Smug mode engaged (in Kryten’s voice please), but fully justified. You were definitely ahead of the curve and you have made a positive influence on many people myself included. Well done and thankyou!
Well done you and the rest of the team. Keep on as you have done as more people are listening, it's become much more a reality for so many people. People like your good self are listened to, we learn and we spread the word. Onwards and upwards Everything Electric
As a direct result of your tireless optimism and dedication no less than six of my Winchester Skeptic friends are now driving electric cars (two early adopters)! Imagine the carbon emissions saved. Thank you for what you have achieved.
I was a big fane of your Carpool series, and when you announced that you were going to do a show on EVs, I followed along. It's been fun and lots of great memories, so many startups, and only a few survivors. Here's to another 15 years!
Thank you Sir! It's been great following along learning all about EVs, solar panels, house batteries, electric heating. Today I spent a happy morning with people much cleverer than me talking about heat networks. I'll just add I was wearing my Fully Charged tee shirt. Suppose I'll have to buy a new one now. Keep up the good work, there's always more to do.
Loved Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge and the enthusiasm in Fully Charged. Keep going sir. You are definitely on the right track. I'm now an EVer and joined the gang. I loved it when you went back to the continent to get your old Leaf back. Reunited with an old friend. I'm going to dread being parted from my Zoe but it will have to happen one day.
I think we're very lucky to have you, my friend — Fully Charged's 15th birthday (and what it's grown into!!!) is a very proud accomplishment for you, and a gift to the world with your relentless advocacy of clean energy. And you are such a decent and personable spokesman. I definitely lift my glass to toast both you and the show, and proud to be a fellow science communicator in such good company.
Hmmm... copper and lithium, rare earth metals ... and the oil needed to extract them and ship the products you speak of. Electric improves air quality in cities... nothing more.
Absolute rubbish, and barely worth replying. You ignore that ANY electric motor is >90% efficient, compared to a 25-30% fossil gobbler. You forget about virtually permanent materials recycling - the battery materials are too valuable to landfill (like ICE vehicles). You need to look up Well-to-wheel comparisons - there are dozens of them.
Why are you even here, if you wish to be so ignorant?
I have some educated opinions for you- in a sort of reply or response -
Imagining a conversation…
Many years ago I was excited to work with alternative fueled vehicles!
My early experiences came in college and included looking at senior projects: a Vega steam powered conversion; and an old Renault with the, then common, jet engine alternator- which were so populsr and have been just about made extinct - and in the years since, I have managed to keep my eye on various projects and finally got hired to help design a hybrid-electric city bus!
My enthusiasm has waned a bit since recent arguments, and ancient realization, that car pollution is some amount of petrol redistribution…but the more important pollution comes from the actual rubber on the road; the PM2.5 nastiness. So, and with driving getting to be difficult, I have to say what I never would have: let's have villages to live and work and keep a car-maybe- for travel to the farther away villages. Local transport was once a happening thing and the pursuit of cash, in so many sectors!, has derailed trail-as it were.
I appreciate the car vs. car arguments, but they really cannot be fairly compared. The old energy comparison is never going to be fair, with gasoline having 600:1 or so advantage over the electron storage- battery of fuel cell. The other two things are difficult to explain but I believe you will have no particular difficulty…in that the ICE compared to the electric motor is not really a fair comparison; and beyond that, electric motor and battery propulsion systems are not very scalable like the ICE has been. The equations are sort of simple but look complex with more than a couple variables to consider. I would say that the steam locomotion is more of an analogue with electric drive, because of the sheer scale of power plant and conversion nonsense- valves and throttles and safety blowoffs…where steam and diesel power are similar at locomotives and small ships, the electric drive blooms a little differently.
Another logic argument I have the old stupid word logic and can use because it does illustrate another huge disparity in the comparison: that is to say: let's design an electric-car and not a car-made-electric!
And my own complaints of comparing, the road car design is preferable to the city commuter as that is a problem that needs to be done away with- no more cars in the village!
The 'electric car' spec is quite different than the Detroit Iron we all run from… more like the golf cart- I keep going back to that as most people- even those that have no idea about the golfing sport- seem to know about the fabulous carts-even though some are gas and some are electric. The electric car has some weirder specs than the gas car, and I'm conflicted now as the push for car-less villages, pushes the small car out of the picture.
And let's not let the engineers style the car-body - you've probably seen the early years Lego-influenced lumps that are similar to todays ecoboxes- and I hate seeing those things- I don't even know which brand is which!
Aside from the political and civil 'city planning' mess, the design of the village around dividing the cultures serves to divide the transport problems; and that has made it unlikely that 'public transport' will return. I expect it will but long after I have expired…
You have shaped my understanding of electrified transport and influenced my choice to ditch gas. My solar panels are dated back to 2011 … since then fully charged has been my guide. Thank you.
You have shaped my understanding of electrified transport and influenced my choice to ditch gas. My solar panels are dated back to 2011 … since then fully charged has been my guide. Thank you.
Smug mode engaged (in Kryten’s voice please), but fully justified. You were definitely ahead of the curve and you have made a positive influence on many people myself included. Well done and thankyou!
I was going to say Smug mode haha
Well done you and the rest of the team. Keep on as you have done as more people are listening, it's become much more a reality for so many people. People like your good self are listened to, we learn and we spread the word. Onwards and upwards Everything Electric
As a direct result of your tireless optimism and dedication no less than six of my Winchester Skeptic friends are now driving electric cars (two early adopters)! Imagine the carbon emissions saved. Thank you for what you have achieved.
I was at that first Fully Charged, and passed you early on the first day on the way in. You looked absolutely terrified.
I was a big fane of your Carpool series, and when you announced that you were going to do a show on EVs, I followed along. It's been fun and lots of great memories, so many startups, and only a few survivors. Here's to another 15 years!
Thank you Sir! It's been great following along learning all about EVs, solar panels, house batteries, electric heating. Today I spent a happy morning with people much cleverer than me talking about heat networks. I'll just add I was wearing my Fully Charged tee shirt. Suppose I'll have to buy a new one now. Keep up the good work, there's always more to do.
Honestly, amazing job. 👍
I watch,
The Good Place
The Moomins
Springwatch
Everything Electric
Fully Charged
To make my soul feel good 😊
Loved Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge and the enthusiasm in Fully Charged. Keep going sir. You are definitely on the right track. I'm now an EVer and joined the gang. I loved it when you went back to the continent to get your old Leaf back. Reunited with an old friend. I'm going to dread being parted from my Zoe but it will have to happen one day.
I think we're very lucky to have you, my friend — Fully Charged's 15th birthday (and what it's grown into!!!) is a very proud accomplishment for you, and a gift to the world with your relentless advocacy of clean energy. And you are such a decent and personable spokesman. I definitely lift my glass to toast both you and the show, and proud to be a fellow science communicator in such good company.
Hmmm... copper and lithium, rare earth metals ... and the oil needed to extract them and ship the products you speak of. Electric improves air quality in cities... nothing more.
Absolute rubbish, and barely worth replying. You ignore that ANY electric motor is >90% efficient, compared to a 25-30% fossil gobbler. You forget about virtually permanent materials recycling - the battery materials are too valuable to landfill (like ICE vehicles). You need to look up Well-to-wheel comparisons - there are dozens of them.
Why are you even here, if you wish to be so ignorant?
I have some educated opinions for you- in a sort of reply or response -
Imagining a conversation…
Many years ago I was excited to work with alternative fueled vehicles!
My early experiences came in college and included looking at senior projects: a Vega steam powered conversion; and an old Renault with the, then common, jet engine alternator- which were so populsr and have been just about made extinct - and in the years since, I have managed to keep my eye on various projects and finally got hired to help design a hybrid-electric city bus!
My enthusiasm has waned a bit since recent arguments, and ancient realization, that car pollution is some amount of petrol redistribution…but the more important pollution comes from the actual rubber on the road; the PM2.5 nastiness. So, and with driving getting to be difficult, I have to say what I never would have: let's have villages to live and work and keep a car-maybe- for travel to the farther away villages. Local transport was once a happening thing and the pursuit of cash, in so many sectors!, has derailed trail-as it were.
I appreciate the car vs. car arguments, but they really cannot be fairly compared. The old energy comparison is never going to be fair, with gasoline having 600:1 or so advantage over the electron storage- battery of fuel cell. The other two things are difficult to explain but I believe you will have no particular difficulty…in that the ICE compared to the electric motor is not really a fair comparison; and beyond that, electric motor and battery propulsion systems are not very scalable like the ICE has been. The equations are sort of simple but look complex with more than a couple variables to consider. I would say that the steam locomotion is more of an analogue with electric drive, because of the sheer scale of power plant and conversion nonsense- valves and throttles and safety blowoffs…where steam and diesel power are similar at locomotives and small ships, the electric drive blooms a little differently.
Another logic argument I have the old stupid word logic and can use because it does illustrate another huge disparity in the comparison: that is to say: let's design an electric-car and not a car-made-electric!
And my own complaints of comparing, the road car design is preferable to the city commuter as that is a problem that needs to be done away with- no more cars in the village!
The 'electric car' spec is quite different than the Detroit Iron we all run from… more like the golf cart- I keep going back to that as most people- even those that have no idea about the golfing sport- seem to know about the fabulous carts-even though some are gas and some are electric. The electric car has some weirder specs than the gas car, and I'm conflicted now as the push for car-less villages, pushes the small car out of the picture.
And let's not let the engineers style the car-body - you've probably seen the early years Lego-influenced lumps that are similar to todays ecoboxes- and I hate seeing those things- I don't even know which brand is which!
Aside from the political and civil 'city planning' mess, the design of the village around dividing the cultures serves to divide the transport problems; and that has made it unlikely that 'public transport' will return. I expect it will but long after I have expired…
You have shaped my understanding of electrified transport and influenced my choice to ditch gas. My solar panels are dated back to 2011 … since then fully charged has been my guide. Thank you.
You have shaped my understanding of electrified transport and influenced my choice to ditch gas. My solar panels are dated back to 2011 … since then fully charged has been my guide. Thank you.
Are "cars" not considered "tech", then? 🤔
USED TO BE KNOWN AS A
'four passenger pain amplifier'
I don't know who wrote that-
maybe was from a tv show like The Flintstones...