Ouch. The toll prices.

Still better overall than the high end ICE tank they'd have bought instead. Definitely need low mpg ICE cars mostly binned off.

£467 to tax the Lexus this year. Bastards.

I'm all for THE GREEN REVOLUTION and saving the planet, think of the squirrels and so on, but my car was built over 18 years ago and a lot of its 'debt to the earth' was paid at that point. I see BMW EV tanks driving around here that must have a bill of a materials to make a rogue Russian billionaire yacht owner blush, paying £65 per year tax. (And that's before we get onto the child cobalt slave miners under the bonnet.)

I clocked the reg of one the other week, checked it out on the IOMG website and then looked it up online to get the model, its STARTING PRICE (i.e. without options), was £120K.

High end electric cars the size of a small planet - tax dodge for rich people, subsidised by us badly behaved normal working people keeping old ICE cars on the road.

think of the squirrels and so on

I saw the Cadbury Crème Egg car yesterday. It’s absolutely *massive*. I thought it was a wee little thing.

Blackcircles or tyresonthedrive

Lucky me needs to get a wheel welded and two extra tyres fitted.

Missed this. How's the 6 wheeled car?

Just about to start my Driver Speed Awareness course! Exciting stuff

Good luck! Hope you beat your personal best.

Turns out driving too fast is bad. I am now aware of this.

Only if you get caught!

Yes. It is why I will lease for a max 3 years.

Anyway EVs are too expensive, nice ones at least.

I have two hulking great V8 cars, two baby-engined cars and a tractor.

An EV is arriving this month, because I drove one and they're obviously the only sensible choice for a new car - if (and it's a big if) you can charge it at home. If not, they're almost twice as expensive to run as a petrol car (at least in my area), which is insane.

Why are they going to be "obsolete"? Our nine year old Nissan Leaf is still by most objective measures the best car I've ever owned. Pence to run and the only thing we've had to spend on it except electricity is four tyres, some brakes and wiper blades (and some paint where it got dinged). All this FUD about EVs. If EVs even with all their current limitations were the existing thing and someone came along suggesting petrol cars as the solution you would think they were absolutely fucking mental.

Yeah, so driving round with a tank full of flammable liquid might sound a bit sketchy and it's true, they will catch fire more than EVs but still mostly they won't catch fire, but yeah they create more pollution, cost more to run and are insanely complicated requiring hundreds of separate mechanical and electrical components.

On the plus side though over a few years of car ownership you're going to get to learn about fuel pumps, catalytic converters, starter motors, alternators, spark plugs, head gaskets, timing belts, oil filters, exhaust pipes and so, so much more, too much to name in fact! It's all such fun! But the big benefit obviously aside from your car now having a soul (more on this later!), the really truly massive payoff here is that filling them up with the flammable liquid will be quicker than charging your EV was, unless you were charging your EV at home in which case it'll take you a bit longer because you've got to drive to a special fuel station and stand there while it does it.

And also yes, they're also noisy and smelly and that might seem a bit shit, but just trust us this is actually a good thing. Over time you will come to love that noise and smell, because it means that your car has a soul. This might not make any sense whatsoever but there there will be an endless supply of middle aged men who identify as "petrolheads" and will always be on hand to explain it to you in angry detail.

Which EV are you going for?

The only PHEV will be the Superb and Kodiaq, which are huge. I don;t need a car that big.

Fair point on the parking.

In reality almost nobody actually needs a DC charger, just a regular extension cable to juice up overnight. Same as in reality almost nobody actually needs 300 mile range.

An Enyaq 85x, the SUV-shaped one (the dog won't fit in the boot otherwise).