Australia makes EV infrastructure a priority -

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/general-news/electric-vehicles/fast-charging-ev-network-listed-as-infrastructure-priority/2019-02-14/77627.html

Model X vs I-Pace vs E-Tron for efficiency.

https://electrek.co/2019/02/21/tesla-efficiency-range-test-audi-e-tron-jaguar-i-pace/

 

The bigger Model X is more efficient. Giving more range at similar battery size.

 

When will traditional manufacturers learn....... putting in bigger and bigger battery isn't the solution. Leaf e+ 60kWh will not magically make it a long distance car, it will have more range than needed for local journey, but still suck at long distance motorway. Local journey is already solved by Leaf back in 2011. High speed efficiency is KEY for long distance capable EV.

A mother of a bicycle -

https://electrek.co/2019/02/22/surlys-electric-bicycle-big-easy/

When your Leaf batteries get a bit tired -

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1121660_reused-nissan-leaf-batteries-make-happy-campers-with-powered-pop-up-trailer

Battery Storage at UK Wind Farms is a bid deal as is what Scottish Power are doing with infrastructure now and into the future.

On the Scottish Power website they explain that a "50 MW" battery will be installed at their Whitelee windfarm. That farm is a monster - the biggest in the UK - with a nameplate output of 539 MW. Unfortunately I could not find any more technical info, especially the battery capacity. Given the size of the farm, the battery would have to be many times the size of the huge Tesla unit in Oz to provide any meaningful backup.

So it seems likely that its main function will be to help stabilise the grid, much like the one in Oz.

Does anyone have more tech info which would shed more light?

10 minutes ago, MikeHig said:

On the Scottish Power website they explain that a "50 MW" battery will be installed at their Whitelee windfarm. That farm is a monster - the biggest in the UK - with a nameplate output of 539 MW. Unfortunately I could not find any more technical info, especially the battery capacity. Given the size of the farm, the battery would have to be many times the size of the huge Tesla unit in Oz to provide any meaningful backup.

So it seems likely that its main function will be to help stabilise the grid, much like the one in Oz.

Does anyone have more tech info which would shed more light?

Stabilising the system has been a magic bullet, it seems, for the integration of conventional electromechanical and modern renewable infrastructure from S.A. experience.

Our , desperate to catch up, Federal Government has finally commenced the upgrade of the Snowy Mountains hydro system to tack on pumped hydro for around £1B but at the cost of Murdoch’s Sky News After Dark panel of hard right semi religious extremists who have been effectively ‘running’ their agenda for more than a decade with their hysterical promotion of coal.

It does look as if we are in the final fading phase of Murdoch political influence.  

You can just get what the chose to release as news.

http://insider.co.uk/news/scottish-power-invest-2-billion-14055339

 

CO2  >. coal  -       apparently 

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2019/02/27/co2-coal-research/

Time to dream  -

https://thedriven.io/2019/02/27/porsche-the-next-macan-will-be-electric/

More confirmation that this is our perfect ICE replacement -

 

Audi’s Geneva cars will all be electric -

https://thedriven.io/2019/03/01/audi-to-present-electric-vehicles-only-at-geneva-motor-show/

Imagine a BEV version -

 

Zoe to be a 61 kwh battery 

 

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.automobile-propre.com/renault-zoe-2019-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-la-future-citadine-electrique/&prev=search

 

translated from French)............

 

Up to 450 km of theoretical autonomy

The batteries of the current ZOE do not exceed 41 kWh of capacity, that is to say 300 real kilometers. A psychological brake for some, that the second version will partially erase. The 2019 version will have a battery pack of 61 kWh maximum, confirmed us an internal source to the brand . The autonomy declared in the WLTP cycle will be 450 kilometers, but Renault will communicate as today on a real road, announced 400 km. This is 100 kilometers more than the current version, or + 30% autonomy.

However, not yet reliable information about charging. According to rumors , it would switch from standard Type 2 to Combo for more versatility.

The power of the various engines would be between 90 and 136 horses informs us L'argus , against 110 hp maximum on the current version R110. The Q90 engine will be abandoned, as mentioned in our columns.

 

^^^^^ I wouldn’t consider a long range small city type car for touring unless it was a steal.

Dundee Yesterday.

(City of Discovery or Electric City if you like, or as the Council want.)

 

 

For George -

https://electrek.co/2019/03/05/skoda-vision-iv-concept/

Still waiting a decade on for a Joyster so not going to hold be breath on this concept becoming a reality.

They should dust off the Joyster and turn out an efficient EV.

Looks pretty much production ready I would have thought.

On 02/03/2019 at 23:40, lol-lol said:

Zoe to be a 61 kwh battery 

 

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.automobile-propre.com/renault-zoe-2019-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-la-future-citadine-electrique/&prev=search

 

translated from French)............

 

Up to 450 km of theoretical autonomy

The batteries of the current ZOE do not exceed 41 kWh of capacity, that is to say 300 real kilometers. A psychological brake for some, that the second version will partially erase. The 2019 version will have a battery pack of 61 kWh maximum, confirmed us an internal source to the brand . The autonomy declared in the WLTP cycle will be 450 kilometers, but Renault will communicate as today on a real road, announced 400 km. This is 100 kilometers more than the current version, or + 30% autonomy.

However, not yet reliable information about charging. According to rumors , it would switch from standard Type 2 to Combo for more versatility.

The power of the various engines would be between 90 and 136 horses informs us L'argus , against 110 hp maximum on the current version R110. The Q90 engine will be abandoned, as mentioned in our columns.

 

 

 

Having made the switch I can assure you the 300km minimum requirement is in most cases just a lot of nonsense. My Leaf can do 150 miles before I need to recharge but on every trip I have done so far someone has wanted to stop for the loo, or a break or some food (or a combination of all three) after just over 100 miles. So far it's comfortably coped with trips to Inverness, Aviemore, Belfast, Carlisle and Stafford. Yes if I paid more for a bigger battery I wouldn't need to let the car refuel itself while I was away refuelling myself but once you adjust to the idea that refuelling os something the car does while you're doing something else, you tend not to think of stopping as a fuel thing and more of a comfort thing. 

 

Am I imagining it or has anyone else noticed a significant drop in new ICE car news balanced by the increase in BEV news.

To me it seems there is a significant shift going on .

50 minutes ago, Ryeman said:

Am I imagining it or has anyone else noticed a significant drop in new ICE car news balanced by the increase in BEV news.

To me it seems there is a significant shift going on .

 

 

it's coming but I don't think we're there yet

Australia has identified 22,000 sites suitable for pumped hydro -  explainer :

http://theconversation.com/five-gifs-that-explain-how-pumped-hydro-actually-works-112610

10 hours ago, Ryeman said:

Am I imagining it or has anyone else noticed a significant drop in new ICE car news balanced by the increase in BEV news.

To me it seems there is a significant shift going on .

Lots of concept or pre-production EV was announced recently in Geneva motorshow.

Just now, wyx087 said:

Lots of concept or pre-production EV was announced recently in Geneva motorshow.

Now we no longer have a car manufacturing industry we are just tin importers.

We are in a position now to rapidly adapt to a new (automotive) world order and I sense there is significant anticipation around the imminent arrival of new Leaf/Niro/Kona/eGolf etc.  )))) just imagine an importer’s promotion campaign highlighting minimal fuel or servicing costs.

Ha !