Oops, seems I may have unintentionally hit sore spot... Richard, I am not an intentional promoter of EV as the way forward, just an observer of the evolutionary and practical processes involved, and relaying as to the way EV has worked for me to date for others to assess as they might..
It seems James May was quite impressed (other than the price) by the MGB EV recreation he tried out in a YT vid I recently watched
That the ICE has become so complex as the result of all the gizmology introduced in a bid to reduce emissions, and it just seemed that an electric motor with minimal moving parts seem`d to have potential to be more reliable relative to breakdown and less costly to run over the predicted life cycle of the vehicle, and in general, including political decision making around the time of my purchase and time taken in personal evaluation where it seemed that the positives exceeded the negatives in the prevailing circumstances... As for the future, time will tell, and if vehicles end up powered by a Flux Capacitor, or whatever else, I care not a jot.
Bill Button and I often contacted each other OOG in the days of eMog, I remember trying to talk him out of his ideas for an electric handbrake system which he was intent in creating for his +8, my luddite keep it simple tendencies showing through, seems Bill was ahead of the game in that one... (-: I suspect were bill around and as frustrated as he was with his Bentley`s mechanical maladies, he may have converted it to an EV... who knows...? Bill really enjoyed spending time on eMog and discussing all that was kindly provided on GoMoG as did I and so many others, all in a time before emojis where a punctuation mark in the wrong place could totally alter the interpretation of that which was typed and intended...creating unfortunate divisions.. it seems things may not have improved..sigh.
Whatever.... it is what it is... Just glad that I am still allowed to continue to discuss, learn and share much in a friendly way thanks to the creation of TM..
