Cold winter weather means EV range plummets with battery and car heaters.

Arrived here with just 5 miles left, but glad I have that little rex engine as backup (40 miles)

#bmwi3 #ev

Once again had to download a stupid app and spend ten minutes by the side of the road faffing with my phone to charge the car. This is such a huge barrier to entry for so many people, I do not know why you cannot just plug your car in and swipe a bank card, it is ridiculous. No wonder people stick to petrol cars, at petrol stations you can just swipe your card and fill up. It's inexcusable that it isn't the same experience for electric, there's no good reason for it. #ev #rant

I hope the investigation into this "make pumps 5" #fire in #Suffolk involving an #EV is published (and the make and model of vehicle and charger publicised) - it seems to also include the #charger as #UKPowerNetworks had to put 73 buildings off supply to make the scene safe..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n0kvz1e0o

@DenOfEarth @ZeKik @dan lol yep, 100 #ev hp in the #SoulEV is perfect as a fun little car to rag to town and back. 200 EV hp in the #e_Niro is bonkers 😜

i3s is scary fast for it’s chassis capabilities

"Unreliable public charging stations deter many potential electric vehicle buyers"

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Vehicles

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-unreliable-stations-deter-potential-electric.html

This report (which crops up every few months) is often used to spin #EV adoption, but the reality is its the #driving schools that are buying EVs for their fleets - most of the young #learner #drivers who choose #automatic #cars are picking #petrol / #diesel vehicles when they pass their test , the main reason folk are increasingly choosing automatic 'boxes in #UK is the stress of learning to drive and sheer weight of traffic (I've driven in #Swindon and it has an abundance of #roundabouts, where driving manual can be a chore).

There *isn't* at present much of "green dividend" as is often claimed (although it must reduce emissions from driving school cars, and used Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf are now reaching "first car" price points)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80gk97xe85o

A somewhat ironic incident : an #EV was crashed into an #electricity pole in #Cambridgeshire - causing a big #fire and putting several homes off supply. The driver was lucky and escaped with only minor #injuries

#RoadSafety #UK #infrastructure #UKPN #UKPowerNetworks

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-09-14/homes-left-without-power-after-car-crashes-into-electricity-pole-catching-fire

#EV #ElectricVehicle #Hybrid advice wanted, please.

*#UK answers only, thank you*

I may need to buy a new (to me) car. I'd love to not, but public transport and my health are crap, so it's car or housebound. I'm looking at electric as a way to at least reduce the ongoing costs and environmental impacts. But it absolutely must be a self-charging hybrid, and that's where it gets tricky - adverts don't specify and I have no idea how to tell.

I would appreciate, please, either:

1. A sure-fire way to know whether a particular car I'm looking at is self-charging.

Or:

2. Recommendations for makes and models that are cheap, with big boots, and are absolutely definitely self-charging.

I know I might be in moon-on-a-stick territory, and if so I'll end up with another petrol car this time and hope for better results next time. At least I can reassure myself that I've looked into it.

@hedders

The best #EV #charging app I've found is #Electroverse, run by #Octopus. It provides an optional card that works with lots of chargers in the UK and abroad. But it doesn't seem complete: there are chargers that I believe exist, which Electroverse doesn't know about.

If you know of a better app, I'd be glad to hear about it!

🆕 blog! “Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations”

Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance.

Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies:

There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petrol-stations-%f0%9f%86%9a-car-charging-locations/
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#car #ev #news

Nice spot in town, Dutch registration plates, sitting charging near the West coast of Ireland, so quite a way from home.

#motorcycles #electricvehicles #ev

This is why I will still drive a #petrol car for the next few years (its not even the fault of the Council as such, but their private sector contractor they used can't maintain the #EV chargers in a timely manner, and the other companies which do keep them working are charging way more for the #electricity )

I've seen the same issues reported the other side of the Stour in #Essex - whereas you can still get petrol and #diesel (often 24/7) from many places..

https://archive.ph/5qpIg

This guy reeeaaaallllly hates #California.

#Trump Blocks California #EV Rules in Latest Move to *Rein In* the State

California leaders said the #state intends to challenge the move in #court, & to find new ways to move drivers toward #ElectricVehicles.

Trump signed joint resolutions of #Congress on Thurs that block California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles, his latest attempt to reduce the power of the nation’s most populous state.

#law #Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/california-trump-electric-vehicle-waiver.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The #Republican-led #Congress passed the resolutions in May to reverse #Biden’s approval of #California’s #EV efforts. When signed by the president, joint resolutions revoking federal rules carry the force of #law & are not subject to #judicial review.

Even so, the move is expected to draw an immediate #legal challenge from CA, as well as an #ExecutiveOrder from Gov #GavinNewsom directing state ofcls to find another path to move the state’s drivers toward EVs & encourage companies to make them.