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Electric cars?

Would you buy an electric car?

  • Already own one

    Votes: 10 5.1%

  • Yes - would definitely buy

    Votes: 43 21.9%

  • Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar

    Votes: 78 39.8%

  • Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc

    Votes: 37 18.9%

  • No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience

    Votes: 24 12.2%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    196
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In the United States, drive-up banks often use pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents between cars and tellers. Some U.S. hospitals have a computer-controlled pneumatic tube system to deliver drugs, documents and specimens to and from laboratories and nurses' stations. NASA's original Mission Control Center had pneumatic tubes connecting controller consoles with staff support rooms.

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Note pneumatic tube canisters in console to the right.

Until 2011, a McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota claimed to be the "World's Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru," sending food from their strip-mall location to a drive-through in the middle of a parking lot.
 
The trouble Dyson has is that an electric car in electrical engineering terms is not overly complex.
I think in 15 years there will be double the number of car companies and cars will become more commoditized, the money will be in the safety system technology.

It will be Google vs who knows again.
 
Knobby22 said:
The trouble Dyson has is that an electric car in electrical engineering terms is not overly complex.
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A problem I can see for all car companies is that much of the present automotive "economy" revolves around the engine and not the rest of the car.

If we base it on an average travel speed of 30 km/h then the average car is being serviced every 300 - 500 hours of operation. That's a truly mind blowing level of maintenance compared to most things.

Remove the combustion engine and that gets rid of most of that maintenance. In doing so it also kills the business model of much of the industry. Invest accordingly.:2twocents
 
Knobby22 said:
The trouble Dyson has is that an electric car in electrical engineering terms is not overly complex.
I think in 15 years there will be double the number of car companies and cars will become more commoditized, the money will be in the safety system technology.

It will be Google vs who knows again.
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I agree, I have no doubt Dyson could build a very well engineered EV, The big but though is the other software features people are expecting of the EV of the Future, eg self driving etc.

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On a similar note, I drove the Tesla in Bumper to Bumper traffic for the first time the other day, and Being able to put the car in Autopilot, and have it deal with the stop start stop start nature of the traffic for me while I relaxed, and listened to music took pretty much all to the frustration of the traffic away, I love it.
 
Smurf1976 said:
If we base it on an average travel speed of 30 km/h then the average car is being serviced every 300 - 500 hours of operation. That's a truly mind blowing level of maintenance compared to most things.
.:2twocents
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This also affects the affordability of regular cars too, and so Ev's can end up being cheaper over time.

Even though the price Tag of EV's is higher than Petrol cars, Most people have car loans and so a car is a monthly expense rather than a lump sum.

So when you factor in the Monthly loan payment on an EV + electricity vs the Monthly cost of a Petrol car loan + petrol + servicing. The Ev can end up costing less.
 
Tesla's also come standard with "Sentry Mode".

When your car is in Sentry Mode and it detects movement within 8 inches of your car, It begins recording using its front and rear facing cameras.

watch this video from the 30 second mark to learn more.

 
https://theconversation.com/climate...otprint-of-electric-versus-fossil-cars-124762
Big difference between Australia and NZ
It would be interesting to compare as well a small European diesel car vs EV
These cars can easily have doubled life expectancy so slashing the manufacturing component, and are using a misery in diesel
They are now seen as evil as manufacturing countries France Germany there want more taxes and ideally new car purchases to boost their sick economies and coffers
 
SirRumpole said:
Solar cars don't use petrol, so what caught fire and why ?
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Do they use batteries they can over heat and flare or perhaps a circuit / component failure due to over heating / poor design to disperse heat.
 
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