Electric vehicles

[kabin man]

Looking on ebay there are sets of fisker wheels for sale..
I bet there are a few more listed by next week.
5x 114.3 is a common fitment.

 

[Bob]

I see the thick lefties are laughing about Tesla losing share price and there I was laughing about Rory Steward wife , stonewall ,Clelsea Clinton and a load of others on the USAID payrole losing their pay check thanks to elon

 

[kabin man]

I see the thick lefties are laughing about Tesla losing share price and there I was laughing about Rory Steward wife , stonewall ,Clelsea Clinton and a load of others on the USAID payrole losing their pay check thanks to elon

if rhe Chelsea Clinton thing is real,that is worse than her parents combined.
And i feel like a master criminal when i borrow a few bags of dust from site..

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Going back to the thread origin. My right hand woman has just buggered off for a year to add 1 to the population. She was pretty reluctant to have this one , and she’s 40, so I am HOPING that she comes back to work next year as planned rather than sprogging another, Although a fully time served and qualified gas safe engineer .. she works on stock control / heatloss calcs / management for a lot of the time so doesn’t need a 3.5T van . Consequently I am looking to dabble in the used commercial EV market. Something about the Nissan NV200 size should work I think.
I shall do my research over the next couple year then take the plunge!

 

[Lancs Lad]

Going back to the thread origin. My right hand woman has just buggered off for a year to add 1 to the population. She was pretty reluctant to have this one , and she’s 40, so I am HOPING that she comes back to work next year as planned rather than sprogging another, Although a fully time served and qualified gas safe engineer .. she works on stock control / heatloss calcs / management for a lot of the time so doesn’t need a 3.5T van . Consequently I am looking to dabble in the used commercial EV market. Something about the Nissan NV200 size should work I think.
I shall do my research over the next couple year then take the plunge!

Why?
Only folk I've heard of or seen in electric vans is for the box ticking thing ..they've openly said so

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Why?
Only folk I've heard of or seen in electric vans is for the box ticking thing ..they've openly said so

I’d like to try one . If you avoid the depreciation and range isn’t an issue then fuel savings look feasible

 

[V8Druid]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...e-Nottingham-US-brand-went-bankrupt-year.html

Just Dumped in the road ...

like I said months ago ... nice looking chariot if it had a V8 and a decent box propelling it

 

[Grahams]

Going back to the thread origin. My right hand woman has just buggered off for a year to add 1 to the population. She was pretty reluctant to have this one , and she’s 40, so I am HOPING that she comes back to work next year as planned rather than sprogging another, Although a fully time served and qualified gas safe engineer .. she works on stock control / heatloss calcs / management for a lot of the time so doesn’t need a 3.5T van . Consequently I am looking to dabble in the used commercial EV market. Something about the Nissan NV200 size should work I think.
I shall do my research over the next couple year then take the plunge!

I bought a used Nissan ENV200 as a run about and it was great. Lovely to drive and being narrow easy to get in parking spaces. Roughly 150 miles range. As my average journey was 20 to 40 miles round trip never had any range issues. Charged at work on a three pin plug initially then installed a second hand charger to charge quicker. Never charged out and in a couple of years of use saw no degridation of the battery capacity. It seems to be regular charging on the ultra fast chargers that kills the batteries.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I bought a used Nissan ENV200 as a run about and it was great. Lovely to drive and being narrow easy to get in parking spaces. Roughly 150 miles range. As my average journey was 20 to 40 miles round trip never had any range issues. Charged at work on a three pin plug initially then installed a second hand charger to charge quicker. Never charged out and in a couple of years of use saw no degridation of the battery capacity. It seems to be regular charging on the ultra fast chargers that kills the batteries.

Exactly what I was looking at. Seem to come in silver frequently as well.

 

[V8Druid]

hell of a lot of 'em in Autotrader ... never noticed one - not that I've been looking/even taken a passing interest ... even more on ebay

 

[Furniss]

I've considered one, a local farm we work for has one for nipping about in and he likes it , most of our work is local so something with a 150m range would be ok, thing is with a little diesel van you know what your getting more or less ....I'd be wary of getting an electric that would be uneconomical to repair at the first fault.

 

[V8Druid]

Britpave wants concrete barrier programme accelerated

The concrete industry is calling for steel motorway barriers to be replaced by concrete because steel ones are not proven capable of containing heavy electric cars.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

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" In comparison to steel barriers, concrete barriers are able to contain errant 4x4 cars, light vans, buses, coaches and lorries of up to 13.5 tonnes. "​

 

[V8Druid]

time to buy one @6feetdown

Balfour JV wins first lamp post EV deal

Drivers of electric vehicles in Newport will soon be able to charge their cars by plugging into a lamp post.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Drivers of electric vehicles in Newport will soon be able to charge their cars by plugging into a lamp post. " .... but might be a bit restrictive if it only works after dark

 

[6feetdown]

time to buy one @6feetdown

Balfour JV wins first lamp post EV deal

Drivers of electric vehicles in Newport will soon be able to charge their cars by plugging into a lamp post.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Drivers of electric vehicles in Newport will soon be able to charge their cars by plugging into a lamp post. " .... but might be a bit restrictive if it only works after dark

Petty they can't fix the potholes 1st

 

[Grahams]

I've considered one, a local farm we work for has one for nipping about in and he likes it , most of our work is local so something with a 150m range would be ok, thing is with a little diesel van you know what your getting more or less ....I'd be wary of getting an electric that would be uneconomical to repair at the first fault.

The good thing about something like the Nissan eNV200 is they already had the van in diesel form and just converted it, so most parts are compatable. Obviously if you had a problem with the electric motor or drive battery pack then that is more specialised. Also they are not some state of the art Chinese thing that will not be in business next week.
Talking of Chinese the press seem to have eventually woken up to the fact that Chinese vehicles are spying on you and sending voice and film data back to China. They have been banned for some time in sensitive military bases and the owners told to restrict conversations about sensitive topics. I guess with AI they can sift through the huge amounts of data coming in and pull out interesting stuff for a human to evaluate.

 

[JD450A]

Talking of Chinese the press seem to have eventually woken up to the fact that Chinese vehicles are spying on you and sending voice and film data back to China. They have been banned for some time in sensitive military bases and the owners told to restrict conversations about sensitive topics. I guess with AI they can sift through the huge amounts of data coming in and pull out interesting stuff for a human to evaluate.

GCHQ Would never do that to us

 

[Grahams]

GCHQ Would never do that to us

If they can crack the encription possibly, but why would they be spying on our military bases when they would have access to anyway?
Chinese companies by law have to give any information to the Chinese state that it requests, so military and industrial secrets are freely available from the west. A lot easier and cheaper than conventional spying and no risk of you operatives being caught and put on trial.

 

[kabin man]

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/kia/pv5/

Kia electric van is launched in uk. Could be interesting.
Orders now being taken...

 

[V8Druid]

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/kia/pv5/

Kia electric van is launched in uk. Could be interesting.
Orders now being taken...

but sadly we won't be seeing their pick up

 

[Lancs Lad]

but sadly we won't be seeing their pick up

Would we want to ..