Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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310 miles is alright actually. Livable.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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More than livable, my Mazda can only manage 200 on a tank!
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Gary
310 miles is alright actually. Livable.
I thought that, a decent looking motor too.
Well, rear end mainly.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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If it could do 50 miles totally 'free' on just charge I'd have one, I could get to work and back in a normal day and still do the long slogs when I need it to!
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Whittie
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I wonder how much a full charge costs (to do the 300 miles). Only looking at a few quid?
MPG Deano is about to have a wank
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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quote: Originally posted by pow
More than livable, my Mazda can only manage 200 on a tank!
But you can fill up in 5 min when you run out. That'll tak hours to charge.
Its good if you commute under that mileage.
Would be interesting to see how many kwh it takes to charge though
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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Roof should be solar too. That would surely get a few more miles in the 'tank' while its sitting at work etc
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mattant
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Registered: 19th Jun 10
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Yeah it probably takes about 12 hours to charge, although saying that, come home at 5pm, plug it in, it'll be done by 5am
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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Just rules you out of long journeys
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Why do these eco cars have to look weird and shit? It's like it's a requirement.
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Jake
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how much does it cost to charge up this tosser
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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£3.57
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Jamie-C
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Location: Ballycastle
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How do you charge them? Do you just plug it into an extension lead?
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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that says 310M, 310 metres?
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AlunJ
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Location: Newport
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
Why do these eco cars have to look weird and shit? It's like it's a requirement.
I think it looks decent personally
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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i thought the back end looked similar to a prius, like the back winow angle and where it meets the bootlid. aerodynamics?
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
Why do these eco cars have to look weird and shit? It's like it's a requirement.
Have you seen the Tesla Model S? It looks awesome
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
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quote: Originally posted by AlunJ
quote: Originally posted by mwg
Why do these eco cars have to look weird and shit? It's like it's a requirement.
I think it looks decent personally
Really?
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mattant
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Registered: 19th Jun 10
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Electric cars aren't that great really for the future, they might be cheap to run now but if all 30,000,000 of the cars in this country start using it then it's going to get expensive. And they aren't that cheap to make, isn't that Nissan Leaf about £30,000?
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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*wanks*
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A2H GO
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Registered: 14th Sep 04
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Looks like a Japaneese window licker bus.
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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Front end is very Citroen, rear rend is very Prius/Civic IMO.
Yes all these bloody "eco" cars cost a fortune, what's the point in trying to get everyone to be more green if you have to pay a fortune for the privilege.
Bit like bus companies, how they try to sell their services by saying it's greener for the planet for everyone to use a bus to commute instead of everyone driving their own motors, and they use shitty 15 year old buses that constantly break down and even when they do function they chuck out massive plumes of smoke from the exhaust
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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tbf though back in the day when cars were new they would of been equally expensive to people its just down to the fact its all relitively new technology i imagine/not many people buy them so they cant build loads to cut the costs.
i really dont see the appeal to battery powered cars purely for the 'filling up' time.
i imagine a solar panelled roof would make a big difference make people more likely to buy one anyway if it charged itself whilst parked up.
[Edited on 15-11-2011 by Matt L]
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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If a solar panel could charge the battery up to any meaningful capacity it would have one.
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