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1. I have heard that petrol cars can not refuel at home while you sleep? How often do you have to refill elsewhere? Is this several times a year? Will there be a solution for refueling at home?

2. Which parts will I need service on and how often? The car salesman mentioned a box with gears in it. What is this and will I receive a warning with an indicator when I need to change gear?

3. Can I accelerate and brake with one pedal as I do today with my electric car?

4. Do I get fuel back when I slow down or drive downhill? I assume so, but need to ask to be sure.

5. The car I test drove seemed to have a delay from the time I pressed the accelerator pedal until it began to accelerate. Is that normal in petrol cars?

 

There's more:

https://thedriven.io/2021/08/18/im-thinking-of-replacing-my-ev-with-a-petrol-car-can-i-refuel-it-at-home/

Looking at the tax situation this liquid fuel is taxed at 58 pence per litre plus a VAT rate of 20%.

 

Have to factor this in to the fact that carrying a fully charged car does not add to the weight and the VAT charge of the fuel loaded at home is only at 5%.

 

Apparently this petrol fuel is just about to change in the UK to double the amount of oxygen in it, ie C2H5-OH, and as well as charging for a fuel that contains Oxygen, which is a freely available gas in the air, this new version of fuel, to the UK, gives less miles per litre which in combination with the every decreasing fuel tank size means even less range in the car leading to both range and cost anxiety.

 

The illusion that EVs are sweet, simple things with nothing to go wrong is amusingly covered here, around the 2-minute mark.  Astonishing level of complexity compared to what I had imagined, in all honesty.

 Mach-E Thermal System Nightmare - YouTube

 

I hope/expect there are simpler ones about.

 

 

1 hour ago, lol-lol said:

C2H5-OH

That's an ethane derivative, not an octane derivative which would be C8...

It is good that EV Technicians are now being trained to meet the demand in the future.

Good if there is new blood into the Motor Trade and not just old hands & those already working as techs, mechanics or fitters but ones that will learn properly how to service, maintain and put vehicles out that are safe to be on the road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

53 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

That's an ethane derivative, not an octane derivative which would be C8...

 

Indeed, ethanol, the OH link replacing one of the six Hydrogen bonds.

 

Petrol nominally C8H18 but in reality a soup of other hydrocarbon molecules.

 

Only got a C in chemistry at I level but always found it interesting and useful when going on to do Mech Eng and thermodynamics.

Good knows what the formula was of residual fuel were burnt in the massive two. Stroke diesel engines.

20 minutes ago, lol-lol said:

C8H18

That's pure Octane and nothing but. Note that "petrol", including aviation grades, tends to be higher or lower rated.

 

Diesel would be C17H36 for 100% straight citane, but I have no idea what (other than long molecule hydrocarbons) is in bunker oil, and doubt anyone else does either.

What's "I level", a typo or a real thing?

56 minutes ago, Wino said:

What's "I level", a typo or a real thing?

 

Sorry "O" level, I am so old it was GCEs nearly half a century ago. 

I thought that's probably what you meant, didn't want to assume though.

22 hours ago, Wino said:

The illusion that EVs are sweet, simple things with nothing to go wrong is amusingly covered here, around the 2-minute mark.  Astonishing level of complexity compared to what I had imagined, in all honesty.

 Mach-E Thermal System Nightmare - YouTube

 

I hope/expect there are simpler ones about.

That's a Ford, bad engineering and inefficiency is expected. It's probably the worst EV attempt right now.

 

From the same guy, the tech inside is laughable:

 

Mach-E Front Motor: Sandy is Blown Away by Great Design - YouTube

 

Same car, same reviewer; sorry if that's too much for your prejudicial, binary perception to cope with. 

2 hours ago, Wino said:

Mach-E Front Motor: Sandy is Blown Away by Great Design - YouTube

 

Same car, same reviewer; sorry if that's too much for your prejudicial, binary perception to cope with. 

Great design for a single component doesn't make it a good EV.

 

Sorry if it's too depth of an insight for you

There has been near to 2 centuries to get the electric motors and hardware / engineering in cars to this stage.

They can do it.

Software is the issue and even decades on they keep coc-king that up, even the biggest car manufacturer in the world does it.