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Apr. 22nd, 2009
Concept art.
Apr. 22nd, 2009 03:07 pmI'm not a graphic designer, which will be obvious to you all when the picture loads (or if it's already loaded)... but I am still whining, internally and probably externally, about the concept of giving people money to scrap old cars so they can buy new cars, hybrid or no. I think it's foolish, environmentally horrific, and short-sighted.
I think we should be building local skills, I think we should be using these skills to help build local economies. Instead the government is leaping in to help multinational corporations that really need to completely change their business models.
We don't need more cars, we need less.
So I think this is a better idea. EV Conversion grants.
Local engineers make the bits for older cars, for newer ones the big multinationals can make drop in conversions. Everyone gets their bit of the pie, and we don't scrap hundreds of thousands of viable cars...
What I'd really like to do is a whole series of posters - along the lines of the 1940s/50s ones - Some for EVC, some for keeping older cars on the road... - interesting ideas, but lack of skill at the mo.
Originally I was going to put a DfT and a DEFRA logo on it, but I thought better of that :)
Image taken from Santheo's Flickr Stream. CC licenced.
I think we should be building local skills, I think we should be using these skills to help build local economies. Instead the government is leaping in to help multinational corporations that really need to completely change their business models.
We don't need more cars, we need less.
So I think this is a better idea. EV Conversion grants.
Local engineers make the bits for older cars, for newer ones the big multinationals can make drop in conversions. Everyone gets their bit of the pie, and we don't scrap hundreds of thousands of viable cars...
What I'd really like to do is a whole series of posters - along the lines of the 1940s/50s ones - Some for EVC, some for keeping older cars on the road... - interesting ideas, but lack of skill at the mo.
Originally I was going to put a DfT and a DEFRA logo on it, but I thought better of that :)
Image taken from Santheo's Flickr Stream. CC licenced.
Fame awaits (or not)
Apr. 22nd, 2009 09:46 pmSo, in a slightly odd turn of events I found myself on EVCast. Yeah, 'cos my old Viva EV conversion plan (and generally opinionated nature) make(s) me perfectly suited to comment on the current state of the EV World and politics as related to EVs :)
That and knowing Ms G-B.
:)
What was weird was Robert Lewellyn, the awesome host of Scrapheap Challenge (Red Dwarf and Carpool not-to-mention), being one member of the panel, and the founder of the G-Wiz owner's club, and uh, me. Odd, yeah?
Anyway, my brand of ranting delusional insanity will be in EVCast 224 (i.e. the next one), so watch out for that. Those of you who recall my foray into video (and near-foray into television) from many years ago (well a few), may have fear struck into your hearts by the fact that Nikki poked me to do some video stuff again. Maybe I will. Or maybe it'll make it as far as my plan to do some stand up comedy...
That and knowing Ms G-B.
:)
What was weird was Robert Lewellyn, the awesome host of Scrapheap Challenge (Red Dwarf and Carpool not-to-mention), being one member of the panel, and the founder of the G-Wiz owner's club, and uh, me. Odd, yeah?
Anyway, my brand of ranting delusional insanity will be in EVCast 224 (i.e. the next one), so watch out for that. Those of you who recall my foray into video (and near-foray into television) from many years ago (well a few), may have fear struck into your hearts by the fact that Nikki poked me to do some video stuff again. Maybe I will. Or maybe it'll make it as far as my plan to do some stand up comedy...