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Most deaths are old and young who don't regulate their core temp. Seen a few cars , who should gace air con driving along with 4 windows open so presumably their air-conditioning gas level etc not working. Maybe a few car sales as people ditch cars with no or poor ac for cars with good ac and I expect you remember most cars did not have AC. Horrendous time for those stuck in the M25 road closure and ten needed rescuing. Recall similar happening to me and I was in the middle of the Thames crossing bridge, 40c showing on the car thermometer. Scarry, like a scene from Falling Down. On other news I see oil price for August delivery is below the pre ME war price so perhaps the EV honeymoon will pause, at least until EV incentives are further enhanced to further progress the transition to low carbon transport to slow climate change ?

100k extra deaths across Europe i reckon. There were 70k extra deaths in the 2003 of which 2k were UK butvibthink that will be much higher tgan then as the Heat Dome is larger this time. BEVs are improving their range ie not so much dip as battery cehistry improves and its looking like sodium cells will help here. Maybe all sodium or maybe a mixture of lithium and sodium. Even my two smaller battery choices with the R5 and Scenic the range had not really effected my journeys times much at all and the big fall in charging costs mean if I have to add 5 or 10 minutes to the journey I am comforted by the super liwcrunning cost to what I use to pay and that was when i had a company fuel card and the EVs are still way cheaper, home charging benefit accepted is a fortunate situation eben more so that my wallboxes were subsided for one and a freebie with the car with the other. Still dont know the full real range of either car but i will explore that in the coming months.

The whole battery pack and the BMS as well as efficiently using any Regen system as well. My lad justvwantvto drive the car. More important setting up the phone and the Apps. That's fair enough. I charged the Scenic to 100 % couple days ago and it did the cell balancing and it seemed to give ne as much ad 10 miles extra range. Even with a Heat Pump the 5 and Scenic love these warm temperatures but lose a big chunk in the depths of winter. ICE vehicles, due to their relatively low efficiency have masses of waste heat to keep occupants warm without suffering much lower MPG, once the cooling water is up to temp of course. With all the heat waves due we can probably expect another even bigger push for EVs. I would notvbe surprised to see 100k extra deaths attributed to climate change, much more than the 2003 death toll sadly.

Is not the Explorer a VW MEB platformed car ? Dont know if it modular like many EVs that can just have one or so the offending packs replaced. Renault UK has about a dozen specialist places that can do this and then there are independents like Cleverly.

Yes its quite an ask for firemen to utilise the input port to the battery pack. Renault did this on their own, presumably with Nissan and Alpine. It of course needs several organisations to get this better, the EU, fire fighting organisation and manufacturers. I can see that eventually there will be an onboard fire surpression system on BEVs and PHEVs.

Do you know what cells those batteries are using? Originally Lead acid but they were incredibly heavy so changed them to lithium iron phosphate which reduced the weight by about 10 kgs.

Which is why my Scenic has a input port for fireman to fill each battery pack, all 186 of, with foam I presume which will slow the fire. I have seen the large fire blankets work very well but think it needs to work with appropriate foam injection to slow and even stop the chemical fire. Technology always improves and as EVs and home batteries become even more prevalent tge fire fighting techniques will improve in leaps and bounds.

My e scooter has three 7 Ah 12v batteries so 21 Ah so by my maths that is 76 KJoules. But I could charge them outside if I had any concern. CAA say 100 Wh, or 2 grams of lithium, or to say 360 KJoules which sounds quite a lot. Even then the battery should be in safe packaging and have the terminals taped over. We do need to think about external storage and fire suppression measures. I see a small BESS burnt down in Exeter which is being investigated. No hint of any problems with my batteries or EVs.

I have been trialilng charging my EVs from the home batteries and as Greg said anybody can have " Balcony Solar" and small home batteries. I t ink there is a lot of junk talked about lot being allowed to have small home batteries. Yes Powerwall type set ups fair enough but people have recharge torches, radios and al sorts of devices and probably most homes already have numerous lithium batteries in them and small home batteries are the safer Lithium Iron Phosphate type. I am looking at trickle charge the EVs, lowest charge I have goes down to 8A 220/240 V and i wanted to start with a 6A really but did not see that when I got a variable amperage granny charger. If linked to balcony solar and a smallish home battery I think one could put in a meaningful amount of electricity in to ones EV, or house, or both. If Octopus and CATL are on the case then it will happen and as Greg said it is looking like a financial recovered time of 24 to 36 month !

Well we have entered strange times with charging EVs particularly with those of use who use Agile, Tracker small slot differing charging cost pricing. Been bad enough today, lowest slot price 16p per KWH but highest price, 1830 to 1900, 61p per kwh. Octopus offered out 24 p per kwh for those of use who use less than normal so I will see if I get much back for that bust I tend not to use much electricity then as I a mostly on batteries and solar then. No really good slots to charge the car. Tomorrow Octopus Agile slot prices about 15 p per KWh mid day but at 2100 to 2130 80.5 p per KWh, ouch. Must be a real shortage from 1700 to 2300 for such high prices. Again will not be using car charging in the evening but might do as bit in the middle of the day. I think many who do not use Time of Use Tariffs may be surprised just how expensive electricity is at peak times and when the UK Grid, and European Grid, is under strain. It is clear that Europe will need to quickly adapt to having air conditioning which will it big time pressure on our Grid, probably far more than EVs which can be very selective as to when and how much they charge. We might be in a place, albeit briefly, that public charging is cheaper than charging at home for those of us on Agile and Tracker tariffs. Interesting Octopus and Greg Jackson had a massive 4,000 person summit in London and announced a big roll out of small,, large and EV using battery kit for homes. With role oou of big battery facilities seeming to take ages it looks like it is down to the individual to help solve the problems of all this wind power coming on line and available for free or less than free rather than leaving it to businesses, councils, government which are slow to act unlike main over countries in the world from Australia, China and numerous others.

The Polo ID looks a really good cars as with the Cupra and Skoda siblings, they will steal sales from the Renault 5 etc as they are much better in some areas. But most other models ie the lower ID range have been fraught with problems. The Chinese are streaking ahead and very difficult to see how they can compete but Renault, Dacia, Alpine has shown it is possible to grow market sector even against the Chinese onslaught. The new import levies on Hybrids as well as EVs should give them a bit more of a chance.

EU is finalising measures to introduce Countervailing on hybrid vehicles from China similar to that which they already levy on full EVs. If the UK does not follow suit which it did not with EVs the presumably the Chinese will focus more on the UK as it will be an easier market to the UK.

Another diamond, Alpine A390, of a performance EV to join Ionic 5N etc. The Alpine A110 ev version also arriving, replacing the rapid A110 ICE car, A110 EV will be at Goodwood FoS....

Not sure when the date is exactly but all these shipments ie postal imports as simplified procedures, are coming under new regs so will be much more expensive soon due to revisions in import procedures. Many Western countries have done or are implementing this and thus will choke off billions of USD, Yuan, £, € etc of trade for China. Be interesting to see what China does next. In addition to collecting more import taxes there can be tighter control by Trading Standards who's responsibility goods meeting CE UK is. We should be a bit safer as well as collecting more taxes but landed cost to us consumers will be more ofcourse.

Always do my research both in the spec and the reviews on the Amazon site and then find reviews on YouTube. All purchases on Amazon, and a recent one directly with large power bank maker VTOMAN, the products have exceeded my expectations in quality and value. Taking one apart recently one could not help but be impressed at the biuld quality.

Organisations like Amazon ensure that they sell items of good quality for the sake of their long term business. Their are sales platforms were goods of dubious quality, perhaps Temu is one of those and Amazon Haul, their apparent response to Temu, the prices are so low then "Buyer beware" might apply. I have been over delivered on quality for incredibly low prices on goods from China 🇨🇳 and studied Asian Pacific politics and economics with the OU and seen China trade's rapid progress in volume and quality and they do sometimes sell at below the price that even the Chinese consumer can buy hence, when the UK was in the EU, Anti Dumping, counteracting etc duties were levied on Chinese origin goods. This is most evident in Chinese EVs imports but since UK left EU they have levied ADD but UK has not hence the massive level of Chinese EV imports even with our steering wheels on the other side !

Again, systems start from a few pounds and pay vack in a couple of years. One j got was £14. Small solar panel, a few led bulbs, a torch with a battery in it. Solar panel feeds battery, battery led bulbs on 3 m leads and unit also has USB outpu too. One can spend hundreds, power the fridge freezer day and night abd save money. All biult to CE UK standard and bought through Amazon.

Solution is to just get a small to medium power station which gets charged up duringvthe day and can be used to supply power in the evening or night. Power stations have the solar input, storage and invertor and even quite cheap ones oft have UPS function cutting in within 20 ms to keep the 240v running. All my Chinese made equipment has been of impressive quality and not a hint of poor manufacturing even in current high temperatures.

The total lifetime CO2 hax been well trodden and whilst an EV may take a bit more CO2 to make the figures I have seen state the ICE vehicles CO2 passes the EV after only about 25k miles. Countries like France can power their car manufacture on renewables and nuclear and Spain can run for days on renewables now. Germany, like UK, is getting their on renewable powered factories like we see with JLR plants. That monthly PCP payment can be quite high whilst other costs are low. Usually great deals at end of year as car companies try and hit the % sales target and %0 finance ad well as the EV grant help reduce the monthly payments. I think EV have enough inducement to do without grants but thise countrues tgat dropped the grants, like France, Gernany and UK quickly reintroduced to get the sales and the GST, TVA, VAT collection in. I cannot see anything stopping the EV jaugaunt unless fuel dropped back below £1 a litre and that is not likely as Excise Duty would be upped to whatsit was suppose to be pre Covid whereas currently it is massively less than it was in 2009 in real terms.

ICE cars still far too polluting. Newer better and interesting to see Ireland offering big money to scrap older ICE cars. As well as cleaner, and I still see numerous reports saying EVs are about 10 times less likely to catch fire based on fure brigades and insurance not news reports. The biggy is running costs. Ibhave been shredding my 6 year and older receipts ad I do each year and can see the thousands a year I use to spend on diesel and petrol. I dont think i am spending mire than £600 on three EVs doing about 26k miles a year. Tomorrow, 13th of June, there is 9 hours of negative priced electricity abd it touch -9p per KWh. I will use about 75 KWh of electricity in those 9 hours, mostly charging the EVs abd being paid to charge the cars is a very different scenario than the fortune I was spending on diesel and petrol.

I have not counted on or been swayed by EV subsidies in the UK. The amount of subsidy alot less than the VAT so government still net recipient of dash. I have no problem with ICE cars continuing if they can genuinely meet low emmissions in real world driving not just in a lab. Genuinely less than 50 gm/CO2, 60 mg/NO and minute PM 2.5 and 10s. Not many ICE cars do and really we need strong PHEVs so ICE can be disabled in areas where pollution of and if the bad gases and particles are above very liw limits which are not shortening the lives of tens if thousands of UK citizens.

Cars scanner reports worst cell pack voltage so don't know why more do not use it. Even with the Lithium NMC tech which is generally being replaced by LFP and soon Sodium is going to be widespread, both cheaper and safer, we mostly charge to 80% but once a month to 100% so the car can cell balance. In transportation batteries should be at their lowest state of charge without damaging the battery, provably about 15% true. Use of CO2 flooding used to starve conventional fires of oxygen but lithium battery fires, like any fire but especially lthium, need early detection and some cleverer thinking and approach, perhaps freezing gas containment by Nitrogen or another inert gas. Sure science has a way. Wonder what systems the new 9,300 car BYD ship has on it. As CMA we move 4m cars a year and are now oft using an electric truck to pull the car transporters. Tech will prevail.

Cleeverly are the dog's dooberies. Put main dealers to shame. Fortunately only 20 miles from Worcester.

Container sized power banks are becoming much more common working with the Megawatt chargers. Other countries have stipulated all car parks over 80 spaces have solar canopies to help local generation. Costs are plummeting for LFP batteries and sub $20 per KWh coming soon down from current $50 to $40.

Both the speed of charging and the cable tie both have solutions and just a casevof UK rolling out what other countryes are already doing. BYD has charging as quick as using a fuel hose for an ICE vehicle ie 1 to 1.5 MW so only takes a handful of minutes to get mostly of the battery charged. Induction charging with loops in the ground are already being used in some even European countries. Most pirsuits use radios to block the road ahead.