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It looks pretty cool aswell. Trouble is if you top up its power off the national grid then it isnt zero emissions. Not until all electicity come from windmills solar etc.
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Nov 22, 2004 10:58:51 GMT
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It looks pretty cool aswell. Trouble is if you top up its power off the national grid then it isnt zero emissions. Not until all electicity come from windmills solar etc. No, but eventually that'll have to happen as well. I remember a company in California built an electric Honda. Completely stock exterior. Similar acceleration. Used to burn off all it's front rubber without moving. ;D Advantage to electric, consistent high torque Lots of "screamer" potential in electric. Noticed the articles were written by the same author. Customised for two different English markets.
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Nov 22, 2004 11:06:09 GMT
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a few years ago , an employee of East Mids Electricity used to come to our hire shop for stuff, one day he turned up in a Peugout 106 but electric powered!
needless to say I asked him for a drive, wasnt very quick but was totally odd to drive, and yes there was a fairly consistant torque thru the power ;D
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I'm dressed in black again until someone invents a darker colour.
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Nov 22, 2004 11:06:20 GMT
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No, but eventually that'll have to happen as well. Will it hell. In the UK Marjorie and Maurice and their other retired middle class friends kick up a stink about wind farms that might "spoil their view", (purely because their pitiful lives are so vaccuous with nothing to moan about), so it'll never happen. Let's all bow down to the sacred cow of NIMBY. And what are the chances of the US ever playing ball on the Kyoto treaty? About the same as me winning the lottery next week (and I've never bought a ticket).
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Last Edit: Nov 22, 2004 11:07:41 GMT by nickb
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Nov 22, 2004 11:22:23 GMT
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I think the wind farms look cool and would love them near my village. There was one village trying to stop a wind farm and they lived down the road from a nuclear power station! I know what i would rather have.
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SkoCan
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Nov 22, 2004 11:35:32 GMT
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Will it hell. quote] Yes There will come a point where there is no choice. Keep in mind the Dutch have a hell of a wind farm off the coast. Our wind farms have been welcomed by the locals. Wind is not the only way, keep in mind. There are solar, geo-thermal and tidal for a start.
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Last Edit: Nov 22, 2004 21:10:10 GMT by SkoCan
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Nov 22, 2004 12:22:27 GMT
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a few years ago , an employee of East Mids Electricity used to come to our hire shop for stuff, one day he turned up in a Peugout 106 but electric powered! needless to say I asked him for a drive, wasnt very quick but was totally odd to drive, and yes there was a fairly consistant torque thru the power ;D I used to work for Peugeot and drove a number of the electric 106s and Partner vans. Admittedly they're not that rapid, but they can get up speed given time. The worrying thing is how quiet they are though. Many people I worked with used to think it was hilarious to fly past you at 50mph and almost killl you cos you don't hear it til its about 10 foot away from you! An electric car which can out-accelerate a Porsche could be pretty dangerous IMO.
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Nov 22, 2004 12:30:17 GMT
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I generate enough static electricity in this jumper to out drag the bloody space shuttle! Ouch, another shock off the photocopier!!
It's difficult to let go of big thumping V8s and lovely sounds. Electric cars just don't stir the same emotion do they? I wouldn't grumble if my Volvo was electric or gas though.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Nov 22, 2004 13:02:15 GMT
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They've got these electric Partner vans a coventry uni, i often see sleepy hung over students walking in front of um.
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Nov 22, 2004 17:08:15 GMT
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With a little development there might really be something in this alternitive fuel lark! There are also cleaner ways to run existing engines without fossil fuels, the Bio-Mass stuff that I think some Dutch cities run buses on is cleaner, and comes from extracts from parts of plants normally disposed of during harvest anyway, so it'd be pretty efficient to do too, and since it's cleaner it'll help the greenhouse gas situation too, plus it doesn't require the replacement of every internal combustion engine there is, just modifiy them to suit. I actually think wind farms are quite nice to look at, and tidal power would really be effective in Scotland, place them out near the western isles and the storms and huge waves you get in the isles would power the whole of Scotland no problem. But of course as NickB pointed out the middle classes (I know I blame them for everything but when they stop being corrupt capitalist fools who're ruining everything I'll get off their case! ;D ;D ;D) will complain about so called "eyesores" and say that they want power stations to run on coal for ever, and the British Conservatives, George W Bush and his cronies, and just about every other corrupt b*stard in existance complain that we're all 'tree huggers' for wanting a solution, and nothing will get done. Everyone around here who has an ounce of sense in their heads (ie the working classes mostly) would support a change to wind farms or wave power, and the local landscape could easily support either, yet we still have a nuclear power station not far from here. Now there's progress.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Nov 22, 2004 20:07:14 GMT
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Put all the chavs on a big treadmill with a copy of 'Loaded' or 'FHM' or some such curse word with a picture of some air- headed, plastic-tittied Z list bimbo on the front hanging just out of reach...... instant free power ;D ;D ;D
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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