Perhaps this is why Suzuki have dropped the Jimny

yakuza wrote:

I think the Jimny will return in some form if New battery technology will allow. With 400km range in half the size and weight of todays batteries it will be much easier to make the Electric Jjimny.

And that is Just a few years away.

400km range won't get me to my destination in the rainforest, and I can guarantee you there are no charging facilities when I "go bush", perhaps I could tow a trailer with a petrol powered generator, but wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

EVs might eventually fit in a urban environment, once the power generation & distribution challenges are sorted out, but, an "E-offroad-V" just seems like a half-baked idea.

And yet a 200 mile real world range on an electric jimny would be absolutely perfect for me on my farm because that range would just about cover me even on a hundred mile day with a full trailer on the back as I am able to get electric once home. And in time the annual trip round Scotland would be doable as the numbers increase on public fast charging stops. What I can't yet see is that increase in infrastructure being in place to meet this new governments 2030 ice ban. Oh and there's no way I will ever justify paying anything more than 25k for even the most efficient electric jimny, and I can’t believe one will ever be that cheap.

yakuza wrote:

Half of every car in Norway is Electric and most of those charge at home. Charging is done at night when other consumption is low.

Certainly not knocking this. But also bear in mind, Norway’s entire population is only about 2/3rds that of London!

lightning wrote:

l've got a friend with an electric car.

He's invested in solar panels, with storage.
The "storage" is recycled Tesla electric car batteries!
lt's enough to supply most of the electricity needed to charge his electric car. And he can charge it at night from the stored energy.

Maybe that's the answer?

He did have a wind turbine which produced around 1Kw (when it was windy) but his neighbours complained about the noise so he took it down.

Sounds interesting and not knocking this either. But that also sounds very expensive, so only for the wealthy and only those that own suitable large houses/properties. Which has to be the vast minority of the populous.

300bhpton wrote:

lightning wrote:

l've got a friend with an electric car.

He's invested in solar panels, with storage.
The "storage" is recycled Tesla electric car batteries!
lt's enough to supply most of the electricity needed to charge his electric car. And he can charge it at night from the stored energy.

Maybe that's the answer?

He did have a wind turbine which produced around 1Kw (when it was windy) but his neighbours complained about the noise so he took it down.

Sounds interesting and not knocking this either. But that also sounds very expensive, so only for the wealthy and only those that own suitable large houses/properties. Which has to be the vast minority of the populous.

But every little bit counts. I have a large-ish house and now use 15000kwh/year and used to consume 29000kwh. Over the years I have insulated, now I chop my own firewood, use smart controls of the power usage to peak shave and, move the use to avoid price peaks during the day. Stupid rich people use stupid much power too but very few of those do these things. That minority is responsible for the majority of the emissions. 
Thinking of solar and a battery but I cannot get the calculation to make it worth the investment yet. I would be closer to net zero if I filled my roof with panels but too cheap power now. If I needed an EV maybe, but I do not need a New car. 
If there was an EV Jimny I would create a need of course. 
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We have 12 solar panels on the roof and a 11kWh battery bank. Over the course of a year we expect to generate 3,600kWh, much more in summer than in winter. Our payback is about 9 years, after that everything we generate is for nothing, we are 2 1/4 years in. Or look at it another way, it’s return on investment is about 11% per year.

For example we generated 21kWh today, more than half of it went back in to the grid, I jet washed a patio so used a fair amount, but we do get 15p per kWh. If we had an EV the 12kWh that went in to the grid would have gone in to the car, that would have got us about 45 miles, not a full charge, but it would have helped.

Of course we don’t generate much in winter, may be around 3-4kWh depending how gloomy it is, so we draw from the grid then.

As we have a battery we can choose when we draw power and program the charging to use power when it is cheap (we are a variable tariff that changes every 30 minutes).

Robin