I don’t think I ever drove above 40kmh in an Indian city if I wasn’t off the expressway or whatever they are called in India.
It’s the perfect solution for everyday life. Hopefully they become pervasive and help reduce air pollution dramatically.
It’s the perfect solution for everyday life. Hopefully they become pervasive and help reduce air pollution dramatically.
The effects of air pollution has just begun to dawn I reckon - it is indeed a welcome solution.
Also the frickin' grid is there! Transporting oil and refined gasoline around the world seems like a crazy proposition in comparison.
Meanwhile we've been driven to think that the incredibly complicated logistics dance of liquids being shipped and trucked all around the world to pumps is a "simple" supply chain that is easy to run and will be around forever. Gas stations run on very low margins, the supply chain is ripe for disruption (in the bad way) and we've seen in the past (for instance, the 70s oil crisis) how quickly stations and pumps will close at the slightest disruption, and how easily that can snowball. ICE range anxiety will return, the gambles right now are on when and how quickly/how bad. (My money is on "surprisingly soon" and "very quickly, a lot quicker than most people seem to think".)
Turned out that the low speed combined with short drives (it was a smallish island) was bad for the engine: the oil never really mixed well and had to be replaced much more often than expected for such low milage.
Low speed or low RPM?