ChipChop
MB Enthusiast
Contingency planning not required in your opinion?Not sure I follow - what makes you think that the link to Norway will fail again? It's currently fully operational.
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Contingency planning not required in your opinion?Not sure I follow - what makes you think that the link to Norway will fail again? It's currently fully operational.
I would suggest that the entire EV market is distorted by taxation measures. Were they as good as is claimed, such measures would be unneccesary , neither would the manufactures have their begging bowls out !The new car market is heavily dependent on business leases - my guess is that the majority of new EV registrations are in fact business leases (due to the low BIK). I wonder if this shows a downturn in the economy?
Contingency planning not required in your opinion?
Don't think so.Understood.
Speeding it up will only worsen the auto makers' plight. Delay at least permits them to sell what they can turn a profit on - ICE.So how do we help speed it up? Subsidies?
I would suggest that the entire EV market is distorted by taxation measures. Were they as good as is claimed, such measures would be unneccesary , neither would the manufactures have their begging bowls out !
Carmakers ramp up pressure on chancellor for EV sales subsidies
To date, we haven't scratched the surface of what is required. The majority of the public really aren't doing anything meaningful at the personal level to reduce their CO2 footprint. Please don't ask me what is required. The utilitarian answer to that question isn't one I'm proffering for at least a decade.. As far as I know we have no measurable feedback that says we have slowed the rate of global warming by what we have done to date.
Then, the automotive industry has been suffering badly for a very long time.
To date, we haven't scratched the surface of what is required. The majority of the public really aren't doing anything meaningful at the personal level to reduce their CO2 footprint. Please don't ask me what is required. The utilitarian answer to that question isn't one I'm proffering for at least a decade.
Fixed that for ya!.Its nice to lead the world, and pay the 4th highest prices electricity prices (after italy, Belguim and Ireland) on the planet.
4th highest per kWh this winter is it? Nothing to celebrate there then.Fixed that for ya!
Well, we’ve got a useful precedent on subsidies and regulationUnderstood. So how do we help speed it up? Subsidies?
You do have to worry about the sanity of anyone buying a new car privately when there are such enormous discounts around on pre-registered and usedInteresting news today from SMMT.
"Private demand for new diesel cars is growing faster than for pure battery electrics, preliminary figures show.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said registrations of new diesel cars for private buyers in September grew by around 17.2% compared with the same month in 2023, up 1,369 units.
That is compared with an approximately 3.7% year-on-year rise for pure battery electrics – up 430 units – despite heavy discounting by manufacturers."
Private demand for new diesel cars growing faster than for EVs
Ebay is banning the private sale of e-bikes and e-bike batteries from the end of this month due to the fire risk. From November only eligible business sellers will be allowed to list these bike shaped objects.
E-bikes: eBay to ban private sales over fire safety concerns
Perhaps multiple e-bike and e-scooter manufacturers riders utilise the same battery from the same battery manufacturer.It would be good to know why e-bike and e-scooter batteries are exploding and catching fire at what appears to be a disproportionately high rate.
After all, Li-ion isn't new tech. We've had laptops, mobile phones, portable power tools, portable vacuum cleaners and obviously electric vehicles for many years now, and yet it seems that e-bikes and e-scooters are far more dangerous than other Li-ion powered devices.
So far, a hightend fire risks were always linked to a specific product or batch (e.g. Galaxy Note, HP ProBook, etc), which is something that can obviously happen when manufacturing products. But the exploding e-bikes and e-scooters are made by a variety of manufacturers, and so it's not clear why they fail at such an alarming rate compared to other Li-ion based products.
Diesels are still popular for a 'range' of reasons. The latest ones are cleaner than a very clean thing, if not quite supplying the 'zero' inner city emissions of an EV.You do have to worry about the sanity of anyone buying a new car privately when there are such enormous discounts around on pre-registered and used
270k new sales, and diesels are just 8k units, although up 17%? Call it less than 3% of the market
I didn’t realise that private sales of diesels were so low. Thanks for highlighting.
Diesels aren’t dead, they’re “yearning for the Fjords”
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Despite the headline, it should be remembered that the only legal e-bikes in the UK are those that are speed limited to 15.5 mph.Ebay is banning the private sale of e-bikes and e-bike batteries from the end of this month due to the fire risk. From November only eligible business sellers will be allowed to list these bike shaped objects.
E-bikes: eBay to ban private sales over fire safety concerns
Diesels are still popular for a 'range' of reasons. The latest ones are cleaner than a very clean thing, if not quite supplying the 'zero' inner city emissions of an EV.
I do like to buck a trend and plough my own furrow. I know EVs are renowned for being very heavy, but my EV is just half the weight of my other ICE car....
Why must people generalise? Currently, (I use the word advisedly) we have a choice of EV or ICE. Treasure that choice and use it wisely.
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