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Old Aug 15th, 2019, 22:39   #1
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With more and more pressure to get away from diesels and on to smaller and smaller petrol and electric powered cars, how will we tow caravans?

Anyone like to put a time frame on the day we wont be able to afford diesel as the government of the day tries to price us off the road?
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Old Aug 15th, 2019, 22:49   #2
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If I were to say it can't come soon enough, I suspect that won't go down too well. I appreciate this isn't a terribly constructive post, but I had some exceptionally distressing caravan holidays when I was a child. Fifty years later the horror is still with me.

Anyhow, big diesel fan here. Whatever the pressures are to switch away from ICE's, they're going to continue to be around for a very long time.
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Engines are becoming much more efficient, 4 ton motorhomes now use 2 litre engines with loads of torque generated by turbocharging and electrics. No need to worry, the only way to get power in the past was bigger capacity, it's now by using smarter technology.
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If we all go electric no one will be going anywhere. A few seconds blip at a power station last week caused much of the country to have no power for a day. Where will all the electricity come from to power all the cars ?. I'm 70 so I don't think I will have a problem towing my caravan before I have to give up
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If we all go electric no one will be going anywhere. A few seconds blip at a power station last week caused much of the country to have no power for a day. Where will all the electricity come from to power all the cars ?. I'm 70 so I don't think I will have a problem towing my caravan before I have to give up
Well exactly....

a) Where is the electric going to come from? We're turning off more generation than we are creating, encouraging electric cars and banning all gas heating and cooking in newbuild homes from 2025 - demand is going to soar exponentially.

d) How are we going to get it there? I'm not seeing any evidence of major National Grid upgrades and getting new pylons installed is hugely controversial. Currently I bet most family homes draw 3-5 amps through the night for the heating circulation pump, phone chargers etc. and the odd light. What when a household with 2 electric cars is drawing 60 amps through the night?
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Haha! It's alright! They'll use a "smart" network from the batteries of the other cars on the street to charge yours!!

LMAO!!

Seriously, you couldn't make it up. HAHAHA!
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With more and more pressure to get away from diesels and on to smaller and smaller petrol and electric powered cars, how will we tow caravans?

Anyone like to put a time frame on the day we wont be able to afford diesel as the government of the day tries to price us off the road?
I wouldn't be surprised to see an electric motor on the axle and a battery on the floor to power the caravan , to take all the towing force from the car and compensate for the extra wind resistance, the car would be more economical and have better emissions when towing than with no caravan! Shall we patent the idea ?
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I wouldn't be surprised to see an electric motor on the axle and a battery on the floor to power the caravan , to take all the towing force from the car and compensate for the extra wind resistance, the car would be more economical and have better emissions when towing than with no caravan! Shall we patent the idea ?
And the battery is charged from the wheels when braking and by solar panels covering the caravan roof which also charge the car batteries?
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Hmmm, there seems to be a little erm, confusion re the numbers.
Taking a net figure for global gases and implying that they are evenly distributed across a globe where only 9% of the population own a car isn’t the most scientific way of approaching data, not I f you’re using that data to suggest the auto industry and burning stegosauruses is without subsequent effect. It makes for groovy slogans on the side of your bridge, but if said bridge were made using such selective science I would suggest it’s (the bridge) not long for this world, at least not at the height it’s currently at.
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Hmmm, there seems to be a little erm, confusion re the numbers.
Taking a net figure for global gases and implying that they are evenly distributed across a globe where only 9% of the population own a car isn’t the most scientific way of approaching data, not I f you’re using that data to suggest the auto industry and burning stegosauruses is without subsequent effect. It makes for groovy slogans on the side of your bridge, but if said bridge were made using such selective science I would suggest it’s (the bridge) not long for this world, at least not at the height it’s currently at.
I don’t disagree with what you are saying but equally buying a V8 something to take your kids to school and planting 4 trees in your garden next to where it’s parked does not make it CO2 neutral either...

NOx and CO are locally toxic, CO2 isn’t... its problem is as a greenhouse gas.
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