The 2nd gen Jag EV will be the new XJ.

The I-Pace’s tech is actually not “so much worse” than other EVs. Its cold-weather real-world range is better than Tesla X. It and the Taycan are the EVs that are actual fun to drive (as opposed to doing a couple of fast 0-60 runs, followed by increasingly slow 0-60 runs).

Its EPA range (now 250miles, thanks to a…

“why isn’t Greta visiting India, China or Russia, who are the largest polluters in this world”
The USA is the largest polluter, at 400 billion tonnes of CO2.
China is in 2nd place, at 200 billion tonnes of CO2.
Russia is in 3rd place, at 100 billion tonnes of CO2.
Then Germany at 90, then the UK at 77.
India is distantly…

Scotland has gone from coal-based electricity generation to having an oversupply of wind-power, and now has no coal-fired power stations, no coal mines, and is down to just one remaining gas-turbine electrical power station.
It is currently in a managed transition away from its North Sea oil & gas extraction and…

One of the under-reported aspects of global warming is the massive increase in vinyards in England, courtesy of the warming climate in the UK.  It’s gone from under 100 hectares to over 2,000 hectares in 45 years.

The London-Brighton Run is an annual celebration of the lifting of the 4mph limit and the need to have someone (I’m assuming most often a servant) walk in front with a flag.

When Earth last had CO2 levels this high, and the temperature reached equilibrium, Earth had trees at the South Pole, and uninhabitable zones. Temperature reaches equilibrium with about a 110 year lag behind the levels of heat-trapping gasses.

If by “we”, you mean the rocks and the single-celled lifeforms, then you are right, we are not screwed.

If by “we”, you mean human beings, especially human beings living in cities and supported by farming hinterlands, then you are incorrect. We are screwed.

In the UK, the first cars did their testing on-road.

Except he stopped being CEO years ago, in 2016.

EPA high speed testing averages in the 40's.

In the UK, a new car must get its permanent plates fitted before leaving the dealer. But these can be made easily, at a wide variety of local shops, on presentation of the appropriate documents. While you wait, within 15 minutes. If you own the vanity plate, and have assigned it to the vehicle, it’s as fast to make…

Scotland has gone from coal+nuclear to gas+nuclear to wind+nuclear already. It’s been the same fleet of nuclear plants through through both of those transition periods.
We don’t need to buy time - we need to get started. Teh most expensivce renewable - offshore wind - is now almost three times cheaper to build, per Mega…

It was not early Russian reactor designs that have caused mass-evacuations and permanent no-go areas around Fukushima in Japan.

Just btw. Itym bated breath - ie moderated, held or restrained breath, rather than breath that you’ve put a hook and worm on.

Just a moot point. :-)

Over here in Europe, all the construction trades use Ford Transits (and the equivalents from the other makers, including VW Sprinters, etc).

Narrow enough, short enough (and available in wider and longer wheelbase versions), and all the stuff is secured inside the van, rather than lying on the bed.

Rivian now have significant backing & buy-in from Ford, (in addition to Amazon).
I hear Ford have at-scale manufacturing expertise going back a fair few decades...

Generally, you fill up EVs from whatever electrical generating source is nearby. You can check up the generating mix in the USA on a state-by-state basis. Some is principally fossil fuels (coal or gas), some is principally nuclear, some principally hydro, and some have substantial solar/wind contributions. You can…

Hybrids don’t significantly help with high-speed highway driving. They help dramatically with slow-speed, stop-start & speed-up/slow-down driving.

So even if hybrids take over the motoring pool, it doesn’t affect the environmental arguments about cutting down on or eliminating unlimited speed motoring on…

Neutral: The London-Brighton Reliability Run

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