Graham Butcher

Oh no, even more , the world must have gone crazy, Porsche are now allegedly stopping EV battery production and going back to ICE? Barrie Crampton has discovered that the issue with the Taycans battery was (so he says) was a busbar was not correctly torqued down and a short circuit could occur and hence the recalls and claiming that a software update would prevent the fault from happening or even prevent the battery from going into thermal runaway, no way on earth is that even possible.

Oh dear, Its not April the 1st is it? Is the world going crazy? Renault, Geely and Aramco are backing a ICE range extender that will fit into a frunk and will be launching it at the upcoming Munich Motor Show. I though range anxiety was not an issue, but it seems to be a real thing after all or is just a load of BS. There is simply loads of mentions and references to this all over the internet and has been on TV as well and yet nobody is even talking about it? Horse reveals drop-in range-extender conversion for EVs | Autocar Renault and Geely showcase compact range extender for EVs - electrive.com This Tiny Engine Fits In a Briefcase. But It Could Boost Your EV's Range by Hundreds of Miles Horse launches C15 range extender for EVs - PistonHeads UK Horse 1.5-cylinder range-extender engine for electric vehicles Horse Powertrain unveils compact range extender technology - Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology International Horse Powertrain reveals Horse C15 ultra compact range extender solutions | Automotive World Briefcase-sized C15 engine to turn EVs into range-extended hybrids Large Briefcase-Sized Range Extender Turns Any Fully Electric Car Into a Hybrid of Sorts - autoevolution range extender Archives - Motor Trade News

Hardly been using a 3 pin lead, did you look at the attached links, they have even been storing solar power in a massive 1,200kWh storage battery to help with their charging.

Oops, news just come in, Nottingham City Council apparently have spent £8.7Million on a fleet of electric refuse lorries that are not as good as diesels and have cost more than double the diesel ones, electric, £560,000 each with only 12 ton capacity V diesel trucks at £265,000 each and have a payload of 20 tons. It also transpires that in just 3 months of operating the electric lorries, they has been 11,675 missed bin collections due to them not being serviceable and capacity issues. Plus on top of that the council are saying that because of the rising cost of electric, they costing as much to run as their diesel equivalents and not able to carry the same payloads. But they are supposed to be generating their own power from solar, more on this below. They are now going to switching their diesel trucks over to HVO fuel. Nottingham City Council’s costly electric bin lorries ‘may not have demonstrated good value' - Nottinghamshire Live Nottingham City Council’s costly electric bin lorries ‘may not have demonstrated good value' Nottingham City councillor admits buying electric bin lorries was a mistake Their claim at the time of buying the first 2 lorries. Turning the Council's Fleet Green - Transport Nottingham Council reveals new names for ‘world-first’ electric bin lorries – My Nottingham News Their claim to savings made dated December 2023. Transition To Electric Saves Nottingham City Council £1 million In Running Costs This Year – Public Sector Focus Figures of savings quoted on 28 Feb 2025. Matt Ralfe - DESNZ Fleet Electrification Case Study Pres-MJR-D23.pdf They also have been generating their own solar power to charge the lorries. Nottingham council trials pilot to run depot fleet using electricty generated on site — Interchange UK What is happening here then?

Its almost as if Barrie Crampton was actually telling the real truth after all, who knew that???🙄🙄

I was talking about 2nd hand cars, not new from the showrooms.

You say that, but there may be law suits about EVs before this is all done and dusted as the claims made about them is also suspect. Like it or not, we do actually need vast amounts of CO2 to keep plants etc alive, who in turn give us the Oxygen we need. What would have made more sense would have been to prevent deforrrstation and this wild fires, many of which are man made by cigarettes, bbqs that get of hand etc., some are deliberate even.

True there will be much cheapness but only because the public are showing that they don't want to go electric. So for those that do, there will be even more cheapness to be had as there will be massive discounts on offer as dealers try and cut their losses.

I have zero idea how good Rivian software is, but not sure if it is good that new cars are so reliant on software, what happens when that software reaches the end of support. We all know just how bad that with our computers etc when Microsoft, Google or Apple decide to not support their products any longer. Is it just me or does anyone else also see similarity with the Renault 5?

Hell, if you were a private buyer in the first instance, then that amount of depreciation to even £6,000 is one bitch of a bitter pill to swallow, which just highlights that private buyers are not yet convinced of the viability of going electric for what ever reason, be it lack off road parking for charging, range anxiety of other factors. So if an EV is suitable for you and fits your needs nicely then plenty of second hand bargains to be had, which unless your a keeping with your neighbours type of person, is also going to further dent the uptake of new EV's, leaving the market more or less to the companies/fleets.

I had to format my card in the end as exfat32 and then extract the compressed file to that card using the extract feature built-in on winRAR which is the free decompression programme I use, to the SD card. Then you pop the card into slot 1 on the satnav head unit and follow the procedure and it does it all for you, it is slow though, around 40 minutes all in.

Well my experience with them has been pretty good, although the last brand new car I had was back in 2013, so things may have got bad since then, and we did also have the Covid period which has certainly affected the servicing side as some people would still it appears prefer to stick with Skoda for servicing/repairs. I have started to use indies for my cars now as every time I try the Skoda centres they are quoting something like 3 to 4 weeks away for bookings and they are still blaming the Covid backlog.

Hopefully it will be fine, if you read some of the comments on this forum you would think Skoda's were bad when they clearly are one of the better offerings from the VAG empire.

I have just been watching the latest Harrys Garage video only 4 hours old. He meets up with Jeremy Clarkson at his pub (The Farmers Dog) to talk about Jaguar and the future of the brand and other things and it gets really interesting from 17 minutes and 45 seconds into when they both discuss modern trends of screens and menu driven systems on cars and then a bit further on they get into electric cars. Spoiler alert, some of you will not like the electric section, while I know that some of you will agree with a lot of the comments they ake about the utter madness that some the cars are these days.

I take it then that once again you did not watch the video where Barrie actually proved the fake sales on Autotrader, I have no idea how much other proof you need. Those links you provided are of course not going to rock the boat for obvious reasons.

Anyone seen the latest video by Barrie Crampton, released just 11 hours ago. It seems Polestar is reeling from the faked sales of EV cars despite just a short while ago claiming a massive 185% increase in sales to todays reports from Polestar Polestar EV losses increase by 2957% to £703 Million.

@Ootohere there we go, people do learn from our posts, I did🤣🤣

@Ootohere I was not even for a single moment suggesting that mobility would be suppling premium cars, but that a lot of mobility cars would be electric as they are going electric to help push the numbers up, and as there are more people without home charging, so that they would be having to use public charging at the prices you mentioned. All EV's have far lower value than a ICE car of the same size etc after they leave the showroom, which as I was implying, if buying a new one, must be taken into account, which even if you can charge at home rapidly takes the shine out of the far lower running costs and that it might just still a better financial decision to buy a ICE car, depending on your annual mileage. But as I have always claimed, there is an argument to be made for EVs and I firmly believe that if that is a persons personal choice and it suits their life style, then it should be their right to have one. What I don't agree with is the slow banning and phasing out of ICE cars by legislation, it should really be down to market forces. Talking about EV's this test of a Ioniq 5 by Hub nut I thought was very interesting.

Sorry, I thought I answered this question, but subsequent checking, it appears I thought I had but didn't, so here goes. Yes I did read the last lines of your post but that is less then ideal as it then getting extremally close to the cost of running an ICE car with none of the conveniences of a 5 minute fill up from empty to full again, so would would an actual private owner want to do that, especially given the premium price paid for the EV over an equivalent ICE? Those that are actually doing it are probably driving a company supplied car or a mobility supplied one I would suggest.

Oh come on, where is the logic in that, can't keep using Covid for the reason of everything. And have you looked at the number of new ICE cars that are offered in manual format, even small city cars these days are increasingly only available as automatics. Also with EV's supposedly flying out the door, they are if they are pure EV, only like a automatic having forward, neutral and reverse selectors, speed being done by frequency convertors.

In other areas it is more likely to be near 100% as public transport is minimal. That said the areas you referenced with the tube is also the areas where a lot of the super rich have their mansions and will have a fleet of cars, large highly polluting ones, so it counters those that use the tubes?

Yes lieing to insurers is not to be reccomended, but the point I was making, badly it seems, is that it is likely to have a negative effect on the premium you pay and needs to be added to cost of EV ownership. While it is also true that ever home has a car, I would expect that the actual figure that doesn't have car is something in the order of 20%.

Now that is not the attitude to take is it? I thought this was an open debate, not an ICE owner V EV owner and does absolutely nothing to help / assist more people to make the move over to electric when it seems that EV owners cannot or are not willing to enter into free discussions where both sides of the divide may actually learn something via the discourse. Also of course you also have a foot in both camps do you not, with your diesel BMW estate for the longer trips and electric for other others, when that itself is a luxury that many will not be able to afford, many struggle to run one car even.

The thing is that if you are the owner of said car and you lie to the insurer about where your car is kept overnight, then you also accept that they will have the perfect excuse not to pay out in the event of a claim being made by you. As to Reps/Travellers/Contractors then you must also understand that for the majority of those they will not be the ones responsible for the insurance, that will the companies who own/lease the cars, and so is the risk if they fail to provide adequate cover.

Yes, I accept that is the case, Johhny Smith of the Late Brake Show has one with free charging for life, but even without it, it still remains a major draw for other customers towards the Tesla brand, for instance for a long time, here in Chelmsford, there was only the Tesla super chargers at their premises in the North of the city and remarkably there is a huge concentration of Tesla owners on the estates around that location as opposed to the rest of the city.