How about this as a Tesla alternative?- http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/news/default.asp?storyId=21799... Tesla testing on Top Gear anyone? ...
Stupid Green Party as usual, do they realise there is life outside Dublin. How long is it going to take to go from Cork/Kerry to Dublin in one of these things, a few days?
As usual Ireland tries to be overly smart and puts the cart before the horse with these pie in the sky cars. Surely it'd be more in their line to put a petrol station for real cars anywhere between Galway and Dublin than a few pointless charge points in Dublin city centre that can only charge one car every four hours or so.
Tesla testing on Top Gear anyone?
End rant
Quick physics thing. With electric motors you always get maximum torque (twisting ability), irrespective of the revolutions of the engine, unlike with ICEs where torque increases with engine speed and then begins to tail off even if engine speed increases. Torque is what allows an engine to turn the road wheels at a low engine speed in a high gear without stalling; diesels tend to be better at this than petrol engines. So a "torquey" engine has greater in-gear flexibility; there is no need to change up and down the gear-box in order to effect (or reflect) changes in road-speed. Electric motors (generally) have two gears; forward and reverse.... and, apparently, theres good torque in the engine (i.e. you plant the boot and it accelerates quickly). ...
Electric cars are not really intended for long journeys and the expectation is at the minute is that the people who buy them are those who will not be driving from Dublin to Kerry but who need a car to potter around town. I live in a country town, my aunt live 5 miles outside of it, she drives to mass, in and out to town twice/3 times a week and rarely does more then 50 miles a week, she's the ideal candidate for an electric car and the points are not simply only going to be installed in Dublin.
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