Change my V8, never electric cars are for wimps .
they must be tilbo has I have been told today by our accountant if you drive a milk float you cannot claim and business mileage on it...so no use as a business investment so at least they do have a target demographic
I would change accountant then as he has no idea what he is talking about.
Some crossed wires here I think. You cannot claim AFR for an electric car (this is what company car drivers get and is based on the cc of the engine and whether petrol,log or diesel). You can claim 45p/mile if you won the tesla or if you got it with a car allowance as your own.
Electric cars were about when Moses was a boy.
Hydrogen fuel cell is the future. 
This is the only sensible post in this thread. Electricity is old-hat.
Really? At the moment the main way we get hydrogen is as a by-product of petrol/dudes production - not exactly a helpful solution. Also global demand is growing faster than supply growth. What hydrogen does do is match our current "here's a tank of fuel, once it's gone fill it up" infrastructure.
Electricity has its own challenges but I wouldn't mark it as beaten yet. I think it will all come down to the top of the supply chain. If we crack hydrogen production it's a no-brainer. If we crack renewable electricity production, that will win out.
They will be cheap because the batteries will be shagged and the cost of a set of new batteries will be a significant proportion of the cost of a new car....
I think varche was referring to them becoming cheaper to produce. However, with the latest generation of electric cars the battery problem is a bit of an urban myth. Tesla sold a lot of S's to cab companies in Amsterdam as part of a study being done by the university there. The results suggest on average a tesla will retain 92% of its range at 100k miles. That's about 240 of its 260 miles. At that rate of degradation, I'd probably bet on tesla for longevity over a similarly powerful petrol car. The actual drivetrain in a tesla is really quite simple, it's the computers that make it work that are the clever bit.
Similar results have been seen with Chevrolet Volts in the USA, some reaching 250k with 75% battery life in tact.
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