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Electric car problem
It takes about 8 hours to charge an electric car. The range is around 100 miles on a good day, assuming it's impossible to calculate the exact amount of power you'll consume per journey, what do you do when you conk out half way home? It must happen and I literally have no idea what the drivers do.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Most electric cars are used for city commuting and do nowhere near 100 miles in a day, they're not appropriate or designed for inter-city or longer range driving.
In point of fact because at the moment the UK's electricity generation is mixed the actual emmissions from something like a GWhiz are not zero but are about 62gm/KM
That places it lower than any petrol car but given it's size it's not a fair comparrisom
adjust for that weight and it's not hugely better than many small petrol cars
What it does do is export pollution outside of cities where the build up of emmissions can be so damaging.
Electric cars are not a complete solution to our energy problems, just a part of the picture.
Longer term things like Hydrogen fuelled cars are probably a better bet but there are a lot of generation, storage and transportation isssues to deal with there so they're a way off yet
In point of fact because at the moment the UK's electricity generation is mixed the actual emmissions from something like a GWhiz are not zero but are about 62gm/KM
That places it lower than any petrol car but given it's size it's not a fair comparrisom
adjust for that weight and it's not hugely better than many small petrol cars
What it does do is export pollution outside of cities where the build up of emmissions can be so damaging.
Electric cars are not a complete solution to our energy problems, just a part of the picture.
Longer term things like Hydrogen fuelled cars are probably a better bet but there are a lot of generation, storage and transportation isssues to deal with there so they're a way off yet