Showing posts with label Electric Classic Cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric Classic Cars. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 November 2023

Electric Fires

 

I think we used to have one like that.

But, of course, that isn't what this post is about.

It's strange how the news stories I find to comment on come about.  There were only four in October while I've already done four this month and there are TWO that caught my eye on the BBC News site today.

The first one annoyed me - it is top of the most watched videos at the moment.  Now I realise that it is the job of the news to report on unusual events and, compared with those happening to fossil fuel cars (as Moggy from electric Classic Cars calls them) or piston cars (as Jonny Smith from The Late Brake Show calls them), electric car fires are very rare - even if they can be more spectacular - that rarity isn't mentioned at all.

In fact, given that the Liverpool Arena car Park fire was caused by an old Land-Rover and the Luton Airport Car Park fire was caused by a Range-Rover, then maybe the BBC should look to be covering the next JLR car to catch fire.

Talking of London airport car parks, the other story today didn't annoy me.  It tells of temporarily repurposing a car park at Stansted for a drive-in movie location.

"Airport bosses have stressed that pilots will not be distracted by a large LED screen at a temporary drive-in cinema at its site in Essex."

The whole article goes on about how it will be safe and all checks and authorisations are in place - I'm not sure why the whole article is about that - NOBODY HAS SUGGESTED OTHERWISE!

Do they think that some passing pilot might fancy watching Top Gun? It has been suggested before.

Sunday, 3 January 2021

Sparking Back Into Life

Autocar have this story today.  It is disguised as a article about whether or not it is right to take the beating heart (or internal combustion engine) out of a classic car and replace it with an electric motor.   It seems to be more of an advert for Kit Lacey's eDub Services who do just that.

As do Jack's Garage in the shadow of Grenfell Tower who Autocar told us about in December 2019.

Although eDub will let you rent one of theirs for a week:

The Jack's Garage story was just after Autocar told us that "EV conversions slammed by classic car experts"

But, then again, Michael Gove had already told us that we'd had enough of experts.  He then went on to tell us to listen to the experts on Coronavirus.

Anyway, these particular experts are The Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) who issued a statement, stating that it

“cannot promote, to owners or regulators, the use of modern EV components to replace a historic vehicle’s drivetrain”.

eDub are offering to box up the original engine so that it can be re-installed if it is so desired.

I'd have thought that this way, more classics would end up on the road - and in a more eco-friendly way.  Nobody is going to do this with all of the existing classics so the more the merrier. And more must be getting merrier as more and more operations set up to do this exact job.

Over in Wales (or over on Quest) is another example - Richard "Moggy" Morgan of Electric Classic Cars in Newtown is shown on Quest and the series returns this Thursday:
Not sure of their scheduling, they seemed to show half of the series then stop it.

But now it's back.
Well, they are plugging it. (plug! geddit!?)