I’m still subscribed 😅👍. Very odd though. If I could speak freely I’d say that I wonder if money has changed hands 🤔. I can’t say that though, I’m just saying … 😂
I subscribed ages ago, then not long ago (3 weeks ish) I noticed that I was not subscribed anymore. I re subscribed straight away but unsure how it had happened.
Yep your right, I used to install cctv in marine environments from industrial to seaside towns, all the kit used was made using marine grade materials sold at an enhanced rate. Was it worth it, no, not really, it may have added 18 months to the product life. A Salt air environment may as well be dilute sulfuric acid!
I can actually see that happening as once they colapse the current financial system they will begin their property redistribution and many migrants will be housed into rural areas and they will need transport.
I'm sure this is why car insurance is going up every year, they can't make EV's more affordable so they'll make owning ICE vehicles way more expensive.
just think back too your first car.. I bet many of us had a little banger/runner round that was very cheap to run and insure as well as very cheap too repair... NOW apply that logic too an EV... They are forcing people off the road via the back door with EV, as new drivers simple can't afford them in 99% of all cases....
I know many electric heads trying to do just that and it's hilarious watching them trying to plot their trips to Europe that way 😂. Each to their own but I just piss myself watching them trying to stick a square peg in a round hole
On my way up 't North I pulled into a service station and saw a guy sitting at a charging point. I filled up, had a mean, coffee and a nice long chat came out and left when I notice the same guy still sitting there reading a book. I did chuckle at his holier than thou virtue signaling. Or maybe he was just an idiot!!
I had an amazing A3 1.6TDI saloon which gave incredible fuel efficiency but had to chop it in thanks to the b****y ULEZ charge in London. I now have a less efficient petrol car.
My 7 years old Leaf with almost 70k on clock never has seen mechanic. It's a free car for me because the amount of money I saved on mechanics / fuel savings made a car paid for itself compared to petrol car .
I attended a car auction a couple of days ago; the majority of petrol and diesel cars sold. There were 27 EVs, all under 3 years old, and not one of them sold (some didn't even raise a starting bid).
@@MauricedeBoer Excellent 😄 my Volvo V70 P2 was 18 years old when I sold it last year, had no rust whatsoever, even underneath, had it 8 years myself, but never let me down, had a few issues yes, but not bad enough to cause a breakdown during my ownership ! But Volvo's made under Ford's ownership are another story, they cut corners during that time, but I do believe they have restored the build quality once they were sold leaving Ford ownership behind them !
If just one of them get thermal runaway, all of them will have immediately have zero range. 😂 Might be the ultimate solution, since they are not very recycle friendly. (Sorry for everyone in a 50/100 km range)
Actually that's not true Batteries slowly discharge Leaving Lithium batteries empty encourages internal dendrite within the battery to to grow. As they grow toward the poles you lose capacity Also as dendrite form then like seeding anything you attract more rapidly the growth of the dendrite. Meaning the battery will degrade and fail faster than a battery that's in use.
Was at the supermarket earlier and an electric van nearly backed into an elderly couple in the car park.. The driver said he didn't see them. The elderly couple said they did not hear it. They are supposed to make a noise by law but the elderly cant hear them as well as us younger folks.
A similar thing happened to me. I was alsmost run over by a Hyundai outside my local Tesco. I just did not hear it coming! I waved my apology to the driver who then silently drove away!
@@geoffas I'm 58 so no zombie earbuds for me and an old 3G android phone in my pocket. The Hyundai driver was turning as I was crossing the roadway to the shop but, it was virtually dead silent. I did look before stepping out but as he was behind some parked cars I didn't notice him, nor him me I suspect. As for the Green Cross Code man, well he went to the Dark side (Darth Vader) didn't he? I wouldn't trust him anymore!
So have all the rest vw BMW porche Renault Citeron ford Kia all car manufacturers will go bust in the next couple of years and remember people will start paying stealth taxes because no one is paying vrt or any new vehicle car tax which runs into the billions every year for the exchecker
Met a guy a couple of years ago on holiday whose family own a Renault dealership in Belgium, they were trying to sell up because Renault were forcing the dealerships to sell EV's yet not many people were buying them, the dealers make little profit on the car and hardly anything on servicing because there's nothing to really service on them. But to accomodate EV's, all the equipment has to be replaced, the bays in the service area have to be twice as wide because of the dangers which means less bays for ICE cars, the mechanics have to be trained in electronics at a course cost of 8000 euros, which also means they want higher wages. Dealers do not want to sell EV's, although they're having to push them, so they have to smile and say it's the future. It's a massive scandle caused by ill thought-out government policies. Wait till the fleet sale government deals get stopped!!!
Serpentza channel recently exposed catastrophic failures plaguing China's flagship EV brand and China's institutional culture of covering up anything that threatens to harm perceptions of Chinese workmanship.
The UK just imported about 4,800 into Bristol docks with the plan to sell them for under £10k, nothing in this world would induce me to buy a sand box on wheels.
That's the problem, they are still expensive even though the entire industry, charging network, electricity and purchase price are heavily subsidised. It's the first vehicle on earth to exist entirely on welfare fraud.
They just don't make sense to me in any way, for any price. I never want to be in a car where I have to be worrying about where i am going to charge it? How long it is going to take? Will there be a queue? Will the charger be working? Life is precious, you only get one go around. You could not pay me to waste me life charging a car.
@@imbonkers3629 They have been given £2.3 billion in aid between 2016 and 2021 and the UK gov just agreed this "We are providing a guarantee to the World Bank to enable them to provide an additional $1 billion of climate finance to India." so WHO paid for it buddy???
It's so amusing that EVangelists believe petrol heads won't buy EVs due to ignorance, when the reality is that they don't buy EVs because they're intelligent. Nobody in their right mind would waste good money on what is essentially a boat anchor attached to a 30 mile tether connected to a home charger. Fine if you only ever drive to the other end of your street, but not so great if you want to use your EV as an actual car.
@@xperyskop2475 Fine for you but not for everybody else ! & you may find now that your car is worthless ! If you have tonnes of money you've nothing to worry about !
@xperyskop Please do a real world calculation- if you sold it today for cash, what's the difference in buy-sell price? Add that to total running costs then divide by milage. That's your real world cost per mile. My old vdub diesel costs me 9.2p per mile. And it's appreciating in value!
Iv'e had 3 vehicles in 20 years, current van is a 2005 and iv'e had almost 10 faultless years of driving it. And the 2 cars before that served me well with very low running and maintenance costs. And the purchase cost of those 3 vehicle less than £6.5k, that's just over £300 a year.
One thing that crossed my mind is that at least the idiots who are driving or trying to drive round in their EV are making a little more space for us at the fuel pumps etc.
And of course, those subsidies only go to those who are already well- off. Companies do not give a company car or car allowance to the lowest paid or most junior workers in my experience and cannot afford large monthly outgoings on buyer schemes.
In Southampton docks there are thousands of Teslas all parked up waiting to be ordered, imagine getting an EV that's been parked up for over a year what state are the batteries, lets not think about the corrosion.
"Abiotic" crude oil that renews, not so-called "fossil fuel" - but that's another whole giant rabbit hole in itself. . . Upside-down world - black is white & white is black.
These Battery only cars will have major problems from day one when they are finally sold, as the battery will have run completely flat and then sat for months flat! When it is well known once left to go flat for any time the battery will not recover to full power. The other thing is will the company still honour the guarantee on the whole car? Will the insurance industry actually insure them?
From a safety aspect doubtless the strategy WILL BE to not recharge any of those vehicles in recognition of the thermal runaway risk. Inevitably those batteries are not new and will have degraded; potentially greatly and to a much less safe condition so what we are seeing is a Beta test at play with consequences that may be significantly detrimental to the EV narrative especially if fast charger abuse subsequently accelerates the danger. Currently there is a lot of solar activity (six solar direct hit flares) and a lot of magnetospheric disruption that may lead to a Carrington Event and foreshorten this whole Electric Utopia; especially when the satellites are fried and there is no Telecoms, no GPS, no Internet and numerous fried power transformers. Modern vehicles engine management systems can also be fried and we could be back in the stone age in hours. The whole pack of cards is imminently going to fall down. Why merely Build Your Dream when you can enjoy a full colour surround-sound Nightmare?
I was watching this video whilst walking to the school pick up and have just tripped over an EV cable running across the public path into someone's Tesla 😅 there's some kind of message there😂
I will be taking one off Toyota's hands when I return to the USA. It must not be too bad as dealers in the USA are still asking a premium for any Toyota car, but the defective Tacoma trucks can be had at MSRP.
about unsold EV's. Rimac Nivera, the worls fastest ev, has 100 unsold cars.. they have produced 150,and sold 50 of them. The president of Rimac said in an interview that "Ev's are not magic anymore" (or something.. translating from a swedish site) usually these cars sell out, but .. well.. he also said something about apple watch vs a nice analog watch. The apple watch can do everything, but no one is paying $200k for one, like they do for a analog clock.
Who'd have thought that people who aren't getting pay risers despite high inflation and companies recording record profits don't buy really expensive cars
Try a road trip to Spa in Belgium for the F1 Grand Prix. My wife shared the driving with me from Edinburgh to Spa, all on one tank of diesel. Under 14 hours. A middle class EV would have taken over 20 hours, and we would have missed the Friday night party !
Burnaston built Toyota Corolla /Auris that run over 20 years and 500.000 miles without significant issues. Thas good for the environment. You need multiple EVs to go the same
Electric cars are better at some jobs! It was called milk floats... Short distance Early morning Slow stop and start .... But for some reason they stopped using them about 20yrs ago
I only see petrol/diesel zealots giving cash away at fuelling stations. I bought an electric car because it was much much cheaper to run it for my daily commute . If you like your mechanics and your petrol station attendant and oil companies keep driving petrol/diesel
And the cells in those batteries have a 'use by' date. It's a few years, but been sitting in a port for a year or more, it's already second hand when new...........
I've noticed increasing adverts by Vauxhall stating you can go electric for same monthly payment as equivalent petrol or diesel model....... Desperation creeping in ?
I just put a deposit down on a reliable, dependable, fuel sipping, long lasting ice Toyota Corolla. Based on my yearly mileage, it will take approximately 40 years to accumulate the same amount of miles that my current ice car has on it now. This is tremendously good for the environment as the manufacturer will not have to make several new cars to replace the one I'll be driving well into the future. You've got to look at the tremendously green effect of ice cars not being disposable like EVs.
Had a 123,brilliant car... Had a 124, evolutionary superior to an already brilliant car...now got a 1971 Crown and a 1990 e34,both great,but not a patch on the W123 & 4. Both benzes rusted out in just the wrong places,within a few inches of subframes and chassis points...salty roads man.
They’re a million mile motor if looked after well. I’ve had several 190s and 124s. In 2005 I bought a ten year old 124 estate with 100k on clock for £2,500 . Kept it for ten years and did another 160k with it. Then sold it for £500. Cheap motoring for ten years. They go on forever.
To be fair, Merc still make better diesels than most. The OM642 used in most modern Mercs on the road is capable of a few hundred k miles. The oil cooler seals will fail every 100-150k and the bluetec sensors will let you down at some point, but they are generally pretty solid. Fuel economy is also almost magical for a 3 litre engine, even when used in heavy cars like the S class. I did South-London to Blackpool in an S350bluetec (297 miles) and the car was saying it had 900 miles left in the tank
I had to fill up my ICE car today, only 3 weeks since I last filled up, and it took nearly five minutes! I wish I had an EV I could charge every day at an hour a time.
Also being sat on a harbour for months/years on end the corrosion factor on unprotected parts will also be effected and spread making the EV a bit crusty in a few years or months time.
Imagine buying a Chinese EV that has been sitting at a seaside port when more than half of Chinese EV manufacturers have gone bankrupt over the last five years and more than half of the remaining ones are expected to go bankrupt over the next few years as well. Many of those cars will get scrapped new.
Im guessing at that shipping port, A diesel Range Rover will park outside the pound, then 2 days later the diesel will self ignite and take out the thousands of EVs ending in a little insurance claim 🤔
Parasitic draw will have an interesting effect, when they sit in a discharged state long enough the point where the first dead cell reverse polarization completely kills the battery draws closer every day. Lithium cells never recover from even a minute of reverse polarity... (BTW, it happens when one cell block reaches zero volts, the remaining series cell blocks push the constant parasitic current backwards through the dead cell block). The BMS cannot prevent this from happening and often exaggerates the problem by blocking recharge due to pack imbalance. It remains the biggest killer of laptop batteries today.
Dealerships are pre-registering just enough cars to avoid green penalties . The unsold units at the ports will be returned to the manufacturer. Chinese manufacturers can afford to take this mahoosive hit because the PRC govt is propping them up.
Burning fuel to make electricity wastes 40% of the fuel to get the electricity to the charger. Charging the car wastes 40-60% converting it from AC to DC. Wireless wastes another 40%. Then the batteries waste another 20% keeping the batteries warm or cool. We are WAY better off burning the fuel to move the car at 25% efficiency.
A brilliant video just fallen across Geoff like you my car is 2004 ROVER 75 CONNOISSEUR SE CDTI and has 186000 miles on the clock and will see off most Evs with performance so good look on the Benidorm Trip with Lee Cheers Keith x
Most electric car show the car zooming through some amazing secluded mountain pass or prairie. And I’m looking at the advert thinking, where the hell are the charging points in the nearest hundred miles? You’re gonna be stranded mate!
16:06 hey Geoff..I did that last year in a V70 D3.. North of the Netherlands to Spain and back. 2 tanks of diesel. Come and visit, here, while Lee charges his car😉😁
My neighbor is old couple, the man bought a all suited up KIA estate EV for investment. He paid £55k for it brand new and he somehow was so convinced that he could flip it for profit. The stupid thing is they already have two big estate cars parked in the drive, why buy the 3rd car and EV for a fucking investment. I didn't say a word. That was two years ago, that fucking EV still park on the drive now and he won't back down for a big loss and the dealer won't take it back. People bought into EV, what can I say.