Electric cars.

[proactive]

A gas turbine would be a good way to go

Did wonders for Rover...

 

[Laurie61]

Did wonders for Rover...

I thought that was BMW

 

[Gramaisc]

Did wonders for Rover...

I thought that was BMW

It's possible that some of the Arado 234s that flew over here towards the end of the war had BMW 003s, though most had Jumos, but still the BMW management had a greater effect on UK industrial production in the end..

 

[Cue]

No, it's an electric car with a range extending small petrol engine. The engine does not directly power the car. The engine provides power to the batteries which then power the electric motor. You only use the engine when the batteries are drained.

Same as the Ampera.

Seems a bit of a weird approach to me, and a bit half-measure... but this is coming from the guy that finds PHEVs fairly half-measure too.

Surely you could fit a fair few more cells where that petrol engine is?

 

[proactive]

I thought that was BMW

 

[Gramaisc]

They did build the original Whittle engines.

 

[proactive]

Seems a bit of a weird approach to me, and a bit half-measure... but this is coming from the guy that finds PHEVs fairly half-measure too.

Surely you could fit a fair few more cells where that petrol engine is?

It's to deal with range anxiety and make the car have more appeal to those who don't just pootle round town.

 

[Gramaisc]

It's to deal with range anxiety and make the car have more appeal to those who don't just pootle round town.

The same situation applied in the early days of motoring, when you could only get petrol in jars from a chemist who happened to be open.

 

[Laurie61]

My Dads dad had a liking for the P6 and he had a couple in the late 60's early 70's. I think it was the first car I did the Ton in as a passenger. Somewhere southbound on the M1 and before the 70 limit.

Rover/BRM did a faster Jet race version which from memory went through clutches at a rate of knots.

 

[Cue]

It's to deal with range anxiety and make the car have more appeal to those who don't just pootle round town.

Aye. 180 miles theoretical range which is pretty good - though they’ll need to axe the REX in favour of more actual battery power (and give it a better design) to compete with the 2018/2019 cars that can do that without burning fuel.

I wonder how it classifies on the 2020 company car tax bands. Presumably it would be considered a PHEV and go in the 100 mile battery range band (5%) rather than getting a free pass to the 100% EV band (2%)

 

[Tilly]

Why not build scalextric roads ?

 

[Cue]

Why not build scalextric roads ?

Funnily enough that is pretty much the plan. Motorways would have stretches with wireless charging and any EV that drives over the stretch gets charged

 

[Tilly]

Funnily enough that is pretty much the plan. Motorways would have stretches with wireless charging and any EV that drives over the stretch gets charged

+Giant hands to collect 'strays' on bends?

 

[Trumpet]

Did they do an earlier one based on a 90 or similar?

 

[Trumpet]

+Giant hands to collect 'strays' on bends?

You are aren't you.

 

[Gramaisc]

Did they do an earlier one based on a 90 or similar?

In the Science Museum.

About 5 mpg - on those occasions when it worked at all..

 

[Trumpet]

That's the one.

 

[Laurie61]

Did they do an earlier one based on a 90 or similar?

The 90 was modified to take a turbine engine but the P6 was designed from the beginning to take a gas turbine, the front suspension used a special set up to allow the engine to fit. Although the production P6 never had a turbine engine it's bigger engine bay did allow the 3.5l v8 unit to go in latter.

 

[Kickstart]

BMW did have a joint venture with Rolls Royce in the 1990s to develop a gas turbine engine for use in small jet aircraft. BMW sold it out to RR.

Katy

 

[Gramaisc]

The Enfield 8000, from the days of the Oil Crisis.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jsrm8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_8000