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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    ICE cars and motorbikes probably emit note from their cheap alternators and ignition circuits. Remember as a kid the MW radio and TV going fuzzy when cars and motorcycles went past.
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    More Cab views on YouTube - Waterloo to Bank and return.

    That surprises me, I'd have thought it must terrifically boring shuttling between 2 stations, and therefore unpopular. Not saying you're wrong, just find it surprising.
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    It's dead easy. The car navigates you to the charger. You plug it in. If it's a Tesla on a Tesla charger or particular models on certain other chargers it will start charging automatically. Otherwise you tap your card. Thats it. You dont have to use any apps. 7p per kWh at home, so less than 2p...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Ah yes there are odd niche cases like the Scottish island where some idiot built a wind turbine with nowhe5for the electricity to go. So it's being used to make hydrogen that's shipped to a distillery. What on earth are you both blathering on about? The electric motor has been around for over...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Hydrogen is the answer for nothing, unless you want to pay 10x fuel costs, which nobody does. HGVs CNG is already have significant market penetrative and the o frstructure in growing. This can be produced from biomethane, which if produced from waste and manures is zero carbon footprint. Can...
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    2024 Tube Stock (Siemens Inspiro London)

    Does the withdrawal of the 1973 stock provide a source of spare parts for the 1972 stock to keep that going?
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    Buying vehicles privately vs from a trader?

    Absolutely highest risk option. If the car goes bang the next day, tough. If you buy from a dealer you have mandatory warranty and consumer rights. Some of those health checks aren't really worth getting though, someone's little more than what the car reports to the driver. But I suppose for...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Nah,bought my Tesla from a small independent one and the iD4 from Car Supermarket. Both fine, no hassle at all. Yeah Big Motoring World I went to when it was called something else about 10 years ago. They soft credit checked you the instant you walked in the door and tried to ascertain your...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Yes the MG5 is a pretty decent car. We bought an id4 recently from a car supermarket. Had earlier test driven one at a back street place but didn't buy that one as it had indeed been a taxi, still traces of sticker glue on the dash, and they'd forgotten to remove some power cabling for the meter...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Depending upon your mileage it may be more economically sensible to make the switch now, as the running costs are so much lower, particularly if you do high mileages. And please ensure the filthy diesel is scrapped when you are finished with it :). Meh. Warranty. Some engines fail too in the...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    No, I drive all over the country.
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    Station pubs (part two?)

    Ah it is indeed. In one of those sliding doors moments I popped in there a few years ago now. Eyes met with those of a young lady say alone at a table and for some reason we smiled at each other. After I'd go my drink, she invited me to share her table and sorted some unfathomable reason I...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    I think you've been exceptionally unlucky. I've been doing about 30,000 miles a year for the past 3 years in EVs and can count on one hand the number of times I've been unable to charge. You won't miss your diesel. 350 miles is beyond the practical motorway range of just about any EV on the...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    Why would you have to dig up you're tired garden and driveway to lay a SWA cable?? You only need a trench a few inches wide! Actually all of our EVs have had significantly lower rates of tyre wear than the ICE vehicles we had. My Tesla has done 70,000 miles in my possession. The tyres weren't...
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    Weird boxes on posts along Cleethorpes P3

    Well I hardly think Cleethorpes will ever need 6 platforms!
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    See it. Say it. Sorted.

    Indeed they do, but they are hardly likely to be travelling alone, or to "see something that doesn't look right" are they?
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    See it. Say it. Sorted.

    Why don't they just put a poster in every carriage with the number and the stupid slogan and stop the annoying announcements?
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    Azuma seating

    I find it's ok for a while a d then I be one aware of the bar and then it's just uncomfortable. Kings Cross to Lincoln and I became aware of the bar somewhere around Peterborough. Really bad. Don't get me started on the ridiculously tiny buffet with very small selection either.
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    Is this actually valid?

    Thank you
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    Is this actually valid?

    Going to London. Train split have sold me an advance single from my local station to London Underground Zone 2, and an anytime day so gle from Finsbury Park to London underground zones 1-6. Their itenaraty has me on a Thameslink service from Cambridge to Finsbury Park, then staying on that train...

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