Why ban plug-in hybrids from using rapid Chargers ? There is no point in it since they can't possibly plug it in the plug is different well maybe in Europe it's not hairy butt in America plug-in hybrid has the same plug as a level 2 you cannot plug a DC fast charger in. But I forget you're in Europe so maybe you can out there
Hi, we are on vacation in Scotland right now. We were given an upgrade to electric car and the rental company didn’t explain how charging works . We have no issues during our first 5 days in Lake District and Edinburgh as the payment can be made easily by contactless credit card. But on the way to the highlands we stopover at Inverness and realized many EV chargers along the way couldn’t accept our contactless credit card as they required payment by RFID. We called our car rental company and asked for a replacement petrol car which was not available. We almost abort our trips to Isle of Skye and Isle of Mull until we googled and found your life saving video on how to make payment vids webpay. Many ev charging stations are not working. We really appreciate your video. Thank you so so much!!
You are ignoring the main emissions of ICEs NOx, carbon monoxide, sulfer dioxide, 10 particulates, 2.5 particulates. 7 million premature deaths per anum from air pollution, not counting the millions of birds and other air breathing animals.
Net zero lol....Doesn't make a blind bit of difference what our Country does(we produce 1% of the worlds carbon)when you have China and the likes building coal fired power stations every week. All this net zero agenda is doing is making us more poorer
Just had a look on their website - looks like you need to have had your heat pump installed by Octopus to take advantage of that plan, so unfortunately existing heat pump owners like me can't sign up to it. Good to see that more companies are offering service plans with monthly payments though - it genuinely took me ages to find this ScottishPower one, hence taking to RU-vid to tell other heat pump owners about it. It was a refreshing change from the other companies I'd contacted that wanted £200+ up front before they'd even seen my heat pump!
@@PlugLifeTelevision I can understand a company wanting to carry out a thorough inspection of a system it hasn't installed itself before taking on the responsibility for it - and charging for that inspection. You seem to have struck lucky with ScottishPower. 😎
Can you make a video factoring in the extra weight of an EV? More weight is likely to shorten the tyre life, making tyre replacement more frequent and tyre manufacture is likely a reasonably dirty process. Also more weight on the road shortens the useable life of the road, meaning more frequent resurfacing work. Re-tarmac-ing a road is also not likely to be a clean process. To bring balance to the argument, I appreciate an EV will likely be more frugal on brake pad and disk material usage courtesy of regenerative braking. So I’m not trying to pick on negatives for EVs or for petrol cars, I just think there is more that needs covering to bring a truer representation of the carbon footprint for both petrol vehicles and EVs. Well done on this video and hope you can make more great videos!
It's true that an EV will weigh more than the identical vehicle running on petrol. But the majority of EV vehicle sold until now has been small, light sedans. The majority of petrol vehicles on North American roads at least are either large SUVs or pick up trucks. Those all way considerably more than the typical Tesla.
Power generation plants and the grid also use massive amounts of energy to build and maintain. That is equivalent to a well, refinery and fuel logistics.
In NZ, this would be true if it was 95%, but it's 80%! In northland there are not many chargers and at one place, Kawakawa there is only one charger limited to 80%. I have arrived at the next station late on a rainy Sunday night with 1% because the previous one was limited to 80%. I told chargenet, they don't care.
On charging to 100%, don't batteries have a buffer that prevents that even if the car is saying 100%? I also see that, for example for my Mégane, Renault describe the battery as 60kw "useable" capacity, implying that there is a certain % of "unuseable" capacity.
I saw a Cleevley MG5 service vehicle the other day! I'd like to have my car serviced in the future by Cleevely, but worry about the electronic service book and warranty. Is this really a problem or just the dealers/manufacturers trying to stop the business going elsewhere?
Not if they are charged quickly!!!! CARB lies about the efficiency of EVs! In their ARB/MSD/7-6-94 they claim that battery efficiency is 80% and motor is 90%. These are lies!!!! Charging a battery in one hour is 5.88% efficient. In 15 minutes it is only 0.3675%!! The motor efficiency depends on how many stops are made, each time it starts the motor and system efficiency are almost ZERO because of the motor starting current which also harms the battery!!!!
Excellent video - hope you don’t mind but I’ve posted this in the community section of the Ripple Energy website for members. Apparently there is an EGM the week of 16th April when members are asked to vote to change the co-op constitution to allow Ripple to bid for CfD as opposed to the current system. I’d be interested in your thoughts?
Wish I'd come across this video a few weeks back. Trying to explain this to some over comments on another EV related channel was like banging your head against a brick wall. Explaining that, as counter intuitive as it may seem, holding onto an ICE car for longer, is not always the "greener" option. Unless you are doing really low mileage then switch to a BEV on an average mileage pretty much offsets itself within 20-25k miles. But people just can't get their heads around it. Unless you go ICE>ICE then hold on as log as you can (ICE aren't always that much more efficient), ICE>BEV do it as soon as you can afford, but then back to hold as long as you can if going BEV>BEV.
I suspect that most of the points made in this vlog are on the money. Personally, I think the vlogger could have been even more sharply critical of the so called 'spot energy market' that appears to me to be little more than a comical creation that serves the immediate interests of ensconced energy generators that base their operations on the combustion of fossil fuels. That said, there are certain obstacles to dramatically increasing the scale of the electrochemical storage of energy (at a grid scale) that I think the vlogger downplays. The obstacles aren't primarily technical but they are serious obstacles, nonetheless. It is noteworthy that no matter how advantageous the relative cost of firmed renewable power - solar, wind or hydro generation including all storage costs - over fossil fuel power generation (typically without short or long term storage) on a per megawatt hour of despatched energy basis that still only gives us a small sliver of the full picture of energy costs and economics today. The problem here is that the costs of augmenting power generation operations that have been established over a long period still fall well below the cost of building a wholly new energy infrastructure from scratch that is meant to supplant the long established one and make it obsolete. The former can be done on chump change, out of annual profits, the latter requires a huge investment of capital which could presage either a big win or bankruptcy down the line for new power generators. And, how do large investors behave when they register the financial risks that attach to a bet on renewables (at an early stage of development)? Too many of them opt to invest in established dirty power generators that are seen as a safe bet at least in the short-term. And, how are these new on the scene renewables generators doing? Quite a few of them are going broke! What? Why? Many of these new players went into the field on a shoestring budget hoping to hit profitability early. Having heavy exposure to banks or other financial backers and despite the efficiency of their operations renewables generators can't accrue income fast enough to deal with debt and interest repayments. All of the players are looking for a quick pay out and there is little motivation to extend further loans to cash strapped renewables generators. Is there a moral to this story? Deep pockets matter, don't go into major undertakings like this without all the necessary financial support lined up. But the evidence suggests that there won't be a lot of financial support for maverick high capex power generators. So, what to do? Even if the state doesn't subsidise renewable power - a sensible move in any case even if it comes in the form of penalties on dirty power generators - it should act as a generous lender of last resort. The state should spend in line with policy to raise investment across the national energy sector to the required level. It is commonly held (although there are different opinions on this) that several hundred terrawatts of storage will be required for the completion of renewable/intermittent power grids at a global scale. The right way to do this is pick up the pace. The way that soft loans can be successfully repaid is by getting the job done as quickly as possible with fossil fuel generators given the boot from the public grid without delay, because they are no longer required. Until fossil fuels aren't called upon at all to meet one hundred percent of our needs fossil fuel generators will continue to lord it over renewables generators that will remain in the cash strapped predicament that they are in today.
This is a super clear explanation of how we can fix the electricity prices and make it work for everyone. Why would the government not do this change to percentage based when it will cost them nothing. I guess they do not want to upset the profits of their big oil giant friends.
In case you're finally this now today in 2024 or recently most easy manufacturers battery companies battery experts will tell you that yes there is a greater sense of degravation and a lithium ion based battery when charged fully to 100% all the things that he stays here are true except for the fact that there isn't a degradation or even damaged it's not an instantaneous damage it is just a greater sense of degradation than would be the case between say 10 and 80% of 20 to 80% that last 20% does take longer charge but it also does cause fracturing of elements inside the electrolyte and it does increase the rate of degradation and therefore shorten the life of the battery.
The idea that one has to charge to 100% is for most a nonsense I’ve worked in petrol stations and a large proportion of customers don’t fill to 100% rather they put an amount in £s. It seems to me that most car manufacturers are way behind when it comes to charge points. Tesla chose to build their own hubs worldwide and that’s the reason they’re so far ahead.
Maybe not the place to ask, but I'm interested in the capabilities of the "Munro" off-roader that Euan mentioned. "Drag a Land Rover Defender into a dark alley and duff it up" is quite a claim. I've seen a video where a Defender actually drags a BIN LORRY out of a deep ford, after the idiot driver hydrolocked it by trying to take it like he was a hovercraft. It's seriously impressive. Can the Munro measure up to that?
The guy from the RAC was very interesting, but the interviewer wasn't actually interviewing the RAC guy, the interviewer was just giving his own points and not asking the RAC guy questions.
It's nice to see a new video on the channel! I tend to ignore EV videos more than a year old as no longer being relevant, so come on, we need new stuff. If you want some ideas, how about something specifically about the care and feeding of LFP batteries? We're drowning in advice relating to NMC batteries, and sometimes that same advice gets punted for LFP as well although it may not be applicable. For example, what about "shallow cycles" where you habitually recharge to 100% when you've only gone down to about 70%? Is rapid charging really harmful? How much degradation is normal in the first year?
@@NicolasRaimo I think that's the one I swear by and keep punting, but it's still mainly about NMC with some almost throw-away lines about the LFP. I'd love to hear him give 20 minutes or so just to the LFP, in the light of what I think (but am not certain) is misleading advice given on other channels - including the ubiquitous Dave Takes It On.
You said that Electric vehicles brake down less than Ice vehicles but according to Hertz they make down more than their Ice vehicles , that is why they have cancelled their purchases of Teslas and polestars
Great video but as someone who has no driveway, even the cheapest lamppost charger at 45p/kWh is massively more expensive than a night rate of just 7p/kWh.
Whilst you're correct, it's also worth appreciating that in order to take advantage of a ~7p/kWh rate at home, there needs to be an investment of ~£1000 on a charger installation. I agree more needs to be done to level the costs though - perhaps through loyalty schemes or proof of local residency for those with no alternative other than on-street parking.
50% of the UK public can't charge at home. And at the moment public charges are charging way too much. Eventually it might change but it can't be pushed by the government. ( HS2 )
My first ever EV had a 12V battery go flat (Renault software bug). The RAC took over 24 hours to arrive but apart from that they were great and are the goto company for breakdown cover. It looks like they have their heads in the right space for EV support.
We have a converted ev landrover at work, and I had a rac van look it up on there system and its still classified as diesel even though its correctly changed on the v5 and online database?
Inductive charging on pavements outside homes or in car parks. No fuss with cables. Just park and the car charges itself. But.. the real social equality will come when public transport is upgraded and improved as a viable alternative to the car. I'd happily use my car less if public transport was cheaper, more frequent, and more reliable.
Agreed with you on public transport. Inductive charging will be more expensive to install, and given our inability to keep on top of potholes, it could be more prone to damage than we'd originally thought. It has uses for taxi ranks and people with limited mobility who may struggle with cables, though.
Can they fit a tyre to a wheel rim at the side of the road ?. I keep a spare tyre for our Tesla MY just in case we shed one. Not needed it yet but interesting to know if the RAC can tyre fit when mobile
It's not just EVs that need a 'four wheel carry' if they break down. many older 4x4s have to be flat bedded also. (The very ones most likely to break down).
