Electric black cab

This weekend saw sheffield first electric black cab plying for hire.Watch out for it looks like a Bentley.

That's great news! Thanks for sharing.

We got an electric black cab from Crookes on Friday, 20th and it was an impressive ride. It was like something out of the future with no noise from the engine. They are hybrids and are expensive, somewhere in the region of £65k+ according to the driver.

will look out for it ,sounds good for the air pollution as well.

At the moment Electric cars actually cost more to the environment that none electric, With the installation of charging points, and burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity for said charging points, it actually does more harm at the moment than without..

however, when at least around 60% of cars are electric or hybrid, and there are double the current charging points, then it will take approx 20 years to pull us into the green and actually be beneficial...

Note: this is from memory, trying to find the original link I read with all the numbers/stats and calculations.... will post if/when I find it..

Does that also take into account any of the maintenance work on the charging points??

My friend was telling me it's not uncommon to find public charging points damaged or otherwise out of action.

At the moment Electric cars actually cost more to the environment that none electric, With the installation of charging points, and burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity for said charging points, it actually does more harm at the moment than without..

No it doesn't. That was Daily Mail FUD.

What about the pollution manufacturing the batteries and disposing of the used batteries?

This weekend saw sheffield first electric black cab plying for hire.Watch out for it looks like a Bentley.

Bring a smoke billowing diesel cab out instead as judging by some of the comments so far you can’t win with some folk!

What about the pollution manufacturing the batteries and disposing of the used batteries?

We ship it all to Africa so it's not an issue ::hihi:

Aren't most Li-Po batteries re-cycled though? Making them more environmentally friendly?

Whilst we are on the subject of fault finding.....

Silent black cab? At night? Folk on the booze?

You need to look at the initial energy source. If it comes from any fossil fuel then a diesel engine is greener. A diesel-cycle in a car is about 40-45% efficient.

A CCGT of the latest sort can get the efficieny up to about 60%. However you need to add in to that generation and transmission losses, charging losses, etc and these drop it back below the efficieny of a diesel (but above that of a petrol).

Now if your power generation is nuclear, wind or solar, you are quids in on teh green stakes. Electric cars at the moment are not about energy efficiency at all, they are pollution control on the city streets, at the expense of extra pollution elsewhere where we can more easily deal with it.