The electric car revolution
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Re: The electric car revolution
one better St Marks....
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Re: The electric car revolution
o the ironykiwikrasher wrote:one better St Marks....
mine comes end October !
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Re: The electric car revolution
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Got the garage kitted out yet Mr Perkles.?Perkles wrote: Mine comes end October !
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Re: The electric car revolution
0-60 in 1.85 seconds.StMarks wrote:Rimac Nivera.!
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Send Mr Musk a tweet to that effect.?Perkles wrote:My Tesla is going to be 4 months late
I’m not impressed
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He’s to busy building rockets forStMarks wrote:0-60 in 1.85 seconds.StMarks wrote:Rimac Nivera.!![]()
Send Mr Musk a tweet to that effect.?Perkles wrote:My Tesla is going to be 4 months late
I’m not impressed
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Re: The electric car revolution
Let's not forget his busy-ness with readying microchips for brain implantation! He'll have us communicating gb/s through the air and render speech pointless.Perkles wrote:He’s to busy building rockets forStMarks wrote:0-60 in 1.85 seconds.StMarks wrote:Rimac Nivera.!![]()
Send Mr Musk a tweet to that effect.?Perkles wrote:My Tesla is going to be 4 months late
I’m not impressed
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It's over $2 million!!Perkles wrote:StMarks wrote:0-60 in 1.85 seconds.StMarks wrote:Rimac Nivera.!![]()
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But it has over 300 miles range as standard, due to having the largest ever capacity battery apparently.D41 wrote:It's over $2 million!!StMarks wrote: 0-60 in 1.85 seconds.![]()
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Besides, surely you don't doubt that Perkles employers think that he's worth them investing a little bit more than they are doing with his Tesla ?
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Re: The electric car revolution
It could come with a supermodel as standard equipment for all I care....it's still an insane amount of money for a car.
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non of them do the stated range, allow for at least 20% off the stated range
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.... And probably that much or more in reduced tyre life. But that's okay, because at least the tyres are that much more expensive.
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Screw your overgrown duracell's... I want one of these.
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Re: The electric car revolution
working on a project building the hydrogen fuel stacks atmJack wrote:Hydrogen is the way forward imo .
cummins are investing heavily in hydrogen
porsche are investing heavily in synthetic petrol
UKs biggest giga plant is about to collapse as the government are pulling funding
imho we are still at the beta max vhs stage
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Re: The electric car revolution
Both EV and Hydrogen are required. Think of them as the new petrol vs diesel.
EV for cities and low emissions - Hydrogen for fast refuels and high load carrying capacities (think HGV, heavy plant and sales rep)
EV for cities and low emissions - Hydrogen for fast refuels and high load carrying capacities (think HGV, heavy plant and sales rep)