What? No Air-Con?
June 24, 2023
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
Welcome to the future!!
https://twitter.com/ListerLawrence/status/1672226815123881984?s=20
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
And it will be a very similar story for the heating in winter. Welcome to the brave new green world. BTW, private EV’s have the same issues- comfort or range.
Do they have electric windows or have they returned to wind-up/wind-down windows from when I learned to drive, age 17?
So EVs put the con in air-con. Pay more, get less.
The glass roof won’t help.
EV public transport – you can be like a lobster in summer or a frozen prawn in winter.
Editorial in today’s (Saturday) DT about the need to stop Net Zero. Yet, the author adds the caveat: “We should of course aim to cut carbon”, as if to save some editor’s conscience and stay the right side of the inquisition.
It is a declaration of orthodoxy.
I am starting to think I’m an old fogey. Brought up in the country, I love the revolving seasons. Air conditioning just cuts you off from the reality of the climate we inhabit.
Very true. I used to work in an air conditioned test lab – required for the testing not us – and it was often a shock to go outside and find out how hot it was.
So, do you go without heating as well?
No aircon/heating = no tip
But . . . but . . . Klaus said you would be happy.
Were the windows up when the author hailed the cab, luring him into a promised oasis of cool? And then ambushed by the opening of the windows.
My last daily driver without aircon was a boxy Volvo; very hot days needed all windows down and a couple of pints of water to slosh over my head. I have promised myself a daily driver with cooled seats, but I can’t bring myself to spend the money.
Best automotive aircon? Early 1980s Ford with R12, the chilled air through the dashboard vents could be painfully cold on the hands.
Best car aircon I encountered was a Buick I had on rental for some weeks in Houston in the summer where we had 2 months of daily 100F plus temperatures. It dropped the temperature inside to 70F in just 2 minutes and held it there. An absolute boat to drive, but the aircon really worked.
The Ford Torino station wagon we had in DC in the 70s also worked quite well, with proper provision for the rear seats.
I was 30 YO before I got my first air conditioned car, living in the SE United States. I assume I could adapt back to it if I had to.
I would have intense ire on whoever forced me to do it.
Alternator installed is deficient. Americans cracked this one generations ago. Goods not fit for purpose etc etc.
Apologies. should have read the article with more care. Goods still not fit for purpose.
No cooling in summer, no heating in winter. No electricity in between. Welcome to the NetZero (green) future.
Imagine driving around London all day long in this weather. Cue an over tetchy cab driver coming across a blockage of Just Stop Oil protesters. Perish the thought.
I presume you can’t run the engine in the LEVC while on the move?
Sounds like a job for Sunamp.
https://sunamp.com/solutions/transport-logistics/
Something about this story doesn’t sound quite right. The following is taken from the manufacturers website:
“LEVC products are classified as Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEV). They can be described as Battery Electric Vehicles – driven exclusively by electricity – that feature an additional on-board generator (a small 1.5 litre petrol engine), known as a Range Extender. This provides greater usability and flexibility than pure electric operation. When required, the Range Extender recharges the Drive Battery, which in turn powers the electric Drive Motor that drives the wheels”
And:
“Controlling the climate setting is convenient and easy. Rear independent touch controls allow for complete cabin comfort giving occupants the ability to adjust a variety of climate control features including temperature and fans speed”
That does leave open the question of whether or not the LEVC can be charged “on the fly.” Can they run the petrol-fired charging engine everywhere in London?
I, myself, have never eaten a battery; I hear they taste like chicken. Looks we are back to 4-sixty air conditioning again–four windows down and sixty miles an hour. I read once, in An Old Book, “What’s old is new again.” Very prescient.
When your chauffer picks you up in your charged-up electric limo to take you to your idling private jet you just don’t give a shit what problems the plebs have with getting around in your Brave New World. Let Them Eat Cake.
That sort of attitude will have the same result as the original. Enjoy the high-life while you can, elites.
No mention of the efficiency of the REEV. I suspect the total system produces a very low effective MPG
I’d be interested to know how much loss of custom such a cab causes during it’s long recharging times. Begs the question whether the supposed fuel cost saving is balanced by lower revenues.
Wait till the winter ….