BP has a lot of chargers in the UK Most of them are very slow, many don’t function properly / at all. All of them charge you over 2 x the price of Tesla’s chargers.
My first warning was always: don't let big oil buy out the charger networks. They will bring charging cost per mile up to gasoline equivalent, and their profits will go up an order of magnitude, all while lobbying to make municipal cheap charging illegal.
They can't just increase the price, people would drive to Tesla and other competitors to charge. They could do the reverse, lower prices for a year or two to make everyone lose money. They can afford this but most competitors can't.
Which is why anyone who can afford it should install solar panels. Even after paying the monthly solar loan bill I still realize a $200/month profit over my old gas car fuel bill. And by my math the solar will pay for itself only after 8 more years (2 years already) for a total of 10 years. After that, the solar is pure gravy and the free fuel net cost that comes with it. Keep sticking it to big oil by using solar.
The key thing about my Tesla is; *I can make my petrol at home* To hell with BP/Shell and those companies who ripped me off for the last 40 years! *I love my Tesla* *Never bet against Elon*
Good for you. But many of us like and drive Tesla but live in cities and need these stations. Do you hate city dwellers as well? 70 percent of Americans are urban dwellers.
Elon is TANKING Tesla, they have not met expectations in their last 2 Earnings calls. Meanwhile he is just tweeting BS that nobody cares about. His narcissistic ego on twitter has taken all his attention from Tesla.
It's the EV charging network that will ultimately determine the success of electric vehicles, not the vehicle range. It's a common misconception that EV range is the elephant in the room. It's not. Not at all. The elephant in the room is the EV charging network rollout. i.e. the geographic distribution and rate of rollout of EV super chargers.
More electric vehicles means more charging stations which mean more electric vehicles and so on. People who do not go on long drives would be fine charging at home which means there is starting point for this cycle even with no charging stations. Both the range and number of charging stations matter, neither is THE elephant.
Thank you for this content, Viking. Shell Oil's electric fast charging network is called Shell Reconnect. It requires an app if the screen is blank but you can use a credit card is the screen is active. There is one near my house in North Carolina. It works well.
They won't be charging drastically more than the price of energy because if they did extremely few would use them. Cars have ranges such that charging at home is almost always possible.
@@jacobnunya808 yeah don’t forget charging at home they will now give you a limited charging times with credit card fees at home. I mean why stop there there are states that are implementing over double and registration fees and so on and so on that can make gas vehicles cheaper now. If you all really thought about buying electric was going to be cheaper, they really sold the bridge to you guys😂
Glad I bought up BP fast as soon as I heard that. Now if BP only became a national brand in the US. About eight year ago they sold major geographies in the US to other companis.
I’m really disappointed in the rate of new chargers in my area of western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. I don’t know where all the new ones are going, but it’s not here.
@@maxflight777 A better place to stop, BP has convenience shops at almost every petrol station, especially in highways where fast charging is very important. Many Tesla superchargers are in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no place to pee or eat.
The existing petrol stations don't have the area footprint or national grid tie in to support EV charging in bulk. Having cars parked up for an hour or longer will mess up the parking duration scam via NPE and the waiting area for cars with near flat batteries waiting for a charger station that's free.
@@5nowChain5 Are you dense? It doesn’t take an Hour to charge a car. Specially fast charge. Also Gas station make money from the STUFF they sell to people who park there. It is in their interest that you stay and buy more things while you wait.
Are they also buying the diesel generators Tesla uses to top up fast chargers when demand is high? Or the diesel vans Tesla uses for emergency charging with diesel generators?
Another benefit for BP is likely speed. Tesla can just let BP cut in line and let them have some of their own hardware that is about to roll off the production line. Similar to how SpaceX can let customers cut in line ahead of a Starlink launch as long as they are paying.
That is quite the opposite from what I’m seeing in the comments from people who have experienced BP speed😂 gas stations can’t even have a reliable air pump and they want to make reliable charging that works now? This is just too good to watch seeing these hopes
I just saw my first Tesla model Y 3 row seater in the wild in western North Carolina. Huge for a Tesla with the "old school" raised Tesla logo on the hood.
Here in UK,BP pulse is probably the worst provider,maybe this will help. The V3 chargers open to non Tesla’s do not work for my Kia ev6,they cannot cope with the high voltage changing platform,not hears yet whether the V4 can cope
The prices they will be charging will be at an extortionate rate to customers. Probably twice the rate of Tesla when they start building out their own charging stations. Let's hope Tesla teams up with all the Supermarkets and installs them in their own car parks at heavily discounted rates for regular discount card holding customers.
Very interesting, Alpitronic chargers that BP currently use are a 6 month lead time and the prefered choice in the UK, mainly for their efficiency and reliability.
I don't know much about the actual devices, but what I have (limtied) direct experience of is the sheer incompetence of BP at actually delivering a charge to the car - whatever the device looks like. When you call their helpline, if you get through, more often than not they can't connect to the device. Not a massive sample, as I don't do much mileage away from home, but I now avoid BP, if at all possible.
Not hard to figure out why: BP owns the Arco am/pm gas station/convenience store chain and they want to be in on the transition to EV's much earlier. In short, by 2030 we may see many am/pm gas stations have banks of NACS (SAE J3400) charging stations.
Don't forget that BP were a very early player in all things energy - with a Solar cell (and panel) manufacturing in Homebush Bay (Sydney) for a long time - basically taken out by the Chinese drive to undercut the world with cheap labour subsidised production and sheer volumes - -Thanks to breakthroughs out of UNSW improving the efficiency of silicon based PV cells .. (Sadly More innovation lost from the developed countries - well we sure got lots of solar panels out of "the deal")... So despite ignorant crowing by many (re. "Big Oil" backtracking), Energy giants are definitely into making money, long term from energy, whatever form it takes. The energy companies own locations in many postcodes, ensuring people are buying coffee to-go, or hotdogs and candy regardless of their end-user-energy-choice. (Ideology doesn't matter, profits do.) At least tis shows that Tesla is open to being a supplier fotr 3rd party operators, maybe we will get generic Electric powertrains yet (a Model S post-plaid "crate" power-train could be an interesting proposition for e-hotrodders (or hybrid systems in different applications.)
Perhaps the Tesla charger sales deal is also tied in to supplying the actual energy... if Tesla sells its chargers cheaply with the provisio that Tesla supplies the elctricity to them, this will rapdily expand Tesla's power division and boost the installation of solar and mega packs as a by product and provide a customer base for those Tesla home power walls and solar packages across the states that do not have cross state power transfers while the Biden green $$ subsidys can also be drawn upon by BP to pay/ofset the costs of this deal.
Again They need chargers in places other than metro areas. That is part of the problem now they seem to think cities are the only place that needs them. My nearest charger to my home is 20 miles away that will keep people from buying them. Thank goodness for level 2 home charging.
Bad idea by Tesla. Getting the short term revenue boost but giving up part of the charging infrastructure dominance. Should have taken McDonald’s approach to rent out some supercharging sites to BP to operate and to pay for the mortgage while controlling the real estate of the supercharging sites and retaining the power to replace the operator (e.g BP) if they don’t keep up to the standards.
I understand your situation, but sometimes the audio quality of your videos is not always totally sorted out. It does not bother me, but I could see new viewers quickly cutting out over it.
If Tesla retained a monopoly on chargepoints, after giving every one the right to use them, they be brought up under US antimonopoly regulations. That's what broke up Stantard Oil and the Bell Sytem, too.
@@maxflight777 they are, this is why Australia so behind. We have everything to produce EVs from A to Z but why not? Even Elon Musk doesn’t understand.
I believe this deal is actually a consequence of Teslas new winter is coming stance and therefore a bad sign. It shows that Tesla has more Supercharger production capacity than they think their US fleet will grow near-term.
This is a way to get Tesla stations in more places. BP already has the locations. If they put 4-8 chargers at each location, that means lots more local charging locations.
Promise soon different car makers will pay to buy tesla chargers aswell ! This is always a great way for tesla to take out the losses in margins of their cars and take in profit elsewhere like they did this way ! Imagine when municipality’s starts buying to get in profit from people in their municipalities
BP need to actually commission the hundreds of chargers they’ve installed on their forecourts that have had covers over them for years (in the UK at least anyway) 🙄
Does anybody remember Bud Light? It was a beer that Anheuser-Busch used to sell that was #1 in America for 21 years, before they did something that pissed off their clientele, and now it's hard to find someone with a Bud Light in their shopping cart at the supermarket. Well, BP might just be doing a Bud Light - pissing off the folks who fill up their gasoline tanks with EV superchargers, and it could piss off both parties, as it has turned out for Bud Light I stop by a Phillips 66 about once a month - used to stop by once a week when I drove our 4-Runner. I stop by to buy lottery tickets, and as I drive up, sometimes some "good old boys" are standing around the parking lot and giving me a sneer as I drive up our Tesla Model Y. There is some tension out there. Oh well, I don't go to BP stations since they are always expensive but convenient...
@@lesliecarter4295 yep cynically speaking it wouldn’t surprise me - ICE driver rolls up at their favourite BP/M&S and takes a look at the fancy new charge point thinking they might consider an EV, then sees the price of electric and decides it’s too expensive to charge up 😳
So how many diesel generators required for each super charger. At least Which are fitting service stations that have big diesel tanks about the generators to Produce power to charge EV 😂😂😂
It’s a diversion Tactic Tesla employs when it is in crisis. These deals are done daily, with numerous charging parties tritium, the huge electrify America network etc. Tesla is in poor shape and they always do this . Plummeting sales, the hugest drop in share market price surpassing all other car markets even GM. Loss of market share to Kia, byd and Toyota . The cyber Truck disaster with huge problems plaguing and postponing its production date ( huge vibrations they can’t seem to rectify amongst major build quality and panel alignment ) escalating manufacturing costs with falling sales . Chinese supplier problems ( most Tesla components come from China) . Postponing indefinitely any expansion plans like the Mexico factory. Foreseen cost overruns and expenses down the track to produce the cyber truck . As Elon calls it a mistake that will be costly . Key staff jumping ship including engineers, AI and others . To top it off the Chief Financial Officer has just walked away this week. 19th 3rd from last as the Least reliable cars as voted by consumers Tesla has a lot of woes
As somebody who works in the insurance industry, we have a disturbing discovery. Electric cars catch a fire, not only destroying the car but setting houses and apartment buildings on fire. This technology is not ready yet. And we're considering not insuring these vehicles.
@ala-hc4rx The problem is from an insurance point of view. It tends to happen when the car is off and parked in the garage. And the difficulty of extinguishing the fire.
BP has a lot of chargers in the UK
Most of them are very slow, many don’t function properly / at all.
All of them charge you over 2 x the price of Tesla’s chargers.
Agree - they're dire to deal with.
Maybe eventually they will make the same investment that they are making here in the US and get more reliable hardware.
If they can take advantage by having big profits, nobody can stop them as the business is legitimate and they have big cash to splurge on investments.
Or have never been commissioned and have covers over them saying “coming soon” 🙄
My first warning was always: don't let big oil buy out the charger networks.
They will bring charging cost per mile up to gasoline equivalent, and their profits will go up an order of magnitude, all while lobbying to make municipal cheap charging illegal.
The fast thinking ones have foreseen the long-term decline of fossil fuel economy and have decided to invest in the future profit before others..
There is no chance to stop them .
exactly what I have been saying with my close friends. this is bad news
They can't just increase the price, people would drive to Tesla and other competitors to charge.
They could do the reverse, lower prices for a year or two to make everyone lose money. They can afford this but most competitors can't.
Which is why anyone who can afford it should install solar panels. Even after paying the monthly solar loan bill I still realize a $200/month profit over my old gas car fuel bill. And by my math the solar will pay for itself only after 8 more years (2 years already) for a total of 10 years. After that, the solar is pure gravy and the free fuel net cost that comes with it. Keep sticking it to big oil by using solar.
The key thing about my Tesla is;
*I can make my petrol at home*
To hell with BP/Shell and those companies who ripped me off for the last 40 years!
*I love my Tesla*
*Never bet against Elon*
Good for you. But many of us like and drive Tesla but live in cities and need these stations. Do you hate city dwellers as well? 70 percent of Americans are urban dwellers.
Elon is TANKING Tesla, they have not met expectations in their last 2 Earnings calls. Meanwhile he is just tweeting BS that nobody cares about.
His narcissistic ego on twitter has taken all his attention from Tesla.
@andypeek8151 I spat my coffee out !!
What !
Andy , will all due respect.. I beg you, please tell me more:
@@dylanthomas12321 Dylan, plenty of “charge at home” options for city dwellers ! I’m not sure you understand.
It's the EV charging network that will ultimately determine the success of electric vehicles, not the vehicle range. It's a common misconception that EV range is the elephant in the room. It's not. Not at all. The elephant in the room is the EV charging network rollout. i.e. the geographic distribution and rate of rollout of EV super chargers.
More electric vehicles means more charging stations which mean more electric vehicles and so on. People who do not go on long drives would be fine charging at home which means there is starting point for this cycle even with no charging stations.
Both the range and number of charging stations matter, neither is THE elephant.
And they are being sold off to fossil fuel companies which will overcharge and gradually strangle the BEV industry.
So is Tesla now officially not just a car company?
Not been 'just a car company' for a long time, massive in energy supply and storage.
True, but not everyone realizes and admits it.@@hectorwinslove6154
@@hectorwinslove6154 Shhh! DON'T tell Wall Street. Oh, never mind, they're too stupid and ego-driven to figure it out.
Naw, doesn’t fit the narrative.
What does this make bp? Lol
Thank you for this content, Viking. Shell Oil's electric fast charging network is called Shell Reconnect. It requires an app if the screen is blank but you can use a credit card is the screen is active. There is one near my house in North Carolina. It works well.
Where in NC? I live here also.
It’s also in Hawaii.
@@explor360 Western North Carolina
@@explor360 i think i saw one in Dunn.
@@thearchliberal Cool. My in-laws live in Dunn, NC.
Here in the u.s., congress will pass what ever "laws" necessary to ensure that big oil gets what it wants.
We need a drastic system overhaul...
They won't be charging drastically more than the price of energy because if they did extremely few would use them. Cars have ranges such that charging at home is almost always possible.
@@jacobnunya808 yeah don’t forget charging at home they will now give you a limited charging times with credit card fees at home. I mean why stop there there are states that are implementing over double and registration fees and so on and so on that can make gas vehicles cheaper now. If you all really thought about buying electric was going to be cheaper, they really sold the bridge to you guys😂
Glad I bought up BP fast as soon as I heard that.
Now if BP only became a national brand in the US. About eight year ago they sold major geographies in the US to other companis.
I’m really disappointed in the rate of new chargers in my area of western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. I don’t know where all the new ones are going, but it’s not here.
BP Pulse is putting in some great chargers in the UK. We have a number on our longer journeys that have become regular stops
Why ? Pray tell … What does BP Pulse offer over say … a Tesla Supercharger?
@@maxflight777 A better place to stop, BP has convenience shops at almost every petrol station, especially in highways where fast charging is very important. Many Tesla superchargers are in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no place to pee or eat.
Every Petrol station company should start investing in superchargers
I’ve been saying this for a LONG TIME, They should all have AT LEAST 2 charges per Gas station. ⛽️ it is ridiculous they have none in 2023.
The existing petrol stations don't have the area footprint or national grid tie in to support EV charging in bulk. Having cars parked up for an hour or longer will mess up the parking duration scam via NPE and the waiting area for cars with near flat batteries waiting for a charger station that's free.
@@5nowChain5 Are you dense? It doesn’t take an Hour to charge a car. Specially fast charge. Also Gas station make money from the STUFF they sell to people who park there. It is in their interest that you stay and buy more things while you wait.
Sure so when those batteries get nice and hot the cars will be blazing along with the rest of the cars next to,it
This started happening in Norway a couple of years ago.
Are they also buying the diesel generators Tesla uses to top up fast chargers when demand is high? Or the diesel vans Tesla uses for emergency charging with diesel generators?
100 millions seems like a small starter investment in charging stations. I bet they'll eventually get their hands on ver4 chargers
Looking at the design of the V4 charger, looks much easier to rebrand/change it’s appearance to suit any user! Smart!! 🧠
Another benefit for BP is likely speed. Tesla can just let BP cut in line and let them have some of their own hardware that is about to roll off the production line. Similar to how SpaceX can let customers cut in line ahead of a Starlink launch as long as they are paying.
They are getting old spec too.
Junk hardware
That is quite the opposite from what I’m seeing in the comments from people who have experienced BP speed😂 gas stations can’t even have a reliable air pump and they want to make reliable charging that works now? This is just too good to watch seeing these hopes
I just saw my first Tesla model Y 3 row seater in the wild in western North Carolina. Huge for a Tesla with the "old school" raised Tesla logo on the hood.
Sam, the chargers BP are buying are Tesla's latest V4 tech.
Best argument for V4 is the longer cable length.
Here in UK,BP pulse is probably the worst provider,maybe this will help.
The V3 chargers open to non Tesla’s do not work for my Kia ev6,they cannot cope with the high voltage changing platform,not hears yet whether the V4 can cope
The prices they will be charging will be at an extortionate rate to customers. Probably twice the rate of Tesla when they start building out their own charging stations. Let's hope Tesla teams up with all the Supermarkets and installs them in their own car parks at heavily discounted rates for regular discount card holding customers.
Afternoon mate
Very interesting, Alpitronic chargers that BP currently use are a 6 month lead time and the prefered choice in the UK, mainly for their efficiency and reliability.
Not totally correct.
BP also put in a big order for Tritium units earlier in the year
I don't know much about the actual devices, but what I have (limtied) direct experience of is the sheer incompetence of BP at actually delivering a charge to the car - whatever the device looks like. When you call their helpline, if you get through, more often than not they can't connect to the device. Not a massive sample, as I don't do much mileage away from home, but I now avoid BP, if at all possible.
Bp could make money as a station to charge vehicles
They can make money on the food and such they sell in the store. Charging customers stick around longer than gas customers.
Cheers mate
Not hard to figure out why: BP owns the Arco am/pm gas station/convenience store chain and they want to be in on the transition to EV's much earlier. In short, by 2030 we may see many am/pm gas stations have banks of NACS (SAE J3400) charging stations.
There is an echo in the sound of this video... Like your videos... 👌
When big oil jumps , you know we're the money is 🤔
That news is fire!🔥
It is easier to make those Tesla chargers, but the real problem is getting the site permits... that is taking much longer.
Don't forget that BP were a very early player in all things energy - with a Solar cell (and panel) manufacturing in Homebush Bay (Sydney) for a long time - basically taken out by the Chinese drive to undercut the world with cheap labour subsidised production and sheer volumes - -Thanks to breakthroughs out of UNSW improving the efficiency of silicon based PV cells .. (Sadly More innovation lost from the developed countries - well we sure got lots of solar panels out of "the deal")...
So despite ignorant crowing by many (re. "Big Oil" backtracking), Energy giants are definitely into making money, long term from energy, whatever form it takes. The energy companies own locations in many postcodes, ensuring people are buying coffee to-go, or hotdogs and candy regardless of their end-user-energy-choice.
(Ideology doesn't matter, profits do.)
At least tis shows that Tesla is open to being a supplier fotr 3rd party operators, maybe we will get generic Electric powertrains yet (a Model S post-plaid "crate" power-train could be an interesting proposition for e-hotrodders (or hybrid systems in different applications.)
The new V4 dispensers and V3 cabinets will output 250 kWs. Tesla probably doesn’t want to give BP the fastest configuration
Perhaps the Tesla charger sales deal is also tied in to supplying the actual energy... if Tesla sells its chargers cheaply with the provisio that Tesla supplies the elctricity to them, this will rapdily expand Tesla's power division and boost the installation of solar and mega packs as a by product and provide a customer base for those Tesla home power walls and solar packages across the states that do not have cross state power transfers while the Biden green $$ subsidys can also be drawn upon by BP to pay/ofset the costs of this deal.
Rebecca Tenuchi -sp is a intelligent professional
Thanks Sam!
What about 30% plus 1 cent per kilowatt for life of charger? Cheers
Volex plc is gonna be a billion dallar Tesla supplier
Again They need chargers in places other than metro areas. That is part of the problem now they seem to think cities are the only place that needs them. My nearest charger to my home is 20 miles away that will keep people from buying them. Thank goodness for level 2 home charging.
Well since I don't live in one of those anthills I don't need to sign up.
Bad idea by Tesla. Getting the short term revenue boost but giving up part of the charging infrastructure dominance. Should have taken McDonald’s approach to rent out some supercharging sites to BP to operate and to pay for the mortgage while controlling the real estate of the supercharging sites and retaining the power to replace the operator (e.g BP) if they don’t keep up to the standards.
I wonder if I’ll get my free Supercharging on them😂
No, they are Tesla Hardware, BP network
You can’t even get free air pump at a gas station but let’s keep hoping
Change the title. A few minutes into the video, Sam explains that it's V3 fast chargers, NOT V4, which BP are buying from Tesla.
$100 million is about 2,500 to 3,000 chargers.
If Exxon does this it’s a game changer near me. 😂😂😂
Exxon is a oil company invested in oil Fuck this ev bs Bp will go broke
Strange that BP order V3 chargers I would have thought better to order V4 chargers.
I understand your situation, but sometimes the audio quality of your videos is not always totally sorted out. It does not bother me, but I could see new viewers quickly cutting out over it.
Aye mate I jus figured out sommin Alda unused land in Australia put solar panels on em export energy …. Huh???…. Idea no???
Commenters please hit the like button …….. electric Viking is ona roll
They're obviously expecting their fuel salesbto start falling very soon 😅
If Tesla retained a monopoly on chargepoints, after giving every one the right to use them, they be brought up under US antimonopoly regulations. That's what broke up Stantard Oil and the Bell Sytem, too.
One correction. BP has been in the USA since my youth and I'm 70 years old. So, they are not new in the USA.
Bp is British company so there office is not in USA
@@roymoxley2587 not there office, their gas/service stations. Sam said they'd be new to the US.
Cheaper: does Tesla chargers have display or payment card modules? Doe’s they work on 800V?
For the V4 chargers, yes to both.
All-in-all, this is good news, and in a small way, capitulation.
If Australian government serious about EVs, they should make it compulsory to install chargers on every gas stations all over Australia.
no .. government should stay the fuck away from these things.
@@maxflight777 they are, this is why Australia so behind. We have everything to produce EVs from A to Z but why not? Even Elon Musk doesn’t understand.
Tesla hardware but BP software I won’t hold my breath
I believe this deal is actually a consequence of Teslas new winter is coming stance and therefore a bad sign. It shows that Tesla has more Supercharger production capacity than they think their US fleet will grow near-term.
This is a way to get Tesla stations in more places. BP already has the locations. If they put 4-8 chargers at each location, that means lots more local charging locations.
Promise soon different car makers will pay to buy tesla chargers aswell ! This is always a great way for tesla to take out the losses in margins of their cars and take in profit elsewhere like they did this way ! Imagine when municipality’s starts buying to get in profit from people in their municipalities
Wondering if those chargers will be badged as BP or Tesla. Anyone know?
It is only 2000 chargers
BP need to actually commission the hundreds of chargers they’ve installed on their forecourts that have had covers over them for years (in the UK at least anyway) 🙄
I thought they were v3?
The sound of this video is awful compared to your latest work. What happened?
Good luck with that. fast charging deteriorates batteries faster.
The batteries also get hotter and if one cell is shorted well we all know that’s all up in smoke
80% less is crazy
That works out to ~ 666 chargers.
Where is all this extra electricity going to come from?
Natural gas for the heat to run turbines Fossil fuel
Govt will increase elecrticity price and this charging price will sky rocket
How many chargers does 100 million $ buy?
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Check your title. It says V4 chargers but your video says V3. Change one or the other.
you know the huge amount of money that goes into football clubs.. and they do have some real estate…. so….
Governments should just give Tesla the infrastructure contracts to get the job done imo. Just stop messing around.
Does anybody remember Bud Light?
It was a beer that Anheuser-Busch used to sell that was #1 in America for 21 years,
before they did something that pissed off their clientele, and now it's hard to find someone
with a Bud Light in their shopping cart at the supermarket.
Well, BP might just be doing a Bud Light - pissing off the folks who fill up their gasoline tanks
with EV superchargers, and it could piss off both parties, as it has turned out for Bud Light
I stop by a Phillips 66 about once a month - used to stop by once a week when I drove our 4-Runner.
I stop by to buy lottery tickets, and as I drive up, sometimes some "good old boys" are standing around the parking lot and giving me a sneer as I drive up our Tesla Model Y. There is some tension out there.
Oh well, I don't go to BP stations since they are always expensive but convenient...
This deal suks oil company gettin ev subsidies
Fossil fuel companies buy up BEV assets and control them using price and availability to manipulate the auto sector. 😂😂😂😂😂
Yep stash them or install and never commission arguing there’s no demand 🙄
@@Umski actually just charge a lot more than the equivalent petrol/diesel price. Kills the EV business?
@@lesliecarter4295 yep cynically speaking it wouldn’t surprise me - ICE driver rolls up at their favourite BP/M&S and takes a look at the fancy new charge point thinking they might consider an EV, then sees the price of electric and decides it’s too expensive to charge up 😳
What happened to their eeeeediot fuels 😂
So how many diesel generators required for each super charger. At least Which are fitting service stations that have big diesel tanks about the generators to Produce power to charge EV 😂😂😂
I am against EV
It’s a diversion Tactic Tesla employs when it is in crisis. These deals are done daily, with numerous charging parties tritium, the huge electrify America network etc. Tesla is in poor shape and they always do this . Plummeting sales, the hugest drop in share market price surpassing all other car markets even GM. Loss of market share to Kia, byd and Toyota . The cyber Truck disaster with huge problems plaguing and postponing its production date ( huge vibrations they can’t seem to rectify amongst major build quality and panel alignment ) escalating manufacturing costs with falling sales . Chinese supplier problems ( most Tesla components come from China) . Postponing indefinitely any expansion plans like the Mexico factory. Foreseen cost overruns and expenses down the track to produce the cyber truck . As Elon calls it a mistake that will be costly . Key staff jumping ship including engineers, AI and others . To top it off the Chief Financial Officer has just walked away this week. 19th 3rd from last as the Least reliable cars as voted by consumers Tesla has a lot of woes
As somebody who works in the insurance industry, we have a disturbing discovery. Electric cars catch a fire, not only destroying the car but setting houses and apartment buildings on fire.
This technology is not ready yet. And we're considering not insuring these vehicles.
as someone who has been lacking sleep and also lacking work. Make sure you sleep well and keep your job honest.
@martiruda What I'm saying is easily fact checked. I don't want to argue about this. I work in the industry ,sleep well.
@@jhrusa8125do you have numbers and brands? Not interested otherwise.
But don't the numbers actually show that the rate of fires per 1000 is actually higher for ice cars than evs ?just asking thats all ?
@ala-hc4rx The problem is from an insurance point of view. It tends to happen when the car is off and parked in the garage. And the difficulty of extinguishing the fire.
Gotta wonder if Tesla also did this because they’re starting to roll out V4 chargers now so they can afford to sell these V3s.