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Let stop both BS, Burning Stuff and Bull ****.. In other good news it has been said that TESLA Berlin is starting to make RHD model Ys. Yippy, should now be soon a grand or two off the RRP !! If TESLA would sell Model Ys Standard Range for less than £40k that would be great. Still prefer Model 3 Highland looks but nice to have choice especially one might be thinking about carrying extended family and their kit ie prams etc.

Diesel engined vehicles are being singled out as they are the worst polluters, particularly for NOX and PMs. the regulation even allow diesels to emit up to 80 milligrams of NOX rather than 60 for petrol as they know diesel struggle even to get below this level. The etech version of my Arkana is 6 milligrams, my Arkana is an embarrassing 22 mg/km. Average, still available diesel cars are about 40 mg/km and this is with Ad Blue systems. It is logical diesel are continually under scrutiny and the PMs situation is also bad too. The UK emission "standards" are at levels twice the WHO have set so just because Uk say UK air quality is moderate etc is against its own poor standard. EV owners tend to be on the intelligent side I have found but you of course get some idiots, we have seen a few on the Youtube channel, and getting about what one expects in terms of energy per mile, based against WLTP, which is still a test condition and at ambient temperatures is understood by anyone with at least half a functioning brain. I have always seen the Renault range, both actual and estimated by the car, as reasonable a gainst what it was advertised, informed on the WLTP test ie 238 miles. If it is cold, windy, rainy then simple slow down a few mph, makes little difference to the journey time and one will still get over 200 miles even in adverse conditions. Some of the big Audis only get about 2.5 miles per kWh as the are big, heavy, block shaped, do not have the best motors etc so hardly surprising compare poorly to TESLAs and even Renaults and Nissans. EV drivers enjoy the cheap running costs and if they have to do a longish journey the plan and use a stop with some of the tens of thousands of chargers in the UK and these are getting cheaper as TESLA roll out the V4 versions.

I do not think of these cars as automatics is the classic sense but rather semi automatic is automatic changes but fixed ratios. Zoe only has one gear, Arkana has 7 fixed ratios and God knows what the Clio has, two electric and four ICE ratios with 15 combinations I read somewhere. Putting in neutral is electronically declutching in my mind. Some circumstances I think if can be good to energy/ petrol consumption.

Rumours that helicopter fan Richy Sunak turned up at Birmingham Airport to join Mr Street at the west midlands final scores announcement but on hearing the result the helo left back for Northolt London at Downing St to lick his multiple wounds. Expect he will be off to his US residencies after the GE, especially if he loses his Parliamentary seat as well as the overall vote if most pundits are right.

I coast in my EV sometimes. Just knock it in to neutral down the right hill then tickle it back in to light or heavy regen if near a speed limit or just need to brake for junction. Did like the Megane e's 4 level regen on paddles, seem to work well, just not overall that much better than the Zoe. Wish I tried the European Car of the year Scenic with its big battery but do not like the shape.

Not as I read it, yes tailpipe gases remain broadly similar but Euro 7 tightens up on PMs from brakes and tyres. Brake dust generally not an issue for EVs and full hybrids as the have strong regen an only use their brake pads in emergencies and very heavy braking. Tyre PM emissions might have been an issue for some EV makers who make heavy EVs but French companies and some others make quite light EVs where tyre PMs should he similar to ICE. Paris charging heavy EVs mainly will hit German EVs and some big Chinese and Korean EVs where the tyre PM pollution will be bad unless tyres are advanced type. EURO 7 transfers increased focus on to brake dust and tyre dust I understood.

All vehicles are electric. Full motive, partial motive or have electrical systems, even wiesel cars, some of which are hybrid now. If obeyed properly they should be quite few cars in the car park and Euro 7 looks like will kill neatly all cars that are not atleast hybrid.

Nissan making more, or some, money out of the finance than actually selling the car. If one could put a bit of a deposit I wonder if they would still play ball. LEAF is C Segment and I wanted to order the 64 kwh version but Nissan uk had none, only the 39kw versions which range was not enough for me. Even tge 64 kwh version struggles to get close to the Zoes range but I did like the form of these mark 2 LEAFs. Wanted to buy British but not possible with the larger battery version not offered at the time.

Quite so. Zoe pure EV. Clio full hybrid, lithium ion battery and gubbins of about 100 kgs to work in EV mode at any speed if load quite low. Arkana mild hybrid, incapable of driving on battery power alone, just uses lithium battery for powering electrical system in coast mode ie ICE off, and gentle 10 nm assist for acceleration. So is only the Zoe banned, Zoe and Clio etech or all 3 ? Arkana lithium battery is 0.2 kwh ie tiny thing much smaller than lead acideee battery.

And we should not forget London Mayoral was a march and not even close despite the 90% negative press.

Labour win West Midlands Mayoral election. With Teaseide the only win of note Sunak should go. Get Penny Mordor to take the PM-ship or call a GE if he was honourable, but he is not.

Coventry would have to be close when it is normally Labour. House of Lords beckoning or maybe the Solihull seat as Con MP still tainted and not standing at next GE.

There are now adapters that can fit a Chademo end in to a CCS one so less worries there.

Great win for Labour in the South Yorkshire area which covers Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Labour got over half the votes cast with the Cons, Greens, independents and LibDems adding up to less than half of Labour's tally. Good to win East Midlands as well but West Midlands looking very tight.

I suppose the good thing for Labour is it only needs one vote and Labour can choose Greens or Lib Dems fir that single vote. My elected Councillor, Libdem, is an ex Labour person, not tainted by that 2010-2015 time when Libdems were in Government with Cons. My area of Worcester is a leafy suburb with mainly rightish leaning people who would never vote Labour and Libdem probably picked up loads of tactical votes and the letterbox literature pleaded for tactical voting and like the greens probably will not pick up anything like the votes in a GE that they did in these locals.

We have quite a lot of that anyways in the newer parts but I want to see electric scooters, not the super fast ones, allowed on these cycle lanes. Might have to restrict my 750 watt but then I hope they would allow heavier scooters, mine has a seat on it as well, to have more than 250w. Never had it over 18 mph but they can be very green for nipping to the shops and getting your Chinese or fish and chips whilst still warm !

Australian style voting system where one is fined for not voting ? We still have a big problem with degree students who do their degrees in other cities and are not helped by the system to get their vote moved to where they are. Maybe postal vote for everyone is the answer and would be 💚 er.

Worcester's 35 seats LABOUR just failed to get majority and got 17 seats, Green 12, LibDems 5 and Cons left with just one incredibly. So Labour will need to work with Greens I suppose to get things done.

Centripetal and centrifugal forces are huge at over 60 degrees of lean angle. In recent years both ground effect fairing and porcupine aero is helping cornering as well ride height devices getting speeds up to 360 kph. It use to be getting your knee down and now it is getting your shoulder or even helmet down !

Great to see Mr Munro do such a walk through, it is hard to think of a more knowledgeable person who knows about US cars development in the last 50 years. When you think about it TESLA model Y ticks along of boxes, particularly in the Long range and performance format. Having massive ability to perform in dry and wet conditions and with plenty of weight to "box" vehicles off the road, cars, vans, not so much trucks of course, and the Model Y LR'etc ability to catch just about anything, in the right skilful hands is a logical choice plus plenty of space. Same for police vehicles and what was HMRC drugs teams, presumably no part of Border Force and other units as, SAS, SBS etc, they will have to get rid of their Range Rovers and move to EVs. The sheer amount of Comms equipment and other technical tracking etc equipment needs lots of space and that weight of vehicle one can see why big beemers, Volvos, I recall fondly speeding long way in to 3 figures with the police in old favourites of mine like the Vauxhall Senator and the like. Just the old fruit of making sure one has the range to do what needs to be done. Even a long range Model Y, even the new one coming out with WLTP range, will not be great in an SBS run from Portsmouth to Aberdeen needing to be done in just a few hours. Perhaps we need the Top Gear on motorway recharging instead of refuelling team ? Less chance of fire I reckon.

And the protests and violent suppression occurring at several US universities is being under reported in my view, it is not just Columbia in New York, that s just lazy reporting taking the film crews a few blocks away from Wall Street and New York offices. General public protests being disallowed it is interesting it is the educated young who are saying no more whilst the mass of general population just let it be. With the exception of the large muslim populations in the UK, US and I expect in a hundred or more other countries seem to be saying how can this be tolerated and even strongly backed with continued military aid and I think that large sector, probably ten or twenty times larger than the Israel supporting sector in these countries, are very much saddened by their government display of support after so many months and sop many tens of thousands of deaths of innocents. This will go down as one of the 21st centuries great atrocities I would not be surprised.

And if you take inflation compounded that would be about 15% so we talking nearly 20% in real terms, wow, but perhaps it has been on the high side. Two of my kids doing lots of saving, Lifetime ISAs and high interest accounts ready to but when it bottoms out, other one got a 5 year fixed at less than 3%. Just another big reason to hold the Con party for economic mismanagement, so much more they could have done to get inflation from spiking so high. Hopefully we, and they, will see the level of dis-satisfaction with the Local Elections today though I think there will be lots of tactical voting. Greens and Lib Dems are big in my part of Worcester, many old Con voters will not vote Labour so will go to either of those parties and some Labour supporters at a national level will note tactically I reckon. As my local party points out one has two votes I think for Councillors and another one here for Crime Commissioner, not always clear. Hope turnout is good, never seen so many leaflets and visits to the front door in any election.

Only down by a couple of tenths in each of the last couple of months though is not the time of the year prices normally rise ? Talk on the markets there might be no rate cuts this year and I have to renew my smallish mortgage end of the year so might pay some off if mortgage rates are 6% or so. Tory ministers need to get their pens out to say there is less than no money, think the current uk national debt works out about £50k per working person up from £20k in 2010.

This cannot make good reading for getting re-elected.... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g8p440309o 'Rock-bottom rates long gone' The figures come after a string of lenders raised rates on new fixed-rate mortgage deals in recent days. The increases were prompted by expectations of fewer and slower interest rate cuts by the Bank of England. The Halifax is the latest lender to announce higher rates, with a plan to put up the cost of much of its mortgage range by 0.2 percentage points on Thursday. The interest rate on a fixed mortgage does not change until the deal expires, usually after two or five years, and a new one is chosen to replace it. Doing nothing would leave people on a variable rate, which is very expensive. About 1.6 million existing borrowers have relatively cheap fixed-rate deals expiring this year.

Zoe ZE50 got 229 miles in the test below, best of all small cars, and that was without Matt Watson of Carwow really trying to be conservative, with a small "c". Bjorn, I have seen, done loads of test. He carries a Ecoflow max, with additional battery so he has about 3 kwh he can charge from these batteries in the boot to give him another 10 or 15 kms via his granny cable he carries. I have tried this with my Allpower S2000 Pro, which can also run at 2400 watts, but the Zoe is very fussy about the quality of earthing during charging so it has not started a charge via the S2000, don't think I can get extra side battery for the S2000. Have got a Bluettti EB180 which has a 1.8 kwh battery but can only output at 1 kw so not a great support for the S2000 but the S2000 will through charge I think ie power the 2.4 kW granny charger and accept 500 W in via the 8 mm barrel plus uo to 600 W via the XT60 as well, bit of a faff so looking to get a monster R4000, when the price is right, which can be charged from EV charging stations apparently ! Honda was worse, perhaps they should ahve given buyers a discounted Honda generator ?