My main objection to EV is that the fuel in my ICE is mine. With an EV, charged at home the fuel belongs to the electric company, until the quarterly bill arrives. How much is that bill going to be?
The price of electricity has increased so much here that it has become an election issue on federal and state levels.
EVs are not pollution free, they simply move the pollution out of sight.
There is not an EV available that can match the range, towing abilities and off road capability of my current car.
There’s a new wave coming in car manufacturing from totally different countries like China and other countries, the ones that don’t keep up are history
If you’re masters want a change they will get it regardless of objectives
Progress has to happen, money overrides everything
Depending on your age there will come a time when it’s only ev availability and a natural thing
They can send a buggy to mars and work it for years without fuel so it’s all there the technology, just not available yet to public
They need to convert people first, it’s the way it works, it protects the money men and the future profits going forward
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It works out cheaper on a dedicated EV tariff with my energy company (British Gas) of 9.5p/kWh, in fact you can get an EV tariff with my supplier for 3.5p/kWh. The vast majority of energy suppliers here have a cheap overnight EV tariff.
It’s just so convenient to plug-in at home & set the charge time on my phone.
Is there anything that’s mass manufactured free of emissions?
Yes you’re right, the battery technology for towing is not up to par especially in a vast country like Australia, If they can figure out how to make huge quantities of green hydrogen, (well it would have to be for Europe) then winner winner chicken dinner.
I’m not anti-EV, it just doesn’t work for me.
I don’t believe EVs are the magic device that they are marketed as, but for people for whom it works, it may be slight improvement, on the emission front. EV drivers do need to be aware that the charging they need, created emissions somewhere.
If you’re not on a pro Chinese crusade then you’ll obviously have no problem with the freedom of choice to buy ICE or EV or Hybrid.Obviously no need for ‘fines’ for ‘underselling’ your preferred option.
My choice would be a nice Ingenium 6 petrol plug in hybrid JLR.Or a 465 petrol hybrid VW Tuareg might be easier at 150 Touran trade in time.Hybrid provides the best of all worlds EV for local trips and a nice big effortless petrol motor for distance.
the hype on these EV is unreal. But all iv ever heard first hand from the owners is negatives,from the way they eat tyres bigtime to the high cost of the tyres Another thing iv noticed is all these charging stations poppin up in supermarket car parks etc not ever seen a car charging at these ,IV a feeling that the industry is spending a fortune bigging the EV and erasing any negative comments for example newspaper articles
It’s usually the Tesla crowd that are vocal & over the top, As for tyres I’m not sure if you can turn traction control off or have a workaround to do that, but the software in normal driving mode won’t let you spin them. I’ve never spun my tyres in either of the MG ZS EV’s I’ve owned.
The fourth service on my last one It still had 5mm tread depth all round on the customer video they sent me, I’ve no idea of the price of new EV tyres as I’ve never bought any in the six years I’ve been driving them.
thats interesting so your tyres are lasting much longer than i thought. Id heard that Teslars eat them,a local truck firm has 3 or 4 as company cars and i forget the figures i think it was 300 notes per tyre and one of the cars wasnt much over a yr old had to have a fresh set
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There was a picture of a UK registered Tesla model three with under 8000 miles on it & the tyres were down to the canvas, I can’t find it now but how are they stripping the tyres like that if the cars’ software won’t let you spin them up.?
Eco-mode lessens the throttle response & Normal mode doesn’t spin them as that’s the mode I always use, I don’t think the Sport-mode will either? Never tried it.
It is a smaller car, but a Ford Focus is almost half the weight of a Tesla. They have (very roughly) comparable tyre sizes.
To accelerate at the same rate, the Tesla needs to feed double the power through it’s tyres…and a Tesla might accelerate quicker than the Ford if you boot it.
Make YT videos of your Tesla racing a Lambo on a drag strip, and tyres won’t last long at all. 
likely the quick take off ,not quite enough to spin the tyres but enough to shed rubber. Some of these recent electric cars are bloomin monsters in size makes you wonder how they ever park up at home in the space where they had a Focus.Funny how you mention an image of a tesla with bald tyres,likely the firm/industry got that taken down,bad publicity costs £££££and all that
Virtually all these EVs are lease cars, so quite a few will be driven to extremes, as the instant torque is addictive. They don’t own them & will be getting rid of them after three years.
You can hardly blame the car for driving style.
I know a fellow who was doing his apprenticeship at a Land Rover dealership, when the Discovery 2 was released. A customer claimed there was something wrong because the tyres wore out, that didn’t happen on the D1 they traded. It transpired that the new car had been specced with ACE (active cornering enhancement) that was being exploited to its limit.
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Yeah, you’re right, we learned to do handbrake turns with the company cars when we were given the chance to drive them, the Morris Marina TC coupe & the Audi 100 were particular favourites.
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Having only ever owned a leasehold flat, I haven’t looked into home solar installations, in a situation where the ev is parked at home generally in the daytime, I guess you can cover some of the charge ‘cost’ from the solar panels?
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VW union agree to fire 35000 staff. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/vw-union-agree-cut-35000-jobs-germany-avert-strikes-2024-12-20/
We looked into getting solar quite a while ago when the government were giving out green Grants for rooftop solar.
The firm doing the job came out to look at our property & said south facing roof was OK, pitch of roof was OK but there was a problem with the age of the rook, it was 100 years old at the time & they said they’ll have to send an engineer out to access it, between that & them coming out again the plug was pulled on the green grant & that was it.
Good Grief! VW group have been exposing 800,000 VW car owners details to the world for the last year.
Amongst them are politicians every movement, where they live, what times they arrive home & where & when they go on holiday.
Terrorist must think they’ve won the lotto with personal information like that, including all VW police car movements & undercover police movements & the powers that be were worried about the Chinese getting hold of info from their cars like that.
Well, some good news for VW, their Joint Venture with SAIC to produce the id series of EVs was the best joint-venture sales overall in China in 2024.
Not surprising when it costs $16,000 to make there, unlike here & Europe where the base model costs $38,310.
Europe just can’t make cars cheap enough to compete any more, those European car plants will be gone forever.
You’re correct. They’ll all soon be gone. Obviously the irony is escaping you however that China with currently over 1600 coal fired power plants (and building five every single week) to fuel their massive manufacturing base is not really compensated by you eating muesli and driving your EV is it?
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