Recent content by markjay

Spotted in Sweden:

As are Hankooks on (lower end) Mercs.

In my case, their price was £138 pet corner, while all the usual online retailers had it for £155-165. Then, they had a deal of additional £80 off if buying 4 Michelin tyres (which I did). So overall a saving of around £148. Obviously, different tyres have different prices, but this gives you an...

I just got a very good deal at Costco for 4 tyres. However, (a) you need to be a member - or know a member, and (b) they generally have only Michelin, Bridgestone, and Goodyear.

I'll repeat something that has been said before.... If you told people in the early years of the 20th century that one day every family will have a car or two... you'd have heard the very same arguments that are currently being made against EVs. I.e., that there's not enough oil in the world...

It's true, but only at one edge of the use spectrum. For most people, the overall cost-per-mile will be a mixture of different charging costs. I.e., it will be rare for a driver to use ultrafast motorway chargers exclusively. The more likely situation will be charging at home for most of the...

Re home charging, sure, but that's one reason why we have public chargers - to supplement home charging. However, I do agree that the penny-pinchers brigade who regularly check the mpg on their Diesel cars, will bend over backwards to ensure that their EV never sets foot (or tyre, rather)...

True, and while I want to say that planning your charging in these circumstances isn't essentially more complicated than planning the refuelling of your ICE car, the fact is that some people do on occasion run out of fuel on the motorway. I suppose that those people who can't currently manage...

I suspect that those who find themselves in this situation - I.e. requiring two cars to be charged simultaneously on a regular basis - will adjust their requirements accordingly. Just like people with pets prefer a house or flat with a garden, or elderly couples prefer a flat in a building with...

AFAIK, while all 4 door are unlocked simultaneously, only the two front door handles can activate the unlocking. I.e., the rear door handles are passive, and the two rear doors only unlock if the unlocking is activated by one of the two front door handles. Therefore, there's no point in...

And, this is an example from Lambeth: "A car free development is where parking is not provided on site and when planning permission was granted for the development there was not sufficient capacity for any additional vehicles to be parked on the highway. When granting planning permission for...

BTW, the current directive from the Mayor of London is that developers need to "ensure that 1 in 5 spaces (both active and passive) provide an electrical charging point to encourage the uptake of electric vehicles". So it's 1 in 5. But again, this may vary from Council to Council.

Every single new high-rise building that I've seen in London so far had an underground car park. And the developers that I spoke to said it was a requirement. However, this may differ from one local Council to the other.

True, in theory. In practical terms, an all-EV future is at least 30 years away, and in any event it will take a couple hundred years before all existing flats and housing stock has been redeveloped with a single (slow) charging point.... What will likely happen from 30 years from now is that...

I don't know anything about the requirements to fit EV chargers, but I do know that in London all new home must have at least one parking bay per flat, for the last 30 years at least. In densely-populated areas this was typically achieved by digging an underground car park. But more...