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Just okd enough to remember the introduction of the 55 mph speed limit in the US in the 70s to preserve ftek stocks. Amazing that vehicles generally fave not improved that much that a new 55 mph limit is being discussed for this oil crisis. Some get it wrong that aero drag is a square ratio of drag to speed when it is in fact a cube ratio. Tyre hysterysis / drag is a square ratio. But travelling at 55 makes as much as a 20% to as much as 50% difference in some vehicles. Plus the aero assistance of a bit of drafting but just don't like to get too close, something like 20 -25m I think hs close enough.

Indeed. Pleasantly surprised how many miles than caf predicts when one goes in to ultra efficient mode. Was in South Wales in the R5, granddaughter loves the iridescent yellow 5 but literally had no apparent margin, thought about doing the A road route home but wanted to see how my 40 kwh R5 performed getting down to 0% SoC. First few miles did not look good but a few miles sat cruising behind a truck doing 55 mph and soon there was a buffer restored. Upped the speed to the National Limit but still could not get the down to 0% SoC on that journey. If have found range anxiety not an issue in 5 years except on one journey back from Felixstowe to Worcester. Even then the Scenic did 11 mikes past 0% SoC bring shown before limited performance warning came up. Mini Cooper might be different as 0% might mean 0% ! Mini and R5 boot is tiny but Scenic is 550 litre. Good to see the Polo e, Raval and Epiq have really good boots abd rear seat space. Think they will be good sellers.

For those planning to live in their current house for many years to come they are choosing the path to go big on solar on the roof and batteries. I am planning to move in a year or so therefore want all my solar generation and batteries portable so I can take them with me. Boils down to what deal and personal finances on the monthly payments and also taking into consideration energy running cost, insurance and servicing. Monthly payment is usually the biggy and stands out as the annoying one. Renault 5 deal felt good as it was on a 0% finance deal and the option to buy I think it going to be attractive at the end of the PCP. Energy running costs are now negligible and I find servicing about half to a third of the cost of my previous ICE cars and my insurance is low and gone down again this year. My Scenic monthly is quite high and I am considering what to do with that in terms of partly paying off the PCP or trying to trade it in if I can get a good price now EVs are in greater demand with the ongoing fuel crisis for ICE cars. I could get a new Scenic for about £100 a month less than I am paying due to Renault lowering their prices and the fact the Scenic, like the 5, gets the bigger £3,750 discount, battery packs now being built in Poland or France, on new buys which will effect second hand residuals of course. My bank, Lloyds, sent me an email saying they could see I was paying Renault finance each month and could offer me a cheap load but it was only 5.7% when Renault did me 4.9% so not tempting. So EV running costs continue to go down and if one does go down either of the two routes to generate and store one's own electricity and use that then it is an option to further insulate one's self from price hikes in energy and fuel going down the track. I choose to continue to develop my "portable" battery storage and portable solar arrays. Could even take portable batteries in the car as Bjorn Nyland does when he does his zero miles test ie run it until completely out of juice, or actually BMS says no more. He is using a pair of 2 KWh Ecoflow units but this area is improving all the time and I think portable units with 3 KWh + output and 4 KWh storage are coming out so carry 8 KWh will become easy. Looking like Q3 energy prices wont be too bad which is a relief and keeps the EV running costs way down, as Elvis would say.

I think there are some that are still on a single rate tariff. If you worked night suppose you would have a problem. We have 3 EVs for a 2 person household and with GO the two smaller batteried EVs can get a full charge, almost, during the 5 hours of cheap charging but my Scenic would take almost 2 nights to charge from empty to full. Just chatting to someone down my avenue and he gad the 87 / 92 kwh Scenic so he would take two and a half nights to fully charge. Think I would try and get 3 phase if I had a really large batteried car or another solution, batteries, full roof solar or the like.

Absolutely. Biggest one for me is me and other EV owners buying the super cheap electricity to charge our cars ie Night time when electricity is so cheap as because others don't or can't buy it at this time. Phrased by some that we are doing something underhand. It is simply buying whrn it is commercially cheap and using it when we need it ie that next day time or in the following days. This is fired back at us as if we are have a whole bunch of silver spoons ! The one distinguishing factor i find with EV owners is that gave thought through the matter of transportation choices !

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.

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