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I totally agree , its is not a Battery Electric Vehicle when it needs liquid fuel to charge the battery via an engine in board. Its an Electric Vehicle with a range extending liquid fuelled engine however it is still an Electric Vehicle

However many PHEVs can be driven in EV only mode for those shorter journeys but with an ICE for the odd longer trip. Sure they are a compromise but................ REX suffer from the same compromise, ie having to lug an ICE around as well as batteries

They are a form of EV in the same way that ICE are divided by number of cylinders ;o) Same goes for vehicles with REX like the e-power,I3 Ampera etc, they are still types of EVs So are hydrogen fuelled vehicles

Well they do do an A3 PHEV ;o) https://www.audi.co.uk/uk/web/en/models/a3/a3-tfsi-e.html

the advantage of towing a caravan is that you can carry a petrol/diesel engined generator in it to charge your EV whenever you want.............................

I am a human chameleon lol

some interesting discussion on EVs during this weeks AutoAlex podcast (linked to correct point but if that barfs its at 36m52s)

which way do the door mirrors look then? surely they give a rear view ;o)

Oh the buildings don't match the approved plans. The 3 to my left should have been built in a staggered/offset line instead they have been built as a simple straight line of 3. But again other than ****ing the neighbours off what would be achieved? Not as though we're suddenly going to get 6-10 times the land we currently sit on lol (if we were then hmmm..................)

aye that's a useful feature however (sadly) for where I am the oldest clear view is 2000 What you can see from comparing today with 2009 though is the liberties the development company took when building the new houses in 2013/2014. Unfortunately this was 4 years before we came here as if we had been the property owners at the time there would have been a lot more objections to the planning request!! Could there be retrospective objection? Possibly but what would it achieve in reality??

BYD are aiming even lower apparently

and for completeness. This is the back of the house which was originally the front access from the main road via footpath (beyond tree)

yup we're on mains drainage now . No idea when that was done but was before our time

I like that game as well And yes this is a genuine mileage, not been around the clock

surely though *if* the vehicle has a towing weight stated on the VIN plate *and* the towbar itself has it's own CoC stating which vehicle it is intended for then it's legal to tow? Wiring harnesses & additional cooling(if required ) are effectively supplemental

If that's a UK spec car and not an import why does the mileage show in km?? NB these are the 3 highest mileage cars I see currently on autotrader rather than FB marketplace (oh hang on is that FB being a twot? Ive noticed on the desktop it shows km fopr everything in marketplace but miles on my phone. So that could potentially be 395k miles!!!!)

Interesting. In this BBC article Tesla are held up as an example of a company fighting against built in obsolescence. A business-minded approach to smarter recycling, reuse and repurposing has arguably made a big dent and will so in future, says Sawhney. For instance, Tesla, the electric automobile manufacturer, has plans to take back the spent batteries in its clients’ cars and repurpose them for home energy storage. The company also auto-downloads and upgrades the software in its clients’ cars as the vehicles charge overnight. Sawhney, who is a Tesla owner, says the company planned ahead for these sorts of upgrades by including “basically future-proof” sensors and hardware in the vehicle. “Instead of selling model after model of the car to me, [Tesla] just changed the software,” Sawhney says. “So that’s an antidote to planned obsolescence in a way – it makes obsolescence obsolete.” Also interesting from same article: “The auto industry for years has been sort of a fashion-driven business, where your car had fins and five years later, fins were out of style,” says Tullman. Yet that’s changing: he cites United States Department of Transportation figures showing that the average age of a passenger vehicle on the road in that country now stands at 11.4 years; in 1969, the figure was 5.1 years.

The CoC should be in the glovebox for all new cars. If buying a pre loved vehicle and it's not available then you can request one from the manufacturer or an accredited registrar (NB a charge may be made for this) https://www.webuyanycar.com/guides/car-ownership/certificate-of-conformity/ NB as far as I can tell "tow bar prep" is separate to a CoC and is the additional wiring and/or cooling sytem upgrades required id you intend to tow. Reading between the lines thi sis something any competent auto electrician/mechanic should be able to do. https://www.rainworthskoda.co.uk/towing-with-your-skoda/

Oh and I've also been able to establish who has lived (or owned) this house since 1824 1824 - 1837 Robert Baxter (rented the property from WIlliam Green the original freeholder) 1837 - 1895 William Baxter 1895 - 1909 James Hart 1909 - 1931 Moses Lowe 1931 - 1941 James Pendlebury 1941 - 1972 Mary Ellen Pendlebury (inherited the property on the death of her father James) 1972 – 1980? Millicent Rigby (bought the property in 1972 for £100 and "allowed" Mary to live here rent free until her death in around 1979) 1980? - 2013? Jean & Peter **** (inherited the property on the death of Jeans mother Millicent however never lived here as they live in house on main road below us and used the house mainly as a storage unit) 2013? - 2014 Lee **** (bought the property from his mother on the death of his father Peter, mother still alive. Still owns the house on main road originally built by Millicent & husband in 1925 however rents it out) 2014 – 2018 Ryan & Elizabeth **** 2018- Present Mike *** & Gail ****

For reference my house has been here since approx 1824 (the oldest title deed I have in my possession though is dated 1837), the other 3 are modern additions in 2018 . ALso to note, what is now the front of the house was originally the back , the front door was originally accessed via a footpath from the main road (one giveaway internally is that as you come down the stairs you go straight to what is now the back door. As for kids, currently there are a couple of young teenagers and a toddler and as I (think I )mentioned earlier what's nice is that we get very little (if any) traffic in here except the residents but I hear what you're saying Its really sad that we don't still have the original land associated with this property (shown in Red below), it all being split off originally in around 1913ish which is (as far as I've been able to work out) when the row of miners cottages that were opposite us and the smithy off to the left(& up) were demolished. The house to our right was built in around 1870ish by the original owner of this house (William Baxter) for his daughter when she married. Oh and there was also a small orchard to our left until around 1975 when some other new houses were built. Now all we have is the leasehold of the section marked (approximately) in green. Over the years the remainder of the land has been used variously as a timber yard, there's been an undertakers on here, a nursery and more latterly prior to the new houses being built a car showroom

no, but my GFs 80 YO mother does lol

@nta16 appreciate the input and yes there probably are holes but as the ICO website states: No. People have the right to install CCTV cameras and smart doorbells on their property. They should try to point cameras away from neighbours’ homes and gardens, shared spaces or public streets. But this is not always possible, and it is not illegal to do so. I think I have minimised as much as possible and also as I'm not recording audio as per Fairhurst v Woodard that should be less problematic given I can see no more than I can from the house windows and can only hear them when I'm outside. Probably helps I went out of my way to speak to all the neighbours before installing and they all see it as a benefit

Garages are for motorbikes and heavy **** that you can't get in the loft lol No it's our neighbours grass. They do have a hot tub but its directly behind the fence and out of view. Can see it clearly though from our upstairs windows and her daughter was indulging in there with her BF last year ;o)

and there's the classic Nokia

I do have some (small) signage up at the front of the property with a URL link that provides the following information https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/domestic-cctv-systems/ we have two cars and the garage is used for other purposes