Graham Butcher

I doubt that it was done for clicks and engagement, not with having 9.3Million subscribers anyway, CarWow is a well established and respected channel. Don't forget that none of those cars were actually looking for a charge, they were on a range test so they were being driven until they ran out of power, and the services were just being used to allow Matt Watson to change cars and do a quick review of each car after he had driven it. While they were there at the services, Matt just checked on the state and number of chargers at them as an extra. They were driving up the M1 and onto the A1M and A1 to Scotland which are pretty important and busy roads and you would normally expect there to be chargers at the those service locations, would you not?

Just watched a video about this dash cam, interesting little tool, I'd like to hear your thoughts about this in due course after you have used it for a while. I recently upgraded mine from a Nextbase 512GW 1440 resolution to a Nextbase 622GW which is also 4K resolution and I like it but it was pricey.

Just watched this, originally I thought it was the same one I watched a couple of weeks ago, but it isn't its a new one. Very interesting results and was surprised to see the Mercedes Benz was the most accurate in its claimed WLTP range. Also this video clearly demonstrated just how distracting and dangerous it is stuffing all the controls via the touch screen and the charging facilities at all apart from Ferrybridge Services were just crap, and does back up what other people have said in their video bloggs.

This is a little bit off-topic, but seeing as we are discussing imposing tariffs against Chinese EVs this video caught my eye, its only a short one but is this for real, does anyone know what is happening in China at all? If this is real, is China in dire straits?

Well, that'll be a big help for us I must say, just make EV cars even more expensive I expect.

And so it begins, the long expected trade wars which will not do us any favours at all, with all the retaliation tariffs.

@leolito I agree, having been at varying times in my life both a driver of buses and lorries and in particular I find that 4 wheelers (cars) do not fully appreciate the dynamics associated with lorries that are towing, be they either a breakdown truck towing or an articulated lorry, the latter of which I have never driven. I have been steering a bus which was on tow, with all the warning signs on display in the back of said bus, which was attached to a solid and rigid tow-bar hooked onto the breakdown truck and I have had cars trying to overtake me and then they discover the tow truck in front of me, with a car coming the towards them on their side of the road. The hapless car driver tried to jam his car in between me and the tow truck only to discover that I was attached to this 8ft rigid tow-bar, forcing me to mound the grass verge and trying to drag the tow truck with me 🙄. On another occasion, I was being towed after rescuing a bus that had broken down in service, we approached a roundabout and we had to stop. When there was a gap in the traffic on the roundabout, the tow truck pulled away sharply and the snatch on the tow-bar actually snapped the eyelet on the tow-truck, leaving me sitting there unable to move and watching the tow truck driving away, with a long line of motorists stuck behind me, blowing their horns.

Oh, so when you said that you had used #16 - Phonebox #30 - Boot 12v Socket #47 - Rear Window Wiper you didn't mean all three locations had been used for the new dashcam, fuse 30 for the Boot 12v socket you had previously used that for the permanent 12v supply to the TPMS and that you had tidied it all up? Fuse #16 is the 12v permanent supply to the dashcam via a piggyback fuse and the phonebox and fuse #47 feeds the rear window wiper and also via a piggyback fuse, the switched supply to the dashcam 👍

Why have you got 2 permanent 12v supplies going to the dashcam, and why are they from different fuses?

That table is laughable, how in god's green earth can companies such as Tesla, BYD and Great Wall can only have an implied target of 22% ZEV when that is all they make. They are at the time of that table being produced, 10,077 cars short of being on target for all makes..

Haha, I'm laughing my arse off, but he is absolutely spot on about most of the Tesla drivers and also about the problems with being an early adopter. That said, they are important because they are really the guinea pigs in EVs and possibly by the time people like us get around to getting one, the problems will have been resolved, the range greatly enhanced and battery technology will have advanced to give more power storage, lighter, smaller, faster charging and safer all round.

No, I live in a HA house like millions of others. I never had the breaks to get out of social housing, again like so many others in society, we are split into the haves and have-nots.

That always annoyed the hell out of me, I could never understand when lorry 1 is going at x speed and lorry 2 decides he is going to overtake when all he can muster is x+1mph extra, why the hell would you overtake knowing full well that you are going to have a lot of frustrated people behind you?

I thought for the most part the A75 was limited to 40mph anyway, so anything higher is breaking the limit?

What and keep this silly tit-for-tat up, no, thank you. Besides I had set out the parameters and the details that Stonekeeper provided, fell nicely into line with what I said.

As always, keeping my options open. Yes I'm happy with my Superb, but I could be tempted by a PHEV version if I think I can afford it or my circumstances change, I have a number of work pensions that I have not yet cashed in as the "B" event decimated their value, and I'm waiting for them to slowly recover. I always look before I jump over a wall, and hence my engagement in this thread and I enjoy watching other peoples blogs about their EVs, and I'm learning from them. Besides, as an ex electrical engineer, I have a keen interest in electric traction. As regard to fires, again as an ex works fireman, I have an interest there as well and contrary to what some might think, I know EV's don't normally burst into spontaneous combustion, I also know ICE cars catch fire more often, that is obvious as they vastly outweigh the numbers of EV's on the road. But there can be no denying that an EV fire is altogether far more serious and extremely dangerous and very hard to put out. Full-time fireman are not concerned about ICE fires, but they are about EV fires and that goes for all the world's fireman, so if they are concerned, then we should not ignore that.

What I found to be very interesting here is that the final payment after Year 4 for the ICE and year 5 for the EV is just I knew it would be, is almost identical, so when I said ignore the final payment, just work on the 4 year and the 5 years is good enough for a final comparison in the respective cost of the ICE vs EV, so why does wyx087 feel it is always necessary to stir the pot creating loads of bad feelings when it is not required??

So that what, bars me from having a point of view😒

If you actually read my earlier post you will see that I actually said what the presumptions were as I did not know just how much the final payment would be, but for the sake of argument I assumed that after 4 years for the ICE, it then became yours, and at the of 5 years the EV became yours. Given that in both cases the month payments were IDENTICAL, therefore the EV did cost more to purchase with or without the final down payment, the EV was going to cost around 25% more than the ICE car. You love to twist things don't you to suit your point of view right down to drives and home charging etc at every opportunity.

My Local airfield already has vast stocks of pre-registered Skodas stored there in order to get around the quota problems as they will simply shift them as second-hand cars. I'm expecting to see more arriving soon ready for next years quota.

Eh?? I'm retired and have been for 8 years now, I was talking about the last company car I had, which at that time we all had ICE. Just as I retired, the company removed the car policy instead making it the employees job to source their own cars but within strict guidelines, making it become a millstone around the workers necks and many others also left around that time because they could see all kinds of problems on the horizon.

But once again, your reply did not imply or convey that message, you keep assuming that people do have that capability, which simply is incorrect. Once again the clue is there in plain sight the advert states that Vauxhall are now making it easier for people to afford a EV by keeping the payments exactly the same as they would be for the ICE version, but the payments are 12 moths longer therefore the total cost is higher, while it may not be exactly 25% more, it won't be far from it.🙄

That is exactly how it works, the advert makes a great play that people who claimed that they could not afford to buy an EV can now do so if they buy a Vauxhall as the monthly payments remain the same and as @PetrolDave says, it goes on to say that the ICE is paid over 4 years and the EV is 5 years, so it is 25% dearer. I presume that it is based on that at the end of the 4 or 5 year period, the car then becomes yours.

Once again, assuming that people can have access to a home charger and a driveway, which is simply not possible for so many people in the country. You yourself said that when you moved, it was prerequisite that you needed to have a house with a driveway for an EV at some point in the future.

Yes that is true to an extent, but as BEV's currently are holding their value, the residuals are in fact low and that is then reflected in the upfront cost, thus making that even higher. For instance, when I last ordered a new car, its was my choice to go with a Škoda Superb, whereas many of my colleagues elected for a posher brand of Audi A4, a smaller car in terms of passenger space as well as boot and only had a very limited number of "toys" as standard. The amount of car budget set by the company was the same, but all they could get with that was a model pretty close to the base model. Whereas not only was my car bigger in every sense of the word, it was more expensive list price by a fair margin, and it also came with loads more "toys" including a TV tuner and DVD player with uprated surround sound system and full leather etc, but it was also less upfront and lower monthly costs. I asked the lease company why this was, and they said it was, although the Audi was perceived to be the "better" car from a badge point of view, despite beneath the body the running gear and engines were the same, they didn't have as high residual value after 3 years as most people opted for them making them more common, whereas my model and the L&K version was rarer and therefore overall more desirable as a second-hand car.