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Return of The Rant-Man | The Fully Charged Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2023
- In this episode, Robert talks about some current news stories floating around the internet. He discusses the UK’s charging infrastructure on target for 2030, Lithium exports from Australia, new Toyota EVs and there’s a particularly amazing rant about an article claiming that heavy electric cars are going to make old weather worn multi-story car parks collapse. Hmmm, Robert doesn’t quite agree, largely because on the whole, they are significantly lighter!
Links to the stories covered:
UK EV Chargers
transportanden....
Australian Lithium
www.theguardia....
Toyota’s 10 EVs
www.reuters.co....
Crushed Car parks
www.telegraph.....
Battery 4x more energy dense
thedriven.io/2....
Drax Greenwash debacle
inews.co.uk/ne....
Tory donations
www.theguardia....
JB Straubel back at Tesla
www.wsj.com/ar....
VW €22,000 EV
www.topgear.co....
Women don’t buy electric cars!
electricdrives....
Octopus - Grid Holding up renewables
www.politicsho....
Oxford V Cars plus Tories
www.spectator.....
transportanden....
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Abour women's interest in electric cars - I'm 86, I've never driven a car, nor am I likely to, but I'm a huge fan of FULLY CHARGED - for me a most exciting voice of the coming world of EV. Keep up the good work Robert - every enjoyable minute of it. Elizabeth in Ireland
One of the 7% of your female regular viewers. I love to geek out about all the clean energy tech and love the rants about poor reporting and green washing. I have used information from your show many times in conversations with skeptics. Just want to say in my house which I share with my engineer husband, I am the one pushing us to electrify and convert to clean energy. My husband knows about you and your show because he hears me watching it.
Also female, also primary FC viewer and driver for our attendance at FC Live in Farnborough. I have an electric car and will never go back. 😁
Why are there so few of us? I’m no engineer and I’m over 65 but I too love this. Have installed maximum insulation, solar, air source heat pump, heat pump water heater, leased on EV (Bolt) and bought a Tesla model Y when GM called in our lease but had no EV to sell us and REFUSED to sell us our own leased Bolt. Not sold on the Y but had literally no other EV available to buy. Never going back to an ICE vehicle. Have charged the Tesla in 15+ minutes on trip up north while shopping-got a notice yo hurry up and unplug. Lol, never able to do that in the Bolt. Have only ever charged anywhere except home a handful of times in the past 3.5 years. Tesla too spaceship for my taste and dislike I Musk intensely but I am done with fossil fuel.
In my case it's the other way around. My wife listens to this while I'm watching the videos, and I'm the one pushing the electrification. I still need to do a little convincing, but she loves her electric car, and from the first moment she wanted to trade her gas-driven car.
A meta analysis between genders- women are generally more interested in people and men are generally interested in things
Not sure that you are accurate about BEVs being lighter than ICE powered cars, as EV versions of ICE cars weigh more than the petrol or diesel powered cars. This is mainly because the batteries are heavy if they provide enough range to cope with customer's demand for a decent range between charges.
It takes just minutes to fuel up an ICE car, but up to an hour for a similar distance in a BEV car.
Public fast chargers can be very expensive to use...some charge 98p per kWh...that's about 4 miles of travel or 24.5p per mile...not good..!
"STOP DIGGING UP AND BURNING COAL, YOU KNUCKLE DRAGGING NUMPTIES" is perhaps the best quote on RUclips
Love your rant Bobby. I hope you don’t feel worried about telling stories out of Australia! We sit and listen patiently and enjoy all the UK, EU, USA, & China stories. It wont hurt others to hear stories from our part of the world.
Yes, please keep the AUS/NZ region on your channels. Maybe if you do not want to have yourself do it get another local to us do a podcast as part of Everything Electric Show. We are moving so fast and we need to keep up to date somehow. Our media are not into reporting our progress.
I like hearing about all the countries and how scientists are us pushing forward.
So true
Being Canadian we too hear all of the stories from away and keep getting lumped in to stories from the USA.
Can't wait for our very own FullyChargedLive this fall. It will be a chance to make the point that Canadians are following the lead of the rest of the world in moving to renewable energy, limiting the use of fossil fuels and converting to EV's. We too really need a small electric "City Car" sooner than later. My VW e-Golf isn't getting any younger and they aren't making them anymore and won't import the VW ID.3 for us. Rant on Robert!!
I did 950 miles last week going to fully charged north in a car with a range of 100 miles, every charger worked except the one that was ICEd by 5 cars... My bladder and range is in perfect harmony 😀
This! How many people need to drive longer than their bladder can stand? I keep hearing about this mythical required range of 1000 miles before someone will consider an EV. Really? How many people drive 1000 miles without stopping?
@@therealjetlagto charge a 60 kwhr electric car takes over an hour when empty on a typical 50 kw rapid charger, a piss takes sbout 10 minutes. How is your bladder retention relevant ? I drove 300 miles home from Fort William the other week. I stopped twice for ten minute pee stops towing a caravan. When I arrived home I had 1/4 tank left. If I had an EV6, I would have to have a much smaller caravan than my 7.5 metre 4 birth fixed bed and I could only cover about 120 miles max with that, meaning that I would need to stop overnight somewhere. Electric cars are a logistical nightmare on long journeys as you well know. I have had an electric car as well for 7 years 2 months and through bitter experience, I would not countenance long range driving in it. It is a nightmare.
It has now lost 1/3 rd if it's original battery capacity and range after 34k miles meaning that when it prematurely, compared to an ice car, does not have enough viable range, it will be scrapped as it is not economically viable to change the battery. How is that environmentally friendly.
I am HERE for the rants! Keep em coming for real.
Oh Robert, I do enjoy a good rant and that did not disappoint! Love your work!
I plug my car into a regular 220/240 v 10 amp socket in my garage, charges overnight nice and slow, I get about 80 miles in 10 hours - I don't even need a high power socket installed. It's been 3 years and it amazes me that most people still think you need a special socket to charge a car, you don't unless you drive more than say 60 - 70 miles a day. On road trips you use public chargers
@iscadean I've talked to electricians who don't realise you can charge from a regular socket (in the US it's a bit more tricky because of the 110v supply but you can use a 220v tumble drier socket)
Yep! Me too. Standard 13 amp UK outlet for the last four years. Easy-peezee.
I am not only female but I spent a long and joyful Friday at the Farnborough show a few weeks ago.
I was the one on a mobility scooter and my face ached for days after because I smiled so much!
I watch several channels, including Fully Charged. Basically, anything to do with EVs and the climate crisis. It always strikes me as odd that so few women sign up.
But, then again, I'm odd myself.
I've had my license taken away because of MS and a couple of my most desperate of desires are having my own FSD Tesla and still being alive when the Starship gets to Mars.
Love your show, Robert!
Best regards to Tim, the lovely guy who found me looking confused at the train station! He put my scooter in the boot and drove me safely to the show and back at the end of the day. IN HIS TESLA!!! Thank you, Tim, and all the drivers who taxied fans to to the show! Being driven there in that gorgeous car was something I never guessed I could cross off my bucket list at the end of that wonderful day.
Xxx
YAY!!!! ROBERT RANTS!!!!
🎉🥳
Great podcast. Thank you as always
Love the “rant” Robert!
We now drive an EV6 and have sold our old Q5( 2012) 400000km later and a lot of service
A year+ ago I found my wife watching your and others channels looking for a replacement for the before mentioned Q5.
And now we are looking for an opportunity to visit your shows.
All my best to you and your team ❤
Awesome. When we said hi to you at the Sydney show my partner expressed exactly that to you, having to listen to you in the car ha. I also don't like the push for exporting hydrogen from Australia, are people forgetting about the ammonia storage at the port in Beirut? So many houses were destroyed and people were killed and injured.
Another fabulous episode. Really glad you picked up the Car Park story. I nearly fell off my seat when I read it the first time. I'd say that you can't make these things up, but clearly, somebody is getting paid very good money to do just that.
I have about 25 charging points in my house they’re called plug sockets 😮.
In west somerset our council are installing SWARCO 7kw chargers 🙄, all in the wrong locations too . What we really need is all supermarkets to solar their roofs and add dozens of chargers in their car parks . People could earn club card points for free kWh’s .
Come to Eindhoven, Robert! We're redoing yet another street to reduce the auto traffic and make it safe for bikes and pedestrians. In 10 years, I think every street inside our ring road will be bikes/pedestrians only (except for deliveries and access to the parking spaces at free-standing houses). We're watching our car access to center city disappear and we're all happy about it!
Brilliant podcast once again from the Rant Master, AKA 'The Rant-Man'. Love your work Robert. Great to see Aussie references. Cheers from OZ.🦘
I love this show and privileged to attend fully charged live. Saddened to see ford's progress slightly dampened in my view when I heard them discuss their full range of hybrid vehicles with potential customers.
Re the parking lot story. Electrify did a similar piece. They found the original source was a guy saying "are parking lots capable of withstanding modern cars when they were originally build for lightweight Ford cortinas" . Also found some guy who was part of British parking association had stated there were car parks banning evs. Electrify researched this and the parking association confirmed no car parks had ever banned evs or had this concern raised.
I'm another one of your 7%, I am female, LOVE the show, podcast and attended all 3 days of the Farnborough show and brought by two kids and husband. Now they are all subscribers too and also love all things electric. In my job I manage a fleet of company cars so have a voice and influence to help the people at my organisation make the move to EV. Thank you for the fact and links to quality information sources I can share and use to answer the questions around where does Cobalt come from, what about collapsing carparks and don't EVs catch fire
Thanks for using this platform to say the things that we're all thinking and for not sugaring the pill when it comes to debunking the nonsense that infects our news. Still my favourite channel and just getting better. Thanks for all the awesome content.
Ah Robert, good show by the way. Many years ago , I worked in a Recycling center for a large concern, the created a project to use wood waste from the operation for energy generation called Co-Gen for the local power plant. Scrap wood and paper to burn for electricity. That's old hat now, but we did win several awards for our efforts.
Thanks again for another Robbie Rant. You gave me another update to help counter the naysayers.
Hopefully, I'll get to say hi at the Vancouver Fully Charged show. I was unsuccessful at the San Diego Show last year, so watch out.
Hi Bobbyllew, as an aging Australian woman, I appreciate your show and have for years. Rant away!
I’d be interested in hearing more about the challenge we are all facing getting those green solar farms etc. onto the grid and reshaping an aging, inefficient power grid and new systems that could take its place.
Thanks in advance. ☺️
Yes ,as an ageing Aussie bloke I enjoyed the rants . Here inOz we have been told that our power bills will rise by 20-30% this year and it’s mainly to upgrade the grid. We were told the same thing about ten years ago but then they called it gold plating the grid. We have the highest rate of rooftop solar panels in the world but the energy industry sells less but wants more for it. Delays in approval and connection are part of the game.🦘🕊
Oh yes, the rant-man cometh! Great news and great ranting when it wasnt, cheers Robert😄👏👍
That would be an awesome interview if you guys could get JB Straubel.
Absolutely. JB is a phenomenally knowledgeable and interesting man.
Absolutely wonderful, Robert. I have so missed your rants. Please let's have more!!! 😊
Please keep up the occasional Grumpy Old Man episode - very inspiring!! 😊
Brilliant as always. Thanks Robert. Equal amounts of humour and interesting news - want to re-iterate a suggestion made in one of the comments - what about a Rant-man live session at Everything Electric UK next year? Please!
Magnificent !! Silent traffic jams, hard to imagine. No more "Rollin Coal" on EVs, we'll be "Rollin Oxygen" on diesels.😎👍
That was such a good illustration at the start of what it is like to destination-charge an electric car - thank you Robert!
Brilliant! Bobby has a talent for communicating this information. All interesting stuff in a fun and entertaining way. Thank you Bob!
You’re the best Robert !! No ass kidding like Atkins
Great topics! I love the energy for a better future for everyone.
Go Robert, tear them new one Love your work, they deserve it.🤬
How long did it take for the petrol fuelling infrastructure to expand in the early 1900's?
A great point. During a global pandemic and a world war too.
The Rant-Man strikes again. We want more. ❤ it.
Thank you for your enthusiasm, Robert.
We need more people like you to counter the fossil fuel lobbying industry.
Keep up the good work.
That was a long one but very interesting! Thanks. Jim Bell (Australia)
Hi Robert, love you to bits, been watching from the start.
Just a thought. Are you saying Sandy Munro is a dud engineer because he thinks Musk is a truly exceptional engineer?
Robert at his best
I predict that by 2030 when public chargers are everywhere, the sweet spot for range for most small and medium size cars will be under 200 real world miles, cars with lighter, cheaper batteries will be the choice for most people, no more lugging around huge heavy batteries. 🙃
Great rant! Especially enjoyed the rant about Drax!
Drax B - Robert thank you for highlighting the madness of this project. What is obscene about this is the cost of the subsidy is added to electric bills paid by industry and consumers. I.e. anyone who uses electricity from the grid (almost everyone in Britain) is subsidising this project. But if you want to raise your blood pressure even higher look in to who else burns biomass fuel and gets large rebate cheques. These are not terrace houses - but mansions and large buildings such as hotels, a few golf clubs. It would make a good subject for an investigative journalist to get the list of claimants who receive the Government rebates for burning biomass. Note there are a few projects where the biomass might come from waste wood which would otherwise end up as landfill or being simply burnt to get rid of it.
When the govt says its on track re installing ev charge points, is it counting private chargers at residential properties that we cant all use? In Buckinghamshire as far as I can see there has been very few new installs of public chargers.
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
I fought the National Grid 🇬🇧...
... and now have two electric cars, three ev chargers, two home batteries, solar array, a heat pump and retrofit A+ EPC Rated Home.
It was a three year battle but we Won 🏆
Fantastic rant Robert, met you yesterday at the end of the last day of Fully Charged Live Show in Harrogate UK.Told you about my 2014 Nissan Leaf Tekna that I resurrected from a write off 29k on the clock, now done 133.5k with 10 out of 12 battery bars still left and for the past 3 years I've charged it up to 100% with my Nissan Granny Charger about 5 to 6 times a week. I have loved owning it over the past 6 years even though compared to more modern EV's its range is limited, it still caters for my everyday needs, 50 mile return journey to work in Cumbria and back and still had 38% left in the can, so to speak.
Range is no longe an issue these days, what is everybody waiting for!
Drove my dream car at your Show yesterday - Tesla Model 3 performance, I couldn't believe it, I showed the team a picture of my Licence and they let me out on the road ON MY OWN!!!!!!!!!! for 30 minutes.
Of course I had to put my foot down, not very much I might add, and had the same reaction you did with the Model S Ludicrous acceleration test "What the F%$@%k"!!!!!!!! It completely blew me away, thought my Leaf was quick off the mark, but that was blisteringly fast. Anyway :-
I Know you are a very modest guy and I'm sure you have heard it all before, Loved you as Kryten in Red Dwarf and Love your role in changing the world to sustainable clean energy.
looking forward to perhaps seeing you in Amsterdam later this year.
been caring for my mum and dad since I moved in with them 14 years ago, mum was the last one to go last year at the fantastic age of 95.
My daughter Mia 22 (has ADHD and Autism whom loves driving in the countryside) and me at the slightly scary age of 63, have booked our first Holliday in 10 years in Tuscany Italy September this year. We are going to drive there and back in an EV to heighten the adventure - However I don't think doing it in the Leaf is a good Idea for obvious reasons. Want to do it in a Tesla Model Y long range.
Do you know, is there anywhere that could rent me one at a reasonable price for 15 days as I'm doing It all on a shoestring budget with enough left not to have to scrimp on the Holliday while we're there.
Anyway as always, if you have been, thank you for reading.
Graham Hill - Morecambe UK
P.S. going to film the lot including charging etc. on my new/used Nikon Z30 and GoPro8
Once again Robert i agree with you on Drax and the "burning" of virgin wood (Trees) from Canada, this was on the BBC panarama programe last year, and also there was a leaked video of Liz Trusts Chancellor (i cant spell his name) saying that it was wrong to subsidise Drax.
Absolutely love a rant episode! Fabulous. There are some proper laugh out loud moments where Mr L gets in his stride and gives it both barrels. These are my favourite episodes. As a regular Fully Charged Live visitor I’d love a couple of Rant sessions there. That would be brilliant. Oh and lots of good news stories too. 👍
What a brilliant idea- a Rant-man live session at Everything Electric UK next year. Please!
One thing often not mentioned about heavy ICE vehicles is amount of brake dust they produce as well as extra wear and tear on tires and ROADS. As a SoCal bicycle commuter I really notice the damage to the roads I have to ride on.
those wood chips dock in Liverpool, 70 miles from Drax and are moved by diesel trains thru some of England's most populated suburbs.
Loved your comment about Oxford , spent some time in Cambridge and Oxford the last two years and was asked which I preferred.
Allways say Cambridge because Oxford had this terrible road running down the middle lol
Of course both lovely cities 👍
You and Munro should have a rant-in. Get sandy on a few beers and we’d have the best show.
It’s a shame that it takes so long to commission chargers in some car parks. E.g. in the main car park in Frome the 7kw chargers have been installed since February if not earlier but are still not in use. Why is it such a problem?
With a title like that, how could I not watch! I love a Robert rant.
And on a final note I must say again after living in the states for the last 30 years. It’s really good to see you again mate. It’s the nature of fame and fandom that you don’t know me and I’m not a friend of yours but you’ve been a mate of mine since ‘88. a character you made lives rent free in my head till the day I die. He often comments on random events in my life and leaves yanks around me wondering why my accent suddenly changed to a weird pseudo American for a moment. Great to see the silly sarcastic humor back in my life again.
Great rant Mr Llewellyn!
Australia has plenty of resources to manufacture a lot of things to support the renewables sector though, I'm sure you're aware, political influences are involved.
Redwood is awesome! Fantastic Strauble is back in the fold for Tesla. But don’t bet against Elon! He demonstrably gets stuff done… The combination… wow!
❤ Love the show! The energy density is even better than you think. If you've got a smaller battery with the same amount of energy, storage range will be improved because the vehicle is moving less weight...❤🎉
At 40 minutes into your video, you mention something that should be your lead article! That is the people in charge saying "I don't want solar and wind power connected to the grid" and yet they are the ones in charge of connecting power to the grid and selling grid power. This is a HUGE problem in Minnesota in America, where the people in charge are saying "We need to study your connection to the grid for a year, to make sure nothing will be overloaded". So they might allow one connection to the grid. And if you apply for 3 projects in the same county, they will say "We will have to study each project separately, and once one is connected, we can start to study the next proposed project in that part of the grid". Like we can not combine two studies, or get it all done at once? It is just a process that they put in place to slow the connections to the grid to such a snails pace, taking 5 - 8 years, making the. company that was installing home solar systems go bankrupt because they would not get paid for the $20,000 system they install until it was grid connected (and that should be done in 15 - 30 days, but was delayed over 600 days). I agree it should be criminal to subject people to such long delays.
If I was in charge, I would bring the president of the power Utility in Minnesota to court, and demand they connect some solar systems at a certain rate over the next 6 months. And to provide a report of the number of systems connected each month. Then hold the President of the Utility in contempt of court for not meeting the connection rate of solar systems to the grid. And to make that person prove that connecting more systems is actually causing a problem in other states, such as California, or other places. I guess after spending a few days in jail, the President of the Utility will either quit, or start to allow solar installations to take place. And with no evidence of the grid crashing when a solar system is connected, they will keep connecting the systems to the grid.
When the President of the Utility will not get filled, have the Judge serve a search warrant for the Utility, and go to the Personal Department, and have them open the books. Find his salary, and then place him under arrest for being the highest paid person at the Utility and the one who is in charge, and the person to be held in contempt for not connecting solar systems to the grid. Funny how quickly you will find out who is now in charge, and the highest paid employee, and that person is the one in contempt of court? Then jail all of the people making over $125,000 a year, and then let them discuss who will be the "Fall Guy" who will stay in jail, and who will be the not fall guy and go home to his family. And who will be the one who is actually going to make sure there are 50 - 100 new solar connections to the grid each week, until the backlog is done! And anyone wanting to connect a system to the grid will be told "Yes, We can do that, might even have the approval today!" Have a policy of in by 9 and have your approval by 4 the same day!
It is funny that a Utility company can allow the connection of a brand new 800 KW 480 volt 1,000 amp connection to the grid almost anyplace, if you want to "Buy" power. However to connect a 5 KW solar system where you plan to sell a small amount of that power to the grid, suddenly the grid might have something terrible happen if that was allowed.
In reality, my friend has a 5 KW system on his tract home in San Diego CA. Lets say the tract has 500 homes, with refrigerators and some air conditioners, and other average loads. Say the average load to his track of homes is 1 KW per home in the daytime, His 5 KW solar system will reduce the load of his tract of homes by 5 KW, from 500 KW to only 495 KW. Lets say it is a hot day, and the load to each home is now 2 KW average, as they run air conditioners. Then the load to the tract of homes is 1,000 KW or 995 with his solar system working. The power company can not justify that the solar system is going to crash the grid!
California now has about 14,000 MW of solar power installed in the state! The base load is about 24,000 MW of power during the daytime, so many times they have more renewable energy than they actually need, on a windy day. So they can sell that excess power to nearby states. Sometimes the nearby states also has to much power and does not want to buy the excess power, even if the price is really low.
At night, California usually is importing about 8,000 MW per hour from nearby states. If they had more wind power in California, then they could become a state that does not need to import as much power at night. That would be a great thing. However there are roadblocks in the way, because the people selling power want it that way!
You should know that, with the attention span of the average social media kid today.. almost NOBODY will read more than 10% of this comment........!!!
Fascinating podcast delivered with passion, humour and venom! Informative too. More of these please Robert! From another EV-loving old git!
Just love the honest, straight talking and enthusiasm from Bobby.
Renewable is a deceptive word. You pointed out well and did so quite well. The word we looking for is emission-free. We need to stop burning things plus we need to sequester existing CO2 in the atmosphere by growing trees! Not cutting them down. NO wood chips, firewood, etc. We need to Stop Burning Things! It's awfully simple isn't it? And it's cheaper!!!
I'm still a very young guy, and I've only been driving for a few months. I currently cannot afford an electric car of my own, so I'm rattling about in a 2008 mini hatch. I try and drive it as economically as possible of course though. The thing is, my dad drives a BMW i3, which I've had to move around a few times, just to get it out of the way of something. Even just moving the car out of the driveway is such a radically different experience to a little petrol car, and it's so much nicer.
Robert my favourite Rant man I suggest The Fully Rant cast with bed time stories for grown ups. Instead of red riding hood we hear about the dealings of the fossil industry love it keep it up
18:31 Best step that up to RED ALERT.... even though it does require changing the bulb 💡
If I talk casually to people who aren't in the EV bubble it does seem that the things people were saying five years ago are still being said (low range, batteries won't last long etc) - more education required. Mindset is also an issue, a friend said she has been caught out a few times. I encouraged her to keep her car at 80% charged rather than charging when she is getting low which is what she would have done with a petrol car. Having said that I went back to petrol a few years back because I missed having a convertible (ten year old SLK so low purchase price - limited budget) and financially that has worked well because my old Zoe ZE40 has collapsed in value since then.
Re. Range Anxiety. I'm looking forward to the time (10 years?) when so many legacy fuel filling stations have closed that ICE car drivers have real range anxiety & they can't even refill from a friendly local resident.
Just to clarify the comment on Tesla selling 'shit loads' of cars. The Tesla model Y was the best selling car (including EV and ICE) in Europe Q1 2023. Quite amazing for an EV only company that doesn't advertise. In addition the BEV market share in Q1 2023 in Europe was 13.4 % , now comfortably over the crucial 10% level - this means we'll see huge disruption over the next 2-3 years with ICE companies under enormous pressure - the ICE vehicle market collapse is about to become the big story with so much money tied up in manufacturing infrastructure and in the cars themselves (second hand values?)
Great enthusiasm & info, Robert: car parks not the only EV disruption. Your weight comparison was timely.
Yesterday I was ‘authoritively’ told that as they are heavier, they are a real problem for the roads…… What weight are petrol tankers??????
I've often wondered ... Are ICE vehicle weights calculated with an empty petrol tank? 50% full??
Thank you, Robert. I will listen to your rants anyday, if your blood pressure can bear it; then again relieving stress by ranting may be very beneficial.
Thank you for sharing your time with us, and your font of information. My wife hired a Tesla last week and now she is hooked. She found it amazing and wonders why anyone would buy anything else. Wondered how many superchargers Tesla is building in the UK?
Rant-Man! Isn't that a DC Comics character? If it is, I'm sure their legal department will be in touch with you shortly.
Anyway, I loved your rant. As a British Columbian, I share your umbrage over the power plant story. Absolute insanity.
Keep up the good work. It's very comforting to hear voices of common sense and even a little good news now and then in a world that seems to be going mad.
Toyota still hasnt changed, they are predictability trying to delay or at least water down the emissions atandards we are finally going to get here in Australia.
Excellent podcast as ever. Loved the talks at FC Live North but spent a lot of time darting back & forth. On the subject of charging I make the points you make when challenged. I also then add that I now wear glasses & before I needed them wouldn’t have had a clue where Opticians were.
Thanks Robert. I'm so glad I clicked on this video. I haven't really watched Fully charged in anger since the inception of the channel many moons ago when I used the channel as an informative discovery source for all things electric before buying my BMW I3 back in 2017.
In addition to driving my electric car, I also cycle to work every day and due to the constant negative news pumped into my phone and other media sources regarding electric tech, cars and cycling and or cyclists generally, I was beginning to hate myself and question my own intelligence and general life choices... You have thankfully provided a clear and concise antidote to all that BullSh*t🤣
A THOUSAND kg lighter. I just love it. Made my day. Thank you so much. I have a Model 3 AND a Citroen AMI (I really really like) and they are TOGETHER 900kg LIGHTER then a blasted Mercedes SUV. And they drive on sunshine (no wonder here in Spain)
You where teasing the Rant-Man. You did not disappoint.
Robert being bleeped! Now there's a turn-up for the books. I couldn't work out whether he said "shit-tonne" or "fuck-ton" in the middle there. 🥰🤣🙃
Fingers crossed for the battery,it could make electric planes possible ❤
Enjoyed the new segment of Robbie’s Rants 😂😢😅😮
"Numpties"
"Shonky"
"Fluffly bits"
"BLEEP" (Tossers?, Wankers?)
A tiny part of me was hoping for a "Smeghead", but I know they are seeking a broader audience here.
I'm one of your 7% female viewers (astonished actually that there are not more of us!) Thank you for your rant/ramble. I really enjoyed it (well except when you reported on the lead-time for Octopus to get renewables connected to the grid - then I swore). I live near Cambridge where the "Greater Cambridge Partnership" are trying to get a congestion charge/sustainable travel zone - which is sadly generating an enormous amount of opposition :-(
I was pleasantly surprised at FC Live North at the number of woman & girls attending. There was also a number of less able people in wheelchairs including a woman whom was extremely intelligent & informed. I do hope someone was able to help her with her Smart Export issue.
Bit late to this one but always happy to hear Robert articulating a lot of my views far better than I can. Recently a friend bought a petrol car and said the salesman told him electric cars are 'not sustainable'. I wanted to point out that perhaps the salesman had a slight vested interest as his company was tooled up to manufacture petrol cars and that if he sold you one they would continue to profit from the frequent maintenance etc., I decided in the end that he probably didn't want me telling him the vehicle he'd just spent over £50k on was soon going to be obsolete so I bit my tongue.
Plus MILLIONS of garages, with mains outlets in them. That's where I've done 97.625% of my charging since 2016. I'll never go back!
Listened to the podcast but wanted to visit RUclips to give it 👍
Love the rants, love your channel, love your voice Robert-listen during my daily walks
8 thousand petrol stations in the UK. 24 thousand EV charging stations with an average of just under two charging points per station.
Good show Robert! Great mix of laughs and interesting info.
I've been saying for decades now...that we need small cars with super fast recharge times and recharging while sitting at stop lights.
This is already possible today using LTO cells, what is missing is the fast recharge infrastructure.
I agree the 4x energy density is a game changer, which is what Lithium batteries were to lead acid, and I am so disappointed that we have not got there yet after a decade now after lithium, we have had very minor progress.
I remember when JB Strabul built his EV 944 porsche and a pusher trailer when we were on the EVList, before Tesla, I heard about his recycling startup, did not know he left Tesla.
"The figures from the DfT show that in the last three months of 2022, an additional 2,418 chargers were installed around the UK, including 492 rapid or ultra-rapid devices. However, to meet the target of 300,000 chargers by 2030, the country needs almost four times as many chargers - 9,391 - to be installed every quarter...." and that's assuming they are all working at the same time.
It is encouraging to hear the UK is on track with its new charger installs, but are we on track to ensure they remain working after they have been commissioned? I am on my second EV, and experience to date is maintenance of the UK charging network has not been great.
Charging issues?? There are only 8,385 fuel stations in UK, down from 18,000 in 1992'😁😁Its going in the right direction. (I drive a Kona electric Never had problems charing before or during my travels,
Id love to see Britain's very first socket for ebike charger stations. Bikes use lots less energy than cars. Rant on about your car bro
Errrr
Since an ebike comes with its own dedicated charger, and that charger plugs into a mains socket I think yours might be a contender for "dumb quote if the day"?
Then there's the "use case" issue, like "rain", or "distance" or "bulky items"?
Eh?
@@rogerstarkey5390 They all plug into a standard 3 pin plug
Anyone remember which video contained the impact of mining materials for EV's, which ended with the comparison for iron, gas and oil?
Rant-Man can I suggest a topic? Home charging inferstructure and energy shifting to electric. The number of home fuse size, upgrades? Maybe ask the UK Power Networks who run and maintain the National power cables. Wheen built, most homes are a 30amp or 60amp fuse . To use more electric you may need to upgrade either to 80amp or a 100amp or more fuse, esperlly if using a powershower and home charging a car.
Welcome to our Electric Future, keep up the excellent work.
Fully Charged should be congratulated for its role in highlighting the greenwash that is biomass burning. In the midst of an acute biodiversity crisis, burning trees for energy is accelerating biodiversity loss. #stopburningstuff
Good morning. Some one was up early hehe ^.- Any way ill continue the video now.
Seling ship loads of car! I luv it. You came close to the line with that one Bobby.