wyx087

Simple, it's the batteries. Li-on are far superior in both performance and longevity. I just (last night) got some new Li-on batteries in standard AA size for my Lego technichub I recently started playing/messing. It makes the motor performance of this cheaper hub comparable to other more expensive built-in Li-on battery hubs.

Don't need to ask, less than 30 seconds shows this. https://www.transportenvironment.org/about-us/funders Indeed: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/20/lobbyists-for-oil-and-gas-companies-shell-bp-exxonmobil openDemocracyThree ways the fossil fuel industry influences the UK pol...Climate change is one terrifying symptom of a broken economic system which needs a drastic redistribution of power. You can help.The IndependentFossil fuel lobbyists outnumber any country delegation at...Oil, gas and coal better represented at the Glasgow summit than the combined representation of the eight countries who have suffered the greatest climate impacts since 2000, research has found I highly recommend this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Speak for yourself 👆

Happy "World EV Day"..... whatever that is. World EV Day There's also a "Sun Day" coming up. https://www.sunday.earth/

It's to enable continued selling their vehicle with minimum R&D when the 2030 ban on pure ICE comes in. Rather than develop a PHEV from ICE vehicle, simply put in a range extender to appease people who must sip on fossil fuel. Only an anti-EV-er would see it as a step back from EV transition. The moment ICE is mechanically decoupled from the wheels, people will realise how much better electric motors are.

How would you explain the fault as explained by the council person? Type 2 and CCS plug will not come undone unless the plug/socket are faulty. Then they would be promptly replaced under warranty. May be not all are charged by special battery or via installed charge point? 🤷‍♂️

Get proper charge points installed. Sounds like they are using domestic 3-pin plugs 😱 Council poorly executing a good idea...... wonder where we've seen that before. The cost front was quoted due to inflation over 6 years. I guess that's how long it take to get something done by councils 🤨 But to be fair, it's a thankless job, hard to get right. Especially with new tech.

Looking on Autotrader wouldn't prove enough "fake sales" beyond pre-reg done by main dealers. The publicised losses are so large it goes far beyond UK sales numbers. The links provided are opinions from industry analysts looking at the global market. So now, the new goal post according to you: pre-reg = fake sale? Also, can dealership network unsold stock be related to Polestar manufacturer losses?

Where is the source about this "faked sales"? Other publications are saying the losses are due to those rebadged Chinese cars being hit by US tariffs. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-polestar-takes-tariff-hit-reports-wider-quarterly-loss-2025-09-03/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/polestar-takes-739-million-hit-on-us-tariffs-ev-slowdown https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/passenger-vehicle/polestar-faces-major-losses-due-to-us-tariffs-and-pricing-pressure/123693807

The monitoring tech is present in all latest cars. Not just EV's. The ban for for military base is because the camera system for autonomous driving. But that's unrelated to powertrain itself, autonomous driving happens to be more advanced in EV's than ICE vehicle. There has never been any publicised case that Tesla has remotely disabled crashed/flooded vehicle. They do have the ability to decline selling very specific parts though, check Rich Rebuilds. In that case, it has effectively made repairing the vehicle impossible. Very poor from right to repair standpoint. They will also not allow those vehicle on their Tesla supercharging network unless quite expensive inspection had been done. But vehicle can always be rapid charged on other network.

After such a long drive, it's also good to see them showing people needed refuelling before the cars. I personally don't feel tests like these are a fair representation of EV vs ICE. Especially them only looking at aging rebranded Gridserve rapid chargers at motorway services and not showing a map where as well as others, Tesla superchargers are often within 5min off motorway in some posh hotel car parks. What they need to do is also start doing MPG comparison between latest ICE vehicles and their claimed MPG figures. It's all well and good putting a big % against claimed range, showing there is a shortfall in EV's. But many people don't realise the claimed range is from standard testing, just like claimed MPG and it is more of an ideal figure more for comparison. Finally, from my experience using the frunk in Volvo EX40. I am seeing similar traditional bonnet double latch and frunk lid situation in many of those cars. It's a total faff having to go to a specific door to open the bonnet, find the latch and open another lid to access the funk. It's as though those legacy manufacturers are still using ICE bonnet parts. Such stupidity, one of the reason I'm not intested in cars from any legacy ICE manufacturers anymore.

The video ends but the car still isn't working. The dim screen means it isn't running on HV battery. Would be interesting to see how much they have to spend to get it back to fully working order. Tesla are notorious for not allowing on their supercharging without an expensive inspection. (can still charge on other public rapid charger) But very good to see people willing to experiment and learn repairing EV's.

MY 2026 Megane should also get taller centre screen. The one in their 2024 version is unreasonably tiny, only fits keyboard + text entry field.

Nice one. How do you feel compared to your previous 2 BEV's? More range? Less go-kart-y compared to previous one? Does it have app remote control stuff? I know post-FL have it.

For everything and anything I do, I always do my research. But I understand that's how you feel and I'm afraid I have to agree that a high percentage of people don't do their research. However, I still think that the fault is with the customer. One shouldn't be required to always spend extra few hundred pounds for features they don't need or understand. It's always good to have options. It's also good to default to cheapest viable product. (isn't lack of options the reason many here are opposed to EV's?)

The keywords grid forming/grid-tied are extra detail, it's not something any consumer need to know. All they need to ask is whether the quoted battery system allows their home to work during a power cut. It's a simple straightforward question for quotation. Or in engineering terms, a requirement. Not paying for this extra feature means one doesn't get this feature. Seems exceptionally simple. Not specifying a requirement and thus not getting the additional feature is standard practice in any industry.

As with all technology stuff, unless explicitly stated it is probably not supported. Do most people expect to have features they haven't paid for? Many battery system have a EPS sockets. "Emergency Power Supply". Essentially they lack the gateway and only energise the EPS sockets during power cut. Still useful to keep the essentials on.

I'm back from Bergen Norway. over 24 hours of driving, over 1200 km. 177 km/Wh, which is 3.53 mi/kWh, lower than expected fo 15-20c perfect EV economy weather, but did have fully loaded car and driven up/down lots of mountain roads. All on Tesla superchargers paying most expensive rates without membership, comes to just under 1000 NOK, which is £75. It all happen to translates to convienent ~10p/mile. Only had to detour and wait 5m for quick top up to return the vehicle above 75% to avoid any penalty. All other charging were done whever we happen to eat/rest. Never used lower 40% of the battery, quite a few times it was well over 95% as the car was charging faster than us eating. Lots of stalls so wasn't blocking anyone. The Volvo EX40 twin motor is overall nice but traditional car, drives well, good one-pedal mapping. I personally didn't get on with it due to being a very traditional car (pilot assist not crystal clear when it's active, traditional driver's door pull and then double latch to access frunk storage, poor interior space with transmission tunnel, unconfigurable thottle delay accessing full power). Speaking of which, Tesla had very recently published their part 4: Tesla’s Master Plan 4: Elon Musk’s Vision For The Future Of Energy & Mobility - Auto Times News It sounds similar to how UK is (IMO rightly) approaching wind and thus free electricity sessions: sustainable abundance In case anyone is interested, previous parts are available here: Master Plans | Tesla Regarding solar inverter. They are mostly grid-tied. You'll need grid-forming inverter and a gateway device to isolate your home to be resilient from power cuts. But one grid-forming inverter could keep multiple grid-tied inverters online. My Tesla Powerwall 3 is able to keep 6 kW V2H and 3 kW solar inverter online and functioning as normal.

Hello children. I’m currently touring the Fjords of Norway in a rental EV. Despite the remoteness (this village has 1 hotel and zero other restaurants) there is ample charging. So far I’ve only needed to charge non-Tesla on Tesla superchargers whilst doing other things (comfort break, lunch, supermarket for supplies) Got a rental Volvo EX40 twin motor, fully loaded with pano roof etc, only has 2000 km on the clock and not a scratch on alloys. One of the label contains a QR code for its battery passport. It says 50% cobalt is recycled. I’ve had both shape Volvo s40’s and 840 before. I’m not a fan of this Volvo, it is clearly still a XC40 ICE vehicle and thus very cramped interior, transmission hump, rear seat are like church benches. Google interface looks nice but it is as laggy as my 2014 Leaf in some places, this lag is why car reviewers think touch controls are distracting. Driver map display doesn’t show nav when using CarPlay, pointless. Pilot assist steering is very twitchy, this 2025 new car is nowhere near as smooth, as capable as my older HW3 Tesla AP. Despite perfect 15-20c weather, it is struggling to get under 300 wh/mi. Personally, I think this EX40 twin motor is worth no more than £45k if bigger interior, similarly speced, equally capable in range and power, more efficient Model Y LR AWD are asking £50k. But pricing it up it is £60k, this is why legacy car makers are in trouble.

To be fair, he only commented on the cobalt aspect. Which is evident from the thumbnail. Everything else I can see is from talking of one's own experience of actually owning EV. Something I think hold more value than whatever third hand info you discover from social media. I've watched most of the video. The data privacy aspect is delirious. Their whole point is that due to having a recording device on the incoming supply, supplier will know what you are doing. It then cuts away to talk about Octopus Kraken profits. The truth in there is that smart meter already doing everything as reported, there's nothing new from EV charge points. Kraken's profit are due to building an innovative energy management system when others are still using traditional power plant style management. If you are really paranoid, you can also get home battery installed so that it always reads 0. Tax incentives are nothing unusual, it's one of government's tools to drive change. That section is like a smoker complaining about tax on tobacco. As for scrappage, the video have not covered the whole story, only interviewing one not specialised repair shop. There's EV Breakers who specalise in dealing with written off EV. There's also industry scaling up to achieve re-use before recycle. For example: Redwood Energy: Fast, low-cost storage to power the age of AI and a changing grid Cobalt institude say cobalt-free battery are bad? Who would have guessed! But digging into the numbers, it seems key is (as with all production) having low carbon electricity: (of course, in conclusion section of the report, they only used the "base case") Therefore you did take this report at face value, without verifying methodology and trotted it out because you were: Funny you should say that. Have you tried to verify the source of the fire? Or just parrot whatever you were told on social media? On Camera, 6 Tesla Cars Burn As Vehicle-Carrier Catches Fire In US I imagine the logistics company would be suing that kind of statement if the fire didn't start in their diesel truck. Statistically, the world would see less vehicle fires if all diesel cars were banned.

Why does people have to be labelled in such way? Why are many EV owners/drivers "jumping onto the green bandwagon" for "believe all they have been told"? Have you considered there's truth in between the extremes? For example, how much cobalt demand is actually for EV. Despite all the headlines, is half of total demand. With EV rapidly moving to LFP, the predictions for higher demand is unlikely to materialise. Another example, privacy concern exists for all modern things. That phone in your pocket have more identifying capability than any car. Have you considered people belive in things that they've verified themselves, rather than parroting social media?

Make sure to push Octopus to get the answer from your DNO. Octopus CS are just suggestions. The final word comes from your local DNO. If they require upgrade to 3 phase, then you can't have EV charge point without upgrade. But they may allow it provided the charge point derating feature is sufficient. EVs, solar panels, energy storage and heat pumps | UK Power Networks What a joke. It's less safe to charge from domestic 3-pin than charging properly via charge point that monitors house load. You wouldn't be using anywhere near 80 amps even with constantly running heat pump. Storage heater may be problematic due to its inefficiency and cramming whole day into same period.

Gas on Octopus tracker is currently 0.045675 GBP/kWh for me. It has been below 5p/kWh for a long time except for a few coldest days when demand was extra high at beginning of this year. The key for affordable electricity is to allow variability with electricity to reflect real costs as generation and demand varies, both in location and time domain. Basically let the market decide, economics 101. Electricity becomes very competitive when one can time-shift demands to cheap periods. For example: But UK is still operating on old giant fossil fuel supplier plant pricing model, the gas plants needing to cover 4-7pm makes it expensive for everyone at all times due to average nature of price-cap mechanism.

Is it Octopus Energy who's fronting the install? With some random subcontractor doing the work? This is very poor show from the installer. Even worse from the person doing the work, should have checked everything before starting. But it shouldn't be any problem. All EV charge points these days will curtail output if it detects high house load. For example, my one would slow down as my overall house consumption go over 20 kW (80 amps) during free electricity session. Took quite a lot of fiddling to get to that point (3 kW oven, 2 kW dishwasher, 5 kW battery, 5 kW V2H, 7 kW EV) EV charge point install is normally not notifiable work. But I can see why 2nd charge point or electric-only household would be notifiable.

What narrative? Who is derailing it? Who is preventing it? Can you provide anything from substantial source to back up that statement?