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Now the Tesla Chargers are a lot busier up here now where the Tesla non Tesla is available. Yes a country divided not just by language but but people that know the price and cost of things and when a bargain is a bargain. Like the 6 year interest free loan to buy an EV when that was available and then the loan to buy a used EV.

@Graham Butcher Sorry what what you do not know really is an issue for you. Not me. I know what i know. About how EV vans were OK for employees using for their own use and no BIK and then the HMRC getting their knickers in a twist. I know you get about a lot, well get out and meet more EV drivers maybe and widen your knowledge on who gets what. Many are not chatty at EV charging points and just act deaf, dumb and blind and ignore people needing a charge while they go to 100% yet live local and are going no place. But some are friendly and if i see someone having issues getting a charger, or one working i might stop charging and let them on. Scotland is known for people being friendly. (Not everyone obviously.) It makes a big difference. It is nice to be nice. Not everyone is nice or chatty, but they might give an answer when you ask WTF they think they are doing blocking chargers and not charging. It is good to talk.

Do you mean that when putting on the Ignition there is not one showing when the other Dash Symbol / lights are checked. That is pretty usual. & a Check engine light / symbol only showing if there is a fault to check.

Just a small heater element would help. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Simply Clever, but only if first you recognise an issue and do not only cold weather test in very cold dry places.

Wipers tucked under the bonnet is an issue. As is windscreen washers and no heat under the bonnet. The screen wash bottle should be in the cabin. The wipers and air intake for HVAC should not get covered in Snow or Ice when that is the weather conditions and cars parked outside. Heated screens and wiper parked areas are needed. Also charging port covers that do not freeze closed. But that is a the same with ICE vehicles and a German / Czech manufacturer has still not cracked that issue.

It is actually. England put a halt to onshore wind, put carbon capture into a competition, keeps talking and not doing. So basically it is time the Pylons go up, the electricity in the south costs more to buy than in the north or in Scotland. As far as Global, that is where the Vehicles are coming from, and the oil (&gas) for the ICE vehicles in the UK & for heating homes. Some places are just not trying.

We are where we are because those in England choose who the Westminster Government is or will be and that the UK should leave the EU. Like it or lump it, it is what it is. Keep on truckin.

Just worry about your area, and i doubt that your taxes were paying for their electricity, or even your Electricity and Gas bill were contributing. It was, Because Scotland or the Government were going towards Net Zero an Scotland is energy rich & the EU was throwing money it,s way. Many were peed off that Companies were getting tax payer funded incentives while making lots of money. When the Grants were given to Local Authorities and Business to put in chargers they were required to dispense the electricity to charge at no cost to the public for 12 months. Some stopped doing it after 12 months and some have taken until years later like 2024 to stop and have a tariff. Because England lacks resources and requires to Import so much energy / electricity it is a rather different place. It has a Government for the UK and not just one for England. & keeps doing stuff just to suit some.

@Winston_Woof He was losing employees and also paying lots in fuel prices for diesels. There was Free Public Charging on the vehicles routes or most during Covid which was when his business expanded greatly. The Scottish Government gave very good grants to businesses to move to EV,s. There are No Motorways North of Perth. The Jags were / are AWD and that is what they got for business use and personal use. Nothing to do with changing slow cars for fast cars. The vans had a max 50 mph speed limit on single carriageways which is most places not on the A9 or A90 so the area they were driving from and too which is basically Aberdeenshire.

@Graham Butcher You are so out of date on Rep Mobiles. Commercial Travellers, company drivers, technicians. Scotland is a wealthy country with jobs for technicians and others that get good means of transport, higher range EV,s as an example. Really what you see or as it is do not see and who you do not meet because you re not charging an EV is the issue. The Expensive cars are very much used by employees, and directors and sole traders and covering high miles and public charging while doing it. I know one company owner that during Covid gave his employees Jag EV instead of Transit Connect after he got one himself because they only had a few boxes of their product to deliver and he got the loans, cut the fuel cost and he was fed up of the speeding tickets the Fords were getting due to their limited max speed. There are thousands of pre Green flash, MG,s, Zoe, Leaf, Mini Corsa, 208, Mokka,s are around all over the place in Scotland as much as Tesla, Jags, Audi,s, Porsche and other. Many on personal plates. Then since Green Flash the easy to spot EV,s and sometimes ones that have you surprised it is an EV. ..................... Basically, Go north young man and you might see the difference from the south. & make it further than the north of England which is not even half way up.

@Graham Butcher as i keep having to say, where you are is where you are, not where a lot of the UK is. You are not going to meet people charging cars until you do and since you have few chargers near you and only do a drive-by you are not likely to. Your issue is you are not where there are many BEV,s that are not the over £35,000 or even £30,000 prices. Or your maybe just not seeing them. Get around the country and see how many Green Plate cars there are now and parked on roads, in car parks and where ever and not just on driveways. There are lots of people with very expensive cars that also do not go far. There are wealthy people that have vehicles ICE or BEV and have no off street parking. Or parking at their place of residence. There are a lot of the lower priced EV,s that are used by employees that are given them to use. That applies with more expensive ones as well. Not every nice car is driven by people who can afford to buy one or even lease them. They are out there being driven though.

@sepulchrave I am trying to persuade nobody to do anything just trying to help them be aware of stuff. Just like you do by telling them how crap the twinchargers are. Some certainly are. But then 3 out of 4 apparently are not.

Not substantiated though about more affluent folk. This is the issue, people just make it up as they go along. This mornings 'Wake up to money' on Radio 5 live is worth a listen. 27/05/2024 Available for 29 days on BBC Sounds. http://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zm6b

His has lasted, and so has his DSG. Many have and benefited from a Remap and different consumables. Many are still running 14 years on, or 12 years on with a CTHE original engines and DSG,s and a remap.