Politicians make bad scientists, hence the diesel-v-petrol shambles and the rush towards

battery electric vehicles (even though the UK will struggle to build the charging infrastructure, and to actually generate the additional power). I'm sceptical about BEVs because of the range issue. Everyone's waiting for the great leap forward in batteries, but so far it seems it will be an incremental rather than a step change. For cities, I think the near-future best solution is an electric car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, where the only exhaust emission is pure H2O. But at present, get a BMW i3, the one with the range extender engine.

Posted By: Higher Wrather, Oct 7, 15:09:40