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Post by Avant on Dec 30, 2017 17:28:43 GMT
Hopefully also the time when technology allows remote charging of cars parked in the street, given that EVs are of greatest benefit to those living in towns and cities.
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Post by WDB on Dec 30, 2017 23:04:26 GMT
Not aiming this personally at you, Avant, but it always puzzles me that people even need to say things like that. Electric vehicles will be mainstream in five years, and there'll be the charging network to support them. It's happening already.
Think of the precedents:
1. 'Mobile phones? They'll never catch on. You have to be within sight of a mast and there'll never be enough of those.'
2. 'Motor car? Don't make me laff! It'll only go fifty miles before it needs petrol and where are you going to get that in t'middle of t'coontryside? I'll keep me horse, thanks very mooch.'
I could do one about trains or computers too, but you get the idea. It won't be as much fun for me - or as cheap - when everyone's car is electric but our towns will smell a lot better, especially in winter.
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Post by Avant on Dec 30, 2017 23:39:11 GMT
I don't think that 'people who say things like that' are being Luddites and don't believe that remote charging is possible. But I'd like to see signs that it's coming soon, so that EVs can then prevail in ther areas where they're most useful, and needed as you say for the environment. I'd like to see it come to mobile phones too (if it has, nobody has told me)...after just wasting some time trying to charge my un-smart iPhone because of a poor connection.
Is this going to be yet another example of thr British having the know-how but not the commercial oomph to develop it, so that others do it for us and make all the money?
Personally I'd very much like to test-drive a plug-in BMW 225xe, but BMW UK won't allocate demonstrators to dealers, and won't even list this model on the 'book a test-drive' section of their website.
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Post by commerdriver on Jan 2, 2018 9:31:02 GMT
I don't think that 'people who say things like that' are being Luddites and don't believe that remote charging is possible. But I'd like to see signs that it's coming soon, so that EVs can then prevail in ther areas where they're most useful, and needed as you say for the environment. I'd like to see it come to mobile phones too (if it has, nobody has told me)...after just wasting some time trying to charge my un-smart iPhone because of a poor connection. Is this going to be yet another example of thr British having the know-how but not the commercial oomph to develop it, so that others do it for us and make all the money? Personally I'd very much like to test-drive a plug-in BMW 225xe, but BMW UK won't allocate demonstrators to dealers, and won't even list this model on the 'book a test-drive' section of their website. I would also have liked to test a 225xe but even via leaseplan there was no way to get a weekend test until early 2018 and our ordering window wouldn't allow that. Did get a look at one and chatted to a senior colleague who had had it for 6 months just before Christmas and reckon I made the right choice going for the Golf GTE anyway. |
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Post by WDB on Jan 2, 2018 13:06:13 GMT
Didn't think you would habitually put a charger on an external wall? Must be at risk of vandalism and theft? Or freeloaders turning up in the dead of night, like foxes scavenging in your dustbins?! All but one of my electrified neighbours have their chargers outside. The unit is weatherproof, and there's a watertight cap for the car connector. Theft or vandalism might be a concern in some areas - Caversham springs to mind - but not really where I live. And in any case, the same appplies to a car parked on any drive, and that doesn't put people off. Ours was installed this morning. Blokey gave MrsB1 the option of leaving it open but recommended setting it to require one of the four coded cards supplied with the unit. And if we're away on holiday, it has its own breaker in the consumer unit, so we can disable it from there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 13:52:47 GMT
Yeah, white collar crime and people returning worn-once party frocks to John Lewis because they're too tight to pay for things is more of an issue where you are I suppose.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jan 2, 2018 14:17:30 GMT
All but one of my electrified neighbours....... ....they've put you on the condemned wing.........?  |
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Post by WDB on Jan 2, 2018 14:29:02 GMT
Yeah, white collar crime and people returning worn-once party frocks to John Lewis because they're too tight to pay for things is more of an issue where you are I suppose. Tee hee. When we were buying our present house in 2010 I did a little looking up about the neighbourhood. There'd been one break-in in what's now our road on the previous year. Stolen: two bottles of champagne. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 14:34:17 GMT
I bet they were mere Prosecco, but got upgraded on the crime report.
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Post by WDB on Jan 2, 2018 14:40:28 GMT
Nobody in 2010 had heard of prosecco.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 14:53:18 GMT
I was served some Cornish sparkling white on New Years Eve. Groo. Was much happier once that was gone and they opened the Cava I'd bought (and brought).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 15:47:47 GMT
The advantage of champagne is that it is pretty much impossible to get drunk on the stuff. Gives me one hell of a headache though.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jan 2, 2018 17:24:20 GMT
...had the pleasure of staying over behind a Champagne "proprietaire-recoltant"'s premises near Vertus for €5 in September last year.  After a very hot walk into the town, on our return we simply had to sample the wares (it would be churlish not to!). Now Champagne isn't really my thing for day-to-day drinking, but a premier cru Blancs de Blancs straight from the 'fridge certainly tasted good to me, and at €14.50 a bottle was part of the experience................. and anyway, it had a "Camping Car" on the cap; who could resist that?  |
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Post by commerdriver on Jan 4, 2018 10:15:59 GMT
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Post by Rob on Jan 4, 2018 19:38:06 GMT
So the Passat GTE is available to order - change your order? Bigger/better car and still low BIK.
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