So the Enyaq is away.  Car parking services and he does not speak English so can not say if they are exempt from the overstay.  I asked could he tell me in Hungarian.   Shrug.   I will ask Edinburgh City council if they speak English. 

So finally after the charger cutting out the No  speak English has taken away the white and black car and not the pickup yet.  So I am charging again and so is a Taxi that got on where the black MG was.   That is an hour I have been here and still not managed to get enough of a charge.      P!$$ing down now.   Should have gone to MFG. 

Edited 27 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

Cut out again. Moved to now available charger and starting 4th time now at 75%.  10 mins hopefully then away.   The charger that the Enyaq was on seems to want to charge me for it's 55 kWh.    No bl00dy way will that be happening. 

Getting closer to getting the European/world car of the year ie Renault Scenic.  Oddly to many probably going for the smaller 60 kwh battery rather than the 87 kwh.

 

Flame red is a free colour, fair reduction with Renault and local dealer contribution and choice of either 4.9% Apr or 0% with big deposit.

 

Aiming for sept reg. Tried one in Alpine spec but seats were not that great imo.  Displays etc awesome.

 

22 minutes ago, lol-lol said:

Getting closer to getting the European/world car of the year ie Renault Scenic.  Oddly to many probably going for the smaller 60 kwh battery rather than the 87 kwh.

 

Flame red is a free colour, fair reduction with Renault and local dealer contribution and choice of either 4.9% Apr or 0% with big deposit.

 

Aiming for sept reg. Tried one in Alpine spec but seats were not that great imo.  Displays etc awesome.

 

Is that a metallic colour? I had a red Cortina (flat paint, it faded like hell in 3 years). 

50 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

Is that a metallic colour? I had a red Cortina (flat paint, it faded like hell in 3 years). 

 

It's flame red, don't think it is metallic.

 

Daughter no2 has a clio in similar colour, ten years old and still looks good. Still does over 60 mpg on a run,  little turbo petrol.

 

Red Paint thankfully changed a long time back other than maybe with Vauxhall & that was cars and Vans.

The new pigments were tried out first by Ferrari on Fiat Punto,s,you did not know until after a few years which had the more expensive finish, if you see and old red Punto you will know if it had the good stuff or not,  then Ferrari did options on the red you could get. 

Skoda had no issues with Corrida red other than sometimes with the plastics painted.

 

Kia still have badly matched panels sometimes with metallic red metal & plastic mismatched. 

 

One of the red Fabia i had.

2

 

2 Options of the Scenic Long Range have low Advance Payments with Motability and i imagine they will be popular. 

Edited 27 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

 How on earth is this still allowed to happen in the US, I wonder just how many diesel cars it would take to equal the filth that these are checking out.

 

 

Or allowed in the UK.

Also Air Shows.  Just ridiculous really.

 

 

 

42 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

Or allowed in the UK.

Also Air Shows.  Just ridiculous really.

 

 

 

I have to disagree with the Air Show comment really, all the pollution is being dispersed at a high level, not blowing all over the spectators, nor anywhere near as much black smoke even on the older B52 bombers which are renowned for being dirty engines. Not only that but I'm willing to say that are simply thousands of BEV drivers who claim that are driving them to save the planet and yet are perfectly happy to go on overseas trips for holidays, either by ship or planes, so that rather negates their claims IMO.

 

But events like those truck events in the good ole USA and these frankly stupid tractor pulls are just putting the participants and spectators at an enormous risk to the health when you see the huge amounts of dense hydrocarbons being emitted and wafting in their faces at close range. It makes a complete mockery of all the so-called clean air zones in many cities and towns that we either cannot drive our older cars in or we have to pay for the privilege. It kind of points to the claims of premature deaths being blamed on pollution being a load of smoke and mirrors.

 

If you were to try and drive a vehicle emitting a fraction of that amount of smoke on the road, you would be lucky not to be stopped and issued a instantaneous prohibition order and a massive fine.  

Edited 27 July, 20241 yr by Graham Butcher

I've not really got that involved with EV's although last October I weighted up the pros and cons when sorting out the wife's next car. We went petrol again rather than EV. One factor in favour of an EV was zero road fund licence, but I understand that from April 2025 the road fund will be £190 for EV's. I thought the idea was to encourage EV ownership.

14 minutes ago, moley said:

I've not really got that involved with EV's although last October I weighted up the pros and cons when sorting out the wife's next car. We went petrol again rather than EV. One factor in favour of an EV was zero road fund licence, but I understand that from April 2025 the road fund will be £190 for EV's. I thought the idea was to encourage EV ownership.

It was, until someone woke up and discovered that they cannot actually afford to keep it going any longer. I mean every EV car that is sold, they are losing so much revenue, zero VED, no fuel tax other than VAT, even the congestion zones are going to be charging EV's and removing free parking perks.

This is a rather interesting video of a Tesla thats done 430,000 miles as a taxi, and it still has a battery health of 72% but this expert on EV cars reckons that even through Tesla claims that there is servicing required, he says otherwise nd shows why.

 

 

Lots of people do not have the brains they were born with.  Just do not think.

Then there are lots of people that rent a car for a few years and hand them back and are not buying and keeping a car.

People might believe every word that comes from Elon Musk.

 

Deep pockets needed maybe, others will just drive them or get rid of them.

 

6 years ago. Servicing & maintenance, inspections..

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

This went pretty much below the radar this year. 

Last week.  Still not many if any media coverage.

http://smrc.co.uk/ecorally-scotland

 

 

 

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

There will maybe be an announcement when the next Budget will be this year, and then the next budget.

Who knows what the New Chancellor will keep as already announced, or what changes might happen.

 

 

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

2 hours ago, Ootohere said:

Lots of people do not have the brains they were born with.  Just do not think.

Then there are lots of people that rent a car for a few years and hand them back and are not buying and keeping a car.

People might believe every word that comes from Elon Musk.

 

Deep pockets needed maybe, others will just drive them or get rid of them.

 

6 years ago. Servicing & maintenance, inspections..

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, the first video is now old and has been posted before, the second one however does show a few pitfalls and they have plenty it seems.

The video you posted in in the Tesla thread.   The thing is if anyone gets a EV then doing some research is simply Clever.   Good news that a Small Ford EV is not in the too distance horizon. 

 

There are Tax / VED exempt and MOT exempt Classic vehicles (passenger Cars and others) and there still will be regardless of what he says.

There are Disabled Class Passenger cars that a Tax Exempt and there still will be. 

 

 

 

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by Ootohere

On 27/07/2024 at 20:54, Ootohere said:

Also Air Shows.  Just ridiculous really.

According to Eastbourne airshow organisers, only 3.7% carbon emission comes from the display aircrafts.

 

96% comes from audience transportation..... for example ICE cars.

 

https://www.visiteastbourne.com/airshow/plan-your-visit/sustainability

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by wyx087

That figure will possibly the planes emissions during the show.

Maybe not actually them getting them to and from the show & the fuel to the show that might be required.    But anyway, it is not a serious matter anymore than all the Motorsports & transportation, Water Sports including sailing or any other sports, hobbies, leisure activities and fuel and emissions and all the rest.

 

As it is there are people that Roll Coal and people that roll along in EV,s that get the electricity that comes still from Coal, Wood, Oil & Gas and there will be for decades more in the UK.

 

Maybe GB Energy will make s difference eventually.   Maybe the people in Shetland will not be the highest energy cost payers in the UK for Electricity.

Also for the cost of flying to or going by boat that requires aviation fuel or marine fuel, unless they sail in a yacht. 

32 minutes ago, wyx087 said:

According to Eastbourne airshow organisers, only 3.7% carbon emission comes from the display aircrafts.

 

96% comes from audience transportation..... for example ICE cars.

 

Yep, can confirm it's bloody mayhem for the duration.  Organisers encourage park and ride, with Five Acre Field, near the Sovereign Centre being used for parking, which quickly fills up.  Only a fool would bother driving into town.  My 8mph mobility scooter would beat a McMurtry Speirling on the 3-4 mile route out of town, hands down 😁

 

IIRC passenger airliners, like the 737/747 use between three and five gallons per mile, which is pretty phenomenal mpg per person carried (unless it's empty of course).

 

G

 

1 hour ago, Gaz said:

 

Yep, can confirm it's bloody mayhem for the duration.  Organisers encourage park and ride, with Five Acre Field, near the Sovereign Centre being used for parking, which quickly fills up.  Only a fool would bother driving into town.  My 8mph mobility scooter would beat a McMurtry Speirling on the 3-4 mile route out of town, hands down 😁

 

IIRC passenger airliners, like the 737/747 use between three and five gallons per mile, which is pretty phenomenal mpg per person carried (unless it's empty of course).

 

G

 

Just how do the measure the levels of pollution coming from a jet engine, I doubt that they can shove a probe into the exhaust of the engine, the heat and pure thrust I suspect would destroy it in the blink of an eye?

31 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

Just how do the measure the levels of pollution coming from a jet engine...?

 

The Met Office send up one of those silver weather balloons, which then slices a 50 yard section of the jets contrails out.  They then cut the exact amount of clean air from alongside the contrail.  Both are processed into separate sections in the weather balloon, which makes it heavier than air and returns to earth.  Both are then pumped through Mann (I believe) high altitude air filters and scientific analysis of the filters is carried out, including the use of a mass spectrometer and scanning electron microscope.

 

If you look up on a clear day, you can sometimes see the gaps on the contrails - that'll be the Met Office 👍

 

G

On 27/07/2024 at 19:36, Graham Butcher said:

 How on earth is this still allowed to happen in the US, I wonder just how many diesel cars it would take to equal the filth that these are checking out.

 

 

There's so much low hanging fruit to harvest when it comes to improving air quality, but the focus often seems to be one of using improving air quality as an excuse to raise additional revenue.

I'd ban garden fires and patio heaters. Garden fires knock out a surprising amount of pollution (or maybe not that surprising), and if you're worried about global warming/climate change, any device specifically designed to raise the local outside temperature seems very much out of place.

 

46 minutes ago, Gaz said:

 

The Met Office send up one of those silver weather balloons, which then slices a 50 yard section of the jets contrails out.  They then cut the exact amount of clean air from alongside the contrail.  Both are processed into separate sections in the weather balloon, which makes it heavier than air and returns to earth.  Both are then pumped through Mann (I believe) high altitude air filters and scientific analysis of the filters is carried out, including the use of a mass spectrometer and scanning electron microscope.

 

If you look up on a clear day, you can sometimes see the gaps on the contrails - that'll be the Met Office 👍

 

G

Hmm, this sounds to be highly unplausible to me, it would be dangerous to allow balloons into airspace used by planes and not only that but balloons are not that controllable to be able to accurately target the precise location of a contrail and cut amount of it and also the same amount of clean air, have you got your calendar dates wrong, it's not April 1st. 

Edited 29 July, 20241 yr by Graham Butcher