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Post by wassock on Oct 9, 2024 23:19:39 GMT
EV sales are tanking, diesel sales are now increasing that much, they're gonna surpass EV's soon. EV's were mainly corporate sales and they have wised up. Half way point is Hybrid, but the cost is still above the pockets of many. It doesn't matter how much anyone can make EV's sound fantastic, if you can't charge from home, forget it. Why buy a kettle to hunt out the elusive working socket in a car park to plug in to make a cup of tea? It's Western nations where the decline in sales is happening. The EU and the US has just slapped huge tariuffs on them, so what do you expect. A range of up to 600m should be possible with a new EV and yes you should be able to charge from home. You would probably never need a petrol station or rip-off public charging point, and what is more is you can get the energy for free with solar power. We live in an upstairs apartment, parking is on the other side of the street. Extension cable? Sometimes we have to park in the next street along. We would never be able to charge from home and never be able to afford the elusive charge station prices wherever they may be. Then do we sit for hours waiting to charge, both waiting in the queue and the time to charge. I believe about a third of motorists won't be able to charge from home, the only reply I tend to hear is, "Lamp posts". If EV's were so great, people would buy them and they wouldn't have to be legislated onto us. Just allow them to compete, the market will determine their viability. If they were as cheap as ICE vehicles, as convenient to recharge, as cheaply to repair, and as safe, we would be daft not to buy one. Being in an apartment block, solar panel roof space would be split between 4 residents. A survey conducted found that there's no payback period, cheaper to buy off the grid. If it works for some, great, but we all don't live in detached houses with driveways, garages, solar panels, and power walls |
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Post by wassock on Oct 9, 2024 23:21:16 GMT
I filled my car today, well I didn't brim it but I put a few quid in the tank. It was £1.38 a litre, which as we all know is bloody ridiculous, but in the scheme of things, I thought £1.38 was pretty good. However, I wonder how much tax Labour are going to bang on petrol/diesel in order to prop up their green dream? The arseholes are on about pay by the mile now rather than road tax in it's present form....Do the idiots think that delivery services are going to just suck up the extra that they have to pay if that's the case? To my knowledge, the Department of Transport ruled out the pence per mile idea. |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 10, 2024 0:01:27 GMT
The arseholes are on about pay by the mile now rather than road tax in it's present form....Do the idiots think that delivery services are going to just suck up the extra that they have to pay if that's the case? To my knowledge, the Department of Transport ruled out the pence per mile idea. I stand corrected then if they have...Labour are the kings concerning u-turns... |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Oct 10, 2024 2:44:18 GMT
It's Western nations where the decline in sales is happening. The EU and the US has just slapped huge tariuffs on them, so what do you expect. A range of up to 600m should be possible with a new EV and yes you should be able to charge from home. You would probably never need a petrol station or rip-off public charging point, and what is more is you can get the energy for free with solar power. We live in an upstairs apartment, parking is on the other side of the street. Extension cable? Sometimes we have to park in the next street along. We would never be able to charge from home and never be able to afford the elusive charge station prices wherever they may be. Then do we sit for hours waiting to charge, both waiting in the queue and the time to charge. I believe about a third of motorists won't be able to charge from home, the only reply I tend to hear is, "Lamp posts". If EV's were so great, people would buy them and they wouldn't have to be legislated onto us. Just allow them to compete, the market will determine their viability. If they were as cheap as ICE vehicles, as convenient to recharge, as cheaply to repair, and as safe, we would be daft not to buy one. Being in an apartment block, solar panel roof space would be split between 4 residents. A survey conducted found that there's no payback period, cheaper to buy off the grid. If it works for some, great, but we all don't live in detached houses with driveways, garages, solar panels, and power walls It hass been my argument from the beginning that one should let the market decide. Eventually the market would then force developers to think about these problems and councils maybe refusing permission to build if the residents don't have parking. I mean parking is becoming a stuppid game in today's blighty. It's becasuse if you look in cities, many houses that once provided for one family are now flats. The country has become much poorer in the last 100 years. Manchester is fulll of Victorian houses. Few even owned a horse and cart back then. My house was built in 1960 so it comes with garage and driveway. If we return all these third worlders there would be enough space! |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 10, 2024 7:56:09 GMT
We live in an upstairs apartment, parking is on the other side of the street. Extension cable? Sometimes we have to park in the next street along. We would never be able to charge from home and never be able to afford the elusive charge station prices wherever they may be. Then do we sit for hours waiting to charge, both waiting in the queue and the time to charge. I believe about a third of motorists won't be able to charge from home, the only reply I tend to hear is, "Lamp posts". If EV's were so great, people would buy them and they wouldn't have to be legislated onto us. Just allow them to compete, the market will determine their viability. If they were as cheap as ICE vehicles, as convenient to recharge, as cheaply to repair, and as safe, we would be daft not to buy one. Being in an apartment block, solar panel roof space would be split between 4 residents. A survey conducted found that there's no payback period, cheaper to buy off the grid. If it works for some, great, but we all don't live in detached houses with driveways, garages, solar panels, and power walls It hass been my argument from the beginning that one should let the market decide. Eventually the market would then force developers to think about these problems and councils maybe refusing permission to build if the residents don't have parking. I mean parking is becoming a stuppid game in today's blighty. It's becasuse if you look in cities, many houses that once provided for one family are now flats. The country has become much poorer in the last 100 years. Manchester is fulll of Victorian houses. Few even owned a horse and cart back then. My house was built in 1960 so it comes with garage and driveway. If we return all these third worlders there would be enough space! Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year, a report has found, rising from $1.2bn in 2021 to $5.4bn in 2022.......
“This shocking increase in aid funding to fossil fuels is a wake-up call,” said Jane Burston, CEO of nonprofit the Clean Air Fund, which conducted the research. “The world cannot continue down this path of propping up polluting practices at the expense of global health and climate stability.” |
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Post by wassock on Oct 10, 2024 22:24:48 GMT
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Post by wassock on Oct 10, 2024 22:28:15 GMT
It hass been my argument from the beginning that one should let the market decide. Eventually the market would then force developers to think about these problems and councils maybe refusing permission to build if the residents don't have parking. I mean parking is becoming a stuppid game in today's blighty. It's becasuse if you look in cities, many houses that once provided for one family are now flats. The country has become much poorer in the last 100 years. Manchester is fulll of Victorian houses. Few even owned a horse and cart back then. My house was built in 1960 so it comes with garage and driveway. If we return all these third worlders there would be enough space! Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year, a report has found, rising from $1.2bn in 2021 to $5.4bn in 2022.......
“This shocking increase in aid funding to fossil fuels is a wake-up call,” said Jane Burston, CEO of nonprofit the Clean Air Fund, which conducted the research. “The world cannot continue down this path of propping up polluting practices at the expense of global health and climate stability.” They should use that money to buy EV's for us peasants and install 200 chargers in every street |
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