On a mission to find electric vehicles that dare to be different - then do silly things with them.
Log-pulling, crash-testing, burnouts, grape-crushing, going to space and drinking hydrogen car waste … just a few of the latest escapades.
Eclectic Electric is brought to you by Hanna & Rod - an unconventional duo with a shared passion for motorsports, design, engineering & coffee.
Hanna: a professional motorcycle stunt rider & precision driver for the movies. (A questionable career for someone who qualified as an Environmental Scientist.)
Rod: an automotive press photographer, journalist & former dispatch rider.
The pair come together to bring you their take on unusual and exciting EVs - proving electric doesn't mean vanilla.
This product is a scam, they attract buyer with insane impossible numbers, they claim 1200N-m (885ft-lbs) of torque from a small 150kW motor, that's almost as much as the COMBINED output of the three much larger/heavier motors inside a Tesla Plaid, they bumped the numbers 3-4X.
What the hell was this, you guys had the potential here to do so much more but just tried to make it a comedy sketch that wasn't that great either. This video told us nothing and gave nothing.
Why haven't they covered the headlights with a glass pane to make the car more aerodynamic ? Isn't aerodynamics one of the most important things of the car ?
I still savour the moment I passed a V8 Rover in mine and realised he had the equivalent of 5 of my engines, 4 for the road wheels and one for the spare. It handled brilliantly. Lights, wiper and heater all very impractical, worse still mine was the basic model (now the rarest of all) with its steel steering wheel. The heater gave out about as much heat as a 20 watt lightbulb (this electric version can’t possibly be worse) and the engine roasted one in summer. Not very practical for a 22 mile round the year commute but I was young and impecunious. Surprisingly practical in snow which packed about a ton in around the front wheel and kept it very firmly attached to the road. I much admire the side screens on this one, they look to incorporate proper windows - can that be true?
This has been the source of much internal debate over the last 4 years, and we're confident it has ended up with a great ride - for normal road use and occasional cobbles. The balloon tyres and airdeck clear up anything you'll encounter on tarmac. If you're doing more off-road, it's going to have to be a Klima or similar.
It seems I'm not the only one complaining about the poor sound quality on this. Can hardly hear Hanna. Everything else is fine. Step up the post production values guys or you might lose viewers ;-(
I would not pay over 2000 for this scooter. There are better city scooters out there than this one. there's the klima and dualtron City, many others, although this seems to have a gyro for stability i think thats the selling point and why it cost an arm and a leg and for the range and speed its not worth it for the price
They’re literally never going to produce these cars in any form of public sales. It’s been around for an insane amount of years with very little progress.
@@mrjed6912 no matter where you live high rise flats or mansion its no issue to fuel up a diesel or petrol car if you live in high rise flats then charging a stupid ev is impossible certainly at home also what do you think would happen if all 40 million cars in uk were electricdo you reckon our feeble already creaking leccy grid could cope?
How's this for Irony. 100% true story. I had a Bond Bug until some 14yr old on his Milk round and driving the old Electric milk float run into it early one morning. ( Written Off by an electric vehicle ! )
All power to the people who did this,good on them. However there is a very large elephant in the room, and it never ceases to amaze me how people will choose the technology that is most expensive in cost (money), and energy to run and transmit ,also takes the most expensive materials to make it work, to achieve some ideal that has been achieved many years previously, much more simply and cost effectively. But you probably wouldn't get any government funding for that,( it would actually work and really be a threat to the fossil fuel industry rather than some pie in the sky, you can pretend is going get you out of a deep rabbit we've been digging for ourselves for many years) and very few people would actually be impressed because what you are doing is so much more practical, rather than seeming to provide an impossible holy grail.If anyone is interested I am very happy to provide more details of what I am talking about.
Styling influenced by the ultra efficient VW 1-litre car (you cant re-invent the wheel ........... well actually). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
BRILLIANT! - Love the outfit too.....There have been some beautiful engines and it's a shame when they get removed but the 750/850 was never a great design or sound so why not....
Sadly, Riversimple are going nowhere. Hydrogen is already failing - Shell just closed all their UK hydrogen stations and, to my knowledge, there are precisely zero new hydrogen stations planned for the UK in the near future. Without infrastructure there is no market. There will never be a market. An interesting tech demo, sure: a realistic business prospect? No.
Another investor moneypit for a toy car on motorcycle tires. Since H2 to move a normal sized 5 seat 4 door car 300mi requires a H2 bottle at enormous pressure half the size of the car...the car must be ultralight...so light a strong wind will blow it off the road. If you make a car this light, you can just stick a 500cc motorcycle engine in it and get 150mpg with much less tech development. 2 gallons for 300mi. Ta Da....enviro problem solved for a century.
I would like to compare it to a Tesla when it grow up to a full size adult with the same amenity. In the mean time we are comparing a bicycle to a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle.
@@EclecticElectric sadly, I don't believe that's the case at all. Hydrogen has already failed, e-fuels are stupidly energy intensive (read: expensive) and we can't keep burning petrol. So electric is where it's going to be.
lol it’s actually safer as a tire mechanic knowing that the uk is mostly wet you want skinny tires not wide ones the wider the more chance of aquaplaning while skinny tires have a lot less chance of that see it as snaking the water like this 🫳🏻 (wide tires) or smaking your hand against water like a karate chop 🫱🏻 if you hit it with your hand like a karate chop you get through water easy if you do it with a flat hand it has a lot more resistance
@7:20 "there's no chemicals to breakdown" BULL SHIT. There is absolutely exfoliation, electrolyte degradation and irreversible corrosion processes in capacitors. Anybody with a graphics card / computer hobby knows that capacitors don't last forever. In fact, they are the first component to fail.
