12 year EV owners and advocates. YouTubers, tinkerers and repairers of EVs.
Leicestershire, England
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Forget the post attached to these pics and the flying Roadster blah blah blah bs.
Look at the 2CV. That's an amazing looking thing. It will see exceptionally well.
Living in Europe vs living in the US feels like tech is centuries apart.
Europe introduces the electric Citroen 2CV this week.
US launches flying cars with the Tesla Roadster.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Citroën 2CV electric is a concept previewing 2028 production, not introduced this week; Tesla's Roadster is a prototype reveal with 2028 production target whose "flying" uses limited thruster stunts in demos, not a practical or launched flying car.
media.stellantis.com/em-en/citroen/…
tesla.com/roadster
kbb.com/car-news/what-…
Our heating has finally come on after what feels like an eternity.
Luckily our @OctopusEnergy heat pump is ticking over nicely keeping us all nice and toasty and it’s being powered solely from today’s excess solar.
It feels a bit like top notch energy recycling ♻️ 👌🏼
We have
- Solar panels (14yo)
- A home battery (6yo)
- A heat pump (2 yo)
- An electric car (first 14 years ago)
This is a typical @OctopusEnergy bill for us for 7/8 months of the year.
If you can, do it.
Yeah, a great summer. Forget the drought and the fact our farmers are totally fucked. Where do these idiots come from.
thegrocer.co.uk/news/potato-…
Imagine adding some inflation to the equation and seeing what happens.
Petrol: +41% vs general inflation of ~64%
Diesel: +44% vs general inflation of ~64%
By jove,
This isn't a dig at people with petrol/diesel cars, but I don't know how you can afford to run them at these prices. 50 miles for £10, at 50mpg is utterly nuts, and it looks like these prices are here for the foreseeable.
But most surprisingly, this bloke was voted in, legitimately.
Amazingly you'll see plenty of posts telling you how we need to stick with fossil fuels, it's normal when they're up against it.
Hopefully this will show you otherwise.
This image is from 2019
The charger is connected the grid and the generator is used as a reserve back up for critical airport infrastructure where it is located.
Imagine being so stupid you don’t check your data first.
Comedy sketch.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas
climate.gov/news-features/un…
Are CO2 levels increasing in the upper atmosphere
climate.gov/news-features/un…
This guy talks out of his arse from a position of little to no knowledge and is likely a conspiracy theorist.
Listen to the facts, not sone random Cornish bloke.
#CO2 is not a Greenhouse Gas. It is NOT increasing in the upper atmosphere since it is 1.53 times heavier than air and stays close to the Earth's Surface where it is absorbed by plants & water.
The current hot spells are caused by "HeatDomes " not man made global warming. The Sun controls our climate - not 0/04% of #CO2 in the atmosphere. Avoid believing the lies.
This uber cheap energy from the sun is the reason 2 of our neighbours have recently installed solar panels and battery storage. 1 already has an EV, the second is about to purchase one.
This is typical of Geoff.
Fabricate this figures
We did pay £11,500 for the van, but his valuations are somewhat interesting.
Pop the reg in to motorway with the current mileage of 2500, see what’s it’s worth.
We bought this van for £11,500+vat with less than 1000 miles on the clock. I’ve since added another 1500 miles over the past 10 days and charged almost exclusively on home charging.
This 1500 miles has cost us approx £84 in home charging and £47 in public charging, so £131.
If this was a diesel the 1500 miles would have cost us £276.
Over a year the savings here make a massive difference to the business.
The one on the right is my van.
The one on the left sits higher than my van, weighs more than my van, has less storage space than a VW Golf, weighs around 1000kgs more than a Golf and almost 700kgs more than our own EV.
With the high risk of these burning down an airport carpark in Luton, their horrific emissions, reliability, fuel economy and weight, it’s a wonder why people buy them.
Meanwhile, a new industry emerges to tackle the issue.
Once upon a time 12v car batteries were a major issue as recycling wasn’t available
Currently we sell 500 million a year, about 9 million metric tonnes.
Now they are considered one of the most recycled components on the planet with up to 99% of their components recycled, all this despite their toxic make up.
Wind turbines. Companies like enva.com/ take these blades and transform them in to components to replace fossil fuel at ‘energy to waste’ plants that manufacture cement.
This will happen worldwide as the need arises.
Meanwhile, old farts like this would rather you stick to burning gas and coal. The good news is, the world ain’t listening anymore.
On January 1, 2026, the European wind industry implemented a self-imposed landfill ban on turbine blades.
This has left many countries scrambling silently for solutions. Landfill has become the next unwanted crisis, yet it's the conversation no one wants to have. Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands have banned blade landfills, and so for a time they are being exported to countries like the UK or France, where they can still be buried.
Banning waste like turbine blades doesn't make it vanish though—it just puts it on a truck to a neighbour's backyard. Low-scale solutions are often cited as the answer, like turning blades into noise barriers, bridges or playground equipment.
How do you turn 43 million tons of blade waste from turbines into park benches and koala crossings? How many park benches does one planet actually need?
Modern recycling for glass and carbon fibre often requires pyrolysis (high-heat chemical decomposition). To recycle a 'green' blade, you must burn an immense amount of energy to break down the resins.
We are trading a physical waste problem for a new energy demand problem. People love a quirky solution that highlights the absurdity of the problem—like the image of a massive 80-metre blade being used as a single, very long bus shelter.
Even 'green' solutions have a physical footprint that can't be wished away by a spreadsheet.
Evan at 2am, when the winds not shining, renewables cut the mustard.
Wind is again covering the baseload as it does for most of the year.
Fossil fuels play second fiddle these days. Most of our grid energy comes from renewables.
So far today, renewable energy has produced over 70% of our grid energy.
Fossil fuels have produced only 6%
Imagine all that gas that hasn’t been burnt that we can use another day.
People will have you believe that gas is clean. Look at the difference in emissions between Cornwall and East Anglia this morning.
Apparently this isn’t a cobalt mine in the Congo. Reverse image search identifies it as;
Bingham Canyon Mine (also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine) in Utah, USA — the world’s largest human-made excavation
Right now I’m charging my EV from the grid. It averages 4 miles/kWh.
With current emissions it will emit 20g/CO2 per mile or 12g/CO2 per km.
It costs 5p/kWh. For a full charge of 220 miles it will cost approximately £2.85.
The car I’m charging is a 2021 MG5 which has covered 170,000.
It’s well worth getting one if you can.
