4 hours ago, StephenFord said:

LPG cars are banned from Eurotunnel,

Now I didn't know that !!

So what is the situation if you want to take your Caravan or  if Ms Sturgeon wants to take her Motorhome through the EuroTunnel. Many of those will be carrying bottled Butane ?

We were allowed to have cans of fuel in the back of a van sloshing about when we went through the tunnel. 

You're also allowed to carry oxygen canisters through the tunnel if needed for medical reasons.

Slightly off topic, i remember watching one of the war buildings documentary things, and the germans built a massive factory to produce fuel from coal or such if memory serves, but only got minimal amounts and nowhere near enough for their needs at the time. Same as bio fuel which also hasnt really taken off.

Anyone watch “Geoff buys cars” Channel on YouTube?

He posted a commentary about the latest EV shipping fiasco titled “1 lost life and many injured in EV related cargo ship fire”.

He brings up several salient points.

4 minutes ago, Scottman said:

Anyone watch “Geoff buys cars” Channel on YouTube?

He posted a commentary about the latest EV shipping fiasco titled “1 lost life and many injured in EV related cargo ship fire”.

He brings up several salient points.

 

This video was posted yesterday.

3 minutes ago, Scottman said:

This video was posted yesterday.

Yes, if you click the link I posted above, you'll see that @unofix did indeed post it yesterday...

The coastguard back tracked a bit after the initial EV comment and later said it was unknown where the fire started , unless there's been an update since then? 

1 hour ago, iantt said:

The coastguard back tracked a bit after the initial EV comment

What was that about a back hander ?

🧐 

There's 4300 electric Volvo hgv trucks on the roads . All the talk has been about Tesla's trucks while Volvo and the other manufacturers  are quietly getting on with producing EV trucks. 

59 minutes ago, Alex.S said:

🧐

Are they charged now ?? 

10 hours ago, iantt said:

Are they charged now ?? 

Apparently another couple of hours will do them LOL

2 hours ago, StephenFord said:

Apparently another couple of hours will do them LOL

So that's 928,562 hours to charge. Thats a few coffees at Costa  waiting then

 

16 hours ago, iantt said:

There's 4300 electric Volvo hgv trucks on the roads .

Yes, they were featured in one of the many tv programmes there have been on the subject of EVs, pretty impressive they were too.

 

16 hours ago, iantt said:

All the talk has been about Tesla's trucks

Speaking of Tesla:

https://electrek.co/2023/07/27/tesla-vastly-overstates-its-vehicles-range-report-states/

10 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Speaking of Tesla:

https://electrek.co/2023/07/27/tesla-vastly-overstates-its-vehicles-range-report-states/

Nothing new there in the car world, petrol, diesel, electric. 

And I was going to do a 956mile journey!! Didn't get that far and had to stop to put fuel in. 🤣🤣🤣🤣edit, forgot to say this was my Mondeo. Obviously not my ioniq 🤣🤣

1 minute ago, iantt said:

Nothing new there in the car world, petrol, diesel,..

I don't understand folk relying on a dumb range computer in their car. Work out in the real world what your actual MPG is, then use your odometer to make sure you don't run out of fuel...

Mine does what it says on the tin.

11 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

I don't understand folk relying on a dumb range computer in their car. Work out in the real world what your actual MPG is, then use your odometer to make sure you don't run out of fuel...

Perhaps they can't work it out without a computer!😀

computer says NO !

I see Drax Power, who I often post about here, are in the news again and not in a good way:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12365957/Power-station-operator-Drax-furiously-DENIES-claims-used-government-energy-subsidy-loophole-avoid-paying-639m-households-height-cost-living-crisis.html

This morning I watched a video on TalkTV (exclusive, can't find it on general release) of a masked man removing one of the new London ULEZ cameras, worth about £7000, in about 30 seconds. Of course I do not condone the crime, but it was beautiful to watch...

2 hours ago, StephenFord said:

Of course I do not condone the crime,

Are you wanting to buy a cheap camera ??? 🤣