2 years with the VW Transporter ABT electric van for my business 

Do you know how or what they did to get it to charge at 7? I take it, you are using a 7kw home charger

Cheers William I really appreciate the support

It’s the van I get the same speeds away from home

Update, took it in for its 25k mile service and they actually managed to sort the charging speed it’s now charging at 7kwph

I know right, thanks for sticking by the channel for over 2 years 👍👍

@@vanmantalks always enjoy your content and love a good drive around the countryside lol. Hope you and the family are doing well and had a good summer. Oh, I just remembered: a lot of left-leaning channels on you tube are complaining about sudden demonetization and other issues. I have also noticed that YT seem to be Unsubscribing people from these commentators without notification or warning, so, check your sub numbers often! I found that I had been Unsubbed from several commentators such as Phil, Max and Marcus ('All Shorts') in France! Weird stuff going down. Take care and keep up the fight! Cheers from Brunei.

Same here, I thought he purchased it lately.

Thanks for your loyal support 👍👍

Didnt he buy one and was pissed off with it ? i thought it was him when i was watching this .

Glad you enjoy it 👍nothing worse than range anxiety

Yeah I have tried It’s definitely the van I get the same speeds away from home

Thank you Nicholas really appreciate it, that’s going straight towards my new Pc so I can edit and make videos much easier

Cheers Tony

It’s the van I get the same speeds away from home very very slow

I didn’t send it 😂😂

@@vanmantalks😂😂 I am sure she would have been amused lol😂

I change it regularly from Australian to Indian

i just said that , i think its worth having an electrician take a look at it .

Superchargers are 'Rapid' chargers and supply DC straight to the vehicle's battery. Home chargers are 'Fast' chargers that supply AC to the vehicle's on-board charger. On-board chargers are usually rated at 7.5kw, or 22kw for 3 phase chargers. If the on-board charger will only handle 3kw, that's what limiting it - that would be extremely unusual. He should try another AC charger (e.g. in a supermarket car park etc)

lithium batteries aren't a new thing, in the r/c world we have been using them for a long time and one thing I will say is how many fires I have had while charging!! DON'T RUSH CHARGING AT HOME!

It works fine if you keep turning only right.

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You have to go back home the same way

None at all nothing mechanical has failed over the 3 years I have owned it. Even the charging issue is now sorted I may even end up buying it once my lease is up How much are they going for?

That’s reassuring, you hear so many horror stories about these vans… £11500+VATish! I’ve seen £11k inc vat in some cases

What’s the highest range you’d seen in the dash? Just curious

Unfortunately they don’t make them anymore you can pick them up on finance pretty cheap

Cheers man, do you still use yours?

@@timetostartup3451 yes I extended my 2 year lease for an extra year, I have it till November I may end up buying it depending on price. I love the van and after I got it serviced it’s now charging at twice the speed

@@vanmantalkshow did they get it to charge faster?

So fast? 😮🎉 Oh wait 🤔

@@verttikoo2052 don't forget that court cases had been put off because of the pandemic, then a back log when opening back up. Litigation is not quick.

What? Are you arguing that more of this Country's base load supply should come from renewables? In that case I would totally agree. 100% would be great but probably not achievable without a huge change in Government policy which currently seems closely aligned with the interests of fossil fuel providers. This, despite the impact a crisis involving a major fossil fuel provider invading a European country has had on the cost of this form of energy and all our bills. It's been very good for fossil fuel suppliers, though. Their profits have gone through the roof. In the first quarter of this year the UK Government's own figures state that 47.8 of the UK's electricity came from renewables. That's nearly half that would otherwise have been provided by burning fossil fuels. Quite a lot of that was used to power vehicles that otherwise would have been burning fossil fuels. What happens is that public charging firms will be buying their electricity from renewable energy suppliers and so will most that use home chargers for their electric vehicles as those offer the best tariffs. As electric vehicles become more widespread there will be even more demand for that energy to come from renewables. Then, what of the localised pollution of having millions of vehicles running around ALL burning fossil fuels going straight past where most people live rather than burning 1/2 as much in far off remote places in a much more efficient manner? So, just to be totally clear; you don't think that there's any point in running electric vehicles because we don't have 100% renewable energy supply. Come on, what's your real reason?

As I type this the Renewable energy in the UK grid is 52% and the Carbon neutral element 66%. (incl Nuclear) Gas is 11% , Oil and coal is 0%. There are also elements from Imports from France Norway and Netherlands, mostly renewable. 1010. 07/10/2023. (edited to Add Oil consumption)

@@leecooper8589 "47.8% of UK electricity supply came from renewables and quite a lot of that was used to power vehicles". There are 900,000 EV's registered in the UK, and going by your figures, "quite a lot" (what ever that means) of the 47.8% renewable energy generated was used to charge those EV's. Now compare the 900,000 EV's with the roughly 38 million vehicles in the UK that use fossil fuels. There will need to be more than a 400% increase in the renewable energy generated just to charge EV's once ICE vehicles are no longer able to be used. This 400% increase doesn't take into account the energy needed to run all the homes, businesses, etc. Then we have the damage caused to the environment by digging out the lithium and cobalt, and the dangers to the children (Blood batteries) used in the extraction the minerals. This doesn't take into account the increase in the costs of buying these minerals, with lithium now known by another name, White Gold. The cost to buy EV's is already extortionate and will continue to be so, along with the inevitable increase in cost to charge them. The Russian/Ukrainian conflict and the effects of it on oil and gas prices, is all down to the West's sanctions and so is self inflicted. P.S. We are now hearing that people are getting into fights at public charging points due to the amount of time drivers are having to wait to charge the vehicles.

Yup statistics, I can tell you from personal experience working on these jobs, quite a few coal power stations have changed from coal to biomass , and the ports I.e imminghan and Liverpool hold this biomass , only issue is a big one , what is biomass ? Its trees cut into chippings , resin and other chemicals to bind together mainly coming from South America , shipped to the U.K. and burnt instead, that counts as a renewable and towards our net 0. Just think about that for a minute, and that’s what is better for the environment, burning trees , ship from other side of planet and now theirs less trees to help soak up the co2 , I use to love the idea of net 0 and helping the environment but seeing is believing and iv seen enough of this bs, it’s the unfortunate reality, I wish wind was enough but as a electrician I understand the numbers and how little demand that can cover for our national use, the amount of turbines needed to power the U.K. would blow most peoples mind and isn’t possible with useable space, the only solution to cut co2 drastically and enough output is nuclear but that has a whole host of worries in its self, it would need huge investment to increase its safety and a real plan for nuclear waste to work also, but it’s the most realistic option in my humble opinion