Graham Butcher

I keep seeing folk on here posting loads of tables that claim that we are producing loads of renewable power so we are getting to be self-sufficient for power and that EV cars are actually using green energy, any comments on this then? Domestic price comparisons: International domestic energy prices - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Industrial price comparisons: International industrial energy prices - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Apparently, according to what I hear and see, that AdBlue doesn't work anyway, so far I have managed to avoid cars which need that.

Likewise when I retired, thats why I brought my car rather that buying another from a dealer etc, I knew its entire history, like yours immaculate, shame I didn't know its future through

Battery storage unit rolls over on a bridge on its way either into or exiting the port of Los Angeles on the 26th Sept 2024. It completely shut the highway and the port down for 2 days and it took 3 days before the scene was all clear. I paste the full description and words from wrecking crew who were on scene all time and did the clearance job. 60,000lb Lithium-ion Battery EXPLODES on Freeway! As always with my channel, this is NOT clickbait. I literally captured this massive 60,000lb lithium-ion battery as it explodes on the freeway. Call it luck, but man are we grateful we were not close when it happened. The drone footage is shot in 24fps so it is very difficult to capture how crazy this was up close. The sound was like a huge bomb. I wear a lavalier mic with a windscreen on, and even at 500' away it was LOUD. BTW don't forget, EVERYTHING is 10% (including my new cool shirt) at shop.pepestowLA.com. I'll let the video do all the explaining, but all in all this was a 3 day job. Day 1 was 11 hours of just standing by, waiting to get to the action. Due to the toxic fumes from the fire, they ended up making the call to let it burn until it dies down. Then the next day, even more standby time as the Fire Department decided to tackle the container for safety reasons. We still got to upright the tractor and tow that along with the chassis. Then day 3 we were called back to actually upright the container, so it can be dismantled and scrapped. Was an insane weekend, with lots of big jobs in between. This technology is still new when it comes to fires, so I'm very curious to see what is going to change in regards to regulating this. Such as, do you need a special license to transport these? How should these fires be handled? With special equipment or just let burn? If you guys like my style of filming and editing, please subscribe so I can keep pumping out this long form content twice a week. And if you're a fan and would like more, become a member! I post all my deleted videos here and other perks: / @pepestowingservice Further info here. Watch the 60,000lb lithium-ion battery fire that shut down a highway for days - The Verge

Strange that they won't allow you to buy the car you already have directly from them. I can't think that BCA are going to give them a better price for it, surely when a car goes to auction, the price that they pay for a car is going to be the final selling price, minus BCA's commission? Sometimes cars will sell for a very low price under the hammer.

Actually nobody was attempting to claim that diesels sales were out pacing electric sales, this is I think an assumption that you have made as a pro EV person, you appear to have done what so many other people who are pro EV, do is formulate an opinion on just one or two fragments of statements and have up with 2+2=22 instead of 4. I simply made the statement this morning that I heard on National Radio that the sales of diesel cars was up 17% this year compared with just 3% last year, that was it, nothing else, no claim that were outselling EVs, just a claim that diesel sales was up by 17%, full stop, and neither was their any claim made on the national radio news other than the diesel sales were up by 17%.

The problem with surveys is much the same problem with scientific reports being commissioned by the body that is seeking to introduce something, such as a low emission zone, for example, that report/survey is going to be biased towards the body that is paying the piper.

Well I wouldn't say I haven't been on the A68 before, but that was a while ago and as I have lived in Essex all my life, its no surprise that the A68 is not a road that I normally use. But its fair to say that its unreasonable to include the time taken to exit the A68, drive to and from Costco to rejoin the A68 in the time taken to refuel your vehicle, especially as I said that it would have been the sensible thing to do ensure that you had plenty of fuel before setting off. The actual process of sticking the hose in your filler tube and filling the car and paying only took you a few minutes, in reality, the rest of the time was getting there and back. Today I had to drop my son off in the centre of Chelmsford for work, 2.1 miles away and it normally takes 6 minutes, today it took 28 minutes and the reason for that was road works with temp traffic lights brought everything to a crawl and that just shows you why it is important to plan ahead and get the housekeeping bit done in advance before a long trip as you never know what else you are going to encounter over the next 200 miles or so to further delay your progress.

I just did a few quick fact checks of my own on Google and so far Geoff is coming out on top, who would have thought would be the case eh? I don't think I need to go any further do I to prove that Geoff does have a pretty good grasp on things, proving that he is not as biased as he is made out to be, he does at least make some effort to verify things he claims, and if he gets it wrong, he does actually admit it.

According to some pundits, BYD stands for "Burn Yours Down"

We all know that China EV cars have been getting some stick from some quarters recently and today I learned that London has a new all electric bus on trial from a Chinese maker called Yutong and this video shows a factory visit to see how they make and test their buses to make as near to perfect as they can, and I have to say that they do seem to be pretty good overall and I'm impressed by the level of detail and testing that they subject their buses to before letting them leave the factory.

Something is happening, I just heard on the radio news that sales of new cars has increased from 3% to 17% this year, but only for diesels, no mention of others so will need to do a bit of digging into this to see what is going on.

True but the thing is I can last far longer than the 2 hours without needing a comfort break, especially when sitting down I can certainly 4 to 6 hours easily so I could still do the Chelmsford to Lake District trip without the need for a comfort break.

Erm, yes I have done similar before, maybe not so much these days as I find do need a comfort breaks more these days as we all do as we get older, I remember ribbing my mum on the times she used to come out for the day, about how many times she needed a comfort break, now I'm beginning to understand better as I find I do as well.

Erm, no, I can't see that these are located on the main roads at all. On the scale presented here they could be a few miles away from the main roads and even further than your 22 minute diversion off the Edinburgh bypass to go to Costco to grab some Dino juice, and back to the bypass again. As I said earlier, unless your tank was exceptionally low (if it was, then that is bad planning, bad thing to allow a tank to sit with a minimum amount of fuel in, allows the tank to sweat and water droplets to enter the fuel system and misfiring, bad news for a diesel). I'm positive that with in a few miles there would have been a PFS located on the road you were driving on and then you would not have suffered that added delay, which was probably caused by problems on the road to or from Costco, actually filling does only take minutes including paying, (I used to work in the garage of a National Bus company and have had to assist in the refuelling of buses as they come back at night, so they go out with a full tank in the morning and they had 100 gallon tanks and they only took 5 to 6 minutes to fill). Then these are not main hubs but locations where you could grab a charge if a charger was free, and that charger may only number 1 to maybe 6 or 7 at many of these locations and many might be just Type 2 (22KW max) and possibly a few Chademo or CCS of upto 90Kw. and because if there are many cars there all pulling a charge, it is more than likely not going to have sufficient incoming capacity to allow each charger to deliver its maximum output, regardless of the state of the battery level or if the driver had pre-conditioned it before plugging it in. As I explained before the Braintree hub is a few miles away from the main trunk route A120 and is right slap bang next to large substation and that hub has 13 High power DC CCS 360Kw, 12 medium power 90Kw CCS / Chademo and 6 low power 22Kw chargers. They will and do demand a high capacity supply and hence being sited adjacent to large substation and connected to the grid.

Actually that is not law, for the real facts, read these Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and yes, there are rules and they are law if you are lorry driver, or Public Service Vehicle (bus/coach) driver etc, and they must be followed, and they are backed up by drivers log books and or a Tachograph. I have been a lorry driver and have covered the British Isles top to bottom, including both parts of Ireland. I have been pulled over by police and MOT inspectors and also told to drive to a test centre where not only details and driving logs/tacho charts are all up-to-date and correct but have had the lorry thoroughly checked and weighed etc to see if it was road legal and not overloaded etc. Every time, every thing was perfect, so I've had plenty of experience. When reading the legal requirements that HM Government have enshrined in law, check out the e section labelled Exemptions to all GB domestic rules and you will see that private drivers, which I am are totally exempt from the regulations.

My current one has done just over 150K and going strong still.

Hmm, TomTom route planner thinks it is more like 6 hours, a131, A120, M11, A14, M6, A590, which a bit more realistic IMV seeing as the A590 is pretty much a single lane each way road with some nasty surprises along its route.

Like I said, Never say Never, their lips move, therefore they also tell lies 😁

Only be forced if you wish to new cars after the deadline, there will as Ootohere points out frequently, there will be plenty of used cars still. I'd love to buy a new car again if I could but alas that currently is not possible, but if it was, I might be tempted to get an EV if the car was big enough to accommodate me and the family in comfort and could do at least 450 to 500 miles on a single charge, and I'm not talking about makers claimed range, but actual true range in order that could do the odd long journey to an airshow 200 miles away and still be able to make it home again without having to charge on the way home and possibly having to queue to get on a charger. If I could do that and charge at home, so even if an overnight charge didn't top it up to full again ready for the days short trips etc then it would sense to do so, as each night the battery would slowly be topped a bit more each time so that come the weekend, if I wanted to do a similar trip again, I could. Currently that is a just a pipe dream, in the meantime I'm entering competitions where I could win an electric car each month, so never say never. That would silence a few critics if that ever happened, and it is quite possible that EVs could be capable of doing that, but for the time being, like you, they do not fulfil my needs yet.

I was not talking about a few chargers at the side of a cafe / filling station etc, but a full sized electric forecourt type which is what you would expect to find located on busy main roads that people would be using to travel long distances in as short a time as possible. You might be lucky enough to get a charger at one of the smaller sites, but I doubt that you would get the super high speed charge because of the cost of running a large enough cable from the nearest sub station with enough capacity to allow the maximum charge to be delivered., something that as Dieselgate said, is not a problem a fuel pump has, it will always deliver fuel at maximum flowrate, regardless of how many other pumps are in use as each pump is maybe only drawing around 1Kw from the supply. The Electric Forecourt site at Braintree that Dave Takes It On mentioned is 2 miles away from the main A120 and was sited there as the National Grid had just stuck a large sub station there in preparation for a large industrial estate to be built. Electric Forecourt are located right next door to this sub station because of the current consumption of the site.

I did say tend to be, obviously the national grid transmission lines will run across some major roads and be fairly close to others, so there will always be the odd few will not require deviation away from the main road and your route.

Yes, I have done that many times in the past in order to get back home for instance after a being away up in the lake district on business for a few days. I did it in order to see my kids and wife before they went to bed. Also it's not just the distance you travel, but the speed and it is well known that motorway speeds around the limit, kill electric cars range. I could have driven my bubble car on long distance trips but need breaks etc as it would not have been in its element, but my current car is designed to be a mile muncher. The other thing that both dieselgate and I enjoy is that we can drive upto approx 400 miles away and back again without filling up. Some places you have to go to, do not have the ability to charge while you do whatever you went there for, meaning that not only do you have to factor in time on outward leg to charge to make sure you get there, but you also have to do the same on the return leg.

The other thing to remember here is that filling stations have had many years to evolve and as they don't consume much power can be located almost anywhere and so by default are normally to found on the busiest roads such as main roads, bypasses etc whereas charging hubs need to be close to a national grid power line and so will tend to be off the beaten track a bit.

The point that I was making is why did you need to divert off your route, unlike charging hubs, filling stations are plentiful and so it wouldn't be too long before you came across one on the road you were on, thus no time lost fighting through traffic etc. I never leave my tank empty, I always top again when I get down to about 100 miles of range in the tank to ensure that I don't suck up any debris from the bottom of the tank and also to ensure that if I do get called on to drive a reasonable distance in an emergency, that have enough fuel to get me on the way with a good safety net to avoid any dramas. It is good practise to get into the habit, just as that with an EV and home charging, which you do, you get the cable out and plug the car each night so that hopefully by the time you need the car in the morning, it is fully charged again. Very often, I will refuel when I go to Tesco for shopping, so pop into their forecourt as I leave their shop, so no time is wasted doing a special trip to save a few coppers, and with a range of normally around the 650 to 700 miles, this is done once a fortnight, so even more time saved.