European Bob 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇪🇺

Existing and “near production” batteries all balance “charge speed / energy density / number of cycles”. Unless we see all of those, and material costs and price, it’s all just a bit of fluff.

Indeed, if I can be bothered I’ll be on octopus IO in spring, I’m just waiting to see what happens with smart tariffs

Does anyone know what to expect from Smart Tariffs? I’m on Cosy, around 14p kWh for parts of the day. Will the suppliers just pocket the 3.5p kWh tax reduction?

Are Tesla trying to get onto the UK grant scheme?

It looks like the battery recycling plants are going to have a few more lean years.
Charge cube exclusively uses re-purposed EV batteries to turn a 3 phase AC socket into a DC rapid charger or two.
It’s even on wheels, so you can move it around your car park.

It’s a solution for people who don’t drive and hate EVs.
We’re starting to get 1MW pillars with two CCS2 plugs on here in Europe, up to 600kW on each plug with dynamic sharing.
As you said, useful for the big trucks, I believe the eActros 600 has a 600kW CCS2 port, some also have 1MW MCS too.

Here in the UK they whine about reducing food production too. However over 2% of our farm land grows ethanol crops, with proved less than 1% of the fuel for ICE cars. The same amount of solar could power all the power for all land transport if they were EVs.

Oh well, we just choose one of the other small affordable EVs here in Europe.

It appears that the dildo of consequences has indeed arrived unlubricated.

This is sweet, when did the 🍊 💩 ever pay his bills? He entirely believes that stiffing people he owns money to is “the art of the deal”.

UK taking Andrew down with the easiest charges to prove first, expect more later.

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Luckily you sound like and angel in a choir

But was it really an engineering marvel? I mean it wasn’t an exoskeleton, they ended up building a frame and either glueing or welding panels to it, those panels ended up rusting easily and were shaped in a way that basically only America could sell them, in most countries you can’t have sharp edges

I admire your dedication to re-animating something that rally should never have existed in the first place.

Thanks Robin, I use your website most days and have been trying to find out what is happening at DBA for around 3 months.

The alternative is to have a 500km range and charge for 15 mins on route, saving ~ 200kg of weight and “investment” in more battery.

Personally I’d rather stop after 2-3 hours of driving if I’m on a long trip, and squeeze another couple of hours “range” into it in in 20-25 minutes max.

When I bought my EV last August, I had the choice of 50kWh, 59kWh or 79kWh. I consciously chose the 59kWh due to me experience of my other EV (77kWh). Some people feel the need to drag around 150kg for the 79kWh model, and in different cars some people are dragging around a total of 800-900kg.

Full fascist and failed state.

Thanks for the article Graeme. I’m in that number of second hand EVs, purely because they are an absolute bargain. My ID.3 mid spec 59kWh was 91 days old and £12,000 off new price. That’s a family sized car for what I was paying back in 2015.
So “cheap” and an excellent car too.

You could start with one of the many grid connections websites. The UK has at least 9 undersea connections to Europe (more are being built) and many dozens of connections from the windfarms to land. Whereas we only have two gas pipelines.
There is even a link in the channel tunnel, no ruskies there

Never mind the imminent threat of death.

Vastly easier than blockading the sea or blowing up one gas pipe, I don’t think so.

The only American heroes are in American movies.

News from the old country (UK) dishwasher powder is back on the shelf in my local store.

When I travel to Spain I stay overnight in a hotel towards the top of the Pyrenees Mountain range, I purposefully endure my ID.Buzz isn’t full when we stop, as the next day we have a 20km descent straight from the hotel. Got to love regen braking!

That’s true for many, but here in the UK there is a nationwide emergency service available for mis fuelled cars.
In addition, it’s down to luck too, my local filling station obviously did something wrong, as four cars failed almost immediately after filling there, luckily I didn’t use it that day.

Did we ever find out why he needed Mrs Maxwell’s contact details when he already had Epstein’s?

Can you imagine telling people that you have a Lambo then turning up in that Skoda rip off?
I’d rather have the Skoda, it would have cleared the bollard.