tomw
made mention of the Nissan Leaf
in comments
on the "Record
number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012"
post. Last year Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and James May drove a
battery powered Leaf, Peugeot iOn on a trip .. not a very long
one as it turned out, across the English countryside. It was both
entertaining and instructive; the Green legions went up the wall,
natch,
because, well they only go about 100 miles and take 13 hours to
charge- if you can find a charging station. A bloke writing for Green
Car Reports complained (with a brave face).
"They
needed to recharge their fully-drained 2011 Nissan Leaf in the
rural English county of Lincolnshire.
Needless
to say, they had purposely
exhausted the car's battery, and chosen a place known for its lack
of electric-car charging stations.
As with past Top Gear segments
involving electric cars, many plug-in fans weren’t impressed. Neither
was Nissan. "
Really? I don't know what "purposely exhausted the car's battery"
means? They
drove them; the batteries drained. Give it a watch, and
decide.
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"...they had chosen a place known for its lack of charging stations..."
ReplyDeletePlanet Earth, you mean?
Working at a seaplane base where
ReplyDeletecars unload into planes and vice versa,
with people and vehicles
going about all over, I found the
electric cars extremely hazardous
as making no noise, folks keep
stepping in front of them as they
move, assuming no noise mean immobile...
like regular people looking
the wrong way crossing the street
in limey lands, England, Japan, India...
Then, on the other hand, up north
in the winter, everywhere you park
a car, you have a plug in station,
as if you dont plug your engine in, even the
wheels wont turn anymore...
However, keeping an electric car
charged in the north would cost
more than feeding a jet engine...
It's not fair! Just because electric cars have a limited range, lousy performance, extended charge times and use so much electricity that no power-grid on earth could supply a substantial number of them with energy...RIGHT AWAY YOU TRASH THEM AS BEING JUNK.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure this is because Obama is black. RACISTS!
Aww! The video ended just as I was getting distracted by the background.
ReplyDeleteGrinfilledCelt
Well, at least we're closing down some of those nasty, polluting power plants. That should help.
ReplyDeletePvt-Cdr(SS) MichigammeDave
Thirteen hours for a fill-up? I get pissed when they don't change the filters and it takes 5 minutes to fill my truck.
ReplyDeleteDumbasses. In a perfect world, they'd be in institutions.
No Jess, in a perfect world, they'd be swinging from overpasses.
ReplyDeleteCasca
You're right. It's much cheaper and eliminates a further risk of gene contamination.
ReplyDelete"swinging from overpasses"
ReplyDeleteCasca, lets go for lampposts instead. Don't want to damage the passing eighteen wheelers.
I have about 250' of 3/4" rope. That will get us started on my flog, hang, and flog-before-hang lists.
Holder & Co. are beneath contempt and ought to be beneath lampposts, oak limbs and, in a pinch, overpasses.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
Impale them on stakes and line the roads into DC with their bodies as a reminder to the incoming lot that treason will not be tolerated.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm out in the sticks, I can think of only one practical use for a leaf... and it ain't for roofing my shelter.
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