I imagine you could. I have seen the whole truck being lifted into a breakdown wagon.
Ok lets go to stage two and job losses.
Not only in the plants producing car engines will there be job losses, but also in the supply chain with the companies making the components that go into an engine
Then there are the suppliers who provide food for the workers will be out of jobs as will those making protective clothing and safety workwear and the suppliers providing the raw material. Then less transport delivering this, so lorry drivers out of a job.
This means millions of people out of work scrounging off the state as their skills are no longer wanted.
All because of brainless people “muppets” don’t think things through
You are absolutely correct.
What I should have said is that, having started, they won’t go on for very long apart from some specialist uses.
You could make that point about combustion-engined vehicles.
I do, and I’ll bet you that combustion-engined vehicles go on for longer than battery-powered vehicles, when we are comparing like with like: the mass market for cars.
I don’t know. Oil deposits are expected to run out around 2050 and will be diminishing before that… EVs?
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: