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Monday 23 February 2009

Good morning and welcome to the Blog that is designed to get people talking about the practicalities of driving electric vehicles. I am now into my second week of testing the Mercedes-Benz Smart 2 seater Electric Vehicle. I have decided to continue the trial for a second week as there is a lot of interest out there and I want to give more people the opportunity to contribute to the discussion. Also I am enjoying driving the car so much.
There was a comment/question on the Thursday 19th Feb Blog from Pete B asking about the life of the battery etc. You will see my comment on the Blog for that day but in short the batteries for these vehicles are returned to the supplier at the end of their useful life for recycling. The engineering challenge is to match the life of the battery to the life of the car but even after say 12 years vehicle life the battery is unlikely to stop working only lose some of it's efficiency and therefore have some use after the life of the vehicle. I guess only time will tell!!.
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  1. Anonymous23 February 2009 at 13:44

    It's all very admirable that you are concerned about the environment but the argument that man made carbon emissions are warming the planet simply does not stand up to the latet scientific evidence (see 'the Manhattan Declaration' by eminent climate scientists). There has been no increases in global temperatures in the last decade despite increased carbon emissions, Europe has experienced its coldest weather for 20 years, ice levels at antarctica have expanded back to 1979 levels.

    A mass conversion to expensive electric cars won't change the temperature of the planet

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  2. Steve25 February 2009 at 09:37

    Taking the environmental issue out of the argument, and lets face it, there are always environmental experiments taking place that are continually contradicting each other – only time will tell what damage, or not, our carbon emissions are making on our planet.

    The most important element for me (and for many people I suspect) of the use of electric vehicles is the running costs. Sure, the cost of running them will increase in the years to come as they become more prevalent, but paying the current cost for oil and being held ransom by the oil giants is not a great place to be.

    Conversely, the use of both oil and electric fuelled vehicles will both disappear in the future and be superseded by the use of a hydrogen cell.

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  3. Steve25 February 2009 at 09:38

    Taking the environmental issue out of the argument, and lets face it, there are always environmental experiments taking place that are continually contradicting each other – only time will tell what damage, or not, our carbon emissions are making on our planet.

    The most important element for me (and for many people I suspect) of the use of electric vehicles is the running costs. Sure, the cost of running them will increase in the years to come as they become more prevalent, but paying the current cost for oil and being held ransom by the oil giants is not a great place to be.

    Conversely, the use of both oil and electric fuelled vehicles will both disappear in the future and be superseded by the use of a hydrogen cell.

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