ARE ELECTRIC CARS THE NEXT BETAMAX? [EV News - Week 3, 2024] 

Just lock the focus mate 👍🏻

Did you record it to Betamax? 🙂

Move your condenser mic to the left of your face, it doesn’t need to be where it is. It’ll help with the focusing - lock the focus if you can.

The electric car made your camera do it. Will be a story in the Sun tomorrow. 😂

Please do it’s actually quite jarring

PHEV mpg is meaningless though isn’t it? If you always do local journeys and never go beyond the electric range you get an infinite number of miles per gallon. If you do a journey of 500 miles you probably get 30mpg as the small amount of electric juice is gone after 25 miles. BTW, I am currently a PHEV driver…..

@@thelaserhive3368 I changed it at least once every day 34 miles of electric only. Used wrongly they do around 34 mpg, I got 105 over a three year 30,000 mile lease the electricity was free then but now it would get you a 75 mpg equivalent at todays prices. I had a BMW i3s for the next 3 years and now have a Smart #1 Brabus. It’s a keeper I’m never changing it.

@@thelaserhive3368 But the point is that these were early PHEV's, and newer ones will improve on that. There is alleged to be legislation on the way, requiring new PHEV's do able to travel X number of miles on electricity alone. Although the distance X will eventually be, has still to be decided. Plus as charging infrastructure improves, it should become possible to charge fairly quickly, more often on longer trips, which improves efficiency further still....

@@Brian-om2hh I can’t see that. A PHEV ( much as I love my Countryman) will never be as efficient electrically as a proper BEV as it is carrying around an extra engine, gearbox and fuel tank. My 2nd gen PHEV gets maybe 3 miles per kWh at best. Interested to know what legislation you’re talking about though. BTW my PHEV goes back this month and my next car is a Niro EV that should be markedly more efficient and cheaper to run.

I think the real range extender EV's (none available outside of China) are interesting - a full BEV that can do 500km/310mi on a charge plus a small gasoline engine ad tank that can add an extra 100km/62mi in an emergency.

Yes and look what happened to DVDs....even charity shops have stopped taking them.

@@bobstirling6885right!! However if I may interlude (?) Disney VHS videos are now worth brewsters as is my old J reg Ford Escort . 🤷‍♀️

I’ve got it in my mind that Betamax was the better option but the p’rn industry preferred VHS as it was cheaper to produce

And Betamax morphed into professional Betacam, Digital Betacam and HDCAM. Whereas all VHS derived professional formats (MII, D9 and others) flunked. So Beta had the last laugh. Sony made more money from Beta and its derivatives than anyone ever did from VHS. So the whole analogy is just rubbish.

I agree with you about the microphone... but not about the cat 🤭

@@DavidLewis-lk4bk But the cat is a ventriloquist !

You typed that without moving your lips.

@@DavidLewis-lk4bk Gottle of Gear

Yeah sorry - I was going to just bin this footage but didn’t have time to re-do it.

​@@ModernHeroeshey that's ok, I managed. Really appreciate the work that goes into these.👍

But hydrogen was never technically superior.

@@rogerstarkey5390 neither was betamax really. It only appeared that way as a version of it went on to be used in professional video production..

Not quite the premium VAG brand. I think Audi are still claiming that title, although admittedly the quality of Skoda's today, would surprise some people....

@@Brian-om2hh Disagree there, Skoda = premium, Audi = Luxury, Porsche = performance/sport.

See the pinned comment - it's a work in progress

You could at one time specify sports suspension on most new Skoda's, if you preferred cornering without scraping your door handles. But yes, Skoda is aimed more at the comfort end of the market, although there are the VRS models for those who don't have time to hang around. Not long back, someone got nicked on a stretch of the M6 not far from where I live, doing 152 mph in an Octavia VRS.

What channel?

@@bathfun ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--qtjJBxSagg.htmlsi=qGyl5AK_LFTp3fQK

Better analogy.

Don’t remember talking about EVs being carbon neutral in this video at any point 🤔 significantly cleaner in all but a handful of countries that have extremely high grid carbon though (the UK isn’t one of those countries)

With that shirt it's better he stays where he is 😁

But the insurance for them will be more than that.

That market won't exist in EVs due to the second life use of EV batteries as static storage. The batteries themselves won't get that low in price.

@@johnpedelty3866 The cost of insurance for ICE cars and property has also risen. It is not simply just EV's

I don’t think in the future cars will be available at such low prices. My hope for more affordable vehicles is through car sharing.

All cars are getting more expensive, a lot of people will stop owning cars and just use taxis. The days of the cheap car are over. It is the end of the democratisation of the car.

And too much logic to be defeated

But fluorescent lights lasted 80 years.

@@rogerstarkey5390 The low energy light bulbs didn't.

LOL dream on you clearly have never driven one. I think you’re in the wrong channel?

@@Yorkshireasaurus "they are inferior in every respect" says the man who has never owned, driven, sat in, or even touched an EV.....

@@Yorkshireasaurus You right I do not own one but we have 3 in our work and they are now just sitting idle as we had to buy in 3 diesel cars as its cheaper to let them sit there until the lease is up. They were creating havoc with our warranty work, engineers were arriving late due to chargers either out of order or getting used, we were spending money on hotels when they could not get back in time. They were moaning that they were away from home at night and they just wanted their diesel cars back. I agree they are suitable as a play item or for someone with a very predictable route with charging facilities at home. Unfortunately for the future of EVs they need mass adoption as i think about 80% sales are to companies like us due to tax breaks. We are not alone in wanting rid of them, we certainly will not be buying anymore, I dread to think how much money the finance company is going to lose on them. This year should be interesting as they need to sell 22% of them and according to the trade they are saying they have no chance of selling them. Arnold Clark have changed some dealers Ito BYD dealers and our local ford one changed. I had my mondeo estate in for a service as they still do servicing work and the guys were saying they have sold about 4 BYD cars this month !! What a friggin disaster this is going to be for the motor trade.

But your missing one very important point, they need to sell them in the first place. Now that companies mainly buy evs just for tax breaks and nothing to do with the reasons you mention. We have been using diesel cars for 20 years and they were capable of hundreds of thousands of miles without issue. I am sure we are not the only company getting rid of them and as private buyers are not interested in them it irrelevant how good or reliable they are.

@@OverlandExpedition Yet their is a service engineer on RU-vid who has done 100,000 in under 2 years travelling all over the UK without issue. Why would the cars sit idle, could other staff members use them? Good comapnies do not encourange their staff to drive hundreds of miles per day. Amazon have lots of electric vans and don't seem to have any issues.