Graham Butcher

As long as lecky is owned by private companies, regardless of their nationality, prices will remain high. It needs to be owned by the public so there is less demand for it to make so much profit, as long as it makes enough to cover operating costs and a modicum of profit to help pay for its replacement/renewal in a few years time should be all that is required.

Haha, with no means of paying any fines if cash is banned, then those cameras are worthless when there is no power to feed all the other equipment to take digital money.

You would hope so, but I suspect that it would also rise significantly as all forms of energy on the open market are linked to the equivalent energy value of oil is it not?

Don't bring it round my way, if the speed bumps can get my standard Superb to bottom out, you would get left high and dry in that for sure.

Yup, right now anything is possible with the way the Middle East is imploding and with Russia's war.

Haha, that was not a problem for me really when that happened, despite me having at the time a big heavy gas guzzler, a 3 litre Vanden Plas. I was only going to and from home to a factory making strangely enough oil field equipment (Halliburtons), about 1.5 miles away, so I sold the car and used a 150cc bubble car, which was in left in the garage when I took over the house and I could fit in very easily and I loved that car. Had the ration books been enforced, I would have been fine, 1 gallon would have lasted a month.

New video footage has become available for the recent fire in the underground carpark in Korea and although an EV caused the fire, much of the resultant inferno and the high number of other cars destroyed in was caused by the ceiling being clad in something totally unsuitable which quickly caught fire and then dropped burning balls of fire all over the carpark.

Go back and find the post, that you actually gave a thumbs up to and maybe read his comments, they make zero sense.

Just a thought, but are you certain that the timing belt and water pump has been changed?

Nope, these last posts was brought about by comments made by @domhnall,.

This surely will apply to EVs as well I'm not too sure about the theft angle. All the pumps down here, certainly in my neck of the woods (see no reason why others should be different) require you to insert your debit or credit card into the pump first and then they precharge your card with £99 (I think that figure is correct) and if your card issuer does not authorise it, then the pump refuses to dispense any fuel. If your car takes less than the precharge amount, the final price is calculated and adjustments are made, and the payment is taken from your account. Equally, if the precharged amount is not enough to allow you to completely refill your tank, the pump will slow down as it approaches the figure and switch off when it reaches it. You then have to go through the process again to top the tank up to full again. So how does the theft come into the equation?

None of the above add or detract from the act of simply refuelling a car with petrol or diesel, other than maybe the pumps are faster these days as diesel doesn't seem to foam like it used to, so they can pump it faster. I remember refuelling my lorry up with 100 gallons would take a while and also buses did, but putting 13 gallons into my car is just a couple of minutes and then maybe another minute or two to scan my debit card at the cashier's booth.

Cable theft I have mentioned before and so have the YouTubers but others have completely ignored or denied that, strange.

I was not using your name to back up that statement, only the one about only needing to fill the car once for most journeys, the bit I wrote in bold in the sentence above that paragraph, Those are now common place at supermarket forecourts, with I suspect the ultimate aim of removing the cashiers altogether, in the same fashion as they are removing checkout operators and installing more and more self-service tills. These tills I don't use on principle as it means that someone is losing their job and can probably not afford to be out of work.

It shouldn't require anyone to buy a certain type of car in order to what you claim is trouble free charging, and neither should you have to join a group or club and pay subscriptions to get a RFID card to improve your charging experience. It is not a requirement to get the best refuelling experience with an ICE car, simply pull up, select the grade of fuel, insert the nozzle in the filler cap and squeeze the trigger, the price difference is going to be a penny or two per litre different, not 20 to 30p a kW as some chargers are. And also my original comments was to a person who is a YouTuber who is pro-EV and yet he claims to own and use a diesel car and as @Ootohere mentioned the other day that most people with an E, used to have an ICE car. So why did this particular person come out with the quite frankly nonsense comments about the time it takes to refuel an ICE car and also about the time it took to find a filling station on his journey. All we ever hear from you EV drivers is how you need to prepare your route in order find chargers when you need them, and also to charge before setting off, yet this person it seems did not apply the same logic before setting off on a long trip, and that logic is refuel before setting off. That refuelling session is more than likely enough to get you to your destination and back again without any further refuelling. This has been demonstrated by myself and also others such as @Paws4Thot, @Dieselgate have also indicated similar. As to the silly comment about the cashier telling the person over the PA system to press the yellow button, is as far I'm concerned and dare say any other person with a conventional car, what that tells me, is that it was one of those pumps that give the option of paying at the pump or paying in the kiosk via the cashier and that was something new to the user. Quite possibly the user lives in a more rural area where they don't have that type of system, which is the precursor to going full on self serve in the fullness of time, the same as most if not all of Asda forecourts have already done so. So yes, I have got real, it is you who is not being real.

Yup, and that is almost 700 miles and roughly about 13 hours driving. When I was looking around for another superb last year I had a look at an MK3 estate version that Scotsman living in Basildon was selling because he worked in London and could not afford the ULEZ charge everyday, claimed that when he went home to see his parents in Aberdeen, he would fill up in Basildon, thats 560 miles on a tank and still some left over in 9.5 hours. Now I have a MK3 myself I can see why, because I can see by adding up the range and often seeing figures of 860 - 870miles on 66 litre tank.

It can sometimes take a few minutes plugging the car in and then doing the authorising of the payments in order to activate the charger, and maybe having to either queue for a charger, or even discover the one you have plugged onto is faulty and then you have do it all again at another charger. Also, not everyone feels the need for a comfort break every 2 hours, and once tank is full, it should be good for many miles than a full battery so does NOT need filling every time you take a comfort break, come on get real.

True, but I was speaking as the driver, and I found comfort breaks were not needed for me personally and I was therefore able and willing to drive for longer times. I found that nervous drivers were concentrating so hard on their length that they needed regular relaxation breaks. I as a regular driver of 12 metre long coaches at slightly over 8ft wide found the extra length and width no problem.

I used to be able to drive for longer than that without needing a break when towing. Are you a nervous driver in which case towing a caravan is not something I would recommend. A HGV driver of an articulated lorry can drive for 4 and a half hours before they must stop and take a 45 minute break, their rig is way bigger than a car and caravan unit. They are not going to cover much ground if they need to take a break every 2 and a half hours are they? My Rover had a 45litre fuel tank and drank like a fish, those 1960s cars were not very efficient, whereas my 2 litre Superb diesel (66 litre tank) is and with just normal local trips with a couple of 30 mile runs a week will return around 550 to 600 miles and 800+ on decent long motorway trips. I no longer have the caravan and have never towed with the Superb.

I have a gut feeling that it would be in the realm of 30 to 35% less than its normal mpg figure, which is quite a bit better than what the one in the video managed. I used to have a Rover 2000 TC and a caravan and the MPG was down when towing, but not that much.

Again, I never said that and neither has @Ootohere, with the total number of EV's registered in the UK in the last 12 months (I think upto March) there was 1.2million pure BEV's and adding in hybrids and PHEVs, 1.9million electric cars, and so it is perfectly feasible to see several at once and then maybe none for a while etc, and also of course the location would make a big difference to that. In a city centre like London, I have noticed loads of them on some occasions and then another time more ICE then BEVs, its all random, which is exactly as you would expect, given that the percentage of electric cars on the road of all types is something like 3% of the total number of cars currently, so yes, there is not a lot of BEVs in comparison to the number of ICE cars. This video puts that 41.4 million vehicles on the road and the figures he is quoting have come from the UK Gov, so DVLA. How many cars are on the road in the UK in 2024? | Watch (msn.com)

The 25 minutes was taken up by you diverting off your route to go to costco, refuel and make your back to the bypass, the actual time taken to refuel would be approx 5 minutes in reality. If I know that I'm going on a long trip, I will fill up before setting off on that trip, case in point was Sunday, I had to go from home to Heathrow Terminal 5 to collect wife and sister-in-law from their flight and the fuel gauge was showing 120 mile range. So on my to the A12 I had to go past a Tesco, on the same road as I was on, slipped in, refuelled in less then 5 minutes, I was out and back on the A1114 at the Wood Street roundabout ready for the 180 mile round trip with the predicted range showing 865 miles. I thought with you EV guys it was all about planning and yes, I agree that on many occasions you do have to deviate off the normal route to reach a suitable charger, but that is not the case with an ICE car unless you're on a motorway and do not want to pay a premium for the fuel, in which case coming of the normal route is acceptable, but surely it is far better planning to ensure that you enough fuel to cover the journey plus some, just in case you get caught up in the aftermath of an incident and have to sit for a long time while the emergency services deal with the problem, which is exactly what happened on the way back. PS. Why does a diesel mean that you have to make extra stops for fuel, they offer far better range than any EV, as I said, my diesel Superb can return on a long run, especially on motorways and dual carriageways if you can rolling at a steady pace with a light foot, well in excess of 800 miles between fuel stops, show me any normal EV that can even achieve 300 miles, thus meaning that in your EV you would need I suggest at least 4 charging stops.

Can't say that I'm surprised really, it is well known that electric cars have that massive wall of torque which is of course important in a tow car and is one of the reasons that the Superb has been one of their firm favourites for so many years, however, what they didn't say in that video is that the towing will rapidly kill the already compromised overall range from a charge as Petrol Ped discovered.

Yeah, some drivers think that they have priveledges that allow them to do what they want. Had one this morning in a BMW almost take me out on a roundabout then proceeded to overtake everyone else by using a bus lane and almost crashing again at the next roundabout.

Indeed they do seem to be the car of choice for most reps.