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Insuring electric converted classic car
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This would .be a good project to start with .....:cool:
https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/range-master-milk-float-for-sale/202865120 -
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Touché subject there
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The process of making just batteries for a Tesla vehicle has the same impact on environment as about 7 years of driving a petrol engined car (we are talking about batteries only). Then after about 7 or so years the batteries are getting weaker by loosing their capacity and may need to be replaced. And... how do we recycle the old batteries (never mind making new ones)?
Obviously nobody will tell you that, they just wrap it all in green paper and sell to the masses.
..then theres the tyres, all the various plastic bits, the energy used during the assembly etc etc...
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Touché subject there.
The process of making just batteries for a Tesla vehicle has the same impact on environment as about 7 years of driving a petrol engined car (we are talking about batteries only). Then after about 7 or so years the batteries are getting weaker by loosing their capacity and may need to be replaced. And... how do we recycle the old batteries (never mind making new ones)?
Obviously nobody will tell you that, they just wrap it all in green paper and sell to the masses.
These arguments always seem to leave out the true cost of ICE cars. The cost of oil exploration, extraction, transport, oil spills, car fires/deaths (far more than in electric cars), poisonous water from fracking.... the list goes on. Tesla batteries after 300k miles still have over 80% of the original range and should last much longer.
Just get one if you can, enjoy the blasting away from the lights, great handling and top of the range tech, and feel free to feel good about the environment as an added bonus.0 -
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If using a brand new set of batteries? No, it definitely is not beneficial to the environment. It would be cleaner to use the classic car with its own engine, especially with the mileage that he is going to cover.With respect to the OP, putting an electric motor in an oil guzzling classic is probably a net benefit to the environment (to feel smug about, if one wishes!).
On the other hand it is fun and great sense of achievement
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Batteries will continue to get better technically for sure but not better for the environment. Unless we find a way of making them from sand using sea waterEV tech such as batteries will continue to get better and more efficient, as will generating electricity from renewables. A point will come where there is no argument. I don't think we're there yet though..
That is for sure. Buying any new car (over your existing one), not necessarily made by Tesla means your old car needs to be scrapped using a lot of energy and resources and a new car manufactured. Making a new ICE car means spending energy of approximate equivalent value of about 40 - 50 barrels of oil. This is enormous amount of resources and no matter how inefficient is your existing car it is overall more environmentally friendly than replacing it with a new vehicle.I don't believe buying a giant Tesla and running it for 10 years will be a net benefit over just running whatever car you already have.0 -
Maybe sand and sea water is a stretch but we're at a point where green tech is profitable now the transport world has seen a viable alternative to Big Oil. Innovation follows $$$ so we're now on an inevitable trajectory towards electric powered transportation.Batteries will continue to get better technically for sure but not better for the environment. Unless we find a way of making them from sand using sea water
Stuff needs to be, and will be invented. Cold fusion here we come!0 -
That is very optimisticMaybe sand and sea water is a stretch but we're at a point where green tech is profitable now the transport world has seen a viable alternative to Big Oil. Innovation follows $$$ so we're now on an inevitable trajectory towards electric powered transportation.
Stuff needs to be, and will be invented. Cold fusion here we come!. But hey, we can dream, it costs nothing .
The so called green tech is only "profitable" because of the subsidiaries, no other reason. If that is removed we are back to coal as Germany are going towards now.
The green tech (i.e. wind mills) generates no net energy or almost none at very best case scenarios, remember that.
There are no alternative fuels to heavy transportation (trucks, tractors, ships, planes...) which drives our life as we know. Innovation means nothing without (cheap and easily available) energy, and that energy is getting scarce and will be a major challenge in very near future.0 -
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That should be the least of our worriesMax Headroom wrote: »How will we get our Mustang and Camaro big bore kits.........:(
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Interestingly, in countries like the US for each calorie of food they consume 10 calories of of fossil fuel energy are put into the system to grow that food, process it, pack it, transport it, etc.
Even here if you go to a supermarket you will find apples and potatoes from... Chile and New Zealand (I guess they may have Irish or German potatoes in their stores). That's one of these "little" things that are wrong with the system.0 -
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Damien Maguire bought a BMW 3-series and converted it to EV, total spent under a grand
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And I'm sure you're all familiar with the classic Jaguar E-type electric vehicle that Prince Harry drove on his wedding day earlier this year
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkg8Rk-aP4U
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