Off Topic The Environmental & Pollution Thread
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Note the "charging from a converted lamppost" option. Not from Southampton City Council. We need to make noises or they will completely ignore those people who would buy an EV if they could conveniently charge. Other councils do it. Not Southampton. Great eh? Nice to know that our council is right in the vanguard of change - NOT.
So with the one hand, they run CitizEN Energy - Brilliant. But there it stops.
So with the one hand, they run CitizEN Energy - Brilliant. But there it stops.
I think it would help if the government were to make a grant to people who have solar panels to also have batteries which would in most cases last an average home evening and night power. Would contribute a lot to help the environment.
I agree. Good idea. In fact, I'd suggest a grant for rooftop solar - the whole installation.
No - I disagree. Only because I’ve just paid to have panels and a battery installed! Of course, if the grant were retrospective I’d be in favour
Sadly with the crap weather today I hardly got anything out of the panels so my battery is now down to 10%, but yesterday it was charged up to 100% and I was “giving” up to 2kW back to the grid.
Getting the EV on Saturday so hoping for sunny days next week! Home charger going in a week on Monday
About bloody time. Now cancel all of them .....
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...rt-motorways-put-on-hold-amid-safety-concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...rt-motorways-put-on-hold-amid-safety-concerns
Do we put proper EV reviews in here? Well, if we look at an EV as a convincer to make your new car Electric, then certainly so, I would say.
Here is the real electric successor to the Austin Mini. Not that overweight BMW. I think it is gorgeous. Then again, I've always been a bit of a Honda fan [my 20 year old VFR800 FiY is a Honda] and I've been disappointed that they've slightly aligned themselves with FCV heavy Toyota. But this car is going to sell in truckloads, imo.
The Honda E, reviewed by Jonny Smith, almost formerly of Fully Charged. He's leaving to pursue his own CarPervert YT channel. He'll be missed by FC:
Here is the real electric successor to the Austin Mini. Not that overweight BMW. I think it is gorgeous. Then again, I've always been a bit of a Honda fan [my 20 year old VFR800 FiY is a Honda] and I've been disappointed that they've slightly aligned themselves with FCV heavy Toyota. But this car is going to sell in truckloads, imo.
The Honda E, reviewed by Jonny Smith, almost formerly of Fully Charged. He's leaving to pursue his own CarPervert YT channel. He'll be missed by FC:
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Stocks and Shares. Does anyone take a look to find indicators of how fund managers see the global environment? Occasionally, I do. I look for little clues. And the commentators words. One of the most popular commentators in the USA is a crazy bloke called Jim Cramer. Everybody watches him and he sways opinion. Over the years he has been so pro-oil industry he's reeked of it. Even now he realises that the returns on an investment in them are good. That's if you like to do business with companies who are hell-bent on killing us. But recently, Jim has had an epiphany. Firstly, and very humbly [for him], he went pro-Tesla, late last year. He suddenly "got it". Want to know what it took to change his mind? His wife hired a Model X for the day and he got to drive it. That's all it took. He now has what Dave here has had installed, Solar roof and battery powercell. Oh, and his daily transport of choice is a Model X, with charger in the garage. And he now embraces all this like it has been a lost child. And he has a new catchphrase. "They're tobacco!" Look out for it here:
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Just arrived in Burnley to pick up the MG ZSEV. Planning journey back via a pub in Cannock who say they have a charger!
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No - I disagree. Only because I’ve just paid to have panels and a battery installed! Of course, if the grant were retrospective I’d be in favour
Sadly with the crap weather today I hardly got anything out of the panels so my battery is now down to 10%, but yesterday it was charged up to 100% and I was “giving” up to 2kW back to the grid.
Getting the EV on Saturday so hoping for sunny days next week! Home charger going in a week on Monday
And this is the myth buster with Solar PV panels. All it has to be is daylight for them to generate power. The orange ball in the sky can be obscured by cloud. It doesn't matter. The panels will produce less but they will produce, winter or summer, all year round.
On the subject of grants [I know you were being tongue-in-cheek], how much does it cost to create a gas powered electricity plant? And how many homes would it serve? What about if we split that money and 100% grant it to home owners to install solar panels? Would there by more homes served by the solar panels on their rooftops than by the proposed gas powered station? Interesting?
Very, very nice Dave. Now tell me why you had to go all the way to Burnley to pick up the MG EV when they have a dealership in Southampton? Supply? Free home charger with an MG EV as well, if I'm not mistaken.
100% charged batteries usually last 3-4 days on their own, so you can be totally cut off from the sun and not worry.
Because MG in Southampton were being a pain in the arse and saying they couldn’t get one until April/May, but MG Chorley in Burnley had one with same spec available immediately (and to be honest their customer service is 1000% better than Richmond MG in Southampton!)
So we decided to do a road trip as it’s a good way to try it out and see how it goes.
I get a free charger at home with social energy anyway so haven’t bothered MG.
Not when the weather has been so crap the last few days. My battery is lasting a day at the moment but it’ll be better after a few days of sun .....
Excellent. And MG Southampton missed out on a sale. That'll teach them. Now you just need to find an MG service centre. Oh no, you don't. It's an EV.
Yes - but obviously full sun is much better to charge. I get a bit of power when it’s cloudy but over 2kW when the sun is out!
3-4 days is a typical drain on Tesla batteries. Did you know that you can add batteries?
Obviously. But the myth is that Solar cells produce nothing unless it is a completely blue sky with the orange ball directly overhead, and only in summer.
Lunch in the pub at Stafford and a charge whilst watching the rugby and enjoying a roast dinner!