Electric Cars Motor Sport - Posted In General Discussion...

While I share your mistrust, Data, I think that in the end this will actually be a net benefit for the EV market, as this will give the petrol companies something to transition to from oil, which will also serve to eventually wrest pricing control away from the middle east. With "Big Oil" getting involved on the supply side of things, ICE vehicles will go the way of the dinosaur a bit more quickly, I think. Or perhaps I'm reading this wrong?

  From what I've read Shell oil is already making stations for e cars,
"Electric car charging points could appear alongside petrol pumps at Shell’s UK service stations as soon as next year, the oil giant confirmed after emails between the company and government officials revealed discussions on introducing them. date 2016"
Carl2

Yes but it's the cost of the electricity Carl, ok the convenience of charging at a petrol station might be worth a bit but at the moment it's about 3 times the price to charge at Shell compared to charging at home. This is what I have been trying to point out, the oil companies could start to increase the price even more making it no cheaper to run an EV, then people will just keep buying ICE. 


Freddy, you didn't watch the video we posted then ?

Who Killed The Electric Car?

http://evtopia.org/watch-killed-electric-car-full-video-online/

I'm not going to say for sure that it was the oil companies, we need to make up our own minds on this.

I didn't watch that video no Data, I will take a look 

Fully self driving cars are still in their infancy and illegal to use on the roads unless they have special permission, I'm not too worried about it giving EV's a bad name. I personally think all the autonomous modes of driving still have a way to go until they become acceptable to the public in general. 

Moving on, this story has been going around the web for a couple of days now:

 

https://electrek.co/2018/07/06/nissan-leaf-prototype-new-battery-pack-leaked-fast-charging/

Some research has been done here about who does and who doesn't want electric cars, it's not really very surprising but it seems the younger generation are the ones that want EV's.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44798135 

Just going to drop the latest Fully Charged news vid in here, apparently the UK  broke its solar record this summer (for a little while) with a huge 28% of power coming from solar alone.