It was all lies. Given away by the additional bingo items of chargers out of order and not enough of them. Any electric car could do that journey easily with the only charge being at home before the journey started. Probably a new tactic by the paid FUDsters to now quote shorter journeys which are more likely to have happened, as the old 600 miles without stopping is obvious nonsense.

@AntiEVidiots Citroen e-dispatch van. 50k miles. Michelin Agilis 3.

@LaneyGH @IanJamsie @colinwalker79 Fortunately electric vehicles are not limited to 60 minutes of driving or 60 miles of distance. Even the very first Nissan Leaf from 15 years ago could do better than that.

Betamax failed because at launch the longest tape was 60 minutes, far too short for most feature films. Sony and others believed that the primary market for home video would be recording from broadcast for later playback. They totally missed the movie rental concept and by the time they realised it was too late. The movie rental market therefore went to VHS which had longer tape lengths from the start.

Gates are not disabled or opened by removing power - there are much easier ways. Remote cloning, slinging a metal drain cover into the middle of the driveway, climbing over and pressing the manual exit button, unscrewing the pivot pin on above ground actuators and so on. If they are relying on the gates to be anything other than a minor inconvenience to criminals, they need to rethink their entire security arrangements.

Diesel cars are totally unsuitable for the majority of drivers and always were. Plenty of people were suckered into buying one from around the year 2001 due to Brown reading 3 lines of a 100 page document and making incorrect conclusions. Those same people have since mostly realised that diesels are a dreadful choice and manufacturers have stopped making them as demand has disappeared.

I bought mine as all of the lease or whatever else it's called deals resulted in you paying the full purchase price in about 4 years. Buy = after 4 years you still have the van to continue using, sell or do whatever else you want with it. Lease = after 4 years you have nothing despite paying for the vehicle and if you want to have a van after that then your monthly payments continue for the rest of your lifetime. Vendors of vans and other vehicles desperately want you to lease, as it's the way they make most of their money. They are not actually selling vehicles, they are just loan sharks under another name. Don't be sucked in by 'interest free' or 0% nonsense either - there may not be an interest charge displayed separately, but it's all built into the price, as is the massive sales commission for the oily type selling you the finance. On top of all of this malarkey, most leasing and similar deals have ridiculously low mileage per year, adding more mileage will cost vast amounts, and if there would happen to be even the smallest scratch on the vehicle when the lease ends, then just give them your entire bank account to cover the repair costs.

@PolitlcsUK Paywalled article, inaccessible. Whatever mess it contained will remain a mystery.,

@rstanfxrd @ListerLawrence Where do you find a bank to pay in cash or do anything else in person these days?

@7Kiwi £22bn would barely pay for half of Hinckley Point C, and by the time it's eventually finished it will just about replace the other nuclear plants that will be closed by then.

@PhilEx @SaucySeventies Sadly you wont. Post offices and the services they used to provide are obsolete.

@JonShenanigans The one with the engine that has robust timing chain which is installed into guides made from flimsy plastic to guarantee failure.

@itvnews

@CptIncogmahito @PolitlcsUK Unlikely.

@elwynhendre @AngleseyScMedia

@troyhunt

There may well be a LAN mode now that they have claimed to have added it - but how is that mode activated? Does it involve using the manufacturers app, cloud service or some other facility that's not internal to the machine? If it does, then once that cloud malarkey goes away, your machine will be a useless brick.

Eventually by replacing the gas central heating with electric. For now, gas directly affects the price of electricity, and that affects the price of everything - not just the electricity that is used in homes, but also in every business including shops, offices, manufacturing, leisure, construction and so on. Expensive electricity means everything everyone pays for costs more.

@SimonCalder Cheaper to go on holiday during term time and just pay whatever fine may or may not be applied.