Well, she'd change her habits fairly quickly. As it happens I always used to drive my car with, at most, a quarter of a tank of petrol. Simply because I don't like the principle of FFVs and locking my money up in an asset that I can't use other than driving, which I always did to a minimum. EVs have an advantage there. The fuel is a fraction of the cost, and you can always pump it back into the system if its needed elsewhere, using a process called Vehicle to Grid, which is going to be part of the coming infrastructure.
I will be getting in touch with an IOW-based gang of youths on 125cc 2-stroke motorcycles to ride up and down outside your house all night Fran. You’ll soon be changing your mind!
Checked myself for guilt...nope, none. I will happily change my car for an EV when it is practical to do so...i.e. nice second-hand ones are available for a couple of thousand. Refuse to feel guilt when people are driving around in massive ugly cars forcing me to get out of their way, others are riding motorbikes which produce noise and air pollution, and F1 is still going. I use public transport, walk and drive only about 2000 miles a year...nowhere near my guilt tipping point. Incidentally I wasn't having a go at EV cars, but having a light-hearted dig at all the talk about batteries etc.
Insideevs.com recently had a great video with a battery researcher about how to charge and discharge Li ion batteries. It was focused on EV cars but applies to all Li ion batteries. I now treat my phone very different, as the last phone I had essentially became permanently plugged in. Turns out I was the likely cause of that battery losing its ability.
Indeed, and I wasn't having a go back. We all live in the real world. However, if I bring this stuff to people's notice it's because I find that, in general, they are remarkably uninformed about the most important subject facing us. I will never be alarmist or knowingly say anything that is untrue. So if I'm boring, don't read the stuff, because I'm not going to stop. One day, you may say, 'yeah ok, thanks for being boring and carrying on'. In Southampton there has been a major hike in child asthma incidents coming into the General Hospital in the last few years. Nearly all of them provoked by air pollution. And although it hasn't been proven to compete yet with smoking and obesity for cancers yet, air pollution is a definite direct reducer of people's overall health. It reduces the quality of one's life as an indrect result and will result in an earlier death. A few years ago my eldest brother used to 'pop into Shirley' in the car and he'd text me that when he came back he had a sore throat. Absolutely every time. It was just a matter of degree. Now, he's somewhat of a canary. But just a few years later and it's now happening to me too. If we are in the same car we inform each other. Doesn't take long either, and he upraded his filtration in the car because of it. Barely changed a thing.
For those who may be interested in the remaining quiz answer. The former Neighbours actor born in Chandlers Ford is Tom Oliver who played Lou Carpenter
Yeah. I used to unclip the belt, but loosening it a bit is just as good. And I have gone a whole short-haul flight where I clean forgot to do either, and when the sign said 'fasten seatbelts' I was already there. I kind of like a good dose of turbulence though. Just for me. I feel sorry for the white knuckle brigade. I do actually think quite a bit before I consider flying these days though. Hurry up electric airliners.
Replying to my own post. Whatever next? As a follow-up, Easyjet plan to introduce all-electric airliners in the 2020s. Here's a very old article saying 10 years, so you can now say 8: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/1...ctric-airplanes-in-10-years-is-that-possible/
Might be of interest to the electric car discussion. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17...-tesla-plans-open-service-centre-southampton/
