7 minutes ago, Ryeman said:

The battery manufacturing infrastructure is the first stage.

 

And replacing diesel and petrol pumps with 45 kWh Quick Charge stations to provide a kWh every 80 seconds !

VW have indicated the US is their priority, part of the mea culpa.......not just words apparently.

 

(work for prisoners perhaps    )

Edited 5 May, 20188 yr by Ryeman

1 minute ago, Ryeman said:

VW have indicated the US is their priority, part of the mea culpa.......not just words apparently.

 

Bad policy. Current IS administration will crucify VAG for years to come.I

Better to take the policy of PSA or Renault to forget the U.S. and concentrate on Rest of World.

 

Maybe a few more billions to payout and how many cars does one have to sell with a couple of hundred dollar margins to make up the tens of billions.

10 hours ago, Ryeman said:

Norway is planning to introduce legislation banning conventional tourist shipping in it’s coastal parks, so electric will be the go it seems.

 

 Shame they ignore our coastal parks & anchor bloody great big oil tankers in them for NO reason whatsoever...hypocrites...

 

Namely T e e k a y shipping Norway which park P e t  r o n o r d i c & P e t r o a t l a n t I c in the Inner Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation..& usually for 2 months at a time....just because they can...& only a few miles from main tourist beach's with loads of sand & dolphins etc.....nearest working oil terminal is over 100miles away at least...& this area is not on the shipping route either...

 

& the pollution from those engines !!!!...even the builders working next door who park in van & run diesel engine whilst they have their 9am tea, 11am tea, lunch, 3pm tea etc are nothing compared to those ships...

 

Shipping, trains, airplanes, trucks etc need to sorted, stop grabbing headlines.....& peoples attitudes need to be sorted also.....like sitting in van & engine running for about 2hrs a day all told..

46 minutes ago, fabdavrav said:

 Shame they ignore our coastal parks & anchor bloody great big oil tankers in them for NO reason whatsoever...hypocrites...

 

Namely T e e k a y shipping Norway which park P e t  r o n o r d i c & P e t r o a t l a n t I c in the Inner Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation..& usually for 2 months at a time....just because they can...& only a few miles from main tourist beach's with loads of sand & dolphins etc.....nearest working oil terminal is over 100miles away at least...& this area is not on the shipping route either...

 

& the pollution from those engines !!!!...even the builders working next door who park in van & run diesel engine whilst they have their 9am tea, 11am tea, lunch, 3pm tea etc are nothing compared to those ships...

 

Shipping, trains, airplanes, trucks etc need to sorted, stop grabbing headlines.....& peoples attitudes need to be sorted also.....like sitting in van & engine running for about 2hrs a day all told..

So why doesn’t  Scotland pass similar legislation?.

Because the Moray Firth & the Cromarty Firth is not near the Central Belt.

 

People are making money, and others in tourism are losing money.

There were plenty making big money when the rigs were being built in the area decades back.

 

 

 

Edited 5 May, 20188 yr by Offski

The fiords aren’t exactly highly populated areas surely .

An inversion would make them smelly in any case I suppose.

Edited 6 May, 20188 yr by Ryeman

The UK & Scottish Governments need to get on with the infrastructure for the storage of the renewables generated electricity, 

more Hydro Pump Storage and people able to store electricity in workplaces, homes and cars and more production of hydrogen from the electricity generated by wind,wave,solar & get on with the carbon capture scheme at Peterhead.   Also get the new nuclear power stations built and online as well.  Then the new Interconnectors to Norway.

 

 

Edited 6 May, 20188 yr by Offski

Lithium ion prices coming down nice and quick, especially when the UK currency is not in the dire straights of 1.2 - 1.3 USD per pound.

 

Replacement battery for me motorbike was over £100 only a few months ago and just purchased for less than £65 ie over a third less in less than a year.

 

Motorbike now weighs over 1% less which should help fuel consumption, brake wear, handling etc ! 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, lol-lol said:

Lithium ion prices coming down nice and quick, especially when the UK currency is not in the dire straights of 1.2 - 1.3 USD per pound.

 

Replacement battery for me motorbike was over £100 only a few months ago and just purchased for less than £65 ie over a third less in less than a year.

 

Motorbike now weighs over 1% less which should help fuel consumption, brake wear, handling etc ! 

 

 

 

 

Australia is set to profit from lithium and supply will ramp up with demand, bringing costs down hopefully.

10 minutes ago, Ryeman said:

Australia is set to profit from lithium and supply will ramp up with demand, bringing costs down hopefully.

 

Fair dinkum.  It is heading the right way ie lower, some 20% per year,  whereas diesel/petrol has been heading up at over 10% per annum over the last 2 years.

 

Electrical storage needs to really take off at local level and national level so we can have more days, like the 3 we just had in the UK, where we did not burn any hydrocarbon for power generation.  We are putting up wind turbines by the dozen and acres of solar as well as a couple of hydro projects going ahead but need a lot more storage to smooth out the blips.     

The South Australian Tesla battery storage installation seems to have been a success coping with the surge issues associated with renewables.

10 hours ago, Ryeman said:

The South Australian Tesla battery storage installation seems to have been a success coping with the surge issues associated with renewables.

 

There is a 500 home support battery storage with a solar farm in Somerset ie SW England but the 2 GW Dinorwig pump station is the biggy in UK so only has 5 hours of power running at full tilt but does help for spikes of a million putting on the kettle during Coronation St adverts!

Edited 6 May, 20188 yr by lol-lol

The cons don’t like pumped hydro for the same reason.

For the first time ever we now get a TV ad telling us about a trip by a mining executive to Japan to investigate their clean coal technology - we’re in an election year.

Nissan to prioritise electric over diesel -

http://europe.autonews.com/article/20180507/ANE/180509843/nissan-will-gradually-withdraw-from-europes-diesel-market?cciid=email-autonews-blast

Slot car charging system for Sweden apparently -

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1116806_sweden-builds-life-size-slot-car-track-for-long-distance-electric-car-charging

10 hours ago, Ryeman said:

Slot car charging system for Sweden apparently -

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1116806_sweden-builds-life-size-slot-car-track-for-long-distance-electric-car-charging

 

Think my company's solution is more elegant.........     

 

 

Edited 21 May, 20188 yr by lol-lol

I can’t see range being a problem in Singapore.

In case people missed it, the Electric converted Jag E-type was featured on royal wedding.

 

Harry got in and started driving imminently, effortlessly.

2 minutes ago, wyx087 said:

In case people missed it, the Electric converted Jag E-type was featured on royal wedding.

 

Harry got in and started driving imminently, effortlessly.

The choke is automatic  

1 hour ago, wyx087 said:

In case people missed it, the Electric converted Jag E-type was featured on royal wedding.

 

Harry got in and started driving imminently, effortlessly.

 

Left hand drive !

1 minute ago, lol-lol said:

 

Left hand drive !

Is it hers perhaps?.

BMW batteries powering the UK -

https://electrek.co/2018/05/21/bmw-i3-battery-pack-uk-national-grid-energy-storage-project/

https://interestingengineering.com/uk-wind-farms-outperform-nuclear-plants-for-the-first-time-ever
 

Quote

 

The report found that wind was the second largest source of electricity after gas. This new wind power generation was key to carbon emissions being 7% lower than the same period in 2017.

 

“This was also happening while Britain’s energy system was being tested by the ‘Beast from the East’ so renewables are continuing to prove themselves as a dependable part of our electricity mix,” added Staffell.

 

 

Just need battery systems (as above) to make renewables more dependable

Progress (apparently) on UK fast charging grid plans -

https://electrek.co/2018/05/23/network-ev-charging-stations-2-gw-of-battery-power-uk/