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More than I thought, my bad. Your quote 2020 data which was a peak and Canada has been slipping down the car producing ladder with it only a bit ahead of the UK paulty 1M cars but UK produces significant high value cars, Aston, Bentley, Mclaren, Rolls as we as mainstream like Nissan. All the companies you mention, maybe with Stellantis having some future with some cheap EVs, are "legacy" auto makers with products which are showing to be less desirable to buyers as we see Toyota losing best selling car from their Camry to the Tesla Model Y, Honda in big trouble with models not selling. Ford, GM, and Chrysler (Stellantis) all with inventory issues and been producing cars at a loss. Canadians buying TESLAs made in US, China and probably will from Mexico when that TESLA factory opens. Sad but countries need a TESLA plant and a supply of real cheap Chinese cars for the low end of the market which are too cheap to make in a high earnings economy.

Sounds like dealer's grumbling that they bought the wrong stock and now got high inventory. Canadian car production, what car production, a few US models is all they have ever produced. Maybe Canada can help get cars from China to Europe via Pacific with tesla, mg now shipping via round South Africa route. EV manufacturing is solving cold temperature running and range with significant improvement year on year.

Small English company owned by an Indian company, sounds a bit like Land Rover. Only 30 out the thousand electric buses TfL have. Expect they may find it difficult to get more orders. Optare Metrodecker 1050 bus.

Gully, get it. Is it creating a trench in the pavement or a cable guide which is raised on top of the payment ? Has to be one or another ?

EVs go mass appeal......................

2/3 year and 60K miles for VAG cars ? Hyundai and Kia 7 years. My Renaults 5 years and 100K miles. Both the full EV and the mild hybrid. Had a turbo go on my 30 month old Audi A4 and it was a nervous warranty claim as car had done 65k miles. VAG warranty does not back up the brands supposed high engineering standards.

Yes I do get involved in the saving sessions. It compares with "ones normal usage" so difficult to save much if one does not normally use much lecky between say 1700 and 1830. But Octopus pay an enhanced rate even if one only saves half a kWh. They would have had to pay some high rate to use a fill in power, Drax or some standby hydrocarbon station so they prefer to give it to customer making savings than standby stations burning stuff. Quite a small difference but something and I have yet to get the whole house switched over to batteries for these periods which I will get one of my daughters electrician boyfriends to do at some point.

All naturally aspirated cars. Most road have been turbo for the last ten years or so and they would have coped much better. Clarkson does like being dramatic. Aero piston engines in ww2 would typically operate at 20k feet up, in minus 20C. I think some may have had superchargers.

It would have to have been a cappuccino machine for me, could not have coped with just expressos. It must have felt a little like the part of the film the Martian.

Again you are giving a partial jaundiced view of what actually happened. The crew had lightweight portable solar panels and wind generators and yes ICE powered generator and I would have taken one or two of those as well as a secondary or tertiary backup when public charging and renewable charging was not enough and as an extra safety feature, nobody wants a Captain Oates scenario. A great technical feat IMO.

I really like the spec of the Ariya, bit pricey in the UK and I have been waiting for a bigger battery version of the Megane-E which is the Ariya's sister in the Alliance parts sharing scheme. Megane-e not all models got heat pumps where Zoe does so in winter some Megane-E users not getting any more miles range than I am in my slightly smaller battery. A 75 kWh Megane-E, preferably with lithium Iron Phosphate battery tech would suit me, price under £40k to avoid luxury car tax. Renault has some interesting choices as to go Lithium on some cars, ie performance models of Alpine 290, Renault 5 and other variants. Perhaps do what TESLA have done and try and use LFP in base models now and pure Lithium in performance models. Not sure if we will see any sodium or other chemistries in 2024. Should be lots of choice including Dacia Spring coming later in the year to shake the market up.

First car, ICE or EV, to do this North Pole, magnetic north, toa actual south pole.... Change to the 39 inch, tyre radius not rim, no Ev power train mods.......

Octopus lecky charges seem to have stayed the same in to 2024. I had an Octopus Go 2022 tariff of 9p per kWh for 0030 to 0430 and then 29.91 p per kWh the rest of the time which I am happy with. Gas went up 7% or so to 7.35 per kWh so that will add up to a bit more but still very happy with Octopus and probably get a mile in the Zoe for 2.4p per mile as only getting around 3.8 miles per kWh rather than well over 4 miles, nearly 5 miles per kWh in summer. Last year of zero road tax, I presume they will want road tax upon renewal which for me is each September so Sept 2025. Cheap running costs, taxing and servicing, happy days. Should replace the horrible lead acid battery at the 3 year mark, would like to go lithium as I did with my motorcycle. Need some new tyres as OEs have done 16k now, only fronts need changing. Two referrals to Octopus done so £100 better off with that plus £10 Octoverse credit given by Octopus and earning of low energy usage during peak times kick back and Octopus Free spins have added about another £10 to my account. £300 in credit past mid winter so happy days. £125 per month DD.

Two very long bays for charging vehicle and trailer combos at Salmon's leap South Devon, just off the A38 trunk road......... Got to be best part of 15m long ie 50ft in old money.

Rishi was asked in parliament about the different levels of vat for domestic and public chargers, by one of his own MPs, and he did not even asked the question the spineless toad. A disgrace. Invent a new vat rate. Now we are not in the EU we can do what we like. Down to 10% would be a start for public charging. Tesla will destroy most competition soon probably. Maybe 20% vat on gas or a carbon tax.

Kia and many cars in Canada are 4 wheel drive to cope with winter driving. EVs are easier to make all wheel drive, cost wise. New Toyota Prius have a 4 wheel drive version, rear motor is tiny ie about 10 hp I recall, just to get the car moving or moving in snow, clever idea, Toyota not completely loss the plot it was good to hear.

Oh quite cheap is fossil juice. Car I hired a few years ago was a 2.4 litre kia sportage. Poor on fuel consumption compared to turbo version just starting to be released but fuel was much cheaper than UK so people were still buying gas guzzlers as they were couple of thousand CAN$ cheaper. What went along with that was poor range of the rental ice, less than 400 miles I recall. Subsidies for buying evs in 🇨🇦 and cheaper running costs. I would prefer an ev in southern Canada but would stick with ice in more northern areas of Canada.

Most of us splash and dash with EVs also, all i have ever done on expensive on route chargers and the use destination, visit or breakfast, lunch or dinner place chargers so very little actual having to stop to only charge. If in a real press then can eat my Ginsters on the move and drink my red bull but I try and avoid such driving pressures these days. Much rather drive in the evening, get a hotel, charge at hotel, destination or food, rest stops. EV manufacturers are rolling out 1000 km range car now and tech is improving some 10% per year whereas pure ice is going backwards with adblu systems adding cost and weight. ID4, like the Skoda EV, are not the best EVs in class hence VAG giving up for a while on EVs.

Exactly what I find with most other EV drivers, chargers. Not come across commercial van drivers, of which there are tens of thousands of commercial ev vans now as i would tend to give way to them to make their living. Do not know about Tesla drivers, suspect might be a few nobs amongst them who have just moved to evs as a tax dodge which is one good reason but like to think there is more than that to it. As Zoe can charge at 22 kW AC with its Comealen charger it is little skin off my nose to release my DC charge and leap on to AC. Did not that some DC chargers auto release at full charge ie none to little charge happening so on can knick the charger off another car if it stops charging. Soul stops charging at 80% or 94% depending on model !

I gather than charging is pretty good in Canada along Highway 1 and those roads close the St Lawrence and 90% of Canadian live within a hundred miles of the US border ie along a strip just north of the 49th parallel or in Southern Ontario where I partly grew up, I am named after the river ie Lawrence not lol-lol as sister could not say Lawrence hence lol-lol. All along the St Lawrence anf Great Lakes shores and then out West to Vancouver Island there is charging at it has become an EV challenge to do the cross Canada drive, about 4400 miles or 7500 kms in metric money. Takes about a week to drive, as below 18 charge stops for a big battery ID4, Teslas have done it too. Five times more than the John O'Groats to Lands End by my maths. Only did the Calgary to Vancouver few years ago and that was quite a journey but that was via Banff and Jasper and not straight. May favourite country so far but I have yet to do NZ which could run Canada for top spot I reckon.

Ah the VAG water pump issue. Had it happen on my little 1.4 litre diesel, was just out of warranty and would have cost nearly £1k to fix, got it done for £750 by an ex Skoda dealership. All very well having a car that can do 70 mpg but when it is so difficult, time consuming and therefore labour expensive just to change a water pump, oh and you may as well change the thermostat and something else whilst you are down there the bill mounts up. So much more pleasant with a nice simple EV. Lithium prices dropped to one fifth of what it was at the start of 2023 so much cheaper battery pack will be on the way and therefore much cheaper EVs. No subsidies needed.

His engineering is putting audi, seat, skoda and vw and the other non Chinese car makers out of business. Customer service is not what some have come to expect and the best service comes from ev specialist mechanics some who travel to one's home. Generally reliable cars with a fractional of the servicing of ice cars from what I gave heard from ev specialist servicing guys. Hope 2024 brings me a salary sacrifice model 3 or Y, not decided but nice not to have to pays the luxury road tax on the std range model 3 now after the recent price cut to below £40k rrp.

Despite all the nay sayers like yourself TESLA will have the best selling car in 2023 and have shown the most powerful ICE car another drubbing down the quarter mile strip ie both cars over 1000 hp, ice car 500 lbs lighter and still drubed 3 nil.

Lithium battery tech rather than lithium iron phosphate so is charging to 100%, rather than 90 or even 80% either the right advice ? Zoe is lithium rather than LFP and full regen does not happen between 90-100 % so car is not so efficient anyways in this SOC. Bjorn Nyland once calculated the Zoe Ze50 useable battery at 45 kWh whereas Renault call it a ZE50, say it is nominal 52 kWh and actual 55 kWh, 4 different values. Depends where we measure the Watts going in or already in the battery and can be translated to traction power. 10% loss in and out, lost mainly as heat of course.

I have seen a few reviews that have pointed out the good charge stations that have properly considered disable and some reviews how other charge stations have clearly not properly consider disabled drivers but the focus has been pretty much only about wheel chaired drivers and nor about other disabilities At the Gridserve Mega stations there are reportedly Gridserve people on hand to help in all sorts of ways which is nice but we have a long way to go to have plenty of them around. Perhaps TESLA will do some of this, perhaps have students doing some helping out at the larger sites to provide general help.