The MacMaster is one of the most annoying posters out there. I think he was inspired by Scotty. He buys the most expensive EV out there and then complains about range, depreciation and cost of ownership. Spends a lot of time spreading misinformation and there are a lot of people who lap it up; confirmation bias at play.
He plays to the anti EV segment in the UK and they just lap it up, I do wonder if he actually loves his EV but he knows what his viewers want to hear and what gets the clicks. Hopefully that dinosaur crowd will dwindle away soon
When you read the comments his followers make you really see the level of ignorance there is. Conspiracy theories false information and lies throughout.
I think MacMaster is just creating content to profit from TH-cam. He gets plenty of views and gets a nice little profit. It's brilliant what he's doing because he pretends to not like EVs but in reality he does like it. He is just profiting from the anti ev audience who watch his videos.
The men here in the UK who model their whole brains after Jeremy Clarkson is a real problem. It's a mental health crisis amongst men of certain age, comfortable income level and access to too much internet.
I apologise for my fellow Brit being an arse about EV's, he is sore because he bought a Porsche Taycan for silly money and it's lost most of its value. Too much car not enough house that one.
But all the time due to his PCP (Personal Contract Purchase) he is immune from the depreciation so that part is a non story. High depreciation will benefit the next owner.
@@iambenmitchell - not quite, when there are big shifts in the depreciation of a given vehicle model. In these cases the interest rate and balloon value having been fixed at time of contract then it's the next set of buyers of that model who fund the depreciation loss for the previous vehicles sold (normally via adjusment of the balloon values, the interest rates are still used to attract sales).
Macmaster a few years ago "its terrible that EVs don't contribute to the roads they drive on" Macmaster now "its terrible that EVs contribute to the roads they drive on"
Came across this guy when I was researching EVs… worked out he was a grifter very quickly! He basically bought an expensive EV and was horrified by the depreciation on it, made a video complaining which got traction and has been anti EV ever since! He spouts utter nonsense
He's the only reason I have an EV. Was obvious he was full of shit, as didn't seem possible that life with one could be so difficult. I'd never even looked at one, but thanks to his disingenuous content, I'm 5 months into my first EV, and won't ever go back to an ICE car again 🤣
@ very similar to me, the crap he was talking was just non sensical… brought into focus just how much EV disinformation is out there. Like you, wont ever go back to an ICE car!
He found out that he could get lots of views making up negative stories about EVs that are clear nonsense. There's no point complaining, that just gives him more views which is all he wants. His delivery is optimised for his audience. Blame TH-cam for creating a system that rewards this kind of thing.
Electric Classic Cars did a great debunk of this guy on their TH-cam channel. He just blatantly lied that there weren’t any chargers anywhere near and the truth was there were loads just behind him, and he knew it.
He explained about that in the follow up vid, they were chargers that he’d have to move from a few hours later, which after being in the restaurant drinking would be illegal.
So in the UK electric cars are exempt from paying annual road tax. There are loads of different rates but since 2017 all cars pay a flat rate every year with an additional premium for cars costing over £40,000 for the first 5 years. This change was announced over a year ago and means that owners of EVs will pay the same as petrol cars do after April 2025. For me, that is roughly £190 per year. I have not had to pay that for the last 2 years, but if I had a petrol car I would have. So this guys argument is that you shouldn't buy an electric car because something is free now, but will cost the same as everyone else in the future.
Yes - you are right Paul, but this isn't about him. It's just another excuse for people who are propelled by small non-reversible explosions NOT to switch to an EV. I was pretty angry to get that letter too, not because of the suggested cost (I think I can afford it), but because it's going to provide an excuse for everyone still driving about in their expensive rapidly-depreciating gas-guzzling 4x4 not to go electric.
Utterly GOBSMACKED that this knob has 200k people subbed listening to his bull. It's INSANE the mental gymnastics this guy has to go through to show that..... yeah you're just being treated like EVERYONE ELSE.
I first came across a MacMaster video maybe a couple of years ago. In it he was complaining about how it was impossible to charge his Porsche at the public charger he was at because the cable was too short. But the video clearly showed to anyone who has ever used a charger that he hadn't driven all the way into the bay therefore the cable was never going to reach. I pointed this out in the comments and then after a moments thought blocked him. After watching this video, I believe I made the right choice.
Yeah, the one I watched he was claiming to be locked in his Porsche because the battery was flat so the doors wouldn't open. It was clear he was deliberately not operating the door handles to the point where the mechanical opening operated. When this was pointed out he said it didn't work, but never mentioned again taking it to Porsche to be repaired. Its all just a performance that's clearly nonsense, blocked.
Wow, just wow. He's like listening to a 4 or 5 year old kid trying to explain something that happened. They'll start you down that road but get distracted by things that either aren't important to what happened or aren't even related in any way.🤦♂
He's someone who's worked out a way of getting people who hate EVs and loathe Porsche drivers to pay for his Porsche EV. He's obviously a complete muppet as well, but he's a complete muppet with a free Porsche. What a world...
He is a moron. I own an EV, in Scotland, where the Scottish Gov (the SNP/Green one) provided an interest free loan to purchase, and have a public charging network that is everywhere and well maintained. This guy is a total oil shill.
@@RobertLogan That SNP/Green government you speak of would happily see people out of cars (electric or otherwise) Thankfully the Greens are now no longer part of that government, although they still do the occasional bending over for the SNP to give them what they want.
They didnt ALL vote for Brexit, only about 70% of eligible voters showed up and it was like 2% more against than for of those that voted. Assuming everyone who stayed home didnt care, that means about 2 people _not_ pro Brexit for every 1 that was. And of course _now_ the ones who stayed home say "I thought it would fail easily so I didnt bother".
In the UK it was traditionally the case that Tesla Chargers only worked with Teslas. However, recently they have started to open to non Teslas. The government is now requiring all new chargers installed to be able to paid for using a contactless card. Quite why this would mean that Porsche chargers would stop charging Mercedes I have no idea - it doesn't sound sensible. As for the "Electric Vehicle Tax" (currently zero) we've known for a long time that it would start to affect EV cars in due course, I bought my first EV a few weeks ago, and I was well aware that this was coming. As for availability of chargers, there are between 1500 and 2000 new public chargers being installed in the UK every month. The cost of public charging is an issue for those people who can't charge at home (making an EV more expensive to charge than it would be to fuel a petrol car), but charger availability is improving all the time.
The government did state EV’s were going to pay road tax from 2025 sometime ago. No new news! In the UK we would refer to him as a Knob ( the polite version). Keep up the great work Ben
Yes, but after I'd already bought an EV. Actually I don't think the vehicle tax will be a problem. It's an excuse for EV haters not to go electric. I am more annoyed about the cost of charging. 85p per kWh! Seriously? The Government needs to put an energy price cap on Instavolt, BP Pulse, Ionity, Shell Recharge and 200 other suppliers. I am very sure they don't pay 85p per unit, and I bet it is much cheaper to set up a charging station than a petrol station. They could even allow a small premium for EV chargers that offer 100% sustainable power to get people moving in the right direction.
He never had the $150,000 it was a leased car that is now worth $50,000 so he is angry that he lost $100,000 and he can't afford to sell it, He is not very bright if he did not see this coming.
What he's doing is paying for his Porsche by posting as much negative crap about EVs as he can. If he hated his car so much, why would he pay > £100K for it, and still own it? The truth is he doesn't hate his car at all. He goes out of his way to make things look as negative as possible - but has been debunked by various other youtubers many many times. (Richard Morgan of Electric Classic Cars, "TheGrouchThatBarx" to name a couple.) Ignore him, that's the best way to get rid of trolls - they feed off your attention.
Just a note - Tesla's chargers in the EU were not originally open to other brands, but due to EU regulations Tesla opened up their chargers one Country at a time.
McMaster fell into this with another channel called Geoff buys cars, they’ve found the anti EV content very profitable so they produce a lot of it. Most of it is completely laughable but their subscribers lap it up. It’s a massive circle jerk.
I briefly subscribed to both but I got tired of their constant anti-EV venom, now they're both blocked. I hadn't realized just how much padding there is in a MacMaster video, he's getting clicks and view time for just eating a sandwich, amazing what people will watch.
@@craighuddy5351 Yeh Geoff buys cars keeps appearing on my feed, he's utterly obsessed with EV values, how sales figures are apparently massaged (which definitely never happened before EVs were a thing, honest!!) I just can't even with this sort of thing, life's too short to get annoyed.
Isnt this the yobbo who left his hybrid plugged in at a charging station for an entire workday (thus idle for ~8 hours) and bitched about how much the electricity cost (since 98% of it was idle penalty)?
He moans about everything to do with an EV even though he owns one. On a road trip to prove a point, he will charge at the slowest rate he can and to 100% and moan about how long it takes. We all know 80% is the sweetspot. Also in the UK this change was announce 2 years ago and unfortunately for first time includes older car, so EV's up to 7 years ago.
Yes - I own one too. I didn't know that the Government was going to introduce a tax when I bought it. Feel like a stab in the back for doing the right thing. But worse - it's another excuse for EV haters NOT to go electric. This is a backwards step.
@@AndyInTheUK - the tax has always been there for BEVs they were just exempted for a period. It was always clear even eight years ago when I bought my first EV that the arrangement was temporary till BEVs in the took off. As BEV's now represent 1 in 5 new car purchases in the UK it's not that unexpected the tax was due to be introduced; with the change notified well over a year ago.
I guess he could buy a gas/petrol car and pay the road taxes that way? I don't see how this is any different? So what he's really mad about is paying taxes.
Bought my first Tesla one week ago. Model Y. Showed it to my bro. He liked it so much we drove three hours each way yesterday and he bought his own. People are sleeping on Teslas. Thanks for your channel. I send people to you to help separate fact from fiction.
Here in the UK, road maintenance is paid for by council tax and also general taxation, whereas, vehicle tax, is paid based on engine size and the amount of emissions they put out. Vehicle tax in the UK is quite often mistakenly called "road tax", as it once was called, but it was replaced in 1937 with what we have today, vehicle excise duty, which as I said before, is paid based on engine size and amiunt of emissions. There are tons of videos on TH-cam where UK motorists have a go a cyclists and often they say things like "I pay road tax" or "no pay, no say" whenever cyclists pull them up for doing stupid things while driving. It's kind of sad that drivers in the UK don't understand what they are paying for when they come out with nonsense like that.
Lol. 😂 I see you have all been Upgraded. It's far too late for me to save you. However I will DESTROY the EV Agenda. 🕶️ I'm The MacMaster and I save people.
The problem is that any time I go back and look at any claims in your videos, most of them aren’t true. You’ve made a brand out of appealing to people afraid of change. It’s like a pro-BlackBerry person saying the iPhone will ruin everything. I can find those videos in the archives, they’ve aged very poorly.
Government letter is saying he needs to pay VED if he taxes after April 1st. Its £190. However he can retax in march for £0. The newly appointed government are looking at this. Its pretty certain that by April 2026, the EV will be the lowest cost transport by tax.
Some clarification needed. Many Tesla charge points in the U K allow non Tesla's but not all. The new government legislation now mandates all DC fast chargers have to allow contactless payment without an app. Not before time, you find a charger and have to download app before charging. What nonsense, welcome legislation. In the UK all service stations have to clearly display fuel prices. This should also apply to EV charges
Yes - that's correct. It was getting pretty annoying having to install yet another App on my phone in order to charge the car at a new charging point. I 100% agree about displaying prices. That's so annoying. You plug in and start charging and THEN it tells you it's costing 85p per unit. That's if you can find a little box thing in the distant corner of a supermarket car park.... I don't think I can face trying a Tesla charger on my non-Tesla. Tesla seems to have got it right yet again. Drive up. Plug in. Drink coffee for 10 minutes. No bank cards or Apps. Drive away. Why are other car manufacturers so slow to get themselves sorted out?
The ‘choir’ doesn’t require facts. They just need a preacher. I dunno why some people push back so hard on EVs. We are already at peak shale. It’s just going to get harder and harder to get oil and more and more people need cars / vehicles. Forgetting the environment we will need to do this eventually anyways. But we have plenty of lithium and salt and other chemistries. and even after that we just need to be able to make batteries out of something.
I’ve been driving a Tesla Model 3 LR since 2019 and I absolutely love it. And it hasn’t cost me a penny of maintenance due to the amazing warrantee. The only thing to fail was the 12V battery after 4 years (same as any other car, not the big battery) and Tesla came out to my house and replaced it free at a time of my own convenience. Can’t beat that. I fully expect to drive this car half a million miles or more.
Macmaster is an EV enthusiast. He loves his EV. But negativity pays his mortgage. And telling people not to get an EV makes it cheaper for him. Less sdopters = cheaper taxes. Hes a shill. Its all about the money.
I actually find MacMaster quite harmless, as he's just a Drama Queen and everyone knows it. John Cadogan is a lot more insidious and actually has a lot more clever spin to his content.
It’s not weird, he’s realised that the uninformed lap this up and he gets clicks , clicks= money, money = payments on the Porsche paid by TH-cam payments. He’s a clown but he’s worked out how to drive and awesome EV by feeding the idiots with nonsense
HAHAHAA omg the MacMaster and GeoffBuysCars are some of the biggest trolls in the UK, they go out of their way to make EVs look as bad as possible, using some of the most expensive EVs and charging networks, comparing against a 20 year old clapped out BMW etc. Its just stupid
“This car would be better if it had an engine in it” What!?😂 That’s like saying “this phone would be better if it had an engine in it”. That would be a pain in the ass! Engines are just a pain in the ass.
If it is all about control, then "they" would be pushing a single source of fuel like gasoline. Electricity is the ultimate flex fuel since you can make it yourself. Electric power is liberating.
Because a lot of people changed to to save money, no tax and cheap charging were contributors, now both those things have changed meaning their old petrol car would probably work out cheaper.
The largest issue is the £190 a year fee is still far outweighed by the differences in fuel costs between a Panamera and a Taycan, especially in a country like the UK where fuel is the US equivalent of $7 a gallon.
I think Macmaster is a scammer. He does the ‘I have proof of’ then rambles for 10 minutes before introducing the proof which takes a couple of minutes. It’s all about extending his watch time.
He has a home charger as he's shown it on earlier videos but that doesn't suit his narrative. He's currently riding the youtube algorithm gaining views and likes from gammon faced middle aged people who despise anything that's new. That's his demographic. We all knew that the free VED for electric cars would come to an end. I've had 10 years of zero VED (Vehicle Excise Duty). From next year I'll pay £190 per year like everyone else that owns a car. Big deal, we were always told it wouldn't be forever. No lies were told by the government. They were quite clear about it. MacMaster is a disingenuous man with a fork in a world of soup.
It would appear these days it's a lot easier to gain wealth and power spreading misinformation than facts. Think of all the time saved not having to really care if what your saying is true. Just jump around and be angry. Seems to be an easy con and at least worth trying if your primary objective is money.
Also seems to work in politics. Donald Trump has done that three times now and managed to successfully get himself elected as president of the USA. Here in the UK, the Conservative Party did pretty much the same thing, resulting in Brexit, plenty of immigration hoo-ha, and no end of nimbyism surrounding renewable energy infrastructure, all pretty much based on absolute twaddle.
I used to watch his videos for food recommendations in Tenerife, as I was planning to go back to visit. Then his channel took a segue into EV content, where it just appeared he was making his life as difficult as possible, and it couldn't possibly be the reality. Sure enough, a bit of investigation, and it was obvious he was clickbaiting the gullible to foam about EVs. Just happened to be the same time I was due to change cars, and having never even given them a thought, I ended up swapping to an ID.4, and couldn't be happier with the change.
Why is he throwing a hissy fit over public infrastructure? Does he not have electricity in his home? I doubt he's traveling 200+ miles to make this video.
He does though, in many videos the apparently dumb stuff is so easy to spot. Example, in one, driving from North Wales to South Wales against a diesel car. Which gets there first... Neither should need to stop but no, he starts with a kite battery and then makes the first action, finding a charger and hamming up about problems finding working chargers and sitting around. When he arrives at the destination, days "now I have to find a working charger". The car literally has a database of where they are. It's so forced. Funniest part is that go didn't spec the high power converter so at an open Tesla supercharger, can only get 50kW. How to make a 15 minute stop have to be 45 minutes. 😅
Ok the UK is totally different. Here in Ireland (which isn’t in the uk) we pay VAT (value added tax) or what you call sales tax on petrol/diesel. Thats one thing. ICE cars pay a thing called “motor tax” which is a tax on emissions and goes into the upkeep of roads, amongst others. So EVs should be exempt. I think the uk has the same rules but that, in essence, is what he’s complaining about, that now EVs will have to pay the same sort of motor tax as ICE cars, which are emission based, and EVs don’t emit pollution.
Car tax does not go to the upkeep of the roads at all. it goes straight to the treasury and none of the road upkeep is set aside from this income. It's just another tax
Ah!!!! 10 minutes in. I am in the UK and I have an EV, and I was also completely furious to get that letter. At the moment we don't know what road tax we are going to have to pay for our EV's, but it is pretty obvious that there will be a big problem for the Government if everyone stopped buying fossil fuel for their cars. The price of "gas" (petrol) in the UK at the moment is about £1.35 per litre which is around $7 per US gallon. About 50% of that goes to the UK Government. We need a road pricing scheme to replace Vehicle Tax and fossil fuel duty (tax), or the country has a huge hole in the budget. If they get something sorted it would allow Government to get people onto EV's quicker. Taxing EV's gives people yet another excuse not to scrap the fossil-burner. I sympathise with the chap who made the video, but if he can afford a Porsche EV, I don't think that the EV equivalent of Vehicle Tax will be much of an issue. A bigger issue is the fact that is costs an absolute fortune to charge your car at a publicly accessible charger. Up to 85p per kWh. That's criminal, and the Government is doing nothing about it. Sure it's cheaper at home, but .... well you know what I am going to say.
The clear downside of social media and the internet is that there is no check system for click baiters and FUD spreaders. TH-cam makes tons of money off of this nonsense. Someone independent needs to develop a universal guide, and work with TH-cam to change their system. Because this is NOT the future that I am hoping to help create.
The high fuel taxes all Europeans and the Brits pay compared to ours in the U.S. has made them switch to untaxed EVs at a faster rate than we Americans have. He probably does have in his hand a much larger "road usage" type tax than we here in California and other states have to pay. Your point about his need to pad his TH-cam videos with spuriously generated unrelated content and be loud for the attention it gains him is true of course, and thanks for showing me where some of the anti-EV stuff I see in other internet forums is being amplified.
Doesn't that car have like one of the fastest charging curve? Is he complaining that it take 47 minutes to charge? Sounds like he is charging to 100% everytime. Not very smart.
Indiana charges much more for an EV than an ICE on registration. I think it's around $150 more a year per EV with the idea that, like you said, we're not buying gas and therefore not paying the gas tax. It sucks but like, who cares since you save soooo much more by not having to buy gas and way less, if any, maintenance costs.
Texas has something similar, maybe worse. Not sure if it's still the case, but last time I did the math, they were charging EV owners about 4x the amount that an ICE driver would pay in gas taxes.
In the UK, folks have to go with EVs because gas is unaffordable in that country. But, England charges a substantial mileage tax on EV owners because they can't collect a gas tax from them. I think if someone lives in an apartment and can't charge at home overnight, but relies only on public fast chargers, their EV battery can fail in just a few years instead of last 10 to 15 years. This guy probably can charge at home, if he is buying a $150k EV.
Just a bit of background on Mr Mac.... He used to be the Director of 3 different graphic design companies, all have gone bust! The last one went 'bust' just after Covid, I enquired whether he had claimed money from the government during the pandemic and he promptly blocked me! (a number of companies claimed Covid support and then went 'bust' before they could pay it back!)
The new thing in many European countries is that they need to have a credit/debit card reader on the charger, not only the EV charging pass accessing method. I guess it's to allow charging points to everyone... So I guess there must be a 24/24 helpline too. What a 🤡
I nicknamed this guy THE MACMORON ever since I watch his video on the "Lands end to John O'groats" race, where he spends 3 hours charging his car on a derated 30kW charger when there was a 150kW charger 15mins down the motorway.
He is just an entertainment personality who used to mainly review food and has several reviewing LA and Spain and other holiday trips plus ICE and EV comparison journeys.
He made one video where he was at a hotel saying there were no chargers for miles around he was drinking outside and someone made a video who knew where he was and said that the othere side of the wall of the beer garden he was in had chargers on the other side. He Lies all the time compleat pr1ck
In Ohio, the additional registration charge for an EV is $200 per year, which is probably fair, to cover highway maintenance, etc. Interestingly, the City of Cincinnati, had free on street parking for EVs from 2008, until it was cancelled a few months ago. It was a nice perk while it lasted.
Hi Ben im from the UK I know how much of a clown he is I have have seen the video before im having a ionic 5 soon so why shouldn't all people with cars pay road tax the trouble in the UK they don't tend to spend much on the roads
A quick note on "Taxes" and "Fee" in Germany. If Something is really called "Tax", the Gouvernement can use the Money for anything. If there is a "Fee" somewhere, the Money can only be used for the cause it was collected for. In Germany we have no direkt dependency between Tax from Car drivers and spending for Infrastructure.
EVs are still less than 3% of the cars in the UK and their uptake is stalling all over Europe. They may be a good option in California but electricity costs in the UK are the highest in Europe, some say in the World(I don't know). Most people in the UK can't have home-charging because of housing type so it's costlier than petrol to use public chargers.
I watched part of this video when it first aired and got tired of his constant moaning... it seems his biggest gripe is actually with Porsche, having spent £120,000+ on his Taycan and having had numerous issues with it ever since, which he appears to attribute to EVs in general, (especially Tesla perversely), rather than Porsche in particular...
A lot of MacMaster is complaining has little to do with EV but more to do with computer on wheels design and subscription models that are common in most of European luxury brands EV or ICE.
Monetization of online content, has resulted in some people selling off their credibility and reputations, inlcuding the right to any respect, only to gain a fan base of people seeking the same outcome. These are the people that truly damage society
They lied when they said every village and town would have a local energy supplier charging station by 2025. In other words the bureaucracy and logistics of infrastructure is too challenging to make that date. Alternatively that they could standardize all chargers to plug and play status.
Listen carefully to the charging section, there is a big discrepancy between his start and end time, he tries to give the impression he is standing around because it takes so long to charge
Seriously... so in UK the electric cars were exempt from road tax until 2025.... this has been established in law years ago to boost EV sales... most of the people who drive any car knows about it... even when you buy EV you get told ... he is ridiculous
I had the miss fortune of seeing this snake oil salesman complaining about the cost of his tyre’s because he took it to Porsche to have the dealership supply and fit them and a new 12 volt battery!
Sorry Ben but I’m a UK EV owner often arguing with MacMaster ,but he’s a great warm hearted guy he does great travel vogs and he’s just a grouchy old lovable harmless eccentric . Truth is he loves his Porsche EV and complains bitterly he wouldn’t swap it .
90% of TH-cam videos could be summed up in 5 to 10% of their running time. Maybe there'll be an AI add-on for Chrome at some point that summarises. At least Ben's videos are relatively short and to the point (especially the ones designed to be so).
Sadly most people don't realise he's just after clicks to make money off TH-cam for his nonsense to feed off the anti-EV bragade. The road tax issue was always going to happen (£190 per annum )but what he doesn't say is the highest rate of car tax in the UK is £2, 745 (approximately $3,400) for petrol/diesel cars that emit 255g/km!! As you say, facts really are not revelant to this nonsense click bait.
The MacMaster is one of the most annoying posters out there. I think he was inspired by Scotty. He buys the most expensive EV out there and then complains about range, depreciation and cost of ownership. Spends a lot of time spreading misinformation and there are a lot of people who lap it up; confirmation bias at play.
well said, annoying is the best description.
He plays to the anti EV segment in the UK and they just lap it up, I do wonder if he actually loves his EV but he knows what his viewers want to hear and what gets the clicks. Hopefully that dinosaur crowd will dwindle away soon
When you read the comments his followers make you really see the level of ignorance there is. Conspiracy theories false information and lies throughout.
I think MacMaster is just creating content to profit from TH-cam. He gets plenty of views and gets a nice little profit. It's brilliant what he's doing because he pretends to not like EVs but in reality he does like it. He is just profiting from the anti ev audience who watch his videos.
@ yeah, maybe those who watch his FUD are the ones we should be annoyed by 🤷🏾♂️
The men here in the UK who model their whole brains after Jeremy Clarkson is a real problem. It's a mental health crisis amongst men of certain age, comfortable income level and access to too much internet.
Indeed. Clarkson is an entertainer at best. He shouldn't be relied on for lifestyle choices, philosophy or political advice.
Maybe it’s men that can think for themselves rather than being part of a cult like you.
I apologise for my fellow Brit being an arse about EV's, he is sore because he bought a Porsche Taycan for silly money and it's lost most of its value. Too much car not enough house that one.
But all the time due to his PCP (Personal Contract Purchase) he is immune from the depreciation so that part is a non story. High depreciation will benefit the next owner.
@@djhvideo ... thats not how PCP works. You're still paying deprecation with PCP, it's part of the monthly price you pay
@@iambenmitchell - not quite, when there are big shifts in the depreciation of a given vehicle model. In these cases the interest rate and balloon value having been fixed at time of contract then it's the next set of buyers of that model who fund the depreciation loss for the previous vehicles sold (normally via adjusment of the balloon values, the interest rates are still used to attract sales).
Macmaster a few years ago "its terrible that EVs don't contribute to the roads they drive on"
Macmaster now "its terrible that EVs contribute to the roads they drive on"
And...?
Came across this guy when I was researching EVs… worked out he was a grifter very quickly!
He basically bought an expensive EV and was horrified by the depreciation on it, made a video complaining which got traction and has been anti EV ever since! He spouts utter nonsense
He's the only reason I have an EV. Was obvious he was full of shit, as didn't seem possible that life with one could be so difficult.
I'd never even looked at one, but thanks to his disingenuous content, I'm 5 months into my first EV, and won't ever go back to an ICE car again 🤣
@ very similar to me, the crap he was talking was just non sensical… brought into focus just how much EV disinformation is out there.
Like you, wont ever go back to an ICE car!
He found out that he could get lots of views making up negative stories about EVs that are clear nonsense. There's no point complaining, that just gives him more views which is all he wants. His delivery is optimised for his audience. Blame TH-cam for creating a system that rewards this kind of thing.
@@smc812 the dude is having the time of his life. Driving an electric porsche, nagging a bit for fun, getting paid for posting it
Exactly this. Spot on.
I know this guy. He loves he EV. He absolutely loves it.
It's all about the revenue from TH-cam.
How you work that. He loved the car at beginning but slowly realised they are terrible. Perfectly normal behavior
Electric Classic Cars did a great debunk of this guy on their TH-cam channel. He just blatantly lied that there weren’t any chargers anywhere near and the truth was there were loads just behind him, and he knew it.
Yep, we caught him out blatantly lying. I’m surprised he’s still going. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
He explained about that in the follow up vid, they were chargers that he’d have to move from a few hours later, which after being in the restaurant drinking would be illegal.
@@ElectricClassicCarsYou earned a subscription from me because of that video. Greetings from across the pond.
Boomer here and motor head, even I know EV's are the future can't wait too own one...
So in the UK electric cars are exempt from paying annual road tax. There are loads of different rates but since 2017 all cars pay a flat rate every year with an additional premium for cars costing over £40,000 for the first 5 years. This change was announced over a year ago and means that owners of EVs will pay the same as petrol cars do after April 2025. For me, that is roughly £190 per year. I have not had to pay that for the last 2 years, but if I had a petrol car I would have. So this guys argument is that you shouldn't buy an electric car because something is free now, but will cost the same as everyone else in the future.
Yes - you are right Paul, but this isn't about him. It's just another excuse for people who are propelled by small non-reversible explosions NOT to switch to an EV. I was pretty angry to get that letter too, not because of the suggested cost (I think I can afford it), but because it's going to provide an excuse for everyone still driving about in their expensive rapidly-depreciating gas-guzzling 4x4 not to go electric.
Utterly GOBSMACKED that this knob has 200k people subbed listening to his bull. It's INSANE the mental gymnastics this guy has to go through to show that..... yeah you're just being treated like EVERYONE ELSE.
There are a LOT of people beholden to the gasoline and ICE car industry!
I first came across a MacMaster video maybe a couple of years ago. In it he was complaining about how it was impossible to charge his Porsche at the public charger he was at because the cable was too short. But the video clearly showed to anyone who has ever used a charger that he hadn't driven all the way into the bay therefore the cable was never going to reach. I pointed this out in the comments and then after a moments thought blocked him. After watching this video, I believe I made the right choice.
Yeah, the one I watched he was claiming to be locked in his Porsche because the battery was flat so the doors wouldn't open. It was clear he was deliberately not operating the door handles to the point where the mechanical opening operated. When this was pointed out he said it didn't work, but never mentioned again taking it to Porsche to be repaired. Its all just a performance that's clearly nonsense, blocked.
Wow, just wow. He's like listening to a 4 or 5 year old kid trying to explain something that happened. They'll start you down that road but get distracted by things that either aren't important to what happened or aren't even related in any way.🤦♂
He's someone who's worked out a way of getting people who hate EVs and loathe Porsche drivers to pay for his Porsche EV. He's obviously a complete muppet as well, but he's a complete muppet with a free Porsche. What a world...
They're grifters, and those types are absolutely everywhere now. Its like they're procreating in the walls.
He is a moron. I own an EV, in Scotland, where the Scottish Gov (the SNP/Green one) provided an interest free loan to purchase, and have a public charging network that is everywhere and well maintained. This guy is a total oil shill.
That’s Scotland, we don’t have great charging down south, it’s extortionate and sparse, if you can’t charge at home there’s no point in having an ev
Oh yeah. Interest free and you've still lost a fortune. Loon.
@@RobertLogan That SNP/Green government you speak of would happily see people out of cars (electric or otherwise)
Thankfully the Greens are now no longer part of that government, although they still do the occasional bending over for the SNP to give them what they want.
That fearmongering is the very reason that they all voted for Brexit, or why Scotland voted against independence……..
And Scotland certainly dodged a bullet there
They didnt ALL vote for Brexit, only about 70% of eligible voters showed up and it was like 2% more against than for of those that voted. Assuming everyone who stayed home didnt care, that means about 2 people _not_ pro Brexit for every 1 that was. And of course _now_ the ones who stayed home say "I thought it would fail easily so I didnt bother".
Some of us voted Brexit to stop the hoards (800 a week on average) entering illegally. That didn't work when it should have.
Sore are you?
We always knew car tax was coming sooner or later.
Not only that, it’s been known for a year in the UK but Lee published this video a few weeks ago like the news was hot off the press.
Don't believe that for one minute, you all believed the 💩the government were saying.
The guy is pandering to the anti-ev squad and making a successful channel out of it. He's best ignored.
In the UK it was traditionally the case that Tesla Chargers only worked with Teslas. However, recently they have started to open to non Teslas.
The government is now requiring all new chargers installed to be able to paid for using a contactless card. Quite why this would mean that Porsche chargers would stop charging Mercedes I have no idea - it doesn't sound sensible.
As for the "Electric Vehicle Tax" (currently zero) we've known for a long time that it would start to affect EV cars in due course, I bought my first EV a few weeks ago, and I was well aware that this was coming.
As for availability of chargers, there are between 1500 and 2000 new public chargers being installed in the UK every month. The cost of public charging is an issue for those people who can't charge at home (making an EV more expensive to charge than it would be to fuel a petrol car), but charger availability is improving all the time.
The government did state EV’s were going to pay road tax from 2025 sometime ago. No new news! In the UK we would refer to him as a Knob ( the polite version). Keep up the great work Ben
Yes, but after I'd already bought an EV. Actually I don't think the vehicle tax will be a problem. It's an excuse for EV haters not to go electric. I am more annoyed about the cost of charging. 85p per kWh! Seriously? The Government needs to put an energy price cap on Instavolt, BP Pulse, Ionity, Shell Recharge and 200 other suppliers. I am very sure they don't pay 85p per unit, and I bet it is much cheaper to set up a charging station than a petrol station. They could even allow a small premium for EV chargers that offer 100% sustainable power to get people moving in the right direction.
I think it’s people like you that’s the knob (not the polite version) and a brown nose as well.
He never had the $150,000 it was a leased car that is now worth $50,000 so he is angry that he lost $100,000 and he can't afford to sell it, He is not very bright if he did not see this coming.
He doesn't own it so doesn't have to take the hit by selling it
ITS NOT LEASED YOU FOOL.
UK road tax has been exempt for EVs but from April 2025 they will become liable to the same tax as ICE vehicles. Just show how popular EVs have become
They're just Fossil Fuel Schills who just pedal FUD all the time... Simples EV hater same as the one who wants to borrow an EV for six months,,,
You sound like a EV schill
Fossil fuel schills! 😂 Sounds like you’ve been brainwashed by the save the planet brigade!
What he's doing is paying for his Porsche by posting as much negative crap about EVs as he can. If he hated his car so much, why would he pay > £100K for it, and still own it? The truth is he doesn't hate his car at all. He goes out of his way to make things look as negative as possible - but has been debunked by various other youtubers many many times. (Richard Morgan of Electric Classic Cars, "TheGrouchThatBarx" to name a couple.) Ignore him, that's the best way to get rid of trolls - they feed off your attention.
He has it on hire purchase I think
@@CaptainProton1 Personal Contract Purchase with fixed monthly payments where he is immune from depreciation.
Yeah. A friend and I came to pretty much the same conclusion last week about this disingenuous plonker.
Just a note - Tesla's chargers in the EU were not originally open to other brands, but due to EU regulations Tesla opened up their chargers one Country at a time.
Not all Tesla chargers in UK are open to others but more are opening up as time goes on.
Thanks for the note. They started opening them up a few years back right? It’s a totally new thing here
@@BenSullinsOfficial Yes. The EU standardized on CCS-2 as a requirement but the US,...meh!
McMaster fell into this with another channel called Geoff buys cars, they’ve found the anti EV content very profitable so they produce a lot of it. Most of it is completely laughable but their subscribers lap it up. It’s a massive circle jerk.
I briefly subscribed to both but I got tired of their constant anti-EV venom, now they're both blocked.
I hadn't realized just how much padding there is in a MacMaster video, he's getting clicks and view time for just eating a sandwich, amazing what people will watch.
@@craighuddy5351 Yeh Geoff buys cars keeps appearing on my feed, he's utterly obsessed with EV values, how sales figures are apparently massaged (which definitely never happened before EVs were a thing, honest!!) I just can't even with this sort of thing, life's too short to get annoyed.
Isnt this the yobbo who left his hybrid plugged in at a charging station for an entire workday (thus idle for ~8 hours) and bitched about how much the electricity cost (since 98% of it was idle penalty)?
@@natehill8069 no, he’s never had a hybrid.
STOP PRESS indeed - upcoming vehicle tax for EVs was announced at least a year ago
Love that line. Let them know “the facts don’t care about their feelings” 😂
There is a common misconception that vehicle tax goes into the upkeep of the roads. This is not true in the UK at least.
He moans about everything to do with an EV even though he owns one. On a road trip to prove a point, he will charge at the slowest rate he can and to 100% and moan about how long it takes. We all know 80% is the sweetspot. Also in the UK this change was announce 2 years ago and unfortunately for first time includes older car, so EV's up to 7 years ago.
Yes - I own one too. I didn't know that the Government was going to introduce a tax when I bought it. Feel like a stab in the back for doing the right thing. But worse - it's another excuse for EV haters NOT to go electric. This is a backwards step.
@@AndyInTheUK - the tax has always been there for BEVs they were just exempted for a period. It was always clear even eight years ago when I bought my first EV that the arrangement was temporary till BEVs in the took off. As BEV's now represent 1 in 5 new car purchases in the UK it's not that unexpected the tax was due to be introduced; with the change notified well over a year ago.
I guess he could buy a gas/petrol car and pay the road taxes that way? I don't see how this is any different? So what he's really mad about is paying taxes.
Bought my first Tesla one week ago. Model Y. Showed it to my bro. He liked it so much we drove three hours each way yesterday and he bought his own.
People are sleeping on Teslas.
Thanks for your channel. I send people to you to help separate fact from fiction.
Who on earth is giving Musk their money?
Just bizarre.
@@AlanTovTake a look at everything you own , spot the made in China? Enough said.
You'd think if he could afford a Porsche he could afford to get his teeth fixed.
Here in the UK, road maintenance is paid for by council tax and also general taxation, whereas, vehicle tax, is paid based on engine size and the amount of emissions they put out. Vehicle tax in the UK is quite often mistakenly called "road tax", as it once was called, but it was replaced in 1937 with what we have today, vehicle excise duty, which as I said before, is paid based on engine size and amiunt of emissions. There are tons of videos on TH-cam where UK motorists have a go a cyclists and often they say things like "I pay road tax" or "no pay, no say" whenever cyclists pull them up for doing stupid things while driving. It's kind of sad that drivers in the UK don't understand what they are paying for when they come out with nonsense like that.
Lol. 😂 I see you have all been Upgraded. It's far too late for me to save you. However I will DESTROY the EV Agenda. 🕶️ I'm The MacMaster and I save people.
@@TheMacMaster Good vs EVil pal we all know the EV cult will nEVer win 😂 👍.
The problem is that any time I go back and look at any claims in your videos, most of them aren’t true. You’ve made a brand out of appealing to people afraid of change. It’s like a pro-BlackBerry person saying the iPhone will ruin everything. I can find those videos in the archives, they’ve aged very poorly.
It's £190 for EVs registered after April 1 2017. If registered before that then £20.
What about the "expensive car" premium? I'm expecting to be hit with a £600 total bill😞
Government letter is saying he needs to pay VED if he taxes after April 1st. Its £190.
However he can retax in march for £0.
The newly appointed government are looking at this. Its pretty certain that by April 2026, the EV will be the lowest cost transport by tax.
Some clarification needed.
Many Tesla charge points in the U K allow non Tesla's but not all.
The new government legislation now mandates all DC fast chargers have to allow contactless payment without an app.
Not before time, you find a charger and have to download app before charging. What nonsense, welcome legislation.
In the UK all service stations have to clearly display fuel prices. This should also apply to EV charges
Yes - that's correct. It was getting pretty annoying having to install yet another App on my phone in order to charge the car at a new charging point. I 100% agree about displaying prices. That's so annoying. You plug in and start charging and THEN it tells you it's costing 85p per unit. That's if you can find a little box thing in the distant corner of a supermarket car park.... I don't think I can face trying a Tesla charger on my non-Tesla. Tesla seems to have got it right yet again. Drive up. Plug in. Drink coffee for 10 minutes. No bank cards or Apps. Drive away. Why are other car manufacturers so slow to get themselves sorted out?
@@AndyInTheUK You will need the Tesla app though as they are excused the contactless payment requirement.
The ‘choir’ doesn’t require facts. They just need a preacher.
I dunno why some people push back so hard on EVs. We are already at peak shale. It’s just going to get harder and harder to get oil and more and more people need cars / vehicles. Forgetting the environment we will need to do this eventually anyways. But we have plenty of lithium and salt and other chemistries. and even after that we just need to be able to make batteries out of something.
I’ve been driving a Tesla Model 3 LR since 2019 and I absolutely love it. And it hasn’t cost me a penny of maintenance due to the amazing warrantee. The only thing to fail was the 12V battery after 4 years (same as any other car, not the big battery) and Tesla came out to my house and replaced it free at a time of my own convenience. Can’t beat that. I fully expect to drive this car half a million miles or more.
Macmaster is an EV enthusiast. He loves his EV.
But negativity pays his mortgage. And telling people not to get an EV makes it cheaper for him. Less sdopters = cheaper taxes.
Hes a shill. Its all about the money.
I actually find MacMaster quite harmless, as he's just a Drama Queen and everyone knows it.
John Cadogan is a lot more insidious and actually has a lot more clever spin to his content.
It’s not weird, he’s realised that the uninformed lap this up and he gets clicks , clicks= money, money = payments on the Porsche paid by TH-cam payments. He’s a clown but he’s worked out how to drive and awesome EV by feeding the idiots with nonsense
HAHAHAA omg the MacMaster and GeoffBuysCars are some of the biggest trolls in the UK, they go out of their way to make EVs look as bad as possible, using some of the most expensive EVs and charging networks, comparing against a 20 year old clapped out BMW etc. Its just stupid
Saying EV's are a con is like a Blackberry user saying the iPhone is a con.
“This car would be better if it had an engine in it”
What!?😂
That’s like saying “this phone would be better if it had an engine in it”. That would be a pain in the ass!
Engines are just a pain in the ass.
If it is all about control, then "they" would be pushing a single source of fuel like gasoline. Electricity is the ultimate flex fuel since you can make it yourself. Electric power is liberating.
Your videos remind me of SciManDan who debunks flat earthers, except you debunk anti-EV FUD. Love it!
He’s on my Mount Rushmore!
MacLiar posts crap for clicks. He deliberately sets his car up to fail. He cannot afford the car that he has bought so whinges constantly
I still don't know what the "lie" was. Yeah, the UK is adding a tax on EVs, but how does that constitute a lie?
Because a lot of people changed to to save money, no tax and cheap charging were contributors, now both those things have changed meaning their old petrol car would probably work out cheaper.
The largest issue is the £190 a year fee is still far outweighed by the differences in fuel costs between a Panamera and a Taycan, especially in a country like the UK where fuel is the US equivalent of $7 a gallon.
I think Macmaster is a scammer. He does the ‘I have proof of’ then rambles for 10 minutes before introducing the proof which takes a couple of minutes. It’s all about extending his watch time.
Prepare yourself for the comeback video, don’t read the comments section unless you have thick skin, Lee’s disciples can get very aggressive. 😁
He has a home charger as he's shown it on earlier videos but that doesn't suit his narrative. He's currently riding the youtube algorithm gaining views and likes from gammon faced middle aged people who despise anything that's new. That's his demographic.
We all knew that the free VED for electric cars would come to an end. I've had 10 years of zero VED (Vehicle Excise Duty). From next year I'll pay £190 per year like everyone else that owns a car. Big deal, we were always told it wouldn't be forever. No lies were told by the government. They were quite clear about it.
MacMaster is a disingenuous man with a fork in a world of soup.
It would appear these days it's a lot easier to gain wealth and power spreading misinformation than facts. Think of all the time saved not having to really care if what your saying is true. Just jump around and be angry. Seems to be an easy con and at least worth trying if your primary objective is money.
Seems to have worked for Trump
Also seems to work in politics. Donald Trump has done that three times now and managed to successfully get himself elected as president of the USA. Here in the UK, the Conservative Party did pretty much the same thing, resulting in Brexit, plenty of immigration hoo-ha, and no end of nimbyism surrounding renewable energy infrastructure, all pretty much based on absolute twaddle.
The English Scotty Kilmer! I wouldn't be surprised to find out they are related!
Except Scotty doesn't make us watch him eat.
Did he make his viewers watch all 47 minutes of his charging time?
no one charges at a dealer ship
Agreed, I think its rare.
The low price per mile it costs to drive an EV is not a scam or a con. At least it should be if you plan your journeys properly unlike the MacMaster
I used to watch his videos for food recommendations in Tenerife, as I was planning to go back to visit. Then his channel took a segue into EV content, where it just appeared he was making his life as difficult as possible, and it couldn't possibly be the reality.
Sure enough, a bit of investigation, and it was obvious he was clickbaiting the gullible to foam about EVs. Just happened to be the same time I was due to change cars, and having never even given them a thought, I ended up swapping to an ID.4, and couldn't be happier with the change.
Why is he throwing a hissy fit over public infrastructure? Does he not have electricity in his home? I doubt he's traveling 200+ miles to make this video.
He does though, in many videos the apparently dumb stuff is so easy to spot.
Example, in one, driving from North Wales to South Wales against a diesel car. Which gets there first...
Neither should need to stop but no, he starts with a kite battery and then makes the first action, finding a charger and hamming up about problems finding working chargers and sitting around.
When he arrives at the destination, days "now I have to find a working charger".
The car literally has a database of where they are.
It's so forced.
Funniest part is that go didn't spec the high power converter so at an open Tesla supercharger, can only get 50kW. How to make a 15 minute stop have to be 45 minutes. 😅
The other day he went to a pub, he ordered a pint, the landlord said what's that, he said it's beer, the landlord said no it's not that's just a myth.
7:40 My guess is that he was promised some incentive like cheap EV charging but he can't apply it at this charging station
Ok the UK is totally different. Here in Ireland (which isn’t in the uk) we pay VAT (value added tax) or what you call sales tax on petrol/diesel. Thats one thing. ICE cars pay a thing called “motor tax” which is a tax on emissions and goes into the upkeep of roads, amongst others.
So EVs should be exempt. I think the uk has the same rules but that, in essence, is what he’s complaining about, that now EVs will have to pay the same sort of motor tax as ICE cars, which are emission based, and EVs don’t emit pollution.
Car tax does not go to the upkeep of the roads at all. it goes straight to the treasury and none of the road upkeep is set aside from this income. It's just another tax
Ah!!!! 10 minutes in. I am in the UK and I have an EV, and I was also completely furious to get that letter. At the moment we don't know what road tax we are going to have to pay for our EV's, but it is pretty obvious that there will be a big problem for the Government if everyone stopped buying fossil fuel for their cars. The price of "gas" (petrol) in the UK at the moment is about £1.35 per litre which is around $7 per US gallon. About 50% of that goes to the UK Government. We need a road pricing scheme to replace Vehicle Tax and fossil fuel duty (tax), or the country has a huge hole in the budget. If they get something sorted it would allow Government to get people onto EV's quicker. Taxing EV's gives people yet another excuse not to scrap the fossil-burner. I sympathise with the chap who made the video, but if he can afford a Porsche EV, I don't think that the EV equivalent of Vehicle Tax will be much of an issue. A bigger issue is the fact that is costs an absolute fortune to charge your car at a publicly accessible charger. Up to 85p per kWh. That's criminal, and the Government is doing nothing about it. Sure it's cheaper at home, but .... well you know what I am going to say.
The clear downside of social media and the internet is that there is no check system for click baiters and FUD spreaders. TH-cam makes tons of money off of this nonsense. Someone independent needs to develop a universal guide, and work with TH-cam to change their system. Because this is NOT the future that I am hoping to help create.
The high fuel taxes all Europeans and the Brits pay compared to ours in the U.S. has made them switch to untaxed EVs at a faster rate than we Americans have. He probably does have in his hand a much larger "road usage" type tax than we here in California and other states have to pay. Your point about his need to pad his TH-cam videos with spuriously generated unrelated content and be loud for the attention it gains him is true of course, and thanks for showing me where some of the anti-EV stuff I see in other internet forums is being amplified.
Doesn't that car have like one of the fastest charging curve? Is he complaining that it take 47 minutes to charge? Sounds like he is charging to 100% everytime. Not very smart.
He's probably hoping to damage the traction battery so that he can complain about having to replace it.
9:35 funny thing is most states over charge EV drivers vs what a gas driver would pay in gas tax.
Indiana charges much more for an EV than an ICE on registration. I think it's around $150 more a year per EV with the idea that, like you said, we're not buying gas and therefore not paying the gas tax. It sucks but like, who cares since you save soooo much more by not having to buy gas and way less, if any, maintenance costs.
Texas has something similar, maybe worse. Not sure if it's still the case, but last time I did the math, they were charging EV owners about 4x the amount that an ICE driver would pay in gas taxes.
@@davidmenasco5743 That is to be expected from the morons in Texas.
@@davidmenasco5743 That sucks.
In the UK, folks have to go with EVs because gas is unaffordable in that country. But, England charges a substantial mileage tax on EV owners because they can't collect a gas tax from them. I think if someone lives in an apartment and can't charge at home overnight, but relies only on public fast chargers, their EV battery can fail in just a few years instead of last 10 to 15 years. This guy probably can charge at home, if he is buying a $150k EV.
I would prefer the government give EV users a tax break.
Lee is a millionaire and making around £11000 a month.
Is changing the subject the only response to a question you can't answer you EVangelists can come up with? - It certainly seems like it.
It's £190 or $240. Pretty much as much as he pays to get his toilets cleaned per week.
Just a bit of background on Mr Mac....
He used to be the Director of 3 different graphic design companies, all have gone bust! The last one went 'bust' just after Covid, I enquired whether he had claimed money from the government during the pandemic and he promptly blocked me!
(a number of companies claimed Covid support and then went 'bust' before they could pay it back!)
The new thing in many European countries is that they need to have a credit/debit card reader on the charger, not only the EV charging pass accessing method. I guess it's to allow charging points to everyone... So I guess there must be a 24/24 helpline too. What a 🤡
I nicknamed this guy THE MACMORON ever since I watch his video on the "Lands end to John O'groats" race, where he spends 3 hours charging his car on a derated 30kW charger when there was a 150kW charger 15mins down the motorway.
Nobody actually watches these videos - they just see the headline, like and share.
He is just an entertainment personality who used to mainly review food and has several reviewing LA and Spain and other holiday trips plus ICE and EV comparison journeys.
He made one video where he was at a hotel saying there were no chargers for miles around he was drinking outside and someone made a video who knew where he was and said that the othere side of the wall of the beer garden he was in had chargers on the other side. He Lies all the time compleat pr1ck
I honestly think losing £100k in 3 years is criminal. Especially when everyone is promising cheaper running costs .
In Ohio, the additional registration charge for an EV is $200 per year, which is probably fair, to cover highway maintenance, etc. Interestingly, the City of Cincinnati, had free on street parking for EVs from 2008, until it was cancelled a few months ago. It was a nice perk while it lasted.
Hi Ben im from the UK I know how much of a clown he is I have have seen the video before im having a ionic 5 soon so why shouldn't all people with cars pay road tax the trouble in the UK they don't tend to spend much on the roads
A quick note on "Taxes" and "Fee" in Germany. If Something is really called "Tax", the Gouvernement can use the Money for anything.
If there is a "Fee" somewhere, the Money can only be used for the cause it was collected for.
In Germany we have no direkt dependency between Tax from Car drivers and spending for Infrastructure.
EVs are still less than 3% of the cars in the UK and their uptake is stalling all over Europe.
They may be a good option in California but electricity costs in the UK are the highest in Europe, some say in the World(I don't know).
Most people in the UK can't have home-charging because of housing type so it's costlier than petrol to use public chargers.
How are you measuring the UK electricity costs in order to find that they are the highest in Europe?
Where do you get your numbers from?
Texas added $200 EV registration fee to the annual $75 registration fee starting this year
I watched part of this video when it first aired and got tired of his constant moaning... it seems his biggest gripe is actually with Porsche, having spent £120,000+ on his Taycan and having had numerous issues with it ever since, which he appears to attribute to EVs in general, (especially Tesla perversely), rather than Porsche in particular...
Thanks for showing me this idiocy since now I don't have to click on his video.
A lot of MacMaster is complaining has little to do with EV but more to do with computer on wheels design and subscription models that are common in most of European luxury brands EV or ICE.
I have visited that Porsche dealership. Any EV can charge there. He is a weirdo. He is the guy who in the pub complains about everything
Monetization of online content, has resulted in some people selling off their credibility and reputations, inlcuding the right to any respect, only to gain a fan base of people seeking the same outcome.
These are the people that truly damage society
They lied when they said every village and town would have a local energy supplier charging station by 2025. In other words the bureaucracy and logistics of infrastructure is too challenging to make that date. Alternatively that they could standardize all chargers to plug and play status.
He is one of the worst anti EV posters we have in the uk. I think his mantra is “ Bad news sells newspaper ( views).
Listen carefully to the charging section, there is a big discrepancy between his start and end time, he tries to give the impression he is standing around because it takes so long to charge
This guy is spewing BS and nonsense!!! EV's are the future :D
Seriously... so in UK the electric cars were exempt from road tax until 2025.... this has been established in law years ago to boost EV sales... most of the people who drive any car knows about it... even when you buy EV you get told ... he is ridiculous
I had the miss fortune of seeing this snake oil salesman complaining about the cost of his tyre’s because he took it to Porsche to have the dealership supply and fit them and a new 12 volt battery!
Sorry Ben but I’m a UK EV owner often arguing with MacMaster ,but he’s a great warm hearted guy he does great travel vogs and he’s just a grouchy old lovable harmless eccentric . Truth is he loves his Porsche EV and complains bitterly he wouldn’t swap it .
Ok, let's watch this middle-aged white-guy eat a sandwich- This might be the hardest I've ever laughed at one of your videos.
90% of TH-cam videos could be summed up in 5 to 10% of their running time. Maybe there'll be an AI add-on for Chrome at some point that summarises. At least Ben's videos are relatively short and to the point (especially the ones designed to be so).
Sadly most people don't realise he's just after clicks to make money off TH-cam for his nonsense to feed off the anti-EV bragade. The road tax issue was always going to happen (£190 per annum )but what he doesn't say is the highest rate of car tax in the UK is £2, 745 (approximately $3,400) for petrol/diesel cars that emit 255g/km!! As you say, facts really are not revelant to this nonsense click bait.
Is that letter from the government? He's not clear on that.
Yes. Its from a Government department called the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. A bit like the DMV in USA.