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I worry that SEAT and Skoda could go down with VW.

This is the guy i listen too..... https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping/featured He just sounds credible and balanced by me, someone who worked at sea on merchant vessels and has been dealing with car transporters in to Immingham and other ports. EV fires on vessels is probably about 1% or less of maritime mercantile issues. The Red Sea lack of safety is a massive issue and the extra long routes between SE Asia and Europe ie going down and round South Africa and the consequences of that for costs to importers and those few exporters sending goods the other way. We have already brought on line 4 of these 7,000 car transporters and much of the new tech is in early detection of fires and dealing with them ASAP, much easier to deal with one small localized fire than a deck full of course, that area I am seeing coming on leaps and bounds. EV risk would have to many many times greater to get even close to the catastrophes related to carrying oil. There are hundreds of massive maritime oil pollution disasters and end to think of the Torrey Canyon. Sooner EVs and other methods replace any need to move oil, gas or coal I will sleep better....... Occasional EV car carrier incidents, which I expect to diminish due to better tech are as nothing compared to the problems with oil tanker ships !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Canyon_oil_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping/videos

Fire fighting at sea is very specific and take i these click bait videos with handfuls of salt. There is a huge technical challenge as whole length of the ship decks for loading the cars on to is the norm and has been for decades. Our Indianapolis class car carriers, including the Silverstone commissioned a few weeks ago, has 12 separate decks and multiple fire fighting systems. Being a trained at sea fire fighter, trained in marine engineering, naval architecture, sea survival i would give some credibility to such videos if he listed his actual credentials at some point in the videos. There is a guy who I do listen to and it's not this guy. I expect there will be review of these fires on these smaller vessels and lessons learned as fire fighting at sea, like on land dies evolve. CO2 flooding of compartments has long been one of the main tools but there are even newer and more effective systems now. I'll post the name of the guy I reckon to be more qualified to comment when I find his details.

My employer moves more finished cars than any other i gather and we gave been launching very big car carriers. 7,000 car carrying capacity, LNG fuel usage to be greener. Latest fire fighting systems. BYD getting big in the car carrier business with similar sized carriers. Car carriers I have read about seem to be the older and smaller carriers. Don't think there will be any problem bringing the every growing amount of full EVs and hybrids with ever bigger batteries, lithium ion or LFP. We have extensive lithium battery handling process both for storage and if any runway does occur both at sea and in the just in time supply chain for the production lines here in the UK and numerous other countries.

Not phased by the MG reliability placing in recent surveys ? Hopefully you have a good one and MG do right by you if it needs anything !

Shout out to Cord-EV. Ordered an nice 10M 22 Kw,3 phase therefore cable in the lovely pus colour as shown below. Sadly the ran out of pus so I got one with white ends. Weighs a bit mind you as I think there is a fair old bit of copper in there. Good bit was the price, a bagatelle at £89 including the VAT. Nice lady phoned to apologies I was not getting the stunning colour below but all good at that price ! Can now charge a car behind the two on the drive nearest the house so no more shuffling the car to the front pairing now ! https://www.cord-ev.com/ev-cables-portable-ev-chargers.html

Damn, cannot have both, shame. R4 just arrived at local Renault. Would have opted for 40 kwh LFP but not confirmed it is coming to uk. Only getting the £1500 off so far notified. I think Renault miffed that they might only get the 1500 when cousin company Nissan might get the full 3750, looks a bit of a fix up to favour uk made EVs.

I would just be wary of this new surge for plug in PHEVs. One might say twice as much to go wrong but I would say 4 times as much to go wrong. Our Clio non plug hybrid went in to control system melt down just as RAC charged a tyre. Hybrid system went bonkers, did not know which of the 15 modes of ICE and EV to choose. Dash lit up like a Xmas tree. Too complex for its own good. Loving the new Mini Cooper E pure EV. If Renault 4 does not work out am thinking of a 5 door cabriolet Mini for myself to go along with Scenic !

The rise of the SUV, literally and metaphorically. OK if one does not go at UK NSL and above where that aero drag really tells. I was over in Germany couple of times with a fellow employee. First time Audi A6 and then some Skoda beginning with a K. My God there was a difference in changing lanes at 220 kph (A6 felt whole heap better due to its lower CoG. One thing EVs tend to do well at as their CoG is low as those batteries are as lower as an Adder's bladder.

Kodiaq quite a dirty car according to UK VCA...... If it were a petrol car it would be near the limit of NOX. As even as a diesel a score of 57 mg/km is 71% of the maximum and that is kind lab conditions. VAG introduced the cleaner twin SCR in late 2020 to help reduce this rather high NOX figure, shame thereis not a retrofit program....

If one can then it is good for both businesses and the government ti sometimes overpay. If we all take a scrimp policy then government would not be able to afford pensions, state and public servant ones, which are paid out of the ongoing public purse and not a put aside pension fund. I want to spend money freely, pay heaps of VAT to go in to the public purse. Usually on productive items like more solar panels and batteries which can save me money but occasional luxuries especially if it is employing young people who safly will not have tge kind of life most of us in our twilight years due to the decline in the UK since WW2. Costa gave one of my daughters lots of work through here degree time. Trained Barista, oddly does not drink coffee or tea. Think it was Aldous Huxley in Brave New World who praise consumption ad necessary to keep the world economy turning and people employed and governments collecting revenue and as an ex Revenue Collector I can go with that.

Very good for a 4x4. Are you seeing over 50 mpg actually on the dash ? Roughly the Kodiaq diesel is producing 200 grams of CO2 per mile. How many miles gas it done to work out how much CO2it gas produced in its working life so far I wonder. NOX does not seem relatively bad as I have seen numbers of 26 mg per km compared to the limit of 80 for diesels rather than 60 mg for petrol cars. I had a 2 litre common rail VW diesel in an Altea XL SEAT I had. It seemed slower than the 1.9 PDs I had in Audi A4, A3 and Octavia estate L&K ans in drag races it lost. Also these 1.9 PDs did 10 to 20 mpg better with the Audi A4 capable of nearly 1000 range. These 1.9 PDs were the last diesels I thought were great to own and run. Yes they were a bit flattery but very impressive over the petrol of the time Then petrols got a lot better, turbo, direct injection and almost matching the diesels mpg but with much lower NOX pollution. Now both are outshone by EVs in running cost if one can home charge of course and the second and third hand EV market is now receiving lots of EVs thru it but not great EVs as they generally only came to market recently with possible exception of TESLAs which haven been outstanding EVs for a decade or more and Jonny Smiths £5k TESLA with free fuel for life shows an interesting options.

Did not use the quote function but I was asking what your car VED bracket is and what does that cost per year or month I was wondering ?

It is a new Costa and I would not normally pay £6 for a hot drink it was as much showing support for a new business that had opened. Was only there 11 minutes and Costa were quite slow getting the drinks. Would normally get the small option rather than the medium which is cheaper and not the mallows on top too either. Will check out the Sainsbury local next time. This new place is only 9 minutes from home and we went their to show my lad the ropes of public charging. Could have taken a hot chocolate with me in a travel cup but one needs to support a newly opened place else it will reduce its hours and staff and even disappear if not supported. Must get a Costa card to I get every tenth one free and other offers.

What is the road tax band/ cost per year for your 4x4 Kodiaq ?

Sensible - Dual motor Teslas ? Generally I am very critical of Toyota but with the latest Prius they have a little electric motor at the back, think about 10hp, to help get it moving in icy conditions. Good "sensible" thinking. I always go for the smaller battery if I can as I can general exceed the WLTP range ie I can get close to 300 miles out of my 63 Kwh Scenic, it can get most of a charge it 36 kws, is a overnight charge and we are suppose to only charge it to 80% normally of course for NMC chemistry. Mini's usable battery is 36 kwh so again can get charged from zero to full in an overnight session on that cheap lecky due to few others wanting to use the power at that time. To create cheap public it would have to be at those 11 pm to 6am currently. It will change as battery storage units are co-placed with the Public charges but there economically has to be a premium to cover the capital cost of the battery storage units. As I mentioned recently I see much more variation of charging through the day ie higher prices like my brother sees for his Heat pump system on the Octopus pricing. Have to be some warnings that prices may change during charging ie start charging at 1555 and then the price jumps up at 1600 as below. When I visit i plug in via a 3 pin plug, start charging around 1900 and unplug 7 am. Pay him a bit over the odds for what I have used, everyone's a winner. https://octopus.energy/smart/cosy-octopus/ If I did not have a drive to charge 2 or 3 cars the simple solution is to get a Public Charging subscription. Tesla, sadly its Elon of course, do some very good charge rates considering the 20% VAT rate but there are others ie Ionity, even Gridserve do something I gather. Those of us with wall home chargers have paid out for these wallboxes, one way or another, they are not freebies in a box of cereal. Those who use public charging, at that is pretty much all of us even if we use home charging 96% of the time must realize the capital cost of these units. When my company owned Source London I saw the import costs of these units, staggering. I wish AC had taken off more. Going from 3 phase AC to DC is not as efficient within these chargers and hence there is a charge for the losses of course which can be several percent. Multiple complex issues I hope you appreciate and UK government has big decisions which due to those complexities are difficult to get across in a 30 seconds news headline.

The two, or more, tier society and even where the will is there to try and redress this, rather than the Con party who wish to conserve the status quo it is difficult but things can be done and I wish the UK government would do some of them. Since the UK has left the EU over 3 years ago it then had the power to do more with VAT. So I would suggest they drop the Public charging VAT rate down to what was previous VAT rates ie 17.5%, then 15%, then 12.5% then 10% and then 8% and eventually 5% same as the home rate VAT. The problem is that charging at home, for those of us that can, uses that base level supply of GRID electricity which can be offered very cheap from about 11 PM to 6 AM in the morning. If Public charging was made much cheaper then drivers might want to charge say on the way home from work or in the evening if they go out. Home charging at levels such as 7 kws suits the Grid. Cheaper fast public charging could cause big spikes in the requested supply. A lot of Infrastructure needs to be built to handle that and we can see how little the successive Con government have lacked investment in that area as well as so many other areas. It makes one wonder how the UK got £3T in debt, Covid's £400M apart, where did all the money go.

Would not be a problem for the Mini Cooper E. 150 Kw chargers and even if the power was shared 75 kw for left bay and 75 kw for right bay the Mini Cooper E is 75 kws so no foul there. The chargers we went to part of the rapidly growing Sainsbury Smartcharge https://smartcharge.co.uk/ network being rolled out. Might be a different story for my Scenic which can charge up to 130 kwh but these Kempower charger do Dynamic power allocation so important to pick a slower charging partner if only has to share a stall with another EV. Don't think it would be much of with any of my EVs and if/when the Zoe gets (45 kw charging) gets replaced with the Renault 4, which has up to 80 kw charging speed again no problem there with sharing the 150 kw charger output. This email has been written with electricity at 8.5 p per kwh.

Well it cost me just over a £5 for the very nice Costa Hot chocolate with extra chocolate and marsh mallows. Son sent me £11 for the charge on my Electroverse account and his hot chocolate, I did not charge him for the Public Charging training session. So £5.50 transferred in my account for the electricity put in to his Mini. My Octopus account is well in credit so the £5.86 for £10.29 kwh of electricity will not alter my £133 monthly DD as I am about £300 in credit after months of low electricity due to using solar during the day and lecky at 8.5 per kwh at night. Plus I have had over £10 credited by Octopus in the last few weeks due to free sessions and saving sessions. Paid for the Costa hot chocolates on my Am Ex and this monthly I get £50 cash back. The £11 for the two hot chocolates will not hit my Am Ex for another 50 days so my £11 ca sit in an account getting 6.25% from Lloyds until then. Prices are nominal when considering all the incentives and recrediting systems at play. For a socialist I sometimes can be quite a good capitalist player of the system !!

If replaced by another full ICE or hybrid. If replaced by a BEV, even with end to end CO2 analysis the BEV will result in the owner having a lower CO2 in a year or two at average mileage, depending on the EV and it's manufacturer. I hear rumblings in the UK motor trade the only UK Nissan BEVs are getting the £3750 EV grant and there will be shouts of foul when French EV production is so clean. Nice to see Jaaaguar putting 18000 solar panels on its Wolverhampton plant, unfortunately that plant produces ICE but presumably it will be converted to BEV part manufacture at some point in the future. Course it's not just CO2 but NOX is a big issue too.

Suppose to use the shape of the original type us and earlier Jaaaags from the 50s/60s. Quite handsome i thought but not that close to the 75. I had couple of Rover SD1s, one with the 3 5l v8 and another with the 2.y straight 6. Use to get about 19 mpg in the 3 5l and 26 mpg in the 2.5l but then HM customs officer were getting 63p a mile allowance, those were the days plus Crown Transer on Housing. Not a looked like the Jaaag. Opel Manta GTE toped them both. All dirty cars in retrospect.

Popped over to the new charging hub on the south side of the ring road of Droitwich which is only just over 4 miles away from home in north Worcester. What I wonderful expetlrience. Was teaching my son the process of Public Charging for his Mini Cooper E. Site has 8 (no) 150 kw Kempower chargers, a Cosco Coffee restaurant and a Sainsbury's local. Just a training exercise for my laddo so get him to put the Mini on charge, get a couple of hot chocolates and head by home. Charger hit around 65 kws, small battery and no battery precondition done but warming ambient of low 20's C. 10.25 kws, price of power is 60p per kwh nominally but Electroverse gives 5% discount as well as delayed payment, month or months. Hot chocolates cost about the same as power up ie about £5.50, mad world.

Sorry if I sound like broken record as have posted before but I miss my Type S even though it is third Ford, third Lincoln and only a third Jaaag and to make it worse I had the smallest engine the 2 5 V6 from the Ford stable and it had cheapo Ford switch gear but I love the looks and the ZF 6 speed gearbox was sweet to......

Not a view point but an current appreciation and future that is clearly there with plummeting EV traction battery prices whether NMC, LFP or Na. Real facts are to see the obvious trend that EVs are becoming significantly cheaper and better performing year on year whilst ICE has stagnated and is only limping along due to ev hybrid tech bailing them out by lifting their awful inefficient and costly day to day operation out of the mire of horrendous running cost compared to EVs. Governments happy for buyers to continue to buty hybrids as they are expensive so they get a good VAT take and they will heep buying heavily taxed hydrocarbon fuel. Good to see rare earth and especially elements which are mined with little to no social responsibility are being phasex out. Just those who use their phones, tablets and other devices that use the NMC batteries realised at what social cost their devices are involved in. Electric Viking does not always get it right and he is recommending cautious optimism that soon to arrive next generation batteries are not going to be 5 or 10 USD per kwh but 20 USD per kwh is looking like what will come shortly. As we are at around $50 per kwh currently it still means the next generation of electrical traction batteries will wipe the floor on cost, performance, range etc and ICE cars will just be vehicles going to historic motor vehicle meets or driven by the odd enthusiast who does not valve to worry about running cost but has nostalgia for these relics.

Absolutely. The Mini Cooper E we bought a few weeks ago is sadly NMC. Hoped it would be LFP like the 40 kwh setup in the R5 but disappointingly not. LFP would mean it would be fine to charge to 100% rather than being advised to only charge to 80% which means the range after charge is only 150 miles rather than 190 miles ish. Mini, and Great Wall Motors presumably wanted that bit more energy density that NMC provides rather than LFP. Sadly with the R4 I am planning to replace the Zoe with the UK is looking like only getting the 52 kwh NMC rather than the 40 kwh LFP option. NMC will die out quite soon, it is more expensive than LFP and Sodium and it's superiority in energy density is being equaled by LFP & Na with the latest batteries from BYD, CATL & LG.