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Toyota/ Suzuki EV Jimny?
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Maybe the tie up with Toyota could bare some fruit and bring the Jimny back as an EV? Toyota have been developing a solid state battery that has a 500 mile range with a charge up time of ten minutes and it should be ready by 2025.
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TrailMaster 2" lift kit
Full floating rear axle conversion, JB underbody guards & recovery points
ORE transfer box HD brackets
T-Max split charge system
X-Shock Dakar ceramic clutch kit & roof rack
Flo-Flex castor polybushes
Kumho KL71 tyres
AVM manual hubs
ORA radius arm guards
Push-fit breathers
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bet an electric Jimny would be close to £30,000
The VW Up electric is a great little car but is twice the price of the regular VW Up
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I have a brother, retired electrical engineer, who did the sums on the cost of charging and running a Nissan Leaf. The Aus Nissan web site gives the power requirements and it exceeds most domestic (single phase) mains installations and at domestic tariff will more that double the average home owner's monthly electricity cost.
If you have access to commercial "free" power at work that will off-set the cost. We are in for a rude shock when they turn the petrol off! This is nothing like topping up your 12 volt battery overnight.
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But we are also in the VHS / Betamax phase of vehicle development, which will win long term, battery / Hydrogen / charging station / home charging / other tech?
It's too early to call this.
Maybe the horse and cart will get a second chance, who knows?
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Plugin hybrids seem to be the way to go at the moment, a reasonable compromise.
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Where as nobody has a petrol pump at home, so EVERY petrol powered car has to visit a petrol station sooner or later, even it only ever does short commutes.
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GeorgeC wrote: We are forgetting the elf-ant in the room, the cost of charging the battery!
I have a brother, retired electrical engineer, who did the sums on the cost of charging and running a Nissan Leaf. The Aus Nissan web site gives the power requirements and it exceeds most domestic (single phase) mains installations and at domestic tariff will more that double the average home owner's monthly electricity cost.
If you have access to commercial "free" power at work that will off-set the cost. We are in for a rude shock when they turn the petrol off! This is nothing like topping up your 12 volt battery overnight.
Yes your electricity bill will go up substantially but your fuel bill will vanish, so it's a massive saving. Using a Tesla Model S as an example, it costs roughly £12 to fully charge using electricity from your house, and that gets you around 250 miles of range. Put £12 of fuel in an equivalent diesel or petrol car and you will be lucky to do 1/3 of the miles.
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- Roger Fairclough
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Busta's comment re: massive saving on fuel bills needs approaching with caution, nothing is free ! The fuel, whether it's oil or electricity needs to made and we will have the problem of supply from the generating plants that we have at present. Yes, home supplies will benefit from overnight charging but not so daytime users. When we voted to exit Europe did anyone realise just how complicated it would be? I think the same will apply to this situation.
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Transportation is never going to be cheap.
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