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19/8/2016 at 2:35pm
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I would love an electric car, just as a run-about, but I can neither afford a car just as a run-about, nor can I afford an electric car, and I suspect I am in a large majority with that.
The fact remains that an ICE car can do 300- 400 miles without refuelling and without any loss of power. It can refuel in a few minutes, and do it all again, repeatedly. No electric car comes close to that yet, not even the Tesla. Maybe it will in time, who knows, but that time isn't yet.
In my opinion, electric cars are still very much a niche-market, and will remain so for quite a while. Until they can match or exceed every aspect of an ICE car, they will never become mainstream. They will also need to come down in price dramatically.
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Quote: Originally posted by bessie500 on 19/8/2016
Colin 21 that's my line of work I have to set the rv's on commercial vehicles as well as sell them, if we get it wrong in the front end it can be horrendous on the back end.
Look at it this way teslas are a luxury brand car a car that cost 30k + now is at least 35k in 3/4 years time, then look at the running cost which is 0 this has to make it the biggest demand second hand car out their, most people's mileage is 50 miles tops a day so battery life is fine , if you had to stop on s long journey to charge your battery up well that's a small price to pay for free running.
I can assure you the second hand value will be rally strong , only time will Tell
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With all due respect, you are dealing with current products that have been around a long time, whereas electric cars are a very new concept to most people. They are very much an unknown quantity, except possibly in the trade.
As for "free running costs", doesn't electricity cost anything? It may cost less than petrol at the moment, but it certainly isn't free. As an ordinary customer I would be very concerned about the cost of replacement batteries, and how frequently they would need replacing. That alone would be enough to put me off, much as I like the idea. Even if I could easily afford one, I wouldn't even contemplate it as a tow-car. Not yet anyway. In decades to come it may be different, but that would be my children and grandchildren's decision. I doubt I'll still be around by then.
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20/8/2016 at 9:20am
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I mentioned to the boss at work if he thought that we would be going over to E.V.'s and I mentioned the £300k in fuel savings, and there are sure to be govt kick backs for the firm going to E.V.'s, he laughed and commented, that I was not looking at the bigger picture, the firm has over 80,000 employees spread over 90 countries and spends £1 million each day on R&D yes each day!
A saving of £300k over a year, is diddle squat in the great scheme of things he went on to say, to put things in perspective the firm will spend more than £300k on a weekend corporate event, as they sponsor F1 and Man United, and that's just in the UK.
Of course if you were to extrapolate my figure to the whole of the company, then the savings would be significant, so maybe my boss was also not looking at the bigger picture!
And then of course there is the politics of it all, as ever things are never as straight forward as you often think, when there are huge corporate companies involved.
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