Comments by "S Andersson" (@sandersson2813) on ""Pointless Activity!" Mike Graham And Steve Berry TRASH Electric Cars Figures" video.

  1. Most people do not buy 10 year old cars. Speak for yourself.
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  2. The Tesla Model Y is the worlds best selling car. There's nothing wrong with electric cars IF you have the infrastructure. That's the problem in the UK.
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  3. What do batteries produce?
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  4. If you knew anything about cars you'd know they are BEV's. Battery Electric Vehicles.
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  5.  @bentonks7751  I do, and they are fine, but my caveat for them working is very simple and it's infrastructure, so I'm not being a zealot or a fan boy, I'm being very specific about WHEN they work. Those of you in the UK shouldn't be deriding electric cars, you should be deriding the lamentable infrastructure which isn't good enough in the UK. For the record I live in Norway, which is currently probably the only country in Europe where they make sense. I agree with you the UK isn't ready yet. PS. Your TV remote and phone ARE electric. They both use electrical power derived from the batteries within them.
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  6.  @mda5003  They don't, it's just an urban myth.
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  7. Electric cars are perfectly fine IF you have the infrastructure, and the UK is nowhere near.
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  8. Of course you know better than a renowned motoring journalist?
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  9. Mercedes are not stopping them. That's another conspiracy theory.
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  10.  @neillbutcher613  Actually, the make of the vehicle hasn't been revealed, but even if it was, so what? Statistically electric cars go on fire far less than ICE or Hybrid cars. I'm not indoctrinated, I just prefer factual information and not conspiracy.
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  11.  @neillbutcher613  The type of vehicle involved hasn't been revealed.
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  12. Insurance prices have gone up because of a shortage of parts for ALL car types.
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  13.  @emceedoctorb3022  Lots of things are hard to put out in the event of a fire, Grenfell for example, but something with an incredibly small chance of happening isn't something to be overly worried about. A plane can crash, a train can crash, you can crash your car, how much time do you spend worrying about that? Virtually none, so why would you spend any time being concerned about the minute chance of your car catching fire?
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  14.  @markstarmer3677  You do realise that every piece of electrical equipment that uses lithium batteries is aware of this and mitigates against it? Do you seriously think all these electric cars would get 5 stars in Euro NCAP tests if they were statistically more likely to burst into flames? Lithium PARTICLES or DUST MAY ignite in air, lithium as a solid does not.
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  15. Who knows more about cars, motoring and the car industry, you or a Steve Berry?
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  16.  @nigeltrueman6101  Why not?
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  17. You'll never be able to afford a Ferrari, you can't even spell "hear"
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  18.  @kevinashurst634  I do drive one, but I live in Norway which is 10X better than when I've driven one in UK.
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  19. Get a better job.
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  20.  @Pendragon1122  Most people absolutely do not keep their cars for ten years. Where are you getting this rubbish?
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  21. That's 18% of cars being EV, that's pretty good at this stage of the game.
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  22.  @annieluctor7524  Still quite impressive on a country that isn't well suited at present.
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  23.  @jjrider6758  Oh, so fleet sales don't count? They certainly counted when it was a Ford Mondeo or BMW 3 Series, but don't count now? When was the last time you saw a fleet dictate what you drive? The EMPLOYEE chooses the car they drive. No one in employment who is given a car is forced into a specific model. We have all sorts of schemes now, salary sacrifice, car allowance etc. Virtually no one is forced into a make or model. I wouldn't choose a Tesla, but plenty do.
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  24.  @jjrider6758  Oh, so your anecdotal evidence of one person is indicative of all cars provided in one way or another by a company? How many people do you know who have the benefit of a company car, salary sacrifice or car allowance to get a car are dictated as to what they drive? You've given the example of ONE, and you expect me to believe there's a majority of fleet drivers "forced" into Tesla Model Y? Companies aren't going to force people onto a car that is so expensive. If they were really trying to virtue signal, they'd do it in a car which was considerably cheaper than a 55k car. Most of the people who are "dictated" will be people who are required to drive a van for a local council, engineering form, builder etc which if you haven't noticed, is not a Tesla Model Y.
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  25.  @jjrider6758  The Tesla Model Y is the best selling car in the world, but you claimed that most EV sales are due to fleet cars, which by definition would mean that many of them would have to be Model Y, so either people are being forced into Model Y, because according to you EVs are mainly in fleet sales or people are willingly choosing Model Y. It is the latter.
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  26. Seamless gear change? EVs don't have gears.
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  27.  @geoffersvoiceofreason2534  To be fair, My previous 3 ICE cars could also be started remotely, warmed up and defrosted, so it's not unique to EV
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  28.  @geoffersvoiceofreason2534  First one did, 2nd and 3rd didn't.
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  29.  @geoffersvoiceofreason2534  True. They were cars more towards the top end. I've got an electric now, but I live in a country suited for them.
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  30. It doesn't takes hours at all. I plug mine in and go for a run.
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  31.  @diddyd8350  You won't find temperature on a barometer. Barometers measure pressure.
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  32.  @diddyd8350  I know that, but UK isn't extreme cold anyway, so it's not an issue.
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  33.  @nockianlifter661  No one says you have to wait in the car. Do something else, I do. For many people they work because they have a charger at home, at work or aren't so stupid they think you have to wait in the car. Besides, if I do wait in the car, guess what, the car has full internet, so I can watch a film or whatever for half an hour.
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  34.  @nockianlifter661  That's the point though isn't it? There seems to be an ardent rejection of EV's from a certain sector of society that has decided for everyone that electric vehicles don't work under any conditions. They are incapable of understanding that everyone is different and has different circumstances. Of course they don't suit everyone, no one has suggested at present they can or will suit everyone. It requires many things to be in place.
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  35.  @nockianlifter661  I don't think that was what he said. I think he said that it was old technology, but change is only as good as the infrastructure. Hydrogen would be fantastic, but there's no infrastructure. I live in Norway, and the infrastructure of electric cars makes it practical. I think it would be difficult to achieve in the UK where population is so high and dense. I agree we should retain the choice, not least because UK emissions from cars is only 0.13% of global co2, so it isn't going to make any difference at all in terms of climate change.
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  36.  @nockianlifter661  I agree with you by and large. I don't think the environmental arguments add up either. Personally I don't think EVs work especially well in small, densely populated countries like the UK because there are simply not enough chargers and probably never will be. An EV takes about 15 times longer than a petrol car to charge/fill up, and only gets half the range so we need 30 times as many chargers as we have petrol pumps to make it work. I can't see that happening and as such we will need Petrol/Diesel for decades, and I'm fine with that. It works here in Norway because we have enough chargers and a sparse population and EVs have no VAT.
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