Recent content by Soutra

It depends on what sort of house you want. There are new estates in Middleton St George, Hurworth, and the sw side of Darlington at Blackwell. If you want an older house, with a bit more space then try Middleton One Row, Croft, Long Newton, some of the villages beside the A167 at Dalton, East...

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years.

Yankee Doodle Dandy by James Cagney Oh what a night by the Four Seasons

Neither Boro nor Hull had a chance of getting to 6th. Coventry is the team that could do it, a five point gap, but crucially a good goal difference. The FA Cup might get in their way though.

So the range on your EV is greater than 300 miles. If it wasn't you'd be stopping and queuing at charging points like the rest of us. We are also told that you shouldn't run the battery down below 15%, and charging it above 80% en route is neither necessary nor time efficient. So, just thinking...

BMWi4 M50

Car makers quote WLTP figures. It's good that they all use the same benchmark but I have never in two years managed to drive my car more than 80% of the WLTP figure. The closest I've got was 79% and the battery was showing 0% when I got home. Just deduct 25% off the claimed range to find your...

Yes it's a problem with ICE cars too. But it's still the scale that's important. If your diesel is supposed to do 600 miles and it actually does 500 that's still ok. But if your EV is supposed to do 280 miles but it only does 240 that's not. There are far more journeys of 250 or so miles...

The range is never what's claimed by any manufacturer. It doesn't need to be -10C to see significant degradation on the claimed numbers.

There are incredible numbers of electric vehicles in some states - California, Florida, New York, Arizona et al. The US has really gone for it in spades where practical, but range is the key factor holding back acceptance in other states. 250 miles might not get you to the next town, let alone...

No I haven't changed the goalposts. Here is the calc. From Edinburgh I want to travel to Hertfordshire, distance is 392 miles, maybe 378 if I use the A697 instead of A1. The range on my car when I set off was 290, the car was fully charged. As I went south, the range dropped to 278. I stopped...

No, that's not the case. 400 miles is the gamechanger. If there's an EV that does 400 miles on a single charge in real world bad weather, people will buy it. 500 miles is not a gamechanger. Hardly anyone would find that is a deal clincher. My EV is supposed to do 320 miles but it really only...

If only it was. There are 14 Ionity charging places in the UK at the moment. 350kW charging is really rare. Saying that nobody needs a 400 mile range electric car is just weaseling round the problem. If I travel from Edinburgh to the South East of England, I really don't want to arrive and...

There was an article in the Sunday Times on Mar 31 saying Chinese firms are dumping solar panels in European markets because of huge oversupply in Asia. People were buying them to use as fence panels apparently.

Jodie Comer can do any number of accents, all really convincing. Strangely enough her natural Liverpool accent doesn't sound quite as convincing.