Not just buy, but make their sole source of transportation. Politicos are congenital liars. No taxis of limos for them. But I would actually give them credit if they rode on public transportation like the rest of us proles.
I'm willing to bet that it would be cheaper overall for people who drive those things to just hire taxis which is what they should be doing anyway if they don't want to drive.
@@csjrogerson2377 That has to be one of the dumbest comments ever. The time wasted at an EV charging station is definitely a very large opportunity cost that, for many people, exceeds the cost of petrol fueling. A half hour of my time is definitely worth more than the cost of a tank of petrol.
"How dare you buy a home on a street where there's no off-street parking?! You're supposed to live in our utopian fifteen-minute city instead, where there's also no off-street parking!" 🤣
You don't need a garage if you have an electric car because you wouldn't dare park it in there anyway unless you want your house to burn down while you are sleeping.
@@TehPwnerer a fire suppression system for a typical EV would have to deliver 50,000 US gallons of water in a short period of time, imagine what that would do to the contents of your garage?
Because they have no backbones. If i were a car manufacturer, i would stop selling cars in countries that would force me to make EVs. I'd save all that wasted investment and lost revenue, and just sell ICE cars in non-draconian countries and make profits.
Spoke to a guy filling his small truck with diesel at the local garage. His business was mobile EV charging. He said his business is booming and he is expanding. Nothing more to say really!
I had one given to me for free, it was a silver Jeep and I loved it but the battery took forever to charge. But then I was 8 and it was a Christmas present.
In fact I will be given one for free from my work, charges paid for also but I hate it , I have a diesel right now doing 1400 km on a full fuel tank. In the future I will have to drag dirty charging cables in en out the car all the time every day and in the holidays it is useless to go far distances.
Who knew? Electricity is not a ressource. And since no country is building any of the nuclear plants necessary to feed all the new EVs we all supposed to drive before 2030 it's quite obvious that the price of electricity is going to skyrocket. Basics of economy: high demand slow supply=elevated prices
Not just EVs. Data farms energy is projected to rise exponentially in future due to AI. Microsoft, reportedly are looking at buying the old 3 mile island nuclear power plant, rebuild it and use the energy solely for themselves. They're making it scarce for us but not the masters of the universe.
If you add up all the costs, longevity and depreciation, anyone with two working brain cells can figure out that equivalent ICE vehicles are much cheaper to own than EVs.
These cars with auto pilot should be banned. Drive the damn car. This is another push by governments. Cars will never be net zero the power has to come from somewhere and is a money scam run by governments to fleece the public.
If you drive 400-700klm per week your spending 5-8k per year on fuel and services, I spend 6k per year Subaru Forester 46k 2 years ago, in 10 years over 100k and 300k klm , so your saying I’m saving money doing this every 10 years basically get 3k back as a trade in and do it all again
A woman journalist did a regular Brisbane to Sydney run as part of her job. This journey takes about 9 hours. Until she was given an EV and the journey took 12 hours and she ended up at a charging station at 2:00 AM in a dark crime ridden Sydney suburb.
I had to deliver a Tesla model 3 London to Cornwall in 2020. Had to charge it 3 times, finding places to charge often off the fast roads. As for the old BMW i5 I had to drive back that was twice as bad! Got into London at 4am, had to charge for the FIFTH time. Return journey is long but easily douable in petrol/diesel.
What about all the new friends you made along the way I’m sure that made up for the inconvenience of the EV telling you when and where to charge right?
It's totally fair - you spend twice as much time traveling the same distance in an EV because you have to stop for charging. Time is money, so you pay twice as much.
What happens when a large EV-manufacturer gets hacked, and send out malicious updates, making every vehicle speed up max, and turn left, Thursday morning at 8.34 ?
@@bascomnextion5639 Connected cars are in reality a weapon of mass destruction, paid for, and installed by its victims, in the heart of their cities. I'm absolutely sure military have figured this out long ago. So I worry their silence indicates that everyone is working on it.
- they have to, it is always on the cards, the government can't function at its best "freedom stomping level" without additional streams of revenue - Ciggies are gone, petrol will be next - health fund tax and clean energy / transport taxes have to be in the pipeline.. (Let's put a tax on accessing the NHS for a laugh (or Aussie Equivalent - free healthcare, once you pay the 300% tax. call it a perceived benefits tax...))
Already have here, NZ. About time to. Petrol and diesel have been charged a road tax for decades. Roads have to be paid for after all, so I'm happy with that.
Glad I sold my Mini Cooper EV after watching this. Lovely car to drive, and I loved the looks of it, but really disliked the insurance, the charging time, and the distance you could drive.
I recently did a long 1000 mile journey. East Yorkshire to London, London to Teddington, Teddington to St Ives, St Ives back to East Yorkshire. I started with a full tank. I refuelled at Taunton on the journey home to East Yorkshire. I averaged 65mpg. Not bad for a 21 year old diesel van with 480,000 miles on the clock.
Wow! A whole 5 minutes spent refilling your tank. That's 5 minutes of your life entirely wasted. If you were driving an EV, you could have made numerous stops along your route. Spending 30 minutes to an hour at each stop. Time you could have spent taking in the local sites, drinking numerous cups of tea/coffee (making more stops to relieve yourself of those cups of tea/coffee and simultaneously topping up the charge). And the unplanned overnight stops at out-of-the-way hotels/motels for the slow charging, when fast chargers were not available/out of order. Not to mention how excited your family and friends would have been to finally see you after months away from home, following your arduous, gruelling thousand mile journey.
The thing is that we have known this about the running costs over a year but the papers have ignored it. Also in China manufacturer made EV's and got their money then sold them to subsidiaries, removed the electric motor and battery then installed petrol engines. Then sold them to rural parts of the country. I can see something similar happening in the UK to get round the penalties.
Golden - Using a "globalist" transport subsidy to get "grid scale" fixed storage for projects - and a spare body for the smash repair industry thrown in...
A new cottage industry: convert your EV to petrol or diesel power, they even give you a “core“ refund on the battery which they will sell “used” to someone when an EV‘s battery dies - assuming of course there’s a place to safely store them in case one goes into thermal runaway just sitting there
The reason animals love chewing on cables is because in effort to be more 'green', they use soy or cellulose based compounds for the insulation, instead of plastic.
In Germany and Eastern Europe stone martens chew through car cables. The cables are greased with fish oil additive because of low winter temperatures. Stone martens love fish oil.
Think about it guys, EVs are just a way of getting poor people off the roads. The less wealthy live in houses with no driveways, so they will be hit the most. I pay 22p kWH at home. So 80p is nearly 4 times the cost!
Roughly 40% of the population of the United States (136 million people) do NOT live in a single-family home with off street parking - it’s impossible for them to “charge at home“ so an EV is simply not a practical alternative
@@golders99 exactly. The push for EV‘s will force most people to give up private automobiles. This is completely in keeping with the utopian environmentalist vision of depopulating the suburbs and moving everyone into apartment blocks in dense cities. Not the rich, of course, just the great unwashed.
Putting all the controls on a central touch display is even worse. The DOT in the USA does not care: DOT only cares about forcing EVs on the people. It’s a damn shame too because I had high hopes for the guy this Administration put in charge of DOT, but he turned out to be a total lying schmuck
If males can identify as women and vice versa, I see no reason why petrol and diesel cars cannot identify as EVs. Just slap on a decal that looks like a charging port, tuck the tailpipe under the car, and put a zero emission sticker on a side curtain and you're good to go!
@@jackking5567 a guy mounted a generator on his Tesla to make an 1800 mile trip without recharging. At the end of the trip, it worked out to about 8 miles per gallon.
It really depends on where and how you charge. For me in America my diesel F350 cost 16 cents/mile. My daily driver burning premium cost 15 cents. An EV using exclusively fast charging would be 13 cents, but 4.5 if charged at my office (I own the building so no freebies) and only 2 cents when charged at home from solar. An efficient ICE would be less than 9 cents per mile, besting the fast charging EV. But ultimately the EV is a loser because of the higher depreciation, insurance, registration, and more frequent tires.
As company cars, it is a financial disaster when the staff sit and charge the car with full payment for several hours a day.Then there is the reduction in value of the car and their short lifespan, if you include this as well, there is no future for these vehicles.
Why do you use the argument that some situations are not practical for EVs, therefore, EVs are a load of crap for all situations and they have no future? EVs are not good for all situations, now. They are very good for some situations and they might be, or they might not be, good for other situations in the future.
@@klimatbluffen You're really not helping your cause. We should not be being forced to adopt EVs. This doesn't mean we should use nonsense arguments to stop people who want EVs, from buying them. How do you expect anyone to take your arguments seriously? Other than like minded people who who are already anti EVs. There is no reason to be anti EVs, because they are not suitable for you. Just be EVs are not for you, it is absolutely fine, because most people don't give a shit about you. Just as you shouldn't give a shit if others want an EV because it is adapted to their needs. We don't need to convince others to agree with our opinion, for it to be a valid opinion.
@@robinhood4640 The problem is that they want to force people to drive electric cars.I don't give a damn if anyone voluntarily wants the shit, but I don't want it.
My cousin bought an MG4 and was boasting how he will never have to buy fuel again. He paid just under $50,000 about a year ago. MG are advertising them now for $27,900. Cheap fuel, shocking depreciation. HEVs are outselling BEVs 2 to 1 this year.
I think you only buy EV when the price compareable EV is 10% less than similar petrol car. But I'm not sure about safety. I don't think that 10% convince me buying because of safety
Talking Costs: To illustrate the absurdity of Lithium Battery power: A typical cargo ship carries 1,250 tons of fuel oil for a typical 10 day trip. A lithium battery storing the same power would weigh 72,000 tons and take up half the cargo space. Source of info: the 'Not Zero' book by Ross Clark - a must read if you're anti EV. Aviation Fuel weighs 0.75 kg per litre. A lithium battery carrying the same power weighs 50 kg. Hydrogen Fuel is four times the volume of aviation fuel and eats away metals, and needs compressing at minus 250°C. Hydrogen is a no go in all reality!
Indeed (assuming your maths is correct), but how on earth is someone going to recharge that battery? Whole countries will have brownouts and melting National Grids. Then, occasionally the ISS will be offered the spectacle of a light show in the middle of an ocean.
But it's the same price as your house power.. are you suggesting evs will cause house power to increase? Power is given away in the off peak times, perfect for EV charging.
Just driving through a new housing estate, I couldn’t help but notice the number of cars parked in driveways and on the kerb. Through several streets its was clear that each house averaged three to four cars. How the hell will our electricity supply manage to have all these cars on charge overnight if we are forced into EVs. Great work Simon, you are keeping us well informed.
It's not how many cars there are, it's how much they're used. People with multiple cars can't use them all at the same time. Also, they don't all have to be charged at once or even every day.
@@simoncrooke1644 with three or four people living in each of these homes and all old enough to drive, because there not there during the daylight hours. Considering the distance we have to travel in Australia, they will need regular charging.
How can the governments of Europe, UK and Australia want to ban new petrol cars by what 2039. It's insanity, when Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda and now VW have all but stopped making EV"s because they are losing to much money on them
I guarantee you that these targets are just for show. They are posturing, nothing more. "By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty." Same energy.
@@Biosynchro I live in Canberra and the Government has banned the sale of new ice cars from 2030 but Canberra is woke and majority left leaning including the Government now
@@dawnpatrol100 Oh sure. I believe it. But it won't last very long. ABC reporter in 2030: "It turns out, experts say, that the most environmentally friendly car is the one that lasts the longest. And the winner of that title? The old fashioned petrol powered car. And so the ACT has scrapped the ban on combustion engines and has instead replaced it with incentives: the longer you keep your car, the less you have to pay in registration and licensing. And that is a deal that many Australian families will take in a heartbeat. Jacinta McLeery, ABC News, Canberra."
Here in Norway the corrupt politicians had planned banning ALL sales of new combustion engine cars by 2025... But after several years now with car companies struggling to sell the EVs they have postponed it for now.
They don't just randomly stop. They can also randomly accelerate while disabling the brakes! Recently a tesla randomly locked all the doors with a small child in the car! Very scary stuff!
I was driving my company's Tesla eastbound around sunset time, and noticed that the solar glare was causing it to hallucinate brake lights on the car in front of me, even just as we were both starting from a light that just turned green. I could've caused this kind of phantom breaking, if I hadn't been actively driving.
Twice as much to buy, twice as much to run, and takes twice as long to get to your destination.. And they wonder why EV sales have fallen off a cliff..lmao 😂😂😂
Our governments are slowly pushing up the price of fuel in a push towards more EVs. But unless you can charge, every single day, at home you will pay for charging .... and pay more for charging ... and pay more for charging. The companies that are installing charging stations at random locations are not doing it out of kindness- that are out to make money. And they'll do everything possible to maximise profits.
Increasing fuel and diesel will increase cost for trucks delivering everything, so that's evil , vile and disgusting, just like the solar feed tariff going to 2c perkwh during peak sunshine, forcing everyone to buy expensive batteries to not get ripped off by energy networks, buying solar power for basically nothing and someone nearby being charged 14 -33cents . These batteries need replacement after there cycles are used , coal power would be greener than heavy toxic batteries.
The reason for rodents eating the electrical cables is the push to be more 'green'. Instead of using traditional plastics to coat the wiring, they are using plant based polymers to coat the wires. This is starting to happen in ICE cars too, although the effect is less catastrophic. The new wiring is just food. Crazy times!
False. Rats and mice will chew anything relatively soft, like electrical insulation. Of course, most insulation HAS to be flexible Also, you will be surprised where a mouse can get
@@g8ymw To educate yourself on how modern cars are built. Yes, some rodents used to chew cable to make bedding in the past but now there is a serious problem with rodents actually eating the cables as a food source.
*The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that don't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver, and digital currencies (BTC, ETH...).*
I began investing in stocks and Def earlier this year, and it is the best choice l've ever made. My portfolio is rounding up to almost a million and I have realized that when a stock makes it to the news, chances are you're quite late to the party, the idea is to get in early on blue chips before it becomes public. There are lots of life changing opportunities in the market, and maximize it.
I tried 3 different cars that had lane assist... All 3 cars actively tried to kill me by steering into oncoming traffic and you had to fight the auto steering to not crash frotn ot front with every other car it met on the road. Aparently it is a common problem on roads like here that is narrow and have not markings. And in the winter with snow and ice cover it is a lot worse.
My 2010 diesel audi a3 can do 650 miles on 55 litre diesel. Its done 254000 miles and is still saving me money. The inside of the tail pipe is still shiny. Its a clean machine with recirculation and and platinum filters
Having spent 6 decades on this planet I do not have the the time or patience to wait for lump of metal to charge. My next car is going to be another 'ICE' car and the least electronics the better............proper driving. The Motability scheme is a rip off especially where deposits are concerned. Stay independent if you can.
Not only will you be worse off if you can't charge at home, you be worse off timewise too, because you'll be stuck for an hour at a charging point instead of a 5 minutes to charge up. I have a mild hybrid diesel SUV and it gets on average between 50 and 55 MPG.
I have a Mazda 1.5 D and that averages 66mpg and it's not a hybrid. On the motorway I average 74 mpg at 70 mph. Will never buy an EV unless they halve the price, x10 the energy density of a battery and reduce the 100% charging time to 5 mins.
The figures for EVs are even worse when you consider that petrol has significant taxes built into the price to cover road maintenance and bolster government revenue. I know in Australia the charging stations for EVs don't have any taxes for electricity.
We've been sold the lie that renewable energy is cheaper? well if it is why are these chargers so expensive? or are these companies taking motorists for a ride? (pun intended).
Tesla should get sued for every accident resulting from “self-driving mode” when there know there is no such thing. They are providing a faulty product and they know it.
We drive from Belgium to Scotland often with a significant detour en route. Our old diesel BMW did it on one tank. With our ´newer’ petrol Volvo we just need to top up. The journey is bad enough without worrying if you’re going to run out of charge! I had my old Golf for 17 years. Good luck with that for an electric car.
I had a Landrover Discovery 3, 3 tons 2.8 V6 Automatic permanent 4 wheel drive Diesel. Sitting on the motorway between 60/65mph it returned about 38mpg. I thought not bad for a "gas" guzzler. It's by far and away the best vehicle I've ever driven.
the wife and i decided to go down to just one car to save cost, i just bought a 2014 bmw 320i GT X drive, it has a petrol 4 cylinder turbo engine, very nice car, no way i would buy a diesel for short round town trips, plus i hate them as well, this is my retirement car to last me way into the future, it never crossed my mind to consider buying an electric car.
Motability customers are being bombarded with ads for EVs. The Motability magazine carries a high percentage of EV adverts and it honestly makes it look like ICE vehicles are not available on the scheme.
Petrol in Adelaide is slowly dropping as the international price of crude drops. It must be going down in the UK as well....p.s. I drive a Rav4 hybrid.
Cuba shows the world the way forward on proper automobile strategy. Get a solid, simple car and run it forever. You can fix it yourself in the garage. If a part breaks go to the wrecking yard and buy a good used part.
How about we make it not the responsibility of the highway services to investigate a 3rd-party company's poorly-performing products? How about they ban them from sale and let said company sort it out first? Nah, that would make too much sense and wouldn't help drive us all into destitution.
Don't forget to add on the cost of expensive EV compatible tyres that need replacing far more often than standard ICE cars. I wouldn't touch an EV and the way things are going nobody else will. Oh, and as regards the cost of the journey quoted my diesel car can easily average 60 miles/gallon on a long run so the costs would be far lower.
Geoff Buys Cars has a video on how dealers in UK are manipulating Autotrader site to support EV prices. There are 2 yr old EVs with delivery miles appearing on the site.
The UK Motability scheme is just outrageous. It is literally putting people who claim disability benefits (paid for by you and me - the tax payers) into brand new electric cars, such as a £90k electric Mercedes or similar. Meanwhile, as a hard working, tax paying individual, all I can afford is a 15 year old Toyota Aygo. This is becoming beyond belief how unfair the system is. You couldn't make it up.
In the UK its a £600 fine and 6 points on your licence for using a mobile phone while driving. I wonder how our dictator in No.10 will get around that one.
That 8 car pileup is more of a demonstration as to how americans can't drive. They had 20 seconds to see the brake lights and put on their breaks, instead they maintain speed, try to change lanes or just run in to the back of it.
@mwont not true. If you're car #3-7 in such a situation, the outcome is totally out of your hands. You can brake all you want and try to maintain control, but if you are hit from behind with enough force there isn't much you can do other than brace for impact.
1. it's illegal to stop on a freeway. 2. Pileups are so dangerous, because you can be following behind a car and not see the pile up, they stack up rapidly. And yes, I know the drivers manual says, "allow one car length for every 10mph," but that's literally impossible anywhere that isn't rural. Dense, fast moving traffic is a reality in all cities.
A woman in our village had an MG5 EV for which she paid £27000. After 3 years and 20,000 miles she got £7,000 for it in part ex for her new petrol hybrid. £1 per mile in depreciation, that’s not cheap motoring even though she did home charge.
"Renault is refunding couples who divorce or dissolve a civil partnership after taking delivery of an EV" So EV's are causing divorce now, yeah that makes sense 🤣😂🤣
Self driving should be outlawed and the cars that have self driving should be disabled permanently. If you refuse, then the car should be taken away from you and you can only get it back if the self driving feature is removed,,,,,,,,,
How about making it compulsory for every politician and bureaucrat to buy an EV? See how long the legislation then stands.
How about getting rid of corrupt politicians. No more coalition governents, winner wins.
Yes but politicians don't drive , they get driven
Not just buy, but make their sole source of transportation. Politicos are congenital liars. No taxis of limos for them. But I would actually give them credit if they rode on public transportation like the rest of us proles.
They will park the ev in the driveway and still drive their gas car.
Agreed!!!
Self driving cars should be banned, only a fool would buy/drive one.
I mean,only the people you don't want to be behind that steering wheel will love the feature.
I'm willing to bet that it would be cheaper overall for people who drive those things to just hire taxis which is what they should be doing anyway if they don't want to drive.
@@davelowe1977 Relying on other people you do not have the spontaneous freedom of going where you want immediately.
They will be, Don’t worry.
Tesla are using their brainless customers to test FSD so they can use it In Robbotaxi. Which will never happen.
The cost of your time waiting to recharge should be included in the cost!
If you can waste time charging, your time is worthless. If your time is worthless, you are a worthless human being.
Just a really dumb statement. You dont charge anyone else for waiting for access to a service, so why EV charging. Duh??
Great point, time is valuable. This is why people are rewarded for their time, unless you are charging an ev of course.
Imagine being a bit late for a meeting and then trying to find a charging station and then the waiting.
@@csjrogerson2377 That has to be one of the dumbest comments ever. The time wasted at an EV charging station is definitely a very large opportunity cost that, for many people, exceeds the cost of petrol fueling. A half hour of my time is definitely worth more than the cost of a tank of petrol.
The EV zealots were quick to move the goal post on this one by blaming those people for not having home chargers.
They will probably blame the people for not owning a home!
I'm waiting for them to blame Trump.
I don't have a gas station at my home, either.
"How dare you buy a home on a street where there's no off-street parking?! You're supposed to live in our utopian fifteen-minute city instead, where there's also no off-street parking!" 🤣
You don't need a garage if you have an electric car because you wouldn't dare park it in there anyway unless you want your house to burn down while you are sleeping.
Burn My Driveway is bad enough but Burn My Dwelling is terrifying.
Add fire suppression to your garage
@@TehPwnerer A fire suppression system capable of putting out a battery fire in thermal runaway doesn't exist Einstein.
@TehPwnerer how much will that cost for a two car garage?
@@TehPwnerer a fire suppression system for a typical EV would have to deliver 50,000 US gallons of water in a short period of time, imagine what that would do to the contents of your garage?
Why don't these companies tell the government to pound sand?
Because Europe - including the UK - is now a savage extreme left wing dictatorship.
Because they have no backbones.
If i were a car manufacturer, i would stop selling cars in countries that would force me to make EVs.
I'd save all that wasted investment and lost revenue, and just sell ICE cars in non-draconian countries and make profits.
Because their main shareholders now are part of The Woke.
Because the basis of every form of government is the use of force.
@@johnkessler9878 And fear.
Spoke to a guy filling his small truck with diesel at the local garage. His business was mobile EV charging. He said his business is booming and he is expanding. Nothing more to say really!
Interesting, mobile charging eh..... that's a good idea
Not only is his business booming, but so are the EVs as well
Now THAT is a good business plan! (At least until sanity returns, if it ever does.)
It may not be there long.
EVs are not booming they will be finished in a few years
I wouldn't want an EV even if it was given to me for free
And All the Charges Paid for !!
Toyota Hilux Diesel Forever ❤
I had one given to me for free, it was a silver Jeep and I loved it but the battery took forever to charge.
But then I was 8 and it was a Christmas present.
I would take it then try to sell it even if it was for $100 still a profit and some beer money for the weekend
In fact I will be given one for free from my work, charges paid for also but I hate it , I have a diesel right now doing 1400 km on a full fuel tank.
In the future I will have to drag dirty charging cables in en out the car all the time every day and in the holidays it is useless to go far distances.
Well, I kinda would as I haven't paid any energy bills for 2 and a half years.
When the first fine is handed out…shut the factory down.
See how long politicians last after that.
I think at least one manufacturer in the UK said it would have to leave if these rules were implemented. So yes, I'd do the same thing.
Who knew? Electricity is not a ressource. And since no country is building any of the nuclear plants necessary to feed all the new EVs we all supposed to drive before 2030 it's quite obvious that the price of electricity is going to skyrocket.
Basics of economy: high demand slow supply=elevated prices
Not just EVs. Data farms energy is projected to rise exponentially in future due to AI. Microsoft, reportedly are looking at buying the old 3 mile island nuclear power plant, rebuild it and use the energy solely for themselves. They're making it scarce for us but not the masters of the universe.
Let's not forget that governments typically own the electricity grid...control of you is the aim
If you add up all the costs, longevity and depreciation, anyone with two working brain cells can figure out that equivalent ICE vehicles are much cheaper to own than EVs.
Plus you won,t have to re build your house and garage
These cars with auto pilot should be banned. Drive the damn car. This is another push by governments. Cars will never be net zero the power has to come from somewhere and is a money scam run by governments to fleece the public.
@@RayTeggie-er7pb - or even driveway.. BYH, BYG, BYD... lol..
If you drive 400-700klm per week your spending 5-8k per year on fuel and services, I spend 6k per year Subaru Forester 46k 2 years ago, in 10 years over 100k and 300k klm , so your saying I’m saving money doing this every 10 years basically get 3k back as a trade in and do it all again
I’m afraid that you’re not as smart as you think you are. People like me have done the experiment and are sticking with the ev.
A woman journalist did a regular Brisbane to Sydney run as part of her job. This journey takes about 9 hours. Until she was given an EV and the journey took 12 hours and she ended up at a charging station at 2:00 AM in a dark crime ridden Sydney suburb.
Did she write a story about it?
@@DwaynePipes She did. John Cadogan picked up the story and showcased it on his channel.
@@karlp8484
Thanks, I'll look it up.
lmao getting stuck in west sydney with a "luxury" car sounds like great fun
Not to mention the time wasted waiting for it to charge each time
I had to deliver a Tesla model 3 London to Cornwall in 2020. Had to charge it 3 times, finding places to charge often off the fast roads. As for the old BMW i5 I had to drive back that was twice as bad! Got into London at 4am, had to charge for the FIFTH time. Return journey is long but easily douable in petrol/diesel.
@@yagsinamagoy6367 Yeah, I did that trip in a Polestar 2. Charging network along that route is woeful.
What about all the new friends you made along the way I’m sure that made up for the inconvenience of the EV telling you when and where to charge right?
@@ragtowne Yeah we made some friends. But we also lost 2 friends as we were so late we missed a dinner engagement!
It's totally fair - you spend twice as much time traveling the same distance in an EV because you have to stop for charging. Time is money, so you pay twice as much.
But you can make new friends, have a picnic, walk your dog!
What happens when a large EV-manufacturer gets hacked, and send out malicious updates, making every vehicle speed up max, and turn left, Thursday morning at 8.34 ?
Kinda like the exploding pagers in Libanon, but a billion times more devastating ... a juicy target for geopolitical adversaries, right?
Just like all the new ICE cars that are connected that is one reason I do not want a new car EV or ICE !
@@bascomnextion5639 Connected cars are in reality a weapon of mass destruction, paid for, and installed by its victims, in the heart of their cities.
I'm absolutely sure military have figured this out long ago. So I worry their silence indicates that everyone is working on it.
It will eventually happen. The cats out of the bag….
They are going to add road tax
- they have to, it is always on the cards, the government can't function at its best "freedom stomping level" without additional streams of revenue - Ciggies are gone, petrol will be next - health fund tax and clean energy / transport taxes have to be in the pipeline.. (Let's put a tax on accessing the NHS for a laugh (or Aussie Equivalent - free healthcare, once you pay the 300% tax. call it a perceived benefits tax...))
They will have to raise taxes on electricity, which everyone will have to pay whether you drive or not.
Already have here, NZ. About time to. Petrol and diesel have been charged a road tax for decades. Roads have to be paid for after all, so I'm happy with that.
Glad I sold my Mini Cooper EV after watching this. Lovely car to drive, and I loved the looks of it, but really disliked the insurance, the charging time, and the distance you could drive.
I recently did a long 1000 mile journey.
East Yorkshire to London, London to Teddington, Teddington to St Ives, St Ives back to East Yorkshire.
I started with a full tank.
I refuelled at Taunton on the journey home to East Yorkshire.
I averaged 65mpg.
Not bad for a 21 year old diesel van with 480,000 miles on the clock.
Good going 👏
Wow! A whole 5 minutes spent refilling your tank. That's 5 minutes of your life entirely wasted.
If you were driving an EV, you could have made numerous stops along your route. Spending 30 minutes to an hour at each stop. Time you could have spent taking in the local sites, drinking numerous cups of tea/coffee (making more stops to relieve yourself of those cups of tea/coffee and simultaneously topping up the charge). And the unplanned overnight stops at out-of-the-way hotels/motels for the slow charging, when fast chargers were not available/out of order. Not to mention how excited your family and friends would have been to finally see you after months away from home, following your arduous, gruelling thousand mile journey.
Impressive.
Good for you👍 what size motor have you got? If you don’t mind me asking.
Legend
The thing is that we have known this about the running costs over a year but the papers have ignored it. Also in China manufacturer made EV's and got their money then sold them to subsidiaries, removed the electric motor and battery then installed petrol engines. Then sold them to rural parts of the country. I can see something similar happening in the UK to get round the penalties.
They've not ignored it, they've covered it up.
Golden - Using a "globalist" transport subsidy to get "grid scale" fixed storage for projects - and a spare body for the smash repair industry thrown in...
sounds like bs
A new cottage industry: convert your EV to petrol or diesel power, they even give you a “core“ refund on the battery which they will sell “used” to someone when an EV‘s battery dies - assuming of course there’s a place to safely store them in case one goes into thermal runaway just sitting there
The reason animals love chewing on cables is because in effort to be more 'green', they use soy or cellulose based compounds for the insulation, instead of plastic.
In Germany and Eastern Europe stone martens chew through car cables. The cables are greased with fish oil additive because of low winter temperatures. Stone martens love fish oil.
Think about it guys, EVs are just a way of getting poor people off the roads. The less wealthy live in houses with no driveways, so they will be hit the most.
I pay 22p kWH at home. So 80p is nearly 4 times the cost!
Roughly 40% of the population of the United States (136 million people) do NOT live in a single-family home with off street parking - it’s impossible for them to “charge at home“ so an EV is simply not a practical alternative
There are some very expensive houses in the UK that don't don't have driveways.
@@golders99 exactly. The push for EV‘s will force most people to give up private automobiles. This is completely in keeping with the utopian environmentalist vision of depopulating the suburbs and moving everyone into apartment blocks in dense cities. Not the rich, of course, just the great unwashed.
Driving while distracted is supposed to be a big no no. What about not driving at all because of this auto pilot nonsense?
People are already distracted from driving with the sheer amounts of pre-existing driver assists.
Putting all the controls on a central touch display is even worse. The DOT in the USA does not care: DOT only cares about forcing EVs on the people. It’s a damn shame too because I had high hopes for the guy this Administration put in charge of DOT, but he turned out to be a total lying schmuck
Ford wants to play ads while you drive.
If males can identify as women and vice versa, I see no reason why petrol and diesel cars cannot identify as EVs. Just slap on a decal that looks like a charging port, tuck the tailpipe under the car, and put a zero emission sticker on a side curtain and you're good to go!
Petrol cars generate electricity. And they need batteries. So there you go!
My Suzuki Swift identifies itself today as Klingonian Warship......and she got some AAA batteries in the glove box....
@@kirkjohnson6638 ...and some people would fall for that .
@@markuskruger2102 Qapla!
I saw a monstrous diesel Ford Excursion not too long ago with a bumper sticker: "I identify as an electric vehicle"
The costs per mile figure completely destroys what argument EV owners had left.
That's even without it locking you in, crashing or burning car parks or your house down.
@@jackking5567 a guy mounted a generator on his Tesla to make an 1800 mile trip without recharging. At the end of the trip, it worked out to about 8 miles per gallon.
It really depends on where and how you charge. For me in America my diesel F350 cost 16 cents/mile. My daily driver burning premium cost 15 cents. An EV using exclusively fast charging would be 13 cents, but 4.5 if charged at my office (I own the building so no freebies) and only 2 cents when charged at home from solar. An efficient ICE would be less than 9 cents per mile, besting the fast charging EV. But ultimately the EV is a loser because of the higher depreciation, insurance, registration, and more frequent tires.
@@Noah_E you misspelled that last word, it should be “fires”
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire
Another one: better the devil you know than the angel you don't.
Q. How do Tesla owners change a lightbulb?
A. They don't. They just insist that it isn't dark.
As company cars, it is a financial disaster when the staff sit and charge the car with full payment for several hours a day.Then there is the reduction in value of the car and their short lifespan, if you include this as well, there is no future for these vehicles.
Why do you use the argument that some situations are not practical for EVs, therefore, EVs are a load of crap for all situations and they have no future?
EVs are not good for all situations, now. They are very good for some situations and they might be, or they might not be, good for other situations in the future.
@@robinhood4640 Electric cars can't do anything that a real car can do better.
@@klimatbluffen You're really not helping your cause.
We should not be being forced to adopt EVs. This doesn't mean we should use nonsense arguments to stop people who want EVs, from buying them.
How do you expect anyone to take your arguments seriously? Other than like minded people who who are already anti EVs.
There is no reason to be anti EVs, because they are not suitable for you. Just be EVs are not for you, it is absolutely fine, because most people don't give a shit about you. Just as you shouldn't give a shit if others want an EV because it is adapted to their needs.
We don't need to convince others to agree with our opinion, for it to be a valid opinion.
@@robinhood4640 The problem is that they want to force people to drive electric cars.I don't give a damn if anyone voluntarily wants the shit, but I don't want it.
My cousin bought an MG4 and was boasting how he will never have to buy fuel again.
He paid just under $50,000 about a year ago. MG are advertising them now for $27,900.
Cheap fuel, shocking depreciation.
HEVs are outselling BEVs 2 to 1 this year.
I think you only buy EV when the price compareable EV is 10% less than similar petrol car. But I'm not sure about safety. I don't think that 10% convince me buying because of safety
If electric vehicles were any good then government mandates would not be required.
Should be illegal to use auto driving
Begs the question .
If you are using auto pilot. Are you in control of the vehicle?
@@sahhull
Either way… you’re responsible
@@sahhull Nope.
Talking Costs: To illustrate the absurdity of Lithium Battery power: A typical cargo ship carries 1,250 tons of fuel oil for a typical 10 day trip. A lithium battery storing the same power would weigh 72,000 tons and take up half the cargo space. Source of info: the 'Not Zero' book by Ross Clark - a must read if you're anti EV.
Aviation Fuel weighs 0.75 kg per litre. A lithium battery carrying the same power weighs 50 kg. Hydrogen Fuel is four times the volume of aviation fuel and eats away metals, and needs compressing at minus 250°C. Hydrogen is a no go in all reality!
Indeed (assuming your maths is correct), but how on earth is someone going to recharge that battery? Whole countries will have brownouts and melting National Grids. Then, occasionally the ISS will be offered the spectacle of a light show in the middle of an ocean.
thankyou simon for clinically documenting this rot! 👍
And as EVs increase on the road, prices for charging will climb even higher!
Don't forget TIME! more cars simultaneously charge on the network the slower the charging is,
But it's the same price as your house power.. are you suggesting evs will cause house power to increase? Power is given away in the off peak times, perfect for EV charging.
@@markkennard861 Evangelist alert!
@@markkennard861 lol how to say you have drank the coolaid without saying you did...
@@markkennard861 You cannot possibly be this much of a dolt, can you?
The biggest problem with the electric cars is the immense weight. Also no world leader uses an electric car as a state car - Hmmmm!
Add on the 15k+ upfront cost of an EV compared to petrol and the worse depreciation.
Rolling piles of electrified garbage. Cheers Simon.🇨🇦🇦🇺
Just driving through a new housing estate, I couldn’t help but notice the number of cars parked in driveways and on the kerb. Through several streets its was clear that each house averaged three to four cars. How the hell will our electricity supply manage to have all these cars on charge overnight if we are forced into EVs. Great work Simon, you are keeping us well informed.
It's not how many cars there are, it's how much they're used. People with multiple cars can't use them all at the same time. Also, they don't all have to be charged at once or even every day.
@@simoncrooke1644 with three or four people living in each of these homes and all old enough to drive, because there not there during the daylight hours. Considering the distance we have to travel in Australia, they will need regular charging.
Drink Driving is safer than Auto Driving.
How can the governments of Europe, UK and Australia want to ban new petrol cars by what 2039. It's insanity, when Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda and now VW have all but stopped making EV"s because they are losing to much money on them
I guarantee you that these targets are just for show. They are posturing, nothing more. "By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty." Same energy.
@@Biosynchro I live in Canberra and the Government has banned the sale of new ice cars from 2030 but Canberra is woke and majority left leaning including the Government now
@@dawnpatrol100 Oh sure. I believe it. But it won't last very long. ABC reporter in 2030: "It turns out, experts say, that the most environmentally friendly car is the one that lasts the longest. And the winner of that title? The old fashioned petrol powered car. And so the ACT has scrapped the ban on combustion engines and has instead replaced it with incentives: the longer you keep your car, the less you have to pay in registration and licensing. And that is a deal that many Australian families will take in a heartbeat. Jacinta McLeery, ABC News, Canberra."
Here in Norway the corrupt politicians had planned banning ALL sales of new combustion engine cars by 2025... But after several years now with car companies struggling to sell the EVs they have postponed it for now.
If you tow a caravan like I do, an EV is totally useless!
Fuel prices are actually going down in the UK
Until Robber Reeves hikes up the tax in next months budget
Same in Australia. There's a worldwide glut of oil.
Self driving would never work in European towns. The streets are far too cramped compared to the US so the vehicles would hardly be able to move.
They don't just randomly stop.
They can also randomly accelerate while disabling the brakes!
Recently a tesla randomly locked all the doors with a small child in the car!
Very scary stuff!
I was driving my company's Tesla eastbound around sunset time, and noticed that the solar glare was causing it to hallucinate brake lights on the car in front of me, even just as we were both starting from a light that just turned green. I could've caused this kind of phantom breaking, if I hadn't been actively driving.
I would not be surprised if they will ship EV shells to be just scrapped straight after being "sold" to be able to game the system.
Reflected on the car dealer forecourts - no one wants EV's
Twice as much to buy, twice as much to run, and takes twice as long to get to your destination..
And they wonder why EV sales have fallen off a cliff..lmao 😂😂😂
Our governments are slowly pushing up the price of fuel in a push towards more EVs. But unless you can charge, every single day, at home you will pay for charging .... and pay more for charging ... and pay more for charging. The companies that are installing charging stations at random locations are not doing it out of kindness- that are out to make money. And they'll do everything possible to maximise profits.
Increasing fuel and diesel will increase cost for trucks delivering everything, so that's evil , vile and disgusting, just like the solar feed tariff going to 2c perkwh during peak sunshine, forcing everyone to buy expensive batteries to not get ripped off by energy networks, buying solar power for basically nothing and someone nearby being charged 14 -33cents . These batteries need replacement after there cycles are used , coal power would be greener than heavy toxic batteries.
The reason for rodents eating the electrical cables is the push to be more 'green'. Instead of using traditional plastics to coat the wiring, they are using plant based polymers to coat the wires. This is starting to happen in ICE cars too, although the effect is less catastrophic. The new wiring is just food. Crazy times!
False.
Rats and mice will chew anything relatively soft, like electrical insulation.
Of course, most insulation HAS to be flexible
Also, you will be surprised where a mouse can get
This has been a problem with the mustangs for a decade. The wiring insulation is soy-based I believe it is produced in Mexico.
@@g8ymw Not false....go and Google, it's not that hard to do.
Red for ya!
@@MrLeadb1 Why would I google that? I was born and grew up on small farms so my knowledge is first hand.
@@g8ymw To educate yourself on how modern cars are built. Yes, some rodents used to chew cable to make bedding in the past but now there is a serious problem with rodents actually eating the cables as a food source.
"Self crashing" cars should NOT be allowed anywhere, anytime.
ICE is much cheaper than EVs...100% true!!
*The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that don't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver, and digital currencies (BTC, ETH...).*
I began investing in stocks and Def earlier this year, and it is the best choice l've ever made. My portfolio is rounding up to almost a million and I have realized that when a stock makes it to the news, chances are you're quite late to the party, the idea is to get in early on blue chips before it becomes public. There are lots of life changing opportunities in the market, and maximize it.
What opportunities are there in the market, and how do I profit from it?
You can make a lot of money from the market regardless of whether it strengthens or crashes. The key is to be well positioned.
I would really like to know how this actually works.
All you need is a good capital and the service of a professional broker, with those your investment will most certainly produce high yields.
Phantom breaking, yes possibly, or the sudden changing of the lighting entering the tunnel.
I tried 3 different cars that had lane assist... All 3 cars actively tried to kill me by steering into oncoming traffic and you had to fight the auto steering to not crash frotn ot front with every other car it met on the road. Aparently it is a common problem on roads like here that is narrow and have not markings. And in the winter with snow and ice cover it is a lot worse.
My 2010 diesel audi a3 can do 650 miles on 55 litre diesel.
Its done 254000 miles and is still saving me money.
The inside of the tail pipe is still shiny.
Its a clean machine with recirculation and and platinum filters
My 2003 Vauxhall combo diesel van has done 480,000 miles.
It's not only saving me money. It earns me money.
I can vouch for your comment peetsnort, my 2012 Skoda 1.6 tdi is the same.
Having spent 6 decades on this planet I do not have the the time or patience to wait for lump of metal to charge. My next car is going to be another 'ICE' car and the least electronics the better............proper driving. The Motability scheme is a rip off especially where deposits are concerned. Stay independent if you can.
Not only will you be worse off if you can't charge at home, you be worse off timewise too, because you'll be stuck for an hour at a charging point instead of a 5 minutes to charge up. I have a mild hybrid diesel SUV and it gets on average between 50 and 55 MPG.
I have a Mazda 1.5 D and that averages 66mpg and it's not a hybrid. On the motorway I average 74 mpg at 70 mph. Will never buy an EV unless they halve the price, x10 the energy density of a battery and reduce the 100% charging time to 5 mins.
The figures for EVs are even worse when you consider that petrol has significant taxes built into the price to cover road maintenance and bolster government revenue. I know in Australia the charging stations for EVs don't have any taxes for electricity.
We've been sold the lie that renewable energy is cheaper? well if it is why are these chargers so expensive? or are these companies taking motorists for a ride? (pun intended).
The Swedish government has woken up at last… but in a good way.
Tesla should get sued for every accident resulting from “self-driving mode” when there know there is no such thing. They are providing a faulty product and they know it.
It's totally ridiculous that the government can mandate what kind of vehicles we can drive in the first place.
We drive from Belgium to Scotland often with a significant detour en route. Our old diesel BMW did it on one tank. With our ´newer’ petrol Volvo we just need to top up. The journey is bad enough without worrying if you’re going to run out of charge!
I had my old Golf for 17 years. Good luck with that for an electric car.
EVs nicely prove the equation Time = Money.
You've got to take into account that EV's, being heavy, burn through tyres at like twice or more the rate of petrol cars.
I had a Landrover Discovery 3, 3 tons 2.8 V6 Automatic permanent 4 wheel drive Diesel. Sitting on the motorway between 60/65mph it returned about 38mpg. I thought not bad for a "gas" guzzler. It's by far and away the best vehicle I've ever driven.
Just the fact that they have a term called phantom breaking should be a concern for everyone on the roads.
Braking.
Oil companies are ok with EVs because they are powered with electricity from fossil fuels.
the wife and i decided to go down to just one car to save cost, i just bought a 2014 bmw 320i GT X drive, it has a petrol 4 cylinder turbo engine, very nice car, no way i would buy a diesel for short round town trips, plus i hate them as well, this is my retirement car to last me way into the future, it never crossed my mind to consider buying an electric car.
You need to factor in that the EV depreciates by £1000 during that return trip from London to Penzance.
Don’t say government money, say taxpayers money
Motability customers are being bombarded with ads for EVs. The Motability magazine carries a high percentage of EV adverts and it honestly makes it look like ICE vehicles are not available on the scheme.
cant dealers include a golf cart with each petrol car sold? 50% of their cars become electric sales!
They need pedals or a detachable bike too and a tent to nap in when the battery drains.
Thank you for being rational in an increasingly irrational world.
I expect it's the same politicians responsible for mass migration who want us all driving EVs.
Petrol in Adelaide is slowly dropping as the international price of crude drops. It must be going down in the UK as well....p.s. I drive a Rav4 hybrid.
For merely the average purchasing cost of a new EV,
i can run my 20+ year old Volvo for 10-20 years.
Cuba shows the world the way forward on proper automobile strategy. Get a solid, simple car and run it forever. You can fix it yourself in the garage. If a part breaks go to the wrecking yard and buy a good used part.
How about we make it not the responsibility of the highway services to investigate a 3rd-party company's poorly-performing products? How about they ban them from sale and let said company sort it out first?
Nah, that would make too much sense and wouldn't help drive us all into destitution.
Always a pleasure to listen to your informative video post .
Don't forget to add on the cost of expensive EV compatible tyres that need replacing far more often than standard ICE cars. I wouldn't touch an EV and the way things are going nobody else will. Oh, and as regards the cost of the journey quoted my diesel car can easily average 60 miles/gallon on a long run so the costs would be far lower.
My 1971 HQ Premier costs me about 16c (Aust) per KM.... and could probable do with a tune up.
(Viva la Kingswood)
I’ve just drove 1,220 kms or 750 miles in my diesel Toyota hilux and cost me £55 here in Thailand and that was in normal mode not eco mode.
Geoff Buys Cars has a video on how dealers in UK are manipulating Autotrader site to support EV prices.
There are 2 yr old EVs with delivery miles appearing on the site.
Two years of battery degradation, bargain.
@@OM617a Plus 2 years of the car sitting on its flat spotted and probably part dry rotted tires
And lets not forget, the amount of tax / duty that is heaped on petrol / diesel fuels unlike electric.......YET
Good morning Simon excellent video 👏
The UK Motability scheme is just outrageous. It is literally putting people who claim disability benefits (paid for by you and me - the tax payers) into brand new electric cars, such as a £90k electric Mercedes or similar. Meanwhile, as a hard working, tax paying individual, all I can afford is a 15 year old Toyota Aygo. This is becoming beyond belief how unfair the system is. You couldn't make it up.
Good video, thank you. These always give me a laugh while having my coffee, please keep them coming!
_Phantom Braking_ the movie. Coming for the Summer of ‘25.
Halloween release
@@frogsplorer If it becomes hugely-successful in theaters, maybe a Broadway adaptation?
_The Phantom Braking of the Opera_
In the UK its a £600 fine and 6 points on your licence for using a mobile phone while driving. I wonder how our dictator in No.10 will get around that one.
Hydrogen was always nicknamed the dirty fuel (because of the way it's manufactured).
Time is the only thing you can't buy. That's why the biggest EV proponents, the biggest Eco weenies on the planet, all fly on private jets.
That 8 car pileup is more of a demonstration as to how americans can't drive. They had 20 seconds to see the brake lights and put on their breaks, instead they maintain speed, try to change lanes or just run in to the back of it.
That's correct. If you crash into a breaking car, it's always your fault for not maintaining a save driving distance.
@@mwontTotally correct, apart from the spelling of "braking'.
@mwont not true. If you're car #3-7 in such a situation, the outcome is totally out of your hands. You can brake all you want and try to maintain control, but if you are hit from behind with enough force there isn't much you can do other than brace for impact.
1. it's illegal to stop on a freeway.
2. Pileups are so dangerous, because you can be following behind a car and not see the pile up, they stack up rapidly. And yes, I know the drivers manual says, "allow one car length for every 10mph," but that's literally impossible anywhere that isn't rural. Dense, fast moving traffic is a reality in all cities.
A woman in our village had an MG5 EV for which she paid £27000. After 3 years and 20,000 miles she got £7,000 for it in part ex for her new petrol hybrid. £1 per mile in depreciation, that’s not cheap motoring even though she did home charge.
Why use the self driving mode, just get a cab
We did have issues with termites munching on the PE coating on gas pipelines in Northern Territory back a while ago. Played havoc with CP systems.
And what would the cost be if everyone had to charge?
"Renault is refunding couples who divorce or dissolve a civil partnership after taking delivery of an EV"
So EV's are causing divorce now, yeah that makes sense 🤣😂🤣
Self driving should be outlawed and the cars that have self driving should be disabled permanently. If you refuse, then the car should be taken away from you and you can only get it back if the self driving feature is removed,,,,,,,,,
Agreed,if they don't have the energy, dedication to sit up straight, hold the wheel and pay attention, they need to keep their azz at the house.
Our so called representative government has gone insane! Love your channel!
Phantom braking is to be expected because people won't clean their sensors enough and dirt will cause system failures.
- to be expected because cameras baulk at shadows, and sensor fusion is a little "imperfect".
I know I'm not the first one to say this: The government needs to solve problems, not create them.
To be fair, who is really to blame in the Tesla pile up? Stop tailgating each other.