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Ref the Rivian, really interesting. All I’d say is that generally there is little first mover advantage when pushing the boundaries of technology unless you have something truly unique that can’t be copied. In this case I see a nice product design but one that can be replicated pretty quickly by others when the charging infrastructure is better advanced, standards are in place and the market is viable?
I predict that the cost of LWB Series Ones will increase and the value of 80” will drop when people realise that there is more room in a LWB to fit batteries than a short stumpy 80” . I think I shall start stockpiling 107/109s in time for the rush . I just need to get it passed The Missus as a potential sound investment !
Easier still. just stockpile Brockhouse trailers as mobile battery packs. In Australia you could tow a complete convoy of them as a "road train".
Probably this thread has been moved along in a direction free of Series One relevance. Refreshing perhaps ... Forum mods can pass judgement ?But before we think of converting our early Land Rovers to run electric with rechargeable batteries it is well worth remembering the price being levied around the world for this much flaunted technological convenience ? British TV seems to have gone rather quiet about pollution and exploitation due to mineral extraction just now.
As for pollution news you must have had connections with the BBC. Typically they knee jerk the masses again today now suggesting wood burners are the offenders, no mention of the thousands and thousands of flights spewing Aviation Fuel into the atmosphere every minute of every day while the global population spreads itself willy nilly across the planet. All fossil fuel, that stuff that was locked away over millions of years, the combined stored energy from the sun of which it was made now being released in decades. No surprise something has to give. Keep going folks while you can Malcolm
Good Evening All,On the subject of the direction JLR are heading (one assumes there is a plan) I still don't quite fully understand the 'Reborn' programme. I am an enthusiast of the marque but am seriously puzzled by the firm's direction. RegardsRichard