Unthreaded
P.S. It would also workout a lot cheaper than a plugin hybrid.
Ross Lea
Stewgreen
Handling a battery pack is a simple engineering problem which I am sure JCB could solve.
The whole idea of a tack on generator is that you would not require two vehicles.
Ross Lea
" To my mind the answer is simple"
= "yes i'll take this shortcut, I don't know why no one else uses it ...oh a ravine"
#1 batteries are big and heavy ..and tesla gave up with battery transfer
#2 Tow a generator ?...well just used combustion engine in the first place
I suppose at Waterloo the French might have had "range anxiety" if their guns had a shorter range than the Brit's
stewgreen
Ross:
The AA could carry a standard battery packWould they turn out if you needed triple As. Then again, they'd never get called to the Duracell Bunny.
Harry Passfield
P.S. The AA could carry a standard battery pack just as today they have a can of Petrol or Diesel.
Ross Lea
With respect to the problem of range with plug in electric cars. To my mind the answer is simple.
1. Battery packs on higher and interchangable. Just as we do with camping gas cylinders.
2. For longer trips hitch on a geneator pack, preferably LPG.
There will have to be some agreement on designs but nothing too challenging.
Ross Lea
I can clearly remember trams running down the main street in East Ham (east London) when I was a boy. As I recall, the main problems with them concerned the metal tracts along which they ran and the need to restore the overhead poles that took electricity from the overhead power lines when these became separated (which happened often). Not uncommonly at major junctions these power poles needed to be manually changed from one route to another and traffic came to a halt while this happeded. All in all they were incompatible with the increasing road traffic and they were replaced by petrol and then diesel buses.
With many major routes having bus lanes, I could see a better version of the old trams returning and using these lanes.
ACK
Pity about I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. It has been the only current BBC comedy I could listen to since Brexit, probably because it was recorded before.
TinyCO2
golf charlie / Ross Lea
I've mentioned it before but Limoges still has trolley buses and Poitiers has LPG powered buses. In both cities you can sit outside cafes and restaurants without being enveloped in diesel exhaust every time a bus goes by.
I can remember trams in Glasgow when I visited my Grandmother in the late 1950s early 1960s. I think the tram lines where she lived, Govan, were used to move railway wagons used in shipyards (unless my father was being less than factual) I have visions of Thomas The Tank Engine in Glasgow Corporation livery.
SandyS
P.s.s.
Lets see what Dyson comes up with.