Electric car advice

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It's commendable for the UK to try it -but our global ommission is 2% of the world- stopping using our own offshore Gas & Oil - & importing it is ridiculous- never put all your eggs in one basket do it gradually we as a country will never get growth-
I would never gamble on an electric car - the infrastructure has to be there - seen too many programs on TV to see all the problems...
All a over in that post makes sense - but it has to be phased in - & the poor & the sick should not pay for it too!
Plus the grid got an overload in Spain & Portugal no explanation other than the grids being overloaded?
One professor stated the many solar panels could have been the problem!

@COYBL25 this one is beyond me. Translation needed please.

 

[Joey66]

@COYBL25 this one is beyond me. Translation needed please.

He's got all the qualities of Ed Millaband

 

[The binman chronicles]

It is exactly like this. But only when it's sunny outside and I'm playing around with the dc cables...

 

[chrismpw]

So do you want cyclists and roads and not paths or do you want them on paths and not roads?

I want roads to be used for function, not Chris Boardman wannabe hobbyists. Go exercise somewhere where they dint hold up people going about their everyday business. Certainly not bikes on pavements.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I want roads to be used for function, not Chris Boardman wannabe hobbyists. Go exercise somewhere where they dint hold up people going about their everyday business. Certainly not bikes on pavements.

So no bikes on roads, and no bikes on pavements, no bikes on sidewalks obviously.

Carbrain disease is a real thing, confirmed.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So no bikes on roads, and no bikes on pavements, no bikes on sidewalks obviously.

Carbrain disease is a real thing, confirmed.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Yes they are. There are also rules around how cyclists and motorists should behave including how to pass others and rightbof way. Which is probably why miserable sods hate them as cyclists are given quite a bit of protection and onus is on drivers in larger vehicles to take precautions around smaller road users.

Equally some cyclists are utter utter tossrags and flout rules and do dumb things. They're not supposed to ride on pavements (unless there's a marked segregated cycle path) but many do and put pedestrians at risk. I had some tit with a delivery bag merrily coming around a blind bend on my side of the road last week.

I cycle as well. There's bad behaviour by many road users. There's a lot of angry white van drivers around...

The Highway Code: 8 changes you need to know from 29 January 2022

Rules for all types of road users have been updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses.

www.gov.uk

What’s a pavement? Is that what yanks call a sidewalk?

If I’m at all uneasy on a road I’ll drive mid lane. If the driver feels uncomfortable then they usually take less risk passing. Of course all the risk is transferred to the cyclist. As a rule I’ll ride about 1/3 lane width from the road edge. I don’t ride the road edge usually because too many drivers are unsafe and there are too few bike lanes here. Heaven forbid a driver has a 30s inconvenience waiting to pass a bike just so nobody dies.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I want roads to be used for function, not Chris Boardman wannabe hobbyists. Go exercise somewhere where they dint hold up people going about their everyday business. Certainly not bikes on pavements.

Ah, function. I thought roads were for people. Good to learn function pays the road taxes.

 

[Moomin]

I think the idea is to move away from a reliance on fossil fuel electricity generation long term.

However, that is proving rather difficult. You'll probably only do it by a huge injection of nuclear power. Which presents with all sorts other environmental challenges.

Hydrogen was the other possible hope, but im not sure that's panning out brilliantly. I think @Moomin knows this area well.

Hydrogen production in the UK is moving very slow. Some have been canned with the delays in the spending review from the Government.

Some projects will start construction later this year but big decision this summer with BP's Blue Hydrogen plant on Teesside when it goes for it's FID.

 

[chrismpw]

So no bikes on roads, and no bikes on pavements, no bikes on sidewalks obviously.

Carbrain disease is a real thing, confirmed.

That's not what I said at all.
Pavements are for pedestrians - that is, correctly, the law.
No issue with bikes on a road for a function - getting groceries, getting to a destination etc.

I object to a thug of lycra louts spreading along a road making themselves impassible, holding up hundreds of others, just for fun or free exercise*

*if it were exercise they'd be on a 30kg bike from the 60s wearing baggy clothes to catch the wind, not featherweight bikes and aerodynamic clothing.

 

[chrismpw]

Ah, function. I thought roads were for people. Good to learn function pays the road taxes.

That argument doesn't help you. Cyclists don't pay road taxes.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

What’s a pavement? Is that what yanks call a sidewalk?

If I’m at all uneasy on a road I’ll drive mid lane. If the driver feels uncomfortable then they usually take less risk passing. Of course all the risk is transferred to the cyclist. As a rule I’ll ride about 1/3 lane width from the road edge. I don’t ride the road edge usually because too many drivers are unsafe and there are too few bike lanes here. Heaven forbid a driver has a 30s inconvenience waiting to pass a bike just so nobody dies.

The proper name for a sidewalk buddy!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Car Drivers are demanding cyclists have number plates and insurance and therefore accountability on the road. Intentionally adding to the cost of using a green method of transport. My point is if cyclists had to pay then they would be entitled to use much more of the roads as they would be directly paying into the system allowing them to do so. Its a lose/lose for the car driver.

As you put, it simply needs every road user, regardless of their transport method, to be more courteous to other road users and to be aware of the Highway Codes guidance.

Apologies if you read my flippant retort as some kind of F.U towards motorists, that was not the intention.

Plus the Highway Code specifically says that cyclists should position themselves in the middle of their lane.

Position yourself in the centre of your chosen lane, where you feel able to do this safely, to make yourself as visible as possible and to avoid being overtaken where this would be dangerous.

Not for the first time, Chris is talking out of his hoop.

 

[Pootsy]

That argument doesn't help you. Cyclists don't pay road taxes.

So my two cars sitting at home while I'm cycling to work or to a Mountain, don't count as paying, hopefully, towards the roads?

What about Electric Cars or some of the big brand new cars paying £0 - £30 up until recently, should they have been allowed on the roads?

 

[WA Toffee]

That argument doesn't help you. Cyclists don't pay road taxes.

Yes they do. Overwhelming majority of cyclists also own a car. In fact, maybe they should get a rebate for every mile cycled instead of driven?