Electric/Hybrid Depreciation
18 replies
Fysherman replied on 07/10/2017 12:59
brue replied on 07/10/2017 13:16
DS3 replied on 19/10/2017 02:55
Heethers replied on 19/10/2017 07:39
Posted on 19/10/2017 07:39
They need power plants to produce the supply, until they come up with the strategy for new power stations l am leaving well alone. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if a change of government took a different tack, leaving the consumer holding the baby as per usual
replied on 19/10/2017 08:20
brue replied on 19/10/2017 08:45
Posted on 19/10/2017 08:45
As I said before to the OP, ignore the DM. Our electric car is costing us pence to run. The battery has an 8 yr guarantee, we can go any distance using the range extender. The UK is running out of its own fossil fuels and we need to cover ourselves from being dependent on overseas suppliers. It's not us, it's future generations who need the new technologies.We also need to cut pollution for the future too.
There are further developments in progress.
replied on 19/10/2017 08:58
Milothedog replied on 19/10/2017 10:03
Posted on 19/10/2017 10:03
A little off topic but I thought some of you may be interested to see these pictures as there is a lot of interest in electric/hybrid vehicles.
As I have said in the past I was quite involved in the introduction of hybrid buses in London, my company was the first to start using them.
The big square one on the pallet is from a Volvo chassis and was located just behind the N/S/F wheel. The other pictures are what Alexander -Dennis used and was located between the upper and lower decks at the rear. Both were over 600 volts and weighed just over a ton but I cant remember the AH ( it was quite high). as you can see they are basically made up from linking 1.5v cells ( think torch batteries ) in combinations of series & parallel. IIRC there are 1250 cells in a whole battery pack, a battery being made of what were called "blades" and housed in a large flat metal casing. As well as having to be qualified as Technicians/Mechanics we also all had to do a B-Tec qualification to certify us to work on systems up to a 1000 volts DC
Hope you find it interesting.
Tigi