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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

I’m increasingly convinced that one way to quickly democratise EV charging for those who park on-street is a £30 bit of hardware that can be installed in 30 minutes. Now we just need the government and local authorities to get ready to enable this solution. #throughstreetcharging

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11 months

It’s 12 years until 2035, when all new cars and vans in the UK must be zero-emission. 12 years ago, the fastest you could get 24kWh of energy into most EVs was about 10 hours. I just got that in about 12 minutes. Using today’s infrastructure in debates about 2035 is a nonsense.

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2 years

I think car manufacturers need to take the brave pill and focus their drivetrains on efficiency, rather than performance. Most EVs have way too much power. It’s also very wasteful as you end up needing a 100kWh battery to reliably do 250 miles, when a 60kWh pack should suffice.

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5 months

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

This week, the UK grid essentially ‘declined’ 21.5 GWh of wind energy in 12 hours, because we had no way of using it. That ‘wasted’ energy could have been used to power the daily mileage of nearly 3.5 million electric cars, based on UK average figures. Energy storage is crucial!

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

It’s #EdBallsDay , so time to tweet the most meta thing I own. ‘The’ Ed Balls tweet, signed by @edballs , framed, and handed over to me by the man himself at a charity event.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 months

Am I alone in thinking this looks hideous?

CAR magazine

@CARmagazine

2 months

V12! Manual! No e-motors! We've driven Pagani's gorgeous Utopia in a world exclusive first drive! @JDennisonCars is your guide 🇮🇹

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

We should absolutely care about how EVs and their components are made, and focus on improving global supply chains. But it does amuse me that absolutely nobody seemed to give a sh*t about how cars were made until electric ones arrived. Funny that, eh?

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Tom Callow

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11 months

I love how people like Matt consider themselves intellectuals and then completely undermine themselves by spouting utter rubbish like “batteries last about 60,000 miles.” The batteries will invariably outlast the cars. Why do I know this? Because I’m an expert. And Matt isn’t.

Matt Ridley

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11 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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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

7 months

“I AM NEVER GOING TO BUY AN ELECTRIC CAR, BECAUSE I’VE REALISED IT WILL TAKE ME MARGINALLY LONGER TO DRIVE FROM LAND’S END TO JOHN O’GROATS THAN IT DOES IN MY DIESEL CAR AND I CAN’T DEAL WITH THIS REGULAR INCONVENIENCE.”

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@au_tom_otive

2 years

A nice little nugget from @SolarEnergyUK_ : If just 1 in 6 UK homes (4.4m out of 28m) had solar panels + battery + intelligent system controls, it could help *eliminate* the winter evening peak in electricity demand entirely - and, of course, also support overall grid stability.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

10 months

My absolute favourite thing is being told - by people who don’t drive an electric car - what my electric car can’t do, just after it’s done it.

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@au_tom_otive

5 months

Apparently there's no demand for EVs, so what about this then? The new Sainsbury's at Meols Cop, Southport has changed its planning application, removing a planned petrol forecourt and replacing it entirely with a 14-bay ultra-rapid EV charging hub.

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@au_tom_otive

11 months

Footage from a crash from 2013 between a bus and a truck with propane cylinders. So much absolute bullshit out there at the moment…

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

8 months

Allison Pearson might want to stop using her laptop and smartphone, and not just because it would stop her writing this garbage. I won't post the link, but suffice to say it's full of utter misinformation, including (now debunked) that the Luton Airport fire was caused by an EV.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 months

For me, peak EV is something like: Five seats Decent boot 200bhp 150kW charging 4 miles per kWh efficiency We need more EVs fulfilling that sort of specification and less obsession with headline power and acceleration.

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Tom Callow

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3 years

No ‘smug EV driver’ posts from me. EVs aren’t yet affordable for all who buy the 8-9 million cars sold every year in the UK. Panic buying is going to hit the poorest hardest. Consider the key worker using a sub-£5,000 ICE to get them to work. Not funny.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

7 months

GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN! @motoway has submitted a planning application for a solar farm and redevelopment of its Wetherby services on the A1(M) to include… *checks notes*… ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY new EV charging bags, plus FIFTY FOUR new electric HGV charging bays. 😮🤯👏

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 years

Thousands of miles away, a kindly man patiently responds to thousands of messages from people asking for things he can’t necessarily deliver or do. Isn’t @johnlewis a bit like... ...SANTA?!

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

5 months

Apparently EV depreciation has been horrendous. Meanwhile, you can now pick up a Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 with Autobiography spec and full LR dealer service history for less than £14k… 😮

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 years

Latest BBC hatchet job on electric vehicles saw @BBCMorningLive presenter complain that an emergency had resulted in the public charge point he needed being blocked, so he couldn’t use it. Would have loved to have seen him try to charge the MG ZS on a Supercharger.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

More complete and utter bollocks from the Daily Mail. The headline is a flagrant lie. Drivers aren’t *forced* to download 30+ apps. In almost every case, the app is an added-value choice. You don’t *need* it. For the vast majority of rapid chargers, you just need a bank card FFS.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 months

Here is that disastrous UK EV market in full view. YoY demand for all types of electric car is up 30.8%. For battery electric cars, it’s up 27.5%. I mean, I dropped economics in my second year at uni, but that doesn’t sound like a declining market to me.

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

Contactless-enabled rapid chargers at motorway service areas, May 2021 vs. May 2023

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@au_tom_otive

11 months

Loving all the ‘I could do the return journey on one tank in my diesel’ replies. The point is, that when you’re travelling with young kids, you don’t. There was zero inconvenience in doing this journey in an EV vs. an ICE.

Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

11 months

Easy 230-mile run to South Wales this morning, taking no longer to get there with two small kids than in an ICE car. Only charged where we were stopping anyway, and only as long as we’d have stopped with an ICE, and a whole bank of domestically-priced chargers on arrival. Simple.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 years

I’m often told EVs will never take off until there is only one single type of charging...

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

‘Electric cars don’t work if you’re a high-mileage driver’ 😳

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

Really don’t mind the BBC testing the UK’s public charging infrastructure, but what Richard Bilton is doing here is the equivalent of filling up his petrol car incrementally with a Jerry can. Nobody would choose that charge point and sit there for hours. They’d find a faster one.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

3 years

In June, there were more new plug-in cars registered in the UK than cars that can be fuelled with diesel.

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

Here's Richard Bilton, saying his has a range of 250 miles, then driving into The Cotswolds with more than 50% charge and saying he's "nervous" before then trying to charge. Why? Why couldn't he just say "Actually, I don't need to charge". It's pure bias.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 months

Horrendous EV charging queues at Cobham this afternoon, just as the sensationalist anti-EV media predicted. Honestly don’t understand how people are going to get about this Christmas!

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

New Mirai: - Has 5.6kg hydrogen tank - @AutoExpress got real-world range of 300 miles - PEM electrolysis uses 55kWh of electricity to make 1kg of hydrogen - So a hydrogen car uses 308kWh of electricity to drive 300 miles - With me driving, an e-Niro uses 75kWh to drive 300 miles

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

Oof. Less than £10k for a 33kWh i3 BEV. My view is that these will be more desirable than the REX in the long run. Heck of a lot of EV for the money! I could happily do 30-40,000 miles a year in one of these.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 years

Absolutely buzzing to announce that I’m joining @myenergiuk as Head of External Affairs in mid-April to work with @JordeeBrompton , Lee and the rest of the team on the next chapter of its incredible success story. Had a great five years at bp pulse and I’m excited for the future!

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

8 months

Because they don’t work. My car has displayed a 10mph limit in a 50mph zone before (speed limit in adjacent works zone was 10mph) and 20mph where the limit was 70mph. Imagine how dangerous it would have been if the car had automatically braked to 20mph in a 70mph zone?

Shabazz Stuart

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8 months

Cars from many brands now display precise speed limits on dashboards. The technology works. So, why are 🚘 even allowed to exceed these limits?

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Tom Callow

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3 years

“Electric cars are too expensive” 🤔 (via @raimonick @modernheroestv )

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

Staggering to watch a former Transport Minister state that EVs will end up as scrap after seven years, while the Transport Secretary makes no effort whatsoever to correct him. The level of wilful ignorance is absolutely devastating - and they're totally unreceptive to education.

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@au_tom_otive

5 years

Amazing that the anti-EV PR people at #FOS are being pissy and snide about electric cars on here, because one has obliterated the hillclimb record. Pull your heads out of the arse of the past and just recognise progress when you see it. FFS.

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@au_tom_otive

11 months

Easy 230-mile run to South Wales this morning, taking no longer to get there with two small kids than in an ICE car. Only charged where we were stopping anyway, and only as long as we’d have stopped with an ICE, and a whole bank of domestically-priced chargers on arrival. Simple.

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

No, @UswitchUK , cost per charge is not how you work out which EV is most cost-effective to run 🤦‍♂️

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

The media turned a handful of petrol stations temporarily closing due to HGV driver shortages into a UK-wide fuel buying panic. One of the reasons I went into PR was due to the influence of the media. The last few days have seen that influence shamefully abused. Editors to blame.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

🧵 Some people unable to accomplish a long journey in an EV doesn’t detract from thousands doing what they say is intolerable. EVs can dispatch the vast majority of journeys with ease. We can’t forget about the rest, but we shouldn’t obsess about them. Edge cases will get sorted.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

Seriously, I really don’t understand why so many people assume that there *won’t* be enough charging infrastructure - by 2030, 2040, 2050 or whenever, quite frankly. Was there this much ludicrous hyperbole around the rollout of refuelling infrastructure in the previous century?

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1 year

Me, now that I’ve got solar panels 😂

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@au_tom_otive

4 years

10 years ago, the fastest you could get 24 kWh of energy into an electric car was about 10 hours. Today, with the right car and the right charger, it’s about 10 minutes.

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

They’re not even trying to hide the coordinated attacks now. These stories can be debunked with a few minutes of elementary Googling. The nationals are really beginning to embarrass themselves on this topic. Plenty of people trying to educate the media, but they aren’t listening.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

5 years

Is life with an electric car exactly the same as life with a petrol or diesel car? No. Does it need to be? No. Does it take much more than a modicum of education to make life with an electric car easy? No. Should we expect people to learn how to use *any* new technology? Yes.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 years

The replies to this from the Teslarati are pretty terrifying, including "as long as they're the same size, it's fine".🤦‍♂️

Ethan

@EZebroni

2 years

Is it normal for the Plaid X to have two different brands of tires at delivery? Front set are Michelins. Back set are Continentals. @elonmusk @tesla

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@au_tom_otive

2 years

Now that the world’s leading hydrogen car maker has said they only expect a few thousand to be sold annually by 2030, alongside millions of pure electric cars, can we please stop wasting precious minutes bleating about ‘picking winners’ and agree that BEV is the endgame for cars?

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1 year

Do the writers not find this utterly exhausting?

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

Anyone responding to the news of Boris Johnson having coronavirus with some sort of glee is a fucking idiot. I’m no fan boy, but he’s clearly working hard, knackered and like everyone else, does not deserve this disease. You’re the very worst of society. Grow up.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

UK EV registrations: 100,000th - April 2017 200,000th - February 2019 300,000th - April 2020 400,000th - November 2020 It took 7 years for the UK to hit its first 100,000 registrations and only 7 months to record the last 100,000.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

9 months

I mean, he can’t be being employed for his foresight, can he? 🤣

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

Curious how many journalists have got really, really interested in how electric cars are made, having rarely questioned how internal combustion engined cars are made...

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

And this is why the scare stories about (heavier) EVs causing more particulate emissions through brake wear are BS. They assume EVs make as much use of the brakes as ICEs. They don’t. I can easily go from 60mph to almost zero in quite a short distance without pad touching disc.

Hannah Gordon

@femalemechanic1

3 years

Customer worried his brakes would need changing after doing 100k miles. There’s still plenty left on the pad, and no lip on the disc. #Tesla #ElectricVehicles

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@au_tom_otive

4 years

Early electric car drivers waited 10 years for 35,000 public charge points, including 3,500 rapid chargers. In 10 years, there will be charge points everywhere, including thousands of ultra-fast chargers. Early petrol motorists waited 25 years for the first roadside fuel pump.

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@au_tom_otive

1 year

I-PACE had an indicated 240 miles of range this morning, so I decided to try to do my Surrey to North Yorkshire in one stint. Did 222 miles in an I-PACE a few years ago, so this is now the furthest I’ve driven one on a single charge, and it had 12 miles remaining

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@au_tom_otive

5 years

Our rapid charger network: 2014 > 2019

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@au_tom_otive

4 years

In October, we were regularly facilitating 60,000 kWh of public charging on a daily basis. Recently, we have been hitting over 80,000 kWh per day consistently. Yesterday was our first ever day of facilitating more than 90,000 kWh of public charging.

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@au_tom_otive

5 years

"An electric vehicle in the UK simply cannot be more polluting than its petrol or diesel equivalent, even when taking into account the upfront ‘carbon cost’ of manufacturing their batteries." End of discussion.

EVs responsible for three times less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars | Auto Express

New data shows that electric cars in Europe generate three times less CO2 on average than their internal combustion counterparts

www.autoexpress.co.uk

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

“The current owner has a real eye for interior design”. An eye for horrendous gauche shite. They also obliterated a garden and trees to create their ‘low maintenance’ outside space. FFS. This isn’t ‘eye of the beholder’ stuff. It’s just complete crap.

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

Fair Fuel UK loses its last shred of credibility (via LinkedIn)

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1 year

Did you ask about how much range petrol and diesel cars *also* lose in cold weather, @GeorgeSandeman ?

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

3 years

Caught up with one of my oldest industry friends today, in our garden at HQ, in the sun. Utterly glorious. When we first met, there were about 100 electric cars on UK roads. Now, over 500,000 have been registered. We all know the destination now; just about how fast we get there!

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@au_tom_otive

4 years

Wondering how silly a certain PR team is feeling this morning for putting out a story on Wednesday about pure electric car demand falling in August, only for August new car registration figures out today to show pure electric cars achieved a ‘peacetime’ record market share!

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

You’re welcome to unfollow or mute, but I’m not going to stop mentioning Dominic Cummings. I care that this megalomaniac is at the heart of our democracy. I care that he got there, that he’s still there, and that he’ll be there tomorrow. And I’ll keep caring until he’s not there.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

2 years

So @JustStop_Oil can burn a load of diesel in the coaches used to shuttle its activists to the national demo, but my grandparents’ electric car gets prevented from driving around the M25 to look after my kids so I can work in a job where I’m trying to help people decarbonise. 🤦‍♂️

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@au_tom_otive

4 months

Here’s a fact that John doesn’t want you to know: we have reduced annual electricity consumption in the UK since 2005 by about the same amount we’ll need annually to power the country’s entire fleet of electric vehicles in 2050.

John Redwood

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4 months

Spending large sums subsidising electric vehicles and heat pumps would not be a good policy. We lack enough renewable electricity and grid capacity to run and recharge with green power.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

3 years

What is it about a seemingly large cohort of men of a certain age who are irrationally angry about the very notion of electric cars? Did they all get dumped for one at secondary school or something?

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@au_tom_otive

2 years

As internal combustion engine vehicles age, they generally become more polluting in use, as older powertrains are less fuel efficient. As electric vehicles age, they generally become less polluting in use, as the carbon intensity of electricity generated reduces.

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@au_tom_otive

8 months

Please can someone buy my I-PACE for £1.2m, so I can become an instant millionaire? For such a quality piece of journalism, I’m happy to give NCTJ- qualified @EthanSingh96 a £200,000 discount and sell it to him for just £1m if he’s interested…

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@au_tom_otive

11 months

Erm. I’ve done about 150,000 miles in EVs and have never experienced anything like motion sickness. Is this real or just another EV myth?

Tim Pollard

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11 months

This is interesting: how @Honda plans to reduce EV motion sickness by making its electric vehicles behave more like combustion cars. Anti-travel sickness acceleration mapping ahoy! ⚡️🤮🚀

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1 month

Apparently we are meant to believe that a brand new Model 3 full of adults and luggage is no more efficient than a Ford E-Transit with a 495kg Twizy in the back. I think someone just wanted to borrow a Range Rover to impress their footie mates. And I think someone fell for it.

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@au_tom_otive

2 years

The UK’s one millionth electric car will be registered in September.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 years

Have some stats for breakfast... USA - 1,000,000 EVs (1 per 327 people, 1 per 3 sq mi) - 2,368 rapid chargers (1 per 420 EVs, 138,000 people and 1,250 sq mi) UK - 185,000 EVs (1 per 360 people, 1 per 0.5 sq mi) - 1,798 rapid chargers (1 per 103 EVs, 37,000 people and 52 sq mi)

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@au_tom_otive

5 years

There were just over 200 plug-in cars on UK roads this time eight years ago. Today, there are over 200,000. "We've come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good..."

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@au_tom_otive

7 months

If you gave me £5,000 today, I could buy you a pair of electric cars capable of happily dispatching the average UK’s driver’s annual mileage. Sure, they’d be crap at doing Land’s End to John O’Groats, so if you like to do that for the clicks every other week, they’re not for you.

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@au_tom_otive

8 months

I’ve entered some parallel universe where The Telegraph is pedalling pure misinformation about electric cars and the flag bearer of facts seems to be… the Daily Express 😳

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@au_tom_otive

5 years

In the past two weeks, I've driven a @KiaUK e-Niro to Cornwall and back and a @JaguarUK I-PACE to Lancashire and back. I never stopped 'to charge', and did both journeys in the same time as I would have done in a petrol or diesel car. In all, I did 976 miles for a cost of £24.70.

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@au_tom_otive

6 years

Some great EVs on the used market now, for up to £15k: Audi A3 e-tron (£12k) BMW i3 REX (£15k) Kia Soul EV (£12k) Mercedes-Benz B 250e (£15k) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (£10k) Nissan LEAF 30kWh (£15k) Renault ZOE i (£9k) Vauxhall Ampera (£10k) VW e-up! (£10k) VW Golf GTE (£13k)

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@au_tom_otive

9 months

The car braked and indicated. If you're a cyclist, surely you brake and don't go up the inside. There are some truly terrible drivers out there with no respect for cyclists, but I am starting to think there are a bunch of cyclists who basically just want viral helmet cam clips...

Dan Trent

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9 months

When are folk going to realise entitlement to occupy a particular bit of roadspace is NOT the same as it being a sensible place to put yourself? I would never, ever, EVER ride up the inside of a left turning vehicle, especially having just been in its blindspot. Just don’t!

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11 months

My view on best used EVs below UK average used car price ( @AutoTrader_UK : £17,756) £0-3k: i-MiEV £3-5k: ZOE 22 £5-7k: LEAF 30 £7-9k: ZOE 41 / i3 60 £9-11k: LEAF 40 / IONIQ / Mii £11-13k: ZOE 52 / Corsa-e / i3 94 £13-15k: ZS / MG5 / i3 120 / e-208 / IONIQ £15-17k: Kona 64 / 500e

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@au_tom_otive

2 years

OK folks, so I did a thing. I’ve bought what is almost certainly the UK’s cheapest Tesla and am picking it up after @FullyChargedShw tomorrow. Needs a bit of work to get it running as it should, but was too much of a bargain to ignore! Watch this space…

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@au_tom_otive

3 months

“I’m ignoring the million or so people who have happily swapped their diesel/petrol for an #ElectricCar , for a piece in a national paper focusing on the <1% who have switched from EV to ICE.” #journorequest She also uses ‘EV cult’ in a follow up post. Tediously predictable. 🙄

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@au_tom_otive

1 month

I am approaching middle age, so I have, naturally, bought myself a lightweight, rear-wheel drive, two-seater with minimal driver aids and very little room for luggage.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

Placed orders for 10 Kia e-Niro within hours of the order books opening on 8th January 2019. Final four arrived today. EV demand is *MASSIVELY* outstripping supply in the UK. True demand could well be 10% of the car market, but nobody knows, because OEMs can’t supply the volumes.

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@au_tom_otive

6 months

Hang on, I thought it was just electric cars that depreciate. Seems it’s the whole car market! Whatdya know?!

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@au_tom_otive

3 years

One of my favourite current graphs (from @theCCCuk ). Once you’ve displaced coal power generation, the second best thing you can do with a MWh of renewable electricity is powering EVs. The third is powering heat pumps.

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@au_tom_otive

3 months

People enjoy sharing videos of rare electric vehicle fires with me, so I hope those people are equally interested in what happens when refuelling at a petrol station goes wrong…

Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

4 months

This happened at a petrol station in Volgograd city

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

3 months

Being wilfully ignorant isn’t a virtue, especially when you’re in a position of influence. The UK electricity grid has arguably decarbonised faster than any other major economy’s power system, so we can stop with the coal-powered lawn mower nonsense.

Lee Anderson - Reform candidate

@LeeAndersonMP_

3 months

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

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

25 days

“BUT HOW WILL THE INFRASTRUCTURE COPE?!”

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

1 year

Getting so sick of BBC clickbait. The article even says it’s not too hot for solar panels, so why not just SAY IT in the headline? A lot of casual readers will simply scroll past this story, read the headline and assume the answer is ‘yes’. We desperately need better journalism.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

3 months

Yes, because all petrol cars achieve their stated fuel economy, don’t they? Give me strength… 🙄

Lawrence Whittaker

@ListerLawrence

3 months

These figures are from a recent WhatCar? real world EV test, where they drove EV’s around Millbrook until they conked out. Advertising Standards should take a look… as no one else could get away with such nonsense in their advertising. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

10 months

No, Tesco, nobody did.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

5 months

Given all the recent negativity about UK EV charging infrastructure in the press, a reminder that if you wanted to use only a bank card or smartphone wallet to charge at a motorway service area about three years ago, here's how much choice you had versus what you have today...

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

7 months

Why do allegedly intelligent people assume that ‘global warming’ means ‘it’s hot everywhere, all the time’. Are they genuinely stupid or are they just knowingly misleading their audience like all populist contrarians?

Toby Young

@toadmeister

7 months

But... global warming.

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

6 months

WTAF is this shite?

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

5 years

Just the 600,000 miles on the clock of this Model S...

Hansjörg von Gemmingen - Hornberg

@gem8mingen

5 years

#NeuesProfilbild

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Tom Callow

@au_tom_otive

4 years

Helpful suggestions for those marketing non-plug-in hybrids: ❎ Stop using the word ‘electric’... ...because they just use petrol ❎ Stop using the word ‘charging’... ...because they just use petrol ❎ Stop confusing your customers... ...because they just use petrol

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