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  • Flying still cheaper than trains on most EU routes, study finds

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  • Conservatives sure like to stick up for the worst polluters. You could just tax the fuel like any other industry.

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  • "Oooo, pain is so close to pleasure"but also "Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round."

  • Flying still cheaper than trains on most EU routes, study finds

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  • No tax on airline fuel.

  • What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?

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  • I do not miss dial up.

  • What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?

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  • Just pop in a magnetic screwdriver bit holder and you have strong power and perfect control.

    It countersinks with ease but without the risk of screwing too deep like its electric counterpart all too easily does.

  • cum 2 mummy

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  • Foreplay.

  • More than 2.8m people in US identify as trans, including 724,000 youth, data shows

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  • RFK Jr has fallen in love with you for this post.

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  • Thank you for my favourite giggle of the day.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • Your car had a stated range of 700 miles and you only stopped for fuel?! Take a proper break, dude, 10 hours is too long, you're going to have an accident. Professional drivers have legal drive time limits for a reason.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • What? No. They're not suggesting lowering it to 5 at all. No one thinks the maximum should be set at the average (apart from a credit card company that I quit, but that's another story).

    The article is saying that most people who insist on a 35 cube tray tend to use about 5 cubes daily and some of them just don't need the 35 and might be absolutely fine with a 20 cube or even a 15 cube tray.

    Let's put it back in miles. The study found:

    350-375 mile EVs: 11.3% of range used daily

    Which is about 50 miles.

    What "few extra errands" do you have that cause you to drive hundreds of miles? That's not an errand, it's a road trip.

    Personally I drive round trips of 30 miles a day and 80 on Saturdays. Several times a year, we go further and then I stop every couple of hours to charge for 25 minutes or something. I'd rather stop every three hours, but it's worth it for the convenience and economy of home charging and the joy of driving I get.

    If you go on more road trips than we do, you probably want a bigger range, but my humble family car 150 mile EV is more fun to drive than any other vehicle I've driven, including an overpowered automatic BMW that was lovely but not nearly as much fun.

    I'm not ever going back to boring sluggish driving, spongy acceleration and annoying commuting and all those endless endless visits to petrol stations.

    The cheap petrol station is a ten minute drive from my house. Filling takes a few minutes. My diesel had more range and I could eke it out to a fortnight, but the petrol one was every week. People expect me to be upset about stopping for 25 minutes and messing with my phone, going to the loo, eating a bit of food every couple of hours, ten times a year, but I used to go to the petrol station every week! I don't miss it AT ALL.

    I spend hours and hours in my EV every week. It's genuinely fun to drive. The odd visit to the motorway service station is no biggie. I love my EV. I tried it for the curiosity, and love it for the driving experience

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • 1000km is 620 miles. That's heading for a 10 hour journey without stopping. No way am I prepared to do that. I don't have your stamina or concentration span.

    For me, personally, without other considerations, my ideal EV would cover me to probably stop every three hours for a break. That's around 270 miles if I'm on a motorway 100% of the route, so I'd be happiest with an EV with a stated range of 400 miles to have 50% more than I need, and would want to charge from 50 left up to 320 left in ideally 20 minutes to half an hour. (Once the family has all been to the loo and I've looked at the route ahead and caught up with my messages, 20 minutes has flown by.) 400 miles stated range is roughly 100kwh capacity, charging 270 miles in 20 mins is 67.5 kwh in 1/3 hr, so 202.5kw charger.

    Motorway service stations are installing 350kw chargers although a bunch of them still have 100kw or 150kw max, and some just 50kw.

    I reckon my absolutely ideal EV will be on the market in a few years with plenty of fast enough chargers and I'll buy it second hand a few years after that, by which time I'll have had this EV, my most fun to drive vehicle ever, for a decade and my wife will be happy to swap it out.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • I'm a massive EV fan and love my car more than I thought it was possible, I never dreamed commuting could be enjoyable, but...

    if you're regularly driving five hours up into remote mountains in the winter with no chargers en route, then absolutely stick with your diesel.

    It's not for you.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • This is the way.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • EVs are statistically more reliable and require significantly less maintenance. Even more so if you exclude Teslas.

    They're absurdly simple compared to gas guzzlers and cheaper to run, especially if you can get a cheap overnight electricity tariff.

    My EV costs me 20% of what my petrol car cost me to fuel, and my service plan is roughly half the price.

    And it's so, so, so much more fun to drive. I love it. Best car ever, by far. I zip away from gas powered mercs and BMWs at the lights and I can just floor it on the motorway and zip past anything when I want to. All in my unremarkable family car EV.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • EVs only use physical brakes under sharp breaking and parking, so they wear down less.

    In over 30 years driving I only ever had a breakdown away from home because of a gearbox failure. (I buy all my cars second hand but young, so that someone else has done the expensive bit of depreciation, and I don't buy American cars.)

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • Interesting metric.

    Prius is boring. A lot of EVs are enormous fun to drive, even some of the ordinary ones, because they have so much instant acceleration compared to a diesel or petrol car. You won't even be able to tear my EV from my cold dead hands.

    The article is right, and for me, 13% is a massive over estimate. I only need to charge at service stations when we go on holiday and there's an app that lets me plan it all out anyway. I don't know of any motorway service stations that don't have chargers in the UK.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • Article says 13% of capacity is normal. That's like your ice tray holds 35 but sometimes you have a party and have to buy cubes at the store.

    Everyone shouts at you for not having ice on tap that costs them five times as much to make as your ice tray and is still more expensive than store ice, all because sometimes you have go to the shop.

  • This ancient tribe was able to master the technique

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  • That makes even less sense to me than what you wrote before!

  • This ancient tribe was able to master the technique

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  • Look again: they're still the wrong way round even if so.