ELECTRIC CARS... The MYTHS, MISINFORMATION & FALLACIES. DON'T BUY an EV it will be the DEATH of YOU!
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Take a road trip with The MacMaster on a road trip in his All Electric Porsche Taycan Car from Mansfield in the east Midlands to Torquay in Devon and discuss The MYTHS, MISINFORMATION & FALLACIES of ELECTRIC CARS to get and get the message across... DON'T BUY an EV it will be the DEATH of YOU! Plus covering all the questions about Electric Cars.
Are EV's a Fire Risk and are Electric Cars more difficult to extinguish in a Crash?
Is an Electric Car Cheaper to Run than a Petrol or a Diesel Car?
Will The National Power Grid be able to handle it if everyone in the country gets and EV?
Is the Infrastructure ready for an All Electric Future?
Are EV's just a way of restricting our movement?
Will Electric Car Charging be restricted under new rules to deal with Energy Shortages?
Are Electric Cars the Future?
How long do Electric Cars Last and what is their lifespan? Do the batteries degrade after a few years?
Do Electric Cars Hold Their Value?
How long does it take to charge an electric car?
Should I buy an Electric Vehicle?
Check out this news story about The Electric Car Charging Infrastructure in the UK...
www.theguardia...
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Wife was listening with me and she said " he sounds exactly like you" regarding your opinions on EVs. I think youre definitely on the ball especially regarding the fact they don't want you in personal vehicles.
In reality these are coal/nuclear/hydro/wind-fuelled. People seem to think that electricity just comes out of a wall socket
Guess where petrol comes from? people seem to think it comes out of pumps at garages.
Exactly!
Another part of the reality is the grid/electricity is getting cleaner each year, uk 2020 wind/solar made up 43%, in 2023 its 46% so every year the energy is getting cleaner.
@@barrierodliffe4155 No they don't. Unlike Tesla owners, people who drive petrol and diesel cars are intelligent. You would have to be moronically stupid to think battery operated vehicles are in any way good for the environment. The inconvenient truth is, they're not. Teslas are a disaster for the environment. They should be banned from sale, and owners of existing ones ought to pay £1000 a week road tax.
#banteslas
@@matthewgodwin3050oow, you hate Tesla drivers. Just by looking at a tosser in a Tesla I can see your point. Unfortunately we all have to tolerate these mindless walkers in EV'S. Relax a bit. It won't last long now...
Bath has a Clean Air Zone. A lady rang up recently wanting to book two taxis going into the city on Saturday evening and coming back about 1AM. She accepted the taxi fares but then I told her she'd have to pay 2 X £9 for the trips into the city and, because the return trips were the next day (after midnight) another 2 X £9, so £36. She cancelled the taxis. Well done, Bath City Council, and that is just one of many cancelled trips because of the Clean Air charge.
What is going on in England and how did they get so stupid there?
48 minutes to charge plus 12 minutes to deal with a broken charger and move on, a waste of our time and patience.
I have to agree that we are being pushed in a direction no one should want to go. The future is the end of ownership. Right now I own and drive a 1987 Mercedes 560 SEC and a 1997 Lincoln Town Car. The last car payment I had was in 1999. My cars are in great shape, fun to drive, comfortable, easy to see out of, will last forever if cared for, cheap to insure, the yearly registration fees are $51.00 USD per car.
The model people are going towards headlong is on of no ownership at all. It will be either car shares, (no, but thanks for asking), or high monthly payments for the rest of your life. Then the car companies want to have you “subscribe “ to features that are already on the car that you are already paying for!?!?!?
Complete madness. I expect they will come after us ev holdouts by increasing the percentage of ethanol in the gas until we can’t run or old cars anymore.
Im with you Charles...
Car share with all the diseases we have no is not a good idea, we need to be more solitary as I see it.
Nobody ox stopping you buying an ICE vehicle at this point in time. Burning fossil fuels has to be limited before long. Maybe you don’t heed the warnings of climate scientists - yet!
You asked if the Grid could cope if we all had EVs. But that's academic. There would never be enough charging points so there would be no way of actually accessing a charger. Especially with so many out of order!
The other elephant in the room will always be having to wait an hour to charge, as opposed to 2 minutes for petrol. I think the cost of coffee and doughnuts consumed while charging is part of the cost of charging too.
What you don't get from these videos, most EV owners only ever charge at home and never use the charging network. The journeys portrayed here are generally motorway trips over 200 miles, most owners would never do those apart from maybe on holiday. With any modern EV travelling up to say 70 miles to somwhere you'd have enough to get back home without having to charge and then you can fill up overnight so you have a full tank the next day.
My 1.6 diesel
Mondeo on its mot everytime it has on the paperwork emmisions too low for the machine written on it, yet I can't go into a low emissions zone in my town, my diesel is miles better than most vehicles on the road, and I bet it gives off a hell of a lot less co2 than an electric car when you factor in the emmisions in making the vehicles over its life
Well done Porsche for sticking your badge on a milk float and charging £75,000
Fools and their money ?
Well done the MacMaster for having a big enough set to expose EV's for the reality and not worrying about his lease being terminated 🤣
Do as I say not as I do, is what the politicians want to say.
I had to drive from Southampton to Ashford in Kent to pick my sister who had fallen ill. Then had to take her back to Weymouth. I did nearly 300 miles, imagine doing that in a milk float. I did it in a diesel golf. Half a tank of fuel.
Actually Tesla can do it if fully charged, if not one quick (10-15 min) stop is enough
Recently promoted on national media. Oxford council are going to bring in local travel bans "to help with fuel shortage problems
Your right I bought a diesel car which was beautiful economical big comfortable I loved it suddenly I was the dirty boy of motoring !
As for public transport I’m a 20 min walk to the nearest stop it’s one an hour finishes at 5 or 6 o’clock useless
UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria 🙃
Let's get mining!
One thing that terrifies me is in winter motorway near me, cars have been stuck on there all night in snow, people would die in electric cars
Never mind how crap ev's are; what about what they are planning in Oxford, for the " greater good"?
Coming to a town near you if nobody stops it!
What are they planning?
@@TheMacMaster limited number of journeys per person per year allowed. Enforced by cameras.
@@wizzyno1566 Wow, just wow. I am so glad I don't live in England. Jesus.
Not happening till 2024
Use rotating number plates. 😂 You can get em on eBay. I'm not saying do that though. 😉
until you can fully charge a car in the same time you can fill up with diesel it's a strep backwards.
I was a trained car mechanic ,I got out before the change in cars happened. I trained on points and dizzy caps .. and never did believe what they said about diesel engines . I have always drove diesels .and have a 2006 VW golf diesel with 133,000 miles on the clock, and it's still going strong ..
Carry on polluting is your manta then!
We had a power cut in our street the other night, and northern power grid came out, and I was speaking to the guy. He told me the cables in the street are all old and aren't coping with all the extra draw already and that's why we have had 4 power cuts over the last twelve months, they keep patching them up, but he told me there will only be more problems as more chargers get installed and they are dreading it...and that's from a northern power grid electrician.
There's a lot more power cuts to come I would imagine, and all our electricity prices will only go up more to cover all the extra infrastructure needed, and that would take decades to bring upto scratch
Hi Lee great video again, you are spot on it's all about control that's one reason you can't pay cash to park your car anymore. Then there's Oxford council planning to turn the place into zones in 2024, further restricting movement.
Enjoyed the slide show of proper cars. I passed the driving test in a Triumph Dolomite Sprint in 1977 (a proper car).
I noticed when you were charging the milk float at collumpton services it would be difficult for a wheelchair user to use it especially the second one you used. Cheers Lee keep them coming👍
A retired Doctor who live opposite me bought an Electric Mustang recently, it disappeared for a month, came back for a few days, and has now disappeared again. Obviously Big problems.
I work at a school and someone owns a Mach-E there. The school is right by the highway. There are truck stops everywhere. I have not seen one EV charger around there. There's one up the road like 10 or 20 miles, but it's in a rough part of town. I don't know what they were thinking.
This can happen to any car, happened with our range rover 🙄
Lee,earlier this year a cargo ship was gutted by fire and sank mid atlantic with hundreds of expensive cars on board,cause of fire was believed to be some of the electric vehicles in the cargo
Think you have hit the nail on the head! and I to am not a conspiracy theorist!
In 2021 55 EV's caught fire in the Netherlands. 1.5% of the national carpark
Lithium is a finite resource so we can't just throw the cars away. If we do at some stage we will not be able to manufacture batteries, due to lack of lithium so a car less society is achieved.
Your comments about getting the public off of the road are spot on, and we must fight back before it's too late. Your fun, although educational videos help to educate the public. We need to WAKE UP!!!!
First of all I am an EV owner, but one who doesn’t think it’s the answer to all our problems. I just like my one because it suits my needs. A couple of things I would say though.
1. Oil is controlled by fewer people than the worlds electricity makers, so if "they" want to control your movement it can easily be done without getting you to buy electric cars.
2. There is no ban on cars using fossil fuel, you will just have to buy a phev, which is the worst of both worlds in my opinion but at least it offers flexibility too on those long trips.
3. I don’t think diesel car owners are feeling like lambs to the slaughter, people didn’t buy them because of the environment, it because they were cheaper to run back then, same situation as Evs, now they are costing the same to run I think there will be a drop off.
4. Did you really have to lease a Porsche Taycan to realise that EVs don’t have a soul. 10 Mins research on the internet and a short test drive will tell you that.
5. If everyone plugged their car in overnight of course the grid won't be able to handle it, just like when everyone decides to fill up an ICE car at the same time, it causes chaos.
6. It's also obvious that the tax free benefits will end with EVs, and if they don’t, the government will tax us elsewhere to make up for the loss of fossil fuel tax revenue.
7. Price of electricity and fuel will change, who knows where it will be in 10 years' time, fuel may get cheaper as demand falls, but maybe not.
8. Out of service charge points, usually non tesla ones, are a joke and are making owning an EV difficult, if Tesla can keep them working why can't the others, also don’t forget to add on the price of the coffee you had, which if you filled up with fuel you may not have bought.
9. Because of the cold weather drop off on range, EVs, maybe all cars, should be sold with range figures for both summer and winter temp.
Yiannimize had a Taycan Turbo for less than a month...the novelty soon wore off and as he said...he couldn't drive to, for example, Manchester and back to London without spending hours to charge. Not fit for purpose for people with busy lives running businesses.
Unless you drive the electric car for 200 thousand miles and only use solar generated electricity then your total carbon footprint of the car is no better than a diesel Golf with same mileage.
The cars are amazing. I love electric cars and the way they drive but around where I live there are only 4 public chargers for a town of 45,000. 3 of them are out of order right now too. Nobody in power is taking this seriously .
They are crap. That’s why no-one is taking them seriously. They aren’t ‘the future’ of transport.
Iv recently seen a lot of bicycle lanes appear in cities. Car lanes cut down from 2 to 1. The traffic flow is now struggling. Their agenda is to drive us out of our cars. The problem is this won’t happen. And while we sit there longer in our cars to get through I wonder how much more our car emissions are giving off. So are they actually making things better for environment.
Good luck everyone freezing cold weather with electric cars no heating as batteries will go flat!!! electric never in my life time .kisses from beautiful warm Singapore ❤
I was just about to start watching this but realised I hadn't got enough charge in my phone! 🤣
Brilliant!
Another great vlog lee , this is the only channel telling the alternative side of the debate ,well actually, there’s no debate the government are telling you to buy electric cars , no choice , in my option , what ever the government tell you to do , you must do the opposite us, because believe me, it’s never for your benefit if you do what they say .
Lee keep telling the truth , if it stops at least one person from being sucked into the lie , then you doing things right .
Totally agree about a run around in town, not a family holiday car. Is there an EV that pulls a caravan?
LOVING these EV vids,... such good entertainment
I've been watching your videos as there's so much hype etc about EV's , It's nice to see from someone who has one and what the pitfalls are and weighing th9ings up, I'd be better off sticking with my little 2013 1.5 Renault diesel , I've owned it 5 yrs , bought it 2nd hand , road tax is free due it's low emissions and I can drive from where I live in Doncaster down to see family & friends Near Southampton , only stop once for toilet & a coffee , I don't even have to top the tank up to get back home . I think Once they have enough people hooked on EV's and it's past the point of no return , they will then claw more money out of people , they're already bringing in road tax , the cost of charging will go up as there will be little or no alternative . Also how many mechanics will be out of work as looking at your car, you'd need a degree in I.T just to open the bonnet , You quoted cost of servicing , my car costs me £160 a year at my local garage for servicing.
Makes me laugh how they go on about EV's being the new thing , Unigate & Co Op dairies were using EV's 40 odd yrs ago .
Question.... My kid is showing symptoms of strep A....car battery is flat... Now what????? Real life situations that rely on dad's and mums getting to hospital whilst car is dead and NHS are striking....I Hope that scenario never happens but its possible
Things that I think about are 1, My Fiat multipla is 2005 with 235,000kms passes emmission every time with additive. 2, I can rent a Fiat 500 Electric for €130 per month, who pays if it breaks and how long do the batteries last etc. 3, Our 1984 Ford transit camping-car with a 2.5 dci and 85.000kms Control technique 2027, will I have to scrap it? No more holidays etc? Lithium batteries catch fire with disasterous results, what about Hydrogen fuel cells? How much of this crap is UN and EU trying to control our lives? Own nothing and be happy!!!!
The first video of yours I watched -one of these road trips, had very calming music. I think that EV ownership and calming music are like bread and butter or other ideal partners. Driving an EV, you do not want music that might make you on edge and frantic because that's the car's job.
Lee I tagged you in a Tweet, its worse than you think people! You are not only paying road fund licence & congestion charges, and lekky at the price of petrol, but now "Oxfordshire county council are forcing people to get permits to travel around their own town - and they can only leave their zone roughly twice a week". The End of The World is Nigh!!!!!!
I need to vlog that.
That must NOT be allowed to happen.
It HAS to be nipped in the bud in Oxford ( and Colchester I believe)
If it isn’t stopped it won’t be long before the hunger games becomes a reality.
it only suits Lees cause to charge at services and travel the uk for fish and chips and breakies as it makes hes figures sound good my son has ev since Feb 22 8000 miles total elec costs £245 only £59 of that charging at fast chargers /services check the figures ev drivers dont pay what Lee does there much smarter
@@TheMacMaster I am looking forward to that. It will be a corker I am sure of it.
Maybe I'll stick with a hybrid at the moment,
Another brilliant video, 👍👍👍
Well soon it won`t matter about charging your EV on long journey`s, Oxfordshire city council in 2024 are going to divide their area up into 6 zones and your going to be able to do everything you need within a 15 min walk off your home and you will only be allowed out of your zone 100 days a year, so no need for any EV`s lol
1967 Mustang from the movie Bullit.
Great VLOG Lee. If only the charger had said defective at the start and not charging error eh?🤦♂️
Lee
Another point of note with regard electric cars is their weight apprantely Britain's aging multistorey car parks were designed when car weighed considerable less, some ultimately could cause some structural load issues if enough ev's were to park in the same place or too many on one floor etc.
Who knows I guess it would take a collapse and the ramifications that would bring, but it todays health and safety world who knows?
Same problem goes with car ferry's are they all weighted, is it a risk or at least a concern.
If anyone knows feel free to reply
Toyota are actively involved in the different battery technologies and wont go all out electric for one very good reason. There are far better battery technologies in the works other than lithium. They will appear soon and lithium will perish as a power source so what happens to your now valueless electric vehicle?
I must admit , I’m driving a CUPRA born. I’ve never driven a car that feels so detached from driving
I’ve driven computer games with more feedback. The car is so heavy, breaking on muddy lanes is an interesting experience. Thankfully it’s on lease, and as I’ve mentioned in other comments, I’m running it for free, when that ends it goes back
So why did you lease it?
@@brianbarton2401 I’ve made comments on here earlier. I still have the Skoda . I was forced into electric by work, the alternative petrol or diesel was at least £200 per month more. The other reason is that I’m running it for free, via free chargers that are around. When those free chargers go, I’ll hand the car back, and buy an old wreck
Implementation of these charging zones is all very well but who voted for it?
Has there been any consultation with the local populace?
Maybe a political party could guarantee that they would remove these charging zones
and all the paraphernalia that goes with it, I'm sure they would win by a landslide.
We had a Lexus CT for 4 years, I think the hybrid is a much more sensible way to go - rather than insisting on full electric in one fell swoop. It was a great car in truth, fantastic stereo (Mark Levinson) which you could really appreciate when in electric mode. But the manual described battery life was between 4-6 years, and once I'd discovered the price of a replacement, it was time to pass it on! The planet is dying, we need to do something about it, but I can't see the whole world actually doing anything really constructive until it's too late, and that might already be the case now - and the powers in charge still can't agree on anything. Let's face it, we can't afford to pay our NHS a living wage, amongst many other worthy trades and services, our government isn't going to help finance the proper infrastructure needed for us to suddenly go all electric in 2030, it just can't and won't happen.
Hi Lee, you've hit the nail on the head mate -- EMERGENCIES!!
A couple of years ago my wife and I went to Great Yarmouth for a few days, a journey of 155 miles ish, we stayed at a hotel with a charging point so we could avoid the price of charging on the way.
On the second day my wife received a phone call regarding her mother who was in hospital, she'd taken a turn for the worse and it was recommended that we should waste no time if we wished to see her again.
We set off immediately with a full charge (225 miles in theory) The journey home left us with about 50 miles range and the hospital was about 25 miles away and had no charging facilities.
Luckily we have a second car, a diesel, so we jumped in that so we could concentrate on the important things in life rather than where we'd charge next.
Can you imagine if we'd got the call on the first day when we had no charge left in the car. How would my wife have felt while we were driving round looking for a charger and then sitting for an hour to get enough range to get home, or worse still, what if we only had one car!!
Electric cars sound great until !!!!!!! LIFE HAPPENS
Excellent video! I will NEVER buy an electric car as my primary vehicle. I may, at some point, consider a small, inexpensive EV for an around-town car but only because there are a few companies so far that make tiny little two-seater EVs (Arcimoto and Nimbus, to name just a couple here in the U.S.) that have a range of about 100 miles and are fun to drive, can park just about anywhere because of their size, and are fairly quick to charge. But you're right, we are being forced into electric cars to restrict our movement. I'm in California, which you highlighted as a state telling people to conserve power by not charging electric vehicles, but I don't think Governor Newsom's motorcade is electric, and I'll guess that President Biden's motorcade isn't electric either. And that message from Newsom not to charge EVs came out right at the time I was road testing a new EV for a review I was writing. And where do we get most of the electricity to power EVs? By burning coal, of course. How "green" and "clean" is that? Two final things -- pulling into a gas station and filling up takes just a few minutes whereas, as you mentioned, charging an EV takes an hour at a so-called "fast charger" and much longer with a standard charger. And not everyone lives in a house where you can just plug in and charge overnight. Millions of people here in the U.S. live in condos and apartments and have to go to a public charger, that may already be in use, or not working, or in a dangerous part of town. One of my friends has two cars: his wife drives an EV (he says we must do it to save the planet,) yet he himself drives a gas-guzzling Maserati and says he'll never give it up. We must push back against these "rules for the peasants" designed to control our lives or movement.
I have 2 EVs good enough for 20 mile commute, away days etc if you have a home charger, if not keep the diesel it’s more effective
Lee you speak a lot of truth. Last year a very well educated colleague and I who at the time worked for a very large German car manufacturer said similar things. It is only a matter of time before petrol and diesel cars will be taxed off the road. Your right,'they' don't want the average person to own a car. The rich will drive around in their big cars whilst we are forced onto pedal bikes or walking. It's a shame more people can't see this. It will happen 😭
Lee is clearly in the pay of the Sun Newspaper that. Heads a rught wing disinformation campaign.
They did use to deliver milk back in the sixties. Okay for short journeys with local charging.
CEO of national grid assured us on ELECTRIFICATION a few minutes ago that YESthe grid could manage .Don’t forget an electric car can store and give out electricity as well.Also all new purpose built charge stations will run on solar panel that provide rain cover to the user as well .Just like petrol stations.
My business is vehicle rental and I have had complaints from customers with electric vehicles that the range isn't advertised as they've said your exact words - not fit for purpose.
Also tofu... Ugh...
When I fill up with diesel I don't have to wait over one hour and spend an extra £6.59 on top of the electric charge I just get in and go. This is the future
After a period of declining price of Li batteries Yesterday the world price went up 7% when batteries represent 35% of the car's price that is a big increase . Also Tesla have cut the price of its cars in China 4 times this year in to declining sales there .
Will it last 13 years on the same batteries ¿??
Have you ever watched that EV evangelist on the Fully Charged Show?
It's sheer, undiluted EV propaganda.
I’ve seen it. The guys on there have been brainwashed and have no idea about energy transfer.
Yet another great video Lee on the continuing saga of EV! A friend of mine and I were in Eire earlier this year with his brand-new Audi EV, what a disaster charging turned out to be! He was going to get one (EV) for his partner but decided to cancel! What a disaster these EV's and infrastructure are, at this time!
Lee is in the pay of The Sun who in turn are funded by oil interests.
This will make you laugh (in disbelief). Conwy council in North Wales, it's fairly hilly here (Snowdonia National Park is in Conwy) have just purchased an EV refuse/recycling truck. I think that once the edge has been taken off the new batteries a rescue truck with diesel generator will be a common sight. Or, maybe even a large fire!
Lee, we haven't got enough generation on a windless, overcast day let alone charge millions of EVs. The new incentives to switch off electric at peak times is because we don't have enough generation to secure supply. Most of the big coal power stations have closed leaving us short when the wind lets us down. In terms of the grid its pretty robust and was built in the 1960s-70s with alot of spare capacity. As for the cable down your street.....i would suspect that if every house on the street had an ev and charged at the same time the cable in the street would burn up pretty quickly. New EV chargers can be controlled centrally to switch them off at times of peak demand on the electricity network. Myself personally i feel electric car charging is not suited to the domestic charging. It would be far better to run a high voltage cable to a plot of land and make a grid serve style charging forecourt. When battery technology moves on then rapid charging will be the norm, similar to refuelling a petrol car.
I agree. We need something better than the battery technology we have today. The current batteries are an improvement on lead acid, but still not up to the useability of fossil fuels. Super capacitors may be the answer, but even they will have a massive draw on the grid when rapid charging. The move to 'smart meters' is also a sinister move, as they can cut you off at the push of a button, at the whim of the government, or supplier. Nuclear may be the answer. Nationally and locally, in the car, or at home.
Clean air zone? What does pollution not blow to other areas in England?
EVs are not for normal people who have busy lives with other demands on their time; they don't have time to babysit an EV. I on the other hand enjoy baby sitting!
Toyato have just changed and are now developing EV jointly with Byd of China. National Grid investing £4 bn to add infrastructure for higher electricity demand.
Watch Hoovies garage at lunchtime and he has highlighted how useless his brand new Ford F150 lighting is on range during the cold temperatures and its its actually really bad and is getting a similar range as when he did a towing test. He then went to a Chevrolet/Cadillac dealer to look at a Hummer EV truck but judging by the waterfall of water coming in through the roof panoramic windows during recording (which he didn't notice) bodes well for the overall quality of the "luxury" vehicle.
I am finding on our UK roads many EV's seem to be disappearing, once saw loads of MG ZS EV SUV's on my journey to work but steadily they have been vanishing, I wonder why?
That's wild if true. A girl on Tiktok, daddy probably had money and bought it for her, was HOWLING about her EV and what a POS it was. She basically accurately summed up who buys these things, basically nerds. I wouldn't even say nerds so much, but really gullible sorts of people who don't do any research and get taken. And once again, if you go on tiktok, the same sorts of people who were big into crypto are big into EVs. People who really should be smart like engineers and doctors, but I figured out a long time ago that these people had their parents do their homework for them their entire lives and never did any critical thinking for themselves. That's how one of my friendships with an engineer buddy ended. He was an electrical engineer, couldn't formulate an argument for why electric cars were better(BACK IN 2010!!! Honestly they're still pretty bad now) and he got offended by that and started attacking me personally. I beat him, fair and square though and he couldn't handle it.
They literally have to learn the hard way. It's pathetic.
With mass charging of EV's at night and power cuts occurred, how will I get electric E7 charge
into my three night storage heaters?
Will I be granted priority ....or will I freezse to death?
I'd like to know how the car would cope if you drove the Porsche as it was intended to be driven, very enthusiastically as a sports car rather than a cruiser?
By the time you got the charger going I would have put 60 litres of petrol in my tank, paid for it and be 3 miles down the road and that doesn't include the actual charging time!
And fine for Toyota and others to explore other options. As are ALL other motor manufacturers! Please, check the information.
I can't wait for the Toyota Hilux hydrogen truck which is using a hydrogen combustion engine.
Maybe Electric Cars do have a future. Charge them up on cheap Octopus Go Tariff, then discharge the power to your home using the bi-directional charging technology.
Hello Lee, your videos must be attracting a lot of views as I have never seen so may adverts ! I've thought about why I don't like EVs, and its especially because of how the government wants to ban ICE from 2030, its like there is only one way forward (EVs) and it doesn't matter about the 1/3 of folks who can't charge at home, the batteries deteriorating or faulting after 10+ years, the inability to recycle the batteries (currently 1% as its cheaper to make new ones) which will probably improve but when? I suspect the charging infrastructure is much better in London, but where I live (near Nuneaton) there are only about 10 public chargers for 100,000 people. I am waiting for the government to decide 2030 will shift to more like 2035 or 2040 as it was originally - controversial. 👍
Thanks for posting the video, it's beautiful. I'm gonna buy one.
On the subject of myths, misinformation etcera,.. Mercedes told a buyer of 3 year old EV that it wasn't worth replacing the batteries, which were on the way out, for some reason.... in the near future, as it would cost £25k!. Most other EV's have similar battery 'shelf lives'. Anyway: did you know that CO2 is required for all natural plant life, which produce oxygen?...which we need?! 🙂
Hi lee electric cars to me are very inconvenient not practical for me to have one too much thafing about for me
I think it would be wonderful to see a vid of you and Scotty Kilmer together, apart from sharing each others views there would be so much waving arms about you would both fly. Maybe the answer to energy crisis`s?
😄😄😄
Lee,nottingham fire service confirmed transporter fire was 7 electric vehicles that were well alight,to quote their words
I am so glad that your film got to be shown .
We’ve been using a hybrid electric and petrol -It covers 24+mile on electric enough to get to work and back and it’s free charge where I work ..The perfect combination for me -I wouldn’t go full electric yet thou and I work for an electricity company .
Hello. Once again, please put fuel prices on your travels. Currently my local Morrisons is over £1.30 a gallon dearer than DA Roberts, an independent in Whitchurch. Until people realise they are getting taken for a ride, this will carry on. Please start doing a daily price check. Thanks Peter.
You can't take your EV on vacation in OVER 60% of Europe because there are next to non charging points
@Wooly Chewbakker UK is still in Europe, but not in EU anymore, totally different thing.
I would hate to be on my own as a woman, stuck on some lay-by trying to get one of these things to charge.
Lee you are basically driving the Betamax version of EV and a top end manufacturer that as ever doesn't make it the best. Until charge points are widely available.. And as fast as topping up with petrol/diesel EVs are dead in the water
My 2004 Volvo V70 has just clocked 170k, still going strong and is driven daily. I have friends with similar models with over 250k and they are perfectly fine. Yes they emit emissions but think of countless tons of carbon saved.
Don’t drive your electric car WALK
If you want to get there faster RUN
If anybody in government told me the sky was up I'd be inclined to go outside and check for myself.
Frost this morning has meant many peoples charging doors will not open at all.
And their battery range greatly reduced as they had to warm up their cars too.
Hi Lee, great Vlog yet again. Just shows that the cost of charging even with your Porsche card is now no cheaper than petrol. I’ll keep my hybrid Toyota thanks.
i find myself agreeing with every word you say, its all b/s with this climate trash ,with all thats going on cost of living etc you can bet we are heading towards a big revolution ,and its coming soon .
Who’s gonna start a revolution everyone too busy 😊
A car transporter carrying seven electric cars has caught fire leading to all traffic between junction 26 and 27 being stopped this afternoon. Traffic was halted at 1.50pm on the southbound side of the carriageway so that the emergency services could attend the scene
That's how its going to be, the busiest road in the UK, all stopped for a truck load of EV's on fire and we call this progress.
@Wooly Chewbakker Thanks for your reply.
The time it has taken to get the communication error sorted, you would have filled your ICE car up (for 300+ miles range) be heading out on to the motorway. This is a scandal that people are unable/unwilling to address and furthermore will ultimately be the death of social mobility.
Excellent Mister Macmaster telling it like it is instead of people being led along like sheep 🐑...people are very gullible & that's what is being played out now..I honestly think car "'reviews" are biased too..I Don't know if they get a 'back hander' for promotional purposes when they ear reviewing 🤔 but nobody tells it like you do so keep up the great reviews on ev motoring & show it for what it is ...👌
You'll never see a modern-day electric car, in a future museum.
Think about what happens, if you leave old batteries, in anything battery- powered; the batteries corrode and leave a mess everywhere. 😣
Imagine that happening to an electric vehicle.
very insightful video Lee, the electric car thing is all a sham but nobody seems to want to listen to what the batteries are made of and how long they will last or how they will be disposed of
Regarding EV range in winter in the US. Check out the Hoovies Garage video where his EV truck only achieved half the range compared to summer. Kansas is not as cold in winter as Canada but it illustrates the effect of extreme cold on EV range!!
You cant get on an aircraft with a laptop battery with more than 100w/h for a very good reason,but you can keep a Tesla,basically, under your bed,charging away in the garage...
Regarding downsides of EVs; due to the increased weight, the collisions are more devastating. Just look up any physics textbook. M=MV ie Momentum equals mass times velocity. The more mass the more momentum you have and that means more traumatic accidents. In the US this has come to pass!
Are EVs the only heavy vehicles? There have been many heavy vehicles on the roads for years, especially in the US. A Cadillac De Ville is 2200 to 2300kg, a Range Rover 2300 to 2800kg. A Tesla Model 3 is 1700 to 1900kg. The Tesla also has way better safety features. Come on, get real, don't ignore reality.
I was in college during the 70s "oil crisis" scam. My roommate's parents had bought a tiny car for good gas mileage; as they were driving her to our dorm after Xmas break they slid into a truck. Both parents killed; my roomate spent 6 months in hospital & brain damage ended her career path of being a doctor.
Your mum said that “someone somewhere is making a lot of money from this”
My guess is it’s $tarbucks and Co$ta Coffee 🤑
I leased an EV through work. I live in Chester , and up to now there are quite a lot of free chargers in the area
I’m going to ride the free electric train until it dies, then hand the car back.
So far I’ve done 3.5k miles for £20.
It’s definitely not the future, and is a pain in the backside doing any distance. However, right now, by running it for free I feel like I’m doing my bit to get something over the chancellor, albeit small.
The recent cold weather made the car almost unusable for any distance
My Skoda Octavia diesel with 96k miles on it is a far better machine
Just a comment on where your Porsche Taycan will be in ten years or so. It will be at the tip or in a million mobile phones, washing machines, TVs or digital radios!! I owned a petrol Nissan XTrail for 16 years and it had done almost 300000kms but was still going strong when we sold it. EVs won't be able to boast that longevity!!!
Some do already.
Hi. I've been watching your videos and I totally agree with everything you have said about electric cars. I think they are absolute rubbish. I had a Peugeot E2008 for 6 months and hated every day of it. The range, charge time . Everything you've said i agree with and also telling people the same thing. Do not buy an EV.
Lee is bought and paid for by the fossil fuel lobby.
The thought I've had about EV fires is how do you get out of the car without getting badly burnt. All the batteries are in the bottom pan of the car; vids of fires I've seen show flames shooting out of the underside and up the sides of the car; would you dare to open a car door to get out or would you stay put and burn anyway?