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Alternative Fuels For all those conversations about LPG, Electric, Hydrogen. Anything but petrol and diesel... |
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Tesla battery swap
Following the Tesla testdrives at the annual meet you might want to watch this video on youtube showing the option to swap the battery instead of waiting for it to be charged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
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Quite a good comparison for this demographic
This is exactly what you and I were talking about at the meet, at the time I didn't know that Tesla were doing this. Once this process becomes mainstream, and even better if the various manufacturers all shared the same battery tech making it more cost effective to roll out across the country we should see the Electric car sales take off exponentially. Better hope the Grid can keep up......
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The interesting thing about mass uptake of electric vehicles is the way they could provide a place to store the excess power that comes from our power stations and wind farms. Similar to the Cruachan or Snowdonia pumped hydroelectric power stations.
Also....... Toyota are launching a (remarkably hideous even for them) hydrogen fuel cell car. If this approach can be made to work, and if takes off, it has the potential to be a bigger step forward than the pure electric battery cars. The future is with us
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Whoever can successfully crack hydrogen powered vehicles will make a fortune. It has to be the future.
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I've been cracking methane for years
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Surely, whoever can make petrol from electricity will be the winner?
After all, it "should" just need CO2 from the atmosphere and water plus some energy........ Edit: It's been thought of before of course..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20003650
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Audi have developed mixing water with co2 taken from the atmosphere to make Desiel so it's carbon neutral depending on where you get your energy for the making of the fuel?
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That coupled with the proposed transport infrastructure of selected charging points along major roads suggests that the plan is in place for electric vehicles to be the future of motoring. |
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