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Still a long way from certain at present, but if it does happen it's almost certainly curtains for Nissan Sunderland, another nail in our coffin. Honda shut their manufacturing here in 2021 giving these key reasons: Our leaving the EU. The EU-Japan agreement to remove duties on each...

Utter nonsense, anti Chinese propaganda. The reason Toyota and Honda have stuck with hybrids is the Japanese long standing mistrust, even hatred of China and fear of China's dominance in rare earths supply. Note that all the other major Japanese car makers are part owned by the Western motor...

Only a tiny fraction as much as all the fireworks let off yesterday. And insignificant compared to all the explosives, missiles, drones and aircraft being used in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. Thank goodness that's all being offset by our millions of EVs. .

You'll have to do better than that, two isolated far apart extreme samples. As my post made clear, I was commenting about the continuous gloomy, depressing weather that so afflicts us now compared to the one time norms. The four seasons scarcely exist any more, especially in Southern England...

Like you didn't wait for New Year, went to bed early. Woken up at just gone midnight by fireworks being let off on gardens by those deluded enough to think the new year would be any better than the old one. I wasn't to be disappointed, woke this morning to grey skies, pouring rain and winds...

I'd have put the end long before 2025, judging by the high proportionof US presidents who came from one very restricted group in the 20th century. Here's what your favourite ChatGPT has to say about that: The "400 Club" refers to an exclusive group of influential American political figures...

Of course, it isn't remotely a democracy at present. .

All agreed, but they are stuck with what they've got with no way out but to solve Boeing's problems. All the Douglas and Lockheed expertise in this area is long gone and hopelessly out of date now, not that anyone from that era would want to re-enter that business anyway. And the 787 is...

The US government won't allow them to fail since they have too many aerospace eggs in that basket. The 787 Dreamliner alone is too future-important to the over 70 airlines using them. And I cannot see the USA leaving most of the world's airliner business to Europe's Airbus and Brazil's...

You are living in cloud cuckoo land, even with 50 million that sort of freedom isn't possible here, but I wish it was: Population density of England = 434 per square kilometre. Population density of the USA = 38 per square kilometre. Population density of Canada = 4.2 per square kilometre...

Impractical romanticism. England: England has about 8.7% woodland cover Europe: The average European country has about 39% woodland cover We cannot have that freedom with our population density, we'd have no woodland left at all. I'd go much further with control, I wouldn't allow anyone to...

My understanding is that dendritic crystal formation piercing membranes is what is holding up the introduction of solid state li-ion. Won't a pierced temperature sensing membrane between electrodes still be a short circuit, rendering the cell useless, albeit perhaps more safely? .

I've agreed with that when I mentioned static applications, but they still have some way to go to compete in vehicles. Considering sodium batteries were being tried in various e-vehicles over 20 years ago, that's exceptionally slow progress. .

Then why aren't we seeing them, instead of the likes of Bosch et al at three times that price and li-ion batteries at lower prices exploding into flames? Once again, it isn't true until it's real. .

That certainly makes much more sense, a technology more suited to large scale static application. .

Ah, sodium, the technology that never really arrives. Way back inthe 2000s we had a courier company starting to run three very large e-vans powered by sodium salt batteries for London deliveries. They soon disappeared from view without trace. Also back then we had Ford partnered with the Think...

But to tow a full trailer up to 300 miles with an E-tractor unit demands a very large weight in batteries, deducting from the payload. A better future would surely be to greatly reduce all this grossly excessive worldwide excessive goods transport and personal travel and develop smaller scale...

Some truth in that. Not really a 21st century worry, it's over eighty years since I last lived in a building with a chimney. .

No charging involved, powered from the overhead cables. I lived for almost a decade in a large town entirely served by trolley buses and very nice they were too, clean and silent. The stage two distant future system envisaged will use electric tractor units still with a battery to get from the...

As usual you pick out tiny minority cases, totally irrelevant. Well over 99% of railways are electrified from overhead lines. As I posted, electric propulsion worldwide proving far superior to I.C. I didn't criticize it. Indeed it is already thought of as the best future solution for...