What you gonna do, pull @Sasquatch’s plug?Any more of that and you’re getting switched off
Are EVs the way forward?
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Be the first time in years nae doubtWhat you gonna do, pull @Sasquatch’s plug?
One with air pollution named on the death certificate.
Air pollution globally contributes to millions of deaths a year. Remember it is linked to strokes, heart disease and some cancers. The death certificates usually name the main cause but with diseases there can be many aggravating factors.
As for ULEZ it has worked absolute wonders for the air quality in the capital. When Khan was first elected it was predicted to take 193 years at current rates to get air pollution in London to within legal limits. They are on track to get there this year - pollution has fallen that fast. And the most improved areas have been the more deprived. The air quality is the fastest improving in the UK.
Remember over 20% of car journeys in the UK are under a mile. And over 70% are under five. ICE vehicles cannot get warm on these sort of journeys so damage is caused to the engine and exhaust systems at a faster rate while emissions are very high (they drop when engines are up to temp). If you dissuade people from using dirty old ICE vehicles in a congested area it is blatantly obvious it will have an effect on air quality.
When the wife's 10 year old Evoque dies, it'll be an ID4.Thinking about an ID3 or ID4
Amazingly the old LR is very reliable, she loves it and so do I when I'm allowed to drive it, usually when it needs filling up.
2 words there I never thought I'd hear together
£775 for pads and discs last year, that's it in 10 years! Only 70k on the clock tho'.
I suppose someone’s got to have one somewhere but they’re quite rare beasts.
My exact thoughts too
See them around here...
Land Rovers are amazing.
Over 70% are still on the road. The remainder managed to complete the journey home!
Nobody said it wasn’t real.
It’s whether it’s man made or the natural evolution of the earth.
there has been climate change or warming since the peaks of the last ice age. Every now and then the heating process speeds up and then slows down again but this cyclic warming rate is still bound to continue regardless unless something very dramatic happens that is totally beyond our control.
Well if you start recording the earth’s temperature shortly after a mini ice age what do you think the natural progression of the earths temperature will be?
By which time we'll all be dead, so why all the fuss?
Post glacial warming is on the scale of 30000 to 100000 years. The loss of alpine ice happened since I was climbing there in my Uni days. The current heating is man made, this is reality. What to do about it is a political question, the fact it is happening due to human activity is certain.
Really? I kind of feel a responsibility to my kids, and future grandkids, but hey, that's just me.
Looking at the rate of change of infrastructure and the increasing age that children are leaving home, then children will be living at home and not driving anywhere. They wont be able to afford to buy there own homes and car ownership will be pointless. I wonder what the people that migrated to the country might do? Sell up and go back to the city, I wonder?
That will solve the future grandkids problem then and go someway towards helping with the overall situation.
There are too many of us and due to medical advancements, we are living longer than is necessary. Animals still have the same lifespans that they've had since time began, but in probably the last 50 years, we've gone from an average of three score and ten, to people being expected to last well into there 80's. It was my Mothers (88) funeral last week, and I noticed this when looking around the churchyard.
Look at how nature thrived during covid lockdowns. That may have been natures way at thinning us out, but oh no, we had to fight against it. Medical intervention again.
Some can say that they are doing their bit by driving and EV, but where is their old vehicle? They're not old bangers being scrapped after been traded in, they are generally 2-3 year old vehicles that will go on for another 20 years or more, whereas this years new EV is said to have a service life of approximately 10 years. It doesn't add up.
I know to most my views are all bollocks. After all this note under my avatar sums me up.
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