Lewis Standing

The American car manufacturers lost a lot of market share after the 70s oil shock.

Perhaps we'll see a massive uptick in EVs as a result of Ukraine and Iran

Perhaps you've seen it already as you mention him in episodes often,👍

Reminds me of your recent episodes on battery testing

Now a ten year old car that's done 200k miles being at 82% with an early battery chemistry is fine.

Having a misleading BMS read out of SOH though is not.

An unwitting consumer my buy it on the basis of a BMS 98% capacity and be very disappointed it's actually 82%

In this example he compares the gap between the two methods in this 200k mile original IONIQ 29kwh.

The range test reads 82% of OG capacity vs the BMS still reading at 98%.
No buffer could explain this discrepancy.

Sadly warranty repairs will be done on a BMS read figure only.

Kia and Hyundai showing incorrect SoH values YouTube video by Bjørn Nyland

youtu.be/LzFHGLEq7jM?...

I found this interesting @evmusings.bsky.social

Bjorn compares battery SOH by doing a range test from 100% to near 0% and calculating energy drained vs original nominal capacity.

He then reads the SOH via the BMS on an OBD dongle.

They bought Japanese cars with better fuel economy

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

Definitely a speech marks all the time

Someone's left testicle being offside being my main bugbear

Or what constitutes a significant error that VAR will intervene on, odd judgements by human refs on VAR eg. Liverpool disallowed goal with robbo not interfering with play

But VAR gets things wrong all the time...

Especially given our beloved Elizabeth the second chose to marry a racist and raised a paedophile

Who wouldn't want her eldest son as a monarch?

So a quick boot camp isn't going to cut it? Shame.

Conscription to GB energy and training for substation construction mandatory for everyone unemployed under 30 😉

bsky.app/profile/jere...

More exposed to gas prices than most

See how Spain's renewables investment has paid off

Nationally approve every solar farm centrally if they can show ability to break ground straight away

Difficult drilling for lower amounts of oil/gas?

Sounds like @edmilibandmp.bsky.social needs a new SPAD

PHEVs would be okay if anyone ever plugged them in

What's the biggest problem? Gas demand or oil demand?

Which has seen the highest increase?

Free bus passes is instant demand reduction of oil I guess, instantly solves a household expense that's increased

Or free push bikes?

While Hinkley Nuclear Was Being Built, The UK Grid Decarbonized - CleanTechnica Hinkley Point C faces new delays and rising costs while the UK grid decarbonized through wind, solar, and system innovation during its long construction.

The core question is whether the energy system in the 2030s and 2040s still requires additional #nuclear megaprojects built on decade long timelines when wind, solar, and storage technologies continue expanding on much shorter deployment cycles.
cleantechnica.com/2026/03/06/w...

Neighbour was using an electric pressure washer on their Yard today

It was incredibly loud so I wouldn't necessarily agree

Either way, eek it out slowly or use it all at once...... BP ,Shell and Equinor aren't going to sell it to us at cost price or mates rates

They are going to price gouge us as much as possible at whatever they could possibly charge us so it's rather irrelevant

Because we couldn't scale the production to meet our needs.

If you do scale production, your reserves drain more quickly.

Every single reform and conservative politician

Anyone who advocates fracking in the uk should be directed to look up the town of Wickett, Texas on Google earth/maps.

Not sure how much off your bills you'd expect to put up with this 👇

Got oil heating? Get a heat pump
cleanenergy.campaign.gov.uk/heat-pump/

Or free bus or tube passes?

Demand reduction subsidies in this case being EV grants or solar grants or insulation/ heat pumps?