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50mpg on the motorway is not equivalent to 50mpg average. The post I was replying to was speculating about the price of an EV when charged on public chargers. Doing the maths on only one segment of driving wouldn’t be representative (other than for the one segment of course). The 4.0 m/kWh i...

I charge exclusively on public chargers, because I have no way of charging at home. By my maths, I have to be paying about 65p/kWh for petrol to be cheaper to use(assuming 150p per litre, and 40mpg average efficiency). There is a charger near me that costs 75p per kWh, but even GridServe...

My EV (BMW i3) is a 2013 design, built in 2016, and has a 8 year, 100,000 mile warranty on the traction battery. Currently, after 7 years and 60k miles, my specific car is sitting at about 87% health, which is to say, it has a capacity 87% of the as new capacity. I suspect ones being built...

In my case, the council have fitted 15 free to use rapid chargers about a 10 minute drive from my flat. So I will typically take it there and sit in the car for 30 mins, which will get it to about 90%ish. However, within the last 6 months 3 separate rapid charging sites have opened within 5 mins...

As someone who lives in a second floor flat, with on street parking, who also owns an EV, perhaps I can explain: I take it to the public charger that's a 5 minute walk from my flat, and plug it in.

With the structural cracks that were found, and the subsequent fines that Hitachi would have then faced for not providing units, does this not improve the value for money aspect of the procurement? Or were the fines immaterial mostly?

What looked like two tamper unit went by Pollokshaws East at about 2354 on 11/02/2023, just wondering if that’s indeed what they were, and where they were going. I’m assuming Carstairs but if so it’s not often you see them on that side of the circle

Why are the new OLE masts so much more substation than the 1960s one in the foreground for the Cathcart circle? I'm sure the modern mast is stronger, more resilient etc, and but I don't recall many problems occurring with the Cathcart Circle OLE even with all the bad weather over the last few years

It wasn’t just Tebay. I stopped at Tebay and Abington during this time period and both locations were had atleast six cars waiting for a turn on the Gridserve chargers. At Tebay specifically, where Tesla chargers are on the southbound side, and Gridserve North bound, some Teslas had swapped over...

Not a clear cut restriction, but an old Transport Scotland document discussing 314 replacements states that “class 334 units are not suitable for prolonged operation on the Cathcart circle all day - the thermal capacity of the traction equipment is insufficient to cope with the harsh duty cycle...

Smithy Lye sidings are still there, with OLE gantry remaining. Although I don’t know if the rails are still physically connected and it’s more of a forrest now :D

They are plenty of torque converter gearboxes which have paddles. 99% of BMWs, JLR, Alfa Romeo, among many others use the same torque converter gearbox supplied by ZF, which offers paddles. Volvos use the same gearbox too but simply don’t provide paddles. Mercedes offer paddles too but use a...

Perhaps stretching the rules slightly, but Upper Tyndrum and Tyndrum Lower? Both sit on the West Highland Line, but the only route through both requires a change at Crianlarich

Having done this for the same stations myself, I can confirm the validator at Langside (and presumably any other station), will not validate the smart card. However, I contacted Scotrail asking the same question as you a few years ago and was told there was nothing to worry about, and that not...

There was never going to be 100% HST coverage on these services, as units from the Kyle and Far North lines need to be rotated and sent to Glasgow(Corkerhill I think?) for maintenance periodically

Apologies for derailing the thread slightly, but I have never seen any evidence that the 380s and 385s can’t cope with repeated journeys on the Cathcart Circle, other than repeated claims on here. 334s yes, that was called out in a report when discussing 314 replacements, but not 380/385. 385s...

Most major EV OEMs and engineers say there are significant efficiencies still to come. The Lucid Air is achieving ~4.5 miles per kWh, which is nearly double that of a BMW i4. The upper ceiling for EV efficiency is currently thought to be around 7-8 miles per kWh, so even though an EV powertrain...

Will this loop perform much of the role the Lentran loop was proposed for, or are both still ideal?

On Sunday there I caught the 1601 Mallaig to Glasgow Queen Street (well Crianlarich in reality…). It was a four coach 156 but half the set failed at Fort William, so it’s possible some of the disruption might well be related to that failed unit (and no drivers being available to get a...

My journey tomorrow on the West Highland Line has been hugely curtailed with 15 hours notice https://twitter.com/ScotRail/status/1545477510007296001 It is enormously frustrating that even with the emergency timetable, due to these cancellations, there is as far as I can work out, one single...