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3 hours ago, gangzoom said:

 

I fathom to think why anyone would object to wearing seat belts unless they were keen to become an organ donor!!

 

The biggest issues of EVs is still cost, but the fact VAG is now pushing ahead that should change. Apparently 'discounts' of upto 20% on the VW ID3, making it barely any more expensive than the petrol Golf. Tesla on the otherhand just put UP prices on the S/X by £5k, £100k is now what you need for X after options!!!

 

And it'll be a long time before used EVs offer the same choice and value as used combustion cars. But combustion cars will be around for decades yet, so if you don't want an EV, you really don't need to get one.

Sadly I still remember people driving without seat belts!! Mad! I always fitted belts to my 50s classics regardless even though legally they don't need them.

Tesla are trying to be the premium side of the market but it's the cheaper end that will make EVs be taken up. We need a Dacia style EV but batteries and infrastructure will be the stumbling blocks and I doubt they will be ready by 2030?

They wont ban petrol cars they will just tax them off the roads or change the petrol in such a way it will be too costly to bother adjusting engines to cope? Then again when they ditched lead in petrol it didn't kill off classics did it?

Let's see what happens in about 5 years time? 

47 minutes ago, gangzoom said:

I don't know what the fuss is about people still make about EVs. This is how old my daughter was when we ordered our current EV.... 

 

 

 

And 4 years on the EV is treated like any other family car, today it was ginger bread snack whilst listening to Frozen waiting for mummy to finish some shopping. 

 

There is no need to be melodramatic about EVs, if you don't want one no one will make you buy one, combustion cars will be around for decades even after new ones stop been made. 

 

What you letting her eat biscuit in your pristine car? Oh crumbs! 

I don't think anyone is really fussed about getting EVs its just that people are being forced to by the government that's all? It's like seat belts? It's taken a generation to use seatbelts and I expect EVs will be too but we are old farts and we love our petrol. 

I wonder if horse and cart owners were also incensed by the arrival of the motor car, in the same way we are spitting on the EV revolution?

1 hour ago, davey_83 said:

Might as well reduce it down to a pill that tricks your brain to believe you've had a serving of KFC, whilst providing your body with all the proteins and nutrients it needs. Many would choose this synthetic option sadly. 

Convenience is a killer literally.

2 hours ago, Stutopia said:

I’ve only been on half a dozen, I’m certainly not a regular. But typically any hard surface where cows move through is covered in @*!# afterwards. Indoor winter areas routinely have scrappers pulling @*!# along the floor, they never look spotless after a sweep. If you wanted to get into the safety, which is what the original scare post is angling at, you could throw in BSE and CJD or foot and mouth. Take it a step further into the abattoirs and you could have a look at the excrement that ends up on slaughtered carcasses and the ecoli outbreaks that causes. 
 

I’m not anti-farmer or anti-meat, but there’s no farm with livestock I’ve been on that was a clean as a lab, and people happily eat the products, myself included. If I dropped half my sandwich on the floor in a lab and the other half in a cowshed in winter, I know which one I’d prefer to finish.

I have to say my mate used to be a lorry driver for a while, until he was given the job of working for a company that ships chicken produce, live chickens and so on. He survived about 2 months then couldn't face it anymore, think he went veggie after that!! 

But this has always been the way we don't see the end to end process just something in a nice packet on the supermarket shelf. However for me it's not even about that, just the idea they make something in a lab as meat replication rather than a natural process?

It just doesn't sit well with me? I understand the reasons why and of course there are many positives but how long before this becomes the norm and it's obviously going to be cost effective and then the greed kicks in, corners are cut, cheaper initial ingredients are substituted and years later they find it gives people cancer or something?

On 03/12/2020 at 21:47, stevezzz said:

i think we should all be a bit more like this guy

 

Exactly bit of synth fuel and you are sorted! Tell me a VW ID 3 looks better than this monster?

18 minutes ago, Eddie_r32 said:

My old neighbour is pretty famous he had an affair and it hit front page on most papers and I was quoted as "his closest neighbour" 

Thank.goodness thought you were going to be Donald Trump's neighbour! 

Btw did they say you 'Slammed neighbour for his antics' they always say slammed for some reason, not forgetting your age which is some how relevant to all stories?

Darius XP5 (age 340) from the planet Trumpuss, slammed his fellow alien neighbour for overdosing on 200 earth cabbages. 'It plays havoc with the dilithium crystals, it can-ne take it'! Darius snapped whilst slipping back into the sea. Such an enigma?

7 minutes ago, Eddie_r32 said:

I was quoted in the daily mail and I never even spoke to anyone from the daily mail, also what the quoted me to say never happened, they truly are special at that "news" paper

Sounds interesting? Tell us more?

I am going to be a conspiracy theory writer/press reporter it's easy. 

When I make my first £mill I will buy a Urine yellow 400z and ship it back on my personal yacht.

Anyway back to conspiracy.

Story 1 - monolith vanishes it all started here!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9005715/Romanian-monolith-vanishes-appearing-hillside-following-disappearance-Utah-structure.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Story 2 - famous space telescope breaks up.

https://mol.im/a/9015571

Story 3 - US air force admit to pictures of alien ships and they are seen emerging from the sea.

https://mol.im/a/9015711

Story 4 - Enigma machine found in the sea?

https://mol.im/a/9013503

It's obvious innit bruv, those pesky aliens living under the sea to keep out of our satellites view. They bashed the scope and that is no Enigma machine from ww2? It's very obviously a transmitter and the monolith is their 5G aerial! 

If you need me to run the Government let me know, voice of common sense. 

4 hours ago, davey_83 said:

Im sure if it's approved by the necessary governing body, it's perfectly safe 

Exactly just like a 10 month vaccine. It will be fine. 

It's just the thought of meat being created in a lab? Handy for space travel I expect?

We are back to that distopian future?

All we wanted were flying cars, hover boards and nissan 240zs instead we get lab grown meat, social media and a tax on everything in sight for the foreseeable decade. 

Not very appetizing if I am honest would rather go for the plant based stuff if forced to alternatives (although Quorn tends to give me wind).

A particularly worrying statement?

'“It was found to be safe for consumption at the intended levels of use'!!!

There have been conspiracy stories for years about Kentucky Fried Cat growing just the bits they need to sell?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55155741

So if they can be bothered to do this why not enviropetrol.

10 hours ago, ATTAK Z said:

Bit of a talking point I suppose  

Sorry fat fingers and auto correct on the phone.

3 hours ago, Ekona said:

Be a better article if they bothered putting the correct conversion price of £6000 in the headline rather than buried halfway down the page...

That's how to grab attention. They got a car for X amount sold the parts and got the money back to offset the cost of conversation is not entirely £900 is it.

If they did a crate engine and basic battery setup for £900 they couldn't cope with demand. It's a cottage industry right now until things start going up in flames then the regulators will stop it.

But still they are not charging the extortionate £20-30k + everyone else is.

23 minutes ago, GranTurismoEra said:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/how-put-electric-car-your-driveway-little-£900

Fab that's me all over. You know older EV conversations were just fork lift motors and the boggo lead acid batteries. No fancy Tesla motors with expensive powerful magnets.  I mentioned a while back you can get a kit for my air-cooled beetle and van but it's extortionate, it's not worth it but if we don't have petrol then we have to look at alternatives. Good luck to that company 

1 hour ago, sk08rad said:

 

 

Those aliens are being a bit low tech?They do look a bit on the portly side maybe they are too heavy to use their ships? Oh well probably worth a few bucks down the scrapyard. Every little helps. 

Apparently in Romania now? Hope it had a Covid test first?

https://news.sky.com/story/mysterious-monolith-found-in-romania-days-after-a-similar-one-vanished-in-utah-12147652

1 hour ago, Shunter8 said:

I’ll be honest I’ve not heard of one until now, just googled the original one and can see why it didn’t sell in big numbers, pretty hideous looking thing. But that new one looks very smart indeed. It actually looks like a £50k car now at least, how they expected to sell the old one looking like it did at £66k I’ll never know. 
 

Exactly. I can imagine that initial design meeting, 'oh we want to showcase this new tech so we must have a futuristic looking car' (from the 1970s TV series UFO maybe! -google it kids). 

This one is more Lexus/Audi stylie quite smart and probably more useful to someone like me doing longer cross country trips (post pandemic of course)  still not on that money. Plus where do you get your hydrogen from? You can only eat so many curries and stick that tube up your bottom before the fuel runs out? 

It looks better than the first, but still a full set of fangs on it. 

But £50k is still expensive for most people. Glad to see they are finally learning you don't need to start making weird looking futuristic blobs for new tech cars?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9000645/Toyota-steps-gas-new-hydrogen-fuel-cell-Mirai-cuts-price.html

Does it make a click cluck cluck noise that increases in speed the closer you get to the object then splat you get a free egg?

46 minutes ago, GranTurismoEra said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/28/electric-cars-porsche-charging-network#aoh=16065837935674&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s

 

I feel sorry for that couple but I just have to say I told you so. I think everyone on here at some point has mentioned what needs to happen to make this wonderful ev nirvana happen. Never mind (see what I did there? Ok so it's an age joke!)

Bless them on the plus side they could listen to that Tron inspired fake sound whilst waiting. 

2 hours ago, gangzoom said:

 

I cannot wait to play the future.....Digital version of-course

 

 

Though what would be really nuts would be running it a self driving car via LTE, after all Netflix works fine so why not Stadia, and watching Charlie & Lola isn't exactly fitting in the the dystopian theme .

 

I don't mind Charlie and Lola but I prefer Ben and Hollies little kingdom that was a bit more hard core. 

We are not yet in the Dystopian future but still in the ' wtf who voted for these blood thirsty or stupid clowns with fingers on nuclear buttons period?'

Where celebs are regarded higher than the Muppets in charge.

No disrespect to the genuine Muppets who live on Sesame street, they have my total respect!! 

16 minutes ago, HEADPHONES said:

Even when comparing these two PETROL RS5s, the consensus was the engine noise and drama of the older 2013 model trumped all the comfort and performance improvements of the newer turbo model.

I wonder what the consensus would be between the 2013 and future electric RS5 version would be!

 

 

 

 

 

This is what EV lacks. Oh yes they can put a fake sound making machine and I bet they will look at vibration generating devices to get that authentic petrol feel but it just won't be the same will it. 

2 hours ago, stevezzz said:

had one of those, lovely engine 

how about this

No no no. I had a MK1 and it was fab. £20k to electrify it no thanks prefer to run the original petrol as long as possible. 

5 hours ago, ATTAK Z said:

Sounded nice  Probably BEV 

It will have the Taycan engine synthesiser no doubt.  none of your proper V8 petrol limp lettuce stuff.

15 minutes ago, ATTAK Z said:

I think the main barrier to WFH is the loud shouting of those who think people can't be trusted to do so. And I would add that, in my opinion. the ones who complain the loudest are the very ones who can't be trusted.

My eldest who works in Melbourne, has been working from home since March. He's now considering moving to somewhere warmer, perhaps Brisbane, and commuting by plane when office visits for meetings are required. He's actually proposed this to his employer so it's not pie in the sky.

Sounds like the aussies actually trust their staff! As long as the work is done and you are available when someone calls you, who cares where you are, maybe not the loo of course!