I’m still subscribed 😅👍. Very odd though. If I could speak freely I’d say that I wonder if money has changed hands 🤔. I can’t say that though, I’m just saying … 😂

I subscribed ages ago, then not long ago (3 weeks ish) I noticed that I was not subscribed anymore. I re subscribed straight away but unsure how it had happened.

Resubbed ,that’s twice

No Geoff, it's not odd, as every YT channel suffers from a similar lack of subs vs viewers %. You ain't special son 😂

Stupidity is Unsustainable

And seagulls crapping on them

With a bit of luck

IT DOESN't affect cardboard😂

Yep your right, I used to install cctv in marine environments from industrial to seaside towns, all the kit used was made using marine grade materials sold at an enhanced rate. Was it worth it, no, not really, it may have added 18 months to the product life. A Salt air environment may as well be dilute sulfuric acid!

Exactly what I was thinking. They're going to be deteriorating so quickly... They'll be scrapped. The owner will be charged a waste disposal charge.

Don't give the government any more business ideas.

😂😂😂😂😂

Sincerely hope that the cars don't automatically lock and the vehicle self combusts.

@@michaelhardy5186 trust China🤣

I can actually see that happening as once they colapse the current financial system they will begin their property redistribution and many migrants will be housed into rural areas and they will need transport.

They expect everyone to jump into debt on the never ever to buy them

I'm sure this is why car insurance is going up every year, they can't make EV's more affordable so they'll make owning ICE vehicles way more expensive.

What proportion of people actually buy a new car? I have never bought one new.

just think back too your first car.. I bet many of us had a little banger/runner round that was very cheap to run and insure as well as very cheap too repair... NOW apply that logic too an EV... They are forcing people off the road via the back door with EV, as new drivers simple can't afford them in 99% of all cases....

They did because not being able to afford one is going to be the whole point

Ah the freedom of the road! Sit and eat expensive and unhealthy food at a crappy service station whilst you wait to even get on the charger 😂

I know many electric heads trying to do just that and it's hilarious watching them trying to plot their trips to Europe that way 😂. Each to their own but I just piss myself watching them trying to stick a square peg in a round hole

But some people like to charge their high tech battery powered car 🚗 while they buy an overpriced coffee and doughnut 🍩

When was the last time you went on touring holiday ?

On my way up 't North I pulled into a service station and saw a guy sitting at a charging point. I filled up, had a mean, coffee and a nice long chat came out and left when I notice the same guy still sitting there reading a book. I did chuckle at his holier than thou virtue signaling. Or maybe he was just an idiot!!

I had an amazing A3 1.6TDI saloon which gave incredible fuel efficiency but had to chop it in thanks to the b****y ULEZ charge in London. I now have a less efficient petrol car.

So.. still going strong, here.. with the V70 and 449000km. Not allowed to drive everywhere anymore, but the thing just keeps on going. 🤞

My 7 years old Leaf with almost 70k on clock never has seen mechanic. It's a free car for me because the amount of money I saved on mechanics / fuel savings made a car paid for itself compared to petrol car .

@@xperyskop2475 Wow 60 miles range on a sunny day with an old Leaf.

My 2001 golf tdi has 396,000 miles on the clock and I use it daily to commute, 53 miles each way.

What auction was that?

People are starting to wake up

Used car market hits five year high as EVs reach record share. SMMT report April.

@@DwaynePipes bullshit

@@Norfolkbiker50 The SMMT factual report is bs? Is that what you are saying?

Ah.. your 3rd already? You must have bought your first when you were 18

@@MauricedeBoer Excellent 😄 my Volvo V70 P2 was 18 years old when I sold it last year, had no rust whatsoever, even underneath, had it 8 years myself, but never let me down, had a few issues yes, but not bad enough to cause a breakdown during my ownership ! But Volvo's made under Ford's ownership are another story, they cut corners during that time, but I do believe they have restored the build quality once they were sold leaving Ford ownership behind them !

​yep, 2 should last lifetime!

If just one of them get thermal runaway, all of them will have immediately have zero range. 😂 Might be the ultimate solution, since they are not very recycle friendly. (Sorry for everyone in a 50/100 km range)

Actually that's not true Batteries slowly discharge Leaving Lithium batteries empty encourages internal dendrite within the battery to to grow. As they grow toward the poles you lose capacity Also as dendrite form then like seeding anything you attract more rapidly the growth of the dendrite. Meaning the battery will degrade and fail faster than a battery that's in use.

@@warrensmith4590 The chemical reaction starts breaking down from the moment the cells are constructed.

it will kill a Lithium based battery .....

An unused battery degrades faster than one that is regularly used.

A similar thing happened to me. I was alsmost run over by a Hyundai outside my local Tesco. I just did not hear it coming! I waved my apology to the driver who then silently drove away!

Given that so many 'zombies' walk around with earbuds in whilst staring at their phones, I expect to see many more pedestrians being injured by EVs.

@@geoffas I'm 58 so no zombie earbuds for me and an old 3G android phone in my pocket. The Hyundai driver was turning as I was crossing the roadway to the shop but, it was virtually dead silent. I did look before stepping out but as he was behind some parked cars I didn't notice him, nor him me I suspect. As for the Green Cross Code man, well he went to the Dark side (Darth Vader) didn't he? I wouldn't trust him anymore!

@@baylessnow EVs aren't totally silent... their tyres still make a noise.

@@geoffas Well just maybe my tinnitus is at the same frequency as the tyres on the not so silent car!!!

So have all the rest vw BMW porche Renault Citeron ford Kia all car manufacturers will go bust in the next couple of years and remember people will start paying stealth taxes because no one is paying vrt or any new vehicle car tax which runs into the billions every year for the exchecker

If it’s made in China it’s junk

Flip that you'll be right, they want all cars made in China, no one obviously listening to Clarkson, Hammond and May on Chinese Cars years back

@@paddyfitz71 Good riddance to these manufacturers. Selling nothing but crap lately.

Close. It’s mostly because China controls rare earth minerals and refinement.

Yup

Watched that.. scary. No airbags deployed etc.

Everyone should watch that video. It's enlightening. And some others the two guys (Winston and Matt) made. Really good channel.

Sub 1k and id consider one, but ive never owned a car worth more than 2500 so im biased I guess

The UK just imported about 4,800 into Bristol docks with the plan to sell them for under £10k, nothing in this world would induce me to buy a sand box on wheels.

That's the problem, they are still expensive even though the entire industry, charging network, electricity and purchase price are heavily subsidised. It's the first vehicle on earth to exist entirely on welfare fraud.

They just don't make sense to me in any way, for any price. I never want to be in a car where I have to be worrying about where i am going to charge it? How long it is going to take? Will there be a queue? Will the charger be working? Life is precious, you only get one go around. You could not pay me to waste me life charging a car.

You couldn't give me one for free!

Oh yes, that’s the problem. Can you imagine all these cars sitting around for years? They’re destined for the scrap heat.

But the UK most likely paid for that as we do with their space programme.

@@JackOfski their economy is as big as ours so I’m sure they do pay for some things 🙄

​@@imbonkers3629 You've never been to India then...

@@imbonkers3629 It's actually much bigger than ours!

@@imbonkers3629 They have been given £2.3 billion in aid between 2016 and 2021 and the UK gov just agreed this "We are providing a guarantee to the World Bank to enable them to provide an additional $1 billion of climate finance to India." so WHO paid for it buddy???

Also 'Boom You're Dead' or 'Burns Your Dwelling'

I ordered a Seal back in Dec23. Been in the port from 1May to 9May. Pick it up next week 🤞😊 But I'm not sensible 🌝

I wasn't miss sold my electric car speak for yourself. My car fits my needs and saved me around 10k in the last 7 years, so I have a free car

@@xperyskop2475 Fine for you but not for everybody else ! & you may find now that your car is worthless ! If you have tonnes of money you've nothing to worry about !

​@@xperyskop2475 Your EV is worthless and you havent saved the planet, so you've saved f*** all 🤣

@xperyskop Please do a real world calculation- if you sold it today for cash, what's the difference in buy-sell price? Add that to total running costs then divide by milage. That's your real world cost per mile. My old vdub diesel costs me 9.2p per mile. And it's appreciating in value!

Iv'e had 3 vehicles in 20 years, current van is a 2005 and iv'e had almost 10 faultless years of driving it. And the 2 cars before that served me well with very low running and maintenance costs. And the purchase cost of those 3 vehicle less than £6.5k, that's just over £300 a year.

Same here!

And of course, those subsidies only go to those who are already well- off. Companies do not give a company car or car allowance to the lowest paid or most junior workers in my experience and cannot afford large monthly outgoings on buyer schemes.

Spot on. It’s not a fossil fuel as well. Yet another myth foisted upon humanity.

"Abiotic" crude oil that renews, not so-called "fossil fuel" - but that's another whole giant rabbit hole in itself. . . Upside-down world - black is white & white is black.

good point

From a safety aspect doubtless the strategy WILL BE to not recharge any of those vehicles in recognition of the thermal runaway risk. Inevitably those batteries are not new and will have degraded; potentially greatly and to a much less safe condition so what we are seeing is a Beta test at play with consequences that may be significantly detrimental to the EV narrative especially if fast charger abuse subsequently accelerates the danger. Currently there is a lot of solar activity (six solar direct hit flares) and a lot of magnetospheric disruption that may lead to a Carrington Event and foreshorten this whole Electric Utopia; especially when the satellites are fried and there is no Telecoms, no GPS, no Internet and numerous fried power transformers. Modern vehicles engine management systems can also be fried and we could be back in the stone age in hours. The whole pack of cards is imminently going to fall down. Why merely Build Your Dream when you can enjoy a full colour surround-sound Nightmare?

And the insurance companies will turn round and say 'not paying, because they aren't worth anything'.

Where there’s blame!!😉😉😉

Sorry you were badly injured, I think you can get a free lawyer referral.

@@robertkubrick3738 Who was 'badly injured'?

@@geoffas Trip and fall over a criminally negligent extension cord? The entire public was injured.

@@robertkubrick3738 Nobody was badly injured.

How many cars per dealership? It might not be a particularly surprising number if you dig down into it

I will be taking one off Toyota's hands when I return to the USA. It must not be too bad as dealers in the USA are still asking a premium for any Toyota car, but the defective Tacoma trucks can be had at MSRP.

I do hope Rimac succeeds. He seems like a really cool guy and come from nothing.

There will also one less after Hammond crashed it. Almost lost his life.

Well at least he's building a naturally aspirated one meter long V16 for the new Bugatti. Doesn't get more analog than that.

Tesla model 3 lr. 14h27m including charging. Should've bought a Tesla! 😂😂😂

@@DwaynePipes ​@DwaynePipes lol, model 3 is no good for me

@@chefineer model Y 1 hour longer? 🥰

@@DwaynePipes model y is as bad as a 3 !

I had one, no heater, windows frosted up and on an icy road you were lucky to finish your day!

I only see petrol/diesel zealots giving cash away at fuelling stations. I bought an electric car because it was much much cheaper to run it for my daily commute . If you like your mechanics and your petrol station attendant and oil companies keep driving petrol/diesel

@@xperyskop2475 I will, for longer ranges and many more years than your Battery car.

@@xperyskop2475 I buy cars and gift them to poorer relations. I have single handed reduced the potential market for Battery cars by at least a dozen.

@@xperyskop2475 Horses for courses. Flat dwellers beware!

They tried hydrogen, it failed miserably!😢

More like a video tape moment 😅

@@DwaynePipes Yeah because they committed to EVs and looks like that's failing too.

Had a 123,brilliant car... Had a 124, evolutionary superior to an already brilliant car...now got a 1971 Crown and a 1990 e34,both great,but not a patch on the W123 & 4. Both benzes rusted out in just the wrong places,within a few inches of subframes and chassis points...salty roads man.

They’re a million mile motor if looked after well. I’ve had several 190s and 124s. In 2005 I bought a ten year old 124 estate with 100k on clock for £2,500 . Kept it for ten years and did another 160k with it. Then sold it for £500. Cheap motoring for ten years. They go on forever.

Ask a housemate whos just spent 2k on camshafts and lifters. Only done 80k fsh 😂 the 2.1 diesel.

@@brutter602 the old ones maybe. The newer ones are shite.

To be fair, Merc still make better diesels than most. The OM642 used in most modern Mercs on the road is capable of a few hundred k miles. The oil cooler seals will fail every 100-150k and the bluetec sensors will let you down at some point, but they are generally pretty solid. Fuel economy is also almost magical for a 3 litre engine, even when used in heavy cars like the S class. I did South-London to Blackpool in an S350bluetec (297 miles) and the car was saying it had 900 miles left in the tank

Lefty Wankers..all of them...😳😳🙄🙄😏😏🇬🇧

Might just happen, but 2025> is a cause for concern . . .

With a bit of luck the EV just might reverse off the harbour wall into the ocean.

Maybe but for how long?

Evil man! Love it.

Not that it will be noticeable at first, but after another year or two . . .

A sale isn't a sale 'till the cash is in the bank. It's not just car manufacturers looking at big losses.