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I frequent that particular Morrisons car park semi-regularly for the Chinese food hall upstairs. Mobile signal is non existence in the semi-underground car park. The old set of AC charging posts by Chargemaster Polar were luck of draw. Sometimes works with my expired card and charge for free Hopefully payment wouldn't be an issue, but I wouldn't know because I would never spend more than home peak rate for charging a few miles from home. PoGo charge, first I've heard of them. Great to see Electroverse works with them. One card to rule them all.

I get what you mean. In Skye, there were once where the location wasn't what we thought and trying to find next stop with phone proved difficult due to poor mobile signal. Luckily my car had some signal and I was able to navigate to the next stop. For autonomous driving, I'm pretty sure the actual compute will be local inside the vehicle, don't need mobile signal. In Tesla's case, they have yet to unlock full capability of their HW4 processor. Everything still runs on HW3 whilst HW4 is said to be ~4x faster in AI tasks. I've been playing with AI models recently using Ollama and nvidia AI playground, there's impressive models that can be run locally. I've also got iPhone 16 and enabled Apple Intelligence by switching language to US. It all works very well without internet connection.

That's a great addition. (good demo around 12:10) In 2022-2023 AP would plow through the corner and dangerously go wide. Last year or so, it would tap the brakes as it begins to go wide, which is still very dangerous but at least puts the driver on alert and will knock it off. I was talking about robotaxi with someone who doesn't own Tesla but bought into their vision. I still don't believe we are anywhere close here to 100% autonomy here in UK. The biggest problem is narrow streets and parked cars, where AP would panic and often unnecessarily hit the brakes. Case in point: (the clip in Scottish Highlands)

It's been 7p buy in and 15p export for a while on Intelligent Go. Very interesting they've added more people onto it. As electricity price slowly decreased, they've decreased business export rates. People were saying these 15p domestic export rates were about to end. Evidentially not. I've been thinking about sign up SEG (https://octopus.energy/smart/smart-export-guarantee/) with my new Powerwall 3, it has LFP battery. But then I'd loose FIT deemed 50% export because going from deemed to SEG is one way street. But my solar is so small using the battery to play the energy market via SEG probably gives better return. One more reason to sign up to SEG is to get up to £2 per kwh payments during saving session events. I now have capability to dump 16 kW of power into the grid and effectively get paid £30 per 1hr saving session.

At least it's not a ICE car https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

@EnterName I think this video perfectly explains why there is scepticism over climate science. Starts at where he talks about the scientists agenda. Earlier in the video talks about the source of 2009 "climategate". Basically: Everyone has an agenda, different wings of media, the climate scientists, you and I. Everyone's agenda is formed from their personal experience and their view of the world. Everyone is pushing an agenda that is backed by their individual circumstances. Scientists are humans, each have their own agenda. The willingness of the media to portray climategate as proof that one shouldn't trust scientists also born out of their own agenda. Difference is, the scientists are beholden to the scientific method whereas the media can write anything as long as there is skippet of relatable information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method That also explains why we have a few scientists and individuals who are saying the opposite from consensus. Those individuals also have their own agenda to push. And it begs the question who do we trust. Individuals who have not managed to get their conjecture through the hundreds of years scientific method, or majority of scientistic who have all reached consensus?

Ok, Mr Iron Bladder.

Yes. Eventually towing will matter. Whether it is achieved by what ZEV tech I do not know. But that won't affect anyone until more than 10 years from now. We might even have re-usable space transport by then, who knows. For most people, just like driving long distances, towing isn't a regular thing. So it is entirely possible to rent a more suitable vehicle when the need arises. Why fixate on edge cases? Edit: EV are bad at crashing properly, it seems:

You are in luck https://ev-database.org/car/3034/Tesla-Model-3-Long-Range-RWD ~350 miles all weather. About same price as similar spec Passat. Towing is an edge case, of all my time on the road, I am very sure I've seen way less than 5% of cars actually towing something. Charging network over the channel tunnel is even better than UK, and charging in France is actually very cheap. Don't know about you, I certainly have zero problem driving to mainland Europe at drop of a hat. Zero planning needed.

This talks about the topic of the day: https://www.thecarexpert.co.uk/why-the-uk-is-the-perfect-size-for-running-an-electric-car/ UK is a small island, we don't need 600 miles range.

Seems the lack of EV charger perception is more a visibility problem then actual real problem.

In your experience? Certainly not my experience over the summer. There's so many hubs around here, if one is busy just go to the next one.

There certainly is. My experience in Isle of Skye tells me there's still a way to go in remote areas up north. I certainly felt areas served by Chargeplace Scotland are lagging behind. But remember, electricity is everywhere no matter how rural, thus EV charging is available everywhere with an extension lead. When I visited Isle of Skye, I sleep, car trickle charged via extension lead, simple. Meanwhile, petrol stations: Why must EV charging be more dense than petrol stations before they are considered enough? When EV can be recharged anywhere.

8 hours driving at average of 60 mph motorway = 480 miles. A 350 miles any weather range EV (Model 3 LR RWD at just £45k) can comfortably do that with a quick 20min stop at 5 hour mark. Let's get real, EV range is no longer a concern these days. Let's get more real, charging is no longer a concern midlands and south, more and more hubs are coming online:

Hey, stealing from SpeakEV is my thing 😛 There's a new Gridserve forecourt at A1M Stevenage junction, I saw the 4 Tesla charger pop up on the map. These hubs are opening thick and fast these days.

The Nissan Leaf over reads by almost 10%. Driving 66 mph is 60/61 mph reading by GPS. It's so far out it's comical. Explains why Nissan drivers are always the slowest drivers 😛

7 seater for LR AWD trim now available in UK for a whopping £2500 extra. But it's tighter than I imagined....... 3rd row is small kids only and affects second row leg room.

Do WLTP public battery size? I thought it only tested for range. I wish using gross battery capacity should be illegal. Nissan Leaf 24 kWh is 24 kWh gross, in actual fact usable is just less than 22 kWh when new. Usable is all that matters to the end user.

****ification of the youtube has already began, there's so many AI generated rubbish these days.

Shock, horror, youtube guy with history of posting anti EV, takes a spin on a small tax change that wouldn't affect most people, presents it as anti ICE.

From official budget doc: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6722120210b0d582ee8c48c0/Autumn_Budget_2024__print_.pdf So they are hitting the new car buyers, a tiny discourage purchase of brand new ICE by increasing the single one-off first year rate. For new car buyers, it's not going to move the needle IMO. Interesting it does include a statement regarding needing to up expensive car supplement threshold for ZEV. But this is the absolute definition of kicking the can down the road.

Very small budget changes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxl1zd07l1o For transport: Considering falling inflation projected, I'd have thought 2025 is the right time to scrap the fuel duty discount. Interesting nothing for EV's. I'd happily pay a slowly increasing duty for my use of EV. It is important introduction of any EV equivalent fuel duty is not a hit to the gut and thus affect the transition. I'd rather them announce something a few years beforehand.

Hello! This per-capita doesn't tell the story you want, so you choose a different number. Let's look at your number because your number is bigger, therefore worse. It's the definition of moving the goal post: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts Of course total country emission will be bigger for a 21 times bigger country by population, 39 times bigger by land mass (using Google data). By simply comparing absolute total emission of a nation, are you also expecting numbers from Vatican to be comparable and useful here? Fact of the matter is, your initial post was done by manipulating the graph to get your favourable numbers. I showed the default graph with widely recognised comparable numbers (CO2 per capita). Carbon tax should be a thing. Too long humans have been digging up previously stored carbon and emit without consequences. There are real consequences widely recognised by scientific consensus. I think every single bit of emission need to be accounted and built into price of goods and services. Also, the fossil fuel industry talks big about carbon capture. Here's a perfect way to fund it right now.

Shame I can't take advantage of it, away from tomorrow for a week or so. I haven't yet set up anything for my Powerwall in Home Assistant. So all existing automation that draws power for the hour would cause almost everything to come from the home battery if I don't manually intervene by via app manually. I can draw 12 kW on demand with cars, the Powerwall 3 spec says it can deliver 11 kW, even more instantaneously. I'm not able to change any setting manually (like a caveman) whilst on the road. Once I do add it to HA and automations setup, I should be able to either dump 11 + 5 kW on demand, or draw 5 + 5 + 7 kW on demand. Completely flexible whenever the grid provides incentivise, I'm ready. I've been off-grid for whole of today. Physically disconnected by setting Gateway to go off-grid with a "clunk". Smart meter been reading 0 since 8am. Edit, this just came to me. I can change the electricity schedule to a 0 cost one for 1-2pm, then change it back when I get to my destination. This would cause Powerwall to charge from grid during that time.

Same theory can be applied to ICE, if the ICE no longer gets 40 mpg, let's say 20 mpg, how much range degradation do you get? I know 40 decrease to 20 mpg is unrealistic. So is your 50% battery degradation example.