Update and are EV's the future?

[@petert24turner71]

NOT with the current batteries.

[@Brian-om2hh]

Just as ICE has no future relying on fossil fuels, which one day will no longer be viable... The batteries in my Kia eNiro have managed to get me everywhere I've needed to go over the past 3+ years, including one 400+ mile round trip in a single day, charging just once during the journey....

[@greengooflight]

still after 30+ years, thermal runaway and degrading are not solved, and will take another 30 years if ever

[@ImLivinSD]

@@greengooflight Your right, and it does not take an Engineer or Genious to see the Fatal problem. Green Liberal Progressive Extremeists need to be shut down as it harms america.

[@solidus784]

@@greengooflight How long have petrol cars been on the road? have they ever solved the thermal runaway with them? also as for degradation my car is 3 years old with 88k km and at 4% degradation you have to expect up to 10% in the first few years and extremely slow degradation after that so......🤷‍♂. There are so disadvantages with EVs but what you are saying is just generic rhetoric with nothing to back it up.

[@rp9674]

EVs - present & future

[@aceroadholder2185]

It is well to remember that most government officials apparently majored in transgender dance therapy at university and their scientific and engineering knowledge comes from watching all the Star Wars movies.

[@tonyireland2234]

The massive discounts on the forecourts indicate not.

[@solidus784]

Funny I just bought one and I didn't see any massive discounts and I got the 4th car I viewed 3 were bought from under me before I got back to the dealers.

[@waza8501]

Motability has the current Citroen C3 Aircross for £195 advance for 130 max and £595 for the 110 max, the retail for these is £24,240 and £22,660 respectively. The new E-C3 retails from £21,990. As more EVs become available the prices will come down.

[@stevenwilkins3687]

So what we are going to do is dig all these holes to get oil, to make fuel to power cars. Then, what we will do, is leave those holes, dig another hole over here for the materials to make lithium batteries. As these holes will be in the Congo and the the back end of Australia, it will cost billions more and we will use local labour, without taking into account their average age and work them until they die. Why? Because in the long term it will save the planet! Hmmm.

[@8bvg300]

Its clearly the future but at the moment, the only people who i know have electric cars are either of pension age, or have them as company cars. I dont know anyone under 68 who has an electric car because we cant afford them. Honestly, i bought my last car for less than a set of tyres for my dads new EV. Thats the gulf between current EV pricing and real world spare cash people have.

[@pstanyer1]

Evs are perfectly ok for some people. My wife and my parents love their EVS they pop around town and cover hardly any distance at all. I do many long journeys 300-350 miles especially around scotland and south wales. EVs are pretty useless for me. My little dacia does 500 miles on a tank so its ideal. To get an ev to do my journeys you are looking at 50-60k. These cars should be allowed to settle into society and not mandated or forced on everyone.

[@Brian-om2hh]

Nobody yet has been forced to buy an electric car. You will always retain the choice about whether you wish to own one.

[@jgtalbot789]

Do you never eat or sleep or go anywhere for each 500 miles if you do that's when you charge.

[@solidus784]

that kinda distance is no reason not to get an EV mine does 200 miles to a charge in winter 250 in summer 10-80% is about 30 mins I imagine after 4-5 hours driving you get out for a piss and a bite to eat by the time you get back to the car its good to go again. The only problem is fast chargers cost equivalent amount per mile as diesel

[@Cakebattered]

EV are the future. Battery tech is evolving at a breakneck pace. EVs are already becoming cheaper than ICE cars and Hybrids. Just check out the new Xpeng MONA M03 which starts at $17kUS, and the Neta S Hunter which starts at $22.5kUS. In comparison the starting price for a Camry is now $28kUS.

[@martinwood9014]

What car is it?

[@johnbusby5614]

He mentioned that he has a BYD. John Cadogan says that means "Burn Your Driveway."

[@jgtalbot789]

2030 there will be loads of 2nd hand petrol n deisel, so unfortunately, it won't be until the early 2040s when petrol n deisel will become just museum exhibits

[@phatster88]

Nope. Should rename your channel.

[@B.Y.DDreams-et6up]

What to @phatster88?

[@tomhermens7698]

NO. HYDRO IS.

[@B.Y.DDreams-et6up]

to expensive Tom although very large vehicles i see it will work better than Batteries

[@thisisnumber0]

No

[@B.Y.DDreams-et6up]

would you concede they may be part of the future?

[@thisisnumber0]

​@@B.Y.DDreams-et6upYes, but not by merit, only by government dogma, as a prerequisite to the elimination of all personal mobility, under the direction of the World Economic Forum and United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030.

[@greengooflight]

Bicycles and walking is the future

[@aftonline]

The ideal solution would be an e-bike with a solar trailer.

[@greengooflight]

@@aftonline and bike lanes

[@aceroadholder2185]

You are so right! 11 below zero, snowing, and a 20 knot wind .... who wouldn't want to bicycle 12 km home from work in the dark.

[@ImLivinSD]

@@aceroadholder2185 Exactly, I do love how Green Extremeists want Grandma at 70 to walk or ride a bike to the grocery store etc. just devoid from Reality.

[@chris82632]

@@aceroadholder2185 Great workout and you can use lights, just like on a car. The wind and snow can be annoying though ;)