Yep. It’s not as though Bosch can afford to suck it up. Those Millions don’t make themselves. Some sucker has got to pay and it’s not going to be Mr Bosch.
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Christ…
Been following this for a couple of days, sort of got lost in the earthquake news, but a tropical storm took out 2 old dams and the flood washed away a whole section of the City overnight
Thank fuck I bought one this year
With Sunak looking like he is rolling back on the diesel / petrol car new sales ban by 2030 was this ever a realistic goal? Are we really going to have sufficient charging points to cope with 2m new electric cars every year? can the grid take it?
labour are staying committed (for now - probably to sweep up the green vote. I am willing to bet this is one of the first commitments they back down from)
I am considering putting in fast charge points at home now whilst the demand isn’t as manic as it will be
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It’s a ban on new car sales, the second hand market is going to go through the roof.
There just isn’t the infrastructure for electric cars, what about streets where there is no off-street parking, how are you supposed to charge your car then? Run a cable from your house to the car, which may be parked 100s of yards down the road.
It’s crazy mad I tell thee
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I reckon extension cables could be where the money is
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Some progressive local authorities (in London at least) have charging points in lampposts, next to on street parking bays.
Charging from street charging points is, however, way more expensive than charging off a home point.
How
" To fully charge an electric car at home it typically costs around £6.
To charge an EV to 80% at a public rapid charger (the level you normally would here) it usually costs between £7 and £10.
Naturally, this varies depending on the location, tariff, energy cost, battery capacity, charging speed and charge level. However, charging an EV far undercuts fuel costs for a petrol or diesel car."
source Electric car charging – how it works and how much it costs | RAC Drive
Note: street charging is subject to VAT at 20% while home-charging is 5%
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No its not more expensive its a rip off the electricty costs the same all around the uk its your supplier ripping you off
NB I use to work for the CEGB before Thatcher sold it to her friends.
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I agree that the supplier of street charging is ripping EV owners off. To charge from these points you also need to be subscribed to their app - for which there is an annual fee. Each supplier has a different app so if you want to use a range of chargers then you have to cough up each subscription. This is one of the many reasons I did not buy a fully electric car.
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One day chemtrails will actually be big farts 
19th Feb.
Mid winter pretty much.
And Mrs P_F saw a Bocian this morning
Reports of Bocian sightings all across the country.
At least a month early.
Not right.
(No sex for a month either ffs)
Oasis wrote a song about it
… and Philip K. Dick wrote a short story about it, which Ridley Scott turned into a film. 
Probably the wrong thread but very interesting
Tata Steel is planning to shift rapidly from two polluting blast furnaces – which can produce 5m tonnes of steel, but also nearly 2% of UK carbon emissions – to electric technology that can produce up to 3.2m tonnes of recycled steel a year.
2%???