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I have been involved in mass customs declarations out of bonded/customs warehouse, thousands of cars in one go. The European cars will have no customs duty under the EU Trade Cooperation Agreement and Import VAT can be put to Postponed VAT Accounting meaning no cost of tax import but no EU, and it not covered by any other Preference Agreement would be subject to the 10% Ad Valorem customs duty based on the landed cost of the car. Be interesting as to what that value is compared to UK RRP. So a big amount for BYD, Geely, SAIC etc to pay and they will want to get those tens of thousands of cars sold to customers, renters, mobility or whatever outlet they can and they should be a relative bargain. The Bristol Portbury docks can contain well over 30k cars and there a several similar sites I have also worked at ie Immingham up on the Humber. Not all EVs of course but there will be all the vans etc as well which logistics companies would likely snap up by the thousand. I would not be surprised to see the 1 in 4 cars being EVs go to 1 in 3 in December.

Still think our recharging is the most elegant but I gather Stockholm has got the in the road system in trails now. Also the temp tram system between Frankfurt and Darmstadt is pretty cool too. About 25s in.....

-5 seconds? TESLA predicted the power cut ? I knew TESLA software was good but that is impressive. Do you mean 5mS ? I wonder if KRAKEN and TESLA software is going head to head anywhere ? Kraken did support Williams F1, lots of air time with them usually crashing. Maybe next season it will look like a good investment with Carlos driving for them. I was just happy Renault/Alpine got sixth and the 95M USD. Must look in to some UPS stuff and security stiff too.

Panana 100w portable solar panel setup I added to my arrays couple of weeks ago, all the connectors, folds in to a nice carry case one can take away. I got for £40 as was further reduced in Black Friday. May well go under £40 in January sales. Might get another two sets so they can go in series as some of my solar generators will take 60v open voltage. As for batteries just also bought a £119 half a kwh with 500W inverter, no longer available, fin for low to medium device ie 60 inch telly etc. It did not like power the fridge freezer at it is the startup spike that knocks it out. For the beastie application I have an Allpower S2000 Pro. Will run at 2400 W for a while, chargers at 1500 W and has a 1.5kwh battery. had mine a couple of years and is now being superseded by their R series solar generators. Also have a Bluetti EB180 ie 1.8 kwh battery, only can run at 1 Kw but good and silent ie no fan noise most the time. I believe the EB240 can be found at a silly price under £400 for a 2.4 kWh battery which is good if you are not powering stuff over 1 kW usually. I am looking at the next size of beast, maybe the R3500 All power but I keep an eye on Ecoflow, Amazon refurbs particularly and even Jackery. Best deal should emerge from Boxing day onwards I reckon.

And they are superb. The versions that are in the house rather than garage or outside wall are that they produce a bit of incidental heat when charging and discharging. Also they stop the use of those dirty peaker plants. I believe pay back is more like a few years rather than a decade or two with Solar but then the price of panel is dropping fast as well. Well under a hundred quid for a 625w panel now !!!

Many miss the real way to win. Get batteries, or more precisely so called solar generators, download lecky at 8p a kw at night, use instead of lecky at 25p a kwh during the day. These batteries are now about £100 for a half kwh, solar panels of 100w for £40 and falling all the time. I use for fridge freezer mainly but lots of other devices. Solar panel is use are portable ones, lightweight and easy to point towards sun and i will take with me when I move house. Batteries I have up to 2 kwh and can run devices up to 2 4 kws. Nice to know I have them for power cuts which are becoming for frequent due to these more frequent violent storms.

Damn, just been an Octopus saving session between 6 pm and 7 pm and I missed it. refunding 60p. Probably do not use much in that time slot anyways, probably about 0.5 a kwh so no real lose.

Guy is a no naught pillock. As someone from the Devon & Cornwall peninsula he is strengthening the story we are thick Wurzels sadly.

He quotes the brands and models that are failing or, like MG, being targeted at the UK as we are out of step with EU and other countries who have introduced massive countercailing tariffs. On the website for Renault Scenic buyers they are screaming for the dealers to get their cars cleared through Portbury docks Bristol ASAP.

Zoe had been showing 4.7 miles per kwh today after a reset this morning. Have been getting 4.9 when slightly warmer, 5 is so difficult to keep on the screen for the Zoe. Generally pleased.

Bless me Father for i have sinned. With the colder weather i was a few miles short of my required range so I popped in to Frankley Services, went up to the TESLA V4 charger banks and took some of the Devil's juice. Super easy, Zoe only charged at 45 kws i presume but I add 23 miles in 6 minutes and it cost me £2.30 according to the screen. Took £20 as deposit but should get the £17.70 back before the weekend i suppose. Those V4 did not accept American Express oddly, will get on to one of my daughter other half who works for Am Ex as that is my weapon of choice. I can see why the Teslarati like all things TESLA. Screen was a bit small for my fading mince pies and I prefer to drive in rather than reverse in. Cable and plug easy to use. 9 out of 10 i reckon. Price was about 50p a kwh i think, hikes at 1600 hours but I was there about 1530 so got the off peak rate. Hope both Gridserve and TESLA tie up with Electroverse, another 8% discount would be good too. Ionity still my favourite i think but nice to know TESLA chargers are very good

Also as more evidence has emerged in has shown that those systems designed on the drawing board do not actually work. The Catalytic Convertor has been shown to not do what it is suppose to as on a cold winters day, with the rain splashing up from the road tge Cat I'd not up to temperature so whilst that ICE maybe able to be relatively clean is actually spewing out pollution at several times the allowed limits ie 80 mg/km for diesel and 60 for petrol. This was becoming a big issue pre Covid but went quite during Covid but now should be looked at again in companies insist on 5 days a week attendance in work IMO. I am not anti full hybrid. We have the Clio hybrid in the family and when my lad and I went to see Swansea FC at Swansea we took tge hybrid. Heads of the Valleys road. Distance a bit much for my EVs on roads I could not see had good charging stops. The hybrid did lots of driving on battery, recharging down those big Welsh hills, the waste heat from the engine gave us all the heat we wanted and more. Yes it was relatively expensive on fuel but we are both insured to drive it and it was a pleasant drive. I am not anti ICE engined cars but I would like all new ones to have a big dose of hybrid like the new Superb with its 20 kwh battery and I like the 1.5 TSI engine.

Indeed and we get some hydro from Norway which i think is pure hydro in the main but the pump storage is very attractive if you get the right conditions. The Snow river 2 scheme is more than 10 time more energy storage than Coirs Glas, that is truly massive. Some losses in pumping back up and then re releasing but I think I heard it was about 80% efficient cycle and better to do this than just turn off the wind turbines when they are generating. With battery storage and hydro energy storage we can hopefully smooth out both the daily peaks and trough but weekly and low wind dips too.

As is occuring around the world major hydro projects are being progressed so they can store the generated power from solar and wind for use by homes, industries and EV in the future to help make the UK economically a cheap energy place as low carbon. Over three times larger than the UK's most impressive engineering feat so far, Dinorwig, Coire Glas will be super impressive and I hope it going to do tours as Dinorwig use to do of the main turbines hall.

It an average figure, I like to flow along and that means letting the car freewheel down the hills doing well over 60, even 70 but then sometimes backing off to closer to 50 but never impeding trucks. That would not be good form and potential hazardous to me and others. Working in logistics important to get the goods to the customer. Don't think I would even do it to a DSV truck. Best economy is got with some speed flexibility I reckon though last time I let my DQ200 free wheel in eco mode it ended up at over 80 mph and picked up a speed awareness course. Watch out for Gloucester A417 off the Air Balloon, even royalty get nicked on that road.

Think he has with ICE and hydrogen cars which were some minutes faster. Bjorn tends to boot it, driving at the legal maximum and beyond. He is less focused on journey times than he could be say compared to someone like Batterylife guy who is down in Sothern Germany but despite having the world's fastest roads he has done good studies about optimum driving speed. For the Zoe with its 45 kw charging rate, despite 52 kw battery, he reckoned that about 90 kph was optimum driving speed on long journeys. I except my Scenic is not much more over 60 mph optimum both for time and cost ie avoiding as much public charging as possible. The tortoise and the hare can still ring true, is it turtle 🐢. "You turn a turtle over on its back in the hot desert, your not helping it, why is that ? This are just questions, they are written down. (Bladerunner)

On the other side of the coin the EVs with slightly bigger than average and quick charging speeds are showing that EV charging can make only a few percent difference than a very good petrol car, in this case an Acura (Honda V6 turbo). US coast to coast, over 3000 miles. Boston to Seattle on the i90. 44 hours 20 minutes for the Honda ICE but the Taycan only 2 hours behind and the other EVs between about 48 and a half for the cheapest TESLA ie the Model 3 LR Highland which costs about £35k in the US, think it is about £45K in the UK but obviously there are some great Salary Sacrifice deals for presumable around £400 a month. Now like to see this done on the Canadian Highway 1 which is closer to 5K miles ! Summary below start at around 3 hrs 10 mins. 3 driver teams I think to be safe. Porsche 800v architecture, like Hyundai and Kia have also a real plus I suspect. I would have an e-tron GT. Clients can be so negative if one turns up in a Porsche.

A well cooled lithium battery can start its charge at over twice the battery capacity 60 kW battery nominal, charging at just over 130 kWs meaning a C of 2.03. Yes it starts "throttling" back as it hits about 2/3rd full. Oddly the bigger 87 kW battery pack as in the Scenic, and Araya, starts significant throttling at 45%, ouch. Might be that it is much more tightly packed than by 63 kW battery pack and the cooling is less effective on the big battery, quite noticeable. Battery pack half as big again but charging best speed on 10% better and actually worse in the top part of the State of Charge. Since the smaller battery is a fe percent more efficient, not carrying about another 100 kgs of battery. Just need an excuse to do the longer journey and have the need to charge as these trips of 250 miles or less mean I do not have to public charge. Which is fine. Still waiting for Octopus to say whether the 8.5p per KWh is going up in January 2025, they do leave it very late each quarter.

As Renault we either have 22 kW AC or some have 43 kW AC but I think I would go and find a nice Rapid DC giving up to 150 kW DC which are quite common these days.

I think 150 kw charging is quite average now and should be the minimum for any installed new chargers. The average EV now is between 60 and 80 kwh batteries, yes about a quarter are below that and a quarter of above that but I gather about half are in the 60 to 80 kwh range so tree quarters with 60 kwh and above, even Model S of a decade ago are above 60. My smaller battery Scenic worked out as not a lot more than £30k so hardly expensive compared to most modern cars ie minis, Superbs etc. with the Scenic, and most Renaults, arrive with 7% or more. With mine 15 minutes will take it from 7% to 58%, itw ill still be charging at over 100 kWs but a good time to bog off as it will dip quite a bit when it gets in to the 60% ie at 70% it will be down to just over 90 kWs. remember to precondition which has to be done Google 12 App and it will not precon if battery is as low as 7% I gather. I find similar lithium battery response on my hope batteries, hate that first few percent and the BMS protects that the battery gradually increasing current and voltage. charge curve.pdfcharge curve.pdf

Usually enough time to get a decent charge on most EVs. Not my air cooled Zoe battery pack but the liquid cooled Scenic. 15 minutes, 30 kwh, 128 miles of driving, two hours until I would stop again. Many EVs can charge at twice the rate of my Scenic.

Sounds right. Much lower labour cost in CZ. SL even lower which it why it has the highest car production per capita in the world.

The BYD RRP is quite high but 49 months of 0% finance quite a deal. I think it will go for the Renault 4 rather than the 5. Much more room and I expect for roughly the same money. Hopefully they will give me some trade in on the Zoe. Whilst the Zoe was about £5k underwater in value it has been bouncing back quite a bit. Zoe has been so good with its range getting close to 5 miles per kwh. Probably get the LFP battery R4 which whilst having less range would siut V2L, V2G more than the pure lithium 52 kwh higher spec model. Looking forward to those launches next year.

Rolls Royce is BMW and Bentley is VW? Never sure i get those owners the right way round. If BMW and VAG need to sell those brands as they head towards financial losses as it is looking so one wonders where the ownership will end up ?

Also quite a few ICE cars are registered but do little mileage, older cars retained for the good memories etc. More oft EVs are going to driven extensively and the fact they are so cheap to pile the miles on to is also in their favour. My Zoe is like new, brakes hardly worn. When there VED rules come in I expect another round of hundreds of thousands of ICE cars being SORNed like my Type S was heading few years ago as the VED for a year was about what the car was worth. Stats can change quite quickly though there are usually hiccups for various economic reasons but the direction is inexorably towards EVs.