Electric cars.

Exactly! It may all be at the cost to the environment but the production of electric vehicles has been rushed, probably down to government decisions wanting something 'yesterday' with no thought of the consequences. It has taken and will take further decades to produce an electric vehicle that is not only completely road and trust worthy, planet friendly, and cost effective for all involved including the sales to the general public. It's a very tall order!

 

Most roads around here are closed half the time, due to service companies digging them up, so I don't think owning a car in the future will be an option.
You got out these days and you're never sure you will be able to get to where you want to go.
In the last year or so I've on a few occasions decided to have a trip to a diy or garden centre and just given up and come back home.
The road works and closed roads just cause total chaos.
Everyone complains but nobody does anything about it a lot of the time nobody is actually working.

 

I don't think it's easy to get away without insurance these days unless you only use country lanes.
The cameras are everywhere now days.

 

Shouldn't manufacturers be making these batteries so that they can literally be dropped out the bottom of the car.
I'm probably over simplifying it but nearly everything that has a battery needs it changing from time to time so why can't it be a case of drop the battery pack and replace or check it over.

 

So if its that easy to remove the batteries why are the insurance companies saying it costs a mint to check a battery on a damaged car.

 

I saw that video.
The battery box should not be an integral part of the structure of the car, only a moron would do that, its just the power plant.
Who ever heard of a fuel tank or an engine being anything that cant be removed from a car.
They need to rethink this kind of stuff if they ever want it to last.

 

Am I missing something here? With the battery being integral, does that mean it can't be removed from the car without destroying the car to do that? So if the battery becomes a problem it suggests the car is only fit for scrap and the owner would need to replace it?