Gearless. Snow driving

A quick trip in the iMiev in the snow.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Gearless
• electric
• car
• Robert
• Llewellyn
• Mitsubishi
• iMiev
• snow

[TVAlt]

I drove a new Prius around Cheltenham; hills; motorway; city. 50mpg tops. I bought a Audi A4 2.0 TDi S-line 07 plate with 20k on the clock for 15k that does >60mpg. The Prius is an interesting car, but only really useful for the city IMHO. Hybrid electrics that can do 100-200mpg will be the future with HHO assisted cars and conversions. Pure electric will remain poor sellers until we have cracked a smart fuel cell

[GearlessUK]

I drive a Prius (3rd Gen) around Cheltenham all the time, average 63 mpg, my record, 82.3 on 112 mile drive to Cornwall. It has a lot to do with driving style, other than that, I agree with you, except diesels are soooo dirty

[MikeBoxwell]

The iMiEV has traction control, which means that the car does come under control quickly if you try and spin it.

The iMiEV has regenerative braking, and on the iMiEV that works on the rear wheels. Regenerative braking works really well in snowy conditions - because the motor can work to accelerate and slow down the car there is a very smooth transition from speeding up to slowing down. This can make driving in the snow much easier in an electric car than an equivalent petrol car.

[GearlessUK]

Thanks for that clarification. Very simply put and now I know.

[qwerty2k]

producing these cars to replace petrol cars actually creates more pollution than if everybody ran their petrol cars into the ground, the zinc etc for the batteries are mined in far away shores, transported to china/eastern europe to be assembled into a battery and then shipped back across to another country to be assembled into a car.

They are more environmentally friendly once they have been made, but for the short term its far more environmentally friendly to use our existing petrol cars.

[GearlessUK]

Not sure I agree with you, but eventually the gas cars will fall to bits and we have to replace them with something. The same manufacturing issues are there for any car, but surely it's better to replace old cars with electric rather than bury head in sand and continue with fossil.

[donaircooleone]

@GearlessUK lol how are diesels dirty?

[MrSlacker89]

thumbs up if you noticed spiting on 3:30

[ElectricCarFan]

Why does it sound as if there is Morse code happening from 0:20 to 0:25?

[offroader156]

is that my phone??

[bonds911]

@fj9fl you take your lady and make love .. oh sorry you a homo

[fj9fl]

how would one stay warm?

[zenzombie72]

Most useable in a city? Not for most people, who have no garage or driveway. I have a vision of power extention cables running across pavements to the kerbside.

Has an onboard internal charger been developed?

[jeffsandychelsea]

@qwerty2k Can't be any worse than getting fuel from unstable desert regions.

[ilovetofu1000]

how long does it take to charge ;D

[JUKIO01]

@TVAlt toyota said hybrids are the future, and i think they are right. id say about 10 more years, and electric will be worth getting