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They certainly are a weird family. As a species they probably belong at Whipsnade or another of our major zoos. .

I'm quite sure it was the financial position our government took that made Kepco management go cool. It was after all that which scuppered the Toshiba deal. As I said, Brexit mark 2, our government taking unreasonable positions, wanting to have cake and eat it. Basically they want all the...

Not a problem any more. It simply means the UK government have to change their financing policy, which they are going to have to do anyway to get stations built following the Toshiba failure. These problems are just Brexit mark 2, entirely due to government policy intransigence, wanting to...

I think you've misunderstood, it's the large stock of existing batteries in the system that would remain stuck with their old tech for their 8 or more year life. People buying cars with latest battery included each year brings much more rapid advancement. Anyway it's a moot point since battery...

No. You probably aren't aware of Toshiba's shaky status in this and some other industries. For many years they've invested much in research in many areas, including our lithium batteries and nuclear power plants, but with very poor actual returns. The great majority of their research has dead...

That's the benefit of being mostly empty and with much of the property and land having absent owners. .

This is true Eddie. For example the Chademo charging connector that Nissan use on the Leaf is a two way system, able to pass current back to the grid. This is very popular in Denmark where the electricity suppliers are set up for it. The benefit for car owners is that they can set their...

Yes, because we will afford and build new ones. There is no alternative, just keep watching. .

Renault did do this in Israel and many stations had the batteries, but I understand it's considered a failure. Among many problems there's the design stagnation that Chris mentions and not knowing what quality of battery is being received each time. With the long life of today's batteries and...

Best stop celebrating, this hiccup will be overcome and we will be completing a new generation of nuclear power stations. .

Here's a tiny sample of the crackpot in that article and its links Tom: The Queen has been supplying depleted uranium. Two million evacuated from Chernobyl. (It was actually the 49,360 residents) The two million evacuees have all died young. Just not true, many of those who stayed where...

Yes of course, I didn't mean open connection into the battery, but an internal one in the BMS equivalent to a blown charge fuse. ,

Yes, a sudden failure of this type is most often just a blown fuse or open connection. .

Indeed there are many well served places like that and the UK total of charging points is quite good compared to the total number of e-cars. The first problem though is the distribution of charge points, some towns or areas with large clusters of them, others with none at all. The second...

Sorry Tom, that article is totally crackpot, the links within to articles containing the most obvious lies. Issues like this where there are suspicions should be dealt with by serious investigation, not such silly nonsense. .

Surely two days would be sufficient, maybe just two hours. One only needs to look at the UK's performance and circumstances since WW2 to know that we have no chance of succeeding independently outside of the protections of and access to a large trading bloc. .

At least they have a police station. Here in Croydon, London's largest borough with almost 400,000 residents and larger than all but 11 of UK cities, cutbacks have left only one police station operational. They've had to open a separate cells building elsewhere, a borough prison in all but...

They are illegal, but the DfT or even the transport minister can issue permission for a defined trial/test/event. For example, vehicle racing of any kind is illegal on our roads, but twice there's been permission for restricted routes to be closed for Tour de France stages here. Another...

I agree and in fact go further since it is badly organised. There are numerous companies installing and running charging points and they have many different systems of operation. Most insist on a monthly or annual membership with a fee, which for good coverage can mean many such fees, however...

Indeed, but that's a national problem, Suffolk's Chief Constable leading on the exposure of the extent. The UK is now top in the world for acid attacks. .