camerafodder
MB Enthusiast
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- VW Touareg R-line Tech, Toyota IQ2
Mine was an 0.10!If it was not for the pollution... it would be a brilliant place to live in!
I love engines... my first was a Cox 0.20
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Bellow
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
That is exactly what I have been saying about electric cars. Once the public sample them and like them they will no more want to go back to fuel burning engines than they will want a 2-stroke hi-fi.
Brilliant video - the way they morphed recognisable engines into white goods.
BTW - D.C. Spitfire, 1.0cc was my first engine. A Diesel - well not quite, HCCI is actually what it is. Paradoxically, a format revisited exploring the possibility of small scale electricity generation for.....lap tops! (and the likes).
Brilliant video - the way they morphed recognisable engines into white goods.
BTW - D.C. Spitfire, 1.0cc was my first engine. A Diesel - well not quite, HCCI is actually what it is. Paradoxically, a format revisited exploring the possibility of small scale electricity generation for.....lap tops! (and the likes).
Although I agree slightly, and think things like the Tesla have changed electric cars forever, the range thing would still stop me buying one - as would (at the moment) the cost.
If Tesla fitted a tiny suitcase generator in the car that the driver could fire up if he knew he'd have a range issue, then I think they'd sell a lot more of them.
99% of the days I drive, the Tesla would be fine - it's just that 1% that would make the car useless to me. I KNOW there are the "supercharger" points, but what if you get there and someone's using it? Or it's broken or vandalised?
If there were a Supercharger point at every supermarket, coffee shop, fuel station and so forth that would be different...
I do think it will come.
