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Everybody had some biased of course. I have listened to thd first couple of minutes of several of his videos before evaluating they are tosh. I don't know how the paying for viewed YouTube videos are but I want to avoid supporting such videos. There is a grain of truth in them. A registration is not necessarily a sale. But the SMMT data, Autotrader, the Car Dealership magazine and other reputable outlets tell the story of EV growth. Residuals can appear shocking but then this is not really due to undiserability but mostly down to cheaper battery packs and increased grants meaning new prices are cheaper and this depresses second hand prices. Early indications that second hand EVs are recently in higher demand as it becomes clearer EVs can be run in terms of fuel at about a tenth the cost of ICE vehicle. If you can summarise and point out any good points he makes but i will not full watch any his video which appear drivel to me.

I would not give Crapton the time of day. Talk about skewed bias. As you can see the report is the Car Dealer magazine and Autotrader and the other is a pea brain Youtube click baiter...

Who would have thought that putting a hot ICE powerplant next to high voltage electrical system was an increased risk. Think we have a big future problems with hybrids, particularly PHEVs.

Good to see EVs getting cheaper and cheaper. Renault have just achieved another of their cars getting the full grant of £3750 due to the battery pack being built in Poland rather than LG Chem (S. Korea). Europe competing with China !! European Car of the Year 2024 followed by R5 being European CoTY 2025 ! The Renault Scenic E-Tech is now available for £33,245, as a result of achieving eligibility for the Government’s Electric Car Grant. It's the third Renault model to qualify for the upper-rate grant, which provides a £3,750 discount off a new electric vehicle (EV). With the grant applied, the Scenic E-Tech becomes one of the cheapest models in its class, almost undercutting the £33,065 Omoda 5 Electric. The Electric Car Grant is available to electric cars adhering to a strict minimum criteria covering emissions, range, sustainability and warranty support. Its criteria require a brand to have Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) verification, which sets greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets in line with what is needed to keep global heating below damaging levels and reach net zero by 2050 at latest. To qualify, electric cars must have a recommended retail price (RRP) of £37,000 or less, a minimum battery range of 100 miles (160km), a three-year or 60,000 mile warranty, and be powered by a battery with an eight-year or 100,000-mile warranty. The ‘greenest’ vehicles in band one receive a grant of £3,750, with band two vehicles receiving £1,500. View the full list of eligible vehicles, here. Renault's Scenic features a 220PS electric motor and an 87kWh battery pack for a range of up to 381 miles

New electric cars undercut petrol vehicles on price for first time, says AutotraderAutotrader data reveals pricing landmark in new car market Average price of a new electric car is now £785 cheaper than a petrol vehicle New EVs are now cheaper on average than petrol models for the very first time. That is according to fresh data from Autotrader, which has found that electric vehicles are now undercutting their fossil fuelled equivalents on price thanks to government grants and sustained manufacturer discounting. The firm has found that so far this month, the average price of a new EV on its platforms has been £42,620 – £785 cheaper than the £43,405 a petrol car typically costs. Experts say that the change has been heavily influenced by manufacturers offering money off, with the average discount standing at 11.7% in April, having peaked at 12.8% in March, following new plate day. Car Dealer MagazineNew electric cars undercut petrol vehicles on price for f...New EVs are now cheaper on average than petrol models for the very first time. That is according to fresh data from Autotrader, which has found that

Only one which is the fridge-freezer and could quite easily set the fridge freezer to work off the Ecoplay device which, as they all are, solar energy converters, with battery with inverter to AC. Good reason to move fridge plug to wall socket in the evening and that in to the Ecoplay in the morning is there are considerable losses, 10-20% I would guess, so more efficient to move the plug in the evening and back again in the morning, takes 2 seconds. The office electricals, now a desktop PC as I had to give my work laptops back last month, that Solar energy convertor, battery, invertor device just takes the solar energy from my second 2 axis solar tracking array so no 3 pin plug transfer, shove the solar barrel connector in and press 2 little buttons to swich on the AC and the DC outputs, again 2 seconds, and that run all the devices in the office, PC, screen, printer, desk lights and when needed plug phone in to USB C. No hassle at all. Just watch the whole house, those little devices, router, TV boxes, Sky, BT/EE, land line phone charger running on 40W or so. Boiling kettle etc is done on main electricity and typical is a couple of KWh so 60p or so. Night time different story with EVs being charged up and a draw of about 50 Kwh for about £3 for 200 miles in the EVs. Average electricity cost, currently, ie since April 1st massive price drop, about 7.5 p per KWh and no hassle to achieve this !

Reminds me of Mr Ketshaws song. I came from a poor family, lucky enough to get a scholarship to a good school which was fee paying for many attendees. Nothing i have done has been easy and have worked long hours under many difficult scenarios to pay a mortgage and get a modern safe car to transport the family and myself around. Always tried to look at problems with an analytical mindset, sometimes get it wrong but also get it right sometimes too. We live in an age where there has never been so much freely available information. We still have schools in the uk where the fees are more than the average persons wages and that is being addressed but through global trade its like Solar panels, batteries with solar input and decent invertors are incredibly cheap considering they are made and shipped half way round the world. I have found all examples I have bought very well made, they shut off when fully charged, no burning smell, nothing. A few fires happen but perhaps where the operator plugged in the wrong charger ie 36 or 48v charger into a 24v battery pack or left it leaned against a radiator. Relatively few examples like EVs being more than ten times less likely to catch fire than ICE, lost in the clich bait ignorance of YouTube scum. I embrace the new world tech, glad I gave up my ICE cars and fuel card and charge at home from renewable and low carbon nuclear energy and with the metaphor that every cloud has a silver lining this Middle Eastern war, no 3, will hasten the adoption of EVs and help reduce carbon and other pollutants going into the air we all breath.

You not seen all the stuff on "Balcony" solar ? As well as people living in high rises using plug in batteries and solar panels, either rigid or the flexi ones, i have a couple of those too which are quite good, use them anywhere. My cheapest battery, small solar panel with a couple fo LED lights was £14 delivered by Amazon. There seems to be a big lack of inventiveness on this island which is odd as we were suppose to be exactly that, one of the most inventive peoples in the world. I not spent much at all, relative to this group you think as the privileged few. No solar on roof, no expensive massive batteries like TESLA Power-walls sat in the garage. Those such installations the install costs exceed the cost of the actual goods themselves. Batteries, solar items can be bought quite cheaply not too difficult to setup and start paying for themselves right away and the pay back time was reckoned to be less than 3 years, probably going to be more like 2 years when the more expensive energy hits in the second half of this year. Solar and batteries are not a major investment but they are a major cost saver. Got one mid sized solar generator sat next to the fridge freezer, cost about £300 but saves about a pound a day as it runs the fridge freezer during the expensive day time electricity period. Linked up to a £30 solar panel via the cat flap to supplement the super night day electricity. I hear there are many off street charging parking been installed over the place. My company's Source London install bunches of them in London a few years ago and this is being rolled out in many cities. Worcestershire /Worcester is useless but then we have had Con and now Reform run councils so not their priority it seemed /seems and now the UK is paying for the negligence to grow UK energy independence before the current energy crisis. A lack of creative thinking and self reliance on the part of British society. Good news is that rumours are circulating that the September Excide duty rise by a couple of pence is looking like it will be postponed by a few months. Expect the Treasury mileage rates will go up in 6 weeks time to reflect the higher costs. Get creative !

The growth in the UK Battery Energy storage system is exponential and now very significant in the overall real time supply. Oddly I see this as maybe a threat to the cheap electricity ie Night Time period that EVs and households that also use night time lecky as clearly increasingly these ever increasing BESS commercial sites will such up the cheap night time lecky to sell it back to the GRID during the day time and us domestic buyers may well lose out. Even more important households than can make their own lecky via solar panels and store via their own batteries which of course nearly every household can do ! https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/storage/595248/batter-energy-storage-systems-bess-uk/ Edinburgh-headquartered Fidra Energy is developing a 1,400 MW/3,100 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). International investors have chipped in nearly £1bn to build Thorpe Marsh, which is set to become Europe’s largest BESS once complete in 2027. Across the UK, former coal power stations are undergoing similar transformations, with developers keen to make use of existing high-capacity grid connections and transmission infrastructure. In Wales, Ampeak Energy is transforming the Uskmouth power station site with a series of major BESS projects. Meanwhile in Scotland, Alcemi is nearing completion on its 500 MW Coalburn 1 BESS on the site of a former open-cast coal mine, while Apatura is planning a 650 MW BESS and data centre on the site of a former steelworks near Motherwell. A decade ago, the UK battery storage industry barely existed as a commercial proposition. Today, it is one of the fastest-growing clean energy sectors in the country, attracting billions of pounds of investment, and an increasingly critical piece of national infrastructure. Since 2020, the UK’s operational battery storage capacity has increased by more than 500%, rising from around 1,100 MW to nearly 7 GW by 2025. The grid-scale battery storage market grew 45% by operational capacity in 2025, with 4 GWh coming online during the year.

England is being pumped in to the world's largest wind farms ie those in the North Sea which has the perfect blend od attributes ie right latitude and right depth of water. Along with Wales the English coast line has the potential for huge amounts of tidal ie Bristol Channel and Mersey estuaries. Probably has been getting the private investors to stump up. Like with night time energy at 6 or 7 p per kwh who is going to put up billions unless there is guaranteed pricing per KWH and for several GWh per day ? In England we will have another two big nuclear reactors plants ie Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C. Scotland will probably be an importer when wind not blowing etc. Overlay ever increasing home production during the day time for the home use, use in one's EVs and exporting back into the Grid it is clear to see even more times electricity has a minus cost as it did for Octopus Agile users over the weekend.

The UK needs more hydrostorage, more tidal ans more nuclear, these small modular reactors seem to be the flavour. Millions of Brits will expand their home batteries to take advantage of daily cheap electricity for their home use and some, perhaps many, will have such systems that they provide what they need for their home and their EVs and the UK Grud is a place they can dump their excess electricity. Australia, albeit a sunnier place, has been pushing through mass adoption of solar and home batteries, 100k homes in 17 weeks. We hear Octopus saying they are very busy with installs which is not surprising considering fuel cost and the impending Q3 price cap which Cornwall insight are reckoning will be £1900 pa pro rata and perhaps even more in Q4 plus the higher energy uses of course. Grid needs upgrading with these new T pylons and other tech. Just hope the massive amounts collected from some of us in the non London / SE regions is well spent !

I checked back on my Octopus emails and we did not see a Free Day until June last year energy excess periods. Would have thought we would gave started to see freebies sessions from late April. We saw about a dozen freebies days up until about the Autumnal equinox / equilux. With even more find farms and solar farms in would gave thought there would be an abundance of power. Seeing it from home solar. With prices so low overnight maybe people are less bothered ? Octopus gas 8m customers. Other providers have sone very convoluted schemes ie weekends but personally happy with Octopus, the GO tariff for me, but hope to see some freebies hours in the coming weeks !

A couple of years ago the Maxxus 9 was dreadful but typical Chinese it got much better very fast. Was some mad lease miles deals, under £100. SAIC brand and they bought LDV of course.

Maybe less public charging needed with EVs of greater range not needing to use public chargers as they can get home to use cheap home charging. Those that do need to use public charging might like the option of charging at over 360 KWs but there are just about no cars that can charge at such a rate but might be soon but they will be a small minority probably for the rest of this decade. Fastned tend to biuld solar canopies to their sites and I think this is a great idea. Belgium zoo just did this for their site and I have canopies providing up to 40 MWs, picture below. There is a problems with mid winter in Northern Europe and more site batteries are needed to be installed to charge up in the quite night time to get one thru the day until the cheap and plentiful night time power becomes available. All the renewable tech is coming on leaps and bounds. I have started to use bifacial solar panels on my arrays, same price ie cheap, and we are going to start seeing perovskite panels will twice the solar generation as it uses much more of the electromagnetic spectrum and the material is cheap and starting to be commercially produced. Battery packs get cheaper too. All of the renewable tech better, cheaper and we can still produce locally or get a cheap secure supply from China unlike oil and gas which seems doomed to difficult supply and high costs form months if not years to come ! https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/is-solar-about-to-get-way-better-i-did-the-math/vi-AA20hjAB?ocid=socialshare

This is where BYD, Tesla or others will deploy their storage batteries in 10 ft, 20 ft or 40 ft banks ie built to container sizes. The little BYD units were 192 kwh I gather and tgers coukd be one of these per charging station which can charge two cars. It will be recharging during quiet overnight time and when cars are unplugging and leaving before the next car plugs in. Like TESLA software knows how busy charging places are it could know how charged the charge station batteries are. The batteries could be charged solar panels on the canopy roofs, service station roofs and solar fields next door. The various charge station batteries could charge balance between each other. Worst case only allow half or three quarters charge and sites be upgraded with newer and bigger batteries as number of EVs grow.

Amazing kit. Works from the BYD Power Bank batteries so not so reliant on the Grid connection. Narrator quotes the 10 times charge and discharge rates from these Blade 2 batteries used in the car and power station giving the 6 minute Impressive, even if actually about 9C ay start and 7C near the end. One would probably pull the plug at 7, 8 or 9 minutes and go if one had done the bathroom break and drink and food acquisition. Quick enough for vast majority of people i think.

Awesome tech. I think BYD will take over the current TESLA fans over to their products. Charging at 10 times the number of the battery size, upon plug in, but it will back off in the later charging curve I am sure. Where time is money this scenario now matches or beats filling up with diesel or petrol as car itself will talk to the charger unit and pass patment details quicker than ICE cars do with flashing a card and PIN etc.

Windy today down south. My 40 kwh Rebault 5 WLTP is about 190 miles. Only charged to 90%, should have gone to 95% or 100% on home charge. Got from Worcestercto S Wales with car using more than half its state of charge ie showing 43%. Strong SW wind. Up behind me on way home. Made it home with about 8% left. Slightly warmer on way home, strong tail wind helped. As usual I think bottom part od SoC display seems to get used slower than upper half. Thought I would try and test the R5 around and below the 0% SoC but still have to do that to see if rhe 40 keh battery had anything like the 46 kms past 0% the 52 KWh showed.

Feel the same way. Musk instrumental in firing about 300K Civil servants and this has in part resulted in some chaos with government in several area. Would not buy a TESLA and I think their time is done and they are slipping back rapidly in the value and tech areas to BYD etc. Happy with my Renault EVs. Occasionally use their public chargers, just crazy low prices both north and south of me ie Gloucester and Brum ie 44p per kwh peak and 22p per KWh off peak, cheaper than I can charge at home during the day and 10 to 15 times the speed ! Only do occasionally and I get a pang of guilt on those rare occasions.

A must for all true EVangelists...... Available from AMAZON EF ECOFLOW Power Hat(L-XL) 360-Degree Solar-Powered Wearable Hat, Waterproof, Ultra Light, Foldable, Dual USB-A & USB-C Ports, Charge Smart Phones Not a late April fools, they have already sold going on for a thousand of these ! Think I will wait until they go from £99 to £9.

I have had a mikd hybrid and self charging hybrid recently and they have their good points but, like PHEVs they have big down sides also. Mild hybrid one did not even notice it had any hybrid gubbins at all really, just quite good mpg. Our self charging hybrid lots its engines management and became a nightmare, after having one of its wheel changed. Too complex abd I gather the bew buyer rejected it after it went wrong another 3 times. PHEVs also massively compromised. Loads more weight, less boot space than otherwise. Shocking mileage per kwh in electric mode as almost never have heat pumps so really bad in cold weather. If fuel became very cheap again I would go for a nice simply pure petrol car. My, well daughter no 2 car I gave to her, Mk 4 Clio, 0.9 litre 3 cylinder turbo, would do better mpg than the 1.6 naturally aspirated hybrid Clio we also had. Yes hybrid was nicer to drive, lots of low down grunt from the electric motor. But my conclusion was all electric was the better way in so many respects and the recent fall in charging costs plus the big hikes in fossil fuel costs endorse that decesion. Now I do know a few people who needed to oft do hundreds of miles a day sometimes and theurcdecesion to stay with diesel is partly understandable. I wish I coukd hear they tried a TESLA model 3 or Y, best selling cars in the world, but don't think they did. There are other alternatives, as they say if you don't like sport there is always David Colman, (Monty Python i seem to recall), but there is BMW, Merc and Polestar who do EVs with almost 500 mile range after topping up for less than a tenner at home or twenty quid out on the road rather than over a hundred pounds !

As I mentioned the acquisition of the Jaecoo 7 PHEV is intended to be only in EV mode during the week for town to a nearby town commuter. Jaecoo say over 50 miles in EV mode from its 18 kwh battery. Her commute is about 7 miles so I think she will need a mid week charge to operate in EV all working week. Still incredible cheap motoring for that stint and only going to get expensive for those weekend longer trips even with the first 50 being cheap. Worth a mention also that the most popular ICE car in Europe, the Dacia Sandero and cousin Renault Clio, are popular as they are so very cheap to buy. Not sure how much buyers are bothered what power train it has. Even some of those buyers will be looking at the new 100 hp Spring and seeing it us a bit cheaper to buy and mych cheaper to run if they can put up with range of not much over 200 km and sone other shortcomings but as the cheapest car per mile it is finding many buyers.

The SMMT data is unclear what had been sold ie PHEV or whatever. Ex boss was one of those Jeacoo 7 buyers and it is a PHEV with a fairly decent sized traction battery and she expects to drive the car in EV mode during the working week and only use the ICE during weekend farther afield trips. As with the other top ten models is their any BEVs included in the data ie Puma e ? What we do know that as of March 2026, according to the monthly data by fuel type that more than half of cars registered had some component of electric traction whether that is mild hybrid, self charging hybrid, PHEV or full BEV. A real milestone and this month of April 2026 we will be able to see how buyers gave snapped up the BEVs in the showrooms, cars, vans etc. Be interesting to see how 2nd hand sales have gone, how many BEVs have been snapped up and how values of BEVs and ICE vehicles are being affected by GW3. By the state of the peace agreement in the Middle East, the lack of tankers escaping the Middle East Gulf, it is looking like fuel prices are going to stay high for a good while are whilst there are reports of almost a thousand fuel stations running out of fuel, albeit temporarily until next delivery, the Uk and much of the world is wondering when its next tanker ship is going to arrive.

I mentioned the huge uptick in freight charges, both air and sea, from Europe's main goods supply area ue China and SE Asia. Doubling and even trebling of freight rates. That will have a big effect on landed cost of goods we buy.

You must have missed the reports of substantial damage to both gas and oil facilities in the Persian Gulf. About one sixth of some facilities damaged with a quick estimation by them the repairs could take a few years rather than weeks or months. I tend to watch Aljazeera and Bloomberg rather than BBC or other British channels.