Jam2Day wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:
I think we all agree that electric motors with their torque characteristics and clean properties are hands down the preferred route and have been for a long time. Even those smokey old diesel electric railway units attest to that. However, surely the real problem is battery storage efficiency which is just not sufficiently advanced enough to accomodate most of our daily requirements. They are heavy, bulky and expensive compared with the calorific content in a typical ten gallon tank of fuel.
My unofficial sampling of folk with electric cars is that Tesla are fine and not that noticeably different from combustion due to the Tesla Super Charger Network. Those with other models especially VW, are less happy with range and chargers. A neighbour with an Audi etron is not happy even though it saved him several thousand in benefit in kind tax, but the range and lack of chargers stresses him. There is a range of variability in other marques. A neighbour with a BMW says its the best car he has ever owned, easily getting to his daughters over 200 miles away.
Clearly it depends on how far you drive etc. Most folk seem to use cars for shopping and school runs and any electric car seems fine and far lower cost to run and service than a combustion variant.
The success of Tesla cars is recorded in the remarkable statistic that the Model Y is now the most popular selling car in the world.
Regards,