Not “virtually the same model”:

Look at what people are paying to replace the batteries in their Priuses nowadays.

It costs about $50 to $100 to replace a laptop’s battery

The reason the laptops are scrapped is because they’ve become relatively slow by the time you need to replace the battery.

I still have old laptops in regular use.

The EV landscape has changed more than you realise

It’s an exponential growth thing, coupled with the fact that any given year’s sales are less tan 10% of the vehicle fleet anyway.

EV sales are doubling roughly every 2 years. We’re 4 doublings in.

It only takes 8 doublings to change the sales mix almost entirely.

Once…

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

The person who solves it will be supermarket chains.

Charge when you shop.  Fairly slowly.  25kW will do you.

Over time, each grid gets greener.  Mainly because the cheapest way to build new generating capacity is to build renewable generation.

Over time, each grid gets greener. Mainly because the cheapest way to build new generating capacity is to build renewable generation. So over time, an exiting EV gets greener. Whereas, over time, an ICEV gets less efficient, as the various parts of the engine and cooling system soot up and fur up.

And, even if an EV is…

Plus they dumped Vauxhall and Opel.

Which immediately became money spinners.

If you’ve eaten mussels or oysters, then snails are not much different.

Mind you, I’ve never bothered to have them again, after my first time.

You seem to be mistaking what 3 degC warmer means. You seem to think that 3degC warmer on a whole-year, whole-globe basis means that every place will simply be at all times 3degC warmer than it used to be at any given month of the year.

But it doesn’t work like that.

Yes, things change. But for longer than humanity has existed, temperature and climate have changed slowly - 1degC every 2,000 to 20,000 years. As opposed to what is appening now - 1degC every 100 years, and accelerating. And the rate of acceleration is itself accelerating.

The implications of Brexit for the motor industry ar quite simple.

Profit margins of 0%-8% + tariff levels of 10%-22% = devastation for the automotive industry.

The problem for Jag is that their heritage DNA is twice having the world’s fastest production car, and a bunch of Le Mans wins in two different eras.

It’s hard to walk away from the sporting aspect of sports luxury when you’ve always been the sporty brand. (In the UK, their Daimler brand was their luxury offering)

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…

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.

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.