The battery.

Well there may have been questions about the battery 10 years ago. Not anymore.

Batteries have held up better than anyone expected, and new battery breakthroughs are only only improving that.

comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted 3 minutes ago
I refer you back to this.

https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/130795/electric-avenue-best-route-for-taxi-firms

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Why do you keep refering to this? It has absolutely no relevance to what I've been trying to tell you.

Minicab firms have to have a base by law and it's an ideal place to install chargers.

comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted 27 seconds ago
Well there may have been questions about the battery 10 years ago. Not anymore.

Batteries have held up better than anyone expected, and new battery breakthroughs are only only improving that.
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5 year warranty on a LEVC battery, they haven't said how much a replacement would be but it's rumoured to be £11,000.

It shows that electric taxis are not only desirable, but advantageous. Something you seem to suggest was impossible?

comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted 1 minute ago
It shows that electric taxis are not only desirable, but advantageous. Something you seem to suggest was impossible?
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There was no reference to taxis, only minicabs.

You can't grasp the fact there is a huge difference in their use and specifications.

Hold on, you were the one that bought up Black cabs when I posted the first link. I then showed you the advantages of an Electric Black Cab. Now you are going back again.

Make your mind up.

What did you expect a LEVC promo to show

A load of drivers moaning about the price or the glitches in the supply chain for spare parts?

So we are back to Black cabs?

Look I'm not trying to argue about LEVC. I'm showing you EV's as Taxis are not only viable, but advantageous.

Electric Vehicles have loads of advantages, for everyone, Not just as Taxis, but anyone considering a new car.

As I said before, you would be foolish not to get an EV if you were in the market for a new family car and/or had a regular commute to work.

I have an EV and wouldn't consider anything else. So your statement makes no sense.

I own a Black Cab and you haven't told me anything I didn't know before.

Well I obviously have, as your statement about EV's being foolish is blatantly false, to anyone who knows anything about them.

Driving a diesel driven Black Cab, does not mean you understand EV's or the innovation that is happening.

Remind me when I said EV's were foolish.

Well be pedantic, the people buying them. which is just as false.

I didn't say or infer that either.

Is this an elaborate wum?

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)

posted 4 hours, 31 minutes ago

As I said before, you would be foolish not to get an EV if you were in the market for a new family car and/or had a regular commute to work.
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Which part of that statement leads you to believe I think they're a bad idea?

Black cabs in central London are mostly 51 plate diesel guzzling engines polluting the air and they aren’t even liable to pay the congestion charge, whilst a 2004 plate Ford Focus with a petrol engine is forced to pay £20 a day if it wants to drive through it. Absolute joke how much black cabbies get favouritism here.

Sorry just catching up. He said that you'd be foolish not to get an EV. Although he has filtered me so can't see anyway

TfL have banned cabs over 12 years old so the oldest working cab you'll see is a 58 plate.

That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.

1 series Diesel engine that is.

comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 1 minute ago
That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.
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It's Euro 4 which is actually cleaner than Euro 6 - The 'acceptable' diesel engine.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 1 minute ago
That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.
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It's Euro 4 which is actually cleaner than Euro 6 - The 'acceptable' diesel engine.
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How do you figure that? The limits for all pollutants are smaller in every parameter for Euro 6 than Euro 4.

Or are you just going with the angle that manufacturers just cheat to pass it because it's too difficult now?

PM 2.5 is remaining stable, ie not reducing, and a major problem for diesel engines, reducing nox and CO2 is all well and good, but we need to be getting rid of these pollutants, and a big part of that would be removing it at source. IE the combustion engine.