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1. Piggo🐽 (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:15:31 CEST Piggo🐽

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   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
   @vfrmedia yeah the charging is a problem here as well, especially in densely populated areas. Having a garage is a luxury in Prague. I still hold hope for hydrogen or some similar technology to replace batteries by then. Hydrogen is mostly held back by the tanks needing expensive composite material because hydrogen eats through metal. Toyota seems to have it figured out in some way though
   • Piggo🐽 (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:15:32 CEST Piggo🐽

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     (I doubt they will actually do it)
   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:15:32 CEST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     @piggo its planned for 2030 in UK (pure internal combustion engines) - hybrids will still be allowed until 2035 but any used cars can still be driven for as long as they pass roadworthiness tests..

     Unless UK Power Networks and the Council put a charging post outside my house and its same cost as my normal electricity bill, I expect my first EV is likely to be the car I own around the time of my retirement (or at least my late 50s)

   • Piggo🐽 (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:15:33 CEST Piggo🐽
     EU is banning petrol cars by 2035, time to enjoy polluting while we can
   • Piggo🐽 (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:22:58 CEST Piggo🐽

     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     @ekaitz_zarraga @vfrmedia so is ......... lithium 😆
   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:27:03 CEST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     @piggo @ekaitz_zarraga

     hybrids, which contain both lithium batteries *and* petrol are likely to keep the Fire Brigade busy as well (there are already problems with people dumping their unwanted mobile phones/other gadgets in the container and entire rubbish lorries going up on fire in London)

   • Piggo🐽 (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jul-2021 22:27:03 CEST Piggo🐽

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     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     @vfrmedia @ekaitz_zarraga I must say Hindenburg on wheels sounds exciting. Well maybe a little more exciting than what I'd want to drive 🤔gasoline isn't exactly inert either though lol
   • Adrián Pérez (aperezdc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jul-2021 00:01:16 CEST Adrián Pérez

     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @ekaitz_zarraga @piggo @vfrmedia OTOH not sure if the Hindenburg comparison is fair...

     A pressurized bottle of hydrogen in a car is likely to explode, while expanded to fill a giant cigar tends to burn while the airship loses altitude slowly before the fire reaches the gondola.

     Amusingly only one third of the people in the Hindenburg died (compare with an airplane accident!) and most of the deceased did not have a way to escape and jump out of their quarters.