Recent content by markjay

This seems to be recurring theme.... this is from Colombia University in NYC, a pro-Israeli lecturer was prohibited from accessing an area of the campus where pro-Palestinian students were demonstrating: https://twitter.com/i/status/1782419968077803590 It's clear that the pro-Israelis are...

I think we need to differentiate between tight penny-pinching [enter the UK regional character or foreign ethnicity of your choice] holding everyone up while trying to save money on fuel or electricity, and those who drive their EV slowly due to range anxiety. The latter is relevant to the the...

This is very true. Making new EVs more affordable will inevitably mean massive depreciation for existing cars, that will affect second hand values and hit hard those who bought their EVs before prices came down. I have no doubt that we will see more YouTube videos of owners complaining about...

As above. I find that large national chains (I have used KwikFit, National Tyres, ATS Euromaster, and Costco over the years) tend to have better processes in place and well-trained techs in general, but ultimately it's down to the individual tyre fitter.

Good point. Is there a market now for early EVs? The Leaf was introduced in the UK in 2010, so not quite 20 years yet, but given the rapid progress of EV tech since then, the current situation with early Leaf EVs could be indicative of things to come.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that people should simply dump their ICE cars an get EVs instead. The expectation is that when the time comes to replace their current cars, they should consider an EV. Eventually, with the aid of legislation, some model of EV will be their only option...

The very clever Mr Musk.

I think that while a charging stop might be an inconvenience, it's minimal and certainly not a good reason for rejecting the government's plans of banning sales of new ICE cars.

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Spotted in the toilets of a coffee shop in Switzerland: Surprisingly, the toilets' floor wasn't a mess....

Fully understood. Roll forward 10 years or so, you're now driving an EV, would you do this journey with a charging stop, or would you now consider this journey as undoable, and you'll give it a miss? If you answer the former, then my point is that some journeys will be less convenient in an...

This explains well why I am not optimistic:

It's a great success for the pro-Palestinian PR machine, having rebranded the victims as perpetrators. The two Israelis were going to give a talk to the Jewish community in the UK about the Hamas' atrocities of 7th Oct, but the immigration officers saw them as political agitators. The...

I think this means that the generic OBDII scanner can see that there are ECU fault codes but it can't read them, which means that you'll need to use a Mercedes-specific scanner such as STAR (ideally) or a DIY tool such as iCarsoft in order to properly read the ECU fault codes.

To my mind, the point he made was that the pro-Palestinian demonstrations put the Met in an impossible position, in spite of them refusing to admit it.