Graham Butcher

@lol-lol Sorry if you felt I was having a go at you; I was not. I was just stating the real truth. ICE has cleaned up its act considerably over the years, and I still think that there is still room for more improvement. You yourself, said the other day that your Octavia VRS at full chat was probably giving about 6 mpg, but the point is that even an EV at full chat is grossly inefficient.but driven with care they could return greater range with regen, etc., and exactly the same is true with ICE cars. It would be great if traffic could be kept flowing in towns and cities and coming to a halt could be prevented, even with the stop/start, at which point ICE are exactly like EVs, not consuming any fuel or emitting emissions. But if these complete stops could be prevented, then both techs would be capable of better results. both techs have more in common with each other than many would like to believe; both are restricted by the laws of physics and both will therefore consume greater amounts of power with rapid acceleration and higher speeds, so why not restrict both to more sensible figures and save the planet together?

No doubt that there will be a solution in the fullness of time, but surely in the meantime, it would have made more sense to just leave the EV era to market forces and not be pushing the net zero ideology or the clean air or climate. change agenda. Instead, they should be encouraging the industry to further clean up the emissions, which the industry has been doing all the time. The tailpipe emissions of today's ICE cars are nothing like they were just 50 years ago. Since then, they have extracted many more times the HP output for a given engine size. In the same period they have doubled or tripled the mpg figures despite engine sizes increasing; that alone has reduced tailpipe emissions. For example, my first car was a Hillman Minx, a 1400 cc engine, just 37.5 HP, a top speed of 67 mph and a 0-60 mph time of 39.7 seconds, which compares badly against the Kodiaq of 2,000 cc, 122+ mph, 150 HP and 0-60 time of 9.2 seconds. The industry has not stood still, and maybe with a little more encouragement, it would have been even better still.

So you cannot rely on a state of battery health report, but many people have said that you should always get one before buying a second-hand EV. As to Cleeverly being the dogs you know what, that speaks for itself if anyone watches their videos. Sadly, however, they are in the minority; we do so desperately need more people/garages with their skill set and philosophy, and not just for EVs but all cars in general and I did indeed a while ago suggest that this site should develop a directory of these independent garages who do provide good services to their customers, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Perhaps it might be a good idea if a few more of the established members also suggested this; then we might actually get this service up and running and be able to begin to escape the dealers escalating costs and save money.

So Porsche won the court case over the loss of the ship Felicity Ace, as it was impossible to be 100% sure that the fire started with one of their cars. There is no doubt, and it is not being denied by any of the experts, that the spread of the fire and not being able to put it out were due to the fact that EV cars were on board, as even sealing the decks and the complete flooding of those decks with CO₂ cannot stop the fire because the batteries are self-oxidising. It is also good to see that what's going on with Shipping Channel endorses the same channel that I watch, StacheD Training. Also, it's great to see that finally someone else also states the much-heralded fire blankets, which so many people believe put out these battery fires, do not do so because the batteries make their own oxygen and thus keep burning. They can, however, help prevent the spread of the fire, but not in ships or car parks because you cannot get the blanket over the fire because the other cars are too close. Nobody is attempting to say, for the avoidance of any doubt, that ICE cars do not also have risks associated with them, but it is an undeniable fact that the risks with EVs are of a much higher magnitude, especially when in such places as car parks of any type and transporters of any type because they will be in close proximity to other cars, and as more EVs are put on the roads, this risk is increasing.

Down here, the police in Basildon share the bus chargers in the bus garage for their interceptors, according to a press release.

It does look like that the historic data that has been published everywhere that everyone keeps using to claim the electric cars, BEV and Hybrids are less likely to catch fire than ICE cars has finally been exposed as bogus. Something that I said a long time ago, was the fire depts and other authorities have not been recording the data correctly, if at all in some cases. Now NIST has investigated and exposed the figures as being massively wrong as this report shows. Guys, I'm just reporting what NIST has found, so don't shoot the messenger. Understanding the Risk of Lithium-Ion Battery Fires - multi-source data analysis

To charge at those speeds requires a massive grid connection, which is not only very expensive, but also currently only a few cars are capable of accepting a high charge rate like that. When you consider that a very large county like Essex has a fleet of 800 police cars and not all of them will be available at any one time, there will be a few in maintenance, some in for crash repairs, etc., and others just with no crews to man them. The rest will not be in the vicinity at the time, and others would not be able to reach the location in time in many cases. Yes, I agree the radios and roadblocks can be useful. and instrumental in bringing some pursuits to a close, but they tend not to be organised crime, more stolen or uninsured drivers trying to avoid being stopped. The organised bank robbery villains, etc., will have prepared properly, and the getaway car will be dumped quickly, and the occupants decamped to other pre-placed cars and drove away in all directions so they will not be affected by roadblocks.

I think you're so busy being defensive for the electric car that you're kind of missing the point, which is with the police cars being coupled up to chargers, it would take them a while to uncouple themselves from the charger, and then they may even still be at a low SOC, so they're not able to hot pursuit for long, especially at full chat, as they just gobble the charge up, as we all know. Hence, why you often see BEVs sitting at around 50-55 mph because any faster and they quickly run out of steam; there's no chance of doing regen. Or do you expect the bad guys not to exploit that particular weakness and hang around to give the police a chance to catch them? 🤣🤣 Besides which, they are very likely to have another car waiting in some side street where they will debunk the "known" car and hotfoot it in the other car which the police have no clue about.

Lol, I can see the criminals making absolutely sure they all have ICE cars and have full tanks while police are all out getting recharged. 🤣🤣

Fully understand the concerns with planes, however the concern is not with mobile phones belonging to passengers, but the carrying of bulk phones in cargo holds etc as any failure there would set of a chain reaction with other phones in the shipment, all within a unmanned cargo area, which would be uncontrollable. I'm lead to believe that airlines are very concerned about personal power banks because they have greater capacity than a phone battery as they can top up most phones 2 maybe 3 times so they along with sometimes dubious origins pose a far higher threat level.

Don't fall for the guff that LFP is any less dangerous, it's a falicy. It is true they are more robust, but in the event of a failure are just as dangerous. The batteries inside mobiles, laptops etc are not only tiny in capacity but are also under very strict and close control by well engineered BMSs which have stood the test of time now, how often do you hear of fires with such devices? The biggest single threat in that sector are after market power banks that people buy to carry with them incase the phone runs low. These power banks are often sourced from places like Temu etc with corners cut in their design to keep prices low.

@lol-lol you got your rates that low partly thanks to your EV, I don't have one, or the ability to charge at home. If was to go and buy storage batteries etc and the HA found out, I'd be in breach of their rules. There really is with this policy, the creation of further class barriers etc which has been discussed before and is but one reason that the governments plan to get us all in electric cars is failing dismally. It is a poorly thought out policy which is being pushed by the elites with zero regard for the majority of citizens who for various reasons cannot have an electric car.

Yes, there is bound to a set of balances and checks before it might become viable. It is extremely rare that you actually find yourself getting something for nothing and today's tech advances often means before you can gain, you need to spend and tomorrows tech advances may render it all useless.

What it needs is proper statesmen in the governments; without them, governments just tend to the bidding of the wealthy private profiteers who employ the best lobby groups, fund the think tanks and bankroll government parties to ensure that they get their way.

I have no idea why England are so rubbish at having safe drinking water and never any shortages, and obviously being plentiful it costs so much. That's an easy one, greed is the answer.