Motorists to be taxed for driving in France under Reeves’s pay-per-mile plan https://share.google/MP0stPAbXCDwW8uvw
Time to remove a transponder?
All climate arguments have just flown out the window
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I can’t read the article because of the Telegraph’s paywall, but the idea sounds totally illogical to me.
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Maybe Reform Ltd won’t seem so bad when yhey come to power. 
I doubt it.
My opinion of British politics is already very low. I reckon all the parties have ideas but when they get into office the ultra rich tell them what they will be doing. There isn’t any other way I can figure out how parties can walk away from their manifesto pledges. I said years ago that the manifesto should be a contract between the party and the voting public, if without due cause (that to be made transparent) then pack them up and make them leave. As for chancellors who lie on their CV……..
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Yes, I heard it on the news yesterday In effect charging road tax on EU roads, milking other countries assets.
After my experience in the UK this summer with charging inconvenience and pricing, if I lived there I wouldn’t run an EV. Certainly not as our main car.
I also heard salary sacrifice pension contributions may well be capped. So encouraging people to provide for their old age is also out of the window. Which just puts pressure on the OAP futher down the line.
The woman (and her boss) are clueless.
At current course and speed you could well be right. My prognosis for Labour was that they would be just as incompetent as the Tories, but in a more caring way. The first part was true but not the second.
My prognosis for Reform is just chaos. But with a pint in one hand and a fag in the other.
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Can you not post things viaGoogle share links please? I’d rather keep as much of my web activity as possible away from them.
Also with this particular article it might be worth cutting & pasting the text as many people (myself very much included) do not & never will subscribe to the Telegraph.
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Sorry Badger, will try in future, I won’t pay anyone a subscription to print half truths in the form click bait either. I posted to mainly see if others had heard similar and may share also.
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Amen to that.
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Probably tells you all you need to know. I wont even send clicks or ad views the way of the telegraph, never mind pay them anything.
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Nor me, I think it’s really gone downhill.
They were never really up any hill, not even a small one in my book. Not quite as bad as the Daily Mail though 
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It’s fairly pointless even doing that. The Telegraph of today is a comic and not worth quoting.
Hydrogen
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Well, exactly
However, it might have been good to see how twisted the report is (or even if it is…) just in case one needs to counter its argument when it’s thrown at you by an EV hater/climate change denier/anti-vaccer./right wing nut-job/etc.
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Well, my first time in this part of the forum!
Following @BrianPaul ‘s post on BMW and hydrogen and @billybutcher and @ChrisMann on production and transport/storage…my wife is working for the World Bank on a ‘green hydrogen’ project in Namibia…they already have a working plant and at the moment converting the gas into ammonia/fertilizer.
All solar powered and they have some working vehicles running. I understand the plan is to build ship it out…
So, indeed a long way off with the biggest challenges being skilled labour but it is not at far fetched.
Namibia, Germany, BMW…all have some sort of link perhaps…
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As a desperate cling to the past 
in those parts of the world maybe a solution for now for some vehicles. When you consider the electricity required to split the solution to produce hydrogen that’s several cars that can be charged compared to a single charge for a hydrogen fuel cell car
That’s hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water using renewable energy to create a feedstock for ammonia production. That’s a really good use of the hydrogen produced that way, as ammonia production requires hydrogen and it’s normally produced from natural gas or methane. What it’s not good (read efficient) for really is powering a car as you’re much better off (read efficient) using the renewable energy to charge a car battery. However, you can retrofit existing ICE cars to run on hydrogen although it’s not cheap I think. Probably cheaper than buying a BEV though so if you already have a local supply of green hydrogen ‘on tap’ so to speak and already have ICE cars you can modify to make use of it, then that’s a viable solution. But only because of the particular circumstances there. As for the first world, it’s still a non starter really.
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…I must admit that I’m not really following the detail of what my wife is working on but what I do understand is that there is quite a bit of sunshine in Namibia and loads of land so the power is there to be used.