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There is not really a choice but to super accelerate the transition from fossil fuel to electric. I cannot think of anyway we can get cheap oil again unless the Middle East Gulf full open until then the UK may have to pay a £1 a litre and then choose what taxes to levy. The Excise Duty of 52.95 p per litre and VAT at 20% Ad Valorem will be under review. With UK debt approaching £3T the UK had difficult choices. Lots of us who decided to abandon use of hydrocarbons years ago would not want to see precious government money allocated to tax relief on what we see as polluting fuel and the government will be aware actions could tip bielection voting which could lead to the loss of the ex PMs constituency to the Greens. I di reckon we will see Excise duty cut for a period of months, maybe 5,8 or 10p a litre but we have to watch thatvtge oil companies don't taje the milk again and trouser the Excise cut. Hopefully we can get more electric vehicles into all areas. Recipts from fuel already down by about a fifth in the past few years and it will fall away to relatively little in the next decade. We may need to consider rationing of diesel to keep back supply fir farmers, fire engines etc I reckon. Some countries limiting purchases to 20 litres a visit. Maybe we will see speed limits cut to 55 mph as in the oil crisis of '73 ?

Yes brick like but only aimed at city travel really, standard battery is 15 kwh i gather, bigger battery option a massive 20 KWh. Should be good round town. 15 KW motor so top speed only 90 kph, not allowed on motorways, classed as quadricycle. Expected to be £10k or less.

Dacia Hipster could be another success in the Dacia Renault marque...

If staight of Hormuz opened next week oil prices would fall like a stone. We gave other producing areas increasing their output, African producers, Canada, USA, Venezuela etc. Calgary in Canada felt like was in Dallas ! When prices fall to $65 a barrel or less produces like US shale just stop producing and wait months or years until price bounces back above $65 or so. North Sea would act the same and hence BP, Shell no longer interested in North Sea extraction, too price sensitive when on land produces can sell at $20 a barrel and still make a profit. UK fortunate to have the best areas for wind turbines and add to that the tidal potential oil extraction just looks a bad investment due to the inherent costs of landing North Sea oil. Better to step up investments in renewables and in conjuction with nuclear and the interconnectors with those producing ultra cheap electricity that is a more secure future the very high cost North Sea oil and buying fuel from despots. As I write the nuclear, solar snd wind is so abundant in the UK the UK price of electricity is dropping from 4p per KWh to 1.5 p per KWh in the next two hours.

Its the cost of extraction from ever deeper water. The Jackdaw gas field is already ready to go. Gas us much cleaner than crude / diesel etc. The government know that wrong decesions, as greens, liberals etc would see it, means losing bielections hence a delay in even switching on Jackdaw. Giving licences to companies to drill deep North Sea is risky with the uk government potentially have to pickup many millions of pounds ilkf clean up costs. If these two bit oil companies suddenly fold when oim drips below $70 a barrel, deckare bankruptcy, then the uk could be on the hook for massive cleanup cost. I think only if the hundreds of millions of clean up is insured ir money put on deposit only then should more rigs be allowed to be out in place. On the other hand renewabke projects just get better and better. When wind turbines finish their useful life after a few decades the mounts are reused, an even better turbine is out in its place with several times the generating capacity as is currently happening, 1000 ft tall, even better ones. Power which can ve generated for centuries to come. Sokar panels being replaced with ones significantly more efficient and when perovksite panels come with improved will be staggering in good and poor light. Battery tech also improving exponentially with cost dropping like a stone with LFP and Na chemistry. Compare that to the mess of oil extraction at sea. Miles more expensive than land based rigs. UK must be very careful how it controls any continental shelf oil extraction and ensure full life cycle of costs are obtained upfront.

As j said anything to do with oil is a massive finan ial rusk and one the last governments and this one have not been willing to take and even the big oil companies are leaving the North Sea leaving it to the smaller companies who are more suited to picking thd bones of the not much over 1B barrels that are left. Yes there is a strategic dimension as we do need diesel for a few more years until it is replaced entirely as a traction use and kept as it should be just for chemicals etc use.

Getting worse in France reported and now up to 15% of pumps out.....

The super massive Brent field known for being sweet and i understood that the strata that the North Sea is is light crude or gas. Which fields have heavier fractions ?

Russia getting Arctic crude out but weather will close that down for the winter soon. Lots of wind around in North Sea for the bext few weeks and so cheap, zero or negative priced electricity for businesses, EVs / PHEVs and homes who tune in to Time Of Use tariffs.

North Sea oil is a light oil with less diesel hence diesel has to come from other continents from their crude or from their refined product which is heavier distillate intensive.

Refineries are private businesses so unless the uk governmrnt is will to support a failing business with many millIions of pounds of public money then it is left to the market. The more logical solution is to gave substantial strategic reserves and the oil diesel refineries should have been bought to use their tanks as strategic reserve for farmers, logistics and military but sadly last governments did not do that and gas left as vulnerable. European mainland countries typically have 3 times the reserves we do.

Tis weird for us Octopus customers as they supposedly use 100 % renewable but it is still linked to LN gas prices. Big problem is users not moving to Time of Use tariffs. Electricity prices look like being zero ir negative for two substantial period this weekend ad it has been many times earlier in September. This has also related to plunge pricing at public chargers. Shame the MFG 59p per KWh ends next week, was hoping it will continue. Gather Ionity is lowering it's prices, TESLA and Westmorland remain good locally in W Midlands.

It the price was right ie continues to rise for EVs, I would sell my Scenic as I want to order the new Scenic which has just gone on sale in France and should come on sale in the UK in a few weeks. I could make do with the 5 for a few months. Markets always churning and people will sell for a good price and make do. Hell, I would even get myself a Sandero, or Zoe, as a backup if there was a silly price for the Scenic. New Scenic sounds so good as has substantially bigger battery, LFP abd much cheaper and 50% faster charging ie 185 KWs as well as the more range and ability to charge to 100% regularly without harm. Scenic had major service last week, £160, 5 goes in for first service in a few weeks, £9 a month service contract for 3 years. Compare that to someone i knows near £700 majot service for a German car major service. Will keep in touch with my car dealer. Similar to when market went nuts due to covid distortion. Not fuel related but supply and demand I saw the value of my caravan double when travel became very restricted. With such turmiil comes opportunity !

Coukd mean an absolute clear down of all electric car and van stocks both new and second, even the models not normally selling well. Would / will Trump bring in the export van on diesel fuel like Russia has ? Netherlands still producing significant diesel fuel amounts and many EU countries have other 100 days of supply where UK reported only has about a month's stock if it stops getting diesel to import and its insufficient home refining drops further ! Mail OnlineDiesel price 'could near £3 a litre if Trump brings in US...Drivers across Britain already now pay an average of 197.75p for a litre of diesel - just over a penny away from the 199.09p record set in June 2022, according to the RAC.

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Maybe it has not. On their property might be ok but above the payment i doubt is ok. If the were at 4m or 5m or so at the property boundary it still would not be very safe is someone was carrying a ladder along the payment like a ladder in the vertical.

One VW EV owner got his no-driveway charging sorted......

I think Nissan Pixo, ie Nissan version of Twingo looks better than Twingo unlike the Micra which does not look as good as the 5. Well done Nissan, would rather this or maybe the new beefier Spring as a city / county run around than Twingo when I trade in my Urban 5, if i don't keep it.

Seems to be planning that hold things up alot. Perhaps a different approach needed ie fast track for some project as national priority circumventing local permissions or different parameters which are automatically accepted.

Not accurate. In Essex, for one example, the wonderful Electric Forecourt over in Braintree has 30 chargers but also 6 MWhs of battery back up. My lad used my Scenic at the Gatwick has two 3.6 MWh battery pack, Norwich 6 MWh also, not sure about Stevenage as not yet published. The Fasned charging site at Colchester has solar canopy, one of their smaller sites and looks like the solar is just used Green light for Fastned’s west London ultra-rapid charging hAn ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging hub will be built by Fastned in west London. The joint venture between Fastned and Places for London, Transport Fastned's signature yellow solar canopies will provide shelter in inclement weather, alongside lighting and CCTV to ensure safety on site. With around 64% of outer London households lacking access to off-street parking, many drivers rely on public charging infrastructure, particularly in urban areas. Fastned says it has designed the Hanger Lane hub, ensuring it meets the needs of local residents, commuters, visitors and commercial operators such as local businesses and taxi or private hire cars. The hub provides accessible charging for vehicles of all sizes, from cars and taxis to vans and smaller trucks, helping address the limited opportunities for private charging at homes or commercial depots due to London's space constraints.

Big fishes in a little pond. Begrudgingly one must admit TESLA have done well with their UK public charging network, maybe not everywhere ie Northern Scotland, but many places. Their reliability, availability and pricing is very good in Midlands ie Frankley and Gloucester services particularly. Big question is whether BYD can do similar or better. The make batteries and chargers as well as cars and trucks. If they can do as well as TESLA if not better with their rollout of public charging it will show Gridserve and other public chargers hie it should be done ie onsite batteries to give reliable high speed charging. I do wonder if Gridserve and others do not or cannot supply the charge levels advertised because the electricity they would supply is so expensive they would rather not supply. This tea time my market rate lecky is up to 91p per KWh during peak half hour slot. I will not be taking very much of that at all !!

The thinking is already thought through and being implemented not just very much in the UK but in other countries who do act more quickly. 1) Solar arrays / canopies are implemented at EV charging sites by mandate to fit solar canopies and this is happening in many European countries as all parking sites over a few car spaces are mandated to have canopies and the EV charging actually come in after the solar canopies (and battery bank) have been installed. Small AC or single /dual bay sites can be exempt as impractical on scale basis. What UK and high latitude installs tend to forget is the solar panels should be point 3 ways ie East, South and West to catch best sun or have sun tracking ability like my solar arrays due to the wide direction sunlight can come from in this 50, 60 degree lattitude. 2) Small wind turbines, not the usual windmill design but Archimedes type screw design but it does need some 10 mph winds, lower than conventional wind turbine but still a good onshore, off shore type wind environment or hill etc. If not suited then the EV charging site will have to rely on batteries, solar and whatever Grid it van get. 3) Yes Public charging has to be improved and not just number of sites and location but the true speed one can get. Oft the EV can only get half its rated power due to the battery being a bit cold, or hot but 26 Kw is just dishonest the the charge providers. Google is excellent at reporting at reporting availability and cost in live mode on the display. I want to see a warning of low charge speeds ie 50 KW s or less or maybe 75 KW to me is a minimum rate upon plug in, might drop in to sub 50 KW for the bit above 70% which is acceptable but not in the 10% to 70% range IMO. 4) For the (88%, 50% whatever) idle time the local battery mega pack can be charging from the canopy, mains etc and be ready to deliver the stunning 1.2 /1.5 MWs when the next truck pulls up. Each site would naturally get its configuration. Being able to charge up the local batteries for free or cheap electricity, mine is cheapest during the day usually rather than night but a dynamic charging tariff would be best, though trucks, ofcourse, do work all hours. I see massive opportunities in develop these truck charge sites and BYD and TESLA have tremendous knowledge in these areas, just hope one of the UK charge providers can match these foreign firms, perhaps they will need another quarter of a billion pound investment. My experience of Gridserve in the last few weeks suggests they have a big task in front of them and providing customers with only 26 KWs on a 350 KW rated charge is just **** poor.

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With electricity there is alternate solutions. Firstly, like Europe and Fastned stations, these sites should have solar canopies and batteries as part of the site. Solar and even wind turbines close by. I can even see a day of mobile trucks visiting these sites and topping off batteries if the get low like fuel to a fuel station. Battery swapping is a more sensible solution for trucks than cars i think. Longer range cars will distort the need. EV charging stations are only used about 12% of the time being idle the rest. Do we actually need 300,000 EV charge points as that is the stated aim. With average EVs approaching 300 mile range but soon after that 400, 500 and 600 miles as more dense energy batteries are introduced. I would just like honesty from the public charge providers and that feed into Google Maps ie not just charge available but if it has a capped power output so I don't waste my time and I go on to another charger.

This happens and worse ie only get 26 KWs, or getting nothing at all as I did twice on last BH weekend, presumably as there is not enough power to supply the chargers. Southwaite services, between Penrith and Carlisle, so likely somebody is on a large trip up to Glasgow area or beyond. 26 KW is worst than my air cooled battery packed Zoe got, you may as well book yourself in the hotel at this slow rate ....... Place needs Megapacks or a better Grid connection or both.......