If I were a rich man . . .

1st October 201524th June 2015 by Chris

If I could afford any car I like it would probably be the TESLA S, an all electric car with a range of 275 miles on a single charge, 5.2 seconds 0-60 mph and top speed of 140mph.

There are three versions and the top car, the P85D, has a 300 miles range and 155 mph top speed.

The car is the brain child of Elon Reeve Musk, a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, investor and inventor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity.

TESLA cars are not available to buy in car showrooms. The company has some retail premises to display the car but to buy one you go online and place the order just as you would a book from Amazon.

There are service centres in some major cities to care for your car and dedicated charging points around the UK.

The TESLA showroom on the first floor at Cribbs Causeway shopping mall north of Bristol

So I was delighted when I visited Cribbs Causeway north of Bristol this week to go into the showroom on the top floor of the shopping mall and get my first look at this amazing car.

Electric cars are going to change everything about cars – how they work, how the are ‘re-fuelled and services and how they are sold. Electric transport and driver-less cars are set to revolutionise the motoring landscape.

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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