Recent content by Noddy

Given the current government (continuing a trend from previous administrations) appear to be doing everything they can to avoid nationalising Thames Water, I can’t see this happening. Nationalising water companies is actually something Thames Water customers and the wider general public actually...

You’ll also note that the Gloucester Services chargers are 69p kWh (despite being at a Motorway Services), 6.7% cheaper than the OPs quoted 74p.

Plus if you are public charging regularly you’d buy a subscription which would significantly reduce the cost.

Sadly I’m one of them. I do about 20000 miles per year and about 12-14000 is for work trips. I’m on my own 99.9% of the time for that. What you can’t see is all the kit that is being carried in the boot of the car that I need on site. Another transport method simply wouldn’t be practical. In...

That’s all fine and dandy but it’s been over 27 years. In that time EWS has gone from something like a stable 80-90% market share (and a 40% rise in tonne miles in four years) to its current circa 20%. You cannot continually blame this decline on one man who was CEO for four years, three decades...

Direct Rail Services was created in 1994, almost two years before EWS. GB Railfreight was created in April 1999 and Freightliner Heavy Haul wasn’t formed until January 2000, six months after Burkhardt left. Advenza Freight were created in 2001 and Colas not until 2007. EWS market share was...

Ed Burkhardt is getting a lot of flack on this thread but he was only in charge of the business for four years until July 1999, and therefore hasn’t been involved for over 27 years. I don’t doubt he made a lot of mistakes but the subsequent managers and owners are surely just as much to blame...

@Mawkie called this user out back in April. If they’re not trolling, frankly they must be unbelievably stupid.

I think it should be pointed out that this is Hampshire County Council branded/supported chargers, and not public chargers installed in Hampshire. Instavolt just for example have 44 chargers installed at a single site near Winchester, and there will be 1000s of public chargers across the county...

Supercharging has been directly subsidised in the past eg Free supercharging, but it is also still indirectly subsidised as a result of all the direct support that the supercharging arm received over the last 15 years that other charging firms simply didn’t benefit from. Even today they are...

Tesla Supercharging has been massively (and I mean massively) subsidised by the main business as a way of selling EVs. Their rates still reflect this (although they are creeping up to reflect the real world cost and at some locations their open to all pricing is more expensive than other...

Most company car schemes are via lease companies such as Zenith, so I don’t think this would apply.

Not sure why inflation would make much of a difference as the monthly’s are locked in for the four years? But if you pocket the £10k and put it in an ISA or whatever at least you’re getting the interest for that value. If you give up the 10k straight away as a deposit that’s a bigger inflation...

Just remember that modern high efficiency commercial grade solar panels are much much more efficient at producing electricity than most (invariably large but cheap) home solar panels, especially in low light/poor angle conditions. I could well imagine that it would be able to power 15 watts of...

Base BIK for petrol is not 31%. It’s graded based on the CO2 emissions of the vehicle. Anything over 155g/km is 37% but it’s banded downwards in increments of 5g/km, for example anything in the 105 to 109g/km bracket is 27% and anything in the 51 to 54g/km is 17%. PHEVs are 4% (same as an EV) to...