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Google / search, a BBC article today. Military trialling hydrogen charging of Electric cars. I heard it on the radio. I assume what need explained is the hydrogen unit is producing electric to charge BEV,s on the fleet.

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Several other threads on this, one in the performance section in the past weeks. It is what it is and as I drive both DSG and BMW s I prefer DSG,s. Comes natural to me how they operate.

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In the UK it is 97 or 99 octane minimum ron not 98/99 and E5 Up to 5% bio ethanol, but it might have 0% bio. E10 might have up to 10 bio-ethanol. It might have much less and it is 95 octane minimum. The distribution around the UK is not all the same for E5 or E10 and what amount of Bio different brands have and this includes with Tesco momentum 99 or Sainsbury E5 super unleaded 97. Good idea if people actually have an idea what they are buying from whom.

The retest is on the failed items and in this case that would be a pi$$ take too far if they tried it on. Are the sidelights as the DRL,s working dim front, rears on and reg plate lights?

Jack frost on the windows or condensation before the Double Glazing years and UPVC. All those sales people & installers and grants. & 60 years of advising to get insulation and adverts about grants and projects. Billions of public money and still houses have not enough insulation or it needs removed and replaced as did that double glazing. The good old days. Bath on a Sunday and hair washed. Frozen ceiling thawing and dripping on you. Or is that just in the North / Scotland and not the West Midlands. The land of plenty. Take the Oil & Gas revenue and close the coal mines and break the unions then allow open cast mines and when those behind them want to bale out let them taking the money and not clean up. As with the previous mining. Same with the Nuclear, leave the future generations to pay for that clean up. Have Diesel Farms and Coal Fired power ready to fire up to power the South of the UK, pay to import gas and electricity at greater costs than is produced on shore and offshore in the North of the UK because the public money thrown and Land Owners and Wind Farm investors does not matter if it actually has electricity being used or making there be energy security. All about the kidology and nobody really in the energy business ever being short of funds from customers or just tax payers that might not have Gas, Electricity or Heater Fuels available in their areas from National Utilities or the Private owned National Grid. Total nutters do not want pylons but want electricity, don't want windfarms or Battery storage, or even Nuclear plants where they have no energy security. Might as well frack the bejesus out of England and have a few years of burning it,s own resources. Pollute its own land and drinking water. Re Batteries. People and places Offgrid and with a wind turbine or solar have used old Tractor or Forklift batteries for all of my life to store what they can generate.

I just spotted something yesterday about Octopus. Never read fully then or looked now. When there are 10 million of their customers that can charge and store and feed back electricity to the grid then the electricity could be free. Lovely. Today I need 2 charges. First full charge was free. 110 miles worth. Next will be 20 kWh at 55 pence a kWh. So £11. The. Tonight free again. So happy enough with that. Looks like being a good day for BEV efficiency. Off to do the South West Coastal 300. (Scotland)

And light. Which is brilliant if it does come down to needing pushed. Also great if traction / grip is lost when off camber. Slide a bit and get stopped by a verge, kerb, snow bank etc. No abs, no TC/Asr. No airbags, just drive with care or not a care in the world and die or life changing injuries or live to remember how good things were and can still be. Fiat Panda, Mini and many others FWD, RWD and sometimes AWD.

I do wish that people not interested in stuff would sod off and not bother telling others how uninterested they are. Or repeat crap gleaned from others not interested or anti. I don't bother going on the internet and looking at people pro or anti vapes, pro smoking, or low sugar drinks.

In the 1960,s it was really pretty much just rwd cars that there were about and a bag of sand in any fwd was to be shoveling under the tyres.

@MarkyG82 that is like many many drivers real world, not some who have a few hours of snow a few days a year if even that. All Season summer bias winter certificated tyres. Perfect for many and for all year and even a scorchio summer. Likely busy busy roads in the lovely weather on big fast roads where the speed limit is 70 MPH or even great driving roads in the hills. The tyres do not melt or squirm or misbehave or wear quick, and if going to the track then maybe not the best tyres to use. Well unless the 1/4 mile track and then a perfect time to kill them and get grip / traction, just take wheels / tyres to get home on.

@MCAMRA Are you in the UK and where are you driving and what are you driving now? Then, Do we assume you mean Alpine ski-ing and not Nordic or Ski Mountaineering. Skis did get shorter and wider and fair enough if the does not suit you, but we know nothing about you. Some people use different skis for different conditions and locations, slopes and icy or not. ............. Now on a Glacier Wide / Flotation type tyres work, on a Land Rover 90/110 even, or a series Land rover, biting into snow. Big wide open tread, narrow tyres, like mud tyres were / are. But then if talking UK and ploughed and gritted roads and then black top and modern tyres the tech has changed. So now there are tyres you want the snow to hold in the tyre and grip the snow, but then you get all kinds of snow and temperatures. Horses for courses and how far are you going on snow, deep fresh snow, or hard compacted, or slush, or just a bit of white stuff? It can be what suits what and where you are going that matters.

@Schtum and myself are south of Stonehaven & Blairgowrie on the East of Scotland but there are people posting that give not a clue where they are in the UK & some right at the South of the UK. This winter so far has not had much snow in the UK for many other than those further north than me and i know how have and some can struggle in winters and need to get about and Winters or All Season / All Weathers are something having even if just in the wettest or cold weather which can be anytime. PS Good to see someone like @daviemck2006 posting from Macduff. Where i grew up and where we used to get plenty snow and the only place i know where people sledged using a washing line stretcher pole as a rudder. The reason this started was because Norwegians trained in the area during WW2 and showed this way as well as teaching the Home Guard and Cadets how to ski and with a staff not ski sticks. Up there Firestone Town & Country Tyres got fitted in winter and bags of sand were put in the boot.

^^^ Don't we all wonder, or could some not give a damn if all they do is run a company / fleet / rented car and change it every 3 years or less. With a 14 year old diesel or even a Euro 5 diesel getting good economy then maybe the occasional charge if you need into a LEZ is no big deal. It might be for those with keepers to worry if there are those with an EV, or used buyers, but then they can maybe get 'much cheapness'. Losing 20% of range or any amount being an issue with an EV is a very good reason not to get one then and nobody is going to make them. They can just carry on driving what ever they want after 2035 from the millions of non EV,s there will be kicking about and paying what ever it costs to fuel and run them. Hardly complicated. Maybe what is on sale in the way of BEV,s in 10 years will be less likely to be losing range in the same way that some apparently lose range now. Some that is.

Exactly. & back in 2020 like when i went to a Launch of the Corsa electric with journalists the cars were on Pilot Sports and there were 0-62 mph times and they were in CAR and i had them on Dragy. Then the cars were launched and arrived on Michelin Primacy 4, had slower and poorer performance but a nice low Insurance Group,. & not so good published figures as the Peugeot and journals and journalists kept repeating crap about suspension etc. They should have gone to a weigh bridge, or corner scales and looked at the tyres. Maybe adjusted the pressures. The sister cars and from him he just tells as he sees it. Same batteries and motors in the cars, weights and tyres different and suspension. All have drop link failures, crap discs as well. Eco under 90 ps. Normal 110 ps and Sport 136ps.

It never Claimed 100 kW / 136 ps power it had that. & 100kW charging speed. These kW and not kWh are what confuses people if you use it to mean Capacity and Power. I have an idea on how they made a typo someplace. If, The cheaper smaller battery Corsa electric like i had with a 50 kW battery and 100 kw / 136 ps power now as the cheaper an smaller battery must have 81 kW power/ 110 ps.

I edited my mistake. 82 kW is the battery size, not the power the motor develops 210kW.281.6 bhp. 82 kW battery, 77 kW usable. With the Corsa that are saying the Smaller Battery car still has 136 PS but 81kW is 110 ps. The 51 kW bigger battery supposed has has 48 kW usable or so. the old and still used in the cheaper cars 50kW was and is 45 kW usable.

Strange because the Corsa-e that became the Corsa electric with 136 ps / 134 hp was and is a 100kW. Where does the Max Power 81kW come from now as a figure and no longer the 260Nm? (192lb-ft) *** The changed the gearing, and it is not any longer 136 ps if it is 81kW, that is 110ps,.*** The 0-60 mph time and the 0-62 mph times were always nonsense and shown as low because the e-208 was made to appear quicker in official figures back in 2020. There was always a Kerb Weight given that was greater than the actual weight, and the cheapest lightest Corsa -e on 16" wheels went further and was / is more efficient than the 17". With the Citroen C4 Electric on 18" wheels though it goes further than a Peugeot e-208 or Corsa-e on 16 or 17 " wheels / tyres. 16" being 195,s and the 17,s 205 and the 18" 215,s.

Today there are newspaper articles that the YES edition Corsa Electric is the cheapest new EV you can buy in the UK. The likes of my 7kW AC onboard 50kW elite was £35,000 grand RRP and someone bought it from a dealer at 3 years old after motability sold it through BCA for a silly price considering a new one was on offer for a couple of thousand more. The Fire Sale of some Corsa Electric was to shift stock of older or limited edition vehicles before the updates. Then there is the difference now on the bigger battery cars. There are huge amounts of ex motability , ex NHS loan card from COVID time and various fleet ones that traders and dealers struggle to shift. Also new and the latest ones. They were and are overpriced in the main, but there are bargains to be had and if you want a keeper much cheapness. Problem is still crap drop links and software. Then Vauxhall Dealers or maybe just Arnold Clark and EV,s and total pathetic knowledge of them in dealerships.

The thread on the 1.8 and 2.0 TSI,s and their early demise is pinned at the top of the Octavia MK2 section. Plenty posts from members about their engine rebuilds, cost etc. the garages that are quoting on new engines do not want you as a customer or the hassle but if you were prepared to pay the cost of getting another car to them they would be delighted to have you as a customer / mug.

@SouthernComfort I have asked this before. The reason being to clarify. Is your engine a 1.4 TSI with an 8 speed Torque converter automatic? Which other global regions other than Europe / EU can get because the World Wide Harmonised cheating of emissions testing is just for Europe not the actual whole world. Meaning you can get the good engine and not the lottery of a DQ200 DSG. Simply clever stuff. Reliable is available, just not suitable for the WLTP. Kidology.

So? The best cars & best classic / collector / investor and most expensive cars are right now. Many of the most expensive BEV,s are just company cars on lease / never never. Actually some people work up to the best and most expensive cars through their hobby and trading and are now in a higher earning bracket or tax band or getting help from their taxes to have these cars.

It has sidelights and DRL,s as the same unit, and no Sidelight / Position bulb in the Headlight. See the Sidelight thread i bumped.

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