My ELECTRIC CAR will be the DEATH of me! These vehicles have dEVastating consequences! 

As long as we have a choice of electric or petrol /diesel then that's OK....we can choose. But to take petrol and diesel away then that is flatly WRONG 😢😢😢

The bigger issue is that most of us cannot afford these cars. Before the ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars in 2035 the price of the second hand market will increase. This is all a plan to reduce the amount of private ownership and force a large amount of the population onto public transport.

EV’s are a stepping-stone to removing personal transport from the majority of us.

i left worcester saturday travelled to sheffield topped up with diesel 28 pound then visited mansfield then back to kidderminster then on to worcester just short of a quarter of a tank when back home no need to top up 4 at least 3 weeks now stuff your EV,s

When I am filling up with petrol, I do not stop at 80% full. Instead of doing that, I think to myself let's wait another few seconds, until I'll have my tank100% full. Nobody behind me has ever complained about the additional delay.

I live in Romania and the average age of cars here is 16.9 years, second only to Lithuania at 17 years. Infrastructure for EVs is very poor unless you live in or very near a city. Filling stations for petrol and diesel cars outside cities are also few and far between so there are fewer sites where EV charging points could be installed. Although the EU has delayed the ban on sale of new ICE vehicles until 2035, in my opinion most Romanians and probably others in East European countries will be driving around in ICE vehicles for at least the next three decades.

Here in Canada there are hundreds of km between towns and cities. The temperature can go down to below minus 20 degrees Celsius in the winter. Mandatory EVs would be an actual death sentence here! 🤡

The other thing to mention is if you have children asleep in the car on a long journey eg going on holiday in an EV you can't just go for a coffee or go shopping without piling the kids out with you but especially if you have a dog, you cant leave it in the vehicle or take it in with you . You could be an hour waiting to get on to a charger & then maybe another hour charging .. with petrol or diesel it's 5 minutes & off on your journey or you might not even have to stop at all.

I've got nothing against electric car owners. In fact, I'm happy they earn enough money to Own one. I'm 74 years old living in a flat On the second floor. I will never be able to afford an electric car. Or to be able to charge it. at home. Good luck to all the people that got enough money to waste.

On the news it said insurance for electric cars was going up by 70% and some companies won’t insure electric cars , that doesn’t seem like the future to me

To put 60 litres of diesel in my car would cost £93:54 which will give me 600 miles plus of range and max time of 10 mins . Why on earth would I want to piddle about every 200 miles? Loitering around an M&S or Costa for 30/45 minutes. Not for me.

That thing about heating, windscreen wipers, air conditioning and even charging your mobile will take a massive toll on the distance you can drive

Getting into a fire breathing ICE car is part of the pleasure. The sound, the gear changing, the character, the looks of other people as you drive by, the envy of other vehicle drivers as you zoom happily past another EV driver having yet another coffee as they wait for their thing to charge!

Lee, you should ask the question:- people who bought electric cars but then went back to combustion engine cars what was your reasons for converting back?

Imagine the PM sitting in a bullet proof EV at the charging point. Are the world's military forces about to go EV? The carbon generated by the military activity in the last year and a bit has erased any carbon saving that would be made if the whole of the UK were EV tomorrow.

If you want to know how safe EV batteries are then just look at the insurance increases being placed on EV's. The insurers know the truth even if the Gov and Media don't want to tell the truth.

Actually, the choice of Post Office is a perfect match, by the time you get served in the post office your car will be fully charged!

Im not a fan of EVs

How many Hotels with underground parking are taking a seriously look at banning ev from their car parks ?

I think all politicians should be made to drive EV’s and have the charging stations under the buildings they work in!

Appreciate your honesty Lee. It's a rare and precious commodity these days mate. 😉👍🏻

Lee that Tesla driver who flashed his light just took two miles of his range

Always on the inside lane nursing their range anxiety Never daring to discharge their cars by putting their foot down & pressing on!!

Love your work Lee. You could remind people that it would be virtually impossible to build a petrol, diesel, OR electric vehicle without the use of synthetic polymers which are derived from crude oil. So apart from the alternative propulsion, if you buy an EV you still using fossil fuels!!!

You should go to a swingers party Lee and sneak out with a different set of keys 😂

Most EV drivers tend to have a rather smug look of righteousness,as they drive around saving the planet in their contract [ another word for rented] cars.

Never mind the cost, it’s the huge waste of time that will put most of us off going anywhere near those cars. Who has that amount of time to spend waiting around to charge your car every couple of hundred miles. And you don’t even know how much the charging costs!

I don't object to people wanting to own an electric car, what I object to is being forced to subsidise someone who wants an electric car, which is what's happening.

There is a subject with EV's that is almost never discussed and that is the disposal of spent batteries,are we creating another environmental challenge?

Never ever ever ever will I buy an EV NEVER EVER is that clear ! 🙋🏼‍♂️.

I know a few EV drivers from both the UK and Europe and none have said they will buy another, unless it’s been forced upon them as business vehicles. All say it’s a complete nightmare to live with in reality. It’s exactly like you said. In a big city for pottering about on short journeys they make sense. But if you’re in provincial towns, rural or making journeys of any significance, then the whole thing collapses. A friend of mine in Norway works in Oslo during the week and lives in the country at weekends. Apparently about an hour outside of Oslo there’s a huge EV station with over 30 chargers yet every Friday evening there’s hours long queues waiting for a slot because it’s where everyone has to stop to charge. In other words, even when there’s huge investment in the infrastructure it can’t cope. In the UK I don’t think the ICE ban will ever happen. (A) Battery technology is really at the limit of Li-ion capability as we speak. And more importantly: (B)There isn’t anything like the capacity in the national grid to switch to even half the UK vehicles being EV. The economy would collapse overnight. No electable government is actually ever going to do that in the UK.

Its a bit if a scam. You are trapped in an area where you can only buy food or drinks, and for a longish length of time. Meanwhile, it only takes 5-7 minutes to fill & pay for fuel with another 3 minutes to grab a coffee. Your refuel was about 40 minutes minimum and only taking it to 89% full!

If I'm going to fill up with petrol or diesel, I don't buy anything I don't need, have meetings, eat expensive food because there are 10 people waiting for me to fill up or because it takes forever.

My 1-5 Diesel planet killer is still not for sale.

Porsche Taycan Turbo S must be the best way to throw away nearly £100k in depreciation in less than 3 years but Great car if you can afford one, I’m getting one in about 3 or 4 years time just for fun but probably only be £10k by then.

The grid cant cope with football match or a cliffhanger eastenders so its def a no go for everyone having an ev

174 miles and a charge of £39.44.My Ford Focus does 45mpg so say 4 gallons or 18 litres @ 1.53 per litre = £27.54 for the journey. No time spent at a charger, instant cost at the pump.

Yes im holding back and not getting a electric car and waiting for flying cars.

Mavis and Harold will probably be on their 6th booster by now .

And insurance companies are now asking if you have an ev on your driveway. As this will increase the premium, due to the fire risk.

All you need is a team from NASA's Apollo 13 era in the car to calculate what you need to switch off to achieve a low enough consumption of power to make it home🤣🤣

One electric car company has gone bankrupt,diesel cars do not self combust they are lying the only way a diesel car will set fire is if its the interior or someone setting it alight

It was a hybrid car that went on fire in Luton the fire was were the battery pack was on the front left hand side ,

‘Hello! Is that the AA? I need some more AA’s for my EV.’

Planning permission isn't the problem. It's grid capacity.

Why is it called GRIDSERVE if every thing there is powered by solar? I don’t believe that roof area is sufficient to charge enough storage batteries to power all those EV’s, especially at night.

I can completely replace the engine in both of my car's and it would still cost less than buying one EV.

Lee your mission to educate the uneducated is admirable. Sadly way too many people buy into all the EV advertising hype. Keep driving that POS and spreading the real truth. 👏🏻

Just ask them how much they paid for their car and then ask them how much it is worth now. Queue tears and tantrums

I only know 3 people who currently have EV's. 2 has Tesla's and the other has an Audi. All 3 are going back to petrol or diesel

£39.00 for roughly £200 miles. That’s terrible, a diesel would be a lot more economical.

Mister Macmaster have to laugh at what the evangelical morons spout on about ev's & have an answer for everything! The way things are going with vehicles setting on fire ..insurance wanting to know di ya have an ev & charge at home & also car insurance companies hiking up the premium plus the cost of even taking one on as nobody buys new cars anymore only pcp or lease then the electric car market will only be for a small niche of car owners & i can tell ya one of em won't be me !!!!! Keep up the educational vlogs Lee ❤🎉💯👌

The airport car fire was DEFINITELY NO DIESEL FIRE. If it had been diesel burning there would have been massive black smoke from that diesel burning. The images show zero black smoke. Had diesel been burning it would have run onto the ground either rear near tank, but most likely from engine bay. There was no fire on the ground, massive flames from under floor on passenger side of the vehicle. Had it been diesel infact the fire would need alternative ignition source so engine bay would only place, but diesel itself is hard to ignite at other than very high temperatures. Unlike petrol diesel has natural high flash temperature, petrol has components that self ignite even at sub zero, diesel needs hot over + 60 deg as flash temp. But there are no high voltage ignition sources like petrol, high exhaust manifold temperatures could ignite diesel in rare circumstances, but liquidvdiesel spilling on manifild vapourises into blue oil fumes smoking away not igniting, in quantities needed for the fire in the airport case it would be visible and dripping to floor level, and as above if burning black sooty smoke. Other ignition source could be the normal 12V battery in the engine bay that could burn, and does on some cars with wiring faults, or internal battery shorts. Again evidence would have burning plastic dripping to floor and black smoke. Have seen several cars with 12v battery fires after accidents and two cases of random battery fires. All in 40 years of car development work and testing of prototype cars. Clear evidence of 12v battery burning, dripping burning plastic and clear engine compartment fire. The airport fire is centred at mid vehicle passenger side. Now as far as extinguishing that fire, had it been diesel sourced, the fire brigade could have easily xtinguished that using foam and/or powder extinguishing sources or even CO2. Water would not wash the fuel burning so they would not use that, but if used also would have been avoiding massive building destruction that resulted from that fire. That destruction of building and so many other vehicles is classic of an EV battery pack fire, that known fire fighting resource can put out, ALL such fires presently must be left to burnout. One method demonstrated planned for car transport on ferry and other large ships is chilled high pressure water flooding demonstrated recently in a video, from Norway as I recall. But not feasible for mobile fire brigade resources. A other interesting aspect of that airport fire is that the tail lights of the burning vehcle are ON, therebyy 12V battery, and wiring system of the vehicle arecstill fully functional, again not likely for a diesel fire. Also the carpark local fire extinguisher was already drained, when other people tried to use it, likely by the burning vehicle owners who were already gone, likly having tried using that extinguishers before running off find more or just getting away from the fire. As far as fires, China is having massive instances of EV fires presently, on especially the low cost local produced models, far above instances of higher quality batteries in EV types likes of Tesla, and other western companies keeping high quality standards. Sadly several European companies have been getting problems with several China built models, and using China manufactured battery pack units. Sadly I believe your Porsche model uses China battery pack, and a number of the VW, Audi models do too. "Recall on your Porsche due to faulty battery packs currently?"

I kind of agree 🤔having a small Ev for running around town, makes sense, but not for long distance where petrol or diesel should be used. I also think it’s the government’s fault we are in this situation 🤔they told us buy diesel it’s better for longevity and economy, all of a sudden it’s no good and all they can do is put prices of road tax,fuel duty, road congestion charges and ULEZ charges etc trying to out price motoring for the working class. Personally I don’t think I get value for my money from the road tax I’m charged every year which goes up year on year, the roads are in a shocking state of repair and when they do repair a section it’s done that shoddy it’s cracking and sinking within 12 months of being done, at the moment this country is the joke of the world

Imagine if all the 40 million cars in the UK were electric you would need one of these charging stations every 2 miles down the road

Yes Lee, the 'charity button' annoys me too, but I usually pay cash now to keep cash alive. Cash = freedom, CBDC = complete control over us.

Sadiq Khan hasn't got an electric car

People like us couldn't afford an EV car,

It's all very well having these nice sitting places but personally I'd sooner get on my way. I'll keep my 600 mile range with 5 minute fill up diesel. I don't have time to sit around with a posh coffee, no matter how nice the place is - I like my house 😂😂

The biggest thing with the EVs when it comes to flammability is understanding what the battery comprises of. In the fire triangle we have 3 things: Fuel, Heat (Ignition) and Oxygen. The amount of heat required to cause auto-ignition of a fuel changes depending on the fuel and the amount of oxygen available for the reaction. Petrol (Gasoline) has an auto-ignition temperature of 247-280 Celsius and can be ignited by a spark (Generally when in a gas or a fine mist such as out of fuel injectors) and requires oxygen from the atmosphere to burn. Petrol has only 1 of the 3 corner of the fire triangle. This also means you can take away the heat OR the oxygen to put it out. Compare this to another ICE fuel, for racecars, Nitromethane. This fuel is banned from road use and by a lot of race organizations due to the dangers associated with it, one of the primary dangers is that it is self oxidizing. This means it also contains the oxidizer required to burn and is more unstable. You must remove to heat to extinguish this fire, smothering will not help as it can literally burn in space. Now lets cast our eyes to Lithium batteries used in EVs. These batteries contain both the fuel and the oxidizer, additionally they can enter thermal runaway due to damage (Heat, mechanical or electrical or faulting charging software) and therefore start generating very high amounts of heat internally. Lithium batteries contain both Fuel and Oxygen with the ability to readily produce Heat. They contain all 3 sides of the fire triangle. This is why they are impossible to extinguish and must be waited out. You cannot smother them and you cannot cool them as they will just heat up again all on their own. Simply put, if auto makers were to introduce a liquid fuel which was as inherently dangerous and unstable as a lithium battery? It would be banned, how can we say this with confidence? Because that has already happened the world over, just with less unstable fuels.

Another common characteristic of EV owners; wearing a mask while driving alone - windows rolled up tight. Prius drivers as well.

The monument on the A11 at Elvedon is to commemorate 48 local men who died in the great war

Harry’s garage did a interesting video on phev and ev’s and that you lose 10% of energy putting the energy into the battery. It’s lost through the transformer heat wouldn’t be happy throwing a tenner away if I filled up with a 100 quid!!

Last week at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Sadiq Khan was chauffeured in a Mercedes S600 petrol 🤔🤔

is it just me or do other people find lees EV videos really relaxing. the music and watching the miles go by. it's very therapeutic

On my Brothers Construction site they use Diesel generators to charge up the Electric Excavators over night..

I have a VW ID.4 GTX and love the instant smooth power and the way it drives. It suits our daily needs but totally agree that on the occasional time we travel approx 250+ miles we go into panic mode trying to find a fast charger that is working and ideally no other cars in it I have a home charger so we are okay for charging 95% of the time and is a reasonable cost to charge it. The cost of using public chargers is scary and the companies should be penalised for wearing Dick Turpin masks as they rip us off

My biggest gripe with modern cars has less to do with the method of propulsion and more to do with the addition of technology where completely unnecessary. Door handles, parking brakes and parking pawls should be completely mechanical just for safety sake. I would add throttle plates and ignition switches to my list to get back the tactile feel missing from today's vehicles.

Hyacinth would insist Richard drove an EV.

Ev’s are expensive dangerous Milk Floats …I totally agree!

£39.44 to only do that mileage? That is more expensive than using my 3.0L diesel Range Rover to do it.

Just another reason not to buy a EV💩

Wow that's not cheap to charge up plus massive rise in insurance premiums tells us that they're definitely not the future.

Super-sized Scalextrics

My neighbour has just got rid of their diesel car and bought a Hyundai Ionic 5 suv. 50 grand pi$$ed up the wall. Now they have to do a stop for the journey between London and Scotland.😀 They've gone the full hog and had solar panels installed on the house roof

Yes they do have electric lorries. I work for a well-known haulage company as a HGV driver. (i’ll give you a clue they have yellow lorries with red writing) Not going to mention them for legal reasons. They have recently acquired an EV Arctic lorry As far as I know. They are testing the technology from Volvo. Before I started, there were electric rigids however they don’t seem to be there now. Don’t know why. It is extremely quiet, which, for heavy goods vehicles can be a downfall due to the fact that people tend to ignore us on the road anyway. Or they are too occupied, trying to speed past us to Care. As you can imagine charge is the main problem with this vehicle. Or at least that’s what I’m hearing. I think they might have to consider overhead pylons to charge them as they’re running along the motorway. That’s the only way they’re going to get any satisfaction from them. Im not an EVangelist. Technology is not there yet not sure if it will ever be. However I’ll stay optimistic. Think there are many other practical technologies we can explore and I think it’s possible that we might be jumping into the fire, (pardon the Pun) before we have a chance to test them. But that’s just my opinion.

The reason why the people who drive petrol cars don't experience the same range anxiety as people with electric cars is because: If you run out of petrol, you just need a Jerry can, of gas, to get going. Running out, in an electric car, means an expensive tow, to the charging station.

If they were serious about this EV thing then your charge points would be like gas stations with charger's instead of gas pumps with a canopy covering it and a a little store to get a coffee or water or whatever just like current gas stations do. You're exactly right. Instead what we have is a bunch of poor quality and poorly maintained and poorly thought out charge points in the weirdest of location's. I don't know about other countries, but I know in America most of those charger's were just thrown out there so the companies would be eligible for the government subsidies. I don't recall where it was built, but saw a story about the biggest charge point ever built some odd number like 48 charge points and we were promises it would all be solar powered and there's not a solar panel on site and it turns out they are powering it with 3 Diesel generator's that they tried to hide behind a shell station down the road a bit... That's not how serious people do such things. As near as I can tell in America this whole EV thing is just a Giant lie. The same companies telling you they are building nothing, but EVs are selling far more combustion car's then they are EVs... Ford motors and the Ford lot's in America are fighting because the company wants them to push EVs, but the lot's don't want more EVs because they can't sell the one's they have...we are supposed to pretend none of that is happening. Meanwhile EV fans tell us the companies are making load's of cash selling EVs and in finacial news all those companies are reporting huge looses because of trying to push EVs... It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous.

Still happy with my 10 year old Diesel, still drives great & hasn't failed me once as yet, gets me from A to B just fine.

I love the UK, I lived there for two years and I visit regularly. In fact I'm visiting again in December. But, I'm a Southern boy from Mississippi, and down here, we don't drive no electric bullshit. I'll stick with my Chevy Silverado 4x4 with the 5.3 L V8. You folks there can play with your kids toys. The whole electric thing is a scam.

That 'electric car channel' has talked directly with those that run the national grid. I kid you not this was how the conversation went. Presenter: "If we all change to electric cars would the grid be able to handle it?" National grid representative: "yes". 😂 Now obviously they went into further detail, but every time they've had someone from the national grid and posed this question, the expert's answer has been an immediate yes, without hesitation.

Has anyone actually considered where all the rare earth needed for the batteries will come from? A couple of years ago there was a supply shortage and all the electronic manufacturers reduced the production. Computers and any computing device uses rare earth materials in order to produce them. Go fully electric and you can say good by to your phones, computers and tv's to name just a few things. Good luck with that.

Those ruling elite are hypocrites: do as they say but not as they do. I agree many new cars are ugly, I especially hate the ones with unnecessarily huge grills! Don't want to be locked in if the battaries decide to combust!!!

Not knowing cost immediately is a really serious problem

I have been subscribed Lee for a while now. Yes, I also have an EV and just use it for around town driving. It was my own choice to purchase it and "not for the greater good". So I have no problems with having range anxiety. Charge my vehicle at home when needed. Lee, I see your problems and agree. You do allot of long trips with your vehicle so it can run into problems finding chargers that work and possibly other issues while driving. You must have allot of miles on that vehicle now. So both of us do different types of driving and your style requires allot of extra planning. You still haven't told us if you are going back to a petrol vehicle and when that might happen. I would never threaten anyone for their views they have on what vehicle they drive. It is our choice what we want to own, try, and drive. You don't like EV vehicles, don't get one. No one is forcing us to buy just one type of vehicle. Gas vehicles will be around for a long time. I also still have my ICE 21 year old Monte Carlo which I enjoy. Anyway take care of yourself mate. Thanks for the video.

£40 for a little under 200 miles.I have 3 petrol cars one of which is a non turbo 3.5 litre V6 and they all cost less than that for fuel / range

Too bad if you are towing a trailer or caravan. Looks like you have to disconnect before you can charge otherwise you may be blocking the road. Surely a drive-thru is the answer.

Hi Mac, I worked for a Manchester based Company as there Corporate Sales Manager covering the whole of the UK,,I am a steady driver with many years experence under my belt, my cars where 5 series BMW and would last me circa 15 months before they went back to the leasing Company. With the introduction of EVs I could not in one million years contemplate the thought of me driving up to the North of Scotland in an EV it would take ne 3 or 4 days to get there and back, I could get 57 miles to the gallon in the BMW. The thought of an EV gives me nightmares

If everyone purchased electric cars the grid could not cope - all that standing around waiting would do my head in - They can make hydrogen powered cars - but they wont - they need control over you - its that simple !

Condo complexes in Toronto have started Banning electric cars charging there and even parking there because of the fear of Fire

Communicating with the car - another fundamental flaw is software. You can refuel an empty normal car with a can of petrol, just pour it in. The "gridserve" location closest to me isn't a proper setup like that, its a couple of chargers in a car park at a Welcome Break.

1958 Plymouth Fury(Christine). More reliable than any EV. 😢Love my diesel. F**k EV's. Going to make sure my next car has a bigger diesel engine. I get anxiety just watching EV's trying to find charging points. No anxiety with my two litre diesel. Open door. Start ignition and AWAY............ 😂😂

You state you have had threats against your life for talking negative about E.V's @ 11.00.? Is that absolutely true? If so, those that have done so really need reporting, pronto!

The BMW drivers not using their indicators made me laugh so hard, BMW owners are real assholes for sure

Adding to your flat battery problem. My next door neighbour's mum has a Volvo EV. She has left it for 2 weeks without driving it and the battery has gone flat. She then said the mini hybrid they had a year or two ago also went flat if left for 2 weeks. They hate them. I said what if you park at an airport for 2 weeks? She recons that people are employed to take your car a ride round once a week to keep it going. What????!!!!! This, I said was rediculous. She agreed. Her husband hates Ev's as well. We have a little petrol Seat Mii. It's a 62 reg. It's only done 16,000 miles and is like new. At 72, my challenge is to run this car as long as I can and see who pegs out first. I'd say it will be me!

Give your Porsche dealer a chance to show how the door is opened from inside if you lose 12 volt power.

*I've noticed this too! It's like these people have been put under a spell of some kind*

Lee - That Gridserve charge session cost is just maths. The screen showed that you took 57.163 kWh on board @ 69p per kWh = £39.44.

I just did 210 miles mostly motorway driving for £20.83 on LPG

A new concept has been born with EVs, when selling second hand the price HAS TO take into account the COST OF A NEW BATTERY. Not only do they deteriate over time, a second hand car most likely will not have a warranty, so the slightest damage to the battery will mean an exorbitant priced replacement or SCRAP the car! The older they get the more this will kick in. EVs DO depreciate hughly in value, so carefull you don't get your fingers burned. And as for EV company cars, when companies start to lose a bunch of money, their policy will change. Last thing, why are insurance companies hiking premiums for EVs (that's IF they agree to insure)??