Graham Butcher

Now you're changing things, besides the points that Rooted mentioned, have ever thought that it might be the driver who has mobility issues and needs the extra space to exit their vehicle. I have on many occasions been unable to find a space big enough to park so I could actually get out of my car, so I have had no option other than to abandon the shopping trip or whatever to avoid damaging other people's cars. You need to fully consider the other person's reasons for parking like that, often there is a real valid reason other than the one you came up with.

@J.R. As regards to bad parking, parking space width markings have not kept pace with the increase in car sizes. Which have increased in order to incorporate all the modern safety features. With the older cars you mention, smaller than the P6, I also had a Hillman Minx, Ford Cortina, Austin A60, Vanden Plas 3litre, Rover 200, Vauxhall Cavalier, Vauxhall Vectra, Morris Montego, Ford Mondeo, Volkswagan Passats all of which did used to fit in those spaces OK. So in your world, giants are either supposed to just bang their doors into other people's pride and joy, putting dents in them or remain trapped in their cars.. nice.

I think you must have a problem or you go over speed bumps really slow, I don't such issues with my DSG at all.

While I agree it does look like bad parking, but it may not be so if the driver, like me, has large feet. With doors being hinged from the front, the smallest space is going to be right where your feet are as you try to get out without banging your door into the car alongside. I have sized 15 feet and would need that sort of gap in order to get my door open wide enough to get my feet out of the car and onto the ground. The rover 2000/3500 (P6) was not a large car at all, it was a compact executive car being 4572mm L, 1676mm W and 1422mm H 1275kg (2000 model). The Rover (P5) 3Litre was the large luxury car being 4737mm L, 1778mm W and 1549mm H and 1587kg. I know, as I had one of each back in the day.

I'm somewhat confused why they have increased the prices, with battery prices falling, they are already making better profits and it strikes me that they are creating a bigger stick for BYD to smack them with?

Correct, hence why I said it was not potholes related, and the BBC article did explain that as well. I just included the link as an illustration of what could happen if a two wheeled road user was to drive into some of our potholes, that are certainly deep enough if they can destroy wheels, suspension and tyres on cars etc.

Haha, could have fooled me, which is a greater risk, small chance of skidding on a small 2" wide of sealing tar or a having a wheel drop into a crater risking slashing of tyres (I have had this on my car) or worse, ripping entire wheels off the car and even greater risk of deseating someone on 2 wheels and hurling them into the path of oncoming traffic? Like this poor motorcyclist who was thrown from his bike over the side of a bridge (not pothole related though) Motorcyclist falls from Milton Keynes bridge after collision - BBC News

I used to be a cyclist and I never noticed the hot tar being slippery to ride on, but then, like now, I never used tyres without a decent amount of tread left on them. I bet the air was a bit blue when you had that nasty accident, it certainly would have been had it been me.

Thats certainly not the normal mode down here.

No, quite right, I had a typo in my original posting, and now I have correct it to read as So all the damage is done by electric cars and none by far heavier vehicles then, Idiots don't seem able to apply logic and or think for themselves any longer.🙄

Roads get dug up for all kinds of reasons, but I recall years ago it was common place to see where the new patch met the old road surface, they would pour liquid tar along the joins to effectively seal any cracks between the two, so water could not get in and do damage to the road. These days, it is a very rare sight indeed to see that and hence why we see patches breaking up again after a few months, sometimes, even weeks after they were put in.

Personally, I'd swap the front tyres with those on the rear. The fronts get a lot more pressure placed on them the rears and if they were to blow in use they are safer at the back than the front.

Its like I said, repeat a lie often enough, then the gullible will believe it. So all the damage is done by electric cars and none by far heavier vehicles then, Idiots don't seem able to apply logic and or think for themselves any longer.🙄

If the roads were maintained better and the contractors and authorities were to exercise better control over the quality of the materials used, then the potholes more than likely would not have appeared in the first instance.

Extremely handy if your needing a charge desperately, electric OK but tech systems subjected to cyber attacks. Be interesting to find out why all of these other systems gone down. Good job we still have some people with cash, but soon we will be cashless if things don't get derailed. ☹️

It seems as if Euro NCAP have now woken up to the dangers posed by the trend towards touch controls on a central screen, and VW looks to be the first to react and promises to replace more touch controls with actual switches, stalks whatever. Euro NCAP encourages car manufacturers to replace touchscreens with physical buttons | Regit

You mean as in the B word.

Could not agree more with most of that, these fat cat elites drive around in their hugely overpowered ICE cars spewing out way more pollution than you and I ever do in our smaller diesels. There are plenty of luxury less polluting cars that they could elect to use but wont.

Yep, cyberattacks or a dirty bomb will cause havoc with everything. .......... The thing with Manned / Womanned filling stations is however that the faulty item is both quickly identified and also repairs processed, unless of course the staff also suffer from the same issues that knocks out chargers

When he talks about the reliability of chargers and deflects it down so many avenues like, software issues, Wi-Fi issues, network issues, internet issues etc rather than mechanical or electrical issues he is just highlighting the disadvantages of EV chargers over a manned service station for ICE vehicles.

That charging experience is from I gather from other videos and other peoples comments pretty much common. There are clearly going to be some variations in this and no two days are going to be the same as chargers that were out of service will be fixed and returned to service and of course the reversal of that is also true. Where there are multiple chargers, depending on the supply from grid etc, I also have seen similar tales of woe where people were not getting the charging speeds that were expecting, that itself can seriously ruin your plans for the day, especially if it was a charging location on your route, clearly this is where locals in a given location have the advantage. There will no doubt be some who will try and claim all kinds of reasons for the poor showing in this video, but the fact of the matter is until they can get charging times down to something approaching the time it takes to fill a fuel tank and also greatly increase the number of chargers available and their availability for use is way more reliable, then EV owners will continue to struggle and so will the adoption of EVs as not everyone has the spare time on their hands to go looking for working chargers and then be prepared to sit in their cars, queuing up for their turn on a charger, most people have other things going on in their lives that make demands on their time, yes there will be some people who are more than happy to do that, but most have families, maybe they are carers and just cannot spare that time, maybe they have places to be, or are meant to be working etc. Hopefully one day things will improve.

It actually looks larger than it is in reality.

That is like a bleeding Range Rover for size and that screen, erm, good luck trying to operate it with your left hand and with it being moveable, while it might be good to remove glare from the sun and lights etc off the screen, it will also end up as not, moving while trying to use it. Give us some good old-fashioned knobs and switches, easier to locate and operate without taking your attention of the road.

@Rooted I think a lot of the problems with the generation of power in England stems from the NIMBYs who want the power and services but do not want their view etc spoilt so they are more than happy to site power stations in Scotland out of their sight, and then they object to the pylons/underground cable works etc to transport that power to their doors. You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg.🙄

Well, that's not quite right though, is it? The problem is that because of the way our energy infrastructure has been fractured into many different privatised companies, it has become very hard to get things organised so that everything happens just as it should. There are just too many ways that things can go wrong and fingers get pointed and deflected so things get very messy to resolve. If there is just the one company, hopefully publicly owned then everyone knows who does what, rather like many things were years ago before the government's love affair with short term gain in getting money in and things got split up and sold to the highest bidder (allegedly). We can this in action with the railways and how they have fallen into decline. If all the various producers could all be hooked up to the grid then as more electric cars hit the road and they require charging, then they could do so. We all hear of events where people go to charge their cars on route and how at times another car plugs in and the overall charge rate drops because there is just not enough supply to the charging site/hub. Yes the system can cope if people can always manage to charge at home, overnight and many do, but that cannot suit everyone because of the current cars simply very often do not have the range to match most ICE cars. While people hear of these power shortages then that is not conducive to getting more people to make the switch to electric cars and this problem is going to IMO get worse before it gets better as year-on-year, the must hit targets imposed on makers and dealers to reduce ICE sales by certain % points and increase the electric sales. Again, not being helped by companies switching their company cars and delivery fleets over either as many of those will be requiring charging during the day and peak periods in order to reach their destinations for the day.