And then we move to hydrogen!
“Hyundai Motor Group’s solution to combating climate change is to encourage a shift in the energy paradigm to hydrogen.
Over the past 20 years, Hyundai Motor Group has devoted significant resources and talent to developing hydrogen-based technologies.
As a result of these long-term efforts, our hydrogen passenger and commercial vehicles are already in use around the world,
helping to popularize hydrogen energy. Then, what does Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for a future hydrogen society look like?
The Group’s goal is to make hydrogen readily available for “Everyone, Everything, and Everywhere.”
With these breakthroughs, we aim to help foster a worldwide hydrogen society by 2040.”
We’re not there yet.
How many cars in the UK drive 1000km in one day?
How many cars in the world drive 1,000 km in a day?
I’m not too worried about how far we can drive in one day, as we never get anywhere near 1000km (or whatever that is in real measurements).
The real reasons why I would never buy an electric car is twofold:
- firstly, they cost an arm and a leg;
- secondly, having paid an arm and a leg for one, I’d find that in ten years (or even less) when the battery needs replacing, the cost of that replacement would make the car’s resale value next to nothing. So whereas we have always sold our old car in part exchange for a new one, we’d be buying a new one outright at full price.
It’s just not worth it.
Whether or not hydrogen ever becomes a mainstream fuel remains to be seen but that’s hardly green to produce either just like electricity, and finding the stuff here in the UK is far worse than finding an electric charge point too.
There are still under two dozen hydrogen filling stations in the whole of the UK.
When it seems like a far more obvious alternative to oil-based fuels I don’t know why hydrogen as an alternative hasn’t gained more traction - unless it has something to do with historical fear of public perception because of the Hindenburg?
It’s real! SI units are international. Imperial is from the dark ages!
No. Kilometers are silly FRENCH things. Always miles for me.
When I was in school we used CGS units. Then MKS. And then SI. The international world is all SI units. Except Myanmar, Liberia, and the USA. You may or may not know that Electrical Engineering was/is my field I used SI units for everything. It’s so much simpler than Imperial.
CGS? MKS? SI? All temporary flashes in the wind. No wonder they keep changing the things and can’t seem to make their minds up.
Miles have been in use since the Romans were around, and always will be. (The miles, not the Romans. They’ve left now.)
The metric system was around 1790. It has stood the test of time.
Never mind miles being used since Roman times, I wish roads were still built the way Romans built their roads!
Actually Romans didn’t invent miles. Miles were introduced in 1593.
Oh I believe you, but I was referring to this:
But I don’t think they were. They had a thousand paces mille passus
Yes they did, but they didn’t call them ‘miles’. Where did you think the word ‘mile’ came from? It’s from ‘mille passus’.
The Romans measured a ‘pace’ (passus) as two good steps on the march, which equated to about 1.7 to 1.8 yards. 1760 yards = 1 mile = a thousand paces.
Along their walls, like Hadrian’s Wall, they built a ‘mile castle’ at every mile (1000 paces), so I assume that they, in that way, first created the ‘mile’.
Of course, it wouldn’t have been measured with great accuracy, to the inch for example, but that’s where the word ‘mile’ came from - ‘mille’.
Yes, it came from the mile as it subsequently became before the Romans.
No big deal.
Let’s leave the flat earthers to their nostalgia for the good old days of miles and cubits and get back on topic…
I have done Brisbane to Wollongong and Philip Island to Sydney in one day, they are both about 1000km trips and about a 10hr drive on (mostly) dual carriageway. Not too difficult to do. I still occasionally do drives of 500 to 700km in a day though I try to avoid doing such distances.
I like driving those distances less as I have got older but certainly did them many time on worse roads in my youth and even now are sometimes unavoidable.
Yes, I have had long trips too. South of England to Scotland non-stop . I did that quite regularly. It was about 750km. I think the longest for me was Johannesburg to Capetown but that was two stops. Each segment was about 700km