Recent content by baxlin

Fill in the blanks about Mrs B trying to get her licence back after a year off after a seizure. Getting the NHS consultant and Medical section of DVLA to correspond with each other, let alone Mrs B getting through on the phone to either, to break into the circle, is nigh on impossible…

mmm. This thread has become far too complicated for me, I think I’ll do as I suggested a few pages ago, and wait awhile. I might well get caught out by higher/lower (delete as appropriate) car prices, but I may not even be driving by then - I”m on my third ‘over 70’ licence after all… Malcolm

Does the ‘why’ even matter? Currently (sorry, unintended pun), the wholesale acceptance of EVs is not happening. And neither using the carrot (incentives are very expensive to maintain indefinitely) or the stick (hardens resistance, also expensive, at least to the manufacturers) seem to be...

Then take a bow! Do you know if the fridge was being powered by the car? If not, could this be a further drain? (Edit: sorry, I got in a bit of a mess in quoting!🤔)

Owned a couple of Vauxhalls back in the day, HB Viva and a Cd Carlton, both very reliable, if uninteresting, but never even driven a BMW. As an aside, I used to have a clause in my will that my funeral cars were not to be Volvos, then I went and bought one… (The reason was the C70 was the only...

Just watched a YouTube vid on the PetrolPed channel, about towing a caravan with an EV. Very interesting - aimed at real world rather than scientific. The battery usage rate turned out to be about the same as a diesel towcar, an approx doubling of the rate. So far so good. The main problem...

Ah but we do it free! 🤫

Mmm. another thread that’s gone AWOL

Anyone remember the Turbo Visor from years ago? Seems even Graham Hill used one!

I had a 2013 C220, and was going for the same when the lease expired in 2015, but seeing the iPad blu-tacked to the dashboard on the then new model changed my mind. A pity really, because I did like the previous one.

I put this in a slightly more subtle way about 6 pages ago in my original M-way/EV observations post… But then, do EV sceptics always keep their opinions to themselves? 👹👹

I have been doing the trip from home to Nottm via MK for over 40 years, fairly regularly (even more often now my MIL is older and widowed), without stopping, because I don’t need to. It doesn’t matter how many petrol stations there are on the way, The fact is I don’t need them. Hence my...

I confess I haven’t driven an EV, but as I said previously, I am open to doing so, in fact as long ago as 2015 I had a ‘toe in the water’ hybrid Lexus. But i’m going to need quite a bit more positive, factual evidence for me to jump completely into EV ownership. Certainly while my MIL is still...

Genuine question - I’m not ‘having a go’… It was something like 240 miles, occasional rain going up, lots of heavy rain coming back, mostly after dark. Would that be viable in an EV, bearing in mind that as it was there and back in one day, with jobs to do at my M-i-L’s, there wouldn’t be time...

A short motorway run I can understand, but I wouldn’t have liked to do my yesterday’s run in an EV - would you? I only quoted the M-way chunk, I had 3/4 hour drive before and after I got to MK. My petrol car cost me £33 in fuel, which tbh I’m happy with, with no range anxiety. But having said...