Electric Vehicles EVs

Sure, but what should people do now?

We don’t have good rail or bus links either from an affordability standpoint or, more importantly, practicality.

Should everyone just buy a petrol car if they need one? Or a cargo bike and just hope they never need to go more than 10 miles away?

It’s condescending and a pipe dream to say we can do without cars right now.

Sure, but there’s very little, if any, debate in the car thread on those vehicles being large contributors to carbon emissions both globally and locally.

BEVs are not the solution to climate change. That should be fucking obvious. It just baffles me that people choose to spend time having that debate here whilst entirely avoiding the conversation in the car thread.

Because EV has been the term for electric cars for years?

That's not true, it's been raised before there. Anyway, this is the car thread, just a subset for those with more money.

But really my pov is that it's disappointing that what should be a progressive thread about transport that better suits our local and broader environment, particularly with regards to our interest of cycling.

While the bigger picture is more suitable for discussion in climate and environment threads, I think this is absolutely the right place to be critical about individuals transport decisions. It's the one of the few things I feel I can control right now to make a difference.

are you skunked? the term for Electric Cars is Electric Cars

it's disappointing that what should be a progressive thread about transport that better suits our local and broader environment, particularly with regards to our interest of cycling

The OP describes the intention of the thread. I know because I wrote it.

This ^ is not it.

If you want a different thread, go and make one.

Since when did you become a moderator?

And that's why it's disappointing. I understand we need organisation, but there's such a crossover.

Merge with car thread? It seems EV is just another option to be selected.

Since when did you become a moderator?

Hahahhah.

I'm merely responding to being told what the thread should be about.

Just make a thread called "progressive transport options".

Merge with car thread? It seems EV is just another option to be selected.

This thread forked from the car thread.

Anyone for tennis?

Time for the regular reminder that the only thing EVs save is the automotive industry.

Reducing deaths by NOx emissions was my main motivation in getting an electric car.

I don't see that being undermined by your platitude.

List time:

Threads that should be about climate change, not what they are actually about:

1 This one
2 The car one
3 The camper van one
4 The formula one one
5 The outdoor cooking one
6 The food one
7

I mean personally I had hoped the e-bike thread would have had a lot more electric motorcycle type things in it because for the most part I'm a bit uninterested in e-assisted pedal bikes aside from as an aide for those who can't manage full pedal for health reasons but what can you do?

I don't think anyone will get upset if you start posting other EVs in here so feel free to go all in on planes, trains and otherwise I suppose?

Reducing deaths by NOx emissions was my main motivation in getting an electric car

Why post that in the EVs thread?

*Ok, joking now. But actually, that's what I came here for..but I'm rarely seeing.

Dear God. Posting that a thread isn't about what you think it should be about really is the most pointless thing. If you want to discuss milk floats or e-copters or other EVs here, just go ahead. If there is appetite for that discussion it'll carry on and evolve. If not, it won't.
Or just start another thread.

milk floats

only thing EVs save is the automotive industry.

Rivian electric pick up that was on Top Gear this week but might be the pinnacle of that sentiment

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I'm enjoying the rental scooters this summer, not too expensive n'all

^ and ^^^ - exactly. Pioneering EVs.

Sort of pulling the thread back to EVs, what do people think of the Hyundai Ionic 6?

It’s… interesting looking.

Sort of reminds me of those Chinese knockoff rolls Royce etc

Bit hard to wheelie though, even with the battery over the rear wheel

Pulling the thread back to an era when the UK led the World in the number of electric vehicles*.

Raised in Ruislip Manor, just up the road from the headquarters of Express Dairy, in South Ruislip,
I naturally assumed that electric milk floats were the acknowledged standard.
Imagine my surprise, when starting commuting by Tube to Hillingdon (for Swakeleys) station for secondary school, (September '71), I found a local dairy had a bespoke diesel Transit for their deliveries.

[* complete supposition].

Just before I left London the local milk float was definitely using a combustion engine. Felt weird, they've always had electric motors from memory