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Kate, Florence and James

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2 months

I don’t want to say ‘middle-aged, white man’, but I’m definitely seeing a trend in the bullshido and absolute lack of knowledge when it comes to net zero. Ok, let’s fact this out. The particular mower, a 36v Ebauer will run for 80 mins on a full charge and consume

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Net Zero Nonsense. Cutting my lawns with a battery powered lawnmower (a gift) gets you thinking.

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Here's a real issue we are seeing time and time again. I did a repair on a local ladies Renault Zoe today. She'd been quoted £1203 to have a 'Danger Electrical Failure' warning lamp issue resolved, a new door hinge, a water ingress issue resolved and 2 x TPMS sensors. What it

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@KateFantom

3 years

If there was ever a reason to own a @Tesla this is probably it. Hit by a truck travelling at 60 mph whilst stationary. 6 others involved were hospitalised, but the driver here wasn’t!!

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@KateFantom

6 years

Our @Tesla Model S has now covered 30000 miles and has been, to date, the most reliable, safe and exhilarating car we have ever owned. A massive thanks to @elonmusk for this one 🙏😁

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@KateFantom

5 years

I've been completely blown away by the @Tesla Model 3. Once in a Tesla, I genuinely feel there is no way back!!! The build is amazing, the feel is amazing and even in red, my least favourite colour, it looks amazing. I'm in love with this and @elonmusk 😍

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@KateFantom

11 months

This Model 3 was registered on 14th October 2019.... Original front and rear discs and pads, battery, motors, inverters, coolant, brake fluid, you get the picture. Just saying.

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@KateFantom

5 months

Driving my friends @PolestarCars this evening, the headlights are amazing. I’m ready for this on our @Tesla Model Y any time soon 🙏🏼😳

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@KateFantom

10 months

56 parking spaces, 56 chargers in place. Even those that don’t run EVs contributed to this as per parking space, the cost was £75. Future proofed 👌🏼

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@KateFantom

8 months

FFS. Everything about this says “you don’t need it”, but I can see this causing many an old man, myself included, a few issues. Chinese EVs and pretty much anything Chinese is laughed at and ridiculed (by a certain type) yet here we are in 2023 and the whole auto industry is

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@KateFantom

10 months

2014 @Tesla Model S 296,321 miles ✅ Original battery ✅ Original motor ✅ Not been on fire ✅ Not in landfill ✅ Over 180t CO2 saving vs an equivalent ICE ✅ Still working as a Taxi ✅

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@KateFantom

1 year

There’s a whole lot of FUD going around about EVs as the bottom drops out of the fossil fuel world. Here’s every place our fully electric MG5 has taken us over the last 15 months and 64k miles. I’ve never ran out, it’s never broken down and it’s saved us £200 pcm minimum.

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@KateFantom

6 months

Our oldest MG5 has just gone through 100,000 miles at 2 years old. That’s equivalent to 14 years of average uk use. Average efficiency of 4.1 miles/kWh or 198.8mpg and the traction battery is at 94% SOH. Not bad for a cheap Chinese EV.

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@KateFantom

2 years

100 charging points that you can pre-book and they charge at off peak times. This is how it should be done. It's not free, but works out to 7.25p per mile, amazing. @CenterParcsUK are in touch with what customers need as we transition to electric👌🏻

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@KateFantom

1 year

Here's my 'happy Tuesday' face. This business customer was considering scrapping this 9 year old Zoe as it wouldn't charge. 2 hours and £160 later, they have a working car again.

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@KateFantom

3 years

This is amazing. I'm stood here on the UK's first electric forecourt while over 20 EVs charge simultaneously, some at 250kWs. This is the future and there will be over 100 of these opening very soon, head over guys, try it for yourself. @GRIDSERVE_HQ

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@KateFantom

3 months

We now run 5 x MG5's in our company @Cleevely_Mobile . One MG5 is just under 120k, one just under 115k and the others between 10k and 50k. They've saved us so much money I really can't quantify it. - None have broken down - None have required brake replacements - The purchase

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@KateFantom

1 year

This is interesting. We know it's the best selling car in Europe, but it looks as if the @Tesla MY will become the best selling car on the planet. I never knew EV uptake would move so quickly. The 2030 ban seems to pale into insignificance. Thoughts?

Tesla Model Y seemingly becomes world’s best-selling car in Q1 2023

Elon Musk has noted in the past that he believes the Tesla Model Y has the potential to become the world's best-selling car, period.

www.teslarati.com

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@KateFantom

10 months

EV’s currently offset 1.5M+ barrels of oil per day. This is set to rise to 5M by 2025. You can see why there’s currently a shitstorm in the media. Someone’s losing some serious money 🤔 I’ll add, 1 barrel of crude oil produces 426kgs of CO2.

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@KateFantom

8 months

Here's one of those cheap, nasty, unreliable Chinese EVs. 100% it's been on fire at least twice, caused 8000 potholes, crushed two multistory car parks and had nine batteries in its 4 year life. Meanwhile, in the real world; It's covered 160,000 miles, 133,000 above the

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@KateFantom

1 year

I've just booked a customer in for a first service on a 12 month old Tesla Model 3. Mileage 104k 😳 It's not even a taxi.

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@KateFantom

1 year

You have to laugh when people say “EVs are too heavy”. My car weighs 1562kgs, a few kilos heavier than the similarly sized Ford Focus diesel estate, at 1485kgs. The two @Wankpanzer ’s next to me weigh in at 2100kgs (BMW) and 2400kgs(Merc)

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@KateFantom

1 year

After many requests for an update on the longevity of our MG5's traction battery, our 17 month old MG is now just shy of 73k. It's currently sat at 98% SOH with a voltage spread of 18mV. If degredation continues at this rate, we'll easily see 250k before 90%. Best money we've

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@KateFantom

10 months

I’ve just had 10 mins looking around this, and yes, it’s driven from Sweden to Scotland. It’s beautiful and the quality is fantastic. I really do fear for European manufactures, the Chinese are going to clean them up.

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@KateFantom

5 months

We paid £7,000 to have a @Tesla Powerwall installed on 2nd July 2020. Since then it has saved us approximately £200-250 pcm by allowing us to power shift. This way we can utilise off-peak energy and support the grid by using energy when the grid’s load is very low. Since then

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@KateFantom

9 months

Here's our 4th company MG5. Destination - Scotland. There's good reason we continue to buy these. We currently cover between 45,000 - 50,000 miles annually and these have been faultless Our oldest MG5 is 2 years old and covered over 92,000 miles A set of tyres is lasting

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@KateFantom

2 years

We are generating so much renewable energy we’re now refuelling our neighbours car for her. Our EV and home battery is full and our hot water is piping. Cost savings are massive here. All provided by our @myenergiuk equipment 👌🏻

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@KateFantom

1 year

Reality check folks. Below is the new Vauxhall Astra Estate EV. Looks good, and with 258 miles of 'won't happen' available from the 54kWh battery (real world 180 miles) starting from only..... wait for it.... £39,995 for the base model, they're living in a dream world. I'm

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@KateFantom

15 days

I chatted to a fellow EV owner earlier today who charging his @BMW iX on a @Tesla Supercharger. Opposite were a bank of 'other' chargers that I was using. Sadly our MG's don't work with Tesla without a software update. To fill his iX it cost him £32 and gave him about 240

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@KateFantom

1 year

Today I was going to write a long tweet to counter the numerous, and sadly common, misleading media bias that's being posted. Synthetic fuel, hydrogen, potholes and carparks, all of which have little to no substance. However, I've realised I don't need to. All you need to do is

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@KateFantom

2 years

These electric cars will need a new battery every 3 years. This has covered 138k more miles than what the average UK car gets scrapped at. It's also on the original battery 👌🏻

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@KateFantom

1 year

It’s a very valid point. Why do we need cars with top speeds this high?? Here’s a thought? Personally I’d be happy to have my vehicle limited based on GPS location, essentially meaning I could never speed. What do you all think of this? Would you be happy to do the same??

Jo ❤️ Balham

@JoRigby_Balham

1 year

Range Rover Sport SVR, valued at £180,000, could be seen hitting a top speed of 110mph on the 40mph-limit A40 westbound near Ealing, Greater London, before he lost control. Why does @LandRover_UK sell a car that has a top speed of 176 mph?

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@KateFantom

2 months

This old girl is now at over 114,000 miles and is only 2 years and 2 months old. We’re now picking these up for >15k and they want for nothing. There’s a good reason we own 5 and we will have a 6th within a few weeks. If you want cheap motoring, this is how you do it. To

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@KateFantom

2 years

We need infrastructure so here’s the UK’s second electric forecourt (these guys also have the 1st) The landscape is changing very quickly on the electric car scene. 36 x 350kW units under cover plus more AC units. It’s getting rather easy driving an electric car these days ❤️

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@KateFantom

6 months

On the right is an original TRW brake pad from our MG5 EV, It's covered 100,576 miles. On the left is a brand new, pattern Apec brake pad. It's going back in the box for another 100k.

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@KateFantom

1 year

Let's add some balance to this misleading post from James.... There's no getting away from the fact, this is horrific For this reason cobalt usage in EV's is being phased out with the implementation of LFP and Sodium-Ion batteries. Cobalt has been used in the desulphurisation

James Melville 🚜

@JamesMelville

1 year

Around 40,000 child slaves are exploited in Congo to mine for Cobalt that is used in electric car batteries. The false virtue of corporatist net zero solutions masks the real unethical inhumanity that is often involved to obtain it.

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@KateFantom

10 months

Second time in as many weeks I’ve sat next to an @Hyundai_UK_PR Ioniq 5 whilst charging. I’m already plugged in and have been for 15 mins. Ioniq pulls in, plugs-in and the lady disappears I’m now glued to the charge screen and it’s pulling 221kWs peak, but it holds it

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@KateFantom

1 year

One of our customers with a 2019 @Tesla Model 3 has covered 182,514 and the traction battery SOH is still 95%. From my working, to 70% SOH, it will cover approx 1,095,084 miles. Since we've looked after it the maintenance has amounted to £1090. Tyres excluded. Not bad I'd say.

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@KateFantom

2 years

£24,555 we paid for this. One 19 minute top up at 218 miles, it's fully loaded and made this complete journey on £9.80. From this reason alone, there is no better vehicle or EV we could have chosen. I keep going on about it, but there's very few that can top this!!

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@KateFantom

2 years

Exeter Services. Contactless, accessible, plentiful and reliable. I’m not sure I need to add anything to this apart from @ElecHighway - we appreciate this, it makes life a whole lot less stressful ❤️

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@KateFantom

4 months

When we first started driving EVs the UKs grid intensity was 441g CO2/kWh, meaning our EV was emitting 110g CO2/mile or 68g CO2/KM Grid intensity has lowered drastically since then (2023 162gCO2/kWh) so last year driving an EV meant you'd have averaged approximately 40.5g

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@KateFantom

1 year

@RichardWellings Stroll on Richard, you should stick to whatever it is you do. We repair and maintain fleets of EVs and this statent is completely incorrect. You obviously don't know that a standard powertrian warranty on EV is 8-10 years 🤔 Of all the traction batteries I test, and I test a lot,

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@KateFantom

7 months

Surely not. A diesel vehicle burns down a multistory carpark and shuts an airport. The last 3 reports of EVs setting fire to ships, buses and carparks have all tuned out to have been ICE vehicles. I wonder if we'll see some balanced reporting from @TheSun @DailyMailUK Place

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@KateFantom

1 year

Last night I said a hard goodbye to some great work friends and my career of over 20 years (a little later than planned due to having Covid 😔) I now work for our amazing company @Cleevely_Mobile , along side some awesome, forward thinking people. I can only describe my new

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@KateFantom

3 years

Today, James and I joined the Cleevely family and became directors of @Cleevely_Mobile . A very forward thinking company who are all about EVs, so absolutely the best place for us to be. Thanks to all our customers for helping us grow so quickly and keeping us very very busy 🙏

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@KateFantom

1 year

This Tesla MS traction battery has failed. The actual failure isn't a cell, module or connector, but this circuit board costing £20. These are readily available second hand, but diagnosis and replacement is tricky. Never the less, this is repaired, not scrap, not in landfill!!

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@KateFantom

1 year

Our second MG5 went over 70,000 miles today, It's 16 months or 486 days old. Honestly, it's been 100% perfect. Considering the car and I generally work 5 days a week and I have holidays, it's still averaged 143 miles for every day we’ve owned it. Definitely no good for long

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@KateFantom

7 months

If you drove an EV in 2012 your emissions would have been approx 78g CO2/km, using only grid electricity. That's slightly cleaner than the best petrol cars available now. I've deliberately left out fuel production emissions. If you drive an EV in 2023 your emissions will be

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@KateFantom

6 months

I can’t believe this was 3 years ago. I left an amazing job at JLR and really took a leap in to something with @cleevelymotors that could have amounted to nothing. We now have 4 EV technicians (We’re still after a 5th btw 😉) on the road daily carry out between 45/50 jobs

Cleevely_EV_mobile

@Cleevely_Mobile

6 months

Almost three years ago 😮

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@KateFantom

1 year

Despite the potholes, replacement batteries, coal being burned, car parks collapsing and of course, Rowan Atkinson… the general consensus is, ‘we can make up our own minds’. It’s seems the media bias is falling on deaf/better informed ears. The figures don’t lie 💁🏻‍♀️

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@KateFantom

9 months

We've been at the British Motor Show today. Plenty of questions around EVs and what we do. One big question and the obvious one, "how far does that thing go" looking at our MG5. My new answer is "50,000 miles a year", that seemed to do the trick 😁

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@KateFantom

1 year

If you drive a combustion vehicle and think synthetic fuels are the answer, think again! This is the emissions from burning, yes, burning the fuel. To make 1 litre of eFuel takes up to 27.5kWh's of electricity, enough to move an EV 110 miles. Yeah, good luck with that.

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@KateFantom

2 months

@NigelXXX5 His intention was clear, but lacked any substance, so I’ve done it for him. I think you mean ‘mower’ in your second question. What is the embodied energy of this mower vs a B&S??

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@KateFantom

1 year

This will sell like hot cakes. 1, it’s a Golf 2, it will be efficient 3, the price 👌🏻

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@KateFantom

3 years

I've just driven this 38kWh Hyundai Ioniq at 70mph for 141 miles and I still have 43 miles remaining. I'm pretty clued up on EVs but this, by my maths, isn't possible. It's managing 4.6mpkWh and it's 2 degrees. 🤷‍♂️

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@KateFantom

11 months

Apparently I underestimated this by a long, long way. It will have in place enough capacity to charge 80 EVs at 150kWs. That’s extraordinary.

Kate, Florence and James

@KateFantom

11 months

This is purely a guesstimation, but my poor counting skills says Exeter @motoway services will be getting 26 new HPC’s in the coming weeks. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼👌🏼

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@KateFantom

2 years

Today our MG5 took us 335 miles for a total of £16. Put that in to today's diesel prices at 60mpg, you'll spend £56.30. My charge stop at Thurrock was 18 mins. I'll happily waste 18 mins for a £40 saving👌🏻

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@KateFantom

1 year

The world said "We need EV's". Most manufacturers said "Yeah, right". The Chinese said "Hold my Baijiu" and start kicking out some of the best EV's at decent prices and the type of cars that we need and want. This one included. I'm thinking at least 30% of EV sales in the

MG Motor UK

@MGmotor

1 year

The MG #Cyberster - coming to the UK in summer 2024.

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@KateFantom

10 months

Here's today's journey in our fully electric MG5. 318 miles. I stopped once to rapid charge (19 mins), but here's the reality of the infrastructure had I needed more. @OspreyCharging - 27 options @InstaVoltUK - 38 options @ElecHighway - 28 options That's 92 charge points

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@KateFantom

9 months

Remembering EVs are only good for local journeys because the infrastructure isn’t there yet, this is our mileage from last Monday morning until last night. I’ve added some of the longer days from our timeline. I didn’t queue to charge anywhere during this week, all chargers

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@KateFantom

1 year

With some rather inaccurate info doing the rounds it seems a balanced tweet is required. Electric vehicle brake regeneration saves huge amounts of brake wear, particulate pollution and ultimately, money. This is one our neighbours cars, an Audi, and one our heavier MG5 work vans.

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@KateFantom

2 months

Remember to keep your ev on local work only folks. I've only managed to travel just shy of 3000 miles over the past 13 days. They're just no good for the long stuff! Total charging has amounted to £145 for this distance. I'm standing by for the "5min refill/3000 miles/towing

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@KateFantom

1 year

LFP and rear wheel drive seem a great mix for EVs. Who’d have thought you can drive almost 200 miles on less energy than that stored in 1 gallon of fuel, and in an SUV. I won’t mention that all ICE vehicle will use more cobalt than this EV. I’ll get my coat 🤫

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@KateFantom

7 months

One of our customers who runs a high mileage Model 3 as a taxi, has had an issue with cooling during charging and felt the range had dropped. One of our techs went out (where the arrow is) and cleaned out the AC intake ducting that was heavily blocked with leaves. The result,

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@KateFantom

2 years

1. 6 1/2 month old electric car 2. 30,500 miles covered 3. Traction battery at 99.3% SOH 4. Front tyres at 4mm (Rotated) 5. Rear tyres at 7mm 6. Fully charged 5 days a week 7. Cost new £24,555 inc VAT 8. Cost to run to date £762.50 9. 100% the best tool for the job

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@KateFantom

8 months

Folks, if your a @Tesla M3 owner and your AC just isn't cutting it, take a look under here. Completely blocked with leaves and brush. This is the AC condenser housing and ducting. A mains hoover with a crevice tool is required. The difference here was immediate. Btw, we now do

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@KateFantom

9 months

For any of you that said "brakes", spot on!!! Both rears calliper's pads and sliders had to be hammered out, rubbed down, greased and refitted. It had one DTC for coolant temperature (historic) I don't think this is a case of 'we'll make some money here', but more of 'we

Kate, Florence and James

@KateFantom

9 months

Just looked at a Nissan Leaf 30kWh for an elderly customer in Kent. He was told that his car requires a replacement inverter and motor. He's been quoted over £8k for this and also told 'it may not fix the issue'. The symptoms were, lack of power and a burning smell. A motor

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2 months

@peterrhague To be clear, I’m also a middle-aged white man from the same area as Lee. This isn’t disingenuous to this particular group, but this group are currently being embarrassed by people like him. We have an influx making us all look bloody stupid. We’re guilty by association.

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@KateFantom

1 month

We have another new EV technician on the road. This is Lee. He's ex-RAC and an ex-Tesla Ranger. He'll be based near Brighton and will cover the surrounding areas. 😊

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@KateFantom

1 year

The MG5 does exactly what it says on the tin. I left Newcastle today with 93%, home with 9% and 21 miles remaining. This is the end of a 2100 mile, 13 day trip around Scotland. What a workhorse 👌

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@KateFantom

3 years

Ok folks. I’m not happy to do this but… here’s the reason I’ll be cancelling my @bppulseuk subscription tonight!! You can see where I am. 8 machines, 4 hogged by vans not charging, 3 not working, app inop and no answer on the phone. This is no good for anyone. I’m outta here ☹️

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@KateFantom

2 months

@ArgyleBecky I drink whilst working, I need to stay hydrated. He may have been out there for hours, and if he hadn't, where's the issue exactly? There are much more pressing issues to tweet about, those being much more important than a copper having a brew whilst at work.

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@KateFantom

10 months

A long day in the MG5, right off the back of 2 weeks and 2000 miles around Scotland. 343 miles covered, 4.5hrs working, 3 hours at home and 2 charge stops. As normal, nothing to talk about. Unless of course, you’re the @BBC @DailyMailUK or one of the other completely out of touch

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@KateFantom

2 years

If you're an automaker and this car doesn't worry you, it really should. The MG4 has very few shortcomings and many positives, one being the 'bang for buck' factor that has been artificially removed by many other manufacturers. I really can't wait for ours to land 👌🏻

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@KateFantom

2 years

I'm as excited about the new MG4 as we were about our first Nissan Leaf. Here's the thing. The top spec MG4 is £1500 cheaper, goes 280 miles further, charges at 80kW's faster, has 4 years more warranty and loads more features. Good times ahead.

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@KateFantom

4 months

1 year ago you would almost always queue here to charge. Things have changed. Now, during the evening rush, there are 7 spare units and no queing at all. The infrastructure has improved so much, so quickly, I never have to wait to plug-in. These high power chargers mean an 18

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@KateFantom

2 months

I have discovered that nearly every middle - aged white man on here is; - qualified in climatology - qualified in vehicle maintenance - qualified in meteorology - qualified in EV maintenance - qualified in H2 fuel cell tech - qualified in emission science - qualified in

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@KateFantom

2 months

We’ve purchased another MG5 for the mobile service. This one is destined for the south coast. The reasons. - Purchase costs are cheaper than an equivalent petrol or diesel, although prices are creeping back up again. - reliability - efficiency - time off the road for

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@KateFantom

3 months

Below are 2 pictures. The first is the cost to run a diesel vehicle, averaging 50mpg, (above UK average) over 150,000 miles. This is taken from the linked website below. The second is our annual charging cost (home and public) taken from Quickbooks. This is to run 3 electric

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@KateFantom

4 months

Just remember folks, according to the UK media, electric cars; Need 2.1 million miles to match an ICE cars CO2, Are charged from coal, Need new batteries after 3-5 years costing more than the vehicles value, Don't work in the cold, Create 1000x more brake particulates

Alex

@alex_avoigt

4 months

Tesla Model Y is the 2023 best-selling car in 🇪🇺 Europe A car that is 3-4 times more expensive than the #2 Dacia Sandero. Model Y is the only BEV in the top 20 list. Facts beat FUD!

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1 year

Surely this should have be scrapped by now?? This @Tesla Model 3 that we regularly service has covered 175,000+ miles in 3 years. It’s had brakes pads and discs, tyres and a few suspension components, but nothing else. It’s almost like the batteries don’t fail every 3 years 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Our 60000 mile Tesla still charges at its max of 120kWs, it's battery hasn't gone to landfill and it easily hits 220 miles from a charge, which, normally costs under £4 at home or is free on the @Tesla supercharger network. Think EVs are unreliable, think again 👍🏻

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Competition time, folks. Who can get more than 3 litres of rainwater out of their Tesla Model 3 tailgate???

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I was asked on the radio this morning how I felt about @RishiSunak ’s backbone collapsing. 2030/2035/2040, it doesn’t have much effect. The ban until yesterday was still over 6 years away, but EV sales were still rapidly increasing, both new, and more recently, second hand.

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Here's a regular customer of ours, a very high mileage user, now at 121,000 miles. Traction battery at 94% SOH, it's literally had tyres, pollen filters and wiper blades. Nissan seem to have improved their battery chemistry further with the 62kWh Leaf. #nolandfill

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The recent winter weather means it's costing us more to run our electric cars. Normally we pay 1.8p/mile, but in these temperatures that's increased 2.2p/mile. Sod that, I'm getting a diesel 😳

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These are great cars, but not faultless. If you're thinking of buying a Tesla Model Y or Model 3, I'm popping a video together to show what to look out for. We hope it helps and saves you some £££'s 👍🏼

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@LeeHurstComic Nah. ICE cars are more expensive to run, maintain and now, in most cases, they're more expensive to buy. We have 6 EV service vehicles running around the UK, they save us an absolute fortune. Stick to comedy

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@KateFantom

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If anyone was wondering if electric vehicles can go the distance, here's our last 20 days working and 2900 miles in our MG5.

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@KateFantom

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When we see a post telling us how it's more environmentally friendly to keep a 1993, 4L, petrol, RR on the road over buying an EV, we're going to question it. It seems that when questioned on this the OP had no facts, wasn't interested in the facts and subsequently folded like

Brendan Robinson

@ShropsAeroPig

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Maintaining old cars to last longer is more environmentally sound than buying gargantuan hefty EVs. Can I have a green number plate & cheaper road tax now?

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Over the last 3 years we’ve made 18 trips, spent 166 days and covered 614 appointments in Scotland with our mobile service. This should be my final trip as our new tech takes over from Wednesday. I’m going to miss it 😏 It all started with a 24kWh @NissanUK eNV200. We now run 4

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That's 50,000 miles and 6.75 years of average usage in under 12 months. 1 full set of tyres and 3 pollen filters required. Battery SOH - 97.1% EV for the win 👌🏻

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@KateFantom

1 year

Amazing. Repurposed Nissan Leaf modules.

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We often hear 'cheap Chinese', 'Chinese rubbish' and general phrases like that. Don't be fooled folks, Chinese engineering is some of the best on the planet. For this reason many OEMs are fitting Chinese batteries in their EVs.

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Charging curve is insane 😳

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These pesky EV traction batteries all failing, costing 10k and going to landfill at 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 years old.... Oh, wait a minute 🤔 I'm yet to see a EV battery in landfill, anyone 🤔

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I’m about to record a video on our home solar PV set-up, and how it saves us money, especially through the summer. This is currently what we have installed. I’ll do my best to get it done for today 👍🏻

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Let me explain something to you, Grant. H2 - 98% generated from SGR (fossil fuels) H2 - distribution requires 4 x as much diesel as you can’t store as much H2 - 3 x the cost of diesel H2 - Great for fossil fuel industry H2 - Great for talking yourself out of a job Your

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

@grantshapps

9 months

JCB are bulldozing the technical barriers to Hydrogen-powered construction and agricultural machinery. Check out the story so far and the challenge that I've set for the industry next.

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If you can see the community notes on this you can see how it’s been turned inside out for pushing factual mistruths, but that’s the agenda now being pushed. In the EU using an average grid mix it’s takes 18,000 kms to break even. In the US using an average grid mix, it’s

Matt Ridley

@mattwridley

10 months

If Britain switches all cars to electric, it may actually increase emissions. An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even with an ICE car. That number is growing, not shrinking. But batteries last about 60,000 miles.

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@KateFantom

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Here’s @Craig_Forsyth97 , our new Scotland based EV tech. Wait times north of the border have now dropped by 4 weeks 👌🏻

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I love that I can watch YouTube or Netflix in this car I love that I can preheat or precool the car. I love that it has amazing range I love that it's efficient I love the space and versatility I love that it can tow I hate that a two hour journey in mixed weather and rain

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How do owners afford to run ICE cars at this price 🤷🏻‍♂️ If I charge at home that £1.69 is the best part of 135 miles range 🤔

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