Lee01

Let's just say for a minute the EU is protectionist, who's interests do you think they are protecting? I thought this had been done to death in previous topics but apparently not <sigh> https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/08/14/the-eu-isnt-protectionist-its-one-of-the-most-open-economies-in-the-world/

Apparently if you look. https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/opinion-20mph-policies-are-anti-death-not-anti-motorist/#:~:text=Pedestrians are also proven to,20% when travelling at 30mph. https://www.brake.org.uk/get-involved/take-action/mybrake/knowledge-centre/speed/speed-and-injury Speed limts here (Germany) are 50Kph in urban areas but outside schools, residential/ care/ retirement homes that's lowered to 30Kph (18Mph) The school/ kindergaten onse almost always have a time restriction such as 06:30 - 14:00 but care homes etc I think are 07:00 - 20:00 In some residential side streets it's also 30Kph. Other streets, usually block paved such as ours there are signs as you enter telling you to watch out for children playing/ pedestrians. These have a walking pace limit.

Welsh anti 20mph zone Facebook groups turn out to be run by tories. Quelle surpise! https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/english-tory-politicians-running-facebook-28449407 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1746942241950560337.html

I'm not sure why you posted that as it doesn't appear to be an EV and your claim that it 'quite possibly started from a small Li-on battery in a mobile phone, tablet or a vape etc.' has nothing to substantiate it. It could equally have started due to faulty electrics. 3/10 Must try harder.

lol @ the irony of Hertz getting rid of EVs. One a second?

I often see them on Toyota forums but not so much on non Toyota forums. Must be a conspiracy 🙄

Ten years ago today

"The RAC is calling on the Government to commission an independent study into the issue of headlight glare after new research found 85% of those affected believe the problem is getting worse." IMO some are just silly bright now. Are the manufacturers having a war to develop the most blinding light to ever be created? https://media.rac.co.uk/pressreleases/a-glaring-problem-rac-calls-for-action-on-headlight-glare-as-eight-in-10-drivers-affected-say-problem-is-getting-worse-3296130

This looks like a neat innovation for those without their own driveway. https://gul-e.co.uk/

I take it you mean 'doesn't affect electric drivetrains'? Otherwise the lunar rovers would have been completely pointless.

From the main page when not logged in it took two clicks to find this.

My thoughts exactly - email to Colin and password recovered at that end. No log in required to find his email address as it's on one of the main pages IIRC.

Only mentioned it as you'd brought the names up, John

There was no change of username if 'Paws 4 Thot' is really Ken O'Neil as both accounts are active which, if they're the same person, is in breach of Briskoda site rule #4 unless Colin allowed it.

Somewhere there's an axel stand just out of shot

Don't know why Skoda stopped the Citigo eiV to be honest. A small town car is ripe for an EV grocery getter I would have thought 🤷

FTFY.

I don't think this is the piece from The Time that's in one of his books but you get the idea. Still, bloody awful woman when all's said and done. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/jeremy-clarkson/jeremy-clarkson-hybrids

Years before the idea of lean burn technology was being pushed Thatcher was in favour of it. Clarkson wrote a piece on it many years ago. It's probably in one of his books I have on the shelf. IIRC it was a piece he wrote for the Times as it was a bit too long winded for any Sun readers.

Somebody seems a little bit obsessed with EV's, fires and watching randos on YouTube.

I had my doubts as soon as I clicked on the first video though my first thought was NZ at the height of summer so possibly a barbecue. Sorry for the stereotyping if there's any Kiwis reading

I mean surely they could have left a hole and employed someone to fit a rubber grommet for peats sake 🤦

Wait what! So the repair kit comes with screws and is therefore removable but you have to butcher the headlight to change the bulb? WTAF were Skoda thinking when they designed that?! Nuts.

I didn't even know it was a thing but I certainly wouldn't be adding that on.

It was something I wanted on my Rapid until Carista told me I needed auto headlights to enable it that's why it sprang to mind.