Adventures in an all electric vehicle.

[addjunkie]

You wake up in the morning one day and oddly the lights don't work..smart meter has shut down overnight...call them after work I guess. Get in your EV and it won't start...geez...will have to get the bus to work.

Try to get on the bus and your bank card isn't working.

Quite a lot of control at the individual person level me thinks!

Im stuffed then as my 3 smart meters are not so smart, in that they dont communicate with what ever network they run on. I did tell them they wouldn't work, but still insisted I had to have them!

Id get them to come and sort it, if I could be bothered jumping through the 200 hoops to contact them on the “ your call is important to us, but we are experiencing extended wait times as we have no staff phone line”

 

[dobbslc]

By the time the average person realises what's happening it'll already be way too late.

Just like the sleep walking Londoners that have been voting Khan for the last few years, suddenly the ulez extension is only weeks away and they've just realized it's gonna cost them £3000 a year extra to get to work/school/hospital etc etc etc......

 

[Ubique]

Isn't the smart meter rollout stalling? I think I read it is just over 50% and of that, something like 10-15% are operating in 'traditional mode'. Aside from the issues with the meters themselves not counting correctly or being incapable of changing supplier, they've tried the 'save you money' (no they don't) coercion and bombarding people with 'pre-booked' appointments, next will come the stick...

 

[HughF]

The overarching concern I have, is that we are running headlong into a single fuel policy, gas, oil, wood - all 'bad' ways of heating your home or food, only 'clean' electricity should be used, for everything. Its delivered to (mostly) where you need it but it's very difficult and expensive to be totally self-sufficient from the suppliers and government regulation. How long before a foreign state or others with an axe to grind (or even our own eco-loons) decide that taking out a few prime route pylons across the moors will further their cause? Sure, there's some like me that have generator standby facilities, some have solar, but most won't. Reliance on any single source of anything is bad IMO - We're always told a balanced diet, lifestyle etc. etc. is good for you and 'diversity' in everything is how we should approach life. Not fuel it seems.

You should think of electricity as the energy transfer medium, not the energy itself…. The energy comes from nuclear/gas/solar/offshore wind/ground up cow dung/tyres/landfill…..

 

[Ubique]

Well, yes, obviously. There is still the ability to shut off the dominant source of energy we are being encouraged to adopt for everything with little effort, either by legal means or malicious intent.

 

[premmington]

Well, yes, obviously. There is still the ability to shut off the dominant source of energy we are being encouraged to adopt for everything with little effort, either by legal means or malicious intent.

I feel like I am being manipulated - about the rise of single source energy - I see it as soft coercion...

Honestly I do...

 

[HughF]

Meanwhile, I’ll sleep happily at night with my electric car and my heat pump…..

 

[Ubique]

Must be a big bed!

 

[daleyd]

**They’ll never control us with our petrol cars!

* taxes go up on already heavily taxed petrol

**Digs in garden to look for petrol


Seriously fellas, keep sticking it to “the man”.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I'm just not keen on anything that is networked to the extent that usage can be monitored and regulated on an individual basis!

I'd still have an EV....but i'd want a backup system.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

but i'd want a backup system.

 

[Ubique]

Doesn't that one belong to Shanks'?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

ULEZ exempt too I believe ....I'd probably run a classic (40+ yr old) which are also exempt.

 

[Farside]

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[rhubarb7]

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That'll upset the treehuggers, putting out too much emissions

 

[Ubique]

The Mrs. is from Dublin and mutters that every time she sees a Civic - usually a bit louder if it's a 'R type'

 

[dobbslc]

Brilliant!

 

[500e]

I have no axe to grind

 

[fizzy]

Just read this sad news today.
One poor person killed and several injured.

Race to salvage sinking ship carrying 350 Mercedes and 3,000 vehicles

At least one crew member died and others were injured after fire ripped through the Fremantle Highway, a 18,500-ton car-carrying vessel. Still burning, teams are fighting to stop it from sinking.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[rhubarb7]

Did anyone watch this last night?

What They Really Mean for You - Electric Cars

Investigating the controversial plans to change the cars we drive. Is it possible and what will it take?

www.bbc.co.uk

What I took from it:

We won't be able to create the infrastructure required for charging, and we won't be able to make enough batteries.

They mentioned the mining and the different components required for the batteries, but failed to mention the amount of destruction and pollution caused by mining for the battery components.

Aside from that and whichever side of the fence you're on, it's worth a watch. The next episode is powering homes and green power.