DRIVING Britain's B Roads in my ELECTRIC CAR rEVeals why EVs are the BIGGEST SCAM EVER in HISTORY!
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- DRIVING Britain's B Roads in my ELECTRIC CAR rEVeals why EVs are the BIGGEST SCAM EVER in HISTORY! Join me in my Electric Porsche Taycan driving The B Roads of The United Kingdom to test the Electric Car EV Charging Infrastructure. I was SHOCKED at what I discovered whilst trying to get Fully Charged!
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That wasn't a B road, that was the A65. That M Guy fella makes a point: If almost everybody had an EV: A 10-pump filling station can refill 100 cars an hour. To do 100 EV cars an hour would require a forecourt with at least 60 ultra-fast chargers, and just that one forecourt would draw 12.5 Megawatts... It CANNOT happen - unless the northwest of England builds WATERWHEEL generators, powered by the incessant rain.
In order to actually fill 100 cars in an hour would there not need to be a queue?
Then the people last in the queue would have taken an hour to fill up from arrival to leaving!
More time than an EV recharge!😂😂😂
@@DwaynePipes There are many petrol stations, there won't be many mega charging stations, nice try though.
@@DwaynePipesno. Petrol stations can do 100 cars an hour now and noone is waIting an hour. Please learn to think instead of just spouting nonsense
@@DwaynePipes eh.....come again?
@@wizzyno1566 If 100 cars turn up at a 10 pump station.
How long do the cars 91 to 100 in the queue have to wait to start pumping fuel?
Did you see the FT story about thousands of EVs being parked at major ports across Europe for 18 months because nobody is buying them?
But Fully Charged won't report that.
Look at China, they are registered as sold after manufacture, there are thousands in fields rotting away.
Car makers are struggling to sell any new cars at the moment. Didn’t you see inflation and cost of living is bonkers at the moment. There are some good lease deals around at the moment for people looking to lease a new car, petrol, hybrid or full electric. Forget Diesel though because it’s now dead except for vans and lorries.
What brand?
Cars don’t wait at ports for people to buy them.. they wait at dealerships.
If EVs are the future then the country is F**KED... I will never have one.... So a little old lady has to go out and buy a £300 smart phone which she will never get the hang of..Why can't you just swipe your credit card instead of going through all this rigmarole of accounts and passwords etc.?
True. We don't have to use an App to pay for petrol. Why make life complicated by forcing people to have an App and account? What if there is poor reception or no signal ? I do not have an EV but if I have to have one it is going to be a Tesla due to the infrastructure. My car ( Petrol ) is 15 yrs old now, if I change my car it will be a hybrid.
That little old lady already has to do that if she wants to interact with government services in any way, cos they are all going digitalised. It's also a frustration for me, as my father is 90 and not all that great with tech.
I agree 100% at 68 I still have problems with my smartphone, I don't trust the banking over the phone, or buying over the Internet then expecting me to charge a EV giving all my information to a company that sells parts of that private information to others to make money, which they always deny, but later your getting emails and your letter box is full of advertising from firms you never contacted, talk about keeping your Co2 footprint small, it's should be keep your data footprint small.
There are chargers where you swipe your credit card. There’s loads, all over. Even in The Lakes.
You just don’t use those when you’re making videos for paid engagement with anti-technology Luddite’s.
You can swipe your card and an increasing amount of cars are supporting plug n charge.
No chargers in the middle of nowhere.
I am a designer for an electrical utility company, there is a remote hotel on one of the main roads across the south coast,
In this remote rural area we have some small existing power line infrastructure on one side of the main road which feeds a small supply to the hotel/pub on the other side.
The pub wanted to install EV charges in their car park and asked us to price up for giving them an upgrade to a larger power supply to feed the chargers.
[these would have been slow speed low power chargers because the existing network in the area is not that big and cannot supply anything bigger]
There is no way we would be allowed to dig up across this road [that takes the bulk of the south coast east & west traffic] so would have involved directional drilling under the main road to lay new larger upgraded cables.
This pushed the installation costs up from about £10,000 to over £80,000. [And that is without the costs of installing the EV charger equipment that the public would have to pay on top.]
Funnily enough after getting the quote from us they decided that they didn’t want EV chargers in their car park after all 🤔
And the cost for setting up a fuel station is astronomical. You’d need about 2million to set one up!
The fact you can charge your car at a pub whilst you eat dinner is fantastic!
@@PenFriends
Where he charged up in this video it was a low power charger and the car was flagging up the ETA to be fully charged at 1pm in the afternoon the following day.
[that is about a 20 hr charge time duration for an approx 60% charge to top up to full]
This is a rural area away from any major urban areas so the electrical network in this area will be small and incapable of giving much more power than is already being supplied.
For a fast charging station to be installed at this same location the charger would require more electric power than the entire town is currently using.
This means that the entire electrical network in the local area would need to be upgraded to provide the power for a fast charging station.
it is literally the equivalent of saying “we have built another town the same size next door, and now want to supply it with electric”
And the cost of doing these upgrades is astronomical.
which is the reason why they have installed lower power slow chargers that will give about 2% of charge every half hr, because that is all the existing local network can cope with supplying.
Or they could have battery storage and simply utilise the supply they already have. It’s a pub. They won’t be servicing queues of EVs.
Automatic machines that can accept all major debit and credit cards:
1) All pay-at-pump petrol and diesel pumps.
2) All ticket machines in all train and bus stations.
3) Nearly all ticket machines in all car parks.
4) Nearly all vending machines for food, drink and anything else that a vending machine can sell.
5) And many many more…
Automatic machines that cannot accept all major debit and credit cards:
1) EV Chargers.
This EV thing is only a temporary fad it's not going to last so they are not going to spend much on setting it all up.
@@Andy-fk8ou it already is setup on most of your fast chargers.
We are currently in Perth from the UK , we have a hire car and we've driven all over the place, and one thing we have noticed is Australians do not drive electric, ok we have seen one or two on the road but not many. we drove to Esperance from Perth, around 600k i think maybe more, we went to wave rock at Hayden, trust me we didn't see any ev charging anywhere. I cant for second imagine how electric could possibly work here, the country is massive , everyone here drives Toyota land cruisers , and fuel is cheap, around 95p a litre.
ha ha, 95p isn't cheap when you use as much as we do in our offroaders... (yes 143p/L makes driving a microcompact the only option for the masses - mobility control already exists for the poor - despite Robert Llewellyn claiming the "masses" - dirty word for dirty people, lol (me included probably) - drive 3000kg monsters already. )
When someone says "Net Zero" all I hear is "Nut Job Zero".
🛣️ All roads in the UK are B roads.
(B)roken.😉
Ev cars are not the future.
Electric cars not the future, they are the present. Newsflash, check out the best selling car in the world.
@@MarkMaxwell-author The best selling vehicle of all time is actually the Ford F Series pick up truck. Not the stupid battery operated one for gullible idiots, but the proper ones, with big proper V8 engines, for intelligent people.
Unfortunately they are. Just not by choice.
@@MarkMaxwell-author
A present to disappoint.
@@wizzyno1566 anyone who is buying a new internal combustion engine car in 2024 is either a horse and buggy enthusiast or not doing their own homework. The charging infrastructure thing is really a non-starter argument in most of United States and Europe. The infrastructure is good enough to not be the reason for not choosing electric. There are so many reasons EVs are better starting with safety, performance, total cost of ownership, technology, and comfort. Take a long road trip in an EV and you arrive relaxed, you're body is not tired and beaten down like in an ICE vehicle from all the vibration and engine noise.
Bottled water is right up there with the scams.
Spot on regarding the ridiculous obsession with Start Stop. Just changed my car (petrol, of course) and once again it had this blooming button. The first thing I located was where it was so that I could immediately switch it off as soon as I started up. There’s nothing worse than the engine cutting out at traffic lights in busy traffic. If I did forget to cancel it, I immediately started the engine anyway so that it was ready to go when the lights changed. Hardly eco-friendly when you have to keep starting your engine.
You can permanently disable it using an odb11 such as Carista. I do this every time I change cars
If vw put a small turbo diesel engine in that van it'd sell like hot cakes 😊
Did you see today, the factory that recycles EV batteries in Scotland, exploded today, more pollution than 1000 diesel cars in their whole life time
Remember the Buncefield explosion in 2005? Largest peacetime explosion in the UK since WWII with fuel oil and contaminated fire-fighting foam getting into rivers. Then think about the devastating environmental impact of Piper Alpha, Torrey Canyon, Deepwater Horizon etc. There is an issue with recycling of EV batteries but not on this scale.
@@martinsloman6905 not yet at least, but the issue is big already in recycling wind turbine blades and solar panels and we are currently in the infancy of the EV push.
@@user-qq2mo1ek2r I agree that we need to acknowledge these issues. I am not an EVangelist as Lee would say in fact I believe that we should take active measures to reduce car use whatever the propulsion system.
All the same, simply pointing out the environmental impact of 'green ' technologies does not mean that we should not actively pursue those technologies. For example, an average EV battery weighs about 500kg and will consist of lithium and cobalt, which must be mined, refined, transported and made into batteries. The battery so made should last about 100,000 miles and a large part of it should be capable of being recycled - the technology is improving all the time. On the other hand, an ICE car capable of 50 miles to the gallon will consume 2,000 gallons of fuel over the same distance which weighs 7,000 kg. and which must be pumped, refined and transported. None of that fuel will be recycled and will instead release C02 contributing to global warming.
That is, no doubt, why experts on this subject tend to agree that there is a strong case for EV vehicles replacing ICE vehicles even though they still have a negative envvironmental impact.
@@martinsloman6905 What 'global warming?'
@@johnriggs4929 Hasn't MacMaster mentioned this? I wonder why.
There is a consensus amongst climate scientists that the earth is getting warmer at a rate unprecedented in human history. That increase is down to the accumulation in the atmosphere of man-made CO2 since the Industrial Revolution. We are currently nearing 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels and that is resulting in an increased frequency of extreme weather conditions.
This is not down to volcanoes, climate cycles, sunspots etc but human activity. Transport produces around 30% of global CO2 emissions and ICE cars are a large part of that. So it makes sense to reduce these emissions. Electric cars are one solution but we also need to reduce car use by more reliance on walking, cycling and lower emission public transport plus redesigning cities to minimise the need for car journeys.
Sorry if this is boring but you did ask.
EVs are 💩
You won’t need a caravan in a 15 minute city!
I do switch off the auto stop/start function before I drive away in my ICE car. It's just a gimmick.
Tubeway Army "Are Friends Electric?".
EV owners don't have friends, more comrades.
Tubeway Army Cars
Why should EV drivers get free parking? They've removed parking spaces for all cars to make them EV only .... You should have to pay at a higher rate. You would get very annoyed if an ICE car had taken a charging bay but paid for parking and you arrived to charge.
EV drivers in most cases have to pay the parking charge in car parks like every other car, in only a few cases have I seen no parking charge whilst using a charger.
@@brianstevenson9967 I understand that, my comment was made in reply to the question posed by MacMaster in his dialogue on video where he asked 'shouldn't EV drivers get free parking?' .... ergo, my comment was answering that question.
I'm personally glad those that chose EV as their form of transport (whatever their reasoning) should pay.
I do think for some people EVs are the answer. But for the majority of people, ICE & Hybrid are right. Personally, I would not take an EV even as a gift. I drive a V8 and have no plan to change. EVs are too expensive, too fragile and environmentally costly.
This would seriously give me road rage fiddling about with technology & the weather I would give up driving rather than do all this
Christ no truer words said, this is a load of bollocks expecting people to muck about like that!
You’re right it’s bollocks, there are chargers 7 miles up the road with tethered cables and contactless payment. He stopped at slow chargers designed for you to be plugged in all day while at work etc.
the ev bubble has burst all those who wanted one have one
If that is the case why are dealers still buying them at auctions?
@@DwaynePipes
They most certainly are - BUT at massively reduced prices....
@@DwaynePipesffs. Theres a clearing price for anything. The point is that the evs are going for peanuts at auctions because bemand has crashed.
@@DwaynePipesSpare part's and scrap.
@@wizzyno1566 You should try watching some of those auctions.
I have.
What would be "peanuts" prices then?
Give some examples.
Robert Llewellyn is 'Morag'. 100%
Oh no its questing wilson !! Lol😅
Agree on START-STOP. It's extremely annoying in Australia during the warmer 11 months of the year.
Please also explain what do I do to charge my vehicle if I live in a flat, terrace, rented accommodation?
Erm...
Work harder.
There's not enough power in the grid for everyone to have an electric car.
That’s why we’re investing in home batteries and making a quiet profit.
@truebrit3670 yeah that will work when your away from home,and what about people who live in terraced houses or flats 🤔
No point telling them, if ever house in a row had those home chargers the grid would collapse.
@@bigfist255 each home has a design load of at least 9kw. Fast Home chargers charge at 7kw. A car charger will throttle to keep the total load below the design load.
How will that overload the grid? Please explain.
@@bigfist255 Suggest you should check some facts before making such a silly statement.
In 5 year time that kwh cost will be double if not triple. We all know how greedy the energy companies are. We DONT want a cashless society & we don't want EVs. These driving chats are great pal 👍
Robbie Coltrain made an excellent series called " B road brittain" except in a sensible car
not a milk float!
Perhaps this cpoud be a start of a new series, just think of all the great pubs you could
try with Ang.
Hope you are keeping well Lee.🙂👍💓
wheels keep turning, the fire keeps burning 🔥
I'm on my 3rd Toyota self charging hybrid and the economy is awesome with none of the range anxiety, and it's got a petrol engine no need to plug in it charges it's self I get unbelievable mileage and being the Yaris hybrid cross it looks and drives great even with a small petrol tank I can easily get over 500mile a tank,but , yet I'd never go full EV ever .
Is yours a Hybrid or Plug In Hybrid ?
No need to plug in its a self charging hybrid can't be beat
You do have twice as much that could go wrong. I'm also told that it's probably electric under 50 kph but then a two(?) cylinder petrol car above that figure.
@@johnm838 I've never had any problems with a a Toyota hybrid not one ever just get the car well serviced drive it conservatively save the money 💰and you get a great warranty with Toyota oh and I don't work or have anything to do with Toyota. I just like them because of their reliability. I can't say the same for other manufacturers and the newer hybrids are very economical in both engine and EV mode the electric motor is only there to extend the range of the vehicle. The transition between electric and petrol is seamless.
Been driving by hybrids since 2007. One Toyota and two Fords. Never had a problem.
"Come on Baby light my Fire" - The Doors 😆
Lol. 😂
You have convinced me never to get a leccy car, So thanks .
Wise choice!!
I've often wondered - what is the point of a password when a) for no reason the password no longer works, b) it is easier to reset than to keep trying, c) how do I remember all 148 passwords on my computer? I think I would be inclined to put a generator in the back of the truck. My son, who has a Tesla for short journeys and charges at home, uses his wife's ICE mini for long journeys. Less hassle.
I have no money in my account. I am on the benefits system and I use one password for everything that way.
I don't forget.🤔🏴
Will never buy one, OK for the cities but not in the vast distances away from the coast in Australia
I'm pleased you are highlighting the problem B roads throw up with EVs.
Living in rural Lincolnshire the vast majority of roads in my area are B roads that don't even have any street lighting or pavements and it's mostly an EV charging desert.
What will you do when your nearest filling stations close?
Wouldn’t it be brilliant if the fuel for your vehicle came out of your own wall for free?
If you're into "supercars" why would you want an electric car anyway?
Can't you be into both ?
Yes of course. It's just that for me and many "petrol heads" electric cars particularly high performance models just don't cut it. It may be a generation thing but I grew up with noisy smelly and very fast performance vehicles. Electric cars have no soul,they sound like milk floats and just don't belong in the world of performance motoring.
Electric cars have their place but FOR ME it's limited to local commuting of up to say 50 mile radius.
To spend £120,000 on a technology that has yet to fully evolve is an absolute waste of money.
Until such time as battery technology improves and the support infrastructure keeps pace then electric vehicles (particularly those at the higher end) will remain white elephants or merely toys for the rich.
Re cost of insurance I had an email from LV warning me of a increase on my renewal they wrote “ severe weather storms getting worse and more frequent recent storms, Babet and Ciaran flash floods falling trees “ it goes on and on. It continues “cost of repairs , payouts , high labour costs for repairs up 50% etc etc.
I do one thousand miles per year, yes 1000 per year in a C3 110bhp Auto last year it cost £392.80 renewal quote £569.64 I’ve full no claims bonus. Madness it’s got to be because of costs of repairs to EVs.
I know people who have never owned a mobile phone (can you blame them) are they excluded from the wonderful world of the EV.
A cool video would be an EV vlog in Norway to see their supposed EV utopia.
He won't go, just in case it is actually a utopia!
Then couldn't actually do a vlog.
Controversial!😂
Ok. I'll go and film a video there in my Taycan.
@@TheMacMaster You don't need to bring the Taycan - there are several EV rental options at the airport 😀
Electric light orchestra , great music,, shows my age jack in Australia 😊
I also mentioned them, I'm 25, I must be old 😆
I remember the community adverts on crossing the road. It stated "Stop, look and listen". Now with EV's I guess it would be "stop, look and pray"
I watch all your videos.
I like especially the ones about the EVS and. I can't understand how anyone as a disagreement with what you're saying.🏴
Have you owned one? I have and a lot of these videos are set up to make the car fail somehow, with clickbait titles. Sure electric vehicles aren't right for everyone, but I did my research before I bought one - 99% of my car use was around Greater Manchester and the car worked brilliantly for me, despite having no home charging and was extremely cheap to run. Any long trips and I hired a car and was still in pocket. Sold it because a change in job meant that I didn't need a car any more.
@@TheLongonot62So, you’re singing the praises of an EV yet you admittedly hire another (petrol?) one for longer journeys? 🤔
@@rhonddalesley If you read my post properly, far from singing the praises of EV, I was relating my own experience whilst saying they aren't a good fit for everyone. When I hired a car it was twice during 2.5 yrs of EV ownership, going to places where there were no public chargers and virtually no public transport either. I don't see this as a problem - the EV took care of all my other trips and I was well in pocket despite hiring a car. I don't see what I did as any different to hiring a truck to move house, for example - it's a case of using a vehicle that fits a certain purpose and circumstance.
Lee's wallet has achieved Net Zero ever since he bought his Taycan. 🤦♂😂😂🙌🏻🙌🏻
If i was a youth today, in a small town and bored, i would spend many happy hours running along and unplugging peoples EV's, it would be the modern version of ding dong scatter.
They are locked in place, you cannot remove them with vandalising the car.
Adrian; I'm sure certain people would be interested in the copper inside that charging lead though
I was told that the reason charge points are mainly near supper markets is because there the only places where the grid can supply enough power as the suppermarkets have there own high curant transformers
Nah, not convinced yet!
I’m doing a road trip with my son in a fortnight from NE Scotland, down to Stratford on Avon in my recently acquired Aston Martin DB9 and I reckon I can do it there and back on 3 tanks of super unleaded at a cost of around £220.00! But no faffing around waiting to charge! Just cruising in style & comfort!
V12 Power!!👏👏👏👍🤣
Maurag went catatonic when this baby dropped 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trade the Porsche in for a Leaf. I want to see extreme range anxiety to the next level 😅
No a Mercedes Vito E or the Vauxhall Vivaro E and its Peugeot/Citroën/Fiat versions are worse on range.
@@bentullett6068 I’m American. Never heard of any of those lol.
@@ignignxkt Mercedes might sell the Vito E or a Sprinter Electric in America.
We do get warnings of heat waves in western Australia, but not until the temperature is in the mid to high 30's. Having grown up in Canada and experienced -20's regularly, guess I prefer 30+ every day. The decision to step out of the house is so much easier, check got clothes on, open door and go. Nothing like the preparation required in Canada.
4 pounds for 2%? So to fully charge your car in 10 hours it would have cost 88 pounds? The future looks bright.
Odd because fully charging my EV costs £7. Filling my petrol Merc for the same range costs £70.
He charged just over 2kwh at 62p kWh. 2 x 0.62 = >£4?
Not when I went to school 😂
pay and display to charge? what a bloody rip off
I would rather not drive than have an EV. What a shame - these EVs will have no effect on the climate
Your password for that pod point was 'IloveMorag69'.
The company I work for bought an electric van 3 years ago for 23.000 they had nothing but problems with it they part exchanged it in December and got 8.000 massive depletion
Would not have ev if you give it me
Say NO to NET zero. Evs Suck😊
there is a fire at a battery recycling plant not far from me, this is a copy of a statement from our local council, ⚠ Incident Update ⚠
Following the fire at Byrehill Place, Kilwinning, we are urging residents in the surrounding area to remain at home, and keep windows and doors closed as a precaution.
If travelling through smoke, motorists should keep windows closed, turn off air conditioning and keep their air vents closed.
whats your thoughts?
I bet nobody mentions cobalt poisoning.....plus all the water run off from the fire service. We need to stop this now!! People.....we are being mugged off!!
EVs are the minidisc of today.
Beta video recorder.
Gas powered planes did not take off 😅 problem was the pilot keeps going out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Electric cars should always be an option not compulsory, oops that's common sense.
Advert 2030 - "Were you mis-sold an electric car between 2023 and 28, if so contact solicitors to make your compensation claim"
And why cant these charging points just take your card or pay pass to pay??? Need to provide all life details and promise them your third child!
Control and tracking ,like the rewards at the multis.
You can even plug n charge at many.. no need for cards at all. Just simply plug in and your car charges :)
Another scary thing about ev's is the weight of them. If you get run over by one of them I reckon chances of survival is quite slim.
Range Rover ?
@@jsanders100 same as an ev
Lee look at India Celebrating that they will produce 1 billon tonnes of coal this year so how zero is this
as you explain and show very well E V are not fit for purpose definitely not for me
I live in Strasbourg France and have a house in South Wales door to door 998 klms. In an electric car that would be 4-5 stops on motorway service areas. Adding 3 hours to a 10-hour journey. It's all about control and containment!
The Prodigy "Fire Starter" 🙂
Excellent! 😂😂😂
I live in a terraced house in Belgium and it is impossible for me to charge an EV at my home because there are public parking spaces in front of my door. Moreover, it is forbidden to lay cables over the public footpath, so I would be obliged to always look for a public charger to charge the car.
- pass the cable under the footpath... problem solved - a retractable power cable in (or parallel to) the stormwater outflows would be fairly simple to solve for (pity the redtape)..
Precisely how many people can park front of their houses or flats?
All about stopping you going anywhere, petrol & diesel have to big of a range, governments want you to stay in your 15min city, then EV's would work, would only need to charge once every couple of weeks
In Australia the BOM predicted widespread drought for eastern Australia for autumn. Guess what? We got some of the heaviest widespread rain and flooding.
It's a record drought. Wettest so far. 😅
All this nonsense just to charge a vehicle is crazy.The main reason to stick with an IC car.
I don’t know. I was never stupid enough to buy one. Better ask someone who did…Oh never mind 😂
Easiest job in the world - weather forecaster in UK - Rain today, rain tomorrow, rain every day.
Get an ICE car, deny climate change, stay ignorant
All those small-capacity chargers are hardly ever being used. Very easy to see why.
Mister Macmaster! Lee no matter how much the Government, car manufacturers, car reviewers & all the advertising in the world, there's 1,thing that will decide the future of EV's that's the everyday motorists! ICE cars will prevail long after 2035!!!🎉
They will if you have patience and big pockets. By then you’ll have 75% fewer fuel stations and petrol prices will be prohibitive. The car industry is quickly moving to EV only and the government will price you out of ICE cars.
EVs do definitely suck.
if i've got a waste loads of time charging my car Download loads of apps What a ball a aches EV's are not cost effective If I'm wasting all this time will stick with my diesel car. 5 minutes fill up, job done.
The customer always pays, we are subsidizing EV's to the hilt, from tax breaks to Insurance.
I would never buy a electric car. I could not deal with all the stress of trying to charge them. I like to get where I'm going. 😢😢😢
21:45 you need a ticket system like we used to have at Delis and Butchers for who is served next?
Electric Avenue.
Marvin Gaye was ahead of his time with “Watt’s going on”
I crossed the road today and a snorting AMG Merc came flying by, far too fast.
I heard it coming, glorious noise, and stopped.
If that loon had been pedalling a Tesla at that speed, I wouldn't have heard it coming and would now have been languishing in orbit.
Ev's Suck
So glad I'm 55 so will never need to own a BEV.
It's a scam based on a lie.
I'm 59 and was thinking the same thing myself.
Very true. In 11 years when you have no other alternative you’ll get a free bus pass.
Apart from the Taycan's looks which are beautiful, there is NOTHING about owning an ev which has any appeal at all. Who wants to hang around service stations and car parks waiting a lifetime to charge up! But then again if i planned my journey......
The Taycan would be a magnificent car if it had a Flat 8 Quad Cam Petrol Engine! It’s just a decent washing machine as an EV.
Apple’s Lightning connector is a USB (Universal,Serial,Bus) in effect, it’s just smaller, more ergonomic (it’s flat with no tube shaped hollowed out section to jam up with dust and rubbish) and it’s double sided so it’s not orientation dependent.
It’s taken the Quangos that decide on standardisation years to come up with USB C, which is smaller and can also be used upside down but it still has the dust trap. This after hoisting a confusing amount of different USB connector types on the world: A, B, Mini, Micro, 2, 3, SS, and so on, where one Lightning Connector could have done the job with it’s simple but versatile form.
When Apple replaced the old iPod/iPhone 30 pin connector with Lightning (in which 8 pins do the same job) I was surprised that the dullards on the USB panel didn’t adopt it, I surmised that it was too good an idea to be wasted on the vast majority of users, better to force them into needing umpteen different cables all restricted to the transfer speeds of each protocol as a new one was launched.
A Bit like EVs really!
I drive hybrid cars, and this year my insurance has gone up from £320 to £856 !!
wtf !
That's mental!!!
Fire hazard. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The pay to park whilst charging thing is a real trap.
Local Municipal Car Park now boasts no less than 60 mighty 7Kw charger points, many of which are extra wide bays
However to use them means paying £3.60 for one hour, £5.00 for two hours just for the parking
Electricity 0.75 per kWh but after 2 hours a £20 per hour overstay fee applies
So after 1' 59" have to move off the charge point and find a non EV parking spot because going on to a different charger within 1 hour also triggers the overstay fee
This is a total PITA because the car park is always near full. Apart from the EV charge points, which to the surprise of nobody (apart from local Council) are little used
Which car park is that?
I saw a video yesturday a guy filmed two diesil generators powering a ev charging point. And he said what is the point in that? How is that greener?
EVs suck !!! the EV charging infrastructure is PATHETIC and Net Zero is a con
Your signature phrase "Let's Go" is a questionable statement in an EV.
problem with price caps is that they all will charge at the caps full price..... rip off Britain
FYI. Perth still has lovely sunny weather but lots cooler at about 30c since you left. However poor Sydney and MGUY (his MG almost got swamped) have been effected by bad weather and even floods.
Electric Light Orchestra
( How could you ever forget ) Go stand in the corner 🤗
Not a turkish barbers in site ! Is this in England
It must've been awkward for Lee to do things one handed with a brolly lol
The MG driver gave up trying to charge it.
The auto stop start may save half a tea spoon of petrol over a year but the price of a stop start battery is more than double of a standard battery 😳
ELO, Electric Light Orchestra? JCB have developed their own hydrogen engine and also mobile hydrogen station for quick refuelling.
Electric cars are hopeless.