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I do 375 miles to Milton Keynes with ease. The last decent run I did was Kidderminster to Livingston, 297 miles without the need to charge. I stopped 3 times but that was to pee / eat dinner. Next month I need to drive Livingston to Stafford, then on to Farnham, then back to Stafford and back to Livingston. The car reckons it needs a 5 minute stop to reach stafford but I know that if we leave at 5pm then by the time we get to Carlisle around 7pm I will be ready for some food. If my bladder can stretch to Tebay I will because the food is better. To be honest the breaks I take are the same in a diesel as in an EV. The diesel needs extra stops though as we need to refill and it doesn't do that while we're eating.

the range of course is just a guess, what really matters is the efficiency and then multiply that by 58 to get what your range will really be

yes Skoda call it eco assist and do have paddles. This facelift was trailed in advance months ago. We were told about it when a bunch of us were invoted to Mlada Boleslav last year. This is pretty uch cosmetic because all the big tech uplift was done last year with the 2024 model.

just realised I didn't describe how to get 7p per kWh off peak. That's easy, use Intelligent Octopus go and then plug in. If there's a surplus of green energy they will give you an off peak session.

I would suggest if you are worried about that (Evs do catch fire and it is therefore prudent to manage that risk) but the same should be true of petrol and diesel cars which are 20 times more likely to catch fire and would have just as dramatic an effect on your house. I would suggest a lot of people park their fossil fuelled cars close to their houses which the IET would presumably also caution against. I was badly delayed yesterday by a fire which closed the Edinburgh bypass, accordign to a police friend it was a petrol car involved.

the thing is with 0-60 times, all that happens in my experience is you end up the ar$e of the next lot of standing traffic really quickly. Mine is a big standard 85 coupe and it can beat most normal car out there off the line. The 0-30 time is the key not 0-60. But the big thing is cost, filling up for £4 every 330 miles is hard to beat, plus it cuts the cost of our home energy by 66% whenever I plug in. cheers George, I wondered why that video had got nearly 6k views in a day, now I know it's coz you shared it on Briskoda

why would you pay more than 7p per kWh at home? I have had off peak power for the whole house since noon today until 11am tomorrow thanks to plugging in an empty enyaq

damit. Cowards. Despite being in a so called smokeless zone I now need touse an inhaler in the winter here. I'm fine in the summer when the neighbours aren't all burning wood. We can't hang washing out to dry either as it all has to be washed again due to the smell of smoke

you need more cobalt for your petrol and diesel than for EVs though. And your phone and laptop as for charity how come so many of our veterans are on the street? I met Simon Weston CBE the other week. We lost just over 200 men in action in the Falkland and nealry 4 times that many since due to suicide because we leave it to charity to look after the mental health and welfare of our veterans. Food banks right now can't keep up because people aren't able to donate enough. Sorry but I think the measure of a civilsed society is how it treats the most vulnerable. The Dickensian idea that we should leave it to charity is, well, Dickensian.

the reality is that to get to the mainland flying is the only practical way to get there without adding in days of travelling. Same when goign to see my in laws in Ireland. Thirty minutes on Easyjet means we can be there after work on a Friday night, the ferry means three hours driving to the port, an hour before checkin, two and a half hours on the ferry, then an hour driving at the far side. So we would have to travel in Saturday morning but have to turn round and leave again at Sunday lunchtime. Sometimes flying is the only option other than staying at home.

the idea of little government is superficially attractive but then you look at what it was like when there was none and it was OK to send kids up chimneys, no social security for those who need it, no regulation of safety and food standards, water and all that sort of thing. I suspect we all like being left to get on with life but want that base load of things like roads, power, education, law and order, defence, consumer protection etc all the things that a central government facilitates

we did Hull inthe Summer, 7.5 hours, and was close to £1000. Newcastle wanted £1500 and was still 4 hours. South coast ferries cost buttons. But Easyjet is cheaper and then hire a car

george as you should well know since you appear to follow me on youtube, I have got videos where I have filmed this very scenarion: one where I engineeered it (by not filling up when staying in Manchester and then driving back to edinburgh without the car being fully charged) and then two others that were real life: one coming back from Rugby to Edinburgh where I suddenly got a 70 mile diversion, and the other where I was at work, not charged and got a call telling me I had to go to Peterhead during an amber alert that became a red storm alert to collect my child from a school camp. So yeah I get that in real life stuff happens, it's happened to me. What hasn't happened is that I have had to go to a part of the country that doesn't have electricity.

only problem is that it's at least 12 hours to get to the ferry port so unless we're taking the camper van to holiday in we use Easyjet

but just how realistic is that? I do a fair bit of travelling around, and it helps me create youtube content too but later this month I need to go to Newport in Wales. It's about an 8 hour drive but knowing the M6 it will easily become 10 (5 to Bormingham became 7 both ways last week),the train is more than 7 hours and needs 4 changes so do you know what? I am flyign to Bristol with Easyjet and hiring a car to get to Newport. All for under £100. So yes, in theory being able to drive from the North to South coast is interesting, same as walking/cycling/ running between the two is an interesting possibility in theory but for most of us couch to 5k or the local park run is probably the most we will ever do (or more like couch to beer fridge)

never had this but I am with Octopus, sorry

I waited 5 minutes at a tesla supercharger on the M6 4 years ago. So it does happen And when I arrived at Stafford last week 3 out of 6 chargers were in use so I only had three to choose from.

In the Summer there are often stories in the news about tourists running out of petrol and diesel in these areas because of a lack of awareness that filling stations are rather thin on the ground

Yes because despite the facts about fossil fuels being finite, and the fact that air pollution kills tens of thousands of our people every year and the fact that it causes asthma (and apparently demeonti too) in so many others, the selfish attitude of many is "I'm all right jack" so if they can't be persuaded to reduce their impact on others and insist on pursuing damaging behaviour then the nbest way to change their behaviour is to give them a financial incentive.

depends, my employer tracks my driving and rest breaks via an app and it is a disciplinary matter to go against the rules on breaks set out in the highway code. I am fairly sure every one of those killed by fatigue thought they were fine and those rules were for other lesser people.

I left Kidderminster at 2pm and got home at 9pm. It's not good to eat immediately before going to bed so following your advice about not "stuffing food" down my neck I would have eaten nothign from noon until breakfast the next day. Why shoudl I have to do that? I mean you and yours presumably stuff food down your nexts every evening too?

Driving tired can be dangerous Driver fatigue causes hundreds of road accidents each year. And these accidents are roughly 50% more likely1 to result in death or serious injury. When drivers fall asleep, the police find no signs of braking, or any avoiding actions, so they tend to result in higher-speed collisions. We all know we shouldn’t drive when we’re too tired, but sometimes weather, logistics, lack of alternatives or time constraints2 mean we do anyway. However, driving while fatigued or sleepy leads to significant impairment of our driving performance3, increases reaction times and reduces attention, compromising decision-making and our ability to control the vehicle. It’s incredibly risky. Drink a coffee. Have a rest. And survive. The facts Fatigue was identified as a contributory factor in 17% of all fatal road collisions in Scotland.4 A quarter of accidents where tiredness was a factor resulted in death.5 A ‘microsleep’ occurs when someone nods off for between two and 30 seconds without realising or remembering it, often known as head-nodding. It usually happens when people are tired but trying to stay awake, most common in monotonous situations, such as motorway driving at night. A person who drives after being awake for 17 hours has impaired driving skills comparable to a driver with a 50mg/100ml blood alcohol level – the legal limit. Nearly two-fifths of UK drivers (37%) say they have been so tired they were scared they would fall asleep when driving.6 Almost half of UK drivers (49%) admitted driving after less than five hours’ sleep, highlighting that many drivers continue to drive when tired.7 Experts estimate driver fatigue crashes are under-reported, and are likely to account for up to 20 per cent of all UK vehicle collisions, and up to one quarter of fatal and serious crashes.8

No not at all, that was the average for that trip only not longer term.