Government not blind, not ignorant just stupid, I can't believe that COMMON sense is a thing of the past. We need someone to take control and return to REALITY.
You only think they are stupid because you don't see the hidden motive... which makes you the stupid one, not them (sorry to say) They are neither blind, stupid nor ignorant, they are devious, dishonest and corrupt!
If I was a car manufacturer selling to the UK and the government threatened with being fined I'd just take all business away from this country. UK is done. Get me out of here
@@Howard1776 I have a solution then, manufactures should just turn to the government and say, OK, we shall shut down permanently then and make everyone unemployed. Enjoy your Christmas Dinner Prime Minister, just mind you don't choke on it.
@@Galerak1 As the public won’t buy electric vehicles on merit, Govts are cutting down on the supply of ICE vehicles to force them to. Given apparent slow down on electric sales and Toyota reportedly loosing £9k on every one they sell, the motor industry must be tearing their hair out.
That was my thoughts as well. The main reason for the slow uptake is simply the cost of the vehicles. It would seem the manufacturers have decided we all have loads of money and will pay anything to get an EV?? If the manufacturers can't or won't produce cheap cars they will either give up or just import Chinese low cost cars with their own badge on it. The govt will then find out what happens to the economy if they push them too far.
When I was in my early twenties earning a very moderate salary, I could afford a sports car, the insurance for it, road tax (at £35 a year - for any car), and petrol was £0.75 a GALLON (4.5461 Liters)!!! Back then it was cheaper to holiday travelling in your car than to fly, so I had a wonderful time driving around the UK and Europe, without having to worry whether I could afford the petrol. Oh, and there weren't any roadside speed cameras either... Good times! Seriously, politicians today excel in just four areas... finding ways to SPEND OUR MONEY like there's no tomorrow, continually making our lives a misery, complicating everything they touch and fleecing the motorist anywhere and everywhere they can... whilst increasingly demanding MORE money from the public, due to their own and "unaccountable" mismanagement of public funds and budgeting FAILURES. This corrupt and unjust system MUST change!!!
Unfortunately thing back then we're as good - more road deaths, where the biggest contributing factor was speed (once we'd convince folk to buckle up). Why do people moan about speed cameras - why do they never moan about CCTV in Tescos - both are there to catch law breakers. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
The electric grid could NOT cope with that many electric vehicles. It's a backhanded way for the government to get cars off the roads. Your car will sit outside your home with a dead battery most days of the week.
for EVERY year that the National Grid have crunched the numbers on EV adoption and how it impacts the GRID, they have said that the GRID will cope without any problems. Please stop believing the right wing Big Oil fed propaganda.
@@tiepupyes but no one really wants to charge their cars overnight the government keeps telling you to switch electricity points off before going to bed! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@tiepup It's an assumtion, but I bet you have private, off road parking, next to your house where you can easily plug your car in. How can people charge a car overnight when if live in a block of flats, terrice house or rent??? You probably think 'Not my problem,' and you may have a point. Unfortunatly the government think the same way.
@@nodwaa9227 So true, they actually want most of us dead, depopulation of the planet is part of their Great Reset plan, they state a number that they want it down to.
Incorrect - It's a psychological warfare operation to ground you into the ground and give up. The war is against you, the intelligent worked this out a very long time ago. When you print your own economy you have neither an economy OR debt. Never about money, money to them means nothing. It is a about history - the 100 year model - You are in the great depression. This ends 2030. But most won't get there, that's the plan. PS it's only really just got started. The mechanics will keep tightening their nuts - WHY? Because the dumb society will just keep accepting everything!! Like servile myopic carcasses. You need to start waking and shaping up and FAST !!
@@davidperry7128 Scotland - Long runs = time they waste getting their vans recharged. Electric vehicles! Milk Float Deliveries proved that years ago👀
@@davidperry7128Post Office ordered electric vans. Expected range was ideal for the routes they were intended for. Then they put the mail sacks in and it cut the range in half. The vans are all parked up until the bosses come up with a better plan.
It been said that the general public in London are struggling to get plumber, sparkies, and loads of other trades people to come and do work at people's houses, and the one that do turn up charge way more that they paid last time, this could be due to them passing on the extra charges to the home owner, some trade guys have chucked the towl in due to the ridiculous costs. A new transit van is in the region of £40.000 how on earth do people afford to live in London?
Before I had a car, I had to ride a bicycle to work, getting off several times to push it up very steep hills. I was worn out by time I got to work, and when it rained I was literally soaked through to my skin. At the time I worked in a Nursing home and was able to ask permission to strip off and dry all my clothes in their tumble dryer ~ I don’t recall what I wore while waiting! What would I have done if I had worked somewhere where they didn’t have a tumble dryer? As a lone parent with health issues, I could barely work part~time and certainly couldn’t afford to buy waterproof clothing. If my child and I needed to get a bus, it was a very long walk into town, up and down steep hills to get to the bus station, in all weathers. My child and I were permanently exhausted. Are we really expected to go back to that kind of existence? Getting a car [ albeit an old banger ] changed our lives in so many ways for the better. I’m now a State pensioner with terminal cancer. I live in the country in a small HA flat. There are no buses here. No shops, nothing. I don’t know what I’ll do when my 17 year old car dies on me. Can’t afford to replace it . Millions of people like me in this country.
Local community church hasn't ousted me yet. 1988-1995, 2000- to present. Found a wife, then she was great comfort. Then we went to other church but she stopped, so I needed to go back to my friends at least on a Sunday if I could. .Still prayed for her though. Burnout happens.
When is the public going to realize the volume of emissions the airports like Heathrow and all the others are pushing out . I thought that the government was supposed to be elected to represent the people , When did that change ???????
No such thing as a carbon free electric vehicle and anyone that falls for this tripe is deluded, still uses rubber and needs the same energy source used to build combustion power vehicles, still uses materials dug from the ground that release Carbon when excavated, if Carbon release is the bad boy then should we ban the construction of new build houses as there is a release of Carbon from the ground when the trees are felled in the green belt and the concrete poured into the trenches dug, also from materials dug from the ground releasing Carbon when excavated and the list goes on, just a money making scam.
Petrol or diesel cars have more emissions after 20k miles than all those emissions used to make an e.v. And then it continues upwards from there. The only emissions that comes from an e.v. are tyre particulates and far lower brake dust emissions as regen does a great amount of normal braking in most e.vs. Also although we often talk about emissions in producing an e.v. nobody mentions the emissions producing the oil, petrol or diesel fuel.
What the government want and what they get is going to be very different, what we need is a government that puts the needs of the people first and ditches the demands of the W.E.F
The UK infrastructure is way off being ready. I live on a housing estate in Reading Berkshire and we are having power cuts at least once per month if not more. What is happening is the fuse plate at the local substation keeps blowing. Ive spoken to the SSE guys who keep coming out to fix it as the substation is not far from my house. They say its due to the load from EV car charging which is exceeding the capacity of the Sub station which was built and spec'd for the 1975 housing estate. People are doing the charging at 1am onwards typically which is when they get cheaper rates and its right at 1am when the fuse plates keep blowing.
Have a look at this short entry from me, about another SSE problem re cable failures etc: th-cam.com/video/LS8VFhRMsYY/w-d-xo.html Towards the end there are some notes about the prospect of remote load curtailment to avoid overloading (and to avoid installing enhanced networks). Most distribution cabling is not capable of all of the houses drawing the theoretical maximum all at the same time, gambling that there is a natural variation - but a lot of continuous loads for charging traction batteries is a bit different.
They also want to remove the control and influence OPEC can have over their people and therefore them. It's the only remotely rational reason to be pushing a technology that doesn't work and is nowhere near as "green" as just an efficient diesel when everything's factored in. Bare in mind the tiny percentage of co2 cars are responsible for as part of the tiny part the UK itself is responsible for globally. It's glaringly obvious there must be another agenda.....
You are totally wrong. The three main players in hydrogen, Toyota, Hyundai and Shell have all but given up. BMW only did a limited test run of one car and are making no more. Shell are phasing out hydrogen filling stations. You really do need to look at the EV industry better and stop just repeating what you’ve heard with no proof
The ULEZ charge is ridiculous. I drove from Cheshire to Heathrow Airport a couple of weeks ago. I had to pay £35 for the privilege of not even going into London.
totally agree with you. lived in France last 10 years, back to broken pot holed Britain... seems like "What the Government wants, the Government gets". Maybe the British will eventually have had enough and park THEIR tractors on the motorway.... etc, etc.
Fully agree yes there a place for them and Electricity is just another option. I think the Push for them is the energy Companies can up the prices then everyone suffers even none car owners
@@MrPDoff Youre right. One reason will be to make everyone reliant on energy companies. Another is control. Easy to control your car use and track everything. Another reason is the throw away disposable culture. They'd like you changing your car as often as you change your mobile phone. Absolutely nothing is about the environment.
@@jessicaandtrains7768 You're already reliant on energy companies - BIG OIL COMPANIES !!! In countries that don't care about human rights, or that oil spills are decimating nature, and the groundwater for drinking. HMMMMMM At least if we generated all our electricity ourselves then we wouldn't have to rely on other countries??? There are several countries that generate 100% of their electricity from renewables. Last year the UK generated 2/3rds from fossil FREE sources. Wind and Solar are much cheaper than gas. Gas is the reason why electric prices tripled. +97% of a EV's traction battery is currently recyclable. Indeed, car brands would love to recycle the batteries because it's so much easier to get the minerals than mining. I've never seen 1% of petrol or diesel being recycled.
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle. You don’t eliminate emissions, you export them somewhere else. It takes 500,000lbs of materials to make a single 100lb battery - you must process 25,000lbs of brine for the lithium, 30,000lbs of ore for the cobalt, 5,000lbs of ore for the nickel, and 25,000lbs of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000lbs of the earth's crust for just one battery. 100 - 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent of energy. Just manufacturing the battery produces a carbon debt rate of 10 - 40 tons of CO2. Demand for cobalt, lithium and zinc increases mining from 400% to 4000%. There is not enough mining in the world to make enough batteries.
I am not discounting your claim. However, I would be very interested to know the source of these figures. I have heard/read all sort sorts of claims for/against the true cost of producing EV batteries. Some unbiased scientific evidence would be good.
@@wideboatbluebell3021just google cobalt mines. You have to dig up a few football fields using D9 bulldozers for enough cobalt for one small electric vehicle, that’s a lot of diesel, around 100 liters per hour per dozer. Similar for all the other rare earth minerals in the batteries.
@tooyoungtobeold8756 Fortunately for us we have people who work in the mining industry who know that the world has more than enough minerals to make all the batteries we need - you're quoting for old battery tech. New battery tech, such as sodium batteries don't even have cobalt or lithium in them. Please Stop Believing right wing Big Oil propaganda.
@@rigamortice I'm amazed you can type that with your head in the sand. If you won't believe the experts whose job it is to do the tests then you should also stop seeing other experts like doctors who see the effects of air pollution day in day out.
@@mjh5437 As far as wildlife goes ... simply because there were FAR LESS people around at that point & they simply felt more at ease in their search for food
I passed all my driving tests first time (car, motorbike and advanced motorbike) but my car test was the craziest. Driving through Bury St. Edmunds all was going well when suddenly a car pulled in front of me. The examiner panicked, grabbed the handbrake causing the car to skid and hit the curb stalling it. I guess he was having a bad day. He apologised and carried on with the test, of course I thought I had failed and was surprised when he passed me.
Seems to be about (a) taxing people for movement (b) forcibly removing older vehicles from the roads and then (c) stopping as much private motoring as possible. Did we vote for this? Do we all sit back and wait for this to happen?
Hmmm, estimated battery life is approx 6 years. Average cost to replace battery is between £7500 to £10500 depending on the vehicle, and that is only the vost of the battery and does not include labour cost. Then there is the complete lack of a system of disposal for said batteries. For those that already have an EV there is the charging issue, frequency and cost, neither of which is economical or convenient convenient. They were a novelty in the beginning, now they are not selling, dealers are complaining about their lots filling up with EVs that they can't sell. Some vehicle manufacturers have decided to stop production of them.
8 year battery warranty. Batteries are recycled in 🇬🇧 No charging issue. Just plug in when I get home and ready to go in the morning. Where’s the issue? The only issue I’ve found is I miss waiting in the queue at the petrol station for me to get ripped off by their exorbitant prices.
@@Superman-nn4nw 3 when battery is at end of life what pay another 20/25grand for a new one cos I wouldn't,buy an ice vehicle also people are taking EV manufacturers to court over mileage range issues,,and EVs setting on fire as I said CRAP and why have something forced on you that you don't want,that like shopping at Tesco,and being fined by Asda for not shopping with them
Well yeah, Tories love that sort of thing, along with ginger root up their arses, placed there lovingly by Brazillian rent boys on Columbian marching powder.
Im a mobile detailer in the UK. I hired a Nissan EV van for a month. I gave the thing back after 2 weeks because I was having to cancel appointments and loosing money. I cannot charge at home so even if I bought one. I'd be reliant on public charging (Its expensive, more expensive than my diesel van per mile). The EV van allegedly had a 150 mile range. On a typical day. I drive 150miles per day. Except. Once I'd loaded the van for work inc the water tank. I was getting 50 miles from a charge. I had to charge the thing 2-3 times per day! Thats around 4+ hours wasted per day charging!. Charging the van isnt just the time charging the thing. Theres the time to drive to the charge point (not many around here). Waiting for a charger to be available if someone is already there. I have been 5 deep in a queue. I really despair for the future. EV's are not good enough. The range is too short and the charge time too long. public charging facilities are sketchy at best.
I was watching one on a guy with a 120k electric porsche 2yr old and he was offered 38k for it, mental, he was in negative equity of around 20k, its a bloody car ffs😮
I am a frequent tourist to UK, not a resident, but: "congestion" title implies discouraging the volume of cars on the roads to reduce the congestion realated traffic jams (or queues as you say), emissions reduction would only have been a side benefit. Everyone knows that electric car consessions would have ended at some stage.
The 5p per litre fuel tax reduction was offset by the incremental VAT due on the more expensive fuel. When fuel went up 25p per litre, the VAT increased by 5p - so the illustrious government gave us nothing, but convinced us we were benefiting! Clever!
I won't be buying an EV. I live in a 1st floor flat and there is no hook ups outside and i can't have a cable dangling out of the window to the ground and then across a public footpath
I doubt that's something the politicians worried about, since they own large villas with multi car garages in which the tax payer paid for having the latest chargers installed :D
Be grateful. Exploding EV’s while charging have set nearby residences on fire as well as the black toxic fumes and smoke from these explosions being extremely dangerous to your health.
Yes, and a factor is the little respect shown to other people's property, due to the piss weak police and justice system towards anti social behaviour.
@@verenamaharajah6082 charging stations are along the roadsides but if you can’t store it at your apartment it would be difficult to own one. Count it a blessing . Your apartment is safe from having one go up in flames
I’m helping the environment by driving my diesel car, I’m feeding the trees and hedgerows my CO2 and they are giving out free oxygen for everybody to breathe in!
Congestion charge is not about emissions, it's about reducing Congestion. The Greater Cambridge Partnership are pushing for it in Cambridge, because the city gets jammed up with traffic and all vehicles are to be subject to it. It's on hold at the moment because there's no workable plan for those that will have no choice but to drive. If the manufacturers have to pay a fine on new ICEs it'll get added to the cost of the vehicles. So at some point hardly any vehicles will be sold because electric vehicles can't do what is required and ICEs wil be too expensive. At that point the UK will grind to a halt, unless something changes.
@ Rabchog What exactly can't an EV do that the ICE car can?? The EV is 20 times LESS likely to catch fire than an ICE car (several studies from fire depts and insurers confirm this). There are only a very few use-cases where EVs may be less convenient, but they can still do the job.
@terryjimfletcher Range! And time to "refuel", I know that will get better, but for now it's not good enough and expensive. I don't have concerns about them bursting into flames. I drive an electric truck (27t), range is a big issue and it takes all night to charge it's huge battery. It is nice to drive and use though. I need an even bigger battery on it!
So many people are being priced out of having the independence of owning a vehicle . I'm struggling to run my shitbox 40 mins to work. My alternative is three separate busses run by different companies at a minimum cost of £250 a month for a two hour trip each way. If better alternatives were available I would not drive to work and save my fuel for b road tomfoolery on Sundays and high days.
Same here, 4 mins up the road but two buses and would take me 1.5 hrs to get there and walking in the mornings isn't an option, why.. Because we have unsavoury characters roaming our streets. This country is so backwards in going forwards. If these electric vehicle companies go out of business no doubt they'll import them from China!
@@shardlake It's a decent suggestion, but what about the dangers of riding 2 wheels on the roads, it is MUCH more dangerous. What about getting soaked when it rains (and we do get a LOT of rain in the UK). What about if you need tools for work, a large bag, have to carry passengers like a car share to/from work. Lots of reasons why a scooter wont work for the majority of people.
Good for you, my friend. I drove a friend's XJR Sport some years ago and I have NEVER forgotten the experience. Arguably the best car ever built by Jaguar and that is saying something. Greetings from Ireland ! They taxed these cars beyond the limit for enthusiasts unless one was super-rich. Now they will just legislate them off the roads altogether to leave us with electric toasters & wheelbarrows or the buses to regulate us. Enjoy that Cat and give it welly!!
All these congestion charges are actually self-defeating as with LEZ scheme, once most vehicles comply their income comes down and the scheme becomes an expense. Commercial vehicles are really rediculas because Commercial vehicle have a useful life of 20 years. There is a shortage of trucks so large fleet oowners are hving to hang on to vehicles for more the 5 years. More expensive transport costs effects all of us especially in cities with congestion charges. Government just doesn't understand that manufacturing new vehicles creates a carbon footprint, as does scrapping vehicle. The whole ideology ia actually bonkers
Being called the "congestion charge", you would think its purpose would be ro reduce congestion. They added the environmental argument to justify taking money off people. Then they thought that this worked so well, they could add a green tax on practically anything.
I think there is a confusion between ULEZ charge and congestion charge. When I last drove my EV through London I was exempt from ULEZ charge but I had to pay congestion charge.
@@motorsforthemasses As I remember, it was not mainly about pollution, which people were not so obsessed about back then. It was about simply reducing the amount of traffic because the roads were coming to a standstill. The emphasis on emissions came later. Same as the Road Tax was originally a simple "tax on the rich" but is also now a tax on emissions.
@@rckc.1719 yeah - the lower cost to service, lover cost to drive, better performance, cheaper insurance (from our experience - ignore those that have never had to insure an EV but say they know how much it costs) and cheaper household electricity bills certainly aren't better in any way at all are they?
It was never about emissions, it's forcing poor people on to bicycles buses and trains.private Transport will be for the rich only .this might work in big cities but the rural buss services are bad and trains are for the middle income up . Where you live is where you will stay .I am glad I can remember when I could travel where and when I liked without the horrors now being imposed on us
I haven't heard a single satisfactory explanation for how charging for using our cars in certain areas (atm! It is intended to be everywhere eventually), how that 'cleans' the air. It's a massive con. And in conjunction with the 'low traffic/travel areas/neighbourhoods' it is planned as part of the open air prisons, controlled digitally. Get rid of your smart phones.
The congestion charge was not brought in to reduce emissions although these would of course decrease with fewer vehicles present. It was brought in to reduce the number of vehicles on the already crowded streets of the capital. The clue is in the name.
And when they've grabbed it,what do they do with it.Give it away to other country's, fill their over seas bank accounts, then piss the rest of it up the wall.
@@geoffsclassiccars i can only find two occasions in the UK and both were because the infrastructure was running behind - I've charged at dozens of stations all of the country and have never found one. If you can find it "common" in the UK feel free to give evidence - otherwise I'll take it you're talking rubbish.
How are they going to produce enough electric to charge all these cars.. not everyone can have charging points near there house.. not everyone can afford to buy a new car..
No UK government has ever let minor details like practicality, utility, infrastructure, design, science and public support get in the way of a policy. Apparently these schemes are dreamed up by civil servants on the who sit on the Central Unified Non-carbon Transport Committee. My dream is to live in a country run politicians who say that there are too many laws, too many restrictions and that people pay too much tax and actually act on these things.
What will a new labour gov do, charge the F out of EV's, speeding fines, red tape and everything else they can think of. They have to find the money they will GIVE AWAY to every MF with their hand out. If anyone has a spare airfield going, good news, use it as a car park for all those EVs's nobody is buying second hand. There is no market for them (battery performance over time fears) and with £15K fines to manufacture, the dealerships will not be selling them. Think about it.
Passed first time after 2 lessons. I also did all 3 - reverse round corner, parallel parking and 3 point turn. 0 faults. But then, living in London, I didn't actually need to drive a car until my early thirties, with my main mode of transport until then being my bicycle. So, many years of surviving, cycling on London's roads meant that my road awareness was on point, and I knew the Highway Code like the back of my hand. But unlike many entitled, lycra clad sociopaths aka cyclists today, I actually followed it.
When did I vote for this? Our "reduction" in emissions will only make tiny overall difference. Is the electric generating and distribution system capable of handling the huge demand? I live i live in a terraced house, and park my car in the road. not always directly in front though, do I have a cable from my home stretching out along the footpath to my car? How can we stop this madness? Has the data and EXPERT OPINION been rigorously tested ? How finite is the supply of the minerals needed to make the batteries ( mined using child labour?) ? do I hear the voice of Private Frazer calling out "WE ARE ALL DOOMED!"
Remember the 1900's ? The vast majority of us were then all living in rented homes and travelled locally by bicycle, bus, train, or shanks pony. And that's where we are headed.
If it smells like sh*t ,it is. Love to know why people are putting up with this bull. Anyone complained yet to their mp regarding the roads ,or lack of tarmac on them ?
To do this they need to enforce builder to fit Solar Panels to every new building and all buildings already built to have them fitted to cover EV's and any power shortage as coal is totally stopped being used
If i owned a trucking company i would stop going into central london altogether ,now this is a opertunity for trucking companies to get rid of this law by refusing to go into london altogether
People do not want net zero that's first issue , because our technologies are nowhere near good enough to even contemplate such drastic measures they want to impose by law , gone is your freedom of choice , free will , free speech too , plus biggest reason why people do not want an electric vehicle is the safety issue of spontaneous combustion occuring at any time. , imagine your disabled child , son or daughter or your disabled wife who cannot get out of car. Maybe it could be you yourself trapped in blazing vehicle , batteries can be compromised at any time from point of manufacture to even having possibly a slight bump on your car , that you might not be aware off because when you parked it ,not was fine. Until someone knocked into whilst tour in the shop , n. Then you could ark it up on your driveway. And fire ignites , boom. Your house goes up along with your trapped family ball sleeping , this has already happened , , good luck , but range is bigger issue for some , or the failure to have enough charging points , and a lot do not work now. , imagine this for everyone. , your next charging point another 3 miles away but you cannot get there traffic blocked , your stuck , good luck with explaining that to your wife , plus the colbolt required for electric batteries is mined by child slave labour in Africa , do our governments are supporting child slave labour , these are main issues ,
As a Brit living in France, I’ve never understood the ULEZ charges in the UK. How does paying the city money eliminate pollution ? Whatever you think of the French, at least their system makes more sense. They have a Crit Air Sticker system for vehicles depending on the CO2 and Particle emissions of the vehicle going from 0 (Electric cars) to 5 for more polluting vehicles and before a certain year you are unable to get a Crit Air rating. So for any clean air zones that have been set up anywhere in France the system is valid. At present inner Paris area only allows 0 to 2 Groups of vehicles, all other vehicles are not allowed in the zone. Therefore pollution is being reduced and nobody pays to access the inner Paris area as you have your sticker showing that your vehicle meets the criteria. On the point of money for the government, nobody seems to be asking the question that if they succeed in getting loads more electric vehicles on the road by 2030. How are the government going to replace all the tax revenue from petrol & diesel that will be lost cause everyone’s buying electric vehicles ? Anyway thanks for an interesting vlog, I just found your channel while perusing you tube, so you now have a new subscriber. 👍
As somebody said, its not about pollution, but money making, imagine a pub landlord banning smoking, but saying, if you buy your cigs from me you can smoke them in the pub. ULEZ dosen't stop so called "dirty cars" from driving in the city, it just charges them.
Hi, I'm another Brit living in France 🙂 The mayor of Paris is now going after SUVs with a scheme for parking fees based on the weight of the SUV which means that the electric ones will end up paying more than the diesel ones 😂
There will need to be a fundamental change to the motor taxation system. Road charging by annual recorded mileage x "road wear factor" or some complex method that can cover every type of vehicle in some way, but doesn't become too difficult to evaluate or administer.
@Motors for the Masses yup 👍 I’m with you on doing my driving test in April 1991. 3 weeks after my 17th birthday. I also ended up doing all the 3 tasks n passed 1st time, I did get all but 1 of my questions wrong at the end though BUT as they can’t fail you on that part due to the rule that u must know what your doing to actually pass the test so after a small reprimand from the examiner he said the magic words of “I’m glad to tell you that you have passed” ahhh the good old days, wish they would use common sense like that these days. I took my motorcycle 🏍 test in 2007 & omg I thought it was nuts then all the hoops I had to go through. I did get all my questions correct this time & even using that CDRom u could buy then I used before my theory & their wasn’t a question on their that I couldn’t answer so I’ve cleared up my act now lol 😂. I do think tough that in the old days they focused on actually teaching you how to drive rather than these days when they teach you how to pass a test. Driving standards are appalling & it hugely saddening to see or hear of all these young drivers hurting themselves and or others 😢
The government are completely out of touch with the needs & funds of the common person or business. Congestion charge will be just that, a charge for taken your vehicle into a city & enjoying being stuck in traffic "oh thanks government". Electric van & trucks are hopeless for example as i type this im just getting ready to drive a truck for just outside Glasgow to Alness (35miles North of Inverness) 189miles one way, so thats going to take a lot longer in an oversized electric milk float with a lot of AA batteries isn't it. Why are parliament out of touch? Well most of them don't drive because they are pished so they don't care "Bojo covid lock down party anyone? Sure why not its only 7:48am...pass the single malts" Eye test & different lights!...."can you read that number plate? How about now when i turn on the thor lazer cut HD LED headlights in this BMW? Oh bugger i just melted off your face from 60yards away!". The basis fact is "lets price the average person out of ownership of a vehicle, that'll save the squirrels!" This will soon stop the first time an MP can't get their delivery of sex toys & booze overnight from Amazon to their second home in the middle of the Lake District "WHAT! two days to get my nipple clanps & sauvignon blanc! Right give evey delivery driver a V8 petrol & sod the badgers, i need my wine & fun time with this underage human trafficked sex worker!".... Yup Westminster don't have a scooby doo what the general public actually need. My next vote is goin to Kermit the Frog....if I'm going to vote for a muppet I'm voting in a real one.😂
@@gilliancockwill495 not in particular - cheaper than our 4x4 (yes I don't only have an EV - but I'll be replacing the 4x4, which I need for actual off road work, with an EV as soon as they are in my budget)
It’s not going to work in there favour not everyone can even afford to buy new and for what iv seen certain companies arnt interested in electric cars as part ex for another car so don’t see it’s happening the way they want
The reason they are giving you for including electric cars in the low emissions zone is that they will be in a new class of Euro 7 vehicles which will include the dust that comes off of your tires and the dust that comes off of your brakes. Therefore they will be introducing low emission tires with special compounds and ceramic brakes. If you can afford them it is a money grab whichever way you look at it and people should stand up and do something about it. It is already too late as we have allowed them to introduce these low omissions And ultralow emissions zones.
"The Congestion Charge is a £15 daily charge if you drive within the Congestion Charge zone.... If your vehicle does not meet the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) standards, you must also pay the ULEZ charge." not exactly the same so confusing to have the two randomly interchanged surely EV could pay congestion but not ulez?
Sadly there will always be those middle-class shit sniffers who will argue that those in power are just doing all of this for our own good and safety and it's nothing to do with revenue. The real problem is we are all talking about it and whining but no one is actually saying " bugger off, I'm not paying". Great report. Petrolhead Pete. Over and out!!
Within a few years from the Congestion Charge commencement in 2003, there was a move to extend it to public transport journeys, when it had been introduced to ENCOURAGE people into public transport
Better to understand that the whole zero based legislation and taxation is part of the tool kit designed and promoted by governments bought and owned by conglomerates who want to crush competition and restrict and deplete the population. Not happy with lots of the wealth, they want all of it and control over our very existence. WEF The Great Reset. Read it, it's set out stage by stage.
And despite my comments I have an EV. Free chargjng and no excuses to run ouf of juice. Am I a tree hugger? Nope, just fancied trying one and I like it . But am I saving the planet? Do me a favour
With the price of fuel in the UK it makes sense to have an electric runaround for all the errands you would do on a daily basis near your home, and only for certain types that happen to have houses with driveways, but not for commercial vehicles and long range trips. It also won't make any sense for those living in tower blocks either. How are they supposed to charge their vehicles? Run an extension cord from their flat 12 stories up? The so-called "leaders" in the UK are utterly barking mad!
@@lanpartyanimal5215 correct. You just have to drive through city residential streets with parking. Where the hell are they going to charge? Unless they're forced to give up their vehicles. But that takes away freedoms and necessitates a fully functioning public transport. yeah right
What is the point of having an mot on a vehicle if they want to insist of freestyle safety check I thought mot was to make sure your vehicle is safe talk right on a public road
Your vehicle may be safe, unfortunately it not safe to take your vehicle on the roads due to the poor state of said roads. Road Tax revenue used to be spent on maintaining road infastructure, so they renamed it VED to remove any reference to "roads", so they could spend it on anything. Its really useful for funding second homes for the "Club Members" that attend the House of Commons.
Sabine Hossenfelder showed on a recent video that both the USA and the EU individual need to spend around $600 billion yearly till 2030 just on infrastructure to meet the demand of electric transport. No idea how much we would need to spend here.
When they started the eScooter trial in York I could get into town for about £2.50 . I haven't used them for a while until the other day when I took one to a friend's house (about the same distance as going into town) and it cost over £4. And the scooter was a deathtrap. Seemingly not been maintained very well since it was introduced. They're all bobbins anyway. Just an experiment to see if the sheeple will buy the idea of vehicle sharing. This is essential for the future because they can't manufacture EVs for everyone because they're simply isn't enough resources for the batteries ect. The only way we will be able to get around is cycling or a rented community vehicle. The Citroen Ami is already being used in France for that same purpose. Similar to the scooter ranks we have here. It's all just a test to see if we'll bend over and take it. And we will. As always.
Like you i had the chief driving examiner in 1990 & had to do the full set. He even ask me all but one of the stopping distances to try and fail me. I am sure he was not happy as he had to work on a saturday. My instructor said to me he know i was a first time pass. Right up to when that examiner entered the room.
there is a simply reason for the downturn, they are utterly useless, the ranges are woeful and it now seems like they are not zero emissions at all the fact is they are very polluting.
Perhaps a major contributor to slowing sales is that they have exhausted the market for SUVs, Crossovers and small hatchbacks. The manufacturers decided that they only want to make those classes of vehicle, and seem surprised that people who have never bought them haven't suddenly gone "you know, I've been driving the wrong type of car all these years!".
@@tonyfisk8081 nah - it's high interest rates that are driving the downturn in all car sales. EV sales have actually slowed down only a tiny bit more than petrol and far less than diesel, which is truly going through the floor.
@@timsbird1971 I did say "major contributor" not "the reason". Major purchasing decisions have multiple factors as input - and certainly cost is one, but I, for one, will not pay over the odds to have something that doesn't fit my needs, no matter how "nice" it is. Mind you, I am not a brand-slave, whilst some folk will always stretch their budget for a badge. To me, it would be like going into debt to have a Gucci suit that's two sizes too big.
@@tonyfisk8081 fair enough - I just fail to see, other than a very few edge cases, that a BEV doesn't suit everyone. After all I haven't replaced our second car with a BEV. That's because you cannot get a second hand BEV 4x4 that you wouldn't cry over if you killed it going off road. Our 4x4 does need to actually go off road. But I'm sure only a fraction of a percent of people have the issue I do.
Great video! Only just discovered your channel. I noticed the hats on the shelf behind you. I'm a hat man myself, my collection is up to 10 now! Have you done the "different hat for each video" yet?
Surely the congestion charge is designed to reduce the number of vehicles in that area (that's why it's called the congestion charge) so ev should have been paying it .
Indeed, but one of its purpose was to reduce emissions, which pushed the agenda of electric vehicles getting it free. They should have stuck to the primary definition in the first place.
Congestion charge to reduce emissions? Ulez charge to reduce emissions in the same area? Two charges for the same purpose just names differently🤔 All this needs to be stopped,we’re being crippled financially and slowly but surely losing our rights. Obviously the government hasn’t any money otherwise they wouldn’t be constantly making up charges left right and centre
I see you used copilot and quoted verbatim. Now ask copilot if there are Bev cars available for less than 20K… it will tell you there are. Copilot is not research
It's time to get out the pitch forks, tar and feathers for a lot of your MPs.
MPs. Need a new home it is called 6ft under :)
And the likes of our Mayor of London Mr.Saddo Khunt.
The people of London voted for him, so why do all right wing nuts continue to hate and attack him?
Here here 🎉🎉🎉
but instead they'll vote Labour
Government not blind, not ignorant just stupid, I can't believe that COMMON sense is a thing of the past. We need someone to take control and return to REALITY.
Ok I'll do it🤣
Gary Waterman CH mass gov.uk arrests being arranged.
Or, sly as a fox maybe
Then you need to stop voting for these idiots...
You only think they are stupid because you don't see the hidden motive... which makes you the stupid one, not them (sorry to say)
They are neither blind, stupid nor ignorant, they are devious, dishonest and corrupt!
If I was a car manufacturer selling to the UK and the government threatened with being fined I'd just take all business away from this country. UK is done. Get me out of here
Problem is it’s not just the UK charging the £15k per vehicle - it’s €18k per car across the EU which is a huge market for manufacturers.
@@Howard1776 I have a solution then, manufactures should just turn to the government and say, OK, we shall shut down permanently then and make everyone unemployed. Enjoy your Christmas Dinner Prime Minister, just mind you don't choke on it.
It's as if they are holding the manufacturers responsible for the public not buying EVs... That just doesn't make any sense.
@@Galerak1 As the public won’t buy electric vehicles on merit, Govts are cutting down on the supply of ICE vehicles to force them to. Given apparent slow down on electric sales and Toyota reportedly loosing £9k on every one they sell, the motor industry must be tearing their hair out.
That was my thoughts as well. The main reason for the slow uptake is simply the cost of the vehicles.
It would seem the manufacturers have decided we all have loads of money and will pay anything to get an EV??
If the manufacturers can't or won't produce cheap cars they will either give up or just import Chinese low cost cars with their own badge on it.
The govt will then find out what happens to the economy if they push them too far.
When I was in my early twenties earning a very moderate salary, I could afford a sports car, the insurance for it, road tax (at £35 a year - for any car), and petrol was £0.75 a GALLON (4.5461 Liters)!!! Back then it was cheaper to holiday travelling in your car than to fly, so I had a wonderful time driving around the UK and Europe, without having to worry whether I could afford the petrol. Oh, and there weren't any roadside speed cameras either... Good times!
Seriously, politicians today excel in just four areas... finding ways to SPEND OUR MONEY like there's no tomorrow, continually making our lives a misery, complicating everything they touch and fleecing the motorist anywhere and everywhere they can... whilst increasingly demanding MORE money from the public, due to their own and "unaccountable" mismanagement of public funds and budgeting FAILURES. This corrupt and unjust system MUST change!!!
Unfortunately thing back then we're as good - more road deaths, where the biggest contributing factor was speed (once we'd convince folk to buckle up). Why do people moan about speed cameras - why do they never moan about CCTV in Tescos - both are there to catch law breakers. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
The electric grid could NOT cope with that many electric vehicles. It's a backhanded way for the government to get cars off the roads. Your car will sit outside your home with a dead battery most days of the week.
100%
@@tiepupDon’t tell them the truth. They’re happy with spreading their EV lies.
for EVERY year that the National Grid have crunched the numbers on EV adoption and how it impacts the GRID, they have said that the GRID will cope without any problems.
Please stop believing the right wing Big Oil fed propaganda.
@@tiepupyes but no one really wants to charge their cars overnight the government keeps telling you to switch electricity points off before going to bed! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@tiepup It's an assumtion, but I bet you have private, off road parking, next to your house where you can easily plug your car in. How can people charge a car overnight when if live in a block of flats, terrice house or rent??? You probably think 'Not my problem,' and you may have a point. Unfortunatly the government think the same way.
It's all about getting people out of cars full stop and restrict movement
with zero consideration like me who are CEV who have avoid public transport literally for our health.
Correct, that's one aspect of their Great Reset agenda.
have you finally learned they don't give a sh#t about you... Or me or Doris and Fred down the road.
@@nodwaa9227 So true, they actually want most of us dead, depopulation of the planet is part of their Great Reset plan, they state a number that they want it down to.
@@nodwaa9227ha...they will soon.
Ulez was never about emissions it's all about making money !!!!!!!!!
Correct .
Money and control
And where does all that money go to ,where they don’t speak English no 😂😂😂😂
Incorrect - It's a psychological warfare operation to ground you into the ground and give up. The war is against you, the intelligent worked this out a very long time ago. When you print your own economy you have neither an economy OR debt. Never about money, money to them means nothing.
It is a about history - the 100 year model - You are in the great depression. This ends 2030. But most won't get there, that's the plan.
PS it's only really just got started. The mechanics will keep tightening their nuts - WHY? Because the dumb society will just keep accepting everything!! Like servile myopic carcasses. You need to start waking and shaping up and FAST !!
It’s goes on big bonuses for tfl bosses
A BT engineer called at our house last week. He gets around 60 miles for a full charge. One of his colegues was sent to Scotland - took him 2 days !!
That is utterly ludicrous.
And yet the idiots and sheep are still queuing up to purchase these iPhones on wheels , money to 🔥😂
Rubbish, just make it up.
@@davidperry7128 Scotland - Long runs = time they waste getting their vans recharged. Electric vehicles! Milk Float Deliveries proved that years ago👀
@@davidperry7128Post Office ordered electric vans. Expected range was ideal for the routes they were intended for. Then they put the mail sacks in and it cut the range in half. The vans are all parked up until the bosses come up with a better plan.
It been said that the general public in London are struggling to get plumber, sparkies, and loads of other trades people to come and do work at people's houses, and the one that do turn up charge way more that they paid last time, this could be due to them passing on the extra charges to the home owner, some trade guys have chucked the towl in due to the ridiculous costs. A new transit van is in the region of £40.000 how on earth do people afford to live in London?
Before I had a car, I had to ride a bicycle to work, getting off several times to push it up very steep hills. I was worn out by time I got to work, and when it rained I was literally soaked through to my skin. At the time I worked in a Nursing home and was able to ask permission to strip off and dry all my clothes in their tumble dryer ~ I don’t recall what I wore while waiting! What would I have done if I had worked somewhere where they didn’t have a tumble dryer? As a lone parent with health issues, I could barely work part~time and certainly couldn’t afford to buy waterproof clothing. If my child and I needed to get a bus, it was a very long walk into town, up and down steep hills to get to the bus station, in all weathers. My child and I were permanently exhausted. Are we really expected to go back to that kind of existence?
Getting a car [ albeit an old banger ] changed our lives in so many ways for the better. I’m now a State pensioner with terminal cancer. I live in the country in a small HA flat. There are no buses here. No shops, nothing. I don’t know what I’ll do when my 17 year old car dies on me. Can’t afford to replace it . Millions of people like me in this country.
Local community church hasn't ousted me yet. 1988-1995, 2000- to present. Found a wife, then she was great comfort. Then we went to other church but she stopped, so I needed to go back to my friends at least on a Sunday if I could. .Still prayed for her though. Burnout happens.
@@StanleypeterDickinsonloo
No deliveries now
The government not only speak with forked tongue,they talk absolute bollocks.
Congestion charge
Congestio charge
Congesti charge
Conges charge
Conge charge
Cong charge
Con charge!
Were you the 3-2-1 Dusty Bin champion? 🏆
@@AntGeezer that comment made me feel old, now I'm going to have you prosecuted under Scotland's hate speech laws!
When is the public going to realize the volume of emissions the airports like Heathrow and all the others are pushing out . I thought that the government was supposed to be elected to represent the people , When did that change ???????
No such thing as a carbon free electric vehicle and anyone that falls for this tripe is deluded, still uses rubber and needs the same energy source used to build combustion power vehicles, still uses materials dug from the ground that release Carbon when excavated, if Carbon release is the bad boy then should we ban the construction of new build houses as there is a release of Carbon from the ground when the trees are felled in the green belt and the concrete poured into the trenches dug, also from materials dug from the ground releasing Carbon when excavated and the list goes on, just a money making scam.
You are 100% correct. they are bloody stupid.......
Carbon is plant food. Nothing wrong with carbon.
Then there is the trend for wood burning stoves, releasing the CO2 stored in the wood back into the atmosphere.
Petrol or diesel cars have more emissions after 20k miles than all those emissions used to make an e.v. And then it continues upwards from there. The only emissions that comes from an e.v. are tyre particulates and far lower brake dust emissions as regen does a great amount of normal braking in most e.vs. Also although we often talk about emissions in producing an e.v. nobody mentions the emissions producing the oil, petrol or diesel fuel.
Indeed - but the net emissions are balanced after 3 years maximum. After that EVs are net positive.
What the government want and what they get is going to be very different, what we need is a government that puts the needs of the people first and ditches the demands of the W.E.F
The UK infrastructure is way off being ready. I live on a housing estate in Reading Berkshire and we are having power cuts at least once per month if not more. What is happening is the fuse plate at the local substation keeps blowing. Ive spoken to the SSE guys who keep coming out to fix it as the substation is not far from my house. They say its due to the load from EV car charging which is exceeding the capacity of the Sub station which was built and spec'd for the 1975 housing estate. People are doing the charging at 1am onwards typically which is when they get cheaper rates and its right at 1am when the fuse plates keep blowing.
Have a look at this short entry from me, about another SSE problem re cable failures etc: th-cam.com/video/LS8VFhRMsYY/w-d-xo.html Towards the end there are some notes about the prospect of remote load curtailment to avoid overloading (and to avoid installing enhanced networks). Most distribution cabling is not capable of all of the houses drawing the theoretical maximum all at the same time, gambling that there is a natural variation - but a lot of continuous loads for charging traction batteries is a bit different.
Authorities don't like the freedom and independence that driving has given to ordinary people.
Fact.
Authorities?
They also want to remove the control and influence OPEC can have over their people and therefore them.
It's the only remotely rational reason to be pushing a technology that doesn't work and is nowhere near as "green" as just an efficient diesel when everything's factored in. Bare in mind the tiny percentage of co2 cars are responsible for as part of the tiny part the UK itself is responsible for globally. It's glaringly obvious there must be another agenda.....
...and opinion. Not always a good mix.
And various car manufacturers are moving away from EVs and toward hydrogen,,, the government are beginning to look more stupid by the day
Politicians are stupid anyway .
As if it could be possible for the government and politicians to be more stupid or corrupt than they already are😂😅😂!
That’s hard to believe 😂😂😂😂
You are totally wrong. The three main players in hydrogen, Toyota, Hyundai and Shell have all but given up. BMW only did a limited test run of one car and are making no more. Shell are phasing out hydrogen filling stations. You really do need to look at the EV industry better and stop just repeating what you’ve heard with no proof
AS FAR AS I AM AWARE TOYOTA ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY MORE EVs,. GOOD FOR THEM.
keep calm and carry on in your open air prison.
Not for me. If we learn the law. We learn to break the implied chains.
The law is a wonderful enlightening journey ❤
@@martind7418 it's to the detriment of all who ignore for sure. 😁
The ULEZ charge is ridiculous. I drove from Cheshire to Heathrow Airport a couple of weeks ago. I had to pay £35 for the privilege of not even going into London.
totally agree with you. lived in France last 10 years, back to broken pot holed Britain... seems like "What the Government wants, the Government gets". Maybe the British will eventually have had enough and park THEIR tractors on the motorway.... etc, etc.
The EV insanity must be stopped
Fully agree yes there a place for them and Electricity is just another option. I think the Push for them is the energy Companies can up the prices then everyone suffers even none car owners
@@MrPDoff
Youre right. One reason will be to make everyone reliant on energy companies.
Another is control. Easy to control your car use and track everything.
Another reason is the throw away disposable culture. They'd like you changing your car as often as you change your mobile phone.
Absolutely nothing is about the environment.
Vote Heritage.
@@jessicaandtrains7768 You're already reliant on energy companies - BIG OIL COMPANIES !!!
In countries that don't care about human rights, or that oil spills are decimating nature, and the groundwater for drinking. HMMMMMM
At least if we generated all our electricity ourselves then we wouldn't have to rely on other countries???
There are several countries that generate 100% of their electricity from renewables.
Last year the UK generated 2/3rds from fossil FREE sources.
Wind and Solar are much cheaper than gas. Gas is the reason why electric prices tripled.
+97% of a EV's traction battery is currently recyclable. Indeed, car brands would love to recycle the batteries because it's so much easier to get the minerals than mining. I've never seen 1% of petrol or diesel being recycled.
Battery powered vehicles developed for a solution to problem that doesn't exist.
But they have created a bigger one no electric to make them go 😂😂😂😂
I dunno. Tailpipe emissions are a problem. Hell, GenX is permanently fucked up because of lead from petrol and breathing it in
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle. You don’t eliminate emissions, you export them somewhere else.
It takes 500,000lbs of materials to make a single 100lb battery - you must process 25,000lbs of brine for the lithium, 30,000lbs of ore for the cobalt, 5,000lbs of ore for the nickel, and 25,000lbs of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000lbs of the earth's crust for just one battery. 100 - 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent of energy. Just manufacturing the battery produces a carbon debt rate of 10 - 40 tons of CO2. Demand for cobalt, lithium and zinc increases mining from 400% to 4000%. There is not enough mining in the world to make enough batteries.
Could you please publish the proof of your statements and not just grab figures out of the air!
I am not discounting your claim. However, I would be very interested to know the source of these figures. I have heard/read all sort sorts of claims for/against the true cost of producing EV batteries. Some unbiased scientific evidence would be good.
@@wideboatbluebell3021just google cobalt mines. You have to dig up a few football fields using D9 bulldozers for enough cobalt for one small electric vehicle, that’s a lot of diesel, around 100 liters per hour per dozer. Similar for all the other rare earth minerals in the batteries.
No such thing as Carbon Zero. Carbon Zero would mean DEATH for every living thing on earth.
@tooyoungtobeold8756 Fortunately for us we have people who work in the mining industry who know that the world has more than enough minerals to make all the batteries we need - you're quoting for old battery tech. New battery tech, such as sodium batteries don't even have cobalt or lithium in them.
Please Stop Believing right wing Big Oil propaganda.
We had two years in lock down and air pollution is still the same.
It may well be back to pre-Covid levels but there`s no denying wildlife and wildflowers started moving back into the towns & cities during lockdown.
There is no air pollution
@@rigamortice I'm amazed you can type that with your head in the sand.
If you won't believe the experts whose job it is to do the tests then you should also stop seeing other experts like doctors who see the effects of air pollution day in day out.
@@mjh5437
As far as wildlife goes ... simply because there were FAR LESS people around at that point & they simply felt more at ease in their search for food
And I think that people's definition of "experts" has drastically changed over the past few years
I passed all my driving tests first time (car, motorbike and advanced motorbike) but my car test was the craziest. Driving through Bury St. Edmunds all was going well when suddenly a car pulled in front of me. The examiner panicked, grabbed the handbrake causing the car to skid and hit the curb stalling it. I guess he was having a bad day. He apologised and carried on with the test, of course I thought I had failed and was surprised when he passed me.
All the BS of the past 20 years is reaching the end of the road. The jigs up!
Seems to be about (a) taxing people for movement (b) forcibly removing older vehicles from the roads and then (c) stopping as much private motoring as possible.
Did we vote for this?
Do we all sit back and wait for this to happen?
We will have no choice as only the wealthy will be able to drive on the roads hence they meet their green tagets
Wait until you try to sell or trade in your electric car
Or even insure it. Wait until one spontaneously ignites on a busy car ferry. It will be absolute mayhem.
@@bobbailey7024
it's already happened, a few time's.
Wait until they move the petrol/diesel tax on to electricity…….
@bobbailey - that’s already happened - more than once too with catastrophic results.
And no one's going to want you parking your EV anywhere near THEIR property !!!
Hmmm, estimated battery life is approx 6 years. Average cost to replace battery is between £7500 to £10500 depending on the vehicle, and that is only the vost of the battery and does not include labour cost.
Then there is the complete lack of a system of disposal for said batteries.
For those that already have an EV there is the charging issue, frequency and cost, neither of which is economical or convenient convenient.
They were a novelty in the beginning, now they are not selling, dealers are complaining about their lots filling up with EVs that they can't sell. Some vehicle manufacturers have decided to stop production of them.
8 year battery warranty. Batteries are recycled in 🇬🇧 No charging issue. Just plug in when I get home and ready to go in the morning. Where’s the issue? The only issue I’ve found is I miss waiting in the queue at the petrol station for me to get ripped off by their exorbitant prices.
STOP BUILDING EVsFOR GOOD ,DONT WANT ONE DONT NEED ONE THEY ARE TOTAL CRAP PERIOD.
@@melvinplant8637 How many EV’s have you driven? Please define why ALL of them are totally crap?
@@Superman-nn4nw 3 when battery is at end of life what pay another 20/25grand for a new one cos I wouldn't,buy an ice vehicle also people are taking EV manufacturers to court over mileage range issues,,and EVs setting on fire as I said CRAP and why have something forced on you that you don't want,that like shopping at Tesco,and being fined by Asda for not shopping with them
@@melvinplant8637 Not being forced on you mate. Just need to become a cyclist 🚴 🚴♀️ 🚴♂️
Never ever stop me driving my v8 petrol car
Government wants unicorns and a bloody big kick in the groin
Well yeah, Tories love that sort of thing, along with ginger root up their arses, placed there lovingly by Brazillian rent boys on Columbian marching powder.
Im a mobile detailer in the UK.
I hired a Nissan EV van for a month. I gave the thing back after 2 weeks because I was having to cancel appointments and loosing money.
I cannot charge at home so even if I bought one. I'd be reliant on public charging (Its expensive, more expensive than my diesel van per mile).
The EV van allegedly had a 150 mile range.
On a typical day. I drive 150miles per day.
Except. Once I'd loaded the van for work inc the water tank. I was getting 50 miles from a charge.
I had to charge the thing 2-3 times per day! Thats around 4+ hours wasted per day charging!.
Charging the van isnt just the time charging the thing.
Theres the time to drive to the charge point (not many around here).
Waiting for a charger to be available if someone is already there. I have been 5 deep in a queue.
I really despair for the future. EV's are not good enough. The range is too short and the charge time too long. public charging facilities are sketchy at best.
Great post !
I was watching one on a guy with a 120k electric porsche 2yr old and he was offered 38k for it, mental, he was in negative equity of around 20k, its a bloody car ffs😮
I am a frequent tourist to UK, not a resident, but: "congestion" title implies discouraging the volume of cars on the roads to reduce the congestion realated traffic jams (or queues as you say), emissions reduction would only have been a side benefit. Everyone knows that electric car consessions would have ended at some stage.
The 5p per litre fuel tax reduction was offset by the incremental VAT due on the more expensive fuel. When fuel went up 25p per litre, the VAT increased by 5p - so the illustrious government gave us nothing, but convinced us we were benefiting! Clever!
its going to be called, The Gov Christmas Party fund
I won't be buying an EV. I live in a 1st floor flat and there is no hook ups outside and i can't have a cable dangling out of the window to the ground and then across a public footpath
I doubt that's something the politicians worried about, since they own large villas with multi car garages in which the tax payer paid for having the latest chargers installed :D
Be grateful. Exploding EV’s while charging have set nearby residences on fire as well as the black toxic fumes and smoke from these explosions being extremely dangerous to your health.
No one living in a flat can even charge up a Mobility scooter or park one so how are flat dwellers supposed to charge all their Ev’s?
Yes, and a factor is the little respect shown to other people's property, due to the piss weak police and justice system towards anti social behaviour.
@@verenamaharajah6082 charging stations are along the roadsides but if you can’t store it at your apartment it would be difficult to own one. Count it a blessing . Your apartment is safe from having one go up in flames
When When When are people going to wake up and revolt against this bullshitery
@stevenchandler3694 I wish people would stop believing the propaganda from Big Oil that's fuelling all this BS about EVs.
Or when are poeple going to realise that they are being Neo-Conned by the hard right and their online trolls?
I’m helping the environment by driving my diesel car, I’m feeding the trees and hedgerows my CO2 and they are giving out free oxygen for everybody to breathe in!
Congestion charge is not about emissions, it's about reducing Congestion. The Greater Cambridge Partnership are pushing for it in Cambridge, because the city gets jammed up with traffic and all vehicles are to be subject to it. It's on hold at the moment because there's no workable plan for those that will have no choice but to drive. If the manufacturers have to pay a fine on new ICEs it'll get added to the cost of the vehicles. So at some point hardly any vehicles will be sold because electric vehicles can't do what is required and ICEs wil be too expensive. At that point the UK will grind to a halt, unless something changes.
@ Rabchog What exactly can't an EV do that the ICE car can??
The EV is 20 times LESS likely to catch fire than an ICE car (several studies from fire depts and insurers confirm this).
There are only a very few use-cases where EVs may be less convenient, but they can still do the job.
@terryjimfletcher Range! And time to "refuel", I know that will get better, but for now it's not good enough and expensive. I don't have concerns about them bursting into flames. I drive an electric truck (27t), range is a big issue and it takes all night to charge it's huge battery. It is nice to drive and use though. I need an even bigger battery on it!
So many people are being priced out of having the independence of owning a vehicle . I'm struggling to run my shitbox 40 mins to work.
My alternative is three separate busses run by different companies at a minimum cost of £250 a month for a two hour trip each way.
If better alternatives were available I would not drive to work and save my fuel for b road tomfoolery on Sundays and high days.
Same here, 4 mins up the road but two buses and would take me 1.5 hrs to get there and walking in the mornings isn't an option, why.. Because we have unsavoury characters roaming our streets. This country is so backwards in going forwards. If these electric vehicle companies go out of business no doubt they'll import them from China!
Get a cheap 125cc Scoot - 130mpg cheaper than the bus.
@@shardlake It's a decent suggestion, but what about the dangers of riding 2 wheels on the roads, it is MUCH more dangerous.
What about getting soaked when it rains (and we do get a LOT of rain in the UK).
What about if you need tools for work, a large bag, have to carry passengers like a car share to/from work.
Lots of reasons why a scooter wont work for the majority of people.
@@DjNikGnashers As you say, not for everyone, yet removing all those single occupant cars would go a long way to making things better.
@@shardlake Yes I agree.
Peace matey, have a good weekend.
I drive a 4.2 V8 Supercharged Jaguar and will continue to do so.
Well done mate. Happy for you 🙄
Good for you, my friend. I drove a friend's XJR Sport some years ago and I have NEVER forgotten the experience. Arguably the best car ever built by Jaguar and that is saying something. Greetings from Ireland ! They taxed these cars beyond the limit for enthusiasts unless one was super-rich. Now they will just legislate them off the roads altogether to leave us with electric toasters & wheelbarrows or the buses to regulate us. Enjoy that Cat and give it welly!!
What they actually want is for nobody to posses a car of any variety.
Then again, what is so funny about cheap, clean, first rate public transport, clean air and safer streets?
All these congestion charges are actually self-defeating as with LEZ scheme, once most vehicles comply their income comes down and the scheme becomes an expense. Commercial vehicles are really rediculas because Commercial vehicle have a useful life of 20 years. There is a shortage of trucks so large fleet oowners are hving to hang on to vehicles for more the 5 years. More expensive transport costs effects all of us especially in cities with congestion charges. Government just doesn't understand that manufacturing new vehicles creates a carbon footprint, as does scrapping vehicle. The whole ideology ia actually bonkers
Escooters! I hope the NHS get their act together soon then, dangerous bloody things. I have first hand experience and can tell you it hurts!😱😱
Being called the "congestion charge", you would think its purpose would be ro reduce congestion. They added the environmental argument to justify taking money off people. Then they thought that this worked so well, they could add a green tax on practically anything.
Yes congestion but in order to reduce pollution.
I think there is a confusion between ULEZ charge and congestion charge. When I last drove my EV through London I was exempt from ULEZ charge but I had to pay congestion charge.
@@motorsforthemasses As I remember, it was not mainly about pollution, which people were not so obsessed about back then. It was about simply reducing the amount of traffic because the roads were coming to a standstill. The emphasis on emissions came later.
Same as the Road Tax was originally a simple "tax on the rich" but is also now a tax on emissions.
they want to make owning a vehicle so miserable that people will not to own one, we have the same issue in the states.
Yeah. Because the lower service requirements, nicer drive and lower fuel costs are miserable
@@timsbird1971 what are you talking about, if you think electric is any better you are dreaming.
@@rckc.1719 yeah - the lower cost to service, lover cost to drive, better performance, cheaper insurance (from our experience - ignore those that have never had to insure an EV but say they know how much it costs) and cheaper household electricity bills certainly aren't better in any way at all are they?
WE MUST REMOVE THEM BEFORE IT GETS TO THAT.....
It was never about emissions, it's forcing poor people on to bicycles buses and trains.private Transport will be for the rich only .this might work in big cities but the rural buss services are bad and trains are for the middle income up . Where you live is where you will stay .I am glad I can remember when I could travel where and when I liked without the horrors now being imposed on us
I haven't heard a single satisfactory explanation for how charging for using our cars in certain areas (atm! It is intended to be everywhere eventually), how that 'cleans' the air. It's a massive con. And in conjunction with the 'low traffic/travel areas/neighbourhoods' it is planned as part of the open air prisons, controlled digitally. Get rid of your smart phones.
The congestion charge was not brought in to reduce emissions although these would of course decrease with fewer vehicles present. It was brought in to reduce the number of vehicles on the already crowded streets of the capital. The clue is in the name.
Where on earth does all of this taxation go to? There is some big fraud going on here.
Fact.
It goes in to the consolidation account which is we’re all moneys collected go to look it up
They paid half the world to sit on their ass for 3 years. All governments are broke.
Goes to the TORY party. Why do you think they are all stinking rich??
It's a money grab and we always knew it
I think that the money aspect isn't the MAIN issue
And when they've grabbed it,what do they do with it.Give it away to other country's, fill their over seas bank accounts, then piss the rest of it up the wall.
They cant give electric trucks away in the us and ev sales have collapsed 😂 and theres even diesel generators powering the pop up charging points
The use of diesel generators is hugely rare and only happens when infrastructure installers run late
Diesel generators are being used in Europe too.
@@alibali672 read what i said above.
@@timsbird1971actually very common!
@@geoffsclassiccars i can only find two occasions in the UK and both were because the infrastructure was running behind - I've charged at dozens of stations all of the country and have never found one. If you can find it "common" in the UK feel free to give evidence - otherwise I'll take it you're talking rubbish.
Just ban those silly milkfloats! The fools buying the junk are putting up the price of electricity!
Absolutely spot on, well presented and even better, funny
Government = high tax .
Environment = high tax
Zero emissions coming out the back of the car but not from the power station generating the electricity to power the electric car.
Plus the smoke when the battery catches fire and then sets fire to the whole car.
Do you live next to a power station? Those emissions being moved to where people don’t live is a good thing.
How are they going to produce enough electric to charge all these cars.. not everyone can have charging points near there house.. not everyone can afford to buy a new car..
@@veronicasavage1182they’re not trolley buses, they don’t need to all be connected at the same time
@@TheJase8566you’re a part of the problem
No UK government has ever let minor details like practicality, utility, infrastructure, design, science and public support get in the way of a policy. Apparently these schemes are dreamed up by civil servants on the who sit on the Central Unified Non-carbon Transport Committee.
My dream is to live in a country run politicians who say that there are too many laws, too many restrictions and that people pay too much tax and actually act on these things.
'Scheme' is gov speak for SCAM councils do this best (for our own good of course)
@@steevoh7186 A long swim from here
What will a new labour gov do, charge the F out of EV's, speeding fines, red tape and everything else they can think of. They have to find the money they will GIVE AWAY to every MF with their hand out.
If anyone has a spare airfield going, good news, use it as a car park for all those EVs's nobody is buying second hand. There is no market for them (battery performance over time fears) and with £15K fines to manufacture, the dealerships will not be selling them. Think about it.
Passed first time after 2 lessons. I also did all 3 - reverse round corner, parallel parking and 3 point turn. 0 faults. But then, living in London, I didn't actually need to drive a car until my early thirties, with my main mode of transport until then being my bicycle. So, many years of surviving, cycling on London's roads meant that my road awareness was on point, and I knew the Highway Code like the back of my hand. But unlike many entitled, lycra clad sociopaths aka cyclists today, I actually followed it.
When did I vote for this? Our "reduction" in emissions will only make tiny overall difference. Is the electric generating and distribution system capable of handling the huge demand? I live i live in a terraced house, and park my car in the road. not always directly in front though, do I have a cable from my home stretching out along the footpath to my car? How can we stop this madness? Has the data and EXPERT OPINION been rigorously tested ? How finite is the supply of the minerals needed to make the batteries ( mined using child labour?) ? do I hear the voice of Private Frazer calling out "WE ARE ALL DOOMED!"
Remember the 1900's ? The vast majority of us were then all living in rented homes and travelled locally by bicycle, bus, train, or shanks pony. And that's where we are headed.
We had more trains then,Beeching got rid of them in 1960s
Then again, is it not better for unfit people to to leave their cars home and take walk to the gym?
@@antispindr8613 Walk ? Can't I do that online ?
If it smells like sh*t ,it is.
Love to know why people are putting up with this bull.
Anyone complained yet to their mp regarding the roads ,or lack of tarmac on them ?
My mp has blocked me , Caroline ansell like the press not interested, never discuss immigration never real issues just the flaming political agenda !
To do this they need to enforce builder to fit Solar Panels to every new building and all buildings already built to have them fitted to cover EV's and any power shortage as coal is totally stopped being used
If i owned a trucking company i would stop going into central london altogether ,now this is a opertunity for trucking companies to get rid of this law by refusing to go into london altogether
State Control 😂
People do not want net zero that's first issue , because our technologies are nowhere near good enough to even contemplate such drastic measures they want to impose by law , gone is your freedom of choice , free will , free speech too , plus biggest reason why people do not want an electric vehicle is the safety issue of spontaneous combustion occuring at any time. , imagine your disabled child , son or daughter or your disabled wife who cannot get out of car. Maybe it could be you yourself trapped in blazing vehicle , batteries can be compromised at any time from point of manufacture to even having possibly a slight bump on your car , that you might not be aware off because when you parked it ,not was fine. Until someone knocked into whilst tour in the shop , n. Then you could ark it up on your driveway. And fire ignites , boom. Your house goes up along with your trapped family ball sleeping , this has already happened , , good luck , but range is bigger issue for some , or the failure to have enough charging points , and a lot do not work now. , imagine this for everyone. , your next charging point another 3 miles away but you cannot get there traffic blocked , your stuck , good luck with explaining that to your wife , plus the colbolt required for electric batteries is mined by child slave labour in Africa , do our governments are supporting child slave labour , these are main issues ,
As a Brit living in France, I’ve never understood the ULEZ charges in the UK. How does paying the city money eliminate pollution ? Whatever you think of the French, at least their system makes more sense. They have a Crit Air Sticker system for vehicles depending on the CO2 and Particle emissions of the vehicle going from 0 (Electric cars) to 5 for more polluting vehicles and before a certain year you are unable to get a Crit Air rating. So for any clean air zones that have been set up anywhere in France the system is valid. At present inner Paris area only allows 0 to 2 Groups of vehicles, all other vehicles are not allowed in the zone. Therefore pollution is being reduced and nobody pays to access the inner Paris area as you have your sticker showing that your vehicle meets the criteria. On the point of money for the government, nobody seems to be asking the question that if they succeed in getting loads more electric vehicles on the road by 2030. How are the government going to replace all the tax revenue from petrol & diesel that will be lost cause everyone’s buying electric vehicles ? Anyway thanks for an interesting vlog, I just found your channel while perusing you tube, so you now have a new subscriber. 👍
As somebody said, its not about pollution, but money making, imagine a pub landlord banning smoking, but saying, if you buy your cigs from me you can smoke them in the pub. ULEZ dosen't stop so called "dirty cars" from driving in the city, it just charges them.
Hi, I'm another Brit living in France 🙂 The mayor of Paris is now going after SUVs with a scheme for parking fees based on the weight of the SUV which means that the electric ones will end up paying more than the diesel ones 😂
There will need to be a fundamental change to the motor taxation system. Road charging by annual recorded mileage x "road wear factor" or some complex method that can cover every type of vehicle in some way, but doesn't become too difficult to evaluate or administer.
I have a better solution. All governments just stop new cars coming in. Let everyone make their own EVs green green everywhere.
Their should be a peripheral vision test for people who wear head or face coverings with viewing slits or apertures
@Motors for the Masses yup 👍 I’m with you on doing my driving test in April 1991. 3 weeks after my 17th birthday. I also ended up doing all the 3 tasks n passed 1st time, I did get all but 1 of my questions wrong at the end though BUT as they can’t fail you on that part due to the rule that u must know what your doing to actually pass the test so after a small reprimand from the examiner he said the magic words of “I’m glad to tell you that you have passed” ahhh the good old days, wish they would use common sense like that these days. I took my motorcycle 🏍 test in 2007 & omg I thought it was nuts then all the hoops I had to go through. I did get all my questions correct this time & even using that CDRom u could buy then I used before my theory & their wasn’t a question on their that I couldn’t answer so I’ve cleared up my act now lol 😂. I do think tough that in the old days they focused on actually teaching you how to drive rather than these days when they teach you how to pass a test. Driving standards are appalling & it hugely saddening to see or hear of all these young drivers hurting themselves and or others 😢
The government are completely out of touch with the needs & funds of the common person or business.
Congestion charge will be just that, a charge for taken your vehicle into a city & enjoying being stuck in traffic "oh thanks government".
Electric van & trucks are hopeless for example as i type this im just getting ready to drive a truck for just outside Glasgow to Alness (35miles North of Inverness) 189miles one way, so thats going to take a lot longer in an oversized electric milk float with a lot of AA batteries isn't it.
Why are parliament out of touch? Well most of them don't drive because they are pished so they don't care "Bojo covid lock down party anyone? Sure why not its only 7:48am...pass the single malts"
Eye test & different lights!...."can you read that number plate? How about now when i turn on the thor lazer cut HD LED headlights in this BMW? Oh bugger i just melted off your face from 60yards away!".
The basis fact is "lets price the average person out of ownership of a vehicle, that'll save the squirrels!" This will soon stop the first time an MP can't get their delivery of sex toys & booze overnight from Amazon to their second home in the middle of the Lake District "WHAT! two days to get my nipple clanps & sauvignon blanc! Right give evey delivery driver a V8 petrol & sod the badgers, i need my wine & fun time with this underage human trafficked sex worker!"....
Yup Westminster don't have a scooby doo what the general public actually need. My next vote is goin to Kermit the Frog....if I'm going to vote for a muppet I'm voting in a real one.😂
If hes still alive. I believe the frogs are a bit sick !
In their Dreams!!! Never mind the cost of wear & tear on tyres?? Surely the heavier vehicle will be harder on tyres???
And brakes.
Doesn’t happen. Nobody has proven it. Oxford recalled their study. The tyres are designed to be better and low resistance.
@@timsbird1971 interesting? Probably more expensive then, like the rest of the vehicle!!!
@@gilliancockwill495 not in particular - cheaper than our 4x4 (yes I don't only have an EV - but I'll be replacing the 4x4, which I need for actual off road work, with an EV as soon as they are in my budget)
It’s not going to work in there favour not everyone can even afford to buy new and for what iv seen certain companies arnt interested in electric cars as part ex for another car so don’t see it’s happening the way they want
The reason they are giving you for including electric cars in the low emissions zone is that they will be in a new class of Euro 7 vehicles which will include the dust that comes off of your tires and the dust that comes off of your brakes. Therefore they will be introducing low emission tires with special compounds and ceramic brakes. If you can afford them it is a money grab whichever way you look at it and people should stand up and do something about it. It is already too late as we have allowed them to introduce these low omissions And ultralow emissions zones.
"The Congestion Charge is a £15 daily charge if you drive within the Congestion Charge zone....
If your vehicle does not meet the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) standards, you must also pay the ULEZ charge."
not exactly the same so confusing to have the two randomly interchanged surely EV could pay congestion but not ulez?
It hasn't been thought through as all government policies. Remember MP's & Governments WORK FOR US.
That will never happen it’s just for there salary’s there to posh to have pay cheques 😂😂😂😂
But they DONT!!! THEY WORK FOR THE CORPORATION 😂😂😂
What about all the aeroplanes burning 1000's of gallons of fuel every day?? nobody mentions that??
... and politicians' helicopters.
The endgame to get everybody off the road
And then they will tax us for walking!
Sadly there will always be those middle-class shit sniffers who will argue that those in power are just doing all of this for our own good and safety and it's nothing to do with revenue. The real problem is we are all talking about it and whining but no one is actually saying " bugger off, I'm not paying". Great report. Petrolhead Pete. Over and out!!
Within a few years from the Congestion Charge commencement in 2003, there was a move to extend it to public transport journeys, when it had been introduced to ENCOURAGE people into public transport
Better to understand that the whole zero based legislation and taxation is part of the tool kit designed and promoted by governments bought and owned by conglomerates who want to crush competition and restrict and deplete the population.
Not happy with lots of the wealth, they want all of it and control over our very existence.
WEF The Great Reset.
Read it, it's set out stage by stage.
Fuck the w.e.f. 💩
And despite my comments I have an EV. Free chargjng and no excuses to run ouf of juice. Am I a tree hugger? Nope, just fancied trying one and I like it . But am I saving the planet? Do me a favour
With the price of fuel in the UK it makes sense to have an electric runaround for all the errands you would do on a daily basis near your home, and only for certain types that happen to have houses with driveways, but not for commercial vehicles and long range trips. It also won't make any sense for those living in tower blocks either. How are they supposed to charge their vehicles? Run an extension cord from their flat 12 stories up? The so-called "leaders" in the UK are utterly barking mad!
@@lanpartyanimal5215 correct. You just have to drive through city residential streets with parking. Where the hell are they going to charge? Unless they're forced to give up their vehicles. But that takes away freedoms and necessitates a fully functioning public transport. yeah right
How much co2 is used in building the electric car and how is the electricity being produced to charge them.
i watched a video clip a month or so ago where some public buses (electric) were being charged up by diesel generators, oh the irony
We all need to stand up and take action on this bullshit ev motors
The problem with the fines is that manufacturers won't offer cars for sale in the UK, look at mitsubishi
They have just banned open face helmets here in Spain, now becoming another nanny state
Isn’t that good thing ??? Saves your chin when your fall ???? Also hides your face from cctv ……
What is the point of having an mot on a vehicle if they want to insist of freestyle safety check I thought mot was to make sure your vehicle is safe talk right on a public road
Your vehicle may be safe, unfortunately it not safe to take your vehicle on the roads due to the poor state of said roads. Road Tax revenue used to be spent on maintaining road infastructure, so they renamed it VED to remove any reference to "roads", so they could spend it on anything. Its really useful for funding second homes for the "Club Members" that attend the House of Commons.
What they want and what they get are very different. things the government are lunatics
Sabine Hossenfelder showed on a recent video that both the USA and the EU individual need to spend around $600 billion yearly till 2030 just on infrastructure to meet the demand of electric transport. No idea how much we would need to spend here.
When they started the eScooter trial in York I could get into town for about £2.50 . I haven't used them for a while until the other day when I took one to a friend's house (about the same distance as going into town) and it cost over £4. And the scooter was a deathtrap. Seemingly not been maintained very well since it was introduced. They're all bobbins anyway. Just an experiment to see if the sheeple will buy the idea of vehicle sharing. This is essential for the future because they can't manufacture EVs for everyone because they're simply isn't enough resources for the batteries ect. The only way we will be able to get around is cycling or a rented community vehicle. The Citroen Ami is already being used in France for that same purpose. Similar to the scooter ranks we have here. It's all just a test to see if we'll bend over and take it. And we will. As always.
I'll buy one and use my own maybe. Aged 73 in the 15 minute prison
Boycot London!
Where will it end hey 😞
Like you i had the chief driving examiner in 1990 & had to do the full set. He even ask me all but one of the stopping distances to try and fail me.
I am sure he was not happy as he had to work on a saturday. My instructor said to me he know i was a first time pass. Right up to when that examiner entered the room.
We should form a club....the "We passed first time, despite you bar stools desperate to fail us" club lol
there is a simply reason for the downturn, they are utterly useless, the ranges are woeful and it now seems like they are not zero emissions at all the fact is they are very polluting.
There is no downturn in EV sales when compared to that in petrol. If you want a real downturn then look at diesel!
Perhaps a major contributor to slowing sales is that they have exhausted the market for SUVs, Crossovers and small hatchbacks. The manufacturers decided that they only want to make those classes of vehicle, and seem surprised that people who have never bought them haven't suddenly gone "you know, I've been driving the wrong type of car all these years!".
@@tonyfisk8081 nah - it's high interest rates that are driving the downturn in all car sales. EV sales have actually slowed down only a tiny bit more than petrol and far less than diesel, which is truly going through the floor.
@@timsbird1971 I did say "major contributor" not "the reason". Major purchasing decisions have multiple factors as input - and certainly cost is one, but I, for one, will not pay over the odds to have something that doesn't fit my needs, no matter how "nice" it is.
Mind you, I am not a brand-slave, whilst some folk will always stretch their budget for a badge.
To me, it would be like going into debt to have a Gucci suit that's two sizes too big.
@@tonyfisk8081 fair enough - I just fail to see, other than a very few edge cases, that a BEV doesn't suit everyone. After all I haven't replaced our second car with a BEV. That's because you cannot get a second hand BEV 4x4 that you wouldn't cry over if you killed it going off road. Our 4x4 does need to actually go off road. But I'm sure only a fraction of a percent of people have the issue I do.
Funny how the police cars are still fuel!
Great video! Only just discovered your channel. I noticed the hats on the shelf behind you. I'm a hat man myself, my collection is up to 10 now! Have you done the "different hat for each video" yet?
Surely the congestion charge is designed to reduce the number of vehicles in that area (that's why it's called the congestion charge) so ev should have been paying it .
Indeed, but one of its purpose was to reduce emissions, which pushed the agenda of electric vehicles getting it free. They should have stuck to the primary definition in the first place.
Congestion charge to reduce emissions?
Ulez charge to reduce emissions in the same area?
Two charges for the same purpose just names differently🤔
All this needs to be stopped,we’re being crippled financially and slowly but surely losing our rights.
Obviously the government hasn’t any money otherwise they wouldn’t be constantly making up charges left right and centre
The average cost to buy an electric car in the UK is around £50,000, with EV prices ranging from £22,225 up to £157,160, or even more.
I see you used copilot and quoted verbatim. Now ask copilot if there are Bev cars available for less than 20K… it will tell you there are. Copilot is not research
Let’s entertain you…. Average new car price is £45,024…. Making EVs less than 10% different!
No need if we bring back the railways and electrify them, so almost all freight can be moved with burning uranium or solar wind.
WEF plan for 15 minute cities..dont fall for it unless a company car but you're still paying for it
Take a look at Norway they done this years ago now best charging network in the world and IS 80% EV NOW
most like it too