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1 hour ago, Orb said:
Ah ok. Still, it's hardly the equivalent of flipping burgers or sorting parcels at Amazon. £24k is a scandal for what police officers have to endure.
And you just watch what happens when they have the audacity to expect anything like an inflation-matching pay rise.
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None of the noises Reeves is making suggests to me that we should expect a massive contest to the Tories in this regard.
Also I'm not the first, but 'Property Science' FFS
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1 hour ago, 14stFlyer said:
This is the bit that many of our HPC friends, and the media in general, have got so wrong.
The concept that owning an electric car is more stressful than owning an ICE vehicle is for the birds. EVs are:
Less stressful to drive as smoother and quieter.
Less stressful to refuel /recharge as simply plug in at home (yes, kzb, I know I am lucky).
Less stressful in upkeep as fewer things to go wrong.
And while going to collect the car I had to walk past a massive queue of cars and vans at the tail end of the morning commute, which brought home how filthy some can be: the air reeked with the sweet smell of diesel fumes.
It's incredible so many people still think this is the preferred solution.
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Just got my 2016 Leaf back from MOT today. No advisories again, it's never even had a single one. Only serviced twice since new, probably more than it needed as they only seem to do a visual check and change the cabin filter, which is easy DIY.
Still on original brake pads and discs with imperceptible wear.
50,000 miles and full battery health indicated (which means between 85 and 100% capacity vs. new.
Honestly, this EV ownership is so stressful!
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2 hours ago, Sour Mash said:
Do you even understand how pivotal oil is to everything we do in the modern World?
Even assuming we could magically meet all our electricity needs right now without any fossil fuels being burned to get it, we'd still be screwed without them.
Do you think the windmills, solar panels and nuclear power stations could be built without fossil fuels being consumed in large amounts somewhere along the chain, for example.
This is one of the best arguments you could have come up with to stop wasting a finite resource like oil on dirty and inefficient vehicle journeys when it has crucial uses elsewhere.
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33 minutes ago, Jean-Luc said:
Of all the things that never happened... this never happened the most!
How convenient for an EV zealot to have their petrol car catch fire and anyway wtf you doing with an ICE car anyway you naughty boy tut tut clearly not quite bought into the technology (EV) have you? 😉
Just everyone else that is to give up their ICE then eh? lol 😂
Well, it did. We'd already replaced our old 250,000 mile Peugeot 207 with a Nissan Leaf (after it turns out modern garages can't do complicated tasks like head gaskets properly).
After the 406 caught fire, it seemed like a logical step to get a better partnering EV to go with it because we like the Leaf so much.
We still have the 207 for tip runs and what is left of the 406 coupe is a gate guardian until it can hopefully be repaired, but driving a petrol car now just feels like Victorian tech.
An MG5 estate has almost the on-paper performance of my pyro 3.0 V6 coupe, but with one, long looooong gear. It's ace.
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19 minutes ago, Ballyk said:
He's not an extremist, just uninformed.
The problem isn't the Rowan Atkinson article alone, but this constant anti-EV background noise almost certainly influenced by vested interests.
I had a car fire just outside the house last year and all the neighbours asked me 'was it your electric car' over and over, I almost got a t-shirt made to answer. Turns out it was my petrol car, you know, the one which was full of highly volatile and flammable petrol in proximity to very hot surfaces, but you know...
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49 minutes ago, staintunerider said:
What the ****
It's like claiming a poster on a share discussion board can move the market or someone posting here can crash the housing market....ludicrous....
I had actually read that article then promptly forgotten it....I have many reasons I donlt go for EV's and basically the more i learn about them and the ownership experience...the less they interest me....
I don't do major mileage these days so not worth it for me...if i suddenly had to do significant mileage I'd choose an ICE car end of story....
My current car was my project car it's 32 years old built in the 90's but really an 80's car ...it's in the GTI league and can embarass many a modern car....i realised with the low miles i just didnt need an expensive new ICE or EV so no more lease cars etc.....for long runs it's still more than capable and i don;t get range anxiety unlike the EV crowd....
What do you count as 'major mileage'? If you only do short distances, presumably urban, then EVs are ideal. Instead of an expensive new one, maybe get a cheap used one.
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13 hours ago, The Angry Capitalist said:
Lol.
That's funny.
However, I do think you are trolling.
But I will bite.
If they are so good why are they not selling?
Are you able to counter any of my points, then?
As I conceded, the battery tech presently lets the side down, and I'll add that the infrastructure does need to keep pace. But both of these factors are constantly improving, and while EVs are not for all usage cases at the moment, they will be one day.
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My comment on that original Guardian article was deleted by the moderators for calling it up on the various inaccuracies and misleading statements within. I had joked whether they had been sponsored to share it by the fossil fuel industry. Maybe I touched a nerve/fact?
Internal combustion engines technology is just inferior in almost every way:
- technically complex
- high maintenance
- lower lifetime reliability of entire system
- inefficient
- polluting where used
- will never ever be truly sustainable
- dependent upon fuel from dodgy regimes
- noisy
- lower performance
The only downer with EVs at the moment is battery tech, but even in their present guise suit most applications, most of the time, and they continue to be improved constantly and rapidly.
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1 hour ago, Sour Mash said:
Only a matter of time before there's a nationally organised 'Islamic' party.
The Socialist Burka Party?
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1 hour ago, Sackboii said:
Maybe they have seen all the Tesla's hooning around at breakneck speed and all the stamping on the brakes that goes with it. No amount of regenerative braking can stop some of the erratic behaviour I see on an almost daily basis on the roads, which makes them no different to a similar tool in an ICE vehicle.. 🙄
Hmm perhaps, although in my experience regenerative braking can dissipate a huge amount of energy, but there is a limit!
Maybe we just need a massive hike on taxation of brake discs and pads. That would help modify behaviour and the dust issue would be eliminated completely for EVs.
But here's me suspecting they're just after an arbitrary way of rinsing a particular demographic of even more money on a daily basis.
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14 minutes ago, Roman Roady said:
If they want to increase the size of the military, improve the lot of existing veterans for a start! Get them off the streets. Give them better tax outcomes and preferential access to NHS care and social housing. Want to have your student debt wiped out? Serve 10 years etc
...and if you're unlucky, you can have your debt wiped out even sooner
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38 minutes ago, Aidan Ap Word said:
Actually - a lot of it does, and improving all the time.
Makes you wonder what that graphic could look like if the government was actually serious about renewables.
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35 minutes ago, Aidan Ap Word said:
Meanwhile losses from combustion are always 60% or more.
And of course oil extracted from the ground magically morphs into usable fuel with zero external input, and then teleports itself directly to the filling station ready to eagerly fill people's cars.
^ wish the quote included the comment you were responding to for context.
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6 minutes ago, Sackboii said:
Simple. Children trump all so it seems.
And yet productive people that desperately want a child but cannot get one for biological reasons get ****** all help in comparison. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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This came up at work only last week.
Anecdotal warning but the guy I was talking to says he has an unemployed and single relative, with eight kids via multiple sperm delivery tubes, who is clearing around 4k untaxed a month.
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2 hours ago, hotblack42 said:
🤣🤣🤣
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3 hours ago, Saving For a Space Ship said:
A source at the council added: “Electric vehicles with larger batteries generally produce greater lifetime emissions. Larger electric vehicles also release more particulate matter from their brakes and tyres.
What the f... They are talking out of their actual rectum here. People who have literally no idea what they are talking about should be nowhere near policy decisions. They clearly do not understand how EV braking works and I'd like to see their citation for the greater lifetime emissions.
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On 26/01/2024 at 11:14, dryrot said:
Why did they buy one with drug-dealer trim and absurd lo-profile tyres then?
🤣 They make Audlem out to be some remote backwater. It's really not, and as suggested by you those tyres are pure style (supposedly) over substance if you're actually concerned about potholes.
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You need conscientiousness and ability to get qualifications: this could eviscerate the industry of staff.
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34 minutes ago, Stewy said:
That story about conscription was very weird.
Planted simultaneously in many media.
I reckon it was to test to see how the ongoing national demoralisation campaign is working so far.
It's working poorly on me. Don't let them win. Take the Honk Pill, realise Life is Great, don't be demoralised, and don't fight for them either. ✓✓✓
It did seem odd. The prospect is certainly out there in conversation now...
Maybe just an ex-forces leader trying to shock the government into actually taking defence seriously?
Senior politicians selling the country as now pre-war was concerning though!
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The UK and Russia are nuclear powers. I thought MAD was intended to prevent the possibility of escalation to any form of 'hot war'?
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2 hours ago, Gigantic Purple Slug said:
Diesels should probably be banned from city centres, but are fine in most other places. They are very CO2 efficient. It's the NOx that is bad.
If you are motorway driving diesels are fine, you're producing less CO2 per mile than petrol.
The real problem for cities as I see it are woodburning stoves. They really should be banned.
Yeah I can agree with this.
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Any particular reason why it's suddenly taking off again? I'm not massively invested after getting my fingers burned a bit in the last cycle and just sitting tight on what I already had.
But now I'm back in the black I of course wish I'd been drip feeding more funds since then. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Are we at the FOMO stage? It's a difficult emotion to resist, but looking at the charts it looks like this run has a way to go yet.