What was wrong with it? Most electric vehicles seem to drive great, range anxiety being the only downside.
VW Transporter Electric
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What was wrong with it? Most electric vehicles seem to drive great, range anxiety being the only downside.
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Think @BognorMotors has been on his hols, sure he will respond in time
He does not do much SWA shocking how he stripped it
The electric version appeals because Manchester is introducing a clean air zone next year, which extends right past where l live in the outlying areas.
Cars are exempt but vans could be charged £9 per day to drive in the city.
Also the govt has plans to ban diesel vehicles from city centres by 2025. Obviously there are going to be exemptions but l don't want to get stuck with a vehicle that costs me £50 a week just to take off my drive.
Cars are exempt but vans could be charged £9 per day to drive in the city.
Also the govt has plans to ban diesel vehicles from city centres by 2025. Obviously there are going to be exemptions but l don't want to get stuck with a vehicle that costs me £50 a week just to take off my drive.
The bottom line is is doesn't really matter whether we want or like electric vehicles, or if the infrastructure exists to support them, they're going to make sure it's not financially viable to carry on using our ICE vehicles.
Euro 6 is exempt for the ulez for London, but now they beat us up with additional charges for parking. Because its a diesel....
This is the only thing that worries me about buying a diesel vehicle, it's not past the govt to suddenly impose draconian charges on using it.
Looking further at the electric version, it's a conversion by an outside company and has a limited maximum speed of 56mph or 72mph (according to "What Car" road test on Youtube)
Plus the 82 mile range is only achieved if you drive it really carefully.
That's no use to me.
lt's a shame VW stopped offering a petrol version with the T6.1, it seems fairly short sighted of them.
Looking further at the electric version, it's a conversion by an outside company and has a limited maximum speed of 56mph or 72mph (according to "What Car" road test on Youtube)
Plus the 82 mile range is only achieved if you drive it really carefully.
That's no use to me.
lt's a shame VW stopped offering a petrol version with the T6.1, it seems fairly short sighted of them.
I'm surprised at the whole idea of marketing something that is likely to be unfit for purpose to so many potential customers.
Why don't they just continue to try to develop it until they can build something that will meet the requirements of customers?
Anyone else think that Hydrogen Fuel Cells are the only real way forwards for vans like the Transporter?
Yeah I think it makes sense for heavier long distance stuff but the price of batteries is tumbling all the time, further breakthroughs are likely over the next few years and using electricity to get liquid hydrogen to cart it about in tankers to pump it into a filling station then back into a vehicle's tank to convert it back into electricity to finally power that vehicle's motors is overall quite energy inefficient and probably will be comparatively expensive. The benefit is far greater energy density and faster refuelling but in a business like goods transport where cost is everything these benefits over a BEV will likely not offset the added costs for most use cases.
Given the large amount of flat space under a T6 chassis you could presumably fit in a huge battery if you engineered it properly - it's only a matter of time. I can't wait to get off the internal combustion engine, we've stretched the technology as far as it'll go, let's move on.
I think HGVs etc. is where hydrogen will have a place rather than for passenger cars. It would be possible but without big breakthroughs in battery technology the problem is that the weight of the batteries would take up so much of the maximum allowed weight that it wouldn't quite add up.
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