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Over the past few months I’ve had the opportunity drive and review the Cayman R, BMW 1M, Ferrari 458, and the Evora S which you can read by clicking the links if you happened to miss them. 
 
All them are powered by traditional internal combustion engines.  If the law makers are to be believed the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.  I personally do not believe it will happen in our natural lifetime, but I do believe that we should be looking towards new and exciting technologies which open up a world of possibilities. We have to remember that early adopters started buying personal computers and mobile phones when they were bulky pieces of rubbish, however, such was the rate of development that these are now, cheap, powerful, useful parts of our modern life.  The same will also happen in the field of electrically assisted cars. 

The politicians and the greenies will tell you that Supercars are the Devils wheels, they pollute the atmosphere and melt the icebergs because they produce lots of carbon dioxide per km.   As a result, the government will tax you heavily when you buy one and every year that you own it.  What the tree huggers and short sighted people in power fail to realise is that these cars travel very few km every year and are built in very limited numbers, so they are much less harmful than a regularly driven sales rep’s overweight Toyota Prius full of toxic chemical batteries.

I want to make something very clear, I’m a big fan of the electric motor, it is one of the most efficient, simple and reliable ways of turning energy into motion. It’s the batteries I loathe!  They are expensive, toxic, heavy, inefficient to charge and even more inefficient to discharge.  So much so, that they waste over 50% of the energy before it gets to the wonderful electric motor. 

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