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World of EV trucks moving fast and might partly save us from diesel shortage on harming the moving of goods in Europe. Also article giving data just how much quicker Electric Trucks are than diesel trucks. We have BYD EV trucks being introduced to Europe shorlty, and they will build the megawatt plus charging network, Mercedes, Tesla and my old firm Ceva buying the Windrose D700 which have interesting stats. 0 to 60 in 12.5 seconds and 24 seconds when loaded. A diesel HGV would typically take twice as long. More importantly the loss of momentum up inclines is far less in the electric truck to the wiesel. "Gradients show the same advantage, with the Semi holding 65 mph on a 3% incline where a diesel typically drops to around 50. The practical value is less about straight-line speed than about traffic. A truck that can merge onto a motorway at pace, clear an intersection quickly and maintain speed uphill removes friction from every journey and reduces the situations where a heavy vehicle becomes an obstruction to everyone around it." https://www.facebook.com/teslainsiderfb/posts/tesla-has-given-top-gear-acceleration-figures-for-the-production-semi-and-the-nu/122170847468664960/

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Tres bien. Merci beaucoup Lee. Love Bloomberg and like to monitor France 24 and many other non British outlets who many have English Channels as well as native. Longue vie et prosperite (trouble doing the accents on the e's)

All over French news outlets and some other European mainland ones. Apparently Macron asking for more releases of strategic reserves..... Please no panic buying as important community services rely on buying fuel, particularly diesel, from public fuel stations as not all having their own storage tanks like truck firms tend to have...... energynews.proFrench Government Rules Out Shortage Despite Fuel Price S...France's government rules out a fuel shortage despite record prices and rising outages at TotalEnergies stations.Minister Maud Bregeon says 90% of French filling stations remain supplied, as diesel prices near record highs and TotalEnergies faces higher shortage rates. France's junior minister for Energy, Maud Bregeon, said Tuesday, September 15, on France 2 that fuel supply remained broadly under control nationwide, despite a surge in pump prices. According to her, 90% of filling stations reported no supply difficulty, while 10% signaled the absence of at least one fuel. A strained network still largely supplied. The government's availability tracking website recorded 13% of filling stations experiencing shortages on Monday, September 14, up from 8% on September 12. This tracking covers diesel or gasoline outages declared by station operators, excluding stations temporarily closed for other reasons. TotalEnergies-branded stations appear particularly exposed: based on data available Tuesday, 86% of them were out of at least one fuel, a situation attributed to the price cap applied by the group. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/aramco-halts-october-crude-deliveries-some-european-refiners-after-pipeline-2026-09-18/ "Saudi Arabia earlier informed European customers that some crude cargoes would be cancelled after drone attacks forced the shutdown of its East-West pipeline, damaging three pumping stations and disrupting oil loadings at the Red Sea port of Yanbu. The disruption has prompted customers including Poland's ‌Orlen (PKN.WA), opens new tab ⁠to seek alternative crude supplies, with traders saying the refiner bought North Sea grades to replace disrupted Saudi imports."

European fuel stations running out of fuel as over 10% of them in France run out. Also Saudi, worlds larfest exporter of crude, has told Europe it will get no crude deliveries in October ! Should boost EV new and old sales which are already at record levels and cars moving off car lots faster than ice cars.

More news of Electric truck roll out by Amazon are other logistic companies......

Indeed. The withdrawal of the Federal EV credits caused sakes to drop big time. EV sales have recovered a lot with fyel doubling in price. The Buzz will need to be biult cheaper, LFP pack etc and buyers happy to pay for a premium over rivals.

Hopefully many electric, horses for courses. Electric great for urban and with a few tens of miles radius and have the wiesel can be usex for the longer journeys and really cold weather. EV vans are getting better fast, batteries over 100 KWh, load capacity and cost to run far lower than diesel or petrol vans.

Good reliability it seems for the Buzz but it also reflects VWs wider issues of is it good value and press abd sales show many are choosing the much better value PV5 and now there is a PV7 out. One can see Audi performance continuing, Cupra and models like the VW GTIs but in so many areas VW are just not competitive. They certainly went skne strange places abd how were they charging at sub stations rather than normal DC charging stations ? I gave a 16A granny charger and I think there are some 32A around somewhere and I think on some places they had to use an ordinary mains outlet and leave it charging overnite. Takez time but if one is night sleeping its no bother. State of Charge of over 96% after 100k kms is pretty good and would indicate plenty of slow charges rather than mostly rapid DC.

Skoda are a fantastic manufacturing company but they are tied to VW which was a good thing from the early nineties but for the last over a decade it is not good. My first Skoda was a Felicia in the mid nineties. Had numerous, more than a dozen VW, several VRSs and L&K as well as normal ones but in the mid 10s the seem to get much more expensive and not really outstanding. From then I mainly bought Renaults / Dacias and they have been the best selling versions of cars and award winning rightfully so IMO. VW is going to lose 100K jobs in the next few years and close several factories. Spain seems to be their preferred manufacturing base and I do like the Cupra brand too. Hope Skoda in Chechia survives as they are a great people and a joy to visit. Cool Skoda trams too..... Volkswagen has won the European Car of the Year award multiple times. [1] Winning Models Volkswagen Golf Mk3 (1992) Volkswagen Polo (2010) Volkswagen Golf Mk7 (2013) Volkswagen Passat (2015) [1, 2, 3]

Wow, some journey....... A standard Volkswagen ID.Buzz has set the world record for the most countries visited in a continuous journey by an electric car – covering 61,992 miles across 92 countries in 445 days, including “more than 300” charging cycles. Technical inspection service TÜV Nord, which assessed the vehicle on its return, certified the battery state of health at almost 96 per cent. Last year, European Rally Champion, Miko Marczyk, managed 1,759 miles on one tank of diesel in a largely unmodified Skoda Superb – driven from Poland to Paris and back. Following this, a team in Colombia drove a Nissan Qashqai e-Power more than 1,200 miles in one hit, setting the record for the longest distance driven without refuelling or recharging in a non-plug-in hybrid. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/id-buzz/370469/volkswagen-id-buzz-sets-massive-ev-distance-record

Tesla has bigger battery and more range but BYD charges quicker. Along with Mercedes trucks lets hope they compete and there is batter products. Both BYD and TESLA are masters at putting in infrastructure of course but dealing with the UK electricity network linking is oft a problem but both are also major battery pack producers so should be able to add 20 or 40 foot mega packs BESSs to support the 1.5 and 1.2 MW charging to keep down time low.

BYD showing its new ETT electric 44 tonne, 1000 hp and charging at 1.5 MWs, truck to compete with the TESLA semi, only 40 tonne, being launched in to Europe and compete with Mercedes Electric trucks already on sale.

Rules of origin are quite involved and if Chery are just screwing a few big bits together the cars will not count as UK origin and not entitled to go to European mainland without paying duty. I was auditing at our Hailwood warehouse as well as Midlands ones that supply Solihull and Wolverhampton and there is lots of non UK and non European major parts going into JLR cars but if this is a virtual whole Chinese kit being put together here in the UK, or in the Slovak JLR factories then the origin to have preferential status or even avoid penalties for being Chinese will be quite a calculation and planning. Did watch most of the video, did have a speculative feel about it. Hope we get some UK jobs from such operations. More interested to see how the £4B Tata battery factory in Somerset gets along. UK needs to be more proactive in customs duty so China, India etc are forced to add at least half the value of these cars in the UK IMO.

Dont think that £37k includes the shipping cost or 10% customs duty on the import value ie item cost plus shipping and 10% of that total. Perhaps EU and UK need to whack Anti Dumping and or Countervailing duty on hybrids as well as EVs from China. Dont think that £37k includes the shipping cost or 10% customs duty on the import value ie item cost plus shipping and 10% of that total. Perhaps EU and UK need to whack Anti Dumping and or Countervailing duty on hybrids as well as EVs from China.

Maritime is a tough one in that we would sail for a month some times without refuelling and then if somewhere not cheap we would only bunker half fuel to await docking at somewhere with cheap fuel, use to be the Persian Gulf but go in there are you may not be able to get out for months. Whilst the main engine is diesel strictly speaking we are not burning diesel fuel as most know it. We burn Residual fuel in a massive diesel engine with bores of circa 1m and strokes of 2m or so. The fuel is thd crap left when all thd good stuff, kerosene, petrol and normal diesel has been removed. It's thickness is so bad it is closer to water in Specefic Gravity than normal diesel. We have to heat it to 100 C just to pump it and we centrifuge it ourselves to remove some nasties then we feed it to the injectors which are also tens of times bigger than car ones. At least the oil industry has somewhere to send this crap fuel but even the CMA, Maersk, MSC etc are trying to get away from diesel and move to LNG but we will also probably see nuclear powered merchant ships coming along soon in numbers. My apprenticeship in marine engineering covered diesel and steam, including super heated steam we would make from the main diesel engine exhaust stack, most efficient ICE on the planet bar none I understand ie well over 50% thermal efficient abd running on crap that cost $100 a tonne. Did not really expect to see nuclear become mainstream in merchant navies. Around the generator set than ran off the super heated steam from the diesel exhaust were lines or daisy chained paper figures which might indicate a super heated steam leak which you would not see as you can only see steam once it starts to condensate. Also banned was whistling ad that was the other clue to super heated steam leak. That coukd earn you a spanner, large one, whacking you on the nack of your head. Strategic reserves are at an all time low so even if Middle East Gulf resumed output in a few months the reserves need refilling so diesel and petrol prices are not coming down until well into next year at the earliest. I predict that the UK government will reduce the Excise tax from 52.95p per litre by about 4.2 p per litre so it should come down by about 5p a litre but as we know oil companies, and energy companies, just appear to soak up any reductions and add it to their profits !!!

Once plastic cracked out then diesel etc will still been need in maritime and very cold climates abd where the pollution they create is not affecting population centres. We will need hydrocarbons for backup generators occasional use when we get a perfect storm of low sun and wind which is why we need more tidal which is the most reliable after nuclear energies normal operation of providing the 22 GW or so the UK needs.

Steel is a declining material with aluminium and composites on the up. Energy we all agree is an area that needs addressing and the UK has been slow to bring more nuclear, solar, tidal and wind online and we are paying the price for that due the failure of previous UK governments to get things built so UK industry can benefit from UK made electricity rather than buying in Middle East gas and oil. Things are getting sorted with numerous 1 GW wind farms coming on line, more battery storage, tidal ie 5 GW Severn estuary, the Great Glen hydro storage 9 GWh. I notice several bits of my Renaults are plastic panels when I thought they might be steel and there is a huge use of recycled material inside too. France got sorted with its nuclear power ie nearly 50 sites and hence electricity much cheap in France. Hinkley Point and Sizewell should be enough with their 6 GWs as well as the extended other nuclear sites and added to solar, tidal and wind, with lots of BESS we should be in a good place in the next few years just shame we did not start these projects sooner. Add to this the massive adoption by individuals which will release Grid capacity to industry as individuals become more self sufficient for their home use as well as charging their EVs from their own solar generation and battery storage.

Many forget that the individual states do their own taxation in addition to Federal taxes hence Californian prices far higher than many of the Red Neck states. Gather diesel is over $7 for 4 litres in Calfornia but then they really want people to go electric hence their financial support. Texas is an interesting state as it biulds to probably overtake California one day. California $4.3T, Texas $3T GDP. Trump cannot do a lot as Excise is only 24 cents per 4 litres, 6 cents per litre but Trump would not want to cut that tax as the Federal accounts are in such a bad place and help out individual states with their General Sales Tax collection. Screwed.

They don't need to be banned as they will / are simply becoming uneconomical and add to that an increasing availability problem with diesel those such elements will / are sealing the fate of diesels first and then petrol cars. Shadow fleet is massive and that does not include the huge amount that China, India buy and then refine. We will see what Venezuela actually manages to put on the market. If users want to pay a huge amount to buy a diesel ie the German marques, Land Rover and one can understand some of the logic ie driving on German Autobahns and farm /estate work but EVs are even encroaching on that territory but it has not been a priority over mass market sales and looking at the mass job reductions at German marques and JLR it is looking at the right choice even though the Chinese market, biggest in the world, is just about saturated with EVs now so they are gearing for more exporting. AI response on Shadow Fleet. (Venezuela now OK presumably) The global shadow fleet—comprising opaque, aging, and often uninsured tankers used to circumvent Western sanctions on oil from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela—is estimated to number between 1,300 and 1,500 vessels. [1, 2] Size and Capacity Total Ships: Analysts and monitoring groups like TankerTrackers.com estimate the active dark or shadow fleet totals roughly 1,468 to 1,529 vessels. [1, 2] Global Share: This armada accounts for roughly one-fifth (18.5% to 20%) of all global oil tanker capacity. [1, 2, 3] Carrying Capacity: Combined carrying capacity exceeds 200 million deadweight tonnes (dwt). [1] Trade Volume: These ships move an estimated 65% to 70% of Russia's seaborne oil exports, alongside sanctioned shipments from other nations. [1, 2, 3]

Diesel cars are only about 50% efficient at converting the energy in the fuel in to motion, at best. EV are over 90% at doing this. Energy density of hydrocarbon fuel is high but EV batteries are improving at a very fast rate, they were about 200 Wh/Kg but that has about doubled in the last few years and looking like doubling again plus rapidly falling cost. Diesel is going to be as dead as the Dodo soon. What was it about 4% new car sales according to the SMMT last month. A small blip upwards as buyers realize that diesel models are soon to be be discontinued so some die hards bought their land rovers etc before the model production is stopped to be replaced by electric versions. As well as the cars themselves there is increasing chatter that even the availability of diesel is going to be a problem in the weeks, months and years ahead with Trump pleading with Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil and gas plants because of the world wide shortage shortage of diesel fuel. Diesel power vehicles could be even more efficient with more use of hybrid tech, heat pumps etc but they are already expensive, heavy etc and adding more tech will make them even more expensive whereas EV are much simpler and therefore cheaper especially as we have moved on from NMC chemistry to LMP, Na and solid state.

The UK version of military fleet support.

Been on quite a few RFA boats and they were trained with us doing tge standard merchant navy engineering and navigation 4 year training. Fuel transfer seemed to be mainly kerosene ie Av Gas for the gas turbines Royal Navy ships and they can go thru their safe level of fuel in a few days where the diesel vessels can usually go several weeks on their onboard fuel such is their efficiency of fuel use.

Have not seen any recent updates date with Anazon but mulyblad works for one of the other big parcel operators. They are developing optimal tactics and they face similar issues with thd more remote areas and electric vehicles. In urban areas the EVs are clear winners increasingly on cost with diesel prices going thru the roof. The tri county area here, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire have some remote places to deliver too. Not so bad in summer but the challenge comes more so in winter time. With ranges on the EVs lower the ICE vehicles have advantage with all the waste heat they produce where EVs ecen with heat pumps have significant range reduction and running costs narrow but eith vastly elevated diesel cost the numbers need to be re run. My lads company will open up intermediate depots during the winter months. The reason I suspect are several and the busier times with Nov, Dec, Jan sales as well as travelling issues are all factors. But as above each year the EV vans are getting 10 to 20% better range but also cheaper whereas ICE vehicles seem to have pretty much flattened in their performance though i am trying to read up on the next generation of hybrids but the jury seems to be out on just how good they are compared to full BEVs.

Is that what a reliable source is saying about the ferries range? Like most electric vehicles its performance could be much less in the winter than summer unless they have a batteries condition routine in the winter time to get the batterues in tge optimum temperature like we do with our EV cars that have battery preconditioning. Oil driven ships gave RAS, replacement at sea, military vessel ms oftvhave woeful ranges compared to merchant vessels. Good thing about Electric vehicles in the battery tech, energy density ans lower costs are heading up for density and down for costs by about 10 to 20% per year so any shortage in performance in the battery pack could be addressed quite quickly. It is not like marjne diesel engines which are generally in for the life of the vessel and scrapped with the vessel.