Perhaps harnessing the hot air on this thread would be a start😉
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Lets just focus on sliced bread, bloody awful stuff, just allows the manufacturers to make a load of dough
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Corona, with such deep insight as you have displayed here, you should be making your way immediately to Leicester. You could be the next Darren Walsh
Gives me the gas.
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You want to buy things? 
Not surprised, I was on a week course and lunch was just horrible industrial sandwiches, by the Friday I was so bloated I couldnt concentrate on the instructor. Took my own lunch for the 2nd week no issues, last time I consumed industrial bread.
If more people were like you and were happy to do their local journeys using pedal power that would be progress.
Fastest depreciating electric cars. I bet they don’t lose value like that in France.
It was the Jag I-pace, in the UK but will watch the video later. Did they make one for ICE vehicles or is it just bias?
They drive and test EVs. No bias
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Yeah I’ve seen a few of their videos, they’re honest about EVs and more objective than Fully Charged for example.
I can remember Jeremy Clarkson saying that the status symbol of owning a new Rolls Royce wasn’t actually owning or driving the vehicle it was demonstrating to the world that you could afford to lose tens of thousands of pounds every year in depreciation. Depreciation isn’t always a good indicator of the worth of a car.
EVs just got cheaper to operate in France. According to a letter from my car insurers, they are taxed by the government on all insurance policies they issue (TSCA). For the next two years the French government will reduce the tax on insurance for electric cars by 75%.
As far as I can work out, this will reduce my annual premium by 7%
Good luck with that 
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Not sure what you mean by that HB. Do you think I am optimistic expecting a reduction?
I’m being realistic, whereas I think you’re being optimistic.
Remember that the difference between a pessimist and an optimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and a pessimist knows that it is.
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I am still not quite understanding your point. If my car insurer sends me a letter saying they are going to to reduce my premiums for two years and explaining the reason, why is it not realistic to expect them to do what they say?
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
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I heard something about that a while ago, but I thought it was the other way around, some tax reduction that had been in place was expiring.
I found this… impenetrable as usual 
Electric vehicles are subject to an IPT exemption, albeit this was amended from January 2024 so that 75% of the premium was treated as exempt (with the remaining 25% being taxable as normal).
A 75% exemption applies to insurance incepting in 2024 for vehicles registered in 2024, but only in relation to the first insurance contract following the vehicle’s registration up to a maximum of 24 months. There is no law currently in effect extending this treatment for vehicles registered in 2025, so such vehicles will not benefit from the 75% exemption as it stands.
Coverage of any nature relating to commercial agricultural vehicles and commercial vehicles greater than 3.5 tonnes benefits from a full IPT exemption, except compulsory class 10 coverage. However, this does not provide an exemption from the applicability of the parafiscal charges mentioned above.