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That weight based tax wont be kind to bloated EVs then? Guess you have no idea a tesla battery pack is over half a tonne - nope, thought so. It’s well and good saying that but people like you are waiting for curves to flatten and think EVs are good for the planet But you drive a SUV so must be a powerfully built dictator.

I prefer the Islands of the andaman sea myself

If you drive quick like I do an i3 is pointless - the range on petrol fuel is useless, the battery will also rapidly decline at speed so in such a situation you will be always charging it up. I do a lot of long distance runs and the BMW would be pointless in such cases - in an urban environment I could see it working but nothing more than that and I would rather get some solid petrol car that has a far longer range, even my thirsty Subaru gets over 400 miles on a run and almost 300 in mixed driving

Ever since covid 19 the world has been ***** - and there are far too many global events happening for it to be a coincidence either but you are fully aboard the EV, # net zero bandwagon as much as you fail to see problems with requiring boosters after being fully vaxed, requiring face masks after being fully vaxxed and needing testing after being fully vaxxed, not to mention needing hospital treatment after being fully vaxxed. Folks like you will never admit to be anything but politically correct in listening to everything you are told EVs are digital, certainly more so than traditional cars and it will only get worse with the level of integration we are seeing - you are not an Electronic Engineer and you don’t have a degree or a masters in the subject so its futile trying to explain anything - your knowledge of lithium batteries is zero apart from what google (or experts) tells you - I have industry wide experience including commercial compliance of products. And anything I said about EVs are not 'scare' stories, you think that batteries grow on trees, don’t you? you ignore articles where a Skoda loses 120 miles range hauling a caravan in 35 minutes and you think it makes financial sense to plunder £60k on a EV because you cannot afford a tank of petrol.

Don’t think you quite get the agenda for 2030 - Governments will have more control over the average person than ever before and a social credit system will be in place like what is going on in China and the average person will own nothing – EVs facilitate this because they are digital devices, like I said way back – its very easy to control them over old analog cars – the wheels are driven by digital motors which is why they cant be towed as you will wreck the car itself - think of someone logging onto your laptop now do diagnose it, thats the EV for you. And by all account’s things are going very well indeed by. There is talk of a central currency in the western world also and I wouldn’t bet against that happening either with the dramatic economic shifts going on – blame covid – that old chestnut or the energy crisis war – that experts predicted to run into 2023 with uncanny ability.

I am amazed you think they have zero manufacturing implications and grow on trees - oh look, there is one spouting from the tree out the back, how cute And its diesel and/or manufacturing pollutions that is nasty in built up cities - that is why Tokyo has such clean air - despite the fact Tokyo and its suburbs is the most densely populated place on earth, they don’t have rank diesels destroying air quality

EVs are a scam, nothing more than garbage to fulfil the needs for the controlling World Economic Forum, using net zero drivel to drive the panic and scaremongering amongst people, all the climate change protestors are all unemployed lunatics and buying into what trash experts are saying If the mad plans every come to fruition the planet won’t even be able to sustain the batteries needed for EVs in 2040 as the natural resources will be depleted, Confirmation by experts not funded by third parties I will stick to reliable large cylinder NA petrol cars than will last forever and plough through miles with consummate ease and can poddle along at 80mph just ticking over and they can tow a variety of attachments also. I can’t afford a tank of diesel so let’s get an EV for £60k, sounds a great idea

I think you can forsake a ML and sunroof for that engine...

They are not close ratio gearboxes, you need to drive performance cars to get a feel for the variety of gear sticks out there - Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Ford - apples and oranges to most other types Did you import from Japan? congrats on owning such a rare vehicle

...they could have dumped the excess batteries and weight and focus on the combustion engine to get more range. My Subaru expels 286g/km of melting icebergs, I have got well over 400 miles on my recent cross country trip and I have been driving fast in that time, way over the NSL and thats a 3 litre car thats 14 years old EVs = scam of the century

candles very useful

I have been to Ireland over the last week for one of those trips nobody wants to make. En route back I detoured to Llanelli for Shell E5 and brimmed it with 56.53L for £95.48 - its the lowest price I have seen for that ever I think but I am not going back there for it

Beijing stinks from pollution due to industrial work, Tokyo very much less so. You come across as a bit of a keyboard warrior type, have you been to Beijing, have you been to Tokyo? I've been to both, plus Shenzhen and many more cities in China. Now, back to Google with you

Of course the momentum is moving in that direction, governments banning Combustion cars might have something to do with it, a crazy idea of mine

There are over 3 million cars in Tokyo and the air is clean as a whistle, this is from experience also as I was there twice and my last visit was years ago when they did not even have any EV market dominance. So, try again - its not the cars thats the problem

Are you getting paid for your EV preaching? You look like one of these 'experts'

The Dirty Secrets Of ‘Clean’ Electric Vehicles Aug 2, 2020,10:40pm .........There are 7.2 million battery EVs or about 1% of the total vehicle fleet today. To get an idea of the scale of mining for raw materials involved in replacing the world’s gasoline and diesel-fueled cars with EVs, we can take the example of the UK as provided by Michael Kelly, the Emeritus Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. According to Professor Kelly, if we replace all of the UK vehicle fleet with EVs, assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries, we would need the following materials: about twice the annual global production of cobalt; three quarters of the world’s production lithium carbonate; nearly the entire world production of neodymium; and more than half the world’s production of copper in 2018. And this is just for the UK. Professor Kelly estimates that if we want the whole world to be transported by electric vehicles, the vast increases in the supply of the raw materials listed above would go far beyond known reserves. The environmental and social impact of vastly-expanded mining for these materials — some of which are highly toxic when mined, transported and processed – in countries afflicted by corruption and poor human rights records can only be imagined. The clean and green image of EVs stands in stark contrast to the realities of manufacturing batteries. The determination not to know or to look away when the facts assail our beliefs is an enduring frailty of human nature. The tendency towards group think and confirmation bias, and the will to affirm the “scientific consensus” and marginalize sceptics, are rife in considerations by the so-called experts committed to advocating their favorite cause. In the case of EVs, the dirty secrets of “clean energy” should seem apparent to all but, alas, there are none so blind as those who will not see. These will be in demand

So should we make tens of trillions of batteries by 2040 in some man-made island away from civilisation - sounds a plan, nobody will ever know - we can just chuck all the waste into the ocean. You need to divert your rose-tinted glasses away from experts and see where greenhouse gases actually come from, you will find cars are pretty low down the list - in England they have negligible contribution to global emissions. All that smog in Beijing where does it come from? No, its not cars

Government’s banning perfectly reliable normal combustion engine cars that have been manufactured since the 1800s and which are well known by mechanics and DIY people the world over and in doing so getting rid of thousands of jobs in the process in favour of EVs nobody can afford and in an industry that accounts for around 12 percent of global greenhouse gases worldwide just like that...? There is NO savings to be had over petrol cars - unless you magically find a free EV in your driveway in the morning, plus with electric prices going the way they are EVs are already more costly to run over a petrol car - from what reports I have read in the last week have said – Net Zero is nothing more than government brainwashing drivel to use as a trump card to justify people getting them in the first place - lies, just like Diesel. I suggest you remove them rose tinted blinkers you seem to be wearing as they are severely clouding your judgement on the wider picture going on here

I think people who can drive a manual gearbox have a better understanding, empathy even of how a car works in general - my missus is from Asia and only uses Auto - she has no clue how a manual stick works -- she says she can drive one but she is not using my car to try out her skills. There is nothing wrong with autos and my next car will probably be one but manual’s will always have a place in the automotive world and some of the most expensive cars ever are manual

There is nothing eco-friendly about EVs, for a solitary manufacturer selling 2 million EVs a year they would need to manufacture around 95491088758 lithium batteries by 2030 - that is 2 million but with 5 percent sales increase each year - they want profits, don’t they? now add the dozen or so other manufacturers onto the EV bandwagon and see how many batteries are needed and they don’t grow on trees and that excludes all the other electronic components associated with electric cars - and 2.43 million sales in 2029 is pretty generous They are needed for one thing, control – governments don’t want you to drive in 2030 and they are also needed for social credit and monitoring of people – its not possible with what are basically analogue cars of old I can lease out a Tesla at work, 500/600 a month on a salary sacrifice but why? what is in it for me? after two years I hand the keys back - what benefit will I ever see? Nothing And all the data manufacturer’s give you is trash - what is the range doing a constant speed of 60/70 mph, what about hauling something? do they factor in using climate control for all your passengers, keeping your heated seat on in the cold and having your sound system blaring out music? all that will drain your battery so probably no A Skoda Enyaq thing lost over 120 miles range on a test recently hauling a caravan over 35 minutes - this is what the reality is. A 30 year old LS400 could haul that across the country without trying and in much better comfort as I could in my Subaru - without stoping once They don’t give you anything other than the figures they have magically made up in controlled laboratory conditions

Erm, they are crazy more expensive to run over a petrol car? net zero is something spoon fed into your brain. If you want to take out finance for a EV to 'save' imaginary money over a petrol car and do your all important net zero contributions by all accounts crack on with it

Rising penalties on internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles are cited as the main driver to buy an EV in the UK (46%), followed by environmental concerns (45%). So basically coercion - it’s not for cost savings that’s for sure - the cost of EVs is so much that you could buy a few solid petrol cars, run them into the ground and they would have a cheaper TCO than any modern EV that cost 50/60k or more. Environmental concern is net zero, which is just a con - it’s funny that ministers and politicians are swanning around in jets and travelling first class, they don’t seem to be too distracted by this.

Subaru has long stopped making any intresting cars, Levorg's look to be CVT only, even the new Impreza look CVT. Here are nice Legacy models and would go like a bat out of hell https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2007-subaru-liberty-gt-tuned-by-sti-4gen-manual-awd-my07/SSE-AD-13447759/?Cr=10 https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2008-subaru-liberty-gt-tuned-by-sti-4gen-manual-awd-my08/SSE-AD-12791247/?Cr=12