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"She could not speed" ? Taking Amphetamines in public or private place is illegal in the UK since about the 1960s. Before then it was thought to be a good pick-me-up.

Up or down one is probably done for. I usually like to go up one more level above where most people are parking thinking it is a good idea. It usually fills up a bit more and I go back and the car I am using that day is surrounded. How about going up to the roof level, if there is one, good idea ? I usually shy away from those car parks on dis-used land and have no actually multi-store, perhaps they are the safest places ? NCP actually made their billions clearing bomb sites after WW2 and then charging people to park their new fangled cars. Ironic that car parks are now a place where tens of millions of pounds of cars can be destroyed in a few hours by fire.

I have learnt a couple of things. Big multistorey car parks are really biult and fitted out to a really low standard and that all cars are dangerous when burning as they store huge amounts of energy. Is it better to park at as low a parking space as possible as heat rises ?

And bloody difficult to get near to stociometric ratio.

There is diesel and DIESEL. Diesel is sometimes called heavy oil. Diesel we used for our generator sets was very different to main engine diesel which we burnt residual oil, diesel. Road diesel has a flash point of as low as 52C, which is not really hot just quite warm.

NOX has to have extra fuel injected at the same time as just NOX will only lean out the engine and blow it up.

The feedback of the TESLA semi, as they call it in the US, seeming to prove the ICE Truck experts yet again stuck in the past and as with cars it is increasingly looking like it will cost many truck manufacturers their business being so slow to adopt electrification. There are none so blind than those that can see. Tesla now recruiting for energy roll out in the UK. The only worry is that TESLA will be running up against the competition authorities which is sa shame when one gets penalised for being so good and allows mediocrity to continue. I hope Skoda, Octopus and Gridserve etc do manage to survive but against the might of TESLA is it difficult to see how. Sounds like Skoda is shrinking rapidly in China, where half the profits come from as failing to compete against TELSA, SIAC etc. EU to cry foul and saying state owned company infringing EU Anti-Dumping rules not too far away it may be ?

And all internal combustion engines have an efficiency less than have of electric battery/motors !!

Dig in to it and very few car parks have sprinkler systems, even ones that are under apartment blocks and parts of shopping centres, makes you think. Hopefully a quick change in policy and law needed here. Foam might be better and more suited than water maybe with the increasing percentage of EVs and it may be difficult to get header tanks of tonnes of water up on the top decks of this car parks whereas foam systems might be more practical interms of weight and space if not cost.

I notice all those thousands of solar panel as you go South on the M5 as one crests the hill to drop down to the M4/M5 interchange. Logical site for it, half way between Thornbury and Yate. 50 MW and 70 GWh per year are impressive stats. Well down South to get lots of the sun much of the year and it seems to be most on the southerly slope down to the Bristol area. Larks Green solar farm linked in to the Iron Acton substation and link to the National Grid, nice. https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-v5h951/Iron-Acton/?center=51.5891%2C-2.51839

What is equally important as generator cheap electricity from renewables is to supply it at the time it is needed/wanted. So solar and wind farms need to increasingly look at battery storage themselves and not assume that the grid will buy their lecky at 10p per Kw at any time of the night or day. Battery electricity storage modules is getting cheaper and cheaper so getting smart and selling it at the right times to make the most money is clearly the better business model. I gather that some suppliers can get over a £1 a kWh at peak times. I seem to recall Octopus was willing to pay me 2 or 3 quid for saving each kWh at those peak times and it was an opportunity to make a few quid. It is unreasonable, in my view, to expect massive grid upgrades just to facilitate producers who spike production as the wind is just at the optimum level. Hold it in batteries locally so it can be used when the wind dies down and it is needed more so and one might get a better price for it !

If those DC charging station providers could alter their charging structure to put off us plebs in Zoes they could discourage us in our Zoes so we, for example, go on to any AC chargers rather than use the DC chargers I could understand that. When I have gone on to an AC charger and if my little Zoe is drawing down say 25 or 30 kws I feel really bad if someone is waiting in their Audi e-tron GT or Porsche Taycan to charge and they would get 250 or more kW and get on their way quickly. The Zoe is the fastest charging car on AC, Zoes can charge at 22 kWs and sometimes 43 kW on AC chargers if they are some of the better ones and I would gladly either move over to the AC chargers, if they are there and free up a powerful DC chargers for those EVs that can use it. I have found the EV community super accommodating to each other, generally love to chat to each other about each other's cars, share experiences, keep on chatting to past the finish of charge time and no snobbery if one is driving an Audi, Renault or MG EV. Very not like ICE ownership experience that I have found. A lovely group of people. Hope I never meet the Taycan guy, what a plonker. 10 minutes in TESLA owner Rob Llewelyn states he can charge between twice and half as quick again as his TESLA on AC......

Insurance does not work this way. (Unless it is the worry is so great that an EV fire is going to burn lots of non-EVs too I suppose ? ) As the Swedish national study shows there of their cars, where EVs already make up about 10% of cars in Sweden (but now 30% in Norway) and stats show EVs are about 20 times less likely to self combust. As EVs move from being powered by Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries rather than Lithium (only), which is LiFePh is becoming the normal battery chemistry fires in EVs is dropping even lower than the 5% of the comparative risk compared to an ICE vehicle.

What would have been the price of a sprinkler system compared to the value of the cars lost in the fire ? Sounds like circa £1M for a large car park. https://www.business-sprinkler-alliance.org/views/details/requirement-for-sprinklers-in-car-parks-an-outstanding-issue#:~:text=Initial estimates of the cost,the city as a whole. Value of cars ? Say £10k average. 1500 cars. £15M and then the cost of rebuilding the car park and its lost of revenue for months, at least, to add a few million to the cost of the cars but then the car park owners are probably not compensating the owners for the loss of the cars that will come from personal car insurance ? With 1500 cars most will be comprehensive insurance, some TPFT and some not insured at all maybe. I think most people would pay an extra 5p an hour, £1 a day to park in a car park with fire suppression systems. Question is whether water sprinkler is optimum for EVs as we know foam should work better with electrical fires.

Great video. Large scale study, EVs twenty times less likely to catch fire.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinia he left the 3rd tablet back on the mountain but it read " NEVER PAY RETAIL". If one needs to buy lecky at public charger then get a deal. I have probably done about 1% public charging. Using Octopus 🐙 Electroverse that means 20% discount and postponed billing, very nice thank you. 79p is a nominal amount people should not pay. TESLA will rip up this market and half lecky costs it is looking like.

Jaguar Land Rover are always down near the bottom of the reliability tables but they do make some impressive performance vehicles and anyone buying a JLR car should be aware of their fragility though fires are an extreme manifestation of lack of reliability. Just not surprised that ipace has this or any other biuld quality issue. They are a smallish company relatively speaking. I am more surprised at the relative failure of the ID 3 and 4 and sister vehicles by VAG group, considering their size, R&D etc. Poor sales as they do not compare well to many other offerings by other large car manufacturers an now high degradation of their batteries emerging which could seriously damage second hand values. All is not rosy in European car marking, except TESLA of course. EU will be tempted to stunt TESLA in any way they can to protect their key car industry I reckon.

Jaguar ipace quite a low volume car with only 60k sales in 5 years and EV buyers have started to view Jaguar as not a serious EV developing company I reckon, probably did not make Jaguar money, despite the race series. Car companies must continue to run a fleet of their own cars and look at retro fitting, recalling if needed and I think Jaguar, who I love as a company, I had a type S fairly recently and toured the F type factory, struggle to do the right things. Hope they can fix things but I do not think of Jaguar when thinking about EVs.

Not sure why you have posted a diatribe about EVs on a thread about Scottish EV charging but hey ho. The Lithium for most EVs is sourced from large open cast mines and only a tiny fraction from places like the Congo which use child labour and same for the small amount of rare earth metals which are no longer used by many of the EV manufacturers. Whilst you Yeti scraps through just under pollution levels for NOX and other pollutants it may well not get through when EUR7 is brought in in 2025. Every time you start your diesel engine it chucks several pollutants in to the air CO, HC, NOX, PMs. I have guessed it is a 110 hp 2 litre CR engine. https://car-emissions.com/cars/view/65739 Emissions CO2 emissions 115 g/km Carbon Monoxide 0.152 g/km HC Emissions N/A NOx Emissions 0.053 g/km HC+NOx Emissions 0.069 g/km Particulates Emissions 0.05 g/km People with Asthma and other breathing conditions can be triggered elevated levels of air pollutants. In South Yorkshire traffic is slowed down due to the air pollution. Today the air quality in Huddersfield is not great with the still-ish air and many polluting vehicles running around. https://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/huddersfield/hd1-5/air-quality-index/331297#:~:text=Fair,-36 AQI&text=36 AQI-,The air quality is generally acceptable for most individuals.,symptoms from long-term exposure. Technology moe forward and yes you are right in that a decade or so it was thought CO2 was the big air pollution issue but that has moved on to include NOX, HC, CO and PMs. In most advanced countries governments are heavily subsidising EVs from everybodies taxes to try and reduce air pollution. A figure of 40,000 foreshortened lives in the UK and millions world wide due to air pollution. The UK government subsidising of EV purchases and paying subsidies for home chargers has largely gone but even this "conserving" UK government gives massive tax subsidies for EVs via the salary sacrifice provision effectively giving hundreds of pounds per month to those that obtain EVs via that scheme plus they have now upped the Heat pump subsidy from £5k to £7.5K in England. Even they see the importance of driving down air pollution. Fortunately the take up of EVs is remaining on a good course, despite the Con government back peddling and all the ridiculous anti EV press as UK EV owners can making up their own minds without the crap from The Sun, Express, Mail and Telegraph. You may be disappointed in believing diesel engined vehicle will be allowed on roads for much more than the next decade and they almost certainly will not be an economical choice as electricity for cars continues to be a fraction of the price mile per mile plus servicing and road tax expenditure is also much cheap plus EVs are just more pleasant to drive. Had a SEAT with the 2 litre DSG CR engine and all my petrol hybrids and my EV are much more pleasant to drive. Hope we can convince you to move to EV, or at least petrol hybrid and ditch the dirty diesel and you drive it to Scotland and find some nice cheap places to charge it up.

It is a shame that replacement, larger capacity battery packs foe LEAFs and Zoes are not offered as the cars are often in good nick and as the battery packs, at least in the Zoe, are the same size whether 22, 40 or 50 kWh and now should be much cheaper in real terms compared to what it would have been for the battery pack years ago the ide of dropping in a battery pack double or twice the size into the older LEAF or Zoe would be grand. I suppose the electronics or some electrical components might not be happy with a double or triple sized but I gather a few have been done, certainly in the US, and got round the issues of the battery upsizing. May not be worth it if one can pick up a second hand 52 kwh Zoe for not much over £10k, 3 year old and certainly in the Zoe the hp has doubled in that time and similar, and even more, for the LEAF I think from the hp numbers I have seen. Alternative, like Bjorn Nyland did, is to get someone to locate any defective individual cells and bring the car back up to near original capacity as it is oft just the odd cell going down.

Another very pleasant charging session at the Ionity chargers on the opposite side of the motorway of the recently refreshed Mayor Service near Newport South Wales. I use my Electroverse (Octopus) RFID card and get a bit of discount for paid 63p per kWh. Good site with a Subway there for the loo stop and drink and food if required. Super fast charger, way beyond what my Zoe can take so I started getting 45kws with the battery at 39 % which dropped down to 30 kw about 15 minutes later (but I was off at Subway anyway) when I unplugged with 56 % or so level showing. Q4 e-tron charging next to me, two spare spaces and I see plinths for another 6 chargers when demands go up to need the extra bays which are already marked out. He was getting well over 100 Kw even with my Zoe parked on the same pair of chargers. He was Octopus Electroverse customer too. The an Audi e-tron GT pulled in. Apparently just a day old, Q4 e-tron was 3 weeks old. GT driver no Octopus RFID or Ionity App so had to download it, I thought it would have the contactless card option but apparently not. So just over a £5 on the Electroverse account, spent more time yabbing than having the charger in as really just wanted another 40 miles of range to give me a good buffer and use up a quid of free credit I still had on my Electroverse car but the idea of it all just going on my household account, which is still £240 in credit with the light summer usage, even though only paying £125 pm in the last couple of month, it is like have a fuel card where you do not at the time but pay less and at some future date, great ! Another great charging experience, no waiting, charger far faster than my car will take and a subway 50m away. Eventually I will get frustrated with the Zoe only charging at 45 kw when under 50% charge level and then only 30 kw or so between say 55% and 80% and then will want a faster charging car at sometime but happy for now.

My Allpower s2000 Pro weighs 14.5 kgs so not heavy. Could pack 2, 3, 4 in the boot. Most of these units can daisy change one way or another too. Put an extra psi in the rear boots and no issue.

One just needs a similar sized battery unit though the market for these still need honing in on the perfect size, output and weight. Unit needs to be able to put out close to 3 kws and have a capacity of about 3 kwh and maybe take some 400w foldable solar panels which do not take up too much room. EVs will oft go well beyond zero miles range but drop in to turtle mode around that zero miles but many do a dozen miles or more beyond zero These units are following a similar rapid technological improvements in energy density and quick falling cost. I will be looking to add to my Allpower 2000 pro with 2.4 kW inverter and better than the 1.5 kwh battery which is on the small side. Like EVs the tech progress with batteries is awesome Nd they can hold electricity downloaded at 9p per kwh which will give 4 or 5 miles for each 1 kwh, nice.

There are cars on the road without over the air updates ???!!! How do their satnav work with any reliability ??? Renault have had for years. If you dig in to the Media Nav system one can see the EE details. My Satnav, which is a mixture of Google and TomTom apparently will even show me a picture of the building I am heading for. It must give Renault heaps or information on where I eat, hotels, shopping. Worth a fortune to sell on I would think. Might even give me a good alibi sometime in the future.

Sweeping generalisation. The Renault Zoe, along with the LEAF the founding EVs in Europe has a quite compact and bijou driver display and centre consol tablet, about 9 inch corner to corner, it has knobs for the climate ie blower power, temperature and directing air feed, several other button as well for eco mode, air conditioning override, lights height adjustment, all the windows up and down, mirror controls to name some of them. Not at all gratuitously weird and similar to my Mark 3 Octavia and other cars before it. The console in front of the driver is quite this decade but it is what I would expect from any newish car, EV, hybrid or just plain old ICE. Just amazes me that people with so little knowledge get to expound their miniscule knowledge to such an wide audience. As we say at sea " empty vessels make the most noise".