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Their is nothing wrong with an E.V I.ve got on great to drive and I am not poisoning little kids in the street.The problem is the lousy charging infrastructure in the UK.I have a home charger but many have not.

I returned to diesel, Skoda Octavia, great car, but missed the acceleration and running costs. Kept it two months and went back to electric.

Cannot hear anything over the sound of your extremely loud diesel car WOW. Either that or get a better microphone.

My hand stinks of diesel!!! What a fucking poof. Haven't you heard " diesel soot gets the moot".

Nice, realistic, sensible point of view. The anti-EV FUD-mongers will want to watch this, because the title & thumbnail will make them believe this is another piece of FUD that will confirm their own fears. What a surprise they'll get 🤣

So to summarise, the ev was much cheaper to run, didn’t make your hand stink when you refuel, wouldn’t take any longer for the trip, and was quieter, it’s no different to live with, and you don’t need to feel bad about using all that polluting diesel. Nice!

Hope you had a great holiday in Turkey, Up to Scotland with just 3 hours sleep that's madness 😂 And then you're getting in the car for the first time without any practice 😂 Glad you're happy with how things turned out And there's nothing from using valet excuses 😂 13:44 This is a very touching story about your mother and father It's great that he gave you the love of motor sport you have today, It's great you got to race in his honour

A name change seems to make sense under the circumstances, Challenge fatty Was an awesome name for a channel though 😂 I look forward to seeing the direction you take the channel in Rob And hope there is a little more car racing in your future

I really should have put these on my other channel!

Sounds like you had a great time, It must be a wonderful experience to go out on a race track and take part in a race

Hope you had fun pal

I always find when I'm cycling that the distance between my handle bars and the car don't really concern me so much so long as I'm not scraping the paintwork however it's the speed they do the overtake and how hard they slam the accelerator as the going past you I honestly just think British roads are a bit too small and a bit too congested to religiously keep to that 2 m rule

I always loved the top gear specials, never really considered top gear to be a ducmentary, good points though

most people can't charge at home which is the reason most people will never have one

2:30 I agree with you A 100% 3:01 They are picking those type of cars because That's what makes it entertaining I would say they do the same for point one as well, Great to see you figured out this formula and talked about it, It has obviously worked for them so well, Keeping Massive audiences Entertain for years, I'm sad to see it all coming to an end but Those guys are not getting any younger And as entertaining as they are I wouldn't want to see one of them Get seriously injured Or worse during one of these challenges , Plus it's good to end on a high I think, Thanks this was fun And entertaining and you spoiled nothing 😂 I look forward to seeing you ruin more for us 😂

When im on my own. Drivers are generally well behaved but as soon as im in a group with mates they loose there minds and the anger is unreal.

For me there is nothing like blasting through a tunnel on full chat, H&T, using a key and that feeling you get when the turbo kicks in at 2,100 RPM, you just don't get that from any production EV at the moment. Love an old school Turbo. I accept all the negatives when you drive a Volvo 850 T5 from the 90s. If i wanted fuel economy id by something else lol. At the moment no EVs for me until they make them fun for drivers. Simulated manuals, make the battery motor whine like a super charger.

Now tow a caravan with an EV and then try and charge it at a service area with a caravan on the back...no fucking way am I unhitching my caravan and leaving it unattended while I charge it every 100 miles...EVs a crap.

You can't change gear, rev match, or heel and toe, which I love to do in my Golf GTi, and ZC33s Swift, and you can't do that in an electric car, so that's why I won't be buying one.

Interesting to read all the EV hater comments. When I first started driving in the early 90s, diesel was 45p per litre, it’s now almost 4x that at £1.45 per litre. The cost of filling up my last car (a diesel) started rocketing up in the last few years and there’s little sign of that pattern changing. I switched to an EV and now pay 7p p/kwh and my EV costs me about £4.50 to charge and gives me 300 miles. If I had solar, it could be charged for nothing. Octopus have started doing free electric promotions - if you go on the Agile tariff, they occasionally pay you. The other day, I was at a local café offering free EV charging. I feel that I’ve “taken back control” from the oil giants - I truly am in the driving seat, no longer stuck with Middle Eastern oil (with prices determined by some of the world’s dodgiest regimes) and sat in a car reliant on 19th century fossil-fuel burning technology. On the contrary, I’m in a car that costs me little to charge and service, gives me the convenience of charging outside my house, is based on 21st century tech, uses electricity produced in the UK, drives smoothly and quietly and produces no emissions to choke those around me. Good luck to the EV haters, you’re a dying breed - literally.

Let's hope for more kitchen posts. You mentioned working in one? As a chef?

Great idea for an experiment, The result actually didn't surprise me much, I think the biggest problems on the roads are there just too many drivers That are not concentrating, Don't pay enough attention, Don't know the correct rules of the road, Are naive to how vulnerable cyclists actually are, I think you have to be a mad man to be cycling without a helmet on, Although if something hits you with FORCE helmets not doing anything, I witnessed A Cyclist get hit by a car last summer When the vehicle was speeding and not paying attention, The vehicle hit the side of the bike Before hitting the brakes and dragging the guy underneath the front of the car about 10 m, All I heard was scraping metal, The guy actually didn't come off the bike and was dragged along with it, At first there was no movement and we thought he was dead But he had just got winded Couldn't get his breath and lost consciousness for a few minutes, It took 15 minutes for an ambulance to turn up but the police were there within 5, The guy actually managed to get app and walk to the side of the road with assistance from the police Which was a bit gross as one of these legs the skin was completely torn off, Be safe cycling mate and just have the attitude that everybody driving a car is a complete idiot

Why are you getting diesel on you're hands? Think I've had it twice in about 5 years of driving diesel cars, by not paying full attention! And no, I rarely ever use expensive services for food and coffee when filling up. Probably 8 times in 20 years. I do visit a supermarket for fuel and pop into the main bit for a good choice of a small meal. I suppose it's how lazy you want you're lifestyle to be out on the road. I could get an EV and trickle charge at home. Then there's some long trips I'd do, but the stopping at services, paying 80p a kw hr for my next 160 miles and being bored for 45 mins, paying stupid money for food/drinks is a big no no for me! There are other factors which for now, make me steer very clear of EV's. I do really like what they are, but seems we went for them about 15 years too early in mass scale.

Any ice car is far superior than electric garbage.

What happens when you get a proper Cyberattack on your EV and charging stations. There are people out there collecting and storing 0-days just for that!!! It will be interesting 🫣

This is my picture of EV:s: Silly expensive to buy, very expensive insurance, more expensive tires, bigger tire wear and you still have maintenance costs that are not dirt cheap. You have to invest in an charger at home. Everything in your enviroment affects the distance you can go. It's a silly game trying to find a free charger on a roadtrip. You should stay in 20-80% of battery capacity and not to speed charge if you want to have long battery life. Cost of charging varies greatly. You have to drive 160 000km before it's more enviromentally friendly than a combustion car. If you change car often it never becomes good for the enviroment. Then you are worse than any v8 diesel. It's a just fap for wealthy men, a toy!

Yeah, you wasted half of the pepper.

Great vid. I had similar experience as far as appreciating and enjoying the EV experience. They are good cars. Diesel is yuck.

Ive gone back from a VW ID4 to a Volvo XC-40 Petrol…. No more EVs for me thank you…

I totally agree with the points you are making, especially the car cabin pre heating/cooling stuff - I get that. But the only thing keeping me in my 2nd hand (bombproof) VW Golf is the charging infrastructure on those longer (100 mile+) trips. Lovely Audi by the way.

I did Run 4 Life 10k Sunday and it's made me wanna go again so yesterday I signed up for Thursdays media city 10k 😊

*Mercedes 'B' Class that can get 2 Mountain bikes in rear without dismantling them, and on a Ski Holiday at Saalbach [sadly 5 years ago] got 3 passengers and all luggage including Ski's in with 1/3 seat down. Model W246 B200 CDi and 143 MPH (Verified by Sat-Nav) on Autobahn and on non-stop return trip 797 Miles **14:14** hours Average 54 MPH [inc Ferry] and 50.4 MPG. Since then got a 2019 [W247] B200CDi with all the kit - absolutely amazing and so quiet most passengers think they are in an Electric Version - I kid you not, at 60mph in 8th Gear engine 1100 RPM totally silent, on a good road like floating on air - and have achieved 85.6 MPG over 108 Miles at Average Speed of 53 mph !*

*Fact is Modern Diesels emit less CO2 (Euro 6) and have AdBlue Technology and enormous torque at low revs - love my B200 8 Speed AMG CDi [2019] with all the kit - 85.6 MPG over 108 Miles at Average Speed of 53 MPH and engine so quiet you can hear every word in songs playing from Multi-Media System - rarely seen over 2000 rpm and in Eco Mode if chosen can FreeWheel for Miles ! Hey Mercedes Take me home !*

*I have a 2019 Mercedes W247 B200 CDi that I have achieved 85.6 MPG over 106 Miles, and the Emissions (Cleaned with additional Catalytic Convertors, and aided by AdBlue) to reduce Nitrous Oxide (NOx) is one of the new breed [Euro 6] and .08 Parts per Million. By 2025 Euro 7 even tougher EU7 limits due mid-decade - are impressively clean, with sufficient exhaust after-treatment built in to trap the nasties that give Diesel a bad name.*

*I am not for one minute disputing 'Climate Change/Global Warming' but would contest strongly that is is not caused by Humans, but a natural cycle that has occured over Millions of Years. Where I am sitting now [Midlands UK] a mere 12,000 Years ago was under ½ mile thick Ice Sheet. I kid you not Mammoth Lake nearby. All these **_Measures_** proposed to Halt or Reverse it are pathetic and will not make the slightest difference' The most stupid of all is halting what are now very efficient clean ICE Cars and replacing them with Dirty Electric that only the most wealthy can afford initially and have off road/Garage parking to enable them to recharge overnight (for a full recharge up to several days) Quite honestly I see this as a way to Tax the average person for the benefit of the wealthy who running an EV pay no Road Tax/Fuel Tax and even get a Government Grant when purchasing one. There is a £34 Billion Black Hole set to appear in the future and I dread the future for our Children/Grandchildren after the gigantic **-astronomical-** costs Covid19 has caused. Wait until 98% efficient Gas Boilers are prohibited and have to spend £15-20k on a Heat pump that is most **-useless-** inefficient in the Winter [cold] Months when little or no Solar Power and on a still day Zero Wind Power. Nuclear Fission may be the answer but until that time Quote "UK Government Advisor {Allegra Stratton} on Global Warming will continue using my elderly VW Diesel - say no more !*

Great video. I don't have a full EV, but I do have the next best thing. I currently have a 2013 Toyota Auris 1.8 Hybrid. I get between 65 to 76 mpg Highways and much more city. It's a much much cheaper car to run than my previous car which was a 1.6 VW Golf Highline Petrol. That car got 48 to 52 mpg. I do have a fairly light foot. Overall the Toyota has saved me a total of 800 to 900 a year in fuel. I'm thinking of getting either a Toyota Prius Plug-In or a 62 KW Nissan Leaf as a choice for my next car.

range and time charging along with charge costs is peeps immediate thoughts . The battery life overall is down the line the one that brings up the issue when outside of manufacturer warranty due to either high mileage or the warrantied years either a repair or having to replace it with a brand new ££££££ or a refurbed £££ which will have a smaller time warranty. I still feel for the domestic mkt ev is the best of all the evils as hydrogen got shelved by the car manufacturers

5:24 0.07 pence per mile without road duty. Is same as 0.15 pence per mile with Road Duty (and the 20% vat on Road Duty that we pay) So if you equalised the taxation charge. The real cost would be the same. And that equalisation of taxation is inevitable at some point soon.

I just went EV. I’ve never been interested in engines, oil and gear boxes. To me, combustions sound too much and never react as soon as I want them. Interesting video. Not sure I got the message of you went back to diesel though.

Evs are mind numbingly boring to be in…it’s like a subversive form of Mind Control…no buttons to press, nothing to look at inside, nothing engine noise to listen to, anxiety over topping up……it doesn’t take Einstein to conclude that EV=MC2

My 1997 Discovery with 382000 miles still gets 500+ miles to a tank and costs £70 to fill up with biodiesel from a local farm

I never need to fill up at motorway services because my car has a 750 mile range and diesel is easily available everywhere. Not comparable to an EV with perhaps 300 mile range when you don't know if there'll be a queue for the next charge point or they're out of order.

The second I can buy an EV that I don’t have to drive or interact with other than select on an app where I want it to take me I’m in!! Oh and I also want wireless charging built into my drive so I don’t have to plug it in ! Cmon my phone has done that for years 😂

lets talk depreciation of EV's ???

Only an idiot can't see that EVs are not only totally inconvenient but cost a fortune more than diesels

Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend , Despite some technical issues, Especially that power steering, 11th and ninth not bad mate, Hopefully you'll be able to do it again the future, Also glad to hear your family had A great day out

So the moral of the story is that...EV's are better than ICE! Love it!

lol, all the people who are saying that it's cheaper to run a petrol/diesel car... maybe you're from the US of A. but fuel costs a lot in much of the world, as well as service and repairs, and of course we haven't spoken about environmental costs. Those who don't drive much, I get it, going electric doesn't make much difference, and it does cost a lot both to buy and environmentally up front. If you were to just say, I want a car that goes from A to B without much hastle and i don't care that I'm putting diesel fumes into the air, then live up to it. You can also say that electric cars will have higher depreciation rates because battery prices are going down. But I find it so funny is the ignorant people who can only come up with the reason of "it costs a lot to replace the battery" when battery replacements for electric cars are probably even more rare than ICE engine replacements and transmission replacements, which aren't exactly cheap either.

A petrol or diesel Tesla would be much more successful for Tesla.

I had a kia EV, in terms of space and power more than i ever need, but i do long stints(120 km one way or more) but the tax benefits are decreasing and as a companycar i had costs of 300 euro a month (12%tax) but if i remain using the same car in 1,5 years that will be 500 euro a month. Looking at a diesel or PHEV for the next car, cause ice is 23% tax and EV is gonna be 22% tax.