Graham Butcher

I noticed that he said that he was going to be using the Porsche system to tell him where the charge points were, then a few minutes into the vid, he claimed that the Porsche Nav system could not find John O'Groats so he was going to have to use the Waze system????

@Ootoheremy point about Dundee is that we had a chat a while ago when we were talking about all the LEZs being setup across the UK and Dundee and Aberdeen was brought into it, and you said that Dundee had bad air and yet every time I check on the air map which I do it never seems to be bad, always in the green zone, so I was puzzled as to why it had a LEZ when reading show it to be perfectly safe.

I'm guessing then that he and his ex have only in the last 3 years split up then, because where he often starts his videos from is I believe his ex's house and he has a room there as his office? I'm saying that because he surely never had the home charger installed before he had the Taycan, or is that guff?

Spoiler alert he has at least 2 daughters.

Incidently, there is only a gentle 12km/h wind today in Dundee and the readings are still in the green safe zone, so make of that what you will, but somewhere between the Dundee Council and the Air map lays the truth.

As with a lot of Vloggers there are some elements of not strictly the truth but also some very good points, you just have to work out the most logical ones and as you rightly pointed out, his Porsche is never going to be doing 45mpg, and likewise he is not being sued by his neighbour, that is clickbait, but to be fair he did partially say that in the video that his neighbour didn't want to go and legal on it.

That was interesting, lots of questions to be answered, one way or another, these things have to be resolved to move forward.

Haha, I see that Facebook say it's the Dundee Museum of Transport 😉

Yes and that Dock Street clearly visible as being all electric, but you mentioned Seagate bus station which is diesel buses. Last time I looked, electric buses never had tailpipe emissions 😉 hence why I mentioned having a meter in proximity to the exhaust pipe of a diesel powered bus with its engine running will skew the results dramatically and for the uninitiated, they believe if the authorities tell them the air is bad in the area of the city then they will believe them. I regularly check the air quality maps, and they do in fact also retain historical data on a daily basis for I think 12 months, and usually see the figures are well into the green zone and thus not hazardous to health. In other words, it really does look as if we are being gaslit, and are being done so in many other ways. I used to work in the bus industry and some mornings it was impossible to see more than about 70 feet when the engines were being run to get the buses warmed up before the passengers were allowed to use them, and us engineers were actually working inside the garages while this was happening. You never ever get pollution like that in the Seagate open to the air Station. Not even with 70 buses running, which by the way the max number there is about a dozen.

Those figures are quite respectable really, there are plenty of drivers could get into some pretty dire situations with acceleration like that, especially when there is snow and ice on the roads, the internet is full of videos of people driving performance cars on dry roads even giving the car some beans on pull away and wiping the car out.

That is interesting seeing as the monitoring station is indeed in Seagate between Candle Lane and Gellatly Street so to measure the air at a bus station, of course it would possibly be a bit higher if they stuff a portable meter right next door real close to the exhaust pipe of a running bus, but that is cheating in order to get what the council wanted, an extra stream of revenue. Much the same as what was done in London.

Those snapshots were taken tonight, 7pm?

I can only say that your mk1 must had serious issues then, as I have had 1 mk1, 1 mk2, 1 mk2fl and now a mk3 and they have all had excellent handling and ride quality

I thought you said that Aberdeen and Dundee had bad pollution, not according to the air monitoring units today.

Not sure just what you're saying here, the Swift is capable of 121mph whereas the Renault Scénic V 2024 60Kw is capable of 93mph and according to specs it has a power output of 170hp which is 22hhp more than my car, but I can do 131mph, thats a pretty showing for the EV isn't?

A good and well-balanced video overall with one exception, EV drivers are far worse at vilifying diesels than the other way round. I have always said that there are valid reasons and scenarios that suit certain types of power trains and that they should at this stage of the game until they can get all the problems with EVs resolved, then no government should be mandating them. Until then, they should be upto personal preference and everyone should be perfectly free to make their own minds up about which type of car and power train is the right one for them. And of course all the time diesels are getting cleaner all the time and CO2 levels dropping all the time from all ICE vehicles. Currently it makes more sense to reign in on the large powered ICE cars that only do at best 30 mpg, many are measured in the area of 10mpg so for trip of around 60 miles on say a motorway, those cars are producing at least 5 to 6 times pollutants than my car does, and God knows there are many more cars on the road that produce way more harmful emissions. That alone would make a far greater impact on the air quality than all the EV's currently in use today as most of those have been replaced the bigger cars, they have replaced more of the smaller family type cars. In that respect @lol-lol kind of proves the point as he tends to sit around the 65mph mark on motorways, as I do, so why do we need to make the cars capable of 150 to just over 200mph, of which you see many in use on motorways?

Black boxes are also a tracking device that is very useful in the event that your car gets stolen. As to the company expense claims you speak about, then the information that box stores of the actual routes taken etc are nothing to do with the company or HMRC, it is your car and that data is also yours, the company will not be able to access the info.

Yep, but it still remains that they believe that motorways are the safest of roads to drive on, hence the free miles. I have that system on my car in order to keep the insurance relatively affordable and the only motorways for me are the M25 and M11, neither of which are normally of any use to me at all.

@lol-lolnow heres a thing, if you are driving a black box insurance type scheme, they actually prefer you to drive on motorways whenever possible and they actually reward the drivers with so many free miles per month for doing so.

Then if you add in the lost 53p a litre fuel duty which the Government is missing out on, but they will soon be finding ways of clawing that lost revenue back, suddenly unless you can be certain to do most of your charging at home (on cheap rates), then suddenly it becomes way more expensive to run.

Interesting to see that white undercover police car at the start of the 1st video actually came from Essex, more likely drafted up there specially for the conference? Also not surprised to the King using a BEV as he has always had green credentials in almost everything he touches, be it the way that gardens to his cars. Also noted that the support vehicles were ICE and so are the government official cars, due no doubt to the fact that figures they carry are normally so controversial that certain people / countries etc might want to a pot shot at them so they have to be armoured vehicles for them to ensure their safety when going about their business. So here's a thought, maybe it would have been wiser for these political leaders to have waited before mandating the demise of new ICE vehicles until it was possible that their own vehicles that they use for official duties could also be BEV and capable of the same things as their current official cars are currently able to do?

I know, so did I but even now many people choose to ignore that fact. That divide is already upon us and it is those that are "the haves" are worst at acknowledging the truth in my experience and are generally the ones trying to tell everyone what they should be doing.

Tsk, that title is clickbait only, the content is IMO worth watching, I only watched it because it was a short video.

Food for thought?

What a faff, and what happens if your battery does not enough charge to do all that and get you to a charger?