Adventures in an all electric vehicle.

[addjunkie]

Well, from what I understand you will be comitting an offence if you drive into the new zone in Newcastle upon Tyne with certain older vehicles, unable to even pay a charge just banned completely. Can't be right surely?

Currently cars are excluded, its only commercials at the moment. But cant see anything about total exclusion! But it wouldn't surprise me the leftie greeney zealots are getting more and more power. But all it will do is help kill city centre's and their business even more quickly.

 

[reb78]

My neighbour is in the same boat...it isn't just affecting Londoners....it's affecting friends/family visiting from outside.

I stay just north of the M25 when I am working up there. Thing is, the local screwfix, B&Q, Halfords, take your choice... will all be inside the zone. To get to their equivalents outside of it, I need to drive twice as far north now! Thats more fuel (not £12.50s worth) and more pollution... seems counterintuitive to me. The small businesses inside the zone will suffer as well as people like me wont be driving in to use them.

 

[GRW]

I stay just north of the M25 when I am working up there. Thing is, the local screwfix, B&Q, Halfords, take your choice... will all be inside the zone. To get to their equivalents outside of it, I need to drive twice as far north now! Thats more fuel (not £12.50s worth) and more pollution... seems counterintuitive to me. The small businesses inside the zone will suffer as well as people like me wont be driving in to use them.

In Wales we have the Remedials instigating the blanket 20mph limit to replace the 30mph come September.
If it were just residential housing estates & not through-routes, then fine.
But no.
So now every trunk road that has a village on it (all of them), & especially every village with a significant gradient on it (a helluva lot of them) - will have lorries, buses & anything laden/towing - either burning up its brakes & polluting more, or having to ceawl/grind & labour slowly up through the village from the bottom, making more noise, using more fuel, adding more emissions.
It's beyond cretinous, has zero basis in safety (since villages on trunk roads just don't have kids playing in the road), there's no statistical evidence to support it, and it'll add pollution and of course Heap more expense onto transport of every type & purpose....
.... and that is before they unleash a fleet of Scamera vans & knobjockeys with hairdryers to fleece everyone driving totally safely but 1 or 2mph over an arbitrary, draconian& wholly unnecessary limit.

 

[rhubarb7]

Well, from what I understand you will be comitting an offence if you drive into the new zone in Newcastle upon Tyne with certain older vehicles, unable to even pay a charge just banned completely. Can't be right surely?

No, it's not right. It's controlling and goes against our freedom.

 

[Greeves246]

Another ship fire. Must be a worry for car ferries.

Ameland rescue: Crew jump off ship ablaze with cargo of 3,000 cars

One person died as fire took hold of the ship as it burned off the Dutch island of Ameland.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[m_c]

Back to e cars. I see that some guy has launched an E car that's about 8ft x 5ft ish with a top speed of a eyewatering 28mph with the restriction that it is illegal to use motorways and not advisable on dual carriageways either. I cannot imagine why but I bet some owner will end up on the m25 with the excuse that the average speed on the M25 is less than his top speed . It's not classed as a car but a quadro something or other. Welcome to the future petrol heads.

Not sure about what one you're on about, but you can now get the Citroen Ami in the UK, which sounds very similar.
The 28mph (45kph) limit is so it can be driven on an AM licence (scooter/moped/light quad).

 

[Nomad]

Well, from what I understand you will be comitting an offence if you drive into the new zone in Newcastle upon Tyne with certain older vehicles, unable to even pay a charge just banned completely. Can't be right surely?

I hadn't heard about any zones in Newcastle but they have been making it difficult for car drivers there for at least 30 years.
If I can't drive into a town and park within a 30 minute walking distance, I avoid the place as I can't get my shopping home.
Many years ago I bought a full size flat screen TV in Newcaste and got it home strapped on my back when I was riding my motorbike, its impossible to park near the centre of the town without paying a fortune, and most of the central roads are now no-cars-allowed or have other restrictions to deter motorists (ie shoppers)

 

[willie.macleod]

Surely some mistake on the cause?
I'm quite certain I've seen a barrage of information asserting that Electric Cars are safer than ICE's

Yes, the fire started in a cabin not one of the EVs. Dutch coastguard saying they were misquoted as to source. Plenty of naysayers looking to blame the EVs when chances were it was probably some dodgy phone charger.

 

[fizzy]

Yes, the fire started in a cabin not one of the EVs. Dutch coastguard saying they were misquoted as to source. Plenty of naysayers looking to blame the EVs when chances were it was probably some dodgy phone charger.

That is quite possible but once they do start burning I wouldn't like to be anywhere near one!
They should issue these far more - brilliant and so easy to use!
I have actually driven past that fire station several times - they love burning stuff

 

[premmington]

That is quite possible but once they do start burning I wouldn't like to be anywhere near one!
They should issue these far more - brilliant and so easy to use!
I have actually driven past that fire station several times - they love burning stuff

That really is an interesting video...

Just how long would you have to leave one before you could put into on to the back of a recovery lorry to tow in away - 48hrs?

 

[GRW]

Very interesting tech & solution!
The thing that had me worried watching it, was the fire fighters working right next to the wheels (concern over tyre explosion).
I suspect they must have deflated the tyres before doing the test?
Seems like the best idea would be to cover / wrap EV's with one of these as a precaution before its alight - especially if loaded onto transport?

 

[GRW]

Yes, the fire started in a cabin not one of the EVs. Dutch coastguard saying they were misquoted as to source. Plenty of naysayers looking to blame the EVs when chances were it was probably some dodgy phone charger.

You'd have thought a cabin fire could be extinguished long before it got down to the cargo decks.

 

[premmington]

Very interesting tech & solution!
The thing that had me worried watching it, was the fire fighters working right next to the wheels (concern over tyre explosion).
I suspect they must have deflated the tyres before doing the test?
Seems like the best idea would be to cover / wrap EV's with one of these as a precaution before its alight - especially if loaded onto transport?

Problem with moving fire damaged vehicles on an open recovery truck is:
They can re ignite when the air movement hits them on the back of a moving truck.

 

[not done it yet]

Backt to EVs....yesterday I cam across the EX30 from Volvo...actually a car I'd consider buying I think.

Why? Some explanation might be good!

 

[addjunkie]

Yes, the fire started in a cabin not one of the EVs. Dutch coastguard saying they were misquoted as to source. Plenty of naysayers looking to blame the EVs when chances were it was probably some dodgy phone charger.

Fire on a ship is a very different ball game to one in say a factory, where protocol is to leave and let the local brigade deal with it. On board there is now where to run which changes the perspective some what. It doesn't matter how much training you have had. The real thing is very different. Internally wearing a ba set isn't for the faint hearted! It takes a great deal of self discipline to follow your training.
Im not going to criticise the crew nationality but it does make a difference. I have very vivid memories, of the fire alarms going off during the night, and three of our Indian crew turning up at a life boat with their bags packed!

 

[rhubarb7]

Yes, the fire started in a cabin not one of the EVs. Dutch coastguard saying they were misquoted as to source. Plenty of naysayers looking to blame the EVs when chances were it was probably some dodgy phone charger.

Not sure how you can state for sure how the fire started. The cause hasn't been found yet. It's just been reported that they "suspect" the cause was an EV.

I think you should let them investigate the cause first and then report the truth.

 

[Shox Dr]

That really is an interesting video...

Just how long would you have to leave one before you could put into on to the back of a recovery lorry to tow in away - 48hrs?

I have to ask my Son, he's stationed at Grimsby, they have a lot of specialist chemical firefighting equipment there, he did mention a while back they were getting a wagon with an open tank on the back for dunking the EV into.

 

[Robotstar5]

Problem with moving fire damaged vehicles on an open recovery truck is:
They can re ignite when the air movement hits them on the back of a moving truck.

I watched a program where a fire engine followed the recovery truck to it's destination in case the EV on the bed re ignited.

 

[cheb]

I have to ask my Son, he's stationed at Grimsby, they have a lot of specialist chemical firefighting equipment there, he did mention a while back they were getting a wagon with an open tank on the back for dunking the EV into.

I've been told by someone I consider reliable that that's how they are planning on moving suspect electric vehicles off some Scottish islands.

 

[Robotstar5]

I've been told by someone I consider reliable that that's how they are planning on moving suspect electric vehicles off some Scottish islands.

I would imagine they would need to take precautions if they wanted to transport a fire damaged EV on a ferry.