I love watching these EV channels. It makes me happy that I can't afford one of these daft cars. This channel is particularly good.

MAKING A JOURNEY TO CHARGE AN EV IS A STUPID WAY TO SAVE THE PLANET.

Jesus wept, after watching his I went outside and hugged my Pajero Sport 3.0L Diesel 4WD and whispered I’ll never ever trade you in 😎

EVs are a technological cul de sac.

If you sell food for a living get 5 EV chargers installed you'll never run out of customers needing a snack while they waste their lives waiting to see if its their turn for the car to erupt in flames. 😅

“I’ve tried all the cake, I need that charger now!” So funny

No matter how good the taycan is to have look and drive i just couldn't put up with this constant needing to charge and get just over 200 miles . I have a new diesel and a 700mile range and only need to get fuel once a week plus these expensive chargers that either dont work or wont accept card payments or waiting at charging points or having to go for coffee or food my time is valuable

You should do a video on how much you think you have spent on extra snacks and drinks because of your ev, it must add a lot to the cost

I just watched a video where a guy had purchased a Porche EV for £120,000 three years ago, he's had enough of it and wants to return to petrol, today his car is worth around £40,000. The dealer that has the car he wants wont take EV's part ex because the price is too volatile, more dealerships are starting to reject part ex EV's because once the car goes out of warranty an new battery can cost £20,000, a battery for his Porche is £40,000 plus labour. It appears that EV's seem to be a disposable product.

So, not only does the range decrease as the battery ages, but also from carrying around an ever enlarging spare tyre.

Just filled up my diesel Porsche 799 miles range enjoy your charging 😊

The majority of people don’t have off street parking, so for many public charging is the only option. People need to add up the extra time required to not only charge, but to go out of your way to get to a charger. Time isn’t free, otherwise you wouldn’t get paid for work.

Get a Myenergi Zappi fitted, sign up to Octopus IO, charge between 23.30 & 05.30 for 7.5p KWh,job done!

Hi Richard. I don’t live far from you and currently there is a new village that is nearing completion. A mix of flats,2,3 and 4 bedroom houses. The pavements are already full of cars and allocated parking is in small car parks between the houses. Very few actually have parking next to the house. Over a 1000 properties and no thought to home charging. Many of the older houses are terraced, so again leaving them unsuitable for home charging. You have had a few weeks of inconvenience and great expense; just imagine that could be the normal for so many.

You wait until they come after the home chargers. Now that will get people mad when that finally hits and all these lovely tariffs disappear..

Just get a 7kw wall box professionally installed. Issue over.

I predict £1 Kw very soon, but I'm also wondering if the Govt is subsidizing the industry until its forced on us, of course when its the only game in town we will all be held hostage, there will be no going back.

Be a bit careful with a 13 pin charger. Use a decent socket and if using an extension, unwind it fully and make sure it can handle at least 10 amps. A coiled extension can get hot.

Quarter pounder with cheese meal.....supersize me! 🤣🤣

Cheaper running my f-type V8 than running a similar performance EV

I l ive in the North and believe me no garden centres, McDonald's have EV charging!

If I didn't have a home charger I would have given up a lot time ago

Charging regulated? It is all going to be in the favour of the government's chums.

Iv just seen an article on MSN. (Drivers urged to save £1800 a year by ditching petrol and diesel vehicles and switching to electric.) this is just nuts 😂😂😂😂

Imagine how easy life would be if only somebody invented a car which took 3 minutes to fill up and get you 600+ miles on that "charge"... oh wait a minute...

The 3 pin 'granny charger' is intended for emergency use only. There are valid reasons for that, to do with full safety. It's a bit of a nerdy topic and too long to go into here, but very valid and important. They should not be used as a permanent solution for these nerdy reasons. Just for when visiting 'granny' in deepest mid-Wales with no public chargers around. A properly installed 7kW home charger is fitted with various devices to make it electrically fully safe, so that quite apart from it charging much faster it is a much better solution if full safety of your home and family is important to you.

That's a $150k car you bought, charging in the US costs about $11 for 200 miles

looks like Shred Quarters, A great Gym

Speaking to the local Shell garage (who just added 8 charge points ) the electric charge points can’t be under cover or a canopy due to fire risk.

BTW where did you get the dpm jacket from? Looks great for the canal.

very convincing......I am keeping my petrol pariah, and staying single

Richard keep an eye on that granny charger come back to it after it's been running for a few hours and check how hot the 3 pin plug is getting. Usually they run at 10 amps so that's 2.5kW so like having a kettle on constantly. If it does draw 3kW in the car then if possible lower it in the car if the taycan can do that to 2kW just to be a bit safer

Does the taycan adjust charging current ? If not I strongly recommend against a 13a 3 pin charger regardless of its reviews. Aim for a 10a maximum to save your circuits from overloading. Please don't underestimate how much unnecessary and unseen risk you take when using a 13a charger as your primary. There's a reason the manufacturers rarely if ever go over 10a.

Can almost guarantee,anyone that sein you in that car would instantly think “ what a complete try hard nadbag in a poor man’s Porsche that’s rapidly declining and nobody wants”.

The only way i would have one of these is if i had a farm with 3 phase charging and solar panels and other vehicles for when not appropriate

DELIVERY DRIVER PROBABLY HAS EV AND IT HAS NO RANGE LEFT

Great viewing Richard. I’ve rented a Tesla for our holiday in Florida and have been paying 38c at the Tesla super charger. 30 min full charge for less than $20. Same problem in relation to the proximity to fast food though😂

The other thing is so many different companies installing public chargers, it's so confusing which card works on which, this is where we're charged higher prices whilst trying out

£200 a week ??? I regularly drive my diesel Peugeot 508 between Wiltshire ,Carmarthenshire & back & it costs me less than half that ! & I get over 70mpg !

It does seem that they place fast food restaurants directly next to EV charging hubs. Then you have to factor in how much the charging is and the expensive food and coffee will be.

Brilliant ahah!

I have been asking the question with regard to how you know how much you're paying per kilowatt, there should be a display in the same way they do with petrol/diesel prices at filling stations. I drive a 13 year old Smart diesel, it costs me £21 ish a week for my 60 mile daily commute, I contemplated changing to electric, I don't have access to off road parking so I would be solely reliant on public charging and the infrastructure isn't there, then there's the cost of electricity, where you find "working" chargers, we have quite a few chargers in the area where I live but only two are connected to the grid, and the two that are connected, one hasn't worked for years according to an electric vehicle owner, how much does it cost? It doesn't say anywhere, electric vehicle driving is too complicated for many of the older generations, everything inside the vehicle is on computer screens, I struggle with this, but you need to be computer qualified to drive an electric vehicle, I'm of the older generation, I and many like me have always dealt in cash, if you haven't got it you can't spend it, we budget, with electric vehicles, you need a credit card, I wouldnt know how to use a credit card, I can't use many of these new technical parking meters that still take real money, the government are trying to enforce electric vehicles on us without the infrastructure, adequate training on computers to be able to use these vehicles and a way that everyone can pay, ive been with the same bank for just over 50 years and I have never had a bank card and i dont know how to use a bank card/card, its been made too complicated, I didnt have to drive so far to get to would give up driving, but there's no public transport to where I work and I have to work to survive, so I will keep my little diesel until the government force me to stop working or driving

Please do not set the granny charger to 13A or 16A, the socket will likely burn as they are not designed for a sustained load at 13A and 16A is likely going to cause a fire. The granny lead you got should only draw 2.2 kWh at 10Amp and your onboard charger will then have some losses and so for each kWh in your battery, you will be using 1.1 kWh from the 3pin plug. I use a granny lead at 10A for 10 or more hours once or twice a week and it gets mildly warm and it's safe.

3-pin plugs aren't always recommended, but if you're charging directly from a 3-pin plug in a dry and safe space, and the cable or plug doesn't feel hot to touch when charging, it's most likely safe to charge your EV for an extended length of time. So, to charge from 20-80% it could take between 15 and 20 hours.

The charging company has to charge a higher rate per KWH to cover the losses. It's easy to think recharging an EV is like filling your car with gas. If it takes 13.0 gallons of fuel to fill an empty 13.0-gallon tank, then why wouldn't an empty battery with a capacity of 60.0 kilowatt-hours require 60.0 kWh to reach full charge? Because the battery is more complicated than a simple container. A rough expectation is that your EV may use as much as 12 to 15 percent more energy than what you add back to the battery. Some energy is written off to what's known as "transmission loss," some is converted to heat, and some is used to keep the battery at the right temperature during charging.

Well you were the one that bought a ridiculous expl#sive vehicle with all their issues and limitations

My Kia Sorento 2.5 TD gets me to work and back every day for £130 a month.

There seems to be a lot of financial jiggery pokery going on with the companies running EV chargers. Sign up for the app and get a discount. Pay a monthly premium subscription and get a better discount. Pre-load your account with credit and get a discount. Petrol companies have never needed to do that. It all seems a bit fishy, like the charge companies don't want you to know how much your actually going to pay.

Dude, where do you find the time for this hassle? Madness.

Buy a burger van and set it up next to an EV charging station. 😉

Also they don’t have the prices outside on a sign like petrol stations! Ps see your kegs coming on nicely Richard with all the charging !

You buy or lease a £90k car and you're fretting about the price of electricity? Comedy gold! 🤣I paid £4k for my car and I get 60mpg around town and it takes me 3 minutes and 50 quid to fill the tank.

That’s a lovely car guvner but it’ll be even nicer with a V8 petrol engine in it, my days of an electric car was in 1970s fairground dodgems.

The charger will arrive on an Electric Van. The Pod Point has a PSL Number underneath mine was incorrectly registered but Pod Point helpdesk got it sorted out

Don’t worry old mate Greta thinks your fantastic. I fill my diesel Isuzu D-Max and get 700ks range and pass heaps of service centres without the stress you seem to be having. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺👍

We know petrol prices go up and down. Energy or Electrical prices only keep going up.

£0.84 = NZ$1.73! WTH!! At most I pay NZ$0.34/kW out and about and NZ$0.12/kW at home. This is what will kill EVs as a thing.

People need to start adding the price of all the fastfood and coffees to the actual charging price. So basically EVs are bad for your health, because you need to add in all the carbs/calories next to the kWh 😂

You'll end up looking like me eating all those sausage and egg muffins 😂

An EV only makes sense if you can charge at home even better if you have solar panels,but public charging can be very costly and sometimes unreliable,what car done a test over 220mls two EVs against petrol same models,one was a small puegot thr other a BMW 4 series and gues what was cheaper,it wasn't the EV although it wasn't a big difference it was dearer for the EV to travel the same 220ml round trip.

The cure for high electricity prices is high prices. The high prices are encouraging so much investment in the charging network that we can expect the network to be overbuilt and prices to fall to much lower levels. It might take a couple of years to get there, but it will happen. If prices were capped by the Government, the network wouldn't get built out as fast, so it is good in the long run.

Why can't you use the pod-point charger at your new gaff?

Plug it in the house, easy.

You know the people you went to school with, who didn't pay attention. This.

Glad to hear your are getting a "Granny Charger" for home charging -surprised you did not already have one as it was included as standard equipment in both my EVs. Yes I know they are slow (3.5kW) but it would save much of the pain going to public chargers but you will be able to use much cheaper overnight electric tarrifs. That said you have highlighted a problem with EVs for usersnot able to charge at home - the high cost of using the public charging network. Tesla owners will gleefully point out that they pay much less. For use nonTesla drivers, at least the Tesla chargeing network is being opened up to other EV owners. Do what you can in getting some sense in the the public EV charger pricing like what you are doing with JLR car insurance.

Public chargers are expensive but the government still charge 20% vat on public chargers InstaVolt are crazy Gridserve slightly better but cheapest of all are the open Tesla chargers which in my case are 35p per kWh. The plug in granny chargers are just so pitiful at charging speed. I’ve found two things necessary with an ev one is a head torch for when it’s dark and the ability to reverse park!

Where do you live? Isn’t there a Tesla supercharger near you? Some are open to non-Tesla and are way cheaper than other public chargers: my local one is 40 p per kWh and if you pay £10 a month it’s 30p per kwh

Sad situation with EV

I’d be ripped lol :)

What a boring life, running from garden centres to Mc Donald’s to get charged. What a waste of time. 😊😅

One last one from me - £200"charging in a week. Can you try to put that in context for non EV drivers? If you were in a RR or Cayenne, covering a similar milage, what would that have cost on a forecourt?

I just don't understand people who buy EVs and then complain about the problems they encounter. We all know what a vault of nightmares they are. I'm late 50s, everything paid off and I changed car last year. I bought a 2012 Peugeot 107 (a re-badged Toyota Aygo.) It cost me £4250. Full service history 57k miles. It does everything your money pit does only better. I get about 55 mpg, no road tax, parts are as cheap as chips, I can fill up at any garage in a matter of minutes and it's great fun to drive. Sure you can leave me for dust at the lights but I just meet up with you at the next set of lights or pull up behind while you're being delayed by the HGV doing 30mph. Each to their own but why people are spending telephone money on EVs or any car for that matter just baffles me.

Pro Tip: you are NOT supposed to DC Charge your car everyday. DC Charging is for long distance travels only. Charge it up at home with an Anderson Charger and have a great day!

84 p is taking the piss, it’s like motorway services, got away with rip off prices for 40 years!

Hi Richard, any updates on the GT4

If I were a business owner, and installed EV chargers, I would not want gov interference on how much I charge. And why should there be regulation? There is none for petrol or diesel, its charge what they think they can get away with. I can't help but think that because gov interfered with the market, it has been skewed in some way. Should have let the market sort itself out, like betamax / VHS cassette tapes, CDs, minidisks, the whole home computer market etc... the moment government interterferes with anything it just turns toxic.

cheeky burger 😮😅, think you should get a free one every charge 😝 or at least a latte 😂😂😂😂

You go with me i think you need a nephew for company and big yap

I’ve read that a fast chargers costs over $200,000 and the average life span is 7 years

How’s the search for the Porsche 997 going Richard?

I will never drive an EV or Hybrid incendiary devices kaaabbooom🔥🔥🔥🔥

Insane, they tried electric back in the 1900s, it failed and will fail again. History does repeat

So for four weeks, my 21 year old car resides in my driveway and reliably takes me from A to B every day, and then I go put C$80 of petrol in it during five minutes at the gas station, I tell you, that stresses me out. If only I had a garden centre and all that time to spare my life would be so much better and the planet would thank me.

£200 a week for f's sake!

Yes mate - EV car is smart and probably recognized that fitness club is too dangerous for you...

Yes they were future couple years ago - just not anymore.

Ohh Richard you did make me laugh when i saw in your "fat jacket"😂😅😂💯

🤠🤠🤠rule!!!

It's going to get a lot more expensive as more Nvidia chips get used in EVs.

Is that a Porsche Taycan for what you paid for it you could get 3 EV like mine and have plenty over for 7 kW home charger and a solar install 😊

Tesla reduced their charging prices for tesla owners, so mate wirh one tells me. Shame pricing double for a lot of other chargers.

EV’s… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

84 P PER k/w IS TOO EXPENSIVE. petrol is far cheaper

£200 a week? Only a taxi driver can relate to that

This is why Tesla is still so far ahead as an all round EV package. It’s half the price, about 40p per KwH

For £200 a week for charge you must be driving somewhere in the region of 1000 miles a week, yes?

breakfast wrap ?? what else is mc Donalds hiding over their

Electric is very expensive especially for people who are disabled

Maintain you old car and drive.

I hope you're not eating that poison 😵 Since reading a book on Ultra processed food I've not touched the stuff and never want to again. Do yourself a favor and avoid it.