The Secret Life of the Engine - remastered 

Don't disagree that smaller and alternative forms of transport need to be pushed more (especially in cities), but seeing how fast renewables grow almost everywhere "might actually be greener" will not hold up for too long, even for small petrol engines. On average EVs bought now are already "cleaner" over their lifetime compared to similar fossil alternatives. Changing manufacturing to EVs only when they are undeniably "more clean" even in edge cases will delay the necessary long term adoption.

Thanks for making the effort to upload these episodes, they're fantastic.

If the mistake was made during the upload process, then you should be able to sort it out. If you edit the video, you should be able to undo the trim which you accidentally made.

I have noticed on a number of other videos that the last few seconds are cut off. Possibly a RU-vid bug.

i mostly agree, but getting the world to believe that doing that is better for them is going to be one hell of an uphill battle. I drive an electric car (evalbum.com/322) every day because it is perfect for short daily trips, and it spends enough time at home in between trips to fully recharge. Here in the United states, my situation is very common; you drive your car to work, it sits around while you're at work, you drive it home, maybe do some errands on the way home or on the weekend, and other than that, the car is parked at home. Training people to treat their car like their smartphone (plug it in when you park it for the night) has worked for some people, but many problems still persist. Some can be fixed by education and training, but the battery raw material and recycling problem is still in its early stages. That is the main reason I still use lead-acid batteries; they are 80 - 95% recyclable, because they have been around the longest and lead has long been known to be among the worst elements to dig up and refine. As far as the particulates from tires and brakes being a problem, I don't know of a good way to get around tire rubber particulates problem, but I know that regenerative braking takes care of some of the brake pad particulate problem, but not all of it, as it shifts it onto the drive tires.

so glad im using brave browser

That being said, Install an ad-blocker as a browser add-on. I never see any of the adds you speak of.

The artist who created the music sold it to someone who sold it to Universal. If Universal didn't make money, the artist wouldn't have been paid in the first place.

@@fjccommish Fark.

Well done Tim.

It's all so quintessentially British! The serious nature of the commentary combined with the eccentric off the wall animations (I just love the voices) really are so unique and something very much missing with todays LOUD SHOUTING LOOK AT ME style of presentation. Tim and Rex are just amazing in this. And look at Rex with his balls of steel flying up high in the car.....health and safety wouldn't let that "fly" these days!!! This realy is a look into a forgotten era...as much as a brilliant informative and entertaining program!

I remember watching this on Spektrum TV in the late 90s. It was called "Így működik..."

I was hungry too, then I had dinner.

Was never on PBS

@@DoctorShocktor how can you say it wasn't on public television?? pbs is in many countries other than the particular country you may live in.

@@cobre7717Strangely when you say that, I watched PBS' WNED station out of Buffalo which has a higher viewer rate in Ontario, Canada than it does in its State of New York. Granted, we also have TVO as a provincial public broadcaster as well.

So many of our inventions are made with microscopic features. Once parts got smaller than the human scale, home repair was doomed. The best you can hope for is swapping out macro scale components. Tires and brakes will never follow the same shrinking trend as the transistors in the car stereo, for example.

…and “the day the universe changed”. 3 shows that did more to shape my childhood and ignite a lifelong love of science and engineering than almost anything else I can think of.

Exactly. Connections was a great show also..

Both were very inspirational growing up. This and Connections.

To Rex

I have most of them on Betamax after Dad gave me free reign of our old VCR.

Yes, it's a fantastic show, more instructive than anything nowdays.

Congratulations to all of you, being able to watch it so early.

In the 1990's the U.S military replaced a military Hummer engine with a 1.9 litre VW diesel running a generator, with a small bank of lead acid batteries and an electric wheel motor at each tire and they were getting 40 MPG and it was way faster than a factory hummer.

And what about the stone henge recreated with cars?

@@evilcanofdrpepper Which, if I recall correctly, they reuse at the beginning of the next episode which is about the car.

And the guy waving a loaf of bread in his face.

@@evilcanofdrpepper there are several car henges around the world there is an older one with 1950s cars in a desert

These videos don't explain modern technology.

I had to give that Celica a double take haha - I was confused for a second. Rex (R.I.P.) and Tim inspired a generation, myself included :-)

They're great like that, yeah.

My experiences is, the first time around you can't pick up all that it is about and when you come back is when you can comprehend the full picture.

Concur - The value of hindsight is enormous.

I watched these in the late eighties or early nineties on the Learning Channel or Discovery, I can't remember which.

@@IvorMektin1701 I thought it was PBS but when I researched it I found out it was on both of those cable channels.

I fully agree. Most kids these days are busy with Facebook and x boxes. Sad really

The kids just watch individual tinkerers making videos on this very service instead of watching TV.

There has been a push to normalise being completely unteathered from reality, from how the world around us actually works. The reason is due to the specialisation required by all of us to get a job. It requires we accept other people's specialist products will do what they say they'll do. To an extent, if you learn how and why it works, which is not your job, you are taking on some responsibility for making sure its correct. People are repulsed by this uncompensated responsibility, and are the first to say they never really had that responsibility in the first place. From this perspective, curious tinkerers are a nuisance, and when China ships a product that no longer has the quality it once had, well that sounds a lot like the customer's problem, if they keep buying them.

Yes, he's a good guy. Good job that engine oil wasn't red hot when he got his hands and face covered in it. Typical Tim Hunkin, he laughs about it. Top man

“Safety crap” LITERALLY saves lives and permanent injuries. Don’t be dumb. Also a Prius gets nearly SIXTY mpg, not forty, and isn’t even the modern standard for a major hybrid which is closer to 75.

Check the channel, he's already done the first six earlier this year.

Ha!😂

Right at the point of a more efficient 2CV too☹️

@@IvorMektin1701 RU-vid doesn't want us to know THE TRUTH

@@Carlos_GS IKR! Chrysler developed the CCV as a modern 2CV and then Daimler came along and killed it.

@@Carlos_GS No its Big Gasoline aka Big Petrol 🤐

Big electric cuts him off :-O