Graham Butcher

Just a minor point here, the car will only coast if it is "ECO" mode or "Individual" where "ECO" has been selected along with other settings and when coasting the gear indicator will show just "E" or otherwise it will display "E2", assuming your car has the DCC system, otherwise the only way to actually coast is by knocking the transmission into neutral. Could the grinding possibly be coming from the brakes actually sticking a little bit and thus slow in releasing themselves?

Oh I don't know, they managed to keep dragging their feet on the issue of flammable cladding on buildings and also take their time over sorting out the **** show that was/is the Grenfill Tower fire and the avoidable deaths.

As I have always said that not all Vloggers are leeches or Rodneys, Mguy does check the facts, as does John Caddogan and so far as I have seen do most of the Vloggers but sometimes in the rush to be the first with the news, they don't always get hold of the truth but do normally put out corrections when they discover the truth. He does get a statement from the LFB where they say that a Journalist was incorrectly told in the first instance that the car was an EV, which is what they were told when called to attend the fire. LFB said that had it been an EV then there was no way that they could have put the fire in such a short period of time. Heathrow tunnel fire was NOT an EV or hybrid | MGUY News 14 March 2025

Essex County Council Communications Team· 15 hrs ago The first residential electric vehicle chargers in Essex have now been installed ⚡ The chargers, which are located on Moulsham Street in Chelmsford and Wimpole Road in Colchester, are the first of 66 for the county with more points to be installed over the next six months. They have been funded by £236,000 from the Government’s residential charge point scheme and it is hoped they will help to encourage more residents to swap to an electric car 🚗

Still possible it was an EV as unless the battery is on fire, it will burn the same as a ICE car. I say still possible as I have not seen anything to state what type of car it actually was and if the fire was caused by faulty 12v electrics or a cigarette, then upto the point where the traction battery gets involved in the fire, the car will exhibit exactly like a ICE car on fire. Presumedly the fire was reported by the driver/owner of the car and the London Fire Brigade said that they had been called to an EV fire, but the fact that they had put the fire out in such a short time means that if it was an EV, then the battery 100% was part of the fire.

Geoff buys cars was one I remember claiming it was, although he did say that it was yet to be confirmed as he couldn't find any further info as I think the North Sea collision was taking all the headlines then. Oh and it was reported by The Sun, LBC, Twitter (X) etc. Breaking News! EV Fire causes HUGE DELAYS at Heathrow Airport

There was a reported EV car on fire in the tunnel under Heathrow Airport yesterday morning and was covered by a couple of YouTubers but I didn't post about it because I had serious doubts about the validity of the reports seeing as the fire brigade quickly extinguished it. Well as it turns out it seems my gut feeling was right and turns out the car was a diesel after all. Heathrow Airport tunnel fire: Was it really an EV? | Auto Expert John Cadogan

They were storing cars at Bruntingthope airfield long before Covid and also in fields around Chelmsford, especially Fords and Vauxhalls, none were pre registered though and were still in their semi protective wax paper etc awaiting their PDIs.

Not too sure as to the validly of this report, but given tRumps stance on EVs it does sort of ring true, I guess we'll have to wait and see just how this pans out, does anyone else have any thoughts or other similar reports at all? Elon Musk JUST CONFIRMED: 'Tesla Is DOOMED – We Can’t Survive!'

Another quite interesting story and a possible block to people getting an electric car. Lambeth Council are looking to charge people about £7,000 for the right to park their car in their own front garden (where there is enough space on older houses to do this) especially when they have converted their garden to allow this in order to be able to charge at home. This couldn't possibly be because the council is in the red to the tune of millions of £ could it?? 🚨 New Climate change scam! Labour council demands £7000 from residents to park on their own Drives!

Sadly, the car fire in the overnight incident report is NOT the one in the video, how do I know this, simple, firstly the time stamp on the video is just before midnight, the report states it was at 7.55pm, and they left the scene at 8.10pm, impossible. It also states the car was deliberately set on fire and yet the video does not show any sign of a flame until after the explosion, any flames would have been highly visible at night, even if masked by the car, the flickering light from them would have been very visible reflecting off the surroundings. Prior to the explosion, it was white smoke, a tell-tale sign of the battery malfunctioning and venting gases. Secondly, looking at the street Atkins Road on Google Earth clearly shows all the houses along the entire road have drives at the front of their houses and cars parked on them, unlike the houses in the video which do not. So clearly there is something wrong here, the official report does not reflect that fire, whether that is because the event was covered up, or the information sent to M Guy was not correct, or it was in another town, whatever, you cannot say that M Guy is misrepresenting the truth, the fire did happen and that car was not set on fire, it started that fire all by itself. As to M Guy looking after us from a different time zone, far, far away, is laughable, he is not looking after us, he is just highlighting what he considers to a very dangerous side effect of electric cars, and he can only do that after the event, to be looking after us, he would to forewarn us that the car was about to self combust.😉

Are the British media now suppressing any negative EV stories or what? This Mercedes EQ car parked in a Sheffield street, which didn't appear to be on charge either, but within seconds the car had suffered total thermal runaway, several explosions burning debris being shot out starting other fires. Does anyone know if this has been reported anywhere, if so, any links to the news? Exclusive: Terrifying moment ANOTHER Mercedes EV spontaneously EXPLODES | MGUY Australia

Imagine identifying this charger at Lidl in Worcester as your last chance of charging before running out of power, only to find when you get there, bleeding thieves have robbed the cable?

Plenty of that already happening here.

And there is plenty of examples of solar farms springing up on good arable land that has traditionally been used for crops, of which there are plenty of such locations around my home city. Or as one Vlogger puts it, the pursuit of Net Zero trumps all sanity.

My point was that most of the crops we need to survive by, need sunlight in order to mature and produce the desired harvest. They need sunlight for the right level of photosynthesis to take place to produce the crop and in the case of fruit ripen it. Hence why plants grow tall and leggy as mum used to say, when they can't see enough sunlight in order to reach a height to get the sunlight. Solar farms are arranged to maximise the amount of sunlight hitting the panels, thus limited amount for critical crops.

That is the problem with so many of todays cars, software and with over the air updates, how many times do our computers throw their toys out the pram and it seems after each OS updates, there is something else that fails and needs patching to get back working again.

@B33fy wow that was some trip just to get the record sleeves, they must have been something really special to justify the time and expense of going that distance, could have asked them to post them to you, no?

I take it from that smart arse snide comment that you actually have zero experience of anything to do with a BMW Isetta 300, and it is very clear that you do not know anything about having large feet and also having a large body. So do I take it then that you are a smallish man with small feet, because you most certainly come across as someone suffering from what is commonly known as "small man syndrome" This link refers to that in case you are not aware of it Small Man Syndrome : Blog Just go away and find a Isetta 300 and step inside it and try it out then perhaps you might just understand how and why I was able to drive one, it is very easy to get into and out of as the entire front of the car is the actual door as can be seen in the photo below and also the foot well on a conventional car is limited to the space between the wheel arch and the transmission tunnel (typical foot well photo attached) whereas an Isetta the entire width of the car is the foot well and there are other considerations as to why I drive a Superb, but I doubt that you would appreciate them either as you seem to think that you know all the answers and so you must be right and everyone else is wrong. I understand that you suffer with vision but come on, people cannot keep biting their tongue and being your punch bag, and I do mean that in the most respectful way possible, but I have made so many allowances for that in the past, but I'm reaching my limits of chewing my tongue and suffering your smart arse comments.

And so it begins, I seriously doubt that this will be the only country to take action. There is new footage of the fire which shows the seriousness and impact of it all. Korea beefs up safety inspections of EV batteries - The Korea Herald Korea upgrades safety standards for large underground parking lots - The Korea Herald

No, we never ever used the ration books, but petrol was very scarce and expensive, and I had just got married and moved to Haverhill and I discovered in the garage I rented from the council was an Isetta 300 in bits, which I stripped down and reconditioned it and rebuilt it again and the VP was stored in the garage and I used the Isetta as a daily driver for a number of years and was getting around 90mpg, it was noisy, cramped and not very comfortable, but it did get me about. I was of course in those days pretty slim (can't say that today) but at the time, it was the right car to have and if rationing had been enforced, I would have been laughing all the way to the garage 😄 Isetta - Wikipedia

Still very early days, which strangely enough is a phrase used repeatedly in the video and with all these new methods and compounds there may well be a hidden side yet to be discovered that will prevent full scale production on many levels still as yet undetermined. One of the reasons why I still think that the whole net-zero by 2030 is not doable, or even 2035. There will be many hurdles to overcome along the way and may well end up being scrapped, leaving the option of having ICE cars still on the table for a for some years while R&D continues looking for alternatives.

Fine for some livestock, but of very limited use for growing crops like wheat, root crops etc, difficult for machinery and very limited sunlight.

@Colin170CR indeed their cars were fine, I loved that car, it started out in life as a car owned by United Biscuits, and was chauffeur driven for the directors and VIP guests at the biscuit factory and the chauffeur loved that car and when he retired they presented the car to him as a retirement present. I was doing my time as an apprentice at the Eastern National bus garage in Chelmsford, and the old chauffeur lived a few streets away from me. I used to see the car at the garages under the railway viaducts next to the bus garage and I would go and admire the car on my way to and from the staff canteen and one day the owner of the garage told me that the car was for sale as the owner had recently died, and his widow was keen to get rid of the car as it was a source of stress for her. I went and saw her I brought the car for a song and I had that for years, and it never missed a beat and I reluctantly sold it a few years later when the 1973 recession hit really hard and crude oil tripled in price almost overnight, and we had petrol ration books issued. Here is some history about vanden Plas Vanden Plas Kingsbury Works - the home of the Daimler Limousine and also United Biscuits United Biscuits - Wikipedia.

That is where the old steel wheels were far better, you could have them painted, fit plastic wheel trims or have chrome hubcaps and some even with chrome rings like these on my old Vanden Plas car which was a large and heavy car with a very soft ride.