Your Government - as well as all right-thinking citizens - will be pleased to be moving towards home grown wind power for transport instead of imported oil.

Electric cars are getting cheaper. They have a much simpler motor, transmission etc. and everything in the batteries is inexpensive, including the relatively small amount of lithium. FA, please try to stay focussed. Not sure why the climate change jibe on this thread. The Nissan Leaf in its first ye...

Odval and Deadduck, Fair point. Refrigeration is not needed. It just helps because it stores extra energy if you have it. Some divers refill their tanks in a water bath to keep it cool for the same reason - it gets more air in for a given pressure. This technology does have an intrinsically low effi...

Do I have to capitalise "dick" for you, FA? Even then you probably wouldn't get it.

Australia also has one of the world's best solar energy resources as well as some of the most efficient wind turbines. (Just ask Farva.) These can replace the coal for electricity generation. And you can't use coal in your cars, at least not without doing some ridiculous chemistry. Electric cars are...

So how's it looking? :D Not very promising I'm afraid. Haven't noticed governments planning a massive series of new builds of power stations to provide all that extra electricity which would be required. I think electric vehicles will remain a tiny niche market for many years to come. Probably see ...

Right on the first part, Geek. Wrong way around on the second part. Overall, drive efficiency of the Tesla Roadster is 88% - almost three times more efficient than an internal combustion powered vehicle. http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric/efficiency Electricity generation from coal is the very wo...

It's exciting, isn't it! Tesla Roadster in production 2008-12, Model S deliveries from July of this year. The Model X cross-over is a smart move as the next step. Why? The cross-over shape is actually logical from a point of minimising drag and so maximising range. Fluid airflow is lost in a sedan a...

Newcomer Tesla Motors has been at the forefront of this revolution, along with Nissan\Renault with the Nissan Leaf and Renault Fluence. The image above shows the Tesla Model S and Tesla Roadster. BREAKING!! “Utility Meets Performance”: Tesla Teases New Model X SUV Written by: Jake Holmes G+ on Janua...

My predictions from December 2006... Within a decade from now, sales of fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will have surpassed those of petrol and diesel driven vehicles. New car owners will be driving more kilometres on mains electricity than on petrol or diesel, and citie...

Ah, Gibbo, I see you have pre-empted my post with a quote from Wikipedia.

But seriously, I thought I killed this on the old bored. The energy efficiency is pants. Why use electricity to compress air when you can feed it directly into the battery? And what happens when you try to compress air? It heats up! So you also need a big refrigerator to counteract that. And lots of...

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Stop being a dick, FA.