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how was the CO2 removed from the atmosphere? please don't say biofuels.

E-fuels maybe aren't biofuels?
It's too late to be googling that shit

It's all a bit too sciencey for me tbh.
I'm glad the Germans are on it though. She'll be right.


EDIT
I asked Bard
Seems teh really tricky thing about them is that they haven't fully been invented yet.

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Fluppin' lazy Germans
Typical
 
It's probably a political handout to the mini states in germany to stop their factory workers and engineers rioting in the short term. Bio fuels will struggle to compete with battery tech for performance and will mostly be for the collector and specialist market or part of the freight market. There will be about as much appetite for going to a petrol station in about ten years as there will be for shovelling coal into a firebox.
 
It's probably a political handout to the mini states in germany to stop their factory workers and engineers rioting in the short term. Bio fuels will struggle to compete with battery tech for performance and will mostly be for the collector and specialist market or part of the freight market. There will be about as much appetite for going to a petrol station in about ten years as there will be for shovelling coal into a firebox.
This is bang on
The smallest part of Scholz's coalition - the Free Democrats - has been getting a walloping of late and they hold the Transport ministry.
They are looking for a win for themselves and got this bio-fuel thing in as an exemption very late doors.
Everyone had already agreed and this late salvo caused all these abstentions etc.
 
Also I Bought the first and most important component for converting my own petrol guzzling car, a hybrid Gearbox with built-in motors, torque converter and oil cooler. It's a CVT Gearbox from a Lexus IS300H. Next up, a Toyota / Lexus Gen 3 inverter

I've not heard of this approach before (also I have researched NOTHING so that doesn't mean much). I did watch really long video about those toyota gearboxes though from weber auto, you have to admire the engineering etc etc.

Anywhooo I'm starting to think i should do a lofi conversion on a renault kangoo - the forklift motor type thing - I only kinda need about 60km range for work. a cheap popular car with a shit engine, but practical...
 
I've not heard of this approach before (also I have researched NOTHING so that doesn't mean much). I did watch really long video about those toyota gearboxes though from weber auto, you have to admire the engineering etc etc.

Anywhooo I'm starting to think i should do a lofi conversion on a renault kangoo - the forklift motor type thing - I only kinda need about 60km range for work. a cheap popular car with a shit engine, but practical...

Going to reply to this later with lots of links
 
I've not heard of this approach before (also I have researched NOTHING so that doesn't mean much). I did watch really long video about those toyota gearboxes though from weber auto, you have to admire the engineering etc etc.

Anywhooo I'm starting to think i should do a lofi conversion on a renault kangoo - the forklift motor type thing - I only kinda need about 60km range for work. a cheap popular car with a shit engine, but practical...
How would this pass the nct
 
How would this pass the nct

Welding.

There's a few forklift conversions floating about. A forklift motor is smaller than combustion engine so if it's mounted well and the batteries and all that crap are safely mounted then as far as i know you can get some kinda conversion approval. Only messing with the idea at present, a wee electric car that can do about 60km would cover about half the actual driving I do.
 
Going to reply to this later with lots of links


openinverter.org is a super resource

If it's a FWD van you could replace the motor and diff with a small Ev motor with a torque converter and remove diff and prop shaft and ICE
But you've also to consider things like

Cabin heating
Power steering
Cooling systems
VCU (controller / brain. Zombieverter looks like the bizz, all open source)
Charging / dc-dc converter
Inverter
Brakes

Our cars are RWD so going to keep the prop shaft and rear diff and replace the gearbox with an auto hybrid one that has 2 motors built in to it.
Look up Damien Maguire on YouTube or Evbmw.com (Plenty of RWD conversion ideas for yoinking)
and loads of great YouTube channels that escape me right now
 
@ernesto Currently flip flopping wildly between ideas but bean post is learning to drive soon which I'm starting to think is usage case for just buying a leaf 2nd hand as I suspect manual transmissions are on the way out anywhoooo. Thinking my own car might make a good donor for a conversion, the engine probably has in the region of two years on it based on the last one I had* and the market might be wider for donor parts when it comes up. And someone will have figured out the stupid computer in it by then too. This will all probably change in a fortnight.
 
@ann post

Does your super spreadsheet run an annual cost on keeping a car/van on the road - outside of petrol I mean
Like tax, insurance, scheduled maintenance etc?
 
@ann post

Does your super spreadsheet run an annual cost on keeping a car/van on the road - outside of petrol I mean
Like tax, insurance, scheduled maintenance etc?

Yes, and for the interest of science here's how it looks. It's about six and half grand a year. It can be done cheaper just I've a bigger car at present because i've to move a lot of crap around. My little yaris before was more in the region of 5 grand all in. Disclaimer is I have to drive a lot - 1.75 times the national average, so this increases maintenance costs as well as diesel.

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Yes, and for the interest of science here's how it looks. It's about six and half grand a year. It can be done cheaper just I've a bigger car at present because i've to move a lot of crap around. My little yaris before was more in the region of 5 grand all in. Disclaimer is I have to drive a lot - 1.75 times the national average, so this increases maintenance costs as well as diesel.

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What does 'replacement' represent there?
 
Got interrupted on the edit

So at €6.5k p.a. and petrol/diesel is 36% odd of that

It's roughly about €4k before you turn the key - and that's on the lower end.


Just thinking of all these cheapo gaffs out beyond in the hinterland of Roscommon etc. Where you'd need some kind of car, if only for emergencies.

350 snots a month is not nothing.


It all comes back to the old plan of marrying a rich widow. I haven't found a better one yet.
 

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