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£3500 someone is having a laugh

Back in the 70s the Saudis jacked the price of oil to $40/bbl ... it caused pandemonium and the 3-day week. So here we are today with oil around $85/bbl, and it has been a lot more than that in recent memory. Get used to the idea that oil at $200 will become the expected norm.

No it's not legal at all ..show me the British safety mark ....your fooling people ....still not legal

15:22 - I sold a Prius in fully working order at 400,000 miles so I could buy a plug in version of the same car :)

So if we rely on the grid for everything in the future, doesn't that make it very easy to knock out the entire country in a war by hitting the grid? Is putting all your eggs in one basket really a good idea?

@everythingelectricshow Question re: the gov report you link to about the depletion of conventional oil by 2030 - the report was written in 2009, has this been updated? Seems quite old. Thanks

Blocking you for the stupid thumbnail.

22:00 that’s a uh “technical” way to put it

This lad is honest, straight from the shoulder. Has his opinion, not afraid to talk about it. I mostly agree. Would love to meet a pile of folk like this, drink Gin and Tonic,\ and solve the problems. But as he points out, its not the folk involved who canmake that call.

At 16:31 those are very good looking small crossovers. They’ll sell well in Europe and the US if they come here….European and US makers are going to lose the affordable EV race fast unless they start YESTERDAY! FFS how many large $60,000+ full size SUV’s do we need. Enough already. Focus on more affordable options.

Great podcast. Thanks both for all your efforts.

this is one boring yapping ... guys !

Two fingers - in days of yore it was an insult to the French that we’ve got two fingers - they used to chop off fingers of captured archers!

Why do you seem to promote the idea that going electric is a solution to carbon increase - it’s not enough to just talk about a need to convert cars from carbon fuel. We need promotion of alternative transport. And we need to inform and educate people that reduction in car use is the only way forward.

Beware, the government might shut you down. They will have grounds when they find they have to "charge" you with "a salt in battery"🙄😂😂😂😂🤫🤐

this EV tractor probably never happened ! :)

Does London <=> City of Ancient Mariner type Privateers? If so the probability that the fufurore of fossil fuels distortion of Actuality is not about to improve unless and until we-all understand Actuality of our thermodynamical real-time logarithmic condensation wave-packaging modulation Universe. If the religo types reset their dogma from First Principle Observation of elemental holography-quantization nucleation, a 10⁶ improvement in accessibility to effective and efficient technological development is inherent in potential possibilities positioning and thereby Math-Physics Education. (No shortage, collect and collate logarithmic coherence-cohesion abstractions)

Toyota's position was/is that with battery production capacity constraining vehicle production. A smaller battery in each vehicle means more vehicle miles being driven by electricity. . Its not wrong, but two powertrains per car :(

One of your best podcasts so far (sorry everyone else!) Pure F&F (funny & factual) you should make it a weekly event of the two of you just rambling- fantastic. Long time since ive laughed so much 👍

Gt500 😂

1 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Yes that is safe, to advance the use of rolling Crematoriums for Children to be placed into. How does a elderly retired person Bus Driver operate an electric disability platform with no electric power because the Bus Fire has started from shorted batteries now burning like a blow torch to be able to extract in a timely way a wheelchair bound disabled child or two? 2 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : How is an impossible to extinguish Lithium Electric Battery Bus fire happening close to the school building not catching the school on fire when the batteries reignite over, and over? How does a tow truck operator, when asked to by fire personnel get near enough to even attach to a large burning commercial vehicle when lithium batteries are on fire next to the school in an emergency to haul far enough away in one piece a large commercial truck load of Lithium batteries that wish to reignite again, and again ? Now that horrific scene will not disrupt classes, learning, or traumatize impressionable children to want one day to buy an Electric Vehicle. 3 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : How is a school bus fire handled by other bus drivers in a queue when many buses are staged close together in a one way direction, driving through a school court with hundreds of children walking about around the school bus if one bus starts on fire? The buses not wanting to burn up next then are being forced to back out of a tight parallel parked position to get away quickly enough maneuvering a 38 foot / 11.6 meters long vehicle with side mirrors obscured by smoke in a swirl of panicked children running in every direction? What could go wrong there? 4 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : How do the up to 72 children on board just one bus quickley, orderly, without panic, escape a growing intensity fire through maybe just one escape door in time, and not get burned when a battery bursts into flames under their feet ? Doesn't aluminum burn thin steel melt while treading on? If parked in a school pickup area I hope that the buse's hinged to swing out, emergency escape door is not blocked from opening by the very close front bumper of the following parked simultaneously loading school bus when loading hundreds of children at school days end in a confined school front area. 5 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : What happens when UTOPIA Electrification Dreams using flammable lithium, and flammable Electrolyte battery cells distributed all along, under the School Bus floor by chance goes horribly wrong in a limited exit situation possibly causing many children harm / death, and shown World wide on social media? How does that look to a skeptical EV buying public? Kinda as negatively, and as memorable as the Hindenburg Airship disaster reported live when burning then crashing to the ground with a reporter saying with empathic emotion ,"Oh the humanity of it all ! ". Today the pro Hydrogen gas supporters still have to spin what happened that May6th, 1937 so dramatically in a fireball to then crash, and burn explaining Hydrogens safety to us today while marketing the use of Hydrogen as a safe transportation fuel choice. Similarly a flaming School Bus with children on board certainly will help E.V. Transportation supporters gain maximum support for a yet to improve battery technology as much as it will need to someday be appropriately applied to a school bus vehicle with precious cargo on board. DUH !

6 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Diesel vehicle fires burn slowly, and are easy to escape in an orderly way, also often extinguished with a hand held fire extinguisher, but Lithium batteries burn intensely, fast directed like a blow torch, and can not be put out, needing to be left to burn out all the lithium metal fuel over much elapsed time. A diesel engine out front behind a firewall is positioned away from children by design and is fueled by tanks made of 1/4 plate steel. The diesel tanks are robust compared to Lithium battery cells pouch, or can type thin skins. Lithium blade batteries wrapped in thin films placed directly under childrens seating, so safe a design. Why increase the chance of injury if a fire does break out by a poor design like in frame mounted batteries under cabin floor by locating the flammable battery fuel location there which causes a quicker spreading when under a flat surface exhausting flames upwards, and over like a blanket of smoke / flames most/all escape windows. Why place more intense fire closer to Children by moving the fuel source underneath the children who have to go through the floors flames to escape a bus fire? What could go wrong with inward mounted batteries between the frame rails? Not to worry because encouraging bad stuff to happen, by immature flammable E.V. battery technology design, placed under children, compared to forward mounted slow to ignite diesel, slow to burn diesel tanks in cassed in thick steel tanks, and a diesel ICE engine placed out front, out of the seating cabin in front of a fire wall is a superior safety design, OR go with by poor design, placing children in potentially unsafe situations with flammable electrolyte type lithium batteries under foot. Hmmmm….which to choose ? 7 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Well clueless uninformed Greens, place your Children & GrandChildren on the lithium, and flammable hard to extinguish liquid electrolyte powered yellow school buses because it's trendy to be green, been so in with the cool environmental crowd.....all aboard ! Another real world scenario is when the wished for all electric Yellow Bus fleet is all tightly parked in a secured lot with flammable batteries charging overnight, and one bus catches fire spreading to another, maybe all buses in the secured lot, one after another bus. The fire department shows up to put out the flames, and is slowed to get in the locked storage yard. Oh where are the keys to start the buses not on fire yet, oh locked away in a building needing quick access. While we wait for access from the now home asleep bus company owner to get to the keys stored on hooks behind a commercial metal office front door the buses burn? Now spray water onto burning lithium battery buses from afar by spraying water over a fenced yard, hmm…nope. Or attack the flames with a small vehicle fire blanket to cover part of one bus or many? Nope. When a blanket is in hand, and is too small a blanket or buses parked too close together to throw the blanket up 11 feet to slow the fire spread. That will work to put out those hard to calm lithium metal flames. Now the next day and for months to follow until manufactured replacement buses arrive, there are not enough buses to take children to school county/town wide because of one multi school bus storage lot fire event. Now that is not an inconvenience to parents when needing to get to work on time. 8 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : How about up North in the States when operating an Electric School bus who's range when designed with temperature sensitive electric lithium batteries do not hold as much charge but are asked to not only heat up a 72 passenger cavernous volume of space to keep children warm while in a fast paced start stop hard accelerating to stay on time to get to school at the time of opening such a battery demanding scenario. Will that work well compared to a safe diesel bus design? 9 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Greens, find the one gram of logic in you, then grab hold of it by plucking that tiny logic amount from within a swirling pond of emotional bent illogical thinking green current, to then think first of what happens when Electrification is applied to a school bus vehicle with today's flammable battery technology. Oh before commenting about this post here...Google bus fire in France. Enjoy watching the CZcams Video there of what happens when lithium batteries are placed on top of the bus. Horrifying to watch! 10 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Also, have you ever had a Commercial Driver's License with passenger credentials ? I have. Before replying in a worthy way, or in support of going along with the trendy Green agenda association, think of, if an electric car is a good idea, certainly then an electric school bus must be an even better idea of a non polluting transportation method. The two vehicles are very different in design, and purpose. Do you have the expertise to know a good from a bad commercial vehicle design as is proposed when even thinking to place an liquid electrolyte Lithium powered bus with inboard batteries under children for the sake of being in support of missguided trendy but to be on the more acceptable green thinking bandwagon. You go with the no expertise crowd, not me. Have you ever specified every single nut bolt on a commercial vehicle, and components type & location to go into building many new purchases of commercial vehicles? I have. Have you ever maintained a large commercial diesel vehicle fleet ? I have. 11 of 11 Reasons NOT to Electrify a School Bus : Suggested is to get some hands-on expertise first, like I have, then comment. An electric school bus with a potentially flammable battery technology that can catch fire in such an intense fast spreading, directed flame, hard to extinguish, way, and locating the fuel source under the children is a foolish and, dangerous idea to be advancing in so many ways leading to increased chance, compared to diesel, that something bad will happen when hauling in a densely packed way the most precious cargo known to humans,our young children ! Greens breathe easy that all will be alright when putting your child or grandchild on a bus with batteries warming away right underneath them.Fast burning, very hot, batteries can never catch fire. What could go wrong with an electric school bus design like that. Nothing of course. So take the not real to you increased risk as compared to low flammable, low flame spread outward mounted diesel school bus propulsion when operated in the real world with so many possible variables in play to safely navigate flawlessly when human error is possible all around when traveling on the road with our precious future (children). I say that no child should die in the dawn of life because of a possible thermal runaway flammable battery technology mixed with a flawed battery location under foot school bus vehicle design concept implemented foolishly. Not every technology is to be applied to every vehicle with a different purpose. Evolving electrification of a passenger vehicle using flammable electrolytes where passengers are few, and can quickly exit by a door next to them should not lead to immediate adoption to a high passenger count limited exit vehicle with two doors to exit from with up to 72 children on board ! Consider the harder path to think logically before supporting, and advancing electrification of school buses with today's documented to be potentially flammable battery technology, please. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” - Henry Ford.

Listened to half way through and most of your discussion is about ev sales and charging places. Do you look into sell on value? Where does the charging energy come from? It, the electricity, cannot be produced out of thin air.

Lexus is the luxury brand of Toyota. Teslas are priced the same as Lexus but where is the Toyota bit? The affordable car seems unlikely to appear and their pickup truck is double the price of a petrol one. We have here another rich actor without a script but latching on to an fashionable agenda trying to change the world. Nobody has any plan published for where the energy comes from when the wind is not blowing.

Brilliant news update Robert! Moving stuff by the petrol supplies, I didn’t know that either. And let’s hope you are still here next time.😅

Battery powered cars are a dying industry.

They just found massive oil fields near the coast of Namibia. I wonder what's their situation with democracy is?

Pathetic

Anyone have an insight into when an electric scooter like this would be preferable to, say, an electric Brompton? The Brompton would be more portable and comfortable to ride, and more stable?

900 Volt batteries ! ... just wait until they get wet. Any mistake when servicing means instant death through electrocution.

"ionic", not "iconic"

All of your local supermarkets already have chargers installed in the parking lots? Wow, wouldn't that be nice and some are free? How many charger stalls would this typically be? Level 2 right? I wish supermarkets here in the US would do that outside of a few, constantly camped, Volta stalls.

Always thought it was a no-brainer to electrify big vehicles...especially with V2G capabilities. As I continue to drive electric, I'm more and more sensitive to pollution in traffic. I like to keep the cabin air recirculation on but it is challenging in winter due to fogging windows.

Fracking is absolutely wringing out the last bit of oil from the sponge.

Rivian is killing it with styling.

It's great to hear on a future energy discussion the phrase "job's a good 'un". Lovely

Comparing the Tesla, of which I have one with Full Self Driving, with other "autonomous" cars is not a good idea, since it is unique in that it actually works. It is not done yet but it will be the first to be widely used, in fact I use it myself as well as over 2 million other people. Accidents have been reduced by a factor of 10 or more right now and it will get better. This is the same system that will be used in the Robo-taxi.

Semi solid state wtf ITS Gel. !!!

The irony of ranting about apps collecting data followed up by praise for Chinese data collection vehicles!

needing a license and insurance kind of defeats the attractiveness TBH. Rather go back to push bike.

Totally pointless, the whole idea of a scooter is not having the costs involved with registration and insurance. if i am going to spend this much money i want a seat. and we already have excellent electric mopeds, with great range and power , and they are far safer than standing up on anything. bigger wheels better breaks and no one steels them because you remove the battery to be charged at home.

Did you ever touch a normal electric scooter ? That’s not an electric moped scooter or what you want to call 🤦🏻😂😂😂

Terrific conversation. You covered so many basic, important topics with humor and clarity.

How antiquated and mildly racist. Corrupt petro states. He says with a prime minister who gives government contracts to his friends. Where opposing parties are happy to defend the starving and bombing of children. You sir are a Fascist of the worst order. They type who thinks they are saving the world. Another thought like you. Adolf something or other.

Australian mosquitos don't bite, they take you home for their young.

Unless real world range needs to be 300 miles Not 150 miles

When i was studying geology back in the 20naughties, we were told peak oil was only a few years away and that big oil would be spending huge money to extract oil, rather than just putting a hole in the ground.

When I hear "Autonomous Taxi" my mind goes straight to the Johnny Cab from Schwarzenegger's Total Recall.

An utterly biased and condescending back slapping waste of time

EVs are made for people who don't mind sitting around for the darn things to charge, also your just shifting the pollution to the power stations, but not for all of us. Not to mention the toxic mining, my local garage don't want them as trade ins because they can't shift them. But feel free to keep denieing it. 😂