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Case of foot in mouth and sad an intelligent man as Sir K ws not informed properly by his aids but I find this endemic of many who speak on the subject, or their researchers, that have not done their homework. Scotland could be an absolute key for Labour gaining a majority in Westminster with up to about 30 seat being estimated that Labour could get in Scotland but not if my party makes such fundamental errors. Wind generation, and possibly tidal, particularly in the Scottish Islands, is looking likely to become a major industry for those areas. I will try and have a word with my prospective MP Tom Collins who is a zero energy expert and Westminster energy debate informer for Labour. Be interesting to hear what he says. "I’ve dedicated my business career to building the green economy by decarbonising heat. I head Bosch’s innovation team developing hydrogen-ready boilers, and I am an industry leader in hydrogen and zero-carbon heat. I speak publicly at various conferences informing the Westminster energy debate." https://vote.labour.org.uk/tom-collins

Much of the UK housing stock is of an age where the motorcar was not a commonly owned item and in these high density areas, unlike the countryside areas or post 1950s housing design it is the car that has not been considered not specifically EVs. Some of us you may regard as wealthy are actually from poor backgrounds and remember being poor.

Good but why out the two chargers in adjacent bay so limit the number of cars that can charge to two rather than 3 or 4 ??

Governments use Compulsory Purchase Orders all the time, particularly for road building but can pretty much buy any land they deem for the greater good....

I had heard that Somerset was going to win it but with half a billion of subsidies.

But I dont. It is quite common for companies,particularly London ones, especially linked to finance but many others too, get a week, a month or even a year or two worth of salary as soon as the new tax year begins. I got about an extra months pay and that was HMRC thought was a new salary, with my car allowance and despite siphoning off a grand to pension as tax avoidance still had me north of £130k pa pro data but this was a complete error and I wonder just how many thousands they also messed up which meant many had less money to spend which will mean much less money going in to the economy but then maybe a bit less UK government borrowing. BREXIT has been good for some, but potentially really bad for the 800K UK automotive jobs. France is building several battery factories and may even get a TESLA factory though my guess who be Spain. EU lucky to get the chance to buy the Dacia Spring which is proving to be a great seller behind the Model Y.

If it does I will add to my half a kilowatt of panels that I have, double, triple quadruple plus get some more batteries so less grid electricity will be sold. I can see a point arriving when some users give up on grid power and just make their own via solar, small wind turbines and maybe gas powered generators.

Less than 24 cms. Even my 2014 Clio mark 4 Nav S looked quite similar. Back in the days of either DVD or solid state memory maps rather than realtime Google maps in my Arkana and Zoe. I do agree the 17 inch screen in the TESLAs look overkill but these 10 inch screen, even maybe 12 inch, measured corner to opposite corner look OK to me. My near eye sight is not so good as it was so a nice sized screen is helpful to me, whether it is a tablet format or a bit wrap around, not that bother but flat is cheaper of course. I have had some petty big sat nav unit screens 7 inch and more I recall, did the job and nice and cheap.

On this planet, third rock from Sol, just a bit of a lateral thinker than most. Electricity is becoming cheap as it is becoming ever cheaper to make whether at one end with Wind Farms in the North Sea generating over a Gigawatt when running at full chat and there are several of those plus hundreds of other wind turbines in small coastal and on land installations adding several Gigawatts, so much that there is at time as much as 200 MW we just can use so have to twist the turbine blades to not provide torque to the turbines as there is not the battery, or capacity at Dinorwig to store the power for peak time later. 7.5 p per KW is my current nighttime rate, 40 p my day time rate so us as little as possible from the grid then and use my solar generator batteries charged with night time or solar power. Deal end in September me, current deal was 9.5p per KW hour for the cheap time but who knows what Octopus might offer in a few weeks time. Like I say what people get paid is never what they earn. Sometimes I earn several times more than I get paid, sometimes, not so much. These are strange times for many in the UK for "earnings", I was told no pay rise this year as you already get paid the maximum for the Analyst "Grade", warned my employer that market rate for a customs expert is close to £100k package and therefore could get an offer to go elsewhere leaving them with very little customs expertise but then a super massive French entity is being created by CMA, who also own CEVA, buying my employer to form a super massive logistics firm who will probably be top 3 in the world. UK tax is in an almighty mess as shown by the fact that I get no pay rise but a good bonus and then the muppets at HMRC think I am suddenly a 45% tax payer who should have no personal allowance, just because of one mult thousands bonus payment in a month, which is a very common UK payroll action. Taken weeks to sort out, get my tax free allowance back up to the circa £20k, place has gone to pieces since I left. People should not knock those who put thousands a month in to pension funds as it is used by those fund to invest in all sorts of projects including infrastructure. At least there are a few of us buying crapping UK Gilts, and probably French Bonds too. The UK is in a pretty bad place financially ie debt and UK 2 year Gilts at nearly 5% and France's debt at around 110% of GDP is concerning to international markets that both these countries are financial near the bottom of western league tables. I am a big Octopus energy fan and Martin Lewis mentions them a lot too but I also think Électricité de France SA have offered some stocking deals. My sister took out a three year fixed deal and it is so nice of French people to subsidise thousands of British customs but selling electricity probably below cost. Big fan of tax planning to as it a HMRC encouraged tax avoidance measure and now that fine Con party is allowing UK tax payers to put more than £40k a year in to tax free pension schemes, God bless them, they really look after those they want to Hell to those did not anticipate high inflation like I did a couple of years ago. We are going to see a replay of the early nineteen nineties nightmare under the Cons then as now, dreading renewing my mortgage next year

We will have to agree to disagree on the fairly small flat screen in middle. It means that LHD and RHD versions can use the same part by plonking it in the middle ie big cost saver, something done since the 850 mini was launched in about 1960. It is also useful if I am driving and I ask the passenger to plug in a new destination which they can do comfortably from their seat although the voice programming via Google also works most of the time. The passenger can also set their music, connect their phone, usually an Apple something and get their music off their phone. My passenger in the Zoe must have used the centre console screen to do numerous navigation and music actions by the passenger which is made so easy with this console where it is. I have my own formattable screen behind the steering wheel and change it to what I want to ie a version of navigation and/or instruments. I really like the Zoe's instruments and I do like the knows it has for temperature, air directing etc and will miss this when I move to a car such as a TESLA that does everything though the tablet and I will have to learn to command by voice rather than twiddle knobs. No big hardship for what these car give one, ie clean driving and grea perfromance.

Gatwick will soon have a Gridserve 36 stall recharge "village" where locals as well as airport visitors will be able to get a charge in great comfort. Lots of these coming in addition to the existing Braintree and Norwich ones. Plymouth will have one by Championship Team the Green Army's ground Home Park. EV owners will also have the choice to roll out a charge box, like the Allpowers R4000, to charge up in ones flat, take out to the car, give the car some charge from the charge box and hopefully we will get to some standard power cell and then one can just slot in a power cell, say with 50 miles of range, take it out at work to charge at your desk then take it back to your car to power one's journey home, all coming very soon with the pace this tech is surging forward and with electrical energy becoming so cheap. https://www.gridserve.com/electric-vehicle-charging/electric-forecourt/london-gatwick-electric-forecourt/

My company, until recently, owned Source London and they have many street chargers. Generally not in lamp post but stand alone posts which use single or three phase AC power to charge. We sold the business to Total who took it on. The posts are quite valuable, particularly the three phase ones and there are strict rules on how well protected ie cannot be knocked over by some car badly parking and knocking the post so quite a engineering and electrical task putting these in. May become less needed as EV car ranges continue to rise with the improved battery tech and drivers only need to charge at home and get the super cheap lecky via tariffs such as Octopus GO, Agile, Intelligent etc where they may get the energy for almost free or even be paid to take it. https://paperearn.com/free-electricity-in-the-uk/ https://octopus.energy/agile/ Price plunge where it goes negative.

We the UK or we the world ? Many countries of the world are way ahead of us for several reasons.

The Zoe is not one of the cars that can be used to electrically power a house, I use banks of solar generators to do which fulfill the function of taking in the solar power from the panels and store it for the night time and via dc/ac invertors I then have most of the AC I need for the daytime use ie fridge-freezer, laptop, lighting. With the thousands of EVs that my company ran in the Paris Blue Solutions scheme the end of life car batteries where mounted in to racks in container like shells and then oft used in moving those battery boxes out to African villages who had no grid electricity. As you probably know TESLA and other megapacks are being used all over the world and I do not expect batteries from the cars which are at the end of their life to be used in such megapacks as these are being built by the thousands with capacities of hundreds of megawatts hours and some installs now in excess of over a gigawatt hour. Very large install with dozens of mega packs, which look to me to be sized as TEUs ie Twenty Foot Equivalent container size ie 8 x 8 x 20 foot so they easily go no a truck and are lifted off and dropped where needed. Such places as where there are banks of EV chargers so they can both cope with peak demand but also buy cheap electricity off the grid ie 5p per kWh or whatever, and then sell it to EV drivers at 49p per kWh or similar, great business model. SO a healthy EV battery, even if it has dropped below 90% original state of charge level is still a useful item. Probably unlike an ICE which has 100k miles plus on it which may only be producing 75, 80, 85% of original power and its emissions are far worse than when new with working cylinder barrels, piston rings etc, smoking like a bars-steward like we have all seen. EVs have about a 90% efficiency of energy to motion, a diesel maybe 50% in ideal conditions, a petrol engine more like 40% efficiency. Only thee early LEAF batteries are ones I have heard that were losing more than expected recharge capacity. Renault EV batteries, and TESLA that I have heard, are showing less than expected degradation even with those rapid DC charging, which I never do, always AC for me between 3.6 to 22 kWh and Renault will replace the battery if it drops below 80% SOC capacity in its 8 years I understand and it is rare that they have had to do so in the hundreds of thousands of pure EVs they have supplied hence even the earliest 22 kWh Zoes are mostly still running around, same as LEAFs, TESLA Models S etc ten years after launch and some with hundreds of thousands of miles on the clock. Repairers who take old EVs and swap out dead cells are popping up but it is not a big deal in comparison to ICE cars that run low or out of oil and seize, turbo blows or gearbox fails and costs thousands. EVs are relatively simple, little to go wrong, cheap to service and even fix if one of the few components goes wrong.

Oh that screen is bijou. Now I loved both my l&k Skoda but in retrospect the 130 go diesel enginec car was a filthy polluter, the 1.8 tsi was a diamond. We must move on to save our world.

Dunno. TESLA probably but other makes probably quite tasteful wrap around screens like most EVs. Love mine in the Zoe and especially the Google in built with permanent over the air updating for the Google maps, car software etc. The obvious way forward to me.

The bus shelter charging is a route we at Bollore took but there are multiple other ways EVs getting charge. Induction charging pickup from the road is probably the way it will work and there are test projects already working. So induction loops in the road, which can work whilst moving but also one whilst waiting at the lights or in bays, whilst one is picking up ones Starbucks or Mackie Ds is probably the way forward. A £1, a fiver on your fast food bill to cover say 10 or 20 kWhs of lecky. One EV just driven 2,000 kms without stopping ,,,,, (only 25% of the track had induction circuit embedded in it). Different ways of doing the charging either when mometarily stopped or whilst still moving. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/toyota-ev-drove-1-200-093000118.html Or one could take on the Grand Tour methods to come to fruition, video below:- A Toyota EV drove 1,200 miles without stopping to charge thanks to electric roads with wireless charging Electreon, a startup, drove an electric Toyota for 1,207 miles straight without charging. The secret? An innovative wireless charging system embedded under the asphalt. Electreon says its electric roads solve range anxiety and the need for huge EV batteries. Imagine driving an electric car without ever needing to stop and recharge. Sounds like witchcraft, right? Well, it's possible. And the answer isn't in the car itself — it's in the road. Electreon, an Israeli startup founded in 2013, is developing electric roadways that can charge moving vehicles wirelessly, potentially eliminating the need for lengthy pit stops or plugging in. To demonstrate the tech's potential, Electreon drove an electric Toyota for 1,207 miles straight on a test track that had its wireless charging coils embedded under the asphalt.

Use of those horrible rare earth metals is quickly declining, we did not use them in my companies solid state LMP batteries but early Lithium ion batteries did but they are being phased out. One the traction battery has served it time in the EV and the EV becomes so much lower range than other EV offering these EVs typically go to a specialist place for assessment. It might be that just a few a few odd cells need replacing and the car could soon be back to full original range. Packs can be rebuild with better packs as the energy density improved year on year. With the Zoe the 22 kWh, gets replaced by the 40 and then the 52 kWh pack, much of the battery pack can be reused and upgraded. If a battery pack is not worth upgrading it can be put in to a static battery set, we do much of this out to Africa for villages out there which are not on the grid. Works well for them to act as a static battery set to give then lighting and heating etc during the night and then they can regard the battery set during the day via solar. Not unreasonably to see that the batteries can have a life of several decades before needing scrapping. We have some pretty EV on the way. MG Cyberster, TESLA roadster and we already have cars like the Rimac........ With blade battery packs shapes are even more flexible as to not have a piston engine, VVankels engines are more compact of course.

How about the recharge being five times faster than filling up with dinosaur juice ? (It is the thing that pops out of the top of the bus shelter and waps a million or so joules of energy each poke. This is what we (Bollore) have been doing for about a decade. We use a combination of super/ultra capacitors as well, what we use is solid state Lithium metal polyamide batteries...... (Sorry but it is in French as we are a French company).

Do not recognise your figures. CO2 increase since industrial age, mainly 1870 actually, 50% !! https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide It is increasing about 1 or 2 parts per million but even small amounts of CO2, methane etc have a big effect on greenhouse effect.

The mass adoption of EVs, and inversely related therefore shrinking of the ICE and other mixed powered vehicles, petrol hybrid mostly, is processing at a different pace depending on the country and that country's government can accelerate or stifle that transition depending on the tax and credits/rebates that country has. Really big markets like China and the US offer substantial part payment for EVs which can amount to 20% or so and literally in the last few weeks, along with the massive TESLA price drops and other EV manufacturers trying to compete with TESLA, the buy price of an EV, such as the Model 3, sedan/saloon has dropped to an effectively price of under £25k for quite a high performance car. Even in countries which have now dropped the EV subsidies the increasing share of pure EVs continues to climb both at the expensive of hybrid and ICE as drivers see that lots of EVs have real ranges over 250 miles and even 300 miles. Update on European EV versus Hybrid and ICE sales as May 2023 data starts to come out, the change is coming even more rapid that us EV fans expected and hoped..... Off to Norway in a few days, EV heaven.

Much of the so called fixes that were tried to be put on to ICE cars have actually failed to significantly improve pollution, only going to Zero Emission vehicles, not even plug in hybrids made a big different, maybe ADBlue on NOX as I have not read any really negative reports on that, yet. Real word test on cars with catalytic convertors have shown the cats were not working properly much of the time as the cat was not reaching sufficiently high temperatures to make it work. Most western and many Asian governments have concluded that only Fully EVs, BEVs, are going to make a different, unless hydrogen actually does take off, fuel cell or burning it, either. Market players who do not believe in the EV future have lost tens of billions of dollar on betting on Shorts on TESLA stock value ie that the value would go down not up, it is not only the blind that cannot see. https://www.marke****ch.com/story/tesla-stock-rises-toward-record-12-day-win-streak-f9d237cd Shares of Tesla Inc. on Monday did something they have never done since going public 13 years ago, notching a 12th straight gain. That broke the previous record win streak off 11 gains, which ended Jan. 8, 2021 and was matched on Friday. The electric vehicle giant’s stock had run up 33.6% over the previous 11 days, compared with a 37.4% gain during the January 2021 streak.

Face palm. I know the Cotswolds, I drive my Zoe EV across there many times going from Worcester to Heathrow and back again. Trying to charge at Morton in the Marsh, unbelievable, one is 19 miles from a hundred rapid chargers in Banbury. Point One. Point two. it costs me about £4 ot charge my 52 kwh Zoe, not £20, and the Zoe has one of the biggest batteries for a B segment car, many B segment EVs will only take £3 or less of home charge to fill it up ie like a Mini EV. There are over 70,000 public EV charge points not 40 odd thousands. I was not taking notes but to send a complete novice out who does not even think their way through issues ie what chargers need an app and which use contactless is basic stuff. Using ZAP MAP, or ABRP or the Google maps in may of our cars like I have in the Zoe. A VW was not the best choice, better to choice a marque that has been doing EVs for longer ie Nissan, Renault, TESLA and someone who has done at least a few minutes thinking about the different technology. SO much missed. AllStar, Zap and Octopus have RFID cards combined that cover numerous chargers so you do not need a App and other major networks, like Instavolt but 41% of charger accept contactless payment cards, apps can give you a discount which is why I would use if I ever use a public charger, 13,000 miles and counting using home, free work, free client or free public/restaurant chargers. As with life, using a bit of research, bit of planning pays back several fold over on acquiring and running an EV over the tax fleecing that is the owning of an ICE car ie not getting government assistance, if one is fortunate to have access to salary sacrifice, and in running an EV using off peak home electricity and those occasional free charging places too rather than being hit by that considerable Excise tax of 53p a litre and 20% VAT rather than 5% for home lecky . Fortes fortuna iuvat. Fortuna Eruditis Favet

For many TESLA drivers the TESLA cars is just a tool like their laptop and the UK government, like many governments around the world, want to help with the move to lower carbon agenda hence they offer schemes like salary sacrifice for EVs which effectively lower the PCP by 40% or so. So through this schemes one can get a TESLA model 3 for about £500 pm or a Model Y for just over £600 pm. For those employees who are given a car allowance then these sorts of prices are within many company cars schemes so the just it from the list are the car arrives. I got my Zoe EV as a private sale, PCP costs be about £280 a month, but a bit of equity from my Octy in, government added a couple of grand at the tail end of the EV grant system plus government grant added £500 for the home charger, making it £449 inc VAT to me but now it is a feature of the house and may well be wanted by buyer when I sell the house. The salary sacrifice/company car scheme is probably how many TESLA, model 3s and Y are acquired by those TESLA drivers we see on the road. They can afford the PCP within the company car scheme not afford the TESLA to buy, very few people do that, between 10 and 15% last figures I was between buying and PCP'ing cars. But then one looks at all the other aspects, particularly energy costs per mile. With the Zoe, as it would be when I hope to get a TESLA to replace my Arkana, charging up at home at 7.5p per kWh saves me and the company a stack of money doing my 20k miles a year. Charging up at work is free for me and the company I work for, a massive French Logistics company, absorb that and planning to put in work destination chargers at all our warehouses so I should never be more than about 80 miles, and usually less than 40 miles from a works charger. Yes you are talking about people, workers, who are probably being paid in 75th centile upwards ie £41k upward and a car allowance, never sure it is included in salary data but it certainly is taxed at full rate. This makes it is even more impressive that it is World wide best selling car currently. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1224844/monthly-pay-of-employees-uk/ . But then we in the UK in a country that is so very broke with its £2.5T debt. We can look back at 2010 at think was it not a better time to only be £1T in debt. Many countries still give circ £6k to buy and EV which helps EV sales. Of course government is only giving back some of the General Sales Tax, GST/VAT so it is not really costing these government thousands, they are just not collecting the massive taxes that they do on ICE cars which in my view is correct considering the environmental damage.

I was, of course, referring to what we the users user rather than any background or alternate business they move in to. Several car manufacturers have partially moved away from making cars and now use Toll manufacturers but it is still their badged product. TVs the same, mainly Toll manufactured. That is my point. Unless German (excluding TESLA's Gigafactory) and Japanese manufacturers involve, ie they take the cue from the tanking sales figures and loss of positions in the best sellers chart, then they better look to peripheral areas to work in ie car software, no wait VW have proved to be not too good at that, or something else as China and TESLA are topping the charts in the world's best selling model and country doing the most exporting. I hope the ID2 is a really winner else VAG is probably toast.