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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...

This is already a reality-it’s an international standard (published as ISO 15118) and two charging networks in the UK have implemented it (Ionity and MFG), I’ve used it loads and it works great. The problem is a lot of car makers haven’t included it in their car and the majority of charge point...

With regards to Tebay southbound not sure how many folk realise but you can drive over to the northbound side and use those (I’ve done this myself). In terms of price there isn’t that much difference between Tesla and Westmorland. At Tebay Tesla is 47p off peak/60p peak for the Tesla price (at...

Discussion around the VAT cut and EVs is missing the point. It’s much more about general costs as most folk aren’t charging EVs at 7p kWh but are paying 20p+ kWh plus a large daily standing charge. If you have a heat pump or are considering moving to one (as everyone should frankly) this will...

Oh I don’t doubt severe hills matter. Bath (along with aforementioned Bristol as well as Sheffield and Edinburgh) is regarded as one of the of the most hilly cities in the UK. But Bristol has built a local cycling culture by investing in infrastructure-some of that infrastructure (such as...

Indeed. While avoiding interaction with vehicles needs to be one of the major considerations when designing cycling infrastructure it’s not the only thing that needs to be considered to make a commuter or other user feel safe. Dark and dingy underpasses and subways (for example) are not...

Most Dutch commuter bikes have gears these days. They’re typically the internal hub ones so might not be apparent. You also want gears for dealing with head and tail winds or bridges which the Netherlands has aplenty.

Correlation is not causation. Dutch cities like Maastricht and Arnhem are just as hilly as many UK towns and cities. Likewise Bristol is very hilly but more folk there cycle because there has been some investment in safe cycle lanes. Not enough IMO, but enough to begin to make a bit of a...

Absolutely. It is regularly cited that post war between a quarter and third of all road journeys were by bike in the UK (and this was in the days before good bike gearing). But the car became king and the UK government didn’t even bother to produce a dedicated cycle infrastructure design...

Yeah but we all know that a 5 coach 80X is a completely differently beast to a 5 coach Voyager due to the appalling inefficient layout of the latter. A 5x26m unit is longer than a 6x20m unit. A 9x26m unit is 54m longer than a 9x20m unit, and almost as much as a 12x20m unit such as a class 745.

Absolutely. And in the case of subsidies for EVs the cost to the NHS of lung/respiratory diseases and complications, and the cost to the climate through more CO2 being released. In the case of not investing in infrastructure the cost to the economy.

The fact that e-bikes are eligible for massive discount via the cycle to work scheme puts them on a par with electric vehicles grants (which only applies to certain vehicles). Maybe I’m misinterpreting what the OP is questioning but I get the impression it’s about e-bikes being promoted and...