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#817498 02/14/2025 5:46 PM
by CLPlusFour
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Will Morgan produce an EV?
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#817717 Feb 18th a 07:54 AM
by JohnHarris
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It seems the best scenario is to allow fossil fuels/hydrogen for heating homes and hydrogen for transport and develop carbon capture to mitigate the emissions whilst aiming for net zero. Turn excess wind farm energy in hydrogen production (stored energy).

As it appears that cleaning up our skies is actually accelerating climate change ,as there is less sun reflected from now increasingly warming seas as a direct result of cleaning up shipping emissions. Smog actually helps us.

At some point surely the penny will drop, as the US the major emitter is going to accelerate its fossil fuel use, UK net zero s meaningless and an economic load being forced on its people, which will not stop global warming or rising seas.
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#817571 Feb 15th a 09:22 PM
by Gambalunga
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Originally Posted by CooperMan
There is a long term owner of several classic MTW's who has a little project converting one of these to an EV, he admits it will be a bit basic on tech and target range of only 30 miles as it's just for a quick spin to the shops.

Not seen him for a while, will be interesting to see the final result
In Italy there are a couple of people who are converting classic Ape 3 wheelers for city use. Many cities no longer allow 2 stroke engines and these are very useful for deliveries in narrow city lanes.
The autonomy is only 50 to 80km (in line with the 30 miles mentioned above)
The web site of one of these companies is https://gruppopretto.it/VeicoliCommerciali/ApeClassicElectrifiedByPretto

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The site is in Italian but various browsers can translate it.
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#817605 Feb 16th a 01:11 PM
by BobtheTrain
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Originally Posted by JohnHarris
Is electric the way forward or just a current fad.
I'm going ohm to find out watts wrong with my guitar amp.
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#817716 Feb 18th a 07:34 AM
by Ian Wegg
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Originally Posted by Jon G4LJW
Here in Wales, our new heat pump has been working fine in low temperatures. It is very noisy when running at full blast though.

Last week, the engineer who serviced my boiler had just come from installing a new gas boiler to replace a heat pump. Environmental Health tested the heat pump with a decibel meter after complaints from the neighbours and found the levels illegally high. The owner had no choice but to have it removed.
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#817738 Feb 18th a 12:52 PM
by Alistair
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Originally Posted by Graham, G4FUJ
Oh great Alistair. Most of it will have inadequate noise suppression so use of the hf (and very likely vhf/uhf) radio bands will become impossible. frown

Graham don't say that out loud or someone will start to put a bigger tax on it.....
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