European Bob

They aren’t difficult at all, unless you are a victim of the American education system.

American education at its finest

It’s because we rarely stop and think how incredibly inefficient petrol cars are. My family sized EV can cover 400km on the energy equivalent of 6.5 litres of petrol.

What sort of potato?

That’s just you without glasses

Hola, soy ingeniero de Inglaterra, estuve en España en abril este año…. Su Red se revitalizó mucho más rápido de lo que podríamos haberlo hecho aquí! Lo siento, pero mi ingeniería es mejor que mi español 😂

20 years ago I was hoping to be alive long enough to see Nuclear Fusion industrialised.

Now I find my self just wanting to be alive long enough for all the anti-progress bullshit around wind / solar / batteries / EVs to have gone away.

4. Hydrogen, it just bloody leaks
5. Making, compressing, storing and transporting hydrogen is very energy intensive, so very energy inefficient.
6. In the car converting hydrogen to electricity also not efficient
7. Hydrogen fuelling cost per mile up to 8 times more than a pure EV

Thanks Graeme, in addition to your excellent post, hydrogen refuelling has many issues.
1. Some stations could only fill 5 or 6 cars a day
2. There isn’t really a small vehicle hydrogen filling station standard
3. Hydrogen nozzles often freeze up, and can take 2 hours to defrost

UK here, our National Grid Operator provides us with an app showing our records. Our usual total demand in the day is between 25-40GW. I’ve turned the notifications off for coal, as we deleted the last coal power station 9 months ago.

Jay Leno probably wouldn’t be seen in that car 😂

All UK Model 3 cars are made in China, some of the Model Y made in Germany.
I was pleased to see the July results, Tesla were -60% year in year in UK sales. The huge June increase seems to just have been the past 3 or 4 months of Model Y orders finally being delivered.

I managed North England to South Spain in a 280km real range van. We possibly have more advanced infrastructure just now though.

Sounds about right.

Asymmetric warfare at its best, $20,000 dollar drone removes $1 billion facility.

I have to admit, I didn’t know you got snow in that part of the world.

You do know people are not ever coming back don’t you? Not just Canadians, no one, ever.

Wait until you see what the Renault 5 and it’s other smaller, cheaper EV friends do to that 2024 number 🥳

You flip from cars are expensive to no public chargers to houses don’t have driveways. If you don’t want an EV just say so, but keep flipping to different excuses is weak.

There are excellent second hand EVs at lower prices than the equivalent second hand petrol. All cars are expensive now.

Civilised countries warning their citizens is a good look.

Seems to be quite a few, all of these are working according to the app.

I’m up North, most EVs have over 150 miles range now, that’s almost 3 hours driving time according to the government averages, then 20 minutes coffee break and you’re off for another 150 miles.

Yes, £10k is still a lot of money, and no car is worth getting into financial difficulties. 🫡

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You can get a second hand ID.3, basically an electric VW Golf for less than £10k in the UK.

The charging structure in the UK is absolutely excellent.

You used the £ sign, so I assume you are here in the UK. Second hand EVs are an absolute steal at the moment, maybe worth checking out on Autotrader.

That’s an incredible car, at least it works extremely well here in the UK.

To be fair, Americans aren’t being offered a lot of the good EVs.