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Well got my R5 Evolution model Very good at low and medium speeds, near NSL and above, not really impressed but it should help me keep my licence. Gloucester police are pretty hot. Eco button works well as a licence keeper. Better than the Zoe, which sadly left for pastures new after 4 years, where Eco turned it in to a slug. The Mini Cooper Eco still has the car accelerating PDQ and topping out at indicated 100 mph. Think the graph below is about 8 mph per 1000 revs so echoes great up to 40 mph and then slow diminish until the motor hit 12,000 rpm at about 94 mph speedo probably indicate 97 or so with the usual overreading error. Best not to do in Gloucestershire where they will nick you for 80 mph on the A417 or M5, me and Princess Anne.

Indeed I think there is a place in the software to but the account details but I don't think there is or was such a feature in the Scenic or so. Like the new name George, my R5 i am picking up in a few minutes is called an Evolution model. Insurance has gone down from the Zoe to the R5, just a few quid but all helps. How long would car makers require to make the adaption ? There is relatively few volume car makers in the uk, Nissan, Toyota, a few in the luxury sector. Think it would be a manana response.

Like Ionity. 6 good ones at Magor and a Subway 100m a way. Plinths for 6 more there. Waiting for 4 to go live near Gloucester, wish it was 6 or 12. Gridserve reliable. Rugby is awesome site. Frankley services also good, Gridserve and Tesla V4s.

Hopefully VAT on public chargers going from 20% to 5% or Zero rate fly will be a significant help. Cheaper sourced electricity for the public charge operators, some already give cheaper off peak charging costs ie when electricity is effectively about 7p per kwh instead of costing them 28p per jwh. Lots deals for much lower rates. Think my R5 has talk to charger capability so less faff with RFID cards. Tesla had forever of course Slower than the progress it should be but that just seems to be the poor rules concerning public charging. Portugal was well good and cheaper.

Hybrids, particularly PHEVs, about to be super whacked as their road tax becomes real. EV road tax will get water down. Wonder if I get some really big high profile tyres I can get the odometer to move slower ?

Lots of new reviews for cheaper EVs. Grand Panda and updated e C3, both Stellantis but decent efforts to appeal to families wanting runabouts.

The voltage drop is to move closer to the 220v European nominal voltage. Gradual indexing it down, ia m guessing to see which electrical devices start failing with this lower voltage. Thought my fridge freezer was dying but electually worked out it was something in the moulded plug, not the fuse of course. Thinking of sawing it up to see why it failed. Interesting times as am I going to get less than the 7.2 kws from my main EV charger and less than 3 6 kw out of my smaller EV charger. A 9% lowering of average voltage it gets could mean longer charge times needed. Sure I will find a technical solution but another somewhat unexpected challenge. Engineer and ingenuity have the same Latin root.

France, Germany, Scandalised countries gave high percentage of 3 phase at residential properties.

Aye I know what 3 phase is as it is what we had at sea. It means motors can be smaller and more powerful for their size. As i understand it 3 phase is common in many countries and they don't have significantly more electrocution. Ring main on a single phase but heavy duty items would be 3 phase to benefit from the inherent efficiencies of over single. Car charging is a biggy of course allowing commonly available 11, 16 or 22 kw chargers to be then used. On a related note is everyone aware our magnificent is starting to slide our voltage down from a nominal 240cmv towards 220 v I hope they tweak meter readings as I gather it is current that is mainly read and we could getting charged more for less power ie. Watts = Amp x Volts.

The level of ignorances about is simply incredible considering it is such an important choice, mainly the positive aspects of EVs but a couple of negatives too. The near instant warning up, being able to thrash from cold without fear one is damaging the engine. The running costs which are a fifth or less if one can charge at home, something we hope will be massively narrowed in the budget in a couple of weeks. The rarely spoken point that if you arrive home low on charge you ain't going onward for about 3 hours to get a decent chunk more charge, just wish 3 phase was in most houses and that problem would be vastly reduced. One sort of needs a second EV to have on hand. Big like cage early days if Formula e when one had a second car for the secongmd half of the race. Overall an absolute positive transition. Having a car nearly as simple as a dogem car to drive, one pedal driving. So relaxing compared to ICE.

Typical sadly. When I had an A4 and then an A3 I did like going to the Audi dealership. Meet and Greet Audi staff would look you up and down seemingly to check if you were the right calibre to deal with. Mechanics for Audi, SEAT, SKODA and VW all trained in the same place up at Tamworth butcAudi garages seem to be charging about half as much again hourly rate than Skoda. Can understand that if they were working on a R8 or R10 but on doggo cars what gives. Feel same way about BMW and Merc but have usually found Mini staff good oddly. People I have known who have the several million quid actually mainly I have found don't make a huge effort in dress code going in to the dealers. Premium German brand snobbery I cannot stand but they are getting their just desserts now for their complacency.

My company continues to push the boundaries of what EVs are thought they can do, in comparison to diesel, and our roll our continues at a pace., we did the test with Windrose Tech for our cargo, driver etc and are due to get bunch of their trucks (Algeciras is down by Gibraltar and where we pick up containers etc from North Africa to come up thru Europe). 1400 hp ! Capable of actually hauling two trailers and up to 64 tonnes ! Chinese truck maker Windrose Technology has successfully completed a long-haul test in Spain, covering 1,383 kilometres between Algeciras and Madrid with its fully electric R700 heavy-duty truck........... Windrose’s first EU-homologated trucks are expected to arrive in December 2025, with European deliveries and UK operations starting in the first quarter of 2026. The Chinese manufacturer has incorporated a Belgian subsidiary and is currently building factories in Belgium and France to support regional production and service. The Spanish trial saw the vehicle complete the round trip in 19 hours using only two rapid charges. Fully loaded at 31 tonnes, it achieved an average energy consumption of 1.26 kWh/km and a range of around 670 kilometres per charge, according to data.... Windrose Technology chief executive Wen Han told Freight Carbon Zero that the Windrose R700 is the company’s sole heavy-duty model, which is already deployed in 20 countries across five continents. The vehicle is equipped with a 700+ kWh battery pack and delivers 1,400 horsepower peak output. It supports both LFP and NMC battery chemistries, though Windrose recommends LFP “for its double lifespan, lower cost and higher safety”...... truck charged twice en route using 300 kW+ chargers supplied by Zunder (in partnership with Kia) and Ionity, located near El Pueblo and Pinto in central Spain. The R700 supports dual-gun charging up to 870 kW, enabling a 20–80% charge in roughly 35 minutes. According to Han, each charging during the test took under an hour, and according to the company’s data, the truck completed the route faster than a comparable diesel vehicle.

No did not mean to infer that EVs number are any more reliable or unreliable than pure ICE, or hybrid etc, just that Autotrader is numbers are not a bible to cars availability or stock levels. Car dealers are not exactly known for their candour car sales, like other sales areas are known for dirty tricks. That said my local Renault dealer seems one of the best I have found and if the product is also good and good value one cannot ask for much more.

Autotrader is not a reliable source of data on cars available and people in the automotive trader know that. The same car gets quoted as being at a dealer so they hope they get the sale and acquire it from the dealer that actual has it. The number of enquiries and then orders that end up that the car was not theirs but one they hoped they could get hold of. I think probably the reverse also happens. Over stock might gets described as las one or few left when there are lots of them. Both cases are common occurrences. VIN records are probably the only reliable source of quantification and that would be DVLA database with access for the police and officers like myself when a customs officer and we had access to the places below as well. Massive sites like Bristol docks with up to 90k cars ready to be called off, Southampton is another big site with up to 60k cars, not actually in the UK system but on UK land ready to be called off. When I was one of the Officers for Bristol docks there was up to 35k cars I recall, it is nearly 3 times that size now. Not in UK free circulation but physically in the UK. Some cars, I seem to remember, could have been stored for up to 2 years on some huge UK inland sites such as old airfields. Americans, oddly, are much more aware of the Model year they are getting which UK Brits seem not to be so switched on to. Bristol LiveAerial images show thousands of electric cars arriving in...In a significant development last week, the Port of Bristol welcomed its largest ever single shipment of cars, predominantly consisting of Chinese-manufactured MG EVs.

But particularly in certain manufacturers. We know many Stellantis and VW factories are having shutdown periods. Judging by Renault sales and how difficult it has been to get some models and versions and their sales figures it is not so much for this particular marque.

The SMMT is just a trade body, no political axe to help government. I think we miss the point with much of their data and some of it is interesting. Sadly much of it one has to pay for over and above the those big headline data ie 10 ten selling models and PowerPoint like slides of break down of registrations by fuel type. Some of the motoring press clearly but the data and make some good points. Here was a Auto-express article of a few days ago..... Important points are ICE cars still populate the top ten and The Chinese are coming https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/368223/renault-5-outsells-tesla-model-y-both-are-beaten-jaecoo-7 Renault’s retro hatchback topped the EV sales charts in October, but even it couldn’t come close to internal-combustion alternatives from China By:Tom Jervis 5 Nov 2025 Retro charm has beaten futuristic minimalism, after the Renault 5 outsold the Tesla Model Y in October. However, both EV titans were overtaken by a petrol-powered and punchily priced newcomer from China, suggesting value for money remains more of a priority for British buyers than lower carbon emissions. In October, the UK’s best-selling electric car was the quirky Renault 5 hatchback, with the French firm’s managing director, Adam Wood, describing it as “a game-changer, desirable for being as fun to look at as it is to drive, and as appealing to the head as much as to the heart. It is not just a best-selling electric car: it is a car that buyers are flocking to irrespective of its powertrain.” Best-selling cars 2025: the year's 10 most popular models Such bumper sales mean that almost half (49 per cent) of Renault’s UK sales last month were fully electric, with one in four of all new cars registered in October – regardless of brand – being zero emissions. Even so, this still wasn’t enough to bump the Renault, or any other EVs for that matter, into the top 10 sellers list; the best-selling car overall in October was (surprise, surprise) the Ford Puma. Perhaps most interesting, however, was that China's Jaecoo 7 was the nation’s sixth-best seller, with just over 2,600 examples registered last month alone. In fact, so far in 2025 Jaecoo has outsold the likes of Citroen and Lexus, while compatriot BYD has registered more new vehicles than Dacia, Cupra or MINI.

Don't know what the Worcester wally, not me but Geoff Buys Cars, is alluding at but here is the SMMT Oct 25 data but he cannot seem to understand the simple numbers..... Petrol down, Diesel fizzling out, BEV well up, PHEV up, mild hybrids up a bit. Personally been really hard to get hold of an R5 as they are in such high demand, almost no discount. The numbers don't lie still bit to go to run at the 28% BEV but we are waiting a bunch of new EVs in 2026.

Why, for what purpose?

Don't thing so. It is just like fitting an air con unit. Screw it to the wall, plug it in, use some hosing to access external airspace. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Heat Geeks reckon latest tech is vastly reducing water tank size needs according to the Just Have a Think guy. Not had a chance to thermodynamically assess and get third opinions on this. Your home setup sound well optimal for high and low ambient temperatures, storing cheap lecky and generating your own for home and EV. Model set up. Like me I expect you wish 3 phase was more readily available. If I could charge the cars at 11 or 22 kw that would be great.

In better news it is looking like the Somerset EV battery factory is less than a year away. Due to make half a million batteries a tear, employ thousands of people and help EV production in the UK. Great for SW England which does not have the highest of average wages compared to much of the UK.

In recent years he has been a big EV advocate. Working with Robert Llewelyn quite bit. Lung cancer horrible way to go. Sorrow for him and family.

Not planning to stay in this house, too many bedrooms fir my current needs so want to move in the next year or so for a place with less bedroom but more garage and workshop area. Therefore just want a heat pump device, like with my solar tracking arrays that I can take with me. Both EV chargers will stay. Looking more at portable EV chargers anyways abd I did not pay anything like full price for them, one government subsidised so I only paid £449 and the other one came with the Renault Scenic ad part of 2024 Car of the Year celebration. The 24,000 BTU unit for £750 i should be able to quickly detach abd take with me. Being HEAT PUMP magic it should be able to cool as well as heat. Something gas boilers cannot do, just alway pollute when running adding to the climate crisis whereas heat pumps can take heat out of air, ir ground, and help us keep the Earth warming and CO2 growth to a minimum.

I am looking at a single unit, 24,000 but, 7 kw just for part of downstairs where I work from.cost is £750 and I will fit myself. At the other end of the scale is my brothers house that has heat pump heating. It wax a new biuld so all part of the complete house. Underfloor heating as well as radiator.i got him on Octopus Cosy Tariff so we shared the intro bonus. Big house with a very large lounge combined with kitchen.not perfect as the far part of the room with the patio doors not az warm as it could be but economically. Under flooring heating downstairs. The tech is moving rapidly.

2028 implementation? Starting low and ramping up. I will get my tax avoidance head on to circumvent or at least reduce exposure to it. Wonder if motorcycles would be included in any pay per mile scheme. Or trikes. Be interested to see any actual government details rather than right wing media speculation.