andrew wrote:autogyro wrote:It is a primary problem with handling liquid inflamable fuels.
Once the vehicle base eventualy becomes all electric both road and race cars will be safer and much more convenient to use.
Refueling in F1 is dead.
And electricity is generated how? Then there is impact of manufacturing batteries and disposing of them.
How far does your Gee-Whizz go before you have to plug it into the mains for 10 hours? Hydrogen fuel cells are the only reasonable way to go.
Actual report of a weekend in a Tesla EV
(1) Friday 5th November
Bath to Southampton, prepare car and charge (L2)
Southampton to Petersfield to Portsmouth, collect navigator and charge (L2)
Portsmouth to Brighton, register for BLFCC and charge (L1)
(2) Saturday 6th November
Brighton to Crawley to London (Regents St)
London (Regents St) to London (Kensington), charge (L1)
(3) Sunday 7th November
London (Kensington) to Portsmouth, drop off navigator, charge (L2)
Portsmouth to Southampton, charge (L2)
Southampton to Bath
The Level 2 (L2) chargers are part of the “Charge Points Everywhere” test network setup by the Zero Carbon World charity and are using electricity from Good Energy.
The Level 1 (L1) chargers were supplied by the hotels. As Dale reported, the Brighton hotel supplied little or no power. The London Hotel (base2stay) supplied an overnight charge. It’s a ‘green’ hotel but I don’t know whether that was renewable electricity.
I did not record the journey in great detail because my regular commute is 200+ miles and I’m well used to using my Tesla for those sorts of journeys. All I can say is that I traveled at highway speeds (we were late on Friday night and so I had to ‘push on’ a bit), and I don’t think much about the charging because it only takes me a couple of minutes to plug in the cable…
I haven’t made a great deal of the renewable’s story because i did plug into L1 charge locations of unknown electricity source. Next year I intend to use 100% renewable’s for the entire trip and have the results verified by the supplier.
I think you have to be on facebook to see the photo’s in the second link…
Let me know if you need more info…
My friend says what on earth do you need Hydrogen fuel cells for?
Add weight?
So much easier than having to find petrol stations, wait to pay, wait for the car to heat up etc So much more convenient and so cheap.
Liquid fuel is so ancient now.