12 year EV owners and advocates. YouTubers, tinkerers and repairers of EV powertrains. Mobile EV technician @Cleevely_Mobile
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This uber cheap energy from the sun is the reason 2 of our neighbours have recently installed solar panels and battery storage. 1 already has an EV, the second is about to purchase one.
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This is typical of Geoff.
Fabricate this figures
We did pay £11,500 for the van, but his valuations are somewhat interesting.
Pop the reg in to motorway with the current mileage of 2500, see what’s it’s worth.
May 22
Oh this is hilarious.
This electric van is more expensive to run than my 30 year old Volvo diesel.
They paid £11,500 VAT for a 1k mile van
They added 1,500 miles
Trade value is now £8k
So on that basis, the 1,500 miles didn't cost the claimed £130, it cost £5,930!
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We bought this van for £11,500 vat with less than 1000 miles on the clock. I’ve since added another 1500 miles over the past 10 days and charged almost exclusively on home charging.
This 1500 miles has cost us approx £84 in home charging and £47 in public charging, so £131.
If this was a diesel the 1500 miles would have cost us £276.
Over a year the savings here make a massive difference to the business.
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The one on the right is my van.
The one on the left sits higher than my van, weighs more than my van, has less storage space than a VW Golf, weighs around 1000kgs more than a Golf and almost 700kgs more than our own EV.
With the high risk of these burning down an airport carpark in Luton, their horrific emissions, reliability, fuel economy and weight, it’s a wonder why people buy them.
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Meanwhile, a new industry emerges to tackle the issue.
Once upon a time 12v car batteries were a major issue as recycling wasn’t available
Currently we sell 500 million a year, about 9 million metric tonnes.
Now they are considered one of the most recycled components on the planet with up to 99% of their components recycled, all this despite their toxic make up.
Wind turbines. Companies like enva.com/ take these blades and transform them in to components to replace fossil fuel at ‘energy to waste’ plants that manufacture cement.
This will happen worldwide as the need arises.
Meanwhile, old farts like this would rather you stick to burning gas and coal. The good news is, the world ain’t listening anymore.
May 3
On January 1, 2026, the European wind industry implemented a self-imposed landfill ban on turbine blades.
This has left many countries scrambling silently for solutions. Landfill has become the next unwanted crisis, yet it's the conversation no one wants to have. Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands have banned blade landfills, and so for a time they are being exported to countries like the UK or France, where they can still be buried.
Banning waste like turbine blades doesn't make it vanish though—it just puts it on a truck to a neighbour's backyard. Low-scale solutions are often cited as the answer, like turning blades into noise barriers, bridges or playground equipment.
How do you turn 43 million tons of blade waste from turbines into park benches and koala crossings? How many park benches does one planet actually need?
Modern recycling for glass and carbon fibre often requires pyrolysis (high-heat chemical decomposition). To recycle a 'green' blade, you must burn an immense amount of energy to break down the resins.
We are trading a physical waste problem for a new energy demand problem. People love a quirky solution that highlights the absurdity of the problem—like the image of a massive 80-metre blade being used as a single, very long bus shelter.
Even 'green' solutions have a physical footprint that can't be wished away by a spreadsheet.
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Evan at 2am, when the winds not shining, renewables cut the mustard.
Wind is again covering the baseload as it does for most of the year.
Fossil fuels play second fiddle these days. Most of our grid energy comes from renewables.
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So far today, renewable energy has produced over 70% of our grid energy.
Fossil fuels have produced only 6%
Imagine all that gas that hasn’t been burnt that we can use another day.
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People will have you believe that gas is clean. Look at the difference in emissions between Cornwall and East Anglia this morning.
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Apparently this isn’t a cobalt mine in the Congo. Reverse image search identifies it as;
Bingham Canyon Mine (also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine) in Utah, USA — the world’s largest human-made excavation
Apr 29
From an ignorant old Civil Engineer - here is a picture of a cobalt mine in the Congo. Every bit is excavated, moved and processed using fossil fueled powered equipment. The hypocrisy of the renewable energy clowns & grifters now praising battery storage - is alarming.
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Right now I’m charging my EV from the grid. It averages 4 miles/kWh.
With current emissions it will emit 20g/CO2 per mile or 12g/CO2 per km.
It costs 5p/kWh. For a full charge of 220 miles it will cost approximately £2.85.
The car I’m charging is a 2021 MG5 which has covered 170,000.
It’s well worth getting one if you can.
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They also manufacture more than any other country on the planet.
They also supply the world with more renewables than any other country on the planet
They also have more renewables than any other country on the planet
They also add more renewables annually than any other country country on the planet
They have also lowered their emissions for the first time ever in the past 18 months
Meanwhile, this post is trying to taint your view of them and to make you feel that burning fossil fuels is a good thing.
It isn’t.
I keep hearing China is “leading the green energy transition.”
China has ~18% of the world’s population…
…and burns more coal than the rest of the world combined.
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A little reminder that of the all the electricity you have used in your house (unless you have a solar PV and home battery storage) 43% has come from wind, solar or hydro power.
Every year that number increases while our fossil fuel use decreases.
This is a good thing
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He literally smokes around in a Range Rover ffs 🤦🏻♂️
Apr 11
I wonder perhaps if maybe they could also look into the enormous weight of electric cars.
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Since 2017 petrol and diesel car sales have been in decline globally.
Imagine what’s going to happen going forward as a massive chunk of the globes extracted oil sits stranded somewhere near Iran. This is causing fuel prices to go utterly crazy.
It’s only going one way
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Here’s another reason why I prefer my MG5 and I know this is JLR kit and it’s absolutely shite, but still, how do people afford to run these.
I’ve just fixed my mates Evoque. What an utter piece of sh1t design this is. The part alone was over £400 from LR.
Add that to his £80 of diesel for 300 miles and I wonder wtf is going on in his head.
If you’ve done an EGR cooler on one of these you’ll understand.
And you wonder why nobody is buying them.
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I know I keep going on about this, but solar and battery storage is ace. If you’re in a position to have it, it’s a no brainer.
Our old, outdated and modest system has produced over 45,000kWh since installation and our battery allows us to power shift to 98.7% cheap rate energy, which is now 5p/kWh thanks to @OctopusEnergy
Plug-in solar will 100% help also. Germany have over 1.2 million units registered with phenomenal success. The same will happen here.
This will save you money.
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Ive just been to one of our fleet customers. One of their Tesla M3’s has failed its MOT on a knuckle bush. It’s done 125k so expected, but it was borderline at best. However, it had an advisory for every disc - Worn, pitted or scoured, but not seriously weakened 👀
Genuinely, this is the worse disc. Inner face is the same too.
I wonder how many people would have just agreed to have them fitted 🤷🏻♂️
Anyone wanna guess who MOT’d it?
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People will argue that fossil fuels are for the best.
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Have a look what happens when you do, and when you don’t burn gas.
There are people out there supporting this, telling us it’s a good thing….
You have to question why, don’t you 🤔
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