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

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.

paying any taxes actually funding a war

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

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.

Love the VW changing the rules as they go along

If EV’s came with a free donut, approx 80% of the population would buy one.

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.

Once we accept it's not about saving our planet it's about curtailing our free movement it all falls into place 🤔🤫

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.

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.

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

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

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.

USA has given 1 + billion dollars to Ukraine but can only afford 1 million for the people in Hawaii. (700 dollars each)

500 burned out EV's at the bottom of the North Sea... It's a good start.

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.

When my car has 120 miles range left (less then 1/4 if a tank) I think about filling up soon 😂😂😂

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.

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

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.

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).

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!

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"?

The next VW EV is to be called the Firebomb. It's a nostalgia thing.

Did you see the Petrol Ped vlog towing a caravan with an EV? Do watch it.

The Antonio Bandera supporting Azov movement definitely ain't the good guys Geoff

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.

There's no climate emergency. Read "Unsettled " by Dr Steven Koonin.

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.

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 .

EV owners are capable of miracles according to the MSM. I intend to get one soon and I will save the planet.

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.

EV's come with a free pair of pink knickers.

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.

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.

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!

You'd have have a petrol generator to recharge the campervan whilst off grid camping.

It's all gone a bit Pete tong 😂😂

70% of all Land Rovers produced are still on the road.... The other 30% made it home safely....

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.

Your mate MacMaster is totally out of love with his EV. Weight or wait?

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.

So EVs are STILL not worth it... got it

electric cars just another falling SCAM.

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...

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.

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'.

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.

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!)

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..

Yet US government has pledged $700 per household affected by the Lahaina "wildfire" victims.

Yes Electric vehicles are a pile of jank

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Good analysis of the way wars are funded. Been going on for years...

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!

I would love to see The Electric Viking debate Geoff on all things EV. Now THAT would be worth watching 😂

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?

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.

Geoff. I love your videos, keep it up man!

You may well come back to your Buzz camper and find it has sunk up to its axles in the muddy field.

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.

If you camped in a field with a VW buzz it would sink up to its axles!

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.

I’m no fan of Putin, but Russia is definitely least bad in this conflict.

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.

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.

The cars work great as your studio. It's part of your KZfaq identity 👍

Don't worry, most of your fuel and other rare earth minerals and aluminium is Russian also. 😂

I have just seen a diesel van driving rnd lincoln fitting ev charging points

So I d bus waiting over 7000 lbs. what do you think that is going to do to driveways and none commercial roads.

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.

So aome research over the war bud. It's not what you are being told.

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!

Electric camper van, 3 days trip to Glasgow...

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.

Jeff. I've just ordered my next diesel 😂 so looking forward to driving it. 🎉

Imagine parking your VW Camper on a muddy British Camping Field !!!!!

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.

@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. 😂

The I pace is being killed off in 2025 so deffinity a bad investment.

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!

I heard that electric cycles and scooters are now banned on trains.

What happens when a 3.5T campervan hits a 1.T normal car? Or a 0.2T motorbike?

Really enjoy your videos Geoff keep it rollin bud top man!

Good, bad or ugly, it's all funded by us

A regular uk driver's licence max weight if 7.5 tonne well mine anyway. And on the back c1 is a Luton van.

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.

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

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.

We pay both sides and we just get poorer and transfer money to the rich from the poor hardworking

So... an original Bay Window VW Camper Van weighed in at 1.1 metric tonnes and the new one weighs 3.5 tonnes!?!?!? Jeez.

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.

If they don’t permit tiny lithium phone batteries in airplane checked baggage , how can they be safe ?

The best analysis of the great EV disaster on KZfaq. Thanks Geoff