Graham Butcher

But if there is no North Sea oil coming a shore and diesel being shipped in, no need for a refinary so there was no future for them to remain for was there? The well paid jobs went as well no nothing to replace them.

That shows the total lack of joined thinking and strategic planning. We stop refining North Sea crude for our own consumption but then import it from Netherlands etc.

It's just greenwashing.

Or a high vehicle such as a bus were to hit it?

@lol-lolcan't believe that has been approved.

@lol-lol Yes, I know about Electric Forecourt, just a few miles from me, and it can cope with that load, as there is a tap into the main 275kV or maybe even 400kV grid powerline just metres away from it. The place is run by Gridserve and has on-site 2 massive transformers to provide the power. But a couple of swallows does not make a summer. If we are to go electric, we need far more of these centres, but however, they are not geared up to accept HGVs. The same national grid powerline that serves Electric Forecourt, also runs close by the Fastned site in Colchester.

Here's the point that I was making: the UK is not doing any of those things, and the last time I checked, we were all still firmly rooted here, the UK. We could talk about the situation in Kuwait, but their fossil fuel is cheap. Being a major producer, I understand that and they more than likely will not go down the EV route. It's of zero interest to the UK members of this forum to continually sprout what they are or are not doing. The French, for example, are particularly rebellious, and if the authorities introduce, for example, new driving rules that the population finds unpalatable, they riot and get their way in the end. Here in the UK we are not like that, and so our government takes liberties with us, like the blanket 20mph in Wales to reduce deaths. (which apparently had the opposite effect, and they have risen).

4/ Yes battery swaps The above does sound feasible until you actually stop and think outside the box a bit. 1/ How large would the solar array need to be to top up storage batteries again after a couple of trucks have been recharged? The trucks will not know if the station has sufficient reserves to provide them with a charger, nor will the trucker know how long it has been since the last truck left the charger. 2/ Wind turbines are going to extremely popular and highly desirable in urban locations or beauty spots I don't think. 3/ EV stations may currently be idle for up to 88% of the time in some locations only (there is a large Tesla one near me and everytime I go past it, it always looks like all chargers are in use). As EVs become the more dominant type of motive power, that figure alters rapidly, especially if those who can't charge at home switch to EV power. 4/ Yes, trucks have battery swapping technology, which makes sense as it would keep them where they belong, on the road delivering the goods, but it still means that the hub still demands a huge grid connection so those batteries will be recharged ready for the next truck to roll in, requiring a fresh set of batteries.

Hopefully the grid has capacity and will provide sufficient incoming power to the new hub?

I don't know why you are so amazed by this. I've been saying for some time that the chargers are limited by the total incoming grid connection and supply size. The grid is going to struggle, and if electric trucking ever really takes off with trampers and freelance truckers, they will need to be using public chargers and will be taking ages charging. Unlike the Amazon trucks which will only be going from Amazon warehouse to another Amazon warehouse with their own chargers and will likely be there for many hours before doing the return trip to their home warehouse.

@lol-lol Surely, the slower acceleration of the diesel truck is a positive safety advantage, something to be thankful for. Have you ever driven a big heavy vehicle in earnest and for any real distance?

The only car to appear in 3 sections as well.

No mention of this on any of the main news channels, or at least not that I can find. If that happens, then it just shows the folly of the UK energy strategy: no more drilling in the North Sea, refiners closing/closed down, and reduced stocks of both oil and gas. What for? So that the politicians can stick their chests out and brag to their counterparts that the UK has more to reduce emissions than anyone else. Have we? In reality, haven't we just shipped all of our emissions overseas and made theirs worse as a result of that mentality? UK manufacturing moved overseas, and jobs were lost, sitting on vast fields of oil and gas that we can't touch because we lacked the forward critical thinking required to think it through before committing to such a dangerous path as Net Zero. This is authority-led decisions stacked up against each other to further compound the situation. Wondering what the hell I am talking about? Just subscribe to the YouTube channel "Fine Print", and you'll find the answers to how the UK has reached such a low point in its long and rich history.

Amazon already have a fleet of electric HGVs and they are ideal for their usage as they go from warehouse to warehouse. Known mileages and chargers at their warehouses mean that can be charged while loading and unloading is being done ready for their return trip.

What I'd love to know is just what the van was carrying, if anything other than the driver, possibly a passenger and their luggage on that trip. It also works out at an average daily drive of 139 miles. Isn't Volkswagen ceasing the ID Buzz because of poor sales?

You're welcome.

OK, forget the PJ53 part, that is just code to identify the the manufacturer, who does not seem to be around any more. The import part of the number is GS1J which is 1A diode with a reverse voltage withstand of 600V.. That means that any diode with that code of GS1J will be a direct replacement. The concerning thing is why did it explode in the first place, it might well do the same again if you replace it. From experience on a VW Passat, this module is located in a compartment in the front passenger footwell, and they can suffer from moisture ingress as the floor pan rusts away. So it might be the moisture that caused it to explode. The only place I can see that has any is an eBay seller, link to it follows, Price is £3.55 and postage is £2.75. If you can locate either a GS1K (800V) or a GS1M (1,000V) then they would also be a suitable replacement. GS1J/SMA DIODE GEN PURPOSE 600V 1A SMA GS1J-SMA 'UK COMPANY SINCE 1983 NIKKO' | eBay UK

It is a diode, I'll go through my data sheets for info and hopefully be able to identify an equivalent item. What is it from?

A heads up for you: did you know that eBay has a guarantee that if parts from their platform don't fit, you can return them FOC?

The BYD truck is certainly better looking than the Tesla semi.

This is correct, I had issues with them when I had the Superb.

I would have expected Tata to have already taken the rules of origin into account when they are alledged to have granted production space to Chery at their factory, and if such a thing ever takes place, it would surprise me that job creation would be minimal, as they are most likely to be built by JLRs own staff alongside their own cars. It will either way, all come out in the wash as my mum used to say. I know what you mean about the video, it certainly was not the most polished production at all, loads of AI imagary and the fact that he kept calling Bedford as Bedfordshire, which is not a town but a county, but hey ho, it is what it is.

@lol-lol I take it that you never watched the video then? Nobody mentioned importing these Freelanders; the makers (Chery, 50% owned by Tata, who own JLR) are highly likely, as explained in the video, to be making these cars here in the UK, either at JLR or Nissan, where they already have agreements to make cars in those factories and our government is supposed to be in on the deal. This might well be total BS; only time will tell us which it is, but the Freelander is designed in the UK by staff employed by JLR at their design centre, so again, make of that what you will. I have long said that many of the vloggers are ahead of the game, as they cannot be told what they can and can't report on, unlike the mainstream news channels. As always, there are 2 sides to things, and one will be proven to be right at the end. It never hurts to be aware of the other side of things, does it? With Jaecoo being 50% Tata owned, then they will be still getting income from every Jaecoo sold and not having to build them and there is no denying that their sales are growing in the UK in all traction varients.

Fancy a Freelander, electric with 818 hp for £37,000, complete with a 46" screen on the dashboard? Then you need to watch this video, and it also helps to explain just why and how the Jaecoo looks like a knock-off Range Rover.

I think I have come across that type of diesel fuel before, is it almost like treacle, black and really thick. The boilers at the bus station where I did my training had 2 boilers which used fuel like that and stank horribly. Each boiler had a preheat chamber (electrical) to heat and thus thin the fuel so that it could be pumped into the burner and ignited. Back in the 60s and 70s, when the UK was experiencing massive power cuts, we had to hire a couple of diesel-powered generators from a showman (mobile fair ground operator). One big one to power strings of 110V lamps we had to string everywhere for public safety, etc., and a smaller one just to mainly operate the boilers and the preheaters in order to provide adequate heating. The fuel tank for the boilers was underground at one level, and the boilers themselves were at an even lower level in order for this treacle-like fuel to exit the road tankers and also to flow from the storage tank to the boilers, where the heaters were laid out on the floor in front of the boilers.