they are all useless twats, bad ideas by bad people.
and how does one get the credit for these cars?
i'll just remortgage - oh i can't as i cant get a new one. i'll change jobs but dont have one and looking less likely to get one soon too
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8001254.stm
Are the Gov't really fricken thick?
They launch a scheme offering people £5,000 off a car you can't buy. And this is a good thing?
How much discount are they offering on time machines? £10,000?
Or what about perpetual motion machines? £200,000?
How much discount would we get on a flying car powered only by fairy dust? £7,500?
Call me a cynic, but two years before the manufacturers launch these cars without even a hint about what they will cost, the gov't announce they
will pay £5k towards the cost of them. Do we think that the price is going to be adjusted upwards by £4,999?
So instead of them costing £20k, they will be launched at £25k?
Mike
and they'll use more energy to charge up... waste of everyones time really
i thought the same thing
they are all useless twats, bad ideas by bad people.
and how does one get the credit for these cars?
i'll just remortgage - oh i can't as i cant get a new one. i'll change jobs but dont have one and looking less likely to get one soon
too
Its a typical nutsack half thought about annoucment from the govt.
If we replaced just 25% of cars on the road and those people came home and plugged them into the main to recharge in the evening the national grid
wouldn't be able to cope.
Electric cars might be all well and good in principle but the energy still has to be generated. Until the energy loss from Electrical production to
Vehicle Horse Power to the wheel is more efficient than our current engines then it is a no win situation.
Stupid politicians, they get paid a lot of money and come up with stupid ideas like that.
G.Brown to take up running!!
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He also revealed his own new year's resolution - to take up running.
look on the bright side - we will be changing our donors to Hotpoint, Vax, Phillips and whirlpool!
Anyone got a 100 bhp drain pump off a Candy?
wondering if i make my leckie reverse go forward and back if my locoblade will count!!!!!!!! and look on the plus side you ll be able to plug them in at work no cost at all lol
where will we get the leccy from?greenies want wind and solar power,question is,on a calm but cloudy day in the greenie utopia would we even be able
to boil a kettle?
and where do all the nasty chemicals from the batteries go when they are sha**ed?
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Now you've all criticised it, tell them what the solution is............
only hearing complaints so far.
as an aside most major OEMs will be lauching true electric cars within 18 months, so 5K off is gonna suit me.
like they use to say at school..... Discuss.....
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Originally posted by nib1980
EXCELLANT
Now you've all criticised it, tell them what the solution is............
only hearing complaints so far.
as an aside most major OEMs will be lauching true electric cars within 18 months, so 5K off is gonna suit me.
like they use to say at school..... Discuss.....
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Hi Mr. Brown, my little 100cc scooter has a knackered engine, instead of giving me 5k towards a new electric car can I have it to convert my scooter
to electric? A little 72v electric motor, 6 red top batteries and a controller. I''ll even give you back the change...
I'm sure you would agree this is the sensible way to go and would save tons of CO2 making the new cars.
Thank you, look forward to your thoughts
Love,
Steve xx
Interesting you mentioned a perpetual motion machine, thats essentially what they seem to think will happen with electric cars, they don't seem to understand that generating electricity is not environmentally friendly......Viva la revolution!
Well it'll never take off, any one seen the film "Who killed the electric car?"
Preview HERE it's really worth watching the lot.
Its interesting in the film to hear the old bloke who invented a long life battery say his battery company was bought out by Texaco....
Like the manufacturers won't just add £5k onto the sticker price.
how about £5,000 towards this
ZERO-S
So... another cunning plan to bail out the UK motor industry? Oh, hang on there's only the Mini that's mentioned that's almost a UK car.
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Originally posted by coozer
Hi Mr. Brown, my little 100cc scooter has a knackered engine, instead of giving me 5k towards a new electric car can I have it to convert my scooter to electric? A little 72v electric motor, 6 red top batteries and a controller. I''ll even give you back the change...
I'm sure you would agree this is the sensible way to go and would save tons of CO2 making the new cars.
Thank you, look forward to your thoughts
Love,
Steve xx
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Originally posted by coozer
Well it'll never take off, any one seen the film "Who killed the electric car?"
Preview HERE it's really worth watching the lot.
Its interesting in the film to hear the old bloke who invented a long life battery say his battery company was bought out by Texaco....
I've been looking into 'alternative energy' as a form of heating my new house (which I havn't bought!) and as well as ground source heat pumps, solar, and all the others, woodchip boilers cropped-up. The claim is that as long as you can get locally grown and processed woodchips, then they are carbon neutral as the wood can only give off the same amount of CO2 that it has absorbed during its growth. Emissions that would be released if the tree had grown, died and rotted. All well and good. But surely the same can be said for coal and gas? They can only give off the same CO2 that they have absorbed, admittedly a few million years ago, so oil and gas fired powerstations are doing mother nature a favour! I've wacked the heating on full blast and opened all the windows. I'm doing my bit right now!! Then I'll convert my Range Rover to a coal/steam/electric hybrid!
Ah but the carbon you talk about in the gas coal and oil we use was grown and went into the ground over millions of years we are putting it back into
the system far to quick!
Sometime back I was thinking about putting an electric golf cart on the road, but costs have put me off the idea.
Now, if it's free
ATB
Simon
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Leave it as oil / coal in the ground and it cant warm the earth through being converted to CO2 and belched into the atmosphere.
So which country will be the first to outlaw Volcanoes then??
Let the public buy their own cars, save all the 5ks, build a hydroelectric dam between St Donats in south wales and Bossington in Somerset. 11 miles
long and would probably generate enough power for all of Europe - UK could actually export something and build the economy.
Make the charging points free, that would incentivise electric cars which would be properly green, save the petrol for recreational cars and making
computers.
Why are all the stupid people running the country and the bright ones building cars?
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Steve, have you watched the Quitgas video on youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzi4tL3QMWk
I'm on the look out for a bike with a blown engine at the minute!
Oh and a crashed golf cart!
Mike