Graham Butcher

I think it must be like that when new, it looks to be perfectly symmetrical.

When you say many of us, not that many, most stay at home on Christmas day, main roads are generally very quiet. I lived in Haverhill for a number of years, when it was half its current size.

Quite simply NO, and if they were, I doubt that many would take them up on the offer, preferring to be at home with the family and having a Christmas tipple or two.

For the trip he did, this was an ideal car, but you don't normally go on a ferry, where he got a free charge and when he said about there were plenty of free chargers so no waiting for one, it was getting late into the night when most folk would be at home and when he was comparing it to the Audi with 450-mile range in summer, I assume that he was speaking about a petrol Audi and it was being ragged a lot to achieve such a low figure (might have been a big powerful engine/car, I don't know) but at the timing of his trip early morning / late night my diesel car could have done that trip on a single tank of fuel.

I see that Range Rovers will be around £5,500 a year for VED alone similar to other gas guzzling high performance / big engined cars. That will help cut some pollution, seeing as those type of cars produce huge volumes of it.

Not many, if any I suspect.

This is a blank post? You must have done something wrong, the email notification shows a duff link and the post just shows 3 dots.

Yet, is the operative word, as BEV gain ground then these type of events could and will become far more common. You could be sitting in your car alongside one of these containers, just as we all do on many occasions in traffic, when the contents could decide that they are going to explode, sending shrapnel in all directions.

On the 30th November I posted a video about the explosion at the Port of Miami where it appeared to have been caused by an BEV but I also sounded a note of caution by stating that we needed further proof, well that proof is now here with and is extremely hard to rebuff this level of proof.

As often happens in news outlets of all types, there is a grain of truth in there somewhere. In this case, it is probably the whistleblower was involved in the engineering side of Vinfast parts but based in the UK at JLR which would account for him being fired. Maybe there is more on this still to come out?

Apparently, he did enough damage that JLR fired him, so its my guess that as both companies are owned by Tata that they use common parts and in particular the parts that are failing on Vinfast vehicles and are currently under investigation in the USA.

Jaguar is in the news again and a whistleblower has been sacked. JLR whistleblower sacked for publishing concerns about VinFast cars - BBC News

So, as per my thoughts on EV ownership and driving, they are ideal if you can charge at home first and foremost, secondly, if you can get sufficient charge stuffed into the battery on longer trips in the time taken for your comfort breaks (bearing in mind that not everyone feels the need for such frequent need of a break) etc, and you can always rely on a charge at the places that you either stop at or if need be at your destination etc. Then an EV does become a bit of a no-brainer on financial grounds, if you are doing enough miles a year to offset the extra cost of the car in the first place (I'm talking here about new cars) if that suits your lifestyle and time requirements.

I'm not disputing that any 40kWh EV would do it, but it does come at a time cost. I find that even at 75 years old on the 20th this month, I can still drive for 4 or 5 hours without the need to stop to empty my bladder, mind you, once I do stop and get out of the car or my chair at home, I very soon feel the that need then. As to stopping to grab a bite to eat or drink because its 12, well that has never bothered me, I often manage to go all day from breakfast time, right round to around 6 or 7pm before needing to eat again, I have never ever been a slave to toilet or food breaks and I have driven professionally for most of my working life including a few years of truck driving living in my cab 5 to 6 days a week all over the British Isles in all kinds of weather conditions, even in Northern Ireland during the height of the IRA campaign there and seen loads of devastation there as a result. I see that you actually managed to beat the normal average speed for such a trip as well, so I suspect that you either live right close to the motorway and your destination was alongside the motorway, or you did exceed the speed limit for part of the trip. All my experience tells me that usually, the overall average speed is 50 to 56mph keeping within the limit, you did 69mph.

Who knows for sure 😊

I don't know about the McMaster taking people for mugs, this person is taking what he says and twisting it totally out of context. Nobody is actually saying that you cannot do longer journeys in an EV, because it is plainly just stupid to say that because you can, but what you can't do in an EV is hold a candle to an ICE car unless you're one of these people who cannot go longer 2 hours without a comfort break or feel the need to keep stopping for something to eat or drink and at the same charge your car. Those of us who can drive for 4 or 5 hours or so without feeling the urge to do one or more of those things, can complete their journey in considerably less time and time to most people is an important factor. Also of course, in a lot of cases, complete the whole journey without needing to top fuel, but you may need a quick comfort break, which is not possible in an EV, currently. Now in everyone of these trips he mentions that the McMaster did in his Taycan, he was up against a diesel car which always won the challenge by a massive margin and in some cases the McMaster was even unable to complete the challenge and had to divert off to the prearranged hotel because of driver fatigue and or, it would have taken him to the following day to do. That for some people might well be acceptable, but it is not for the majority of people and as for his trip of 50 miles each way, well that is hardly a difficult journey and depending on the type of roads, and of course his own driving style and speed could be well within the reach of I suggest most EVs with the SOC that he claimed. I find it hard to believe that given his mannerisms, that he drives at an energetic pace, I think he has a far more relaxed laid back pace so drives at a very economic speed and has regen on. I may be doing him a injustice there, but somehow I doubt.

I found his video to be at odds with what some members here keep claiming regarding queuing at chargers when other YouTubers state that they have had to wait in line at many charging locations for a charger to be become available, and that waiting has on some occasions been a rather lengthy wait before being able to get a charge in order to continue their journey. The usual response is that they say these things in order to rubbish electric cars or that they are using the wrong app etc, either way, they always claim that it is nonsense, so well done Dave for being factual and 100% honest on that front. I hate to think about the size of those large charging hubs Dave speaks off with around 1,000 chargers, if they have the required clearance between cars the sheer size of the ground space required is staggering.

That would be useful if there is one, however I have not come across one while playing around with it.

That is what I had thought, problem is getting someone to do it with me. You say previously as if it has already been asked here, but I did a search for things relating to headlight washers and drew a blank.

I discovered that the cover over the washer nozzle on my N/S headlamp washer was missing after a long road trip. I have since purchased a replacement cover, but not to sure just how to do the fitting of the cover to the washer which extends from the bumper when operated. Has anyone ever done this? If so, I would appreciate any comments and tips on how I should do this?

I was very clearly using the collective use of the word we, meaning the various government bodies around the world, who are the same bodies who are trying to enforce the phasing out of ICE vehicles and fossil fuels. As to the number of rainforests in my neck of the woods, its the same as yours I expect, but joking apart, air is not static, it travels all over the globe as can be seen by the storms that we all have and damage that moving air (winds) causes, so oxygen and CO2 spreads out and has been the case throughout the earths' history, so oxygen created is shared across the globe. This extract from the Wikipedia on the subject of Rainforests clearly states that deforestation actually causes more CO2 to be released into the air. Effect on global climate A natural rainforest emits and absorbs vast quantities of carbon dioxide. On a global scale, long-term fluxes are approximately in balance, so that an undisturbed rainforest would have a small net impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels,[32] though they may have other climatic effects (on cloud formation, for example, by recycling water vapour). No rainforest today can be considered to be undisturbed.[33] Human-induced deforestation plays a significant role in causing rainforests to release carbon dioxide,[34][35][36] as do other factors, whether human-induced or natural, which result in tree death, such as burning and drought.[37] Some climate models operating with interactive vegetation predict a large loss of Amazonian rainforest around 2050 due to drought, forest dieback and the subsequent release of more carbon dioxide.[38] Rainforest - Wikipedia

We know that we need timber for other things, that we all need. So the sensible thing to do is to ensure that as we cut trees to use that timber, we also must replace them with new trees, as I said in the same post.

If CO22 levels are still rising fast, then it's time to stop the massive deforestation that has been going on for decades around the globe as we already know the plants, especially trees take in vast quantities of CO2 and convert that back into life sustaining oxygen and the carbon is deposited as wood. So as trees are harvested for their timber, we should be planting even more young trees to take their place and perpetuate the cycle. As I have previously mentioned, the levels of CO2 that sensible family sizes cars produce has been dramatically cut over the years and begs the question just why are the massive gas guzzling cars still be produced. Isn't it time to now curtail the production of such monsters?

@Ootohereyep, I was aware of those but as you said, it only applies to some, hence why I used registration number to narrow it down to specific models. Also another reason, why to my sons dismay, I still use main dealer services as they have access to the digital service history that indys don't have.

Not sure if the NOX levels are part of the MOT test or not? If yes then an EGR delete is making it harder to get a pass.