Your EV is making you FAT... Charging Problems and the £29,000 Porsche Taycan is coming.
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
- Part of three videos filmed with Richard whilst I was in Spain, on a Fun Friday.
In this video we are discussing Richard's charging woes, and debating what the best type of cake is. There is a serious message in here about the drawbacks of EV ownership for real, normal human beings. We're also discussing the idea of the £29,000 Porsche Taycan and asking who on earth would buy the new Rolls Royce EV.
There's quite a lot in this enjoyable podcast style chat.
Video 1 - Cakes, Charging and EV Madness
• Your EV is making you ...
Video 2 - Big Cats, Dragons and Bigfoot
• Big Cats, Dragons and ...
Video 3 - Jaguar F Pace Steering Racks and Range Rover Insurance Values
• Jaguar F Pace Steering... - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Video gets going at 01:15, sorry for the long intro!
Video 1 - Cakes, Charging and EV Madness
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Video 2 - Big Cats, Dragons and Bigfoot
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Video 3 - Jaguar F Pace Steering Racks and Range Rover Insurance Values
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Too much cake AND RODDA'S CLOTTED CREAM ! E.V. drivers are getting far too fat (and breaking the bank) on the, "Oh ! Just grab a coffee" nonsense ..... but Rodda's clotted cream .... WELL ! Tis not me. Tis they is all I can say.
Look at the RAC's charger watch
There are a bit low on domestic charging, my Electric bill shows 35p per kWh domestic rate.
Howjeavy would a rolls Royce battery be?
@@markhutton6055and how much will it cost to replace? 😮
@@markhutton6055 it must be insanely heavy. it's a ludicrous car.
That anyone bought an EV in the first place boggles my mind.
In some countries the governments are forcing your hand. If your vehicle is 10 years old you will face excessive fines until you get rid of it. Then they offer penalties to people who drive diesel vehicles in an attempt to force people to purchase EVs. Problem is they are too expensive so the uptake hasn't been good but the fines and penalties haven't been removed from policy. So it's not that people are running out to buy EVs but they are being coerced.
Have you seen how Tesla owners write comments on social media? Not the most intelligent people, are they?
@@wendymartin6479 I am surprised no one has been pushed over the edge.
Don't worry, no one bought one, they were all on lease .... 😂
I got an EV 3 years ago as a company car due to the tax benefits. However, thankfully I've stopped doing long journeys because it would cost a fortune paying for motorway chargers! But I would never get an EV using my own money.
Why do people believe that they are getting "renewable" electricity just because their supplier says so... it all gets mixed up together... the suppliers have no idea where its coming from!
Correct.
It's all b.s. 👌
A bit like the separated recycling being thrown into the back of the same truck.
DNA for electricity. ?
100% true
It all gets mixed up and by the time it gets used there is no way that you can say it is 100% renewable
But the sheep believe it
I watch the failing videos for EVs because this net zero stuff is batshit crazy. Anything that may put doubts into the EV market means more chance that common sense eventually wins out.
You are a total nutter. Global warming is accelerating because of clueless twerps like you
This channel doesnt do ev's are failing, hysterical nonsense, you have MGUY pushing that content. You can own an EV and not sign up to anything net zero. It's just a drivetrain where you have lots of choices where the energy comes from rather than having to use a heavily taxed pump owned by a cartel.
The best one I've seen was some boomer, and his wife sat in their electric Mercedes-Benz. Both of them were wearing those ridiculous blue face masks as the car was on charge.
oh that is hilarious
@@GeoffBuysCars
I know double stupidity 😂
how do these people afford a car like that. Must be inheritance.
Where do I find that.....I need a laugh!!
😂😂😂
EV's represent heaping tonnes of unnecessary complexity into your life...
And tonnes of cake, or so it seems.
@sullivan912 I've only charged at home so far 6476miles in. I actually fancy a bit of cake never had any yet. Also its only costing £30 a week in electricity. Not £200
Unless you just home charge. It is literally just 5 seconds to plug in and next day, 5 seconds to unplug. You can add over 150 miles during off peak for just £2.50. That is the core benefit of leccy. Choice of how you charge. Fossil cars never get free or off peak pricing and they dont come to your house to fill your car up.
And they do not depreciate anywhere near as much as an EV, so any saving and a bunch more is down the toilet with an EV.
Electric cars are simple and motor inverters is 40 years old tech. The main two problems are all of the non-essential crap that gets tacked on top and current battery tech including charging infrastructure being about half as good as it needs to be before BEVs become genuine alternatives to ICEVs under almost all circumstances. With solid-state batteries, we should get EVs that give 50% more range on a battery that is physically half the size and weight 3-5 years from now.
A friend of mine works selling carbon credits going back over the last 20 years.
He's made a fortune and he told me it was all about creating a new currency from nothing.
This was over 20 years ago so they knew exactly what they were doing. It has absolutely zero with helping the planet , but allowing the select few to help themselves.
Yes the "fuel escalator" under the Tories was the start of net zero policy and carbon credit trading scheme.. just before tony bliar got shoe horned in instead of the Scottish guy who had an unfortunate "heart attack"
Same as the Federal Reserve and Royal Mint. They are private businesses driven by profit. The major banking chains make “money” out of nothing. That’s what mortgages are!
Tony Blair got into that when he left parliament. I wonder why.......
Scammers....I guy a knew when I was in UK done it for bit ..absolute pirate....😂😂
A family member does the same job, now. Although they're not allowed to talk about climate scepticism at work, they all know it's rubbish outside of work
He said he couldn't charge his EV because his WiFi was down! At that point I had a random recollection of petrol caps on cars in the 50's & 60's which weren't even lockable.
So much for progress, please take me back.
I think he doesn't know what WiFi means. Does he mean broadband?
I'll be honest I've began watching Fully Charged and believe that EV'S ARE the future together with personal submarines and silver suits (and a massive moonbase)
And will remain the future
I've got a 22 year old Jaguar XJ with the 3.2 oil burning V8 and even I get 300 miles to a tank. And it makes a nice noise doing it, too. I can even go somewhere for cake in it if I want to.
I have an S type 4.0 V8 that is currently £45 for 200 miles. Taking the bev efficiency calculator it does 200mpg.
I've got a supermarine spitfire engined mini. It does 10 gals per hour. Fantastic 😂
@@Lookup2Wakeup 🤣🤣
3litre diesel XF R-Sport - 9 years old (30k miles) .. 540 miles per tankful is 'possible' and 42
@@theodavies8754 amazing, given the listed mpg for that vehicle suggests 200 miles costs £75 at £1.50/ltr.
You will have nothing and be happy in your 15minute cities.
Horse is the answer, metal banded wooden wheels and body work cart, the emissions are great for the garden, it runs on green energy (grass) when the engine dies you can eat it, make clothes from the bodywork, and glue from the framework! Hehe.
Brilliant Haha
lol on that scheme then perhaps a cow would be better still as you could get the milk at the same time and the resulting beef tastes better than horse.
And your engine is happy to see you!😂
They won't let you have a horse.
@@user-xq6me6pd7qno, cows love to stand in fields and chew cud all day. Horses love to trot and gallop.
My 87 year old mum has an electric lawn mower....only cuts half the lawn soo she's goes in and bakes a cake 😅
should get a second battery then .
Oh right, none of that happened.
Had a VW ID3 about 18 months ago, kept it for 2 weeks, it went straight back to the VW dealer - they are a complete waste of time......and a lot of money!!!!
Why was it a waste of time ?
@@chrishart8548 All explained in this video; waiting around for 50 minutes once was enough, but 5 times......... work it out...............
We go to Devon from the East Midlands with a 2.0 diesel, with enough range to do there, knock around for a week, come back home, and still have enough for the weekend.
Cost about 12 p per mile
@@dingbell5498 Yep, same here, thankfully, I kept my Tiguan, 500 to 600 mile on a tank of reliable fossil fuel..........
Just fuel... There's seems to be lacking any evidence of it coming from fossils
The only person who should have an electric vehicle is the urban milkman.
... and less VANDALISM. Plenty of Charging Stations have and continue to be vandalized especially in the "States (California..).
Urban parcel/food/florist deliveries
And sqsd kharn
Are all of the followers of this clown brain dead
And the 'Urban Spaceman'.
EV's should be fitted with a teasmade and microwave to save on high service station food and bevarage cost during charging😅😅
😂😂😂 they won’t have the charge to use those things.
Would go flat even faster 😂
Elon's one step ahead of you. All Teslas come equipped with a barbeque mode 🔥🔥🔥
Teasmades didn't work properly either. Lukewarm tea tasted like dishwater. Easier to have a kettle in the bedroom, cup and teabag. I used to put a jug of milk in a mini Esky overnight. Now my home is all on on level so easy trek to the kitchen. Teasmades as useless as EVs.
That's why some of them have VTL cables 😂 to power the kettle and microwave .
Hey Geoff 🥳 a lightbulb just illuminated in my head !!
I have it………. Picture a gym, a row of charging stations, you park and plug in your EV
Inside the gym you tap a screen that links your planet saving EV to your membership…….. then……. and here’s the clever bit……… all the rotating stuff, treadmills, cross trainers, exercise bikes would be passive……….. all the energy created by your sweaty heaving would go directly into your EV 🎉
Winner winner Tofu dinner 🌎⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sounds like the TV show Black Mirror
If you see the words "UP TO' run a mile,it means nothing .
Read "Will get nowhere near to..."
True, so true.
The EVangelists always use the argument "well petrol/diesel cars never get their full range" My least efficient car is my 4.4 v8 M5 and it can do 500+ miles to a tank in the real world. My best is an old S350 bluetec and that can do 1000 miles to a tank in the real world. The worst petrol cars have a range that the very best EV's can only dream of
According to Porsche the regular Taycan has a 79.2kWh battery. This is the same amount of energy contained within 8.4 litres (2 plastic cans) of petrol.
"For fast charging up to 320kW (With performance Battery Plus) charging power and outstanding performance, the..." Hang on, charging at 320kW is the same as taking on 33.8 litres of petrol per hour. It would take 1 hour 36 minutes to refuel an empty Boxter at this rate (small 54l tank option). Imagine the turmoil you'd cause by holding the pump in downtown London for an hour and a half!
Technology is fuelling nothing here, it's all political BS!
The EV con has stated .....just say no easy
My car 'charges' at 10MW. They're talking of improving EV charging rates by 20% over the coming few years!
@@robertbox5399 10MW???🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣. Where do you plug it in- Sizewell B? 🤣😂😂🤣
Absolute
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@@robertbox5399 10MW is a bit slow. Standard car delivery is between 30 and 40 litres per minute (17 to 23MW).
Apparently truck stops pump up to 120 l/min, or 73MW! So every 17th truck stop would need another Sizewell B to pump the same amount of electrical energy.
It isn't going to happen! Even if you assume a supporting 400% efficiency improvement.
And you are lying. Sensible people charge overnight. You are the one full of BS. Planet polluting as well
We are just angry at being forced into something we may not want and priced off the road in our ice cars. They need to cut the crap.
The only way to get EVs to look good is subsidies and suppression of the competition. This house of cards must fall sooner or later so i keep my diesel ⛽.
He said England has a tuff winter ....lol ..obviously he's never experienced a Canadian winter
A hard English winter is different from most countries,where it’s a crisp dry kind of cold, in the uk it’s the damp cold that does it, when you have an over cast day,mid winter just below freezing,it gets into your bones,there’s nothing quite as bone chilling.
Good luck with those winters once Justin forces all of you into electric cars
I lost my eyeballs listening how much it cost to charge the freaking car.
Those fast chargers have no justification charging those prices. Even a tesla super charger is 34p at the right time.
My wallet is crying in the corner.
@@chrishart8548 tesla is as subsidized as chinese companies by the ccp except tesla is in a smarter way, they get the carbon tax money coming from non ev-manufacturers without that they would have been bankrupt a long time ago they are not making money by their own and by that I mean their superchargers prices are probably lower than they should to be a profitable business
@@chrishart8548 like sunday afternoon at the airport when everybody needs to bring back their rented cars fully charged?
@@svr5423 I think they already knew they could fine people for the car not being fully charged. I would have just treated as part of the price.
225 a week for cake! Every time I hear that I just laugh. A Sunday charge, then Tuesday then Thursday. Coconut cake! Now I’ve wet myself! Thank you Geoff and friends for the smiles and laughter!
There should be some rules about EV charging hardware at home. For the safety of your home and everyone elses in the street it should be 20 feet away from your front door so if you don't have 20ft of front garden you don't get a charging point. Do you think parking a flame thrower on your doorstep is sensible?
I've probably got a 40ft driveway
Number 1 way to show people you know nothing about EVs - say they go on fire all the time. Yet around the world, insurance company stats say its at least 20 times more likelycthst a petrol car will go on fire
@@davidwall8954say that again while watching videos of a burning roll-on-off car Ship with burning EVs..
The EV has to be within the equipotential zone on your home, so connection faults can't electrocute pedestrians. This means running wires across pavements is illegal regardless of trip hazards.
Two EV's from two houses could have a voltage between them if they don't share the same connection to the grid. This is also a hazard.
The EV charger infrastructure CANNOT be fixed. We need more generating capacity. More distribution capacity.
It cannot be done within the time the Mentals of Parliament have allowed.
Plus no one wants it
I see this quoted a lot, but the UK national grid very publicly say that there is no problem with the infrastructure and that the necessary generating capacity is being built. They even have an easily googled webpage on the subject. Just search for "can-grid-cope-extra-demand-electric-cars".
So it sounds like you're telling me it would be more logical and environmentally friendly to stick with the cars we already have with the infrastructure we already have Just make it more efficient.
@@joebrandon1730 EVs may be the future, maybe not.
In the short term we stick with fossil fuels. With hydrogen as an intermediate step perhaps.
Technology has to come before policy. Not the other way round.
You cannot base policy or economy on the hope that a technology will arrive.
Governments have risked sending civilisation to a massive dead end, with all the costs that entails.
Stresses me up just listening to the frustrations this guy has experienced with running his EV.
Self inflicted, and that goes for anyone who buys/leases etc. an EV.
I mean it's not as if the facts haven't been out there for some considerable time is it!
Then don't be stupid like him
This is what you get when you get duped by wonderful governments and the forget to say NO
That’s the problem. All that stopping, waiting and eating. Plus EV lovers store 95% of their body-fat above neck-level.
Geof buys cars only covers electric cars because each time he poops on EVs his wives go through the roof and he makes a ton of cash from youtube.
16 pounds gets me 225 miles in a 3 minute fuel stop
It's about control,EV tracking and ultimately loss of freedom of movement.15 min city nightmare.
When I stop at the service's I park near the chargers, it just cheers me up for some reason
When the WiFi goes down you can't use the charger? Huh? 🤔
They want everything connected so government can turn it off.
Literally already happening in Germany they gave legal authority to turn off ev chargers and heat pumps because the grid can't cope in certain areas.
You will own nothing and be happy 😮
Because the financial transaction cannot be completed.
Probably linked to WiFi so it can monitor certain things
@@MrLeadb1Ohhhh!! Of course! Didn't think of that one. 🤪
Cheers.
Most fuel stations can't sell you petrol if the internet is down no way to do the transactions.
On Saturday i drove down to Dorset, Enr-oute I stopped in Somerset for breakfast. After a few minutes a man and two women sat at the table next to me. As the women sat down the man said, "There's a charger about 4 miles down the road, if I can find it" Asked how long he would be replied "Hopefully 45 minutes to an hour, then we can be on our way" I left a few minutes later with enough miles on my car for the week and enough to get me home
I would crack up waiting to change the thing up
No shelter, no wifi, no comforts at all for customers if they actually work, these charging station companies are definitely slapping them up cheap and just making their money off the subsidies. Actually making money off their use is secondary it seems...
I don't know.....the EV charging station I do 95% of my charging at has a roof, a theatre room, a kitchen, a garage, 2 livings rooms, a dining room, a laundry, 3 bathrooms and 5 bedbrooms etc. and it's available 24/7/365 - seems comfortable enough to me.
That’s great if you have a driveway of your own, I don’t have off street parking and it’s a lottery as to whether I’ll get my car anywhere near my house. The council have put one slow charger in for the three roads around me, but it’s open to non residents too. My neighbour who has had a plug in hybrid for the last two years, has yet to charge his car on it as it’s always occupied by non residents.
@@TB-up4xi OOh look at you able to charge at home, how fancy...
A Porsche Taycan is not a typical electric car.
Super aspirational and the best 😂
Depends how you evaluate it. Take into consideration that all manufacturers use the same suppliers for batteries and electric motors, then drivetrain wise, every EV is the same. A Porsche Taycan is just a more attractive Tesla Model S with even panel gaps. Just as an Audi A3 is basically a Skoda Octavia with leather seats.
£100k more than the typical electric car
@@chrishart8548 £120k for a Taycan, verses £115k for a Model S. That's not £100k more. Unless you're Diane Abbott.
@@matthewgodwin3050 is it still that much for a model S ? I can get a nice used model 3 for £13.5k now.
I was speaking to someone this morning when they pulled up in a Tesla Model 3. I asked them how they were getting in with cost of electric and they sighed and said “not bad, but it was a business purchase and the home supercharger gets paid out of the business. Otherwise we would have a diesel car…” I shared the 15 min cities, geo fencing and geo timing info with her and her jaw dropped. I told her to Google about how they’ve made Oxford into a pizza with seven slices. If you live within slice No1, you only get 100 goes per year to cross into other slices. And after that, it’s £70 fines. Her jaw scraped the pavement.
She also mentioned that the insurance has rocketed up, but also that insurers do not cover battery faults. I asked what happens if it sets on fire? She said “well that’s a different story I guess, but it might become a dispute if the battery explodes, whether it’s covered or not.”
She was also aware that they write off perfectly good EVs if the battery needs changing.
The reason people are interested in watching people fail is purely because of self preservation. A lot of people like to learn from other peoples mistakes, you can apply this to cars, jabs, food etc etc.
all very valid points!
Yes, real people's experiences with them Vs the hype.
The guy is obviously very busy and very wealthy ,so time is important to him ,so why would you put yourself through this,and pay through the nose for the privilege as well.
Because he is clueless
You can't put a price on "The Virtue Signals" 🤣
@@arcadeuk yes you can - my EV costs 1/7th of your stupid petrol car to drive down the road and only spend 5 seconds plugging it in.
@nathansmith... you haven't taken into account the depreciation cost over your 3 year ownership. Add that in, your per mile cost is way more than ICE.
@@fredfred2363 if you buy a used one then depreciation works for you. If you buy, say, a diesel Audi, it'll be worth 45-53% of it's screen price in 3 years. That's not really a good investment, is it?
I bought my Skoda Enyag (large family car with all the bits) for the same price as a A class Mercedes of the same year with the smaller lackluster engine.
New government health warning❗️
⚠️ charging an EV may cause diabetes.
DOPES
Another consideration with ev’s should be the emf or the electro magnetic field produced. There has been many scientific reports regarding this, basically it’s no good for us and it has been linked to leukaemia.
With all the problems electric cars cause magnetic pollution isn't even on the list... Everything that runs on electricity is producing electromagnetic waves as well as the planet. I think we're going to be better off focusing on the gigantic fireballs and pollution that leaks into our water supplies
The elephant in the room being that the majority of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
But But But the electricity suppliers say they supply 100% renewable electricity!
WHERE?
@@nathansmith7153 Where what?
@@whitehart11 DO know anything about electricity generation around the planet?
@@whitehart11 I know right, and they all say it, so 100% of all electricity must be renewable 🤣😂
We have just been to tesco for our weekly shop, when we arrived a lady was fiddling with her phone standing next to her EV, we went in did our shopping about 30 mins later we came out she's still there on the phone, we loaded up the car and as we pulled out she just gave up and took the cable out of her car, presumably she just gave up.
In case anyone asked why EVs catch fire so easily... Here is the answer.
Don't do any fixed installation over wifi always use wires onsite...
Isn't it hilarious to see ostensibly successful and wealthy individuals failing the EV IQ Test...? Do we think he's jabbed, too?
Virtue signaling has a cost
@@aygwmvery true
Then you are totally stupid
What complete and utter moronic nonsense!
Why would anyone think buying an EV would be wise if you can't home charge... That's the epitome of being a moron... Although That of course could be said about anyone buying a 4L twin turbo sports car, or Range Rover SV.... In fact It's exactly the same argument as buying a Range Rover SV then bitching about it costing a lot to run FFS🙄, about as dumb a straw man argument as it gets!!!
Jeez there's some thick people about and with ridiculous cognitive bias.
I'm a petrol head, had several +500hp cars, 350hp Ariel Atom, several track cars and too many Superbikes over the years, drove for a long term a 2.4L Volvo for family stuff... I've just got a new Model 3LR and done 3000 miles, covered 1563 miles in the last month, not once been to a supercharger in those 1563 miles, and it's cost me £25 this month Go figure....!!! My fist long trip Leeds to reading and back was 416 miles, I stopped ONCE for 14 minutes at the Supercharger at Oxford and it cost £13.20 for 24Kw, total trip cost was £17.57 , As it was a work trip I claimed back £187.20 at 45ppm. So basically that single trip with £169.43 of reimbursement has paid for the next 10,165 miles of my private mileage!! Although judging by the stupid comments on here grasping this basic math will be beyond many!
Actually engage some intelligence rather than listing to this clearly biased and made provoke bullshit, like that Muppet The MacMaster who spouts blatant lies and false bullshit for likes and followers of those daft enough to believe him.
For those who run new company cars, home charge and do less than about 200miles a day, a leased (or business offset) EV makes a lot of sense at present. Publicly gauging others IQ isn't always the most prudent of past times. ;-)
Sounds like an expensive pain in the ass 👊🤣
It is an expensive pain in the ass. Made a lot of money on CZcams though
Superb stuff cheers Geoff and hello from the unvakkssed in the Highlands.
An electric Rolls Royce at McDonald’s for 450 pounds, almost half a million pounds. What an unbelievable investment!
There is only one type of connector that is allowed for charging phones and the like, but for cars, each manufacturer can decide for themselves how they want it.
The connectors are standard on all cars all across Europe.
The location of the port is normally at the rear left or right, some cars have it in the middle at the front, some on the side at the front, but these days that’s quite rare and only very specific models do that.
As long as the cable reaches the port it’s a non-issue.
Those longer charging cables are worth much more to the recyclers … thanks
Great vid. Just imagine trying to sort the charging as a lone wheelchair user. You got to get your chair out, then faff around sorting the charging out, if you can manage the cable, all while not even being able to hold an umbrella. The other thing is, put a charging poing at tue front, thats great,, if the ground slopes up towards the charger it makes it more difficult to get in. My mate always parks so his chair rolls into tye door, not away from the car, so you need 2 points on the car.
LOL - I have home charging , after 1 year and 17,000 miles I have spent less than £150 in total charging my car (not a misprint)...that's less than £0.009 per mile, also £0 for services, £0 for brakes and tyres (both of which last longer and are cheaper than the Audi it replaced) ...Oh and it cost me £10k less and my insurance is 20% cheaper.
If I drive my EV for 8 years I could buy 2 brand new replacement batteries, it could depreciate to £0 and I would still be better off than 8 years in my petrol Audi A4.
Yes Geoff you are right: it is a kind of Schadenfreude. The way I see it, owning an EV is financial disaster and highly inconvenient for most ordinary poor people & it's satisfying to see that realisation dawn on people. You just think - "Why didn't they see it before?" I'm not poor myself, but I wouldn't even touch an EV with YOUR bargepole. 🤣
Poor old Lee is VERY likeable guy (but with his Taycan and its huge outstanding debt is a whole other level of financial pain. He's trapped in that situation.)
You should qualify the statement about Sainsbury's delivering only renewable electric. That is not possible on the existing national grid. Solar panels cannot supply the required power. Especially here in blighty!
Drax power station burns woodchip especially imported from South America....totally renewable - it is all a con as we all know. I'm pretty certain the particulates from burning wood are far more environmentally unfriendly than burning oil/gas.
Yes it's all chemically sprayed geo engineered heavy metal skies here..no sun allowed!
NONE of the "renewables" are renewable.. oil is far far cleaner than any of their crap
My New hybrid Toyota cost only £46 return, travelled from Bracknell to St David Wales( 468 miles total).
Still have less than 1/4 left in the tank.
I’m a still skinny and lightweight 😁
Teslas are possibly the most hideous cars ive ever seen, inside and out
I thought i dont remember writing that. Thats exactly my thoughts.
Polestars are lovely outside, but as bad as telsas inside
At the very beginning of the EV saga I said to my missus that all the chargers should have the same electrical hook up to the car. This would have entailed ALL the car manufacturers fitting the same electrical hook up to their vehicles. Perfectly doable - at the beginning. Imagine if we had had petrol stations with different nozzles for different car makes, it would have been insane. But we accept it for the EV's for feks sake.
Up until about 1975 there actually was no regulated size for gasoline nozzles and receiving pipes. Up until then different manufacturers did have different openings. They only introduced a regulation when unleaded petrol started being sold and they needed a way to ensure that the fuels didn't get mixed.
As to EVs, there is a standard - CCS2. The EU made it a requirement. You can still buy a few older model cars with chademo, but no-one is releasing a new car with it.
I thought the cars were heavy enough without adding in cake consumption 😂 I can fill up my 24yr old V70 2.4T and get from Kent well into Scotland before I give a thought to fuel; I certainly don’t have to worry about being ripped off at motorway services.
We are not being treated human anymore ..just consumers
Been like that for decades... They're just getting cocky enough to not hide it anymore.. PUBLIC SERVANTS need to get a reminder who their bosses are
Like this new podcast audio format.
Something to listen to while charging...
How do you use a charger paying cash? Use it or lose it..
Don't worry. You'll be able to use your cbdc and because you drive an EV you'll get a good social credit score.
I believe EV sales have dropped? People are waking up
"Let them all eat cake" surprised I haven't heard that yet....lol. Thanks Geoff.
Cheap renewable power from solar and wind power is just another big con. When has your electric bill ever reduced in price as a result of all this cheap renewable power?
Here in Switzerland, we have plenty of hydropower from water running down the mountains.
But that existed decades before the green craze.
The reason why our electricity is cheaper than in neighboring Germany is because we put less taxes on it. And we have actually decent wages.
The reason electricity is expensive is because our conservative government sets the price by the wholesale cost of gas. Renewables are irrelevant to the cost.
An EV is definitely not for me. The less tech it has the better; anything that needs to connect to a network in order to function is proscribed.
BEVs looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't even exist.
A new “hobby” of mine is parking (my diesel) next to the electric charging points at service stations and listening to the conversations of those charging their cars nearby.
Few discussions are what I would call “positive”, mostly revolving around a lack of charging infrastructure and the queues this causes. It’s pretty easy to spot the business driver vs the private owners (the formers phone calls whilst they are charging can also be quite enlightening), but the delays and waiting times whilst charging are foremost.
I take great pleasure in popping into the services to use the facilities, before returning to continue my journey and considering where I can get cheap(er) fuel a mile or two off the motorway or dual carriageway in 2-300 miles with a 1/4 tank still available.
Would really like the new Renault 5, but with a decent petrol engine and switches instead of screens. Am I being unreasonable?
schadenfreude, the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another's misfortune. Schadenfreude is a German word that combines Schaden, which means “damage,” and Freude, which means “joy.” The concept is common to people across cultures, but some languages do have comparable words.
A vehicle designed for town/city users ONLY (max range
So you’re saying it’s ok to have cables going across pavements…….?
Chord?
@@saulmc8920 Yay.... a useful and informative comment on the subject. Nice one.
@@jno5 Where was that said !?!
@@saulmc8920 Thanks Miss. Yawn. The irony is that you knew what was meant !
Brilliant insight Richard. Cheers Geoff!
Love reading the comments 😂I charge a Cupra Born at home for next to nothing every day and get 200 miles range. I do pop into Tesco petrol station for a meal deal and watch everyone filling just for shits and giggles 🤣
In the front under the badge is a very bad idea because if you have a little knock on front or someone reversed into you, the chances are the flap won’t open😊
Crumple zones mean the front badge should never be first to be hit.
Maybe you should tell that to Nissan leaf owners that’s why they changed it
It's also likely the car will burst into flame and burn a hole through the street
"Quarter of a million pounds"! Don't you mean nearer half a million pounds?!!!!
Roughly 7 mpg. 31 gallons at around £7 pg is about £217. Cheaper by helicopter.
People who still drive ice cars, don't eat when they have a rest stop? And petrol is still 50p a gallon!
Exactly
They're Battery Cars, Geoff. Not Electric; they're not plugged into the mains.
Calling them Electric Vehicles conveys a concept they do not warrant.
Battery Cars. That's what they are.
what do they charge the battery with...diesel?
They want you to get soaked charging the car because you put the heater on and use up the electricity
Whether it's easy or not to charge your EV because of where the charger flap is located depends on the charger placement in relation to the parking space, as much as the the placement on the car. It seems most are placed on the front/back of the space, but I've also used some which are set up the same as a normal petrol pump (with the parking space alongside the charger). Even some of the front/back arrangements are easier to reverse into than drive into........and ultimately, petrol/diesel flap placement is not 100% standardised, so how do you expect car manufacturers to standardise EV's?
Also my local to my workplace Shell are installing EV charging points that aren't covered. However when you're filling your car with petrol or diesel you're covered 😂
And wishy-washy is laughing and rubbing his hands with glee and his cake is free.
Low fat cakes must be available at all charging stations!
Great point about the shelter from the weather. Some do but most don't. That was the final insult when I had an EV. It's double frustrating when you get soaked/frozen only to find that the charger is broken or you can't charge for any number of reasons.
Having to go to the supermarket to charge your car for 30mins + AND having to pay VPOWER rates.
And the vehicle is more expensive AND depreciates like a stone.
Where do I sign up, Geoff?
Geoff,you need to go back to school, 450,000 is nearly a quarter millon ???
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If Elon's supercharger network is so good, why do so many Tesla owners use the public charging network?
Many? Care to share the figures?
I’m sure there are situations or places where a supercharger isn’t convenient.
There might also be the case they can charge back to company/customer as a business expense and therefore don’t care where the charge and how much it costs.
For sure most EV users have them as company cars or company assets @@fenegroni
Why are there so many chargers when all EV owners say they charge at home?
@@fenegroni Sorry feller, I haven't the exact figures to hand. I've spent the afternoon playing a drinking game; Every time the camera caught a Tesla using a public charger in one single Macmaster video, I drank a shot of gin. I'm absolutely sozzled.
I’ve always said charging an EV would be expensive. Not just for the cost of the electricity, but also the coffee, cake and snacks you’ll consume while waiting to charge your car. People don’t realise that.
Hertz have already dumped 20,000 EV’s on the market they are now dumping another 10,000 on the market and cancelled orders for thousands more. Must tell you something.
the best place for the charging port is where the gas cap is. If they made pull through ev charging stations, no one would be bitching about being unable to back up into a spot.
I was at Cambridge services on the A14 on Sunday and parked a few yards away from the EV charging station. Talk about sneaky, the price tarif is for "parking", not charging, with 1 hour costing £8.00 and 8 hours costing £35.00, so when these nimrods tell you that it's waaay cheaper to charge an EV than it is to fill up with petrol they're being deluded, but most of us watching this already know that!
I reckon you and Richard should become "Bentley boys" for a day.
Iconic 1920's British muscle.Flying Lorry or a 4.5 Ltr.
Last month I drove down to Torquay from Sheffield in my 2010 Mazda MX5. Put in £59.15 of E5, 264 miles and arrived with over a 1/4 of a tank left. I believe there is a place for EVs, but there should be a choice. Governments forcing the EV narrative is not the way to go. I would not have wanted to travel 264 miles in an EV…with knowing I’d need to stop for a charge at some point. I’ll be keeping the MX5 for some time to come.
The Taycan should be a good car for the money. It is so good to hear more and more objective people telling their experiences with EV's and the UK when it comes to motoring.
95% of the EVs that have been purchased are still on the road today. The other 5% made it home
Drove into Taunton Deane services on the M5 motorway (main route into the west country of England, including Devon and Cornwall). There were only TWO EV chargers in the whole large service station. Both were in use, and there was a really hacked of VW EV driver who waited a while for a charger then just charged off.
I just put $30 of gas in my car. It will last about 2 weeks. It took about 3 minutes to charge, I mean fill up.
What electric companies supply the charging points? Because they are making ludicrous profits from us and from the chargers
The word is, Schadenfreude: Pleasure derived from witnessing the discomfort, pain or humiliation of others.
Why has he still got an electric car.?Money appears to be no object
Yeah he's better off buying a new Dacia Duster hybrid. Fakkin long range. Efficient transport.
Cant afford an umbrella at EV prices..
All the EV owners that are buying coffee and cake whilst they charge their EV should be adding the price they pay for those items to the amount they are charged for charging their EV's. Say they spend £60 charging and £7 or £8 on a coffee and cake or sandwich then they spent up to £68 but the company will say it only costing them £60, if the person just sat in their EV whilst it charged they would be saving the £7 or £8 every time they charged at public chargers.
Public chargers are normally in places where there is a set time the EV owner can park and charge their EV and if they have to wait and might only have 60 minutes or less to charge their EV of they get a penalty notice through the post a week or so later.