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So you would say Furious Drivings experience is pretty much a real world experience rather than being played for effect ?

not all youtubers push the limit. This was a charity challenge to drive as far as possible in 24 hours, this team (neither of whom are EV owners I believe) used a BYD Seal. IMHO their conclusions probably align with those of a lot of new EV owners regarding the experience.

I suspect that if you wanted to go to the bother of digging that the MK address is some sort of Head Office/legal registered address for multiple VAG companies whilst the actual contact centres could be anywhere

Leaving the latter part aside I get where you're coming from however for new car sales then you would need to get numbers from each dealer selling and then build up a larger picture. Theoretically new car registrations should equal new car sales although in reality this is an abused system. Maybe it should either be made illegal to pre register or at least for there to be a reportable tick box that indicates the registration is a pre registration? I mean I guess if you had access to the DVLA databases in theory you could do something like SELECT Count(*) As 'Pre_Registered' FROM Registration_DB WHERE New_Owner IN (<List of known car dealers>) AND Registration_Date >= <Date>

this is correct however (and if it keeps you happier) a more accurate statement is that VAT rules are applied equally regardless of motive power source. VED has been biased to give EVs an advantage in the market place

All car buyers pay thousands in VAT regardless of motive source, another distraction/deflection attempt. It's not an EV specific thing. EVs have benefitted from favourable VED rates because of the Government's interventions in the market, it's time for those favourable rates to be scrapped

errrm to make up the shortfall in tax income from fewer ICE cars being on the road. The time is coming that those EV owners who like to make the most about the current situation will pay the price ;o)

Which is all very nice but it doesn’t change the fact that although EVs may be good for the “high street” environment (noted other environments are available) there is a cost to pay elsewhere.

Again, what's with the fascination of deflecting away from a truism? I never mentioned any form of materials , I spoke very generically about EVs being good for the place they are being used in (which they are) at the expense of moving problems elsewhere in the supply chain, which includes (but is not explicit) power generation pollution as well as any potential additional mining impact etc etc etc

Who mentioned rare earth materials. Again with deflections and defensiveness

I cannot dispute that at a local level at point of use EVs are both better for air quality and also offer less noise pollution. At the probable expense of moving problems elsewhere in the supply chain

Meanwhile on the flip side (and more likely to get approval from certain quarters of the participants of this thread) another " truth about electric cars" is that for off roaders they have many benefits over ICE off roaders , which is nice the flip side . There I can be balanced ;o)

Do you accept that an ICE vehicle with a 10 gallon (yes I know its not sold in gallons any more but makes maths easier as we measure in Miles Per Gallon even though it's sold in litres) tank and that gets 40mpg will in X years still have (presuming regular maintenance etc) a 400 mile theoretical range whereas an EV which when new has a theoretical range of 400 miles (again made up numbers) with 50% battery degradation will likely only have a theoretical range of 200 miles? Not botheed about whether the performance changes or BHP is lost or how much is wasted as heat, the cost of the fuel or any of the other deflection techniques being employed, do you accept the above premise?

Again BHP loss is *not* the same as a fuel tanks capacity reducing with age and usage. A 10 gallon tank is a 10 gallon tank for the lifetime of a vehicle. A battery that degrades by x% loses x% of it capacity

I wonder: Today you can buy an ICE car built in the 20's that wont have lost any range and probably performs as well as it did when new. Wonder if people in 100 years will be able to day the same of EVs?

Did you mean “degradation” ?

Which is a lovely offer More generally though people can also email [email protected] (with your Reg No and/or VIN) to request the digital record, in my case they took around 5 days to provide it which I don't think is too shabby

Oh And I do acknowledge that I'm pleasantly surprised that not too many bits have fallen off the 456,000 mile Tesla

Adblue for diesel only. My SUperb has 2 cylinder mode and seems just fine to me. Only notice it kicking in because a light pops up on the dash.

Losing BHP isn't the same though as the fuel tank capacity shrinking, which is the point that was being made

usual pack drill, no names but if the cap fits ;o)

I have no doubt the views expressed in this video may tick some people off ;o)

It may be legally acceptable but is it morally acceptable ;o)

IMHO you (as in everyone not you specifically) should only be able to claim back a maximum of the amount you've actually spent as supported by receipts. £50 back for spending £4.40, that's disgusting, sort of thing MPs get dragged across the front pages for ;o)

That’s a thought. Any vehicle running on 3G only may find their eSIMs stop working as 3G turned off.