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mW ≠ MW!
(but I still want one)
Salon Privé: The UK's billionaire-friendly answer to Pebble Beach
Electric cars are coming, but not in the way you would expect. The lawns of Salon Privé suggest a direction that will have the lentil-munchers puzzled. Salon Privé is the UK’s automotive equivalent to Pebble Beach. A car show for the wealthy and titled: those that actually buy Astons and Zondas. You might have to queue for …
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Sunday 20th September 2015 11:58 GMT GitMeMyShootinIrons
Getting toward range you can live with.
So long as the range figures are 'real world' and not something like VW American emissions testing, then we're getting to range figures that you can live with. Just a shame these cars are a little bit out of my price range (my price range for an electric vehicle is more second hand milk float...).
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Monday 21st September 2015 04:21 GMT Richard Altmann
Toroidion
I want one! To put down the foot one needs a salt lake track. I might be running short of change for that. :-) And then ... One kicks off at one end of the lake and stops at the other end and has not gone anywhere except across the salt lake. Outstanding engineering! Add driverless controls, go into mass production and the world is your oyster.
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Monday 21st September 2015 05:52 GMT Steve Davies 3
Regen braking
I do agree that it can extend your range considerably but it requires a very different driving style from when using a petrol/diesel engine.
For the types who go to Salon Privee this would be a totally new experience by not exceeding around 55mph and not using Cruise Control really helps with the range.
It also helps if there are some nice long gentle downhill stretches on your route. Then you can literally coast along charging the battery at the same time.
The other downside is that when braking using only regen your car sounds like a Jubilee Line train coming into a station. The regen whine has confused a few passengers in my PHEV when running on leccy.
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Monday 21st September 2015 09:52 GMT Anthony Hegedus
Green my arse
Given that these cars probably took thousands of hours to build, the "carbon footprint" of building them far exceeds whatever is saved by having one of these electric cards. Unless this really does have a useful trickle-down effect, these are just playthings for people with too much money.
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Monday 21st September 2015 14:28 GMT itzman
Re: Green my arse
Well yes, these cars certainly are not green yet.
But innovation tends to come in at the top end, and trickle down to the average joes as it stabilises and mass production kicks in.
What these cars are are development testbeds for hybrid, electric, battery, charge technology, regen braking etc etc.
Selling them to greenwashers at inflated prices is just the marketing.
And in any case, there is definite evidence the excess CO2 is greening the planet a bit, so actually the gas guzzling V8 is probably greener anyway. ;-)
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