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But the other half of their energy policy are their waste to energy stations, they burn all their refuse to provide electricity. And by the way, they are not windmills since they don't mill anything. They are wind driven generators, wind generators abbreviated. .

Indeed. At the end of November 2024, there were 72,594 electric vehicle charging points across the UK, across 36,316 charging locations and 106,094 connectors. But that's just the public ones. Some 85% of all e-car buyers have their own charger installed at home, so add another 1.1...

No, I've no need of or intention to hire. I ignored the first Nissan Leaf in its two battery sizes since their range didn't suit, but bought the 2018 redesign which was right for me and remains so. Its range very far exceeds my longest one way journey and the huge proliferation of public...

"In 2024 to date, there has been 338,314 new fully electric cars sold, which is 18.7% market share of all new cars registered this year. More fully electric cars have now been sold this year than the whole of last year. In 2023, the last full year, there were 314,684 electric cars sold, as...

With the widespread trend towards local power generation. everything from solar to SMRs, perhaps we should have stuck to Edisons local DC systems! ;) .

Unrealisable here with our population policies. Almost a third of the households are single, often living in flats. Here they are often in tower blocks of 44 to 52 storeys, so they have no roof or drive to speak of and many of the flats face unfavourably away from any sunlight. Nor can...

They do in Denmark and apparently it is popular. There it automatically reduces their electricity bills. The limited charge cycles seem to be a bit of a myth with some EVs at least. Witness the taxi operator using Nissan Leafs, constantly being put back on fast charge but still fine a decade...

Never mind, your country is doing its bit for the green revolution: Ionity opens Ireland's largest high powered charging station, their Dublin site represents another milestone in the country’s mission for 40% of cars to be electric by 2030. LINK .

He's not up to date with the latest research. That has shown that there are identifiable structures of the insect-to-be in the larval body content. Meaning that chemical metamorphosis is not as total as formerly thought and that physical memory from larva to adult form is not just possible...

There weren't any in the 1930s, since flight then and before was so limited, thus limiting what people could imagine they'd seen. Now flight in various forms is so wide in scope that it enables minds to imagine all sorts of possibilities and impossibilities to explain partial sightings...

How do they know of all the safety components are in place? They don't and can't know, since these companies don't release any technical information of their batteries other than the basics. And any lithium-ion battery can fail due to a cell defect any time in its working life, so banning s/h...

For serious illness, agreed. I've got the most serious terminal illness of all, extreme old age. .

Agreed thats's the way it is and has long been, but if the will is there one can get out. You might remember from some while ago I described how, 33 years ago I put myself in it for two years, just to prove the point. .

Thanks for the welcomes, but don't tell me, as I posted I am well suited where I am. Tell @soundwave , he's the one unhappy where he is. .

It seems you and some of your family are permanently at war with local and national authority, meaning all your difficulties are self imposed and it's really you who is the problem. If your local authority or the area don't suit you, move. Many years ago I did a number of times in quick...

Not so, the reducing prices have enabled us to switch more rapidly to electric buses at lower running costs, just like the Chinese have done. They've made it easier to cut the new car costs too, at the ideal time just as the natural demand for e-cars slackens as those ideally suited to them...

With lithium-ion batteries the only safeguard is manufacturing with highest quality control of every process. A lack of sufficient care in cell manufacture can result in the formation of dendrites within the battery cells, sharp edged growths that pierce internal insulation and set off short...

PAC is now an obsolete term, now it's PAT, Portable Appliance Testing of electrical condition. But that cannot exist for batteries to be declared safe to use since batteries are chemical devices, which can suffer extremely dangerous chemical failures that usually cannot be identified before the...

He's wheelchair bound! I wonder if they've fitted an ejector seat in case the e-car battery catches fire. £50k electric Mercedes bursts into flames .

It couldn't be cheaper. The high cost of the turbines means the companies only install them if guaranteed payment for the electricity, whether used or not. With Scotland using less, they'd be paying even more for unused current. .