I think you’d like Bohannon’s book - many of the arguments in my PhD drew on evolutionary biology which was at that time (thirty years ago)an emergent discipline, but I’m finding Eve a useful update in that she reframes the material in a much broader and more contemporary context.
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I shall get it 
thank you for the recommendation.
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Lidl EV wall chargers, EV charging cables and other motoring stuff including EV stuff launch tomorrow Monday 13 November. EDIT: just noticed the price for the Type 2 EV charging cable and the mobile EV charging cable thingy that looks jolly useful, are both priced 20 euros less than the identical item on the German site. Plus:
- 20% off 1 day only Monday 13 November * . free shipment any basket including a motoring category product.
7/11kW wall charger 349 euros
22kW charger 499 euros
mobile vehicle charger thingy
Type 2 EV charging cable
… etc
Not sure if the claimable subsidy (£400?) off your tax for wall charger would apply just for the purchase of the charger itself unless you installed it same year and not sure if both a Lidl facture and a separate installation cost could both be claimed.
But since the cost of installation+supply seems to usually be 2-3x the tax subsidy the numbers seem to work to seriously look at the Lidl ones.
For once we are getting new Lidl stuff same day as Germany.
Is there any obligation to have a wall charger professionally installed and certified?
Badger wrote before about special cert being required but dont know if you can DIY on your own one.
Since 2017 any charging outlet that can deliver more than 3,7kW must be installed by a certified installer.
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Now now don’t be racist 
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Luv em
They’ve been available in Belgium for a while, though at a higher price. I didn’t realise the €349 price was only for one day? The charging rate is pretty anemic if you run it on single phase, 4kV max.
We had a little chat about them here a couple of weeks ago. Borne de recharge
The tax relief only applies to the box itself and to claim it you need it installed by a certified electrician.
Wot, like Antipodean?
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The first time I came across the word was in a novel when I was about 10. ‘Mum what does anti - po - dee - ann mean?’. She had to read it to work out what I was on about, cue trying unsuccessfully not to laugh!
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When I first came across the word I thought it was some kind of mashup (I’d just started Greek and Latin, by the way) meaning people who were against feet…
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Pretty much as expected brakes rusting and suspension wearing a bit more, all can be engineered out. Remember when I posted the possibility of drum brakes returning as the dont suffer as much as disks.
Then we have the Tesla… Good job there is a waranty.
Kind of relevant to this topic…
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Aren’t EV’s just as guilty of this as well, size and weight are huge with these as well, world wide emissions will probably rise as certain countries build more coal powered power stations to power them, China, Russia and the US spring to mind.
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Yes, but without the increase in emissions.
…but they aren’t.
Sadly China does
China, Bangladesh, India that I know off are all building new ones.
The coal power capacity starting construction in China was six times as large as that in all of the rest of the world combined, 2 new ones a week and that’s before we get on to new gas and oil powered stations.
Plans for new oil and gas power plants have grown by 13% in 2023 with 783 gigawatts of new oil and gas-power plant capacity under development, by 2024 America will bring 33 new gas power stations since 2022.
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