Mk 8 Golf

[Ozsko]

What everyone needs to understand is that EVERY EUROPEAN MANUFACTURER is planning a huge model introduction of EV's and China has already laid down the rules for about 20% of cars sold have to be electric from the early 20's. The impact of that will mean that it won't be a case of buying what you want but buying what is made and sold in this country. The VW dealer I spoke to today told me that there will be an electric Golf in Oz this year but I will believe that when I see it. There is a truism in this world, never believe what a car salesman tells you. As for charging, when petrol was first introduced there was no petrol stations and if you went for a drive a bloke stood on the side of the road selling petrol out of cans so things were not what we see today. I think for day to day running around in the metro area a large amount of charging will be done at home, some won't be able to do this as they live in flats and apartments but they will be in the minority. Everyone in Oz thinks that the range is the problem when 99% of them never drive outside the metro area and the mythical interstate trip will take a week to complete when most have never driven such a trip.

[Transporter]

Let’s just hope that everything goes according to plan.

Though, this article and many others suggests that the IC engine will still be in passenger cars by mid century and somehow I see it as plausible.
German spark-ignited compression-ignition research paralleling Mazda’s SPCCI

[Sydneykid]

The only reason, THE ONLY REASON that electric cars are being developed by the car manufacturers is government regulation that effectively mandates it. Sure they often disguise it as fuel efficiency and emissions improvements but the only way to achieve the mandates is via electric cars. Some governments are simply going to ban non electric cars from major cities, whilst at the same time allowing the big polluters in diesel buses and trucks, hypocrites. The vast majority of consumers don't want electric cars, they don't want to pay the additional costs, they don't want the inconvenience of waiting hours on a country trip recharging the battery. They are being forced by their governments to do something that they fundamentally don't want to do. At some point the electorate might just wake up and vote them out and then electric cars will die the same way and for the same reasons as they have in the past. On a level playing field they just can't compete.

Cheers
Gary

[Transporter]

+100
The government, all politicians and environmentalists should be first adopters, driving only and only full electric cars everywhere they travel including their personal life.

[Idle]

+100
The government, all politicians and environmentalists should be first adopters, driving only and only full electric cars everywhere they travel including their personal life.

Nothing beats having a bit of a stir now and again! - but one day all this will happen.

At 94, I don't expect to see it, tho'.

[Flipper Dog]

As for charging, when petrol was first introduced there was no petrol stations and if you went for a drive a bloke stood on the side of the road selling petrol out of cans so things were not what we see today.

Drive around some not so rich countries now and you still see this. Not out of cans but plastic bottles.

[Idle]

Drive around some not so rich countries now and you still see this. Not out of cans but plastic bottles.

In the early days of motoring here, you bought benzine from a shop - often from a chemist.

I can remember my granddad still referring to petrol as "benzine" in the 1920's.

Also, in 1954 I took delivery of a Triumph TR2 and found I had to add benzol to the only petrol available (we were still on wartime "pool" - they never said what pool they got it out of, but it wasn't a good one) to keep the thing from rattling its head off.

Also its original plugs failed in a couple of days, as did the reluctantly supplied warranty replacements - the cure there was a set of Lodge platinum points (at my own expense, of course.)

Today's drivers don't realise how good they've got it under current warranty conditions.

[kennyc]

Think this is real?

YouTube

If it is, I don't like the exterior but live the interior.

[Dutch77]

Just a collection of existing mock-ups.. nothing to see here.

Or worry about Kenny.

[Dutch77]

Fortunately this horrible render is not the next Mk 8.