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Nice piece of inspired design work for two wheeled transportation. Silence idd

More details on the plane here: RR Spirit of Innovation Like the bit about ATC reaction when taxiing! idd

You schedule when the car drive battery is to be used for V2G and V2H and how much charge you want in the car next day and the charger/inverter does the rest. It’s entirely under your control. The positive side is you get paid for exporting to the grid. Lot of cars spend a lot of time just sitting on people drives just depreciating… idd

New hydrogen vehicles hopefully not coming to you any time soon! Hydrogen Ambulance take care idd

Not sure I could live with the colour! But it does have a gearbox, how very quaint! idd

Fun filled fact - you still get NOX emissions if you burn hydrogen! Let's hope Bamfords plan is to use fuel cells and electric motors... Idd

Some interesting views about EV secondhand market at the moment. EVM Market Review idd

This is timely Precious Metal Recycling Love the way Big Oil/ICE lobby like to bang on about battery recycling, nobody seems to challenge them on their prolific use of cobalt to desulpherise fuel for example. Seems to me the only bit of ICE recycling that goes on is when they get their cat converters nicked! I look forward to when they get around to recycling petrol and diesel… idd

You would not hang the pipe out the window you could do something like this: Tower block project You might find it helpful to address your concerns re electric cars on the EV discussion in wheeltappers. Myself and other EV drivers who are contributors to that discussion may be able to help. HTH idd

Fully Charged - Home Energy This video from Fully Charged is the first in a series of six about various options for home heating/energy that folks may find useful. There’s quite a lot of options to learn about. First rule, as has already been stated - Insulate First! idd

That is a cracking level of efficiency and probably double what the Taycan can do!

Your not wrong about rapid change. Was parked next to a Taycan at Rugby today. He was charging at four times the rate of my Leaf! 50 KwHr charging is a bit passé these days.. Idd

Currently on our 2nd charge/coffee/comfort break on our roadtrip to Suffolk. This stop is Instavolt and so far going well. First stop was at the new Rugby Gridserve services, truly brilliant. 12 super fast chargers and 12 Tesla chargers. Never seen so many EV's at once charging. Fortunately no queuing unlike the poor souls in ICE cars... Idd

Sorry I was more meaning that it will likely happen ahead of the Norwegian “deadline” and could that happen against the UK 2030 target. Suppose it might happen, why would you take delivery of an ice car 31st December 2030? The depreciation as you drove it off the forecourt would be even more horrendous than it is now! idd

This I find quite remarkable, Norwegian car market trend Wonder if it will happen like that here in the UK?… idd

Much better solutions: Lambeth and Shell/ubitricity Strong anti EV brigade in Norfolk going by the comments on that article! idd

But I'd rather not as I agree with much you say, despite your preference for driving old polluting cars! I always remember a particular lecture as a first year undergraduate were one of our esteemed doctors and CEGB (remember them?) consultant dismissed wind turbines as a viable generating method with a very simple formula showing their energy conversion can be no greater than 30%. The following year I went to a guest lecture hosted by the IEE were another esteemed doctor updated us on the research he was doing into building wind turbines as wind farms "because we are going to need lots of them". Yes I suppose I do cling to the "hope" that we'll be able to decarbonise aviation and other industries. Quite how I don't know, but I gain comfort from the fact that an awful lot of people are actively working on the problem from all sides. Cheers idd

Think it varies from hotel to hotel tbh. Previously when I 've stayed somewhere with a rapid charger it has been operated by Polar as a "public" charger and as 30801 says they have an overstay fee. At a smaller hotel we stayed in this summer it had a single 7kw fast charger (free!) and was on a first come first served basis. However I used to do a car park check every night to ensure I was not blocking any other users from using it, and move off it if there was a free space in the car park. Fortunately for me I was the only person with an EV staying there so not really a problem. So I don't think an "etiquette" has developed yet that I am aware of. Really the hotel should have a WhatsApp group for guests with an EV so that they can share the charger easily... idd

OK, you can't run a 7Kw charger off a ring main fused spur. The wiring regs would not allow it and the installer would get into serious trouble if they did do that. It is essentially the same rules as if you wanted to fit a new electric shower or a new oven circuit in the house. I think most charger installs are quoted as a fixed price with the charger being a maximum of so many meters from the dwelling distribution board. Usually they take a new feed directly from the meter to a new small consumer unit/circuit breaker they fit, and from there to the charger. They prefer to do it this way as they don't have to mess around with an existing consumer unit/wiring that may have been installed many years ago to a lower standard. So it all makes for a nice "clean" and quicker install. So here at IDD towers we boast FOUR consumer units. Number 1 installed when we moved in and rewired the place 31 years ago. Number 2 was installed when we built the West wing 10 years later. Number 3 was installed when we built the East wing 8 years later. Finally Number 4 arrived with the Podpoint charger. You are right you would require a 70 ft armoured cable, but I think the wiring regs may well require you to bury it. Again it is the same as if you were installing power into a new shed in the garden. So yes you would undoubtedly incur extra cost in your particular case if you wanted to install it 70ft away. Hence my suggestion you stick it on a house wall nearer the consumer unit, but this may not suit. Certainly all the houses round here have their chargers on the house wall save for the one I mentioned above. Its been a long time since I have had to deep dive into the wiring regs, so again the advice is as always get a qualified installer to look at it and quote. There are a few electricians who do YouTube videos of their installs, Artisan Electrics for example, which may help you. Can't help you with the floor I'm afraid, it all sounds a lot posher than our under stairs cupboard. idd

As Ron Ron Ron said get an experienced installer to look at it. In theory it is perfectly possible, but as always the devil is the detail. idd

Yes, but for a 7kw charger I would guess the installer would want to run a new dedicated feed from your distribution board to the garage. It could be cheaper just to mount the charger on an exterior wall of the house and charge outside on the drive. An EV driver around here has a PodPoint charger mounted half way down their quite long front drive on a post. I thought it a bit odd but then saw they had a couple of EV’s so it makes a lot of sense with a single width drive. Hth idd

True but think how far we have come, we’ve been burning stuff for a long time and it’s not easy to change humans as this thread bears testament to! Onwards! idd

Forgot to say thanks for posting the pictures from FC Live Ron Ron Ron. Was hoping to go, maybe next year. Need to see what I can replace my Soviet era gas boiler with…

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I lease my Nissan Leaf and quite like it for the following reasons: EV’s are rapidly evolving. It is only in the last year that 100k charging has become commonplace so the Leaf is “out of date” in that respect. Fixed known monthly payment. I’m not using a very large lump of my capital. If financial circumstances change I can hand the keys back and walk away. Residual values are not so much of an “issue”. Very important to shop around though AND the deposit is NOT a deposit, you might not have value in the vehicle at the end. Just like buying a car though timing is critical to get a good deal. There is a lease company that does fully expensed leases for periods as short as a month which may be useful if you want to try before buy. Leasing is probably not for everyone but so far it has worked for me and has allowed me to drive an EV. Cannot stress enough though to shop around… idd