i totally agree with you......

its all show in my opinion. Looks like those electric motorbikes don't have any storage space either.

@@timfennell8683 i think the electric motorbikes are just test units or something like that

I mean these electric vehicles were charged with electricity likely produced by burning fossil fuels. Life isn't supposed to be clean

@@Joseph-xj4ex but there’s the possibility of them being charged by renewables, unlike most vehicles actually burning regular fuel

Same here, mate. I really dislike the front end of the 5 Series G30s as that huge black grill looks awful, and the 3 Series G20s just look overly designed with odd angles, and again the huge grill with the chrome surround... Certainly not my cup of tea.

@@residentelect Yeah, they’re definitely going through a love or hate phase at the moment. Over the last 20 years as I’m sure you know, they seem to have been alternating between the more conservative designs and then radical marmite designs. In the 2000’s, we had the Bangle designs which I liked personally. Then the 2010’s brought in a more subtle look compared to before. Now we’re back to something quite out there.

New Beamers are disgusting these days

@@residentelect haha for me i love all the bmw designs, thats make makes them special and unique from mainstream car brands

@@oscar7476 Each to their own matey. I personally like the late 80s to mid 90s models, such as the 3 series 325i Touring and M3 E30s, and the 8 Series E31, especially the 850 3.0 CSi, which is right up there with my other favourite car, the 2.0 Lancia Delta HF Integrale. But then I'm an old man who often looks at life through nostalgic spectacles lol All the best 👍

Thank you! Pretty cool

nah its already out, u can already buy it

The iX is not a concept anymore. It's an actual production vehicle that you can actually buy from any BMW dealer here in the UK right now.

If it were to be used there would be local force liveries replacing the currently livery I would imagine as the batternberg is required for high vis.

You probably did a number of times! There was thousands.

Personally I think it makes it look too much like an ambulance vehicle than police, perhaps if the stripes were green and it was loaned to an ambulance service it would work?

Iirc all the sensors for auto emergency braking/self driving are packed behind it

E-bmw is really poorligtened.

They use slicktop lights

@@twdafofficial6331 yeah but not fitted right. Wouldnt want to be in it as a driver when it goes wrong

@@volwars Exactly... More lights and kit means more juice used, which "drains that range". We won't be seeing any of the 999 services using majority EVs for a very long time to come yet. Im positive I'll end my service (2033 hopefully?!) still filling up with a tank of diesel at the end of the shift.

@@residentelect Nothing beats a fossil fuel engine for me now.. I do care about the environment but still... Car should provide freedom so until I can "fuel" it up with like Hydrogen there is no real alternative..

Agreed

I like the new BMW Looks *way* better than a Tesla

@@Tobi-ln9xr I agree but not better then the X5

You mean Indian... Jaguar Land Rover are Indian owned.

@@Arsenic71 oh yeah, of course, just like Lamborghini is a German brand, not Italian anymore.

It looks like it has two big black buck teeth stuck to its front end, doesn't jt?! Horrible looking thing it is...

@@residentelect it does indeed 👍

Well, this is democracy and freedom. Even if you don't agree, they are entitled to make their views known.

yea i think its a waste of tax payers money. i dont even think they even should be using luxury car brands like bmw. they should stick to toyotas, hyundai, honda, kia etc

@@oscar7476 Can you spend 10 hours sitting in a Toyota, Hyundai, Honda or Kia?

@@oscar7476 German brands are superior and reliable and fast most of the time

@@chillout1109 yea i spent have of my life driving a toyota of course i can do it but i wouldnt now cos i got better cars to drive. havent done that in a while but im sure i can do it

@@noahs00O5 yea thats right. but idkw a lot of people say they are not reliable. they are good cars. if they break, go fix it, if u can afford the car, then surely u can afford the service fees or else u wouldnt buy the car

It's certainly a change from the norm. A lot of people aren't keen on the new BMW design!

Because it was on loan, which means it needs to be returned. If they were to install a lightbar they’d need to drill holes in the roof.

These were given for this event. I don't think they'd go down well in a pursuit!

Various police forces have been adopting electric vehicles into their fleets for a couple of years now.

Nope. This IS the Eurocopter EC135 (now known as the Airbus H135)

When’s that?

@@thessiger0077 was Saturday or Sunday I believe

@@lothianborders999videos8 i meant in the video

@@thessiger0077 aww it’s the white Hyundai estate belong to Scottish Ambulance service (SAS) for short

I fully agree with your sayings. It is fashion to fool people. In a few more years, we are going to have millions of batteries the size of a refrigerator, and someone saying that the era of the electric vehicle cannot continue. If you really want to lower global warming, you should sit around a table discussing contraceptive methods. We have countries like India, China with 1400 million people increasing their population geometrically. 16% of the planet are Africans, many are born without the minimum subsistence resources. We are going to improve all that with a Harley motorcycle without suitcases, few emergency lights, without a windshield to cover a little the police in winter, a lot of fantasy, very little real

Because us Brits don’t want to buy British weirdly.

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I wondered that too. I've done as much as 700km on a 12 hour shift. You don't always get time to wait 15-20 minutes while batteries charge up.

They don't drive continuously, non-stop for the whole shift. They stop to do paperwork. They stop when there are no calls. They charge during such stops.

@@chillout1109 They obviously work very different to us in Australia, especially in the larger cities. Our police patrols can go for 6 of the 8 hour shift bouncing from job to job. We use SUVs for our ambulance supervisor and critical care paramedics, which is where an EV might replace an ICE. More often than not they spend the whole 12 hours out and about, with meal breaks basically a between job exercise. Apparently Australia is one of the slowest to embrace EVs with slow sales, and nowhere nearly as much infrastructure as Europe. People here like to tow boats and 3 tonne caravans, and do 1,000km road trips to visit friends and family, so many are waiting for SUV/4x4 sized EVs with long range and towing abilities.

BMW i5 (electric 5 series) and probably an i5 M50 are coming in 2023.

@@mihnealazar7039 i4 and i4 m50 just came out, i love it.

Nuclear too....

A misconception. EVs are undeniably greener than ICE vehicles and to say otherwise is a spin by those with investments in oil. Don't forget that an electric vehicle isn't pumping out its own toxic fumes from the exhaust pipe to exacerbate pollution caused by power stations. Also about 40% of UK energy is now renewable and often overtakes gas & coal. As further renewables and nuclear plants are made, this number will only continue to grow.

Absolutely! Many of the electric vehicles are charged by power generated through fossil fuels which isn't great at all - but it's an improvement on a car that produces it's own pollution. Furthermore electric doesn't necessarily mean heavily pollutive sources either! Wind, solar, hydrogen...etc. are all cleaner sources of electricity. It's all about trying things out and making progress.

@@CobraEmergency JCB have developed a new gen 4.8l gas fired, four-cylinder Hydrogen motor which will run on a mix of 1% Hydrogen and 99% air. No carbon goes through the engine with the only byproduct being water vapour. Apparently they reckon it'll be ready for 2022 and can be retrofitted to the majority of DieselMax JCB vehicles. I really hope they make a success of it and other manufacturers pick up on the technology, as at present I have very little faith in EVs and the supporting infrastructure needed to keep them running...

@@residentelect That's absolutely fantastic. When I read about your comment I went and looked it up; there's loads going on in agricultural and industrial machinery to have 'greener' engines. Hydrogen, bio-fuels, different gasses...etc. I think it's fantastic. There's a lot of energy sources out there in the world around us. Electric vehicles are just one part of it, and I think it's good to look at the wider picture as always rather than getting too focused on just the one type (in this case electric vehicles).

I mean this protest Is full of intellectuals that have fully realized the importance of the problem and are willing to express they opinions peacefully, unlike those absolutely degenerate ones you can often see In Paris..

Aren't they recharged using rainbows and unicorns farts?

bmw has in a very short time gone from making the best looking car to the ugliest

oh yea what a waste of tax cutting carbon emissions

That’s ok, we can tell the kids in africa to dig out more cobalt and ship it to Germany to make the cars in polluting factories.

Assuming a high-power charging station is used, charging should take an hour at most, hence the usual rotation of police vehicles should suffice.

@@BelgianProblem 'assuming'?

@@edenbreckhouse assuming /əˈsjuːmɪŋ/ Learn to pronounce conjunction used for the purpose of argument to indicate a premise on which a statement can be based. "assuming that the treaty is ratified, what is its relevance?"

They are mostly loaner vehicles on trial. Namely the electric BMW’s, as are the Harley motorbikes. I don’t think these cars are adequate for policing given the milage put on these vehicles daily. Also our emissions are low anyway. It’s up to countries like India to make real change as we could go net zero and have little to no impact on the world

@@Horizon301. true i won't disagree with you........lol......but there are other things that we all can do......but we need to start slow.......i was trying to say here that i am really happy with how many people care about this planet......but there have been few countries who just do or practice what they say like the U.K and some other places around the world......i admit, it really irritates me to see my country in the state it is in but well, i honestly don't like trouble nor do i like getting or putting anyone else in trouble......and one thing i know about myself is that i really don't like to point fingers at other countries or even my own country.......and trust me, you don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to know what you will have to face........i would rather see every one on this planet actually work as one......and that was what i was trying to say in my main post.......we, as youngsters think that nothing is impossible, and i must say that i agree with that because i believe in that as well......but if you think logically how many people truly would be able to even keep one of their words in helping slow the damage done to our planet.....yes, you would definitely do your best in trying to slow this climate change.....but there are other areas where it isn't as easy as you think......i know that as my country's population grows, our traffic grows as well.....and with that our air, earth and water pollution grows as well......though i have seen that there have been people who really try their best to reduce waste and stuff, and my family and neighbourhood are included in those who are willing to keep their environment clean, you can't expect everyone to follow what you say and it is also logically not right to try and force people to do the same......for example, how did Veganism become this huge thing that it has become? it was actually the idea of one single man.....he didn't force people to follow his ideology, people just decided to follow it themselves which is why Veganism is so big (or popular).....but veganism is an extreme form of vegetarianism.....any way i won't talk about this now because it will change the subject......i just gave Veganism as an example where people have CHOSEN to do something out of their OWN free will......and not everyone is that into the stuff of protection of the planet to be extremely honest......people will agree to look after their own areas and the areas where they and their families live, but there are people who will not care a damn no matter how much you or anyone will tell them.....and you just can't change people that quickly if they are already grown ups, well maybe the kids would be happy to be part of the idea, but on the long run, even they will just leave because it will get boring or their parents will tell them to concentrate on their own work rather on things that "others" will do......and trust me, it's not that easy to even start something even a group.....because when i was in my 6th grade, i and an old family friend decided that we ( he and i) start an environmental group and i was in for that because i really loved nature and i really hated to see it being destroyed, but since he was 14 years older to me and was working, he asked me to start it and i was like "what do i do? i am alone.... so how do you get people to hear you out? and support your cause?"....this family friend told me to start out with my friends and out of the friends i had, only one was just as interested in this stuff but to others it was, i'll just put it blunt, worthless and a waste of their precious time.......so out of a handful of friends that i had, just one person was interested......it's easy to say that countries like India need to make a change.......if you have ever lived or even visited India even once in your life, you will see how hard it is to (again i'll be blunt) KNOCK SENSE into people who just always think that money is everything......people work like donkeys here and are still not satisfied..... you can tell people to change, but you can't force people to change if they don't want to....people need to start small because like i said before in my main post, you will start like a huge wild fire but then soon you end up burning out because you want to do too many things at once.......do the things that you think is right, but do it in small steps and don't expect to think that everyone HAS to do the same.....starting small is good enough for me and doing my part is just as good too.....i will do my part, but it's up to everyone as well to do their part and some will do, while some will not...... Okay, look i am not calling you out on what you replied @Horizon301, actually i am glad you actually had the guts to call me out on that message! honestly.....but well, you and i and other people who are willing to change or make this world a better place, can just do what we can as individuals who are willing to try and help slow this climate change.......sometimes even if you tell someone to pick up the empty paper cup you may have seen them throw on a side-walk/footpath/pavement and to throw it in the bin close by, they will just look at you and laugh and say "well, everyone does it....so are you going to go and tell everyone to pick up their thrash the way you told me?" and in India, i have seen people just do things like spit on the road and other stuff, and i have called them out.....but they just glared at me like "who are you to tell us what to do?"..... plus people don't care that much....... so all we can do is just do our part and not say things like "It's up to countries like India to make the real change as we could go net zero and have no impact on the world" and expect everyone or even a whole country to do their part immediately......and yes sometimes it takes courage to face being called out.......and i have had my share of being called out in the past, and i have been scared to face it.....but now that i am 34, i really don't mind being called out because i say what i think is right...no matter how long my reply may be.....and i don't mind calling people out as well, and it takes just as much guts to face being called out as being able to call someone out, and never hide when being called out.......... Anyway, i hope that you and everyone at your side have an amazingly awesome day today and everyday no matter where you are......stay safe, protected and blessed always..........

@@rebeccafionacornel6558 The issue with India is it’s an LEDC and there is still rife poverty throughout. People fighting for survival don’t tend to care for the environment. Who would blame them though, it takes considerable effort and resources to be more green and these people are trying to survive. Furthermore, as it becomes more developed and the middle class grows, we will see they too will demand cars, electronics, appliances etc thus their carbon footprint will increase as will India’s total emissions. I see it getting far worse in India and China before it gets better. Developed nations have already has their day with the vast development that causes a spike in output so we are in a better place to reduce. I will try to be sustainable but I don’t care for all of this climate change nonsense as too often there have been claims of cities under water from US classified reports or scientists from 20 years back and it’s all total rubbish. They have lost most of their credibility when they say this time is for real each time they speak. Have a good one now.

@@Horizon301. yup....as an Indian, i would know that.....lol... :-) ....well anyway, i hope you have an amazingly awesome day today and everyday.......stay safe, protected and blessed always...... :-)

@@rebeccafionacornel6558 You too

It's a step in the right direction. We can't just sit and wait for a miracle to happen. We have to start somewhere and build from there. EVs are just a part of these small steps towards a cleaner environment.

@@chillout1109 As you destroy land with a mine just to get lithium to make the batteries for the EVs, that does more damage than a diesel / petrol vehicle before it even been built than a diesel / petrol vehicle does in 10 years or depending how you look after the vehicle

@@nekotranslates So what's your alternative? Go on as before?

@@Arsenic71 We easily have 800+ years of oil and gas to find an alternative instead - like hydrogen - need to mass produce that somehow. So, until we can reliably get hydrogen efficiently enough, gas and oil is most efficient form of power.