50 minutes ago, Rooted said:

I say first and foremost cut energy to those who object and are more concerned by their view than the cost of living / energy.

What makes me laugh about many in new builds in the countryside is their property is built on what used to be agricultural land / countryside.

Agreed, this is a classic case of NIMBYs at work and is even more annoying is that many of these people are really quite wealthy as these locations are expensive to buy in the first place, and their wealth has possibly come from energy in one form or another.  

 

All good stuff to come, hopefully, but the most important thing that can be done right now is greatly enhance the charging networks, regulate the prices to make sure that everyone could afford to run an EV even without home charging. Also need to make sure that they can be recharged quickly, like Telsas can.

Here's a twist I never saw coming, I just received this email.

 

 

 

Hi Graham,

What do you believe the biggest issue for the “electric car revolution”? Power in the grid? Lack of infrastructure? Not enough affordable electric cars? Turns out it might something far more basic – dog urine. New chargers are being designed to counteract the corrosive risk of canine fluids, following an investigation a few years back into the damage done to street furniture by precisely that liquid.

And when you think about it, it makes sense, dog ownership has increased 12% in the last two years alone, which means a whole lot more urine that needs to be deposited. As the number of chargers increase along with the number of dogs, the two have potential to collide, which is why EV charger designers are taking everything into account. Including wee! Click here to read the full story

16 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

Here's a twist I never saw coming, I just received this email.

 

 

 

Hi Graham,

What do you believe the biggest issue for the “electric car revolution”? Power in the grid? Lack of infrastructure? Not enough affordable electric cars? Turns out it might something far more basic – dog urine. New chargers are being designed to counteract the corrosive risk of canine fluids, following an investigation a few years back into the damage done to street furniture by precisely that liquid.

And when you think about it, it makes sense, dog ownership has increased 12% in the last two years alone, which means a whole lot more urine that needs to be deposited. As the number of chargers increase along with the number of dogs, the two have potential to collide, which is why EV charger designers are taking everything into account. Including wee! Click here to read the full story

 

Think someone is taking the ****

25 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

Think someone is taking the ****

If it was April the 1st, most definitely, but it isn't so I take it as having some sort of merit. After all the ad blue for diesel cars is also partly made from Urea which is proteins from the urine of animal mammals, so there maybe something in it after all?  

Edited 7 January, 20242 yr by Graham Butcher

What are peoples views on this video regarding EV insurance and what if the trend of manufacturers offering insurance is extended to other things like servicing etc?

 

 

Full marks to this YouChubber for calling this out as a fake, as previously mentioned he is or was an engineer before and so does know his stuff.

 

 

When i heard the gate i looked out and thought maybe a delivery driver handing in the keys for an extended test drive & there might be an Audi card with £800 credit.

No such luck, just the postie. 

 

Edited 9 January, 20242 yr by Rooted

@Graham Butcher  'British Lawyer & Engineer'.    He is British and an Engineer & a Lawyer'.  Is he a Lawyer as in Qualified in Britain or maybe South Africa or elsewhere.

Not important he is what he says he is, but kind of interesting because language matters. 

EVs go mass appeal......................

 

 

This looks like a neat innovation for those without their own driveway.

https://gul-e.co.uk/

 

 

12 minutes ago, @Lee said:

This looks like a neat innovation for those without their own driveway.

https://gul-e.co.uk/

 

 

 

Gully, get it.

 

Is it creating a trench in the pavement or a cable guide which is raised on top of the payment ? Has to be one or another ?

43 minutes ago, lol-lol said:

 

Gully, get it.

 

Is it creating a trench in the pavement or a cable guide which is raised on top of the payment ? Has to be one or another ?

Its a trench in the path, which you will have to get permission to have installed and will after a while become a problem with muck and bullets getting trapped under the bristles, or rain freezing the cable in it etc.

6 hours ago, Rooted said:

When i heard the gate i looked out and thought maybe a delivery driver handing in the keys for an extended test drive & there might be an Audi card with £800 credit.

No such luck, just the postie. 

 

You wish.

Canada is struggling with EV's

 

 

I have done 12 miles since the car was charged to 100%  and it is showing 76% / 62 miles range. Warmer today, last night in the minus 4*oC it was 51 miles range.

That is 8 times in freezing weather going 1.5 miles with heating and fan up full. 

 

Charging and needing to put in 30 kWh when near empty for the 28.9 kWh usable battery at home would be £6.30 which is OK. 

 It was a few times pre-heated and not plugged in at the time.  When pre-heated it showed as getting 2.9 miles a kWh after 1.5 miles. 

 

Do i take the MINI on Wednesday to go 180 miles if the snow has fallen or is falling as forecast and get about Central Scotland if roads have traffic moving and get to a charger near Edinburgh, and maybe before or after Glasgow to have range to complete the day and get to chargers?

 

I think it will be the diesel i take if there is the possibility of getting stopped because of jackknifed HGV,s and generally vehicles slip sliding about.

Then there is the getting home later in the Week.

There would not be the same concern if going North of home, but sadly the Central Belt of Scotland turns to chaos with a bit of snow falling.

*Then there is the chance that snow ploughing and gritting does not get done to Charging Hubs or even single chargers and even they block access when they plough near them.*

Edinburgh Airport Park & Ride rapid chargers are still all off from the time of flooding a couple of months back.

There was no flooding at them, and the 7 kW chargers are mostly still working. 

 

Nearest is 1 BP Pulse or 6 MGF @ 79 pence /kWh.

Or a few miles further away BP Pulse, City Council 55 pence, PodPoint 65 pence.

Edited 13 January, 20242 yr by Rooted

@RootedI think taking the diesel makes far more sense under those conditions. Maybe you have the best of both worlds with having access to both types of motive power, take advantage of cheap electric when you can, especially when conditions are more predictable and when harsh weather and the risk of getting stuck somewhere, use diesel. Great survival strategy.

Not great with the width of Summer / Performance tyres.  But it can drive in snow. Lots of weight if push comes to shove which easily happens when in the land of muppets who,s winter driving technik is floor it.

Yep, get to laugh at those a lot, even see so-called professional drivers such as bus drivers doing just that on the TV news every time there is a bit of snow around, slow and gentle is the key. Anyone see anybody running on the footpaths at all 🙄. It seems that once you get off the ground and into a driver's seat, all common sense flies straight out the window and the snow and ice becomes far more grippy when their feet aren't sliding about on it 😇

6 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

Canada is struggling with EV's

 

 

 

Sounds like dealer's grumbling that they bought the wrong stock and now got high inventory.

 

Canadian car production, what car production, a few US models is all they have ever produced.

 

Maybe Canada can help get cars from China to Europe via Pacific with tesla, mg now shipping via round South Africa route. 

 

EV manufacturing is solving cold temperature running and range with significant improvement year on year.

 

 

Canada is one of the world's top 12 producers of light vehicles. Five global OEMs assemble more than 1.4 million vehicles at their Canadian plants each year: Stellantis, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota.

 

 

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-automotive-industry/en

36 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

Canada is one of the world's top 12 producers of light vehicles. Five global OEMs assemble more than 1.4 million vehicles at their Canadian plants each year: Stellantis, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota.  https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-automotive-industry/en

 

More than I thought, my bad.

 

Your quote 2020 data which was a peak and Canada has been slipping down the car producing ladder with it only a bit ahead of the UK paulty 1M cars but UK produces significant high value cars, Aston, Bentley, Mclaren, Rolls as we as mainstream like Nissan.  All the companies you mention, maybe with Stellantis having some future with some cheap EVs, are "legacy" auto makers with products which are showing to be less desirable to buyers as we see Toyota losing best selling car from their Camry to the Tesla Model Y, Honda in big trouble with models not selling.  Ford, GM, and Chrysler (Stellantis) all with inventory issues and been producing cars at a loss.  Canadians buying TESLAs made in US, China and probably will from Mexico when that TESLA factory opens. 

 

Sad but countries need a TESLA plant and a supply of real cheap Chinese cars for the low end of the market which are too cheap to make in a high earnings economy.

 

 

Edited 13 January, 20242 yr by lol-lol

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-honda-representatives-meet-potential-194655853.html

 

 

22 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-honda-representatives-meet-potential-194655853.html

 

 

 

Will be great to see a massive EV car plant in Canada if they can do the deal and if Honda can survive the next couple of years and actually go ahead.

 

We are seeing some big overseas investment but one wonders if they are conditional on some local investment costing us the tax payers to help it happen.

 

Honda's EVs have been a bit of a joke but the have just announced some different cars at the Las Vegas show so maybe the have a chance of surviving to go ahead with the plant.

 

I go pass the Honda Swindon plant and don't hold out great hope that Honda will be successful unless they change course.

 

5 hours ago, Rooted said:

Not great with the width of Summer / Performance tyres.  But it can drive in snow. Lots of weight if push comes to shove which easily happens when in the land of muppets who,s winter driving technik is floor it.

You using the word muppets made me think of this article, these are also muppets, who think that a Tesla is a gas guzzler and have attacking them as planet destroying cars 🙄

 

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