JEEEEEZ getting a lot of comments about the Ukraine thing. Come on, you've seen my channel, you can't surely think I've swallowed the official narrative on what's going on out there?! This video is presented within the context of the articles I was concerned with - i'm not going to get into a full on debate of good guys vs bad guys when it seems pretty obvious that the water is muddy on both sides. If you want to get into the nitty gritty of what the 'war' is all about (I mean, other than money laundering) then email me. Yes there are other products that fund wars. Yes the petrol / diesel / oil industry is a total mess with a lot of blood spilt. This is meant to be about the hypocrisy of government 'green' policy not a 'whodunnit' on the war. ALSO... When I say "Build a studio" I mean "Buy a £250 caravan and put my deckchair and tripod inside" ALSO... When I say "200 miles to the coast" I am speaking as someone who likes surfing. My natural compass only goes south west. Right now i'm more than 220 miles from the UK's best surfing beach, hence the 200 mile comment. Sure I could get to a beach in about 90 miles from my current location but to get to a decent beach that doesn't have a. brown water and b. no waves I gotta go a lot further. "oh geoff we aren't all surfers this is all fake news" Tell that to the marketing people who do the marketing for campervans. IT'S CALLED THE F'IN CALIFORNIA!! Crikey this 'oh and also' comment is worthy of a video itself now....! Anyway here’s my VW iD Buzz review: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq2kmtOdq6-Zp6c.htmlsi=TKPyWSVJK32KDn8F
@gingernutpreacher Жыл бұрын
My issue is china doesn't make our wind turbines there seaman's ( there is a scandal with there gear boxes breaking) and there are plenty of German and Japanese solar panels about and the Chinese ones were sold at a loss. and Russia invading Ukrainian is like a husband beating his wife and saying it's for her own good
@TheWizardJeff Жыл бұрын
Happy to hear you say this, as I do like your channel. I was quick to jump to conclusions, and apologies for this. Keep up the good work Geoff.
@ukgrime987 Жыл бұрын
Not really sure what you mean by “official” narrative. Do you not believe there’s an ongoing war?
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
@@TheWizardJeff Honestly it's a subject I don't want to touch. I find it so confusing. One one hand, I understand the nazi / bad stuff happening there beforehand argument, I've seen the instagram accounts about child snatching and body parts, then on the other hand i'm told that I've fallen for the pro-Russia propaganda and i'm also kicking a football around the park with my kids and the ukranian lad from school (who's lovely) and they're all saying how all his family were killed and he's clearly been displaced. So how can I possibly form an opinion? I wish I knew more. But I also wish I knew less. Hey ho.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
@@gingernutpreacher Granted... I had a quick google of 'where are wind turbines made' and I guess even a lot of the Siemens stuff is using material coming from China but happy to be corrected.
@Investment_Hedgehog Жыл бұрын
This will make you laugh Geoff, the biggest tourism operator here in NZ introduced 4 electric camper vans to their fleet a few years ago. What's their range, you ask? 60 miles. 60...miles. oh, and that's if you drive with the windows up, lights and radio off, and no air con. 😂 needless to say no one rented them, and said tourism operator pulled them off the rental fleet, and sold them.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
I tried to rent an EV on an island the other day and even the rental operator wouldn't let me.
@Investment_Hedgehog Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffBuysCars gee, not even those that are attempting to promote them actually stand behind them then 😂 Totally different subject, but it's just crossed my mind, how'd you get on with researching the V8 Opel Omega we got here in NZ/Australia? Curious for an update.
@truck6859 Жыл бұрын
The EV trend has gone beyond idocy, because the EVs have gone beyond useless.
@douglasb.5601 Жыл бұрын
@@badchefi I didn't realise that driving an EV required a special education? 🤔 I thought the main requirement was an ability to drive it whilst wearing a mask? 🤣
@JamesAlexander14 Жыл бұрын
@@badchefi only an idiot of the maximum order would think you need to be educated to drive an EV which has been designed especially for idiots. Honestly, switch on, put it into forward position or reverse, depress accelerator pedal, then steer until the battery runs dry, then spend the next 30 to 60 minutes of your life recharging the damned thing. Sort of activity that only an idiot could dream up eh?
@privacyhelp Жыл бұрын
paying any taxes actually funding a war
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
i have lived with this in mind since the first gulf war when i left me job and went traveling for a few years.
@pekkasiren4532 Жыл бұрын
We are always fund the wars of NATO (north Atlantic terrorist organisation) with inflation when they print money $$$. 80% of all worlds trade must go through $.
@wearetheremnants1615 Жыл бұрын
Taxes are just an enslavement mechanism
@wolfgangpreier9160 Жыл бұрын
Solution? Don't work!
@totalutternutter Жыл бұрын
These EV's remind me of forest friendly chocolate made with sustainable cocoa beans that was marketed to people who stopped buying chocolate to save the rain forest but didn't know the palm oil that was also in their chocolate made from sustainable cocoa destroyed far more rainforest than unsustainable cocoa did
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
Greenies are not known for their brainpower...
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
NAILED IT. Thank you. We will solve the giant hole we dug over there by digging a giant hole over here. Now we have 2 holes.
@garynew9637 Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffBuysCarshaha
@williamtomlinson994 Жыл бұрын
I hope the cocoa beans were plant based like the coffee being advertised at the moment !
@Ultrarunnerdad Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffBuysCars You going to balance this video with coverage of the petrol/Diesel industry and its impact over the last 100 years?
@davey1602 Жыл бұрын
Under the Trade Description Act a car purchased that doesn't perform the range it is advertised to do, you are entitled to a full refund as it was sold under false pretences. This includes charging times, battery life and any other sales points that are found to be misleading. The seller is out of pocket for his own ignorance.
@billytollerton4220 Жыл бұрын
Very true ,sue the ass of them.😂
@6chhelipilot Жыл бұрын
It wouldn't take much to prove that a Mokka can do its advertised range. You can completely empty the tank of a Veyron in 20 minutes and that's a big tank! It depends on how you drive it.
@1sostatic Жыл бұрын
Good luck with that.. The range is tested under strict conditions via WLTC (Worldwide Harmonised Light-duty Vehicle Test Cycle) + T&V sections of the ISO26262 standard -- This is the agreed range by the test authority and the industry... so you wont be able to complain because you will not use/drive their car as per their test procedure re avg acceleration, vehicle loads, inclination, etc.
@davey1602 Жыл бұрын
@@1sostatic Well if the asterisk section of the advertising blurb looks longer than a lefty meme, I'd go elsewhere.
@chriswilliams8607 Жыл бұрын
Fine, now check ICE cars, the difference in fuel efficiency and real world is in average larger as the difference in EVs...... and now what? Are you sueing all ICE car companies ?
@rochellehewston9367 Жыл бұрын
Love the VW changing the rules as they go along
@davidpereira9238 Жыл бұрын
What about the people that keep buying them 😂?
@leeandjancruise Жыл бұрын
Their infotainment systems are full of bugs across the VAG range.@@davidpereira9238
@ItsAllJustBollox Жыл бұрын
@@davidpereira9238 bring back the horse and cart.
@user-yf6kh3ss3p Жыл бұрын
@@ItsAllJustBollox always the same joke
@orionbetelgeuse1937 Жыл бұрын
well, most of the rules are arbitrary, you can't really have a reliable, low cost, low consumption engine and not have some emissions. They did make the cheating device but they were not alone. Since almost all the manufacturers did it that means either that all of them are liars either the emissions limits were artificially tightened in order to push the diesel out of the market. Strange thing is that some people at Davos are talking about that. Those vans cannot be made simultaneously light and with enough range, at least not by using cheap steel to build them. Maybe with titanium they might do it.
@QisGoogle Жыл бұрын
If EV’s came with a free donut, approx 80% of the population would buy one.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Protect your donut and others.
@monk3synuts Жыл бұрын
"I'd buy that for a dollar". Clarence Boddica, Robocop.
@mistsmogguru8378 Жыл бұрын
Americans are getting excited
@cpjtaylor Жыл бұрын
Evs are FULL of Donughts
@regbarnard2866 Жыл бұрын
@@cpjtaylor More like driven by !!
@xr6lad Жыл бұрын
EV’s have No Environmental issues as long as you ignore- The mining impair the battery building The money and mining needed to install chargers for every home. The money and mining needed to upgrade the grid to handle every car being an EV. The money and mining required to rebuild all these new renewable weather reliant power stations while closing down 24/7 all weather power stations. EV’s are heavier so degrade roads faster requiring more money and resources to maintain infrastructure. But apparently it’s good for the environment folks because you can’t see smoke.
@oldgit15 Жыл бұрын
Apparently you don’t know that everything requires resources, even ICE cars aren’t wished into existence by the Oil fairy. And boy are you going to be angry when you find out about 44 ton trucks.
@OtisFlint Жыл бұрын
And yet with all that, they're still far cleaner than ICE.
@xr6lad Жыл бұрын
@@oldgit15 whoosh. Don’t they have schools where you come from.? ICEs are not being sold as the solution to an environmental problem are they?
@xr6lad Жыл бұрын
@@oldgit15 oh by the way honey. I work in the car/truck industry. For a global manufacturer. Are you going to be surprised when you find out how hard and how difficult it is to make a EV truck work with a battery pack weighing so much that dwarfs an ICE truck and robs the owner of valuable cargo carrying capacity. Let me guess: a 5 year old that believes everything Musk tells them as fact? There’s a reason EV trucks that were promised 5 years ago + are still struggling to gain traction . But hey maybe a buttt hurt keyboard warrior like you know more because they read magazines?
@sib92311 ай бұрын
Yup well said I believe as part of the Agenda 21 script they need roads/travel to be gone by their 2050v goal thus can capitalise on rebuilding their infrastructure the way they want, thus more control again, (ie the high speed rail systems etc) So like many of their throw away climate ideas etc this is designed to fail to make us fall into their control paradigm otherwise we wouldn't accept their nonsense
@markriding1267 Жыл бұрын
Once we accept it's not about saving our planet it's about curtailing our free movement it all falls into place 🤔🤫
@wearetheremnants1615 Жыл бұрын
Then 95% of people who are left alive will join the poor and lose their travel rights
@PenryMMJ Жыл бұрын
I passed my driving test in the 1990's. Back then a standard car driving test automatically covered you for a C1+E licence. That means I can legally drive a vehicle weighing up to 7500kg but also with a trailer giving a maximum combined weight of 12,500kg. All my lessons and the test were done in an Austin Maestro. Licences used to be so much easier.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
didn't they just , i turned up on my modded gs 920cc should have been a 750, sat on a 100cc and drove round the block a few times with the examiner running about the street so he could keep an eye on me as much as possible. haha those were the days.
@PenryMMJ Жыл бұрын
@@BusbyTreeSurgery hehehe, yeah bike tests were even more fun. Yamaha Fizzie on my 16th birthday, no CBT or any kind of training, just bought it from a bloke down the road and went out to cause mayhem. Passed my full bike test a week after my 17th birthday, still no training just a years experience on a moped. Traded in the Fizzie for a GPZ900 and rode it just like you'd expect a 17 year old to do on a 160mph bike. 😁
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
@@PenryMMJ i had a wet dream stashed away when i was 14, cost me thirty quid including the fuel. my folks found out i drove bikes when i crashed the katana. haha
@user-yf6kh3ss3p Жыл бұрын
yes the more back you go the better the times
@piccadillycircus9416 Жыл бұрын
Back then people had more brain mass in they’re heads .
@philb5188 Жыл бұрын
This guy is perfectly correct. I'm a new subscriber and on board. Everyone needs to wake up. As a retired Fireman, most are trained to Class 3 level. I was trained to Class 1, however, my license still qualifies me to drive up to 7 tons. Driving a heavier vehicle is completely different from the general car. But, be of no doubt, there are very bad drivers in all the Classes available as far as I am concerned, and some people should never be allowed to drive heavy goods, even passenger-carrying vehicles. New diesel Carrs are virtually completely green, yet they are trying to push us into Electric Vehicles. The News Channel keep reporting wildfires to push their Climate change agenda, YET, once again we see the Authorities now in Tenereef state clearly that the fires are being started by ARSONIST. My question is, is someone PAYING these people to start the firm or are they individual activists. I don't know, but most INTELLIGENT, people are very wise about this, and are not completely taken in by the nonsense bailed out on the BBC, ITV, Sky, and even GB News, as one Lefty knobhead ( and I'm being very kind there ) attempted to say the latter was all I watched. He's completely uninformed and assumes incorrectly. The RICH are making billions out of their so-called " climate crises", so we should meticulously scrutinise every little the MP's and their Elites Masters do. If they come after our cars, then we should go after their PRIVATE jets !! It's a fact the ELITES, are all very cross because the Russians are the second largest oil producer next to Saudi Arabia. We could all be accessing cheap oil, and they could make diesel cars completely pollutant free. And by the way. CO is not a pollutant. Good Communication is the key and common sense. Range, RELIABILITY, AND RECYCLING OF batteries in the present Electric cars are a major problem, and for the present time at least, I believe we should all try to avoid buying them. That's my informed opinion. VOTING LABOUR isn't helpful. For some reason, they are on the thick side, and even more obedient to the Elite Masters.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the commment!
@paulwilson7622 Жыл бұрын
I refilled my car yesterday. I put in 30litres. I had driven 150 miles since the tank was last filled. Tank when full holds 65 litres. From the time I got out, refilled paid then got back into the car, 4 minutes 50 seconds.. 30 minutes later I was 13 miles down the road having coffee. Try achieving that in an EV
@stuartodell2828 Жыл бұрын
It may take half an hour more but really not a big deal
@HONDAVFRV4 Жыл бұрын
@@stuartodell2828 but that is for one trip. Now add up all the trips doing the same, how much of your life are you wasting while you sit around waiting for your EV to charge. We are only here for a short time, add up all those half hours and in one year you have lost what, while us ICE drivers get on and enjoy the world around us.
@jasonflitcroft2812 Жыл бұрын
@@stuartodell2828half an hour more is a big deal, add that up every time you want to go somewhere. If I leave my car for a week, it still has the same range in fuel. I doubt that's possible in an eV
@steve_787 Жыл бұрын
On a family holiday to Wales we did a total of 440 miles. Approx. range of our car is 140-150 miles. Left the house with a full charge. Had a loo break on the services, parked the car, plugged it in and tapped my card. Later on we stopped for a bit to eat. Parked up, plugged in, tapped my card. Arrived. Couple of day trips there, parked in a long stay on a slow charger, again plugged, tapped and went. Drive home, had mostly a full ish charge. Bit to eat again on the way back and car was on charge while we did that. Total time spent waiting around for a charge was the time it took to plug in and tap my card. While you were having that coffee which took you 5 mins to fill up to get to, you could have the car on charge (assuming a rapid charger is nearby which a lot of Costas etc. have). It really is just getting around this "must be able to drive non-stop for the full range of my car" mentality. I had a Picasso that could top 700 miles on a tank. My car now only does a 5th of that. Has it actually made any difference in the last 3 years? No. Granted I can charge at home which is a big plus, but honestly, when was the last time you did more than 150 miles without stopping? If you aren't in the car, then it could be on charge. Once you realise that, the range thing falls away.
@oldgit15 Жыл бұрын
Well that was a waste of 4 minutes 50 seconds wasn’t it. An EV driver would arrange things so he could charge while he’s having that coffee.
@TNT-projects Жыл бұрын
I was hit last week at 40 mph by a pregnant driver in a hefty merc I was fling towards the ceiling and my seatbelt slammed me back down on the back of the seat braking the seat and folding the headrest back 45 degrees.. I am very sore .. If you think putting a 4.5 ton vehicle in the hands of ordinary public … you must be mad
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Glad you’re ok…!! This does concern me. All my cars are old and these days everyone drives 3 ton SUVs. It’s a retarded arms race that Will lead to us all driving tanks.
@Mick526 Жыл бұрын
in realty, the seat belt literally grips you in your seat. If you were 'flung to the roof and slammed back down' then you weren't wearing your seat belt correctly.
@TNT-projects Жыл бұрын
@@Mick526 The seatbelt was being worn as designed . It’s designed for front end collisions. It’s also designed for average build persons. Little people and big people are not as well catered for. My head never rests on a train headrest , I’m taller.. and heavier we are still building cars for 1950’s average people.
@chromiumphotography5138 Жыл бұрын
VW should rename the VW Buzz camper van the Maus - after the tank designed by the Germans at the end of WWII that weighed around 180 tonnes. Seems appropriate.
@Ayeright. Жыл бұрын
I think I saw one of those driving past me on the motorway at the weekend? I just shook my head in despair at the humongous size of it and wondered how heavy it was? 180 tonnes might not have been far off it??? 😂
@AlexLancashirePersonalView Жыл бұрын
USA has given 1 + billion dollars to Ukraine but can only afford 1 million for the people in Hawaii. (700 dollars each)
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
they only need a one way ticket away from the land grab as one survivor stated he has nothing but is happy , ring a bell?
@Legin1970 Жыл бұрын
Just shows we're bidens interest really lies.but hey Hawians voted this guy in and will do again,so when you say I've lost my house but I'm still happy and 700 dollars,really show the mentality of people
@ztwo6179 Жыл бұрын
500 burned out EV's at the bottom of the North Sea... It's a good start.
@djtaylorutube Жыл бұрын
From what? Where are these sunken EVs?
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
I am guessing ztwo6179 means the recent fire on the Freemantle WHICH DID NOT SINK and had a number if not ALL EV's that were undamaged.@@djtaylorutube
@dublodave7860 Жыл бұрын
Up to 1997 a UK Driving Licence included category C1. I passed my test way back in 1977 and regularly (and legally) drove 7.5tonners when I started work.
@ogasi1798 Жыл бұрын
yup - i am in the group, drove 7.5 ton with less than 6mths driving time, not all drivers are equal though and most shouldn't be allowed a skateboard, never mind a car or something larger
@hughjasse3375 Жыл бұрын
We seem to be deflecting away from EV weights into a hairsplitting discussion about grandad license C1 entitlements. Just to reiterate - you cannot drive a commercial 7.5T truck EVEN if you have a post 1997 license without taking the CPC part of a class 1 HGV, and it's been that way for a couple of decades. In practice, 7.5T trucks are not used by fleets much nowadays, as the usual mix is 3.5T Lutons, 10.5T and 18T trucks, with bigbrig artics of 30T at the top end. There aren't many 7.5T trucks built nowadays. The 7.2T Iveco Daily is about the best seller, but even that is a Luton base (van). I'm a bit suspicious about anyone trotting this out so far on this thread, as they don't really seem to have experience of truck driving (as all this is obvious to anyone who has) 7.5T Fuso or DAF overlanders as jumbo campervans have a bit of a cult following, but I really don't know anyone else who drives them for leisure purposes outside that (as you cannot drive them commercially even on a grandad license). It's all hair splitting. There isn't going to be a big enough 3.5T + EV market for grandad license leisure vehicles. Manufacturers need a broad base, and commercial customers. I personally think it's dangerous to start modifying weight license categories to appease EV corporate lobbyists. Driving a heavy vehicle is not like driving a car. Not remotely. Anyone who says they are doing this are driving personal use leisure vehicles.
@philb5188 Жыл бұрын
@@ogasi1798 Correct. :)
@nottmfunguy Жыл бұрын
Yes strange isn't it, I have a C1 and F etc on my licence, Like you say pass licences had more scope to what you can drive, I got my licence in the 1980's.
@familymediacablevasquez8563 Жыл бұрын
That's not the point though, is it?
@SigmondMouse Жыл бұрын
When my car has 120 miles range left (less then 1/4 if a tank) I think about filling up soon 😂😂😂
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Yeah same, my Volvo fuel light comes on at 110 miles.
@SimonCoates Жыл бұрын
A quick reminder that the limit of 3,500kg is the maximum road weight allowed. For a camper this weight includes the occupants, luggage, equipment, food, water, toilet etc... If the ID Buzz is already close to the maximum weight then it stands little chance of being used as a camper, unless it's plated at 4,400kg. The British Morris JE is probably the better option here.
@slamak9897 Жыл бұрын
Passengers with they suitcases they go by train...
@petetazflies Жыл бұрын
IF like myself you past your test before a certain date you can double that 😅
@TheRealWindlePoons Жыл бұрын
"A quick reminder that the limit of 3,500kg is the maximum road weight allowed." It may depend when you took your driving test. I took my "class B" car test in 1984 and it also gives me a class C1 entitlement which is 7.5 tonnes. Which I have since used.
@MrRaitzi Жыл бұрын
Buzz also used LG Chem batteries and one exploded in charging in Finland already and burned later.
@olafvanes Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealWindlePoons Not in the Netherlands, my parents got B+E without even looking at a trailer.
@tobycolin6271 Жыл бұрын
Geoff just got back from wales surfing where I spent some time in the rural towns that had been built in the 1930s. These towns consist of mostly terraced houses with on street parking. I then thought about areas I had worked and lived. Portsmouth, Bath, New castle and the rows and rows of 1930 terraced houses I have parked in. After a bit of research I found out there are 3 million terraced 1930s properties in the uk . But here’s the rub these houses and communities are in dense urban areas. Are hole communities going to be denied car access because of the location and age of home. These small urban communities and villages where built in the 30s when 15mm communities existed, work (the mine or steel works) was in walking distance all amenities where near by to support the community. These very house in these communities has one car road side parked (maybe 2) that’s 3.5 million families that may have no access to home charging
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Nailed it. How was the surf? Yeah, they’re planning on removing all the rights.
@captainchaos6991 Жыл бұрын
I live in a 70s new town. The estate I live on is very pedestrian friendly to the extent that many houses are 25 to 50 metres away from the nearest communal car park. Very EV friendly!
@tobycolin6271 Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffBuysCars consistent 3 to 4 foot just what I needed.
@stephensalt6787 Жыл бұрын
A colleague of my wife has a Tesla model 3, he isn’t going to replace it with another EV because of the arsing around charging even with the supercharger network and it has all the charm & character of a Hotpoint washing machine. Any long trips are taken in his wife’s Range Rover.
@stuartodell2828 Жыл бұрын
That is hilarious I bet there stopping more times to fill that up
@stephensalt6787 Жыл бұрын
@@stuartodell2828 no it’s a diesel so 500 miles plus every tank full and 5 mins to fill up anywhere.
@andypicken7848 Жыл бұрын
stephensalt6787 That will teach the environmetalist who are trying to do the responsible thing lol. Maybe we should all drive a "Chelsea tractor" just to p*ss off these pesky do gooders
@Legin1970 Жыл бұрын
@@stuartodell2828😆 🤣 😂 🤡
@noelward8047 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant delivery as always. People need topay more attention to what is going on ! EV's are not the panacia some people think they are. (The proxy war in The Ukraine is not about what most people think it is).
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Ah thank you for that, that counterracts the comments saying this was video had poor delivery and was boring!
@JAMESWUERTELE Жыл бұрын
The war is exactly the opposite of what’s being said, that and the big guy gets 10 percent.
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
So what is the war in Ukraine about? There are an awful lot of people dying for it
@oliverreedslovechild Жыл бұрын
@@badchefi I bet you're an EV owner.
@davidobutt Жыл бұрын
The Ukraine war is really about the future.. Panic happened when the ev future came to light meaning that oil and gas was no longer needed. So putin thought fuck we wont be a super power anymore So what else can i can i do to stay relevant o i know im gonna steal grain and that special gas the ukranians make thats needed for semiconductor manufacturing. How do i convince the ruussian public oh i know just pretend theres loads of little hittlers in Ukraine
@cynicaldodgyknees6248 Жыл бұрын
Throughout the 80's and 90's (and some would say,still) VW consistently came bottom of the Customer Reliabilty surveys around the world. They turned the public perception around by a series of adverts with an advertising campaign with the slogan "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen". Same cars, same issues. A survey was done afterwards on why buyers opted for VW's. Answer? "Reliability". The power of advertising!
@Rapscallion2009 Жыл бұрын
Last year (or maybe 2021) an associate of mine bought a new car (nothing exotic) and decided after about 8 weeks it was not for them. Went back to the main dealer and got the line about depreciation and it only being worth 12 grand less now. Weird, they had similar cars for sale at a premium as "immediately available". Almost as if they low-balled him. One of those online stores took it off his hands for only £2000 less than he paid a few days later. The following week the main dealer calls back to say they'd give him £5000 less than he paid as a trade in. How about "no"?
@angusclark8330 Жыл бұрын
The next VW EV is to be called the Firebomb. It's a nostalgia thing.
@chrisaris8756 Жыл бұрын
Did you see the Petrol Ped vlog towing a caravan with an EV? Do watch it.
@huffmanaviation7341 Жыл бұрын
The Antonio Bandera supporting Azov movement definitely ain't the good guys Geoff
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
100%
@andrewharris3900 Жыл бұрын
Sure, Putin ethically cleansing Europeans and replacing them with Central Asians is the real hero.
@Crosshatch1212 Жыл бұрын
And there currently getting wiped out ,good way off getting toofer 😅😅
@yht185 Жыл бұрын
Cross agree a toofer ,lol get the land , get rid off Antonio,s ,good thinking for a guy who can't stand , or was it Boris, lol
@hughjasse3375 Жыл бұрын
I had to take a truck drivers license years ago, as my work occasionally required driving of vehicles over 3.5T to remote places, so everyone needed to be able to drive, in case of emergencies. Its all done by weight - even if the vehicle isn't a truck. If it's 3.5T, 5T, 10T, etc., it's a truck, as far as driving agencies, police, insurance companies, are concerned. Driving heavy vehicles is very different to driving a car. This is nuts.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
we all got a 7.5 ton years ago as standard they were not causing mayhem on the roads.
@hughjasse3375 Жыл бұрын
@@BusbyTreeSurgery Not many ever drive on the grandad license. You also cannot drive a commercial vehicle on a grandad license, as you still need to take the CPC part of the class 1 license, post 1997. In practice, very few people ever drove a 7.5T truck for leisure. Trucks are very expensive to maintain or park. They also fell out of business use since the 70s, with better 10T options and 3.5T Lutons. It was more of a wartime thing.
@looney7022 Жыл бұрын
@@hughjasse3375I've driven a 7.5t truck on my grandad rights for the last 30 years and have never been tested and the CPC isn't a test it's just spending 35 hours split into 5 courses in a classroom every 5 years going over H&S, tacho regulations, checks and load security, road traffic law and safe driving and procedures. The company I work for also has a fleet of around 500 7.5t trucks as a lot of our delivery points are in places a class 2 HGV cant go due to weight and/or height restrictions.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
@@hughjasse3375 not where i come from 7.5 was very common i drove them a lot prior to the nineties when i needed to upgrade to class one. for years cpc was only for transport manager. the loss of the intermediate trucks from 3.5 to 7.5 was what we last from the 70s and a crying shame it was. my last 6.6ton kept me below the 7.5 even when dragging my chipper.and carried a full three ton . i now have a 4.5 ton from the 90s . transits are crap unless you move cornflakes packets and need volume, my hi lux with flat bed rear carries more than a tranny tipper can. might have asked about in industry before arbitrarily changing rules for the Europeans.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
If I am stopped in traffic and I see a fullly laden ID buzz with some terrified looking face behind the wheel I’ll be bailing my car into the nearest bush 😂
@alphacharlietango969 Жыл бұрын
There's no climate emergency. Read "Unsettled " by Dr Steven Koonin.
@turokforever007 Жыл бұрын
We know that but the governments still want to make money from it
@BRMCaptChaos Жыл бұрын
I have listened to the audiobook, and just bought the book for my aware pensioner friend (who doesn't buy the bs, but needs assurance he's not a bad guy).
@Acemeistre Жыл бұрын
Steven Koonin is a former employee of BP. The only people left saying there's no climate emergency are either the incredibly ignorant or the incredibly stupid. Which one are you?
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
The trouble is there are 100's if not 1000's of organisations / experts who say there is a problem and you are citing 1 person who says there is no problem and you prefer to believe him, rather than the others.
@olafvanes Жыл бұрын
Limit is 3500 kg they want to up it to 4250 kg, in the Netherlands it is already raised for electric vans. But larger diesel campervans are quite heavy already.
@alanw8311 Жыл бұрын
To be fair most of the non-food items sold in UK shops are manufactured in China , therefore all UK consumers are financially supporting the Russian war effort in some manner, not just EV buyers. We still also import diesel and petrochemicals from Russia indirectly via Saudi Arabia .
@rickdecko1096 Жыл бұрын
EV owners are capable of miracles according to the MSM. I intend to get one soon and I will save the planet.
@kamilianos Жыл бұрын
yes, the EV owners can walk on water, heal disease and do many other things , just as easily as they reach the claimed range of their EV cars.
@ejh1100 Жыл бұрын
I want an EV so I can save the universe.
@ianwhitelaw3066 Жыл бұрын
@@ejh1100😂😂😂😂😂😅
@MrChriss000 Жыл бұрын
Its not just range on e.v.'s where they exagerate.. The lifespan of the battery relies on not running it below 40% full and not filling it above 80% too.
@ItsAllJustBollox Жыл бұрын
Where did you hear this rubbish?
@sempereadem54eadem64 Жыл бұрын
@@ItsAllJustBolloxyou have absolutely no clue about lithium batteries do you
@MrChriss000 Жыл бұрын
@@ItsAllJustBollox Its in the warranty written on the inside of the xmas cracker tube.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
@@ItsAllJustBollox Actually this was on a very good video by Petrol Ped with the Classic Electric Vehicle Company about battery health. Worth a watch.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
there are only so many charges in a battery every time it is plugged in that is counted as a charge.
@tonydalton6756 Жыл бұрын
EV's come with a free pair of pink knickers.
@Craig-wp3pz Жыл бұрын
Yep, its what they keep the Entitlement package in!
@MattyEngland Жыл бұрын
Then they play together in them while waiting for the charging points.
@msspacecake121 Жыл бұрын
😂
@Youtubecensoredmyusername Жыл бұрын
And a double ended...
@Craig-wp3pz Жыл бұрын
@@KZfaqcensoredmyusername....charging cable 😉 😜
@DiggersMum Жыл бұрын
Consider this anywhere in the world, Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami. The governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north. They all need to be charged in Jacksonville. How does that work.? Has anyone thought about this. If all cars were electric and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what? Not to mention that there's virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption. If you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drains the batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take women and children to safety. But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all police cars will be electric also. When the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead. How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam? Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. Yes, AAA is starting to prepare tow trucks to charge electric vehicles. How many can they charge before returning to home base and recharge the trucks? There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would drain the batteries quickly. Where is this electricity going to come from? Today's grid barely handles users' needs. Can't use nuclear, natural gas is quickly running out. Oil fired is out of the question, then where? What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can't bury them in the soil, can't go to landfills. The cart is way ahead of the horse. No thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause. The press doesn't want to talk or report on any of this. Imagine being stuck in a snow storm at -20C.
@Neojhun Жыл бұрын
I love how Anti EV hate train is always just Politically Motivate and mostly Nationalist politics. When we are talking about machines and engineering systems. The ideological equivalent of smashing a square peg into a round hole.
@jonathangold2087 Жыл бұрын
Another great podcast Geoff! You are merely pointing out the obvious inconsistencies we are bombarded with on a regular basis. I think in time you may even persuade some of the sheep who still think EVs are a good idea, to finally seeing the reality. In any event, keep up the good work, and continue to bring us the truth! Thanks for all your efforts!
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
My kids say to me ‘daddy my teacher says electric cars are good but me and my friends know they are bad’ 🤦♂️
@davidporter9131 Жыл бұрын
You'd have have a petrol generator to recharge the campervan whilst off grid camping.
@AliMackMechanical Жыл бұрын
It's all gone a bit Pete tong 😂😂
@breseler Жыл бұрын
70% of all Land Rovers produced are still on the road.... The other 30% made it home safely....
@LILEE376 Жыл бұрын
I like electric cars, and I think they are the future, BUT the EV-s are not the solution for the current problem. The plug-in hybrids probably are much better options in the next 20-30 years.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
i am sure newton had a law to cover this.
@Legin1970 Жыл бұрын
What current problem?
@Journey_to_who_knows11 ай бұрын
If they really wanted to replace gasoline they could have solars, hydrogens and other fuels competing to see what’s the best, but they’re only interested in forcing one thing onto everyone because reasons??
@rappers5719 Жыл бұрын
Your mate MacMaster is totally out of love with his EV. Weight or wait?
@chrisaris8756 Жыл бұрын
Don’t worry about the rubbish LG batteries in IPaces as soon they will be building their own crappy batteries in the U.K. largely funded by our taxes. Having said that I’ve run Jags for years and they’ve been brilliant. Volkswagens at 7700lbs????? That’s more than a proper truck! I’d rather have a Ford Cargo in that case at least I could earn a few bob with it.
@lloydmillership9682 Жыл бұрын
The jag will disappear the cheapest version is £100 000 so out of the reach of most. Such a waste of money building the battery factory.
@stevepowell491 Жыл бұрын
LG is South Korean - they used to be a rather good manufacturer. Wonder what's gone wrong...
@chrisaris8756 Жыл бұрын
You speak total truth. I love Jags and their tradition of grace space and pace. My F Pace SVR is a total nut job. Brilliant. Nobody will buy their anonymous bland electric options and one of Jags things over the years is to keep their prices competitive. Now having been dragged down by Land Rover, they will be priced out of the market. RIP Jaguar. A great British marque gone for ever. But that’s what happens when you put a Frenchman in charge!! The CEO of Jaguar ought to wear a flying jacket, have a handlebar moustache and fly their own Spitfire!!!
@bentullett6068 Жыл бұрын
JLR can't get electronics right in their existing cars. God help everyone who buys a JLR product with a own build battery.
@timwright5466 Жыл бұрын
Evs shove them ..I've got a pergeot bipper tepee.i live in the Midlands and last week I drove from leic to the North cost of Scotland on a tank of fuel ( with fuel left over ) in one go ..
@lockedon8953 Жыл бұрын
So EVs are STILL not worth it... got it
@terencebrookes503 Жыл бұрын
electric cars just another falling SCAM.
@Acemeistre Жыл бұрын
A ever growing successful scam 😂
@bentullett6068 Жыл бұрын
@@Acemeistrea bit like the buy a clean for the environment diesel scam. Although I do think those emissions tests were rigged by the green brigade when you realise that they want this agenda to occur.
@leecromer3289 Жыл бұрын
Feel for the virtue signalling suckers..
@DarrenAndOzzy Жыл бұрын
And this is Khan of Londonistan's dream, people in cars that explode, never live up to expectation and the weight causing risks.. The technology was rushed, it should never have been given a target date for normal cars to be phased out. The eerie silence of the things when they are moving is going to increase accidents with children not hearing them coming.. They should be an option, not forced on us, certainly not until the technology is 100% safe, the thermal run issues are ironed out and people aren't at risk of becoming BBQ'd in their car when the door bottons fail in a fire, or being caught in a house fire due to the car bursting into flames in a garage... The government really must cancel all plans to push these death traps into mass circulation by force until it is safe, let people drive cars they feel safe and confident driving, something that takes all of a few minutes to fully refuel...
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
Anyone driving ANY CAR is at risk of being BBQ'd, it just so happens there is less risk of same in an EV as the figures clearly show
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
@@Sp_75-76 get another mask on triple safe good/
@DarrenAndOzzy Жыл бұрын
@@Sp_75-76 oh yeah, I remember tons of ships carrying petrol or diesel cars exploding into flames randomly... Normal cars have vehicle related inherent risks, EVs have those AND thermal run risks and unreliability issues to boot.. You go for it champ, I'll pass...
@ruttrally Жыл бұрын
Neighbour bought a second hand I pace 2 weeks ago. Got dropped off last night on a tow truck. Now abandoned half on pavement. Wont move. Tow truck woke me up.
@11royals96 Жыл бұрын
The Ukraine situation is a little more complex than the assertion that it is case of 'Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, with good guys and bad guys'.
@synthmaker Жыл бұрын
Nothing is ever completely black or white but it can be a very dark shade of grey.
@chadimirputin2282 Жыл бұрын
@synthmaker it is when the western world is conducting their invasions.
@turokforever007 Жыл бұрын
Russia had been asking the UN to steep in to protect its people in Ukraine. They said no (which helps the USA step in) Also Russia was in a tiny part of Ukraine for 8 years before the MSM USA got involved. You say illegally but the USA has illegally invaded many places, I know two wrongs don't make a right but if you look at the bigger picture Russia is the least of people's worries. Smaller countries need to worry about the USA a lot more.
@chromiumphotography5138 Жыл бұрын
But Ukraine tactics with tanks are laughable.
@monkeyjim9398 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Its the usual Lies from them we can not mention.. Note similarities.. "Hitler attacked Poland wants world domination" "Putin invades Ukraine wants world domination" Hernce we must kill them.. FACT TIME. "Hitler had to save his German people from being killed by Poland" & "Putin only in Ukraine as his Russian people were being killed by Ukranians" Same script and as they own the media the dumb sheeple follow the Lies..
@lynne2774 Жыл бұрын
You've got your priorities straight Geoff, nothing more important than time spent enjoying life with your children, they will be adults before you've had time to have all the fun. The videos are great, thanks for the information and entertainment. Enjoy the rest of Summer.
@odetterollinson-davies4543 Жыл бұрын
The C1 (up to 7.5t) category used to come with a car licence back in the day before the euro bods changed it (& took away trailers too!)
@rjones6219 Жыл бұрын
Incorrect, re trailers. On a cat B, you can tow a trailer with a gvw of 750kgs. Total train weight 4250kg.
@odetterollinson-davies4543 Жыл бұрын
@@rjones6219 according to .Gov website - if you passed before 97 you have a 8250kg MAM after 97 the website states you can tow a trailer up to 3500kg MAM but I take your point
@Legin1970 Жыл бұрын
@@rjones6219and people who pass now can drive then with more trailer weight,than those who got them on car licences,never use to be like that,I think it's a scam to make you take attest to up the trailer weight
@gingernutpreacher7 ай бұрын
That has been reversed you're still limited to gross vehicle train weight though
@MrFryfish Жыл бұрын
Wait until we will be charged much more to charge our ELECTRIC cars AND pay as we are about to use any roads. Road Tax would be scrapped. Wake up people before is to late.. If now we still can choose wait until you cannot choose..
@brentwestbrook Жыл бұрын
Yet US government has pledged $700 per household affected by the Lahaina "wildfire" victims.
@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 Жыл бұрын
Yes Electric vehicles are a pile of jank
@Vandal-Vlogs Жыл бұрын
So the I'd buzz is over 3.5 tonnes!! That's my lwb high top transit with 17 washing machines in the back. Hope they have good brakes.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
I'll take a washing machine if you've got 17. Ha ha.
@Vandal-Vlogs Жыл бұрын
I'm a scrap man.
@FriendlyTalking2 Жыл бұрын
If you look at it, Ukraine is now a nato country but nato signed to say it wouldn't encroach any nearer to Russia than it was , then proceeded to get the Ukraine into nato
@pkuudsk9927 Жыл бұрын
When the misses want's to reno the kitchen, put your foot down say NO, we are buying an EV once it burns the house down you can reno the kitchen, we are saving the planet.
@jamesellis3535 Жыл бұрын
Here’s one for you Geoff. My wife recently spoke with an old friend who told her that her son was now selling cars for Toyota and that they would only sell you an EV if you had your own driveway with facility for home charging. Can’t see it somehow.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
I’ve spent some time in dealerships lately. I reckon they take whatever they can get. Car salesmen are the new Phones4U rogues. And car sales people have always had a bad rep, but since selling cars has become just like selling phones, it’s gotten worse
@paulprescott7913 Жыл бұрын
In my experience dealers will sell you anything. And especially if they are bonus driven to sell you an electric car. I know of many people who get sold the electric dream. Then find out afterwards that those dreams are just window dressing. I know of one Lady who got sold the dream on one of those awful chinky mg things. And it was obvious that the salesman took advantage of her not been knowledgeable in certain ways.
@Robert-hp1wr Жыл бұрын
Oh. rather than rely on an old friends son, can you point me to the actual dealership or person from Toyota that said this Sounds like BS to me, although Toyota don't like EV's much
@Tschacki_Quacki Жыл бұрын
Toyota might be worst place to ask for anything EV.
@PhilMacVee Жыл бұрын
03:44 How far from the coast? On mainland Britain you can only be 70 miles from a coast: Keep carrying on Geoff, I genuinely like the channel. Don't give the EV crowd ammunition with which they can shoot you down! BTW 7700 lbs is just shy of 3.5 tonnes!
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
See amended comment. If it doesn’t have waves I don’t count it as coast 😂
@ThatMicro43Guy Жыл бұрын
Now really is the time to buy an electric vehicle….as long as it’s a used one as they are cheap as chips. Buy one, put it in the garage, leave it there until we are all forced to drive these ridiculous vehicles and our propers cars are finally banned. Once they are banned then used prices will quickly rise but we’ll have a cheap one in our garage ready. Until then keep using and enjoying your gas guzzler.
@tomber1 Жыл бұрын
Where are all these cheap used EV's? Certainly not in Australia - even crappy first gen Leafs are still north of 20k.
@James-ld2jc Жыл бұрын
Good analysis of the way wars are funded. Been going on for years...
@karlhulme8014 Жыл бұрын
Although Geoff may have got his “good guys / bad guys “ the wrong way around.
@alihenderson5910 Жыл бұрын
@@karlhulme8014Yes, considering his otherwise excellent commentary, this is a serious blind spot of his.
@wearetheremnants1615 Жыл бұрын
War is a racket : smedley butler
@wearetheremnants1615 Жыл бұрын
@@karlhulme8014all on the same side really , if you look at covid as proof
@sib923 Жыл бұрын
Wow 7,700lbs is 3492.66kg So just under 3.5 tons for The EV Buzz. Please correct if i'm wrong. Brilliant video Geoff!
@Technical5tuff Жыл бұрын
its probably the Gross vehicle weight
@Acemeistre Жыл бұрын
I would love to see The Electric Viking debate Geoff on all things EV. Now THAT would be worth watching 😂
@doriangray6985 Жыл бұрын
Yes that would be fantastic
@markpavlowski7223 Жыл бұрын
The electric Viking is a Chinese 'shill'
@Acemeistre11 ай бұрын
@@markpavlowski7223 awww, wanna lollipop for dat bump Mr pavlowski?
@georgerubypoppy106311 ай бұрын
I thought you were based in the UK, Geoff. The furthest you can be from the coast in the UK is about 70 miles. A 200 mile range should cover that, surely?
@bazcar22 Жыл бұрын
One hundred and thirteen billion to Ukraine did you say? And they're only sending seven hundred per person to their own people who've lost everything in Maui.
@adamfisher9751 Жыл бұрын
Geoff. I love your videos, keep it up man!
@chrissmith2114 Жыл бұрын
You may well come back to your Buzz camper and find it has sunk up to its axles in the muddy field.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
And the battery is dead. So the battery is flat and it's axle deep in mud and it's going to take a significant tractor (and a very unhappy farmer) to pull you out. Then you'll need either a diesel generator or a very significant tow truck to get home. Welcome to the future.
@rjones6219 Жыл бұрын
No worries, it'll have sunk that far, you won't be able to open the doors 😊
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
i knew that ten ton hydraulic winch on the front of my RB44 was going to come in useful for more than dragging trees about. now just to make some spades for the rear hydraulic take off so i can plant/lock myself for ev dragging.
@phenogen8125 Жыл бұрын
To date my winch has only been used to tow out numerous other vehicles but the spades idea is a good one considering potential weights involved. I have often used ropes to anchor to another heavy vehicle or tree for extra traction. I think that idea could readily upgrade to add dinner to the current refreshment itinerary in my travels@@BusbyTreeSurgery
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
@@phenogen8125 i wish i could say i thought of it but i knew a guy with an old 406 unimog who had made them just for road clearing large trees with a dinky mog.
@mrtim5363 Жыл бұрын
Do I understand this correctly? Europeans can't drive the VW ID Buzz Camper van on vacation if it exceed 3,500 kg (7,700lbs) because It's too heavy to drive around w/their regular license. They should rent a 22,600 kg 9.5 meter luxury motor home (32 ft-50k lbs) to drive around w/their regular license while on vacation instead.
@jazzydave8453 Жыл бұрын
If you camped in a field with a VW buzz it would sink up to its axles!
@MAKUK64 Жыл бұрын
I like Geoffs unbiased videos just a couple of points though. Most products people buy in the UK are made in China so by following the war funding logic everyone is funding the war to just choose the one product you don't like could be seen as bias, all car manufacturers have always faked the range that cars can do including petrol and diesel not to mention emission fraud , the statement that china make all the turbines and solar panels is false they are made in several countries, the place furthest from a coast in the UK is Coton in the Elms Derbyshire at a massive 70 miles what coast are you going too, the camper range is interesting the driving recommendation is at least a fifteen minute break every 2hrs as much of a route to the coast is likely to be on non Motorway roads in that time you wont get near the 200 mile mark. if your not prepared to get into a full on debate on a subject you shouldn't really use it as evidence to support your claims. keep up the good work I enjoy your videos.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
I agree with most of your comment here and I’ve added some extra notes in the pinned comment at the top :) See my video on solar panels if you haven’t already. Search ‘Geoff buys solar panels’ on YT
@numpty7750 Жыл бұрын
I’m no fan of Putin, but Russia is definitely least bad in this conflict.
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
I can't wait for your comment when North Korea / Kim Jong Un kicks off
@dennisthemenace9133 Жыл бұрын
@@Sp_75-76 keep msm shit to youself
@fluffyblue4006 Жыл бұрын
Besides exceeding the maximum weight for the driver's license, I don't think that lugging around all of that extra weight is particularly good for the environment. The people in those oversized monstrosities will argue that it is green energy and it's not bad for the environment. That's BS. They're all charging their vehicles at home, at night, when they sleep, when there's no solar energy and hardly any wind energy available. Those EVs run on fossil fuels or nuclear. But what about the charging stations? Those are only used by people that need to travel a big distance, or people that have charging included in their monthly lease fee. The rest charges at night on their domestic connection, because that's way cheaper. Anyway... the EV-based camper must to be able to drive from LA to Las Vegas or even Phoenix, in the middle of summer, in one go, at highway speed, without recharging, while maintaining 20°C / 68°F inside, with power to spare to grill a hamburger lunch on the go, on a 'green' electrical grill, instead of those pesky polluting charcoals. If the EV camper fails any of these, none of those spoiled rich people will buy it.
@glendryhurst8234 Жыл бұрын
The C1 licence rules are particularly stupid. Pre 1997 licence holders can drive 7500kg and for many years 7.5 tonners have been as easy to drive as a transit van in the 1990s. To put a 7.50 tonner's load into 3.50 tonners needs three 3.50 tonne vans or trucks. Work out the payload of a 7.50 tonnes Daf compared to the very low payload of a Transit. It needs three vehicles, three drivers, three smaller loads, three times the traffic, more loading docks, more parking, times sets of tyres, servicing & repairs, three road tolls, more fuel used and more burnt and more pollution. What a ridiculous waste, it is so stupid and wasteful, you could not make it up.
@MechatronCNC-HVM Жыл бұрын
The cars work great as your studio. It's part of your KZfaq identity 👍
@chadimirputin2282 Жыл бұрын
Don't worry, most of your fuel and other rare earth minerals and aluminium is Russian also. 😂
@anthonypert574 Жыл бұрын
I have just seen a diesel van driving rnd lincoln fitting ev charging points
@garnetheron4885 Жыл бұрын
So I d bus waiting over 7000 lbs. what do you think that is going to do to driveways and none commercial roads.
@MadIIMike Жыл бұрын
Keep in mind cobalt comes from the "democratic" republic Kongo, controlled mostly by warlords which sell it to chinese companies. "We" pay them and get refugees from the wars we sponsor in return. I got curious and looked up the regular ID Buzz: It's max weight is 3 tons and empty (incl. a 75kg driver) it weights 2471kg... so in total you can only load 607kg (I added the weight for the driver that was included, to make it comparable). My old Audi A6 2.5TDI Avant Quattro Tiptronic (so one of the highest weight configs) legally can load 550kg. That's just 57kg difference between a VW Bus and a estate that's more of a style choice than a dedicated hauler (like the big old ones from Volvo, Opel and so on). If you go for a family holiday with a bigger family (for which you'd buy a VW Buzz) I could see people getting over the weight limit quite easily.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
great comment thank you
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
Blair took a big interest in Rwanda and the border area along with one of the banks cant remember which. lots of free flights there on the banks private jets. private armies securing resources i think down there,
@alexpervanoglu7420 Жыл бұрын
So aome research over the war bud. It's not what you are being told.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
i know..! a lot of people in the comments seem to be pointing this out. People can't surely watch my channel and at the same time think i've swallowed the exact narrative the media has pushed on us. I'm talking about it in the context of the articles, that's all. I don't want to go into what the war (Sorr,y, I mean 'war') is or isn't, because it's too messy.
@alexpervanoglu7420 Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffBuysCars fair play. Wasn't having a pop just a bit fed up with it dominating everything combined with the false narrative. Probably would have been better to exclude the story, particularly if you were already in some way aware that the narrative is not exactly factual. We can all watch mainstream if we want that. Anyway kn general I enjoy your content and hope this explains things without causing offence. Cheers
@MattOGormanSmith Жыл бұрын
The public charging infrastructure in Britain may not be great, but it's not non-existent. I'm pretty sure you don't need to carry enough hay for the whole journey when you go camping in your horse-drawn caravan. If the American version of the idBuzz exceeds the 3½ ton limit, that's not really an EV problem, that's an American Bloat problem, which is apparent in most types of cars on sale today. We don' need no steenkeeng cromple zones, Gringo!
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
I’ll do a video on bloat. You’re right.
@slamak9897 Жыл бұрын
Electric camper van, 3 days trip to Glasgow...
@TheRealWindlePoons Жыл бұрын
I just filled up my recently acquired car for the second time. The reserve warning light was not on and the trip meter read 499 miles. Its a diesel you can fill up anywhere. You can keep your Teslas. My chief gripe with EVs is the tax they pay to use the roads and fuel the things (almost nothing) so I am subsidising them by choosing ICE.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Same with my car, if I brim it, I can easily get 650 miles and the emergency fuel light won't switch on until my range is around 110 miles. There are EVs that on a full charge can only achieve what I can do with the fuel light on. That's not for me!
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
EV's will be paying road tax or pay per mile in the near future, Being able to charge from home is a definite advantage. Could be said that paying 20% VAT on public charging is subsidising your 5% on your electricity bill
@paulprescott7913 Жыл бұрын
We can also enjoy cruising speeds of 70mph and been able to keep with the flow of traffic. Unlike electric cars, who travel at 40 to 50 in the middle lane, causing congestion.
@TheRealWindlePoons Жыл бұрын
@@Sp_75-76 Diesel and petrol are taxed WAAAY beyond 20%.
@johnbuxton6009 Жыл бұрын
Jeff. I've just ordered my next diesel 😂 so looking forward to driving it. 🎉
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
What did you go for?
@johnbuxton6009 Жыл бұрын
The rubbish that car makers are putting on sale is disgusting. I've been a caravaner for 40 years. Nothing today is up to doing the job. I feel blessed that vw still make one that can do the job.
@roberthill6216 Жыл бұрын
A Passat?
@oldmanonamotorbikeinbucks7604 Жыл бұрын
Imagine parking your VW Camper on a muddy British Camping Field !!!!!
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
No doubt with 23 inch wheels…
@camwhitman5425 Жыл бұрын
I think more importantly to the issue with China is that the US is buying Chinese green products so China can build more coal powered energy plants. The fact that US is paying Ukraine is a non-starter as we shouldn’t be paying them anything.
@worldhello1234 Жыл бұрын
@6:51 Yeah, but "B" license owners up to the year 1999 can still drive C1 vehicles without additional training. 😉 It is an arbitrary number, especially due to the fact that the license test has become harder not easier over time. 😂 If you didn't get the punchline of the EU proposal yet, the idea is that normal cars still have to adhere to the 3500 kg rule but for those with "alternative" fuels it sad to be increased to 4250 kg. 😂
@Critical_Stinking Жыл бұрын
The entitlement ended at the end of 1997. I passed in June 1998 and don't have it.
@gingernutpreacher Жыл бұрын
1997 and it's gross vehicle weight not Kurd weight
@stevepowell491 Жыл бұрын
Just checked my license: C1 is on there. Yes, I passed my test back in the stone age when we had to driver a herd of Mamoths... gee, feeling old now... Anyway, the change being asked for is simply bringing back what used to be on the license, not adding something new. And ity makes sense as EV's are heavier than ICE's so you've more chance of going over the limit (Ha!) with this move to EV's (particularly if you want to extend the range)
@lloydmillership9682 Жыл бұрын
The I pace is being killed off in 2025 so deffinity a bad investment.
@benellis7427 Жыл бұрын
I heard every petrol car is being killed off before 2030 😂 bad investment?
@lloydmillership9682 Жыл бұрын
@@benellis7427 won't happen Renault and Geely opening 19 factories to produce low emissions petrol and diesel engines. HEADQUATERS. IN THE UK 20billion investment 👌
@MegaSnow121 Жыл бұрын
I love your logic and laughed with you. It is totally crazy - makes no sense. That’s the best explanation of the madness happening right now. Thank you!
@angr3819 Жыл бұрын
I heard that electric cycles and scooters are now banned on trains.
@kevinleesmith Жыл бұрын
What happens when a 3.5T campervan hits a 1.T normal car? Or a 0.2T motorbike?
@Vandal-Vlogs Жыл бұрын
Instant death!
@alexpervanoglu7420 Жыл бұрын
Same as if a 3.5t van hit one.
@ItsAllJustBollox Жыл бұрын
What happens when a 7.5 tonne horse box hits a car?
@alexpervanoglu7420 Жыл бұрын
@@ItsAllJustBollox I think you can answer this yourself. Or are we going to move gradually up the scale to 44t trucks and beyond into STGO categories. It doesn't need explaining does it really.
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
i do not know, does the camper spontaneously combust by any chance?
@neillsabiston9766 Жыл бұрын
Really enjoy your videos Geoff keep it rollin bud top man!
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@logicalaction Жыл бұрын
Good, bad or ugly, it's all funded by us
@justinnewton9509 Жыл бұрын
A regular uk driver's licence max weight if 7.5 tonne well mine anyway. And on the back c1 is a Luton van.
@rjones6219 Жыл бұрын
You passed before Jan 1st 97
@justinnewton9509 Жыл бұрын
@@rjones6219 April 10th 1996 9.30 am if I faid next test involved written test . The old grandad licence as its known in these parts anyway
@craigk1328 Жыл бұрын
Wow this guy knows nothing. I cant belive people watch it lol Its a shame big oil has infiltrated the media in the UK and people are getting brainwashed. You all know he just makes these vidoes for the clicks and to make money. surly you know that.
@user-zh9kc7tw4n Жыл бұрын
When you build a studio, just make sure you can fit one of your cars in it so you can have a good seating for your filming
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
When I say "Build a studio" I mean "Buy a £250 caravan and put my deckchair and tripod inside"
@Pete68T Жыл бұрын
I Dont Think Our Roads are Up to All this Extra Weight of these Heavy EVs, As there Around 1 Ton More than a Petrol Car And As Our Goverment Dont Bother Repairing our Road Network With All the Money they Get From Us Motorists With The Fossil Fuel Powered Drive Trains While They Let Heavy EVs Pay Nothing Towards The Roads !!!Because The Are Lovely Clean Machines.
@FriendlyTalking2 Жыл бұрын
We pay both sides and we just get poorer and transfer money to the rich from the poor hardworking
@beebTim Жыл бұрын
So... an original Bay Window VW Camper Van weighed in at 1.1 metric tonnes and the new one weighs 3.5 tonnes!?!?!? Jeez.
@GeoffBuysCars Жыл бұрын
We have gone so far wrong!
@rjones6219 Жыл бұрын
No! A vehicle has a Gross Vehicle Weight (now more correctly known as Maximum Authorised Mass). It is the mass of the vehicle + payload. That limit applies whether the vehicle is full or empty. There are vehicles with a GVW, less than 3500kg. The 3500kg is the driving licence restriction.
@tonyorourke5066 Жыл бұрын
Think the range issue is deliberate. When 15 min areas are introduced they don’t want you going far. You’ll be allocated a charging area. Enough to extend beyond the zone but no further. You’ll not be allowed to use chargers up and down the country like now. Can you not see what’s coming guys.
@Sp_75-76 Жыл бұрын
both my EV's easily manage 240+ miles per charge, and around town I can improve on that. One is quoted at 256 and the other 262 and whist the range will come down it is nowhere as bad as the Non EV group would have you believe
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
oh tony the electric car is a charade they do not want you in any car
@stuartodell2828 Жыл бұрын
My god not another conspiracy theorist give me a break
@BusbyTreeSurgery Жыл бұрын
bubble repair kits running out be fast or be disappointed, reality is not fun. @@stuartodell2828
@Yash-jm8yh Жыл бұрын
If they don’t permit tiny lithium phone batteries in airplane checked baggage , how can they be safe ?
@SCR-ce2fs11 ай бұрын
The best analysis of the great EV disaster on KZfaq. Thanks Geoff