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And your student may be interested to know that a significant % of people have no inner monologue at all... Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech I had an ex like this - I always assumed they were just being coy about what they were thinking, but once I learned about this - I think I was wrong and...

The depreciation will be negligible compared to use to drive - this is not the main supply to the grid - 19kW/week is an 80 mile drive. The last generation of batteries are doing far far in excess of expectations mine is 5yrs old, 100k miles and barely dented the range, there are some that are...

You say in 1 sentence what I took an essay to say - thank you!

At first glance it looks stupid doesn't it. The issue is peak demand. The actual total amount supplied doesn't need to be that big, but it needs to be available immediately. It's the classic kettles on in the Eastenders ad break scenario. Grid demand 5.30-9.30 is where most of the coal and gas...

They run a dedicated 30A 12mm cable from the board to the Charger as they install it. Unless your board is very old it doesn't need a new one. Yes it's OK on 13A plug, just very slow and is a big draw over a long time from thin cabling to use it as a permanent solution. You use the 13A plug...

Home chargers don't need 3phase, they use a 12mm lead and cost £600 now all the subsidy has gone but Direct Line and others offer discount bundles bringing the real price down to around £450. They charge overnight, very few need it every night, but even if you did, this is an actual calculation...

Autotrader has a decent selection. I'm not up on which are the best PHEV, but I know that the usual "EV's need far less maintenance" is still true for the electric half and that the issue with longer EV range PHEV's longevity wise can be lack of use of the engine side. Often they are barely...

The P denotes plug eg can be charged as opposed to the “self charging” hybrid. So a PHEV can be called a hybrid but a “mild” or self charging hybrid can’t be called a PHEV. In practice the difference is massive. A “self charging” hybrid is a standard ice vehicle with a motor that captures...

And welcome from Coventry, down the road! As for what to do with it once it's made... if your creative juices have flowed, there's always a market to sell it. I've got the skills to sell, just not the skills to make ... yet!

Wow! Thank you. I’d love to take you up on that. I’ve got so much to learn

I’ve done a lot of looking into it, happy to chat. Have to say, for workshop/ life balance I’m with Oldman and Hitch above. There are lots of options cheaper than you could build, 3 on autotrader at the moment under 10k. But if you do decide to go for it, I’d be up for a joint endeavour...

I agree I was super surprised when I found the national grid publishes the data on one page for the last hour day month year and to find that average last year we are already more renewable than fossil fuel. In the last month coal was 0.6% https://grid.iamkate.com/

It’s a common belief, unsurprisingly encouraged by fossil fuel lobbies, but the exact opposite is true. This from the Australian Energy council shows even using completely coal fired electricity they are still 40% lower emissions than petrol/diesel. In the UK, we are over 50% renewables the last...

Well hello, I've been a member for a while, but I'm such a total newbie, that I've not posted much at all, just been looking and learning, until today and the EV threads, so having jumped in all over a thread, I thought it was about time I introduce myself. I'm a life long lover of all things...

In fact, Johnson’s change was a downgrade, he brought the timing forward 5 years but changed it to the time to end all fossil fuel vehicles to the time when all vehicles must be able to use electricity. It will still be perfectly legal to buy a hybrid that only has a mini battery and motor but...