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| Simon:
--- Quote from: woodchips on October 04, 2023, 05:42:19 pm ---Coo, some response, bit naff though. Do you have to re-approve a car if it is changed? Not in the UK, put a different engine in and off you go. This is all I am suggesting, a different engine, the safety, steering and brakes stay the same. If it is an approval problem then something for the government to change then isn't it? Restrict the speed to 60mph say. As for selling outside the UK then why, enough cars, RHD, for the UK, other countries can do what they want. I have no idea who the OP is or has done, I just took the post as is and thought about it. --- End quote --- you can't change a car without approval. The car is designed and tested and approved to be safe, if you change something to make it different from the original design then it is no longer road worthy. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: woodchips on October 04, 2023, 05:42:19 pm ---Do you have to re-approve a car if it is changed? Not in the UK, put a different engine in and off you go. This is all I am suggesting, a different engine, the safety, steering and brakes stay the same. If it is an approval problem then something for the government to change then isn't it? --- End quote --- The battery and charger won't require any safety consideration at all, right? And the drivetrain won't require any change except swapping out the engine? Do you prefer your electric cars with a manual or automatic transmission? --- Quote ---I just took the post as is and thought about it. --- End quote --- Keep thinking a bit more. :P |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: woodchips on October 04, 2023, 05:42:19 pm ---I have no idea who the OP is or has done, I just took the post as is and thought about it. --- End quote --- The OP has form. A lot of form. None of it good. Then he makes extraordinary claims (again) without anything even resembling extraordinary evidence. I'll think about it if it was a different OP or the OP gave any evidence for his claims. |
| hans:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on October 04, 2023, 03:18:31 pm --- --- Quote from: hans on October 01, 2023, 08:44:42 am ---x 195Wh/km --- End quote --- This is where median vs. average matters (and median over the whole population i.e. taking number of cars sold for each model into account). The average of this list is clearly biased by large vans, which, due to frontal area and weight are going to consume more. OP is designing a small (4-seater, not even 5!) car, so Tesla Model 3 numbers would be closer. In city traffic, numbers around 140-150Wh/km are realistic in all smaller passenger cars (excluding those stupid large SUV-type frames). --- End quote --- I get your point, I agree in the difference of avg vs median, but for the sake of this discussion I don't really care. I haven't read what kind of a car I will buy for my 9500. A hatchback, sedan, or SUV-MPV crossover? Its a big assumption that some random person will make an electric car as aerodynamically, mechanically and electrically efficient that it directly competes with modern competitors. With that I think its still a fair ballpark figure to use slightly more pessimistic values. |
| SiliconWizard:
The cost of the car itself is likely to become moot in a few years from now anyway, if by then you have to sell a kidney to pay for a year's worth of charging. (Oh and also if all you can do is rent it rather than buy it.) Just a thought. Of course it will never happen. :popcorn: |
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