I enjoyed the show, but did find myself thinking they weren’t really trying very hard… take a car that’s already been built, take the seats out, put a 70’s Kamei spoiler on it, and that’s about it.
I thought that about the "re-creation" of the Great Escape jump. An hour of farting about to jump a purpose built bike 5 feet in the air, like most of us used to do in the woods on knackered old trials bikes when we were kids. 10 seconds of entertaining TV squeezed into 60 minutes.
The bit I found most interesting (apart from tazzing around a race track in electric vehicles) was the experience he had on the trip to John O'Groats. Not quite the advertised "urban cycle" range. My FIL has just bought an electric car - expecting to do occasional trips from Leicester to the Lakes. He might have a few charging stops to make I think
I guess it’s cheap tv innit, pay one bloke to repeat himself a lot, and the rest of them probably do their bit for a bit of free exposure... record the lot in a couple of days, jobs a goodun
I was surprised that motorway use, drained the battery so much quicker than urban use tbh. I would have thought all the stop , start stuff would be more demanding than just holding a steady 70
If there were any niggling doubts I had about whether I could go over to an electric works van, then this programme gave me the answer I needed after seeing his trip. A big fat NO from me. Taking diversions just to find a charger, then getting whacked £40 for it, then finding out half of them don’t even work properly. Then discovering the stated mileage from the manufacture is miles out if you actually drive the vehicle. Complete non starter. I would however have an electric bay if it meant keeping one on the road once they increase the price of petrol to the cost of malt whiskey in an attempt to force us all off of the roads by the back door. When the cost of the conversion is about the same as say a decent replacement engine or even a scooby job.
Drag is the coefficient, k, multiplied by the velocity squared. The squared bit is the killer for fast driving, especially with regenerative braking etc putting much of the kenetic energy of motion back into the batteries in stop start traffic. Edit, it's hard to compare to mpg on a IC vehicle as stop start probably isn't using the engine as efficiently as it does at 3500 rpm on a run. I guess comparing to hybrids might make more sense
Ok so it’s not a total loss. As long as we slam the brakes on at 70 on the motorway every few miles we should be ok for charge?
Nah, that was my 6foot 5 brother. Riding his honda melody 50cc moped with a "big bore" kit. Road it for 10 miles flat out and then down hill for the last mile to the garage he was an apprentice at, one winters morning. Shut the throttle off and nothing happened, Wayne put his feet down and basically just stood up astride the bike, he stopped, it didn't. It was propelled with the speed of 1000 gazelles across the forecourt, gaining altitude over a rise, gently caressing the the 4 foot hedge and landing ever so gently, like an expert pilot had just touched it down in the field behind. (Actually it launched itself through the hedge, catapulted into the field, where it nose dived into the wet mud/grass combo and exploded into 10000000 pieces. He recovered it by using a wheelbarrow and a cardboard box to put all the bits in he could find. Happy days, he's 50 in November and still goofy.
Yes, hard to tell them apart, in the sense they're both equally bonkers Unless you're @Merlin Cat, of course
If he'd have pootled along at 55mph he'd have probably doubled his range. Still pretty poor charging infrastructure though
I enjoyed it. The fire aspect is a worry just pull a tarp over the car or dunk in a bath for a day !! I assume the price of ellecy is going up
Did some work on Lithium battery formation recently, it's very energy intensive. But the best line I got from the factory people was.. "There's two type of battery factory, those that have had a fire and those that are waiting to have a fire".
Moto E .. electric bikes had a big fire..burnt down The paddock building at Jerez https://www.motorsport.com/motoe/news/jerez-fire-bikes-destroyed/4352249/
