The Dark Side of the Coin

@SMMT Dicky trying to rewrite the article with whataboutery 🤡

Used battery electric vehicle (BEV) transactions up 32.0% as volume and market share reach new records. Hybrid (HEV) demand grows 27.6% to 128,039 units, while plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) fall -8.9% to 20,021 units. smmt.co.uk/evs-charge-up-…

@ProudBrit19 @kerbocharge @SwanseaCouncil Its disgusting that you think people in wheelchairs who are able to drive are somehow incapable of using this. Some may find it difficult but here's a newsflash for you Everyday life is harder to varying degrees in a wheelchair. Get over it

@kerbocharge @SwanseaCouncil Still waiting for the demonstration by a disabled person/wheelchair user you promised.

A huge congratulations to @SwanseaCouncil for making cross-pavement channels a reality for residents with on-street parking. Iechyd da from team Kerbo!

@ProudBrit19 @SMMT Absolutely correct The used market is dominated by ICE sales due to it being around 3 to 5 years behind. Which proves the point that those against EVs (because petrol is infinite) don't need to worry, cry, or spend all day on sm looking for pro EV posts to troll under.

@SMMT "Petrol and diesel remained the best-selling fuel types in Q1 2026" There, I fixed the headline for you.

🔋Transactions of used battery electric vehicles (BEVs) grew by 32.0% to 86,943 units, as nearly one in 23 buyers (4.3%) made the switch, up from around one in 30 last year. ⚡️This is the result of sustained investment by manufacturers into new models, enabling a massive choice of new zero emission vehicles in every segment – supported by substantial discounts and government incentives – which are filtering into the used market in ever greater numbers. smmt.co.uk/evs-charge-up-…

@martyn_hara @karma44921039 @Alex54983848 If by more you mean less then yes. Pay per mile is just the EV equivalent of fuel duty and is roughly priced at 50% cheaper per mile than petrol or diesel.

@karma44921039 @Alex54983848 It sums it up more taxation .

And here it is . The pay per mile scheme you were warned about. Buy electric they said to save the planet!! No what they meant was we are going to put up electricity bills an then charge you per mile for driving it . When are you going to realise YOU ARE BEING SHAFTED

@reesbomb77 @karma44921039 The fuel duty alone is around 6ppm Napkin maths on todays fuel prices and average mpg gives ~ 20p per mile The average EV would need electricity prices to be ~68pkwh (more than double UK average today) to make EVs 20p/mile (including 3p/mile add on). Hope this helps you learn

@karma44921039 3p per mile is just the start 😡😡people will never learn buying electric car 🤣🤣🤣

@fiddy__sats @karma44921039 Pay per mile is separate from road tax Its the EV equivalent of fuel duty. As more of us switch to EVs the government losses 53p/litre in fuel not burnt. Per car, 10k miles/ year, thats around £600 depending on mpg

@karma44921039 they been pocketing road tax for decades and squandering it .. why change now when idiots just lap up the lies

@Barry82531687 @darrenpbeale @karma44921039 @suemcdonald342 Not entirely accurate In name no In reality yes 53p/ltr fuel duty or £2.40/gallon Average petrol mpg 36 Average diesel mpg 43 Per mile cost Petrol 6.69p Diesel 5.6p

@darrenpbeale @karma44921039 @suemcdonald342 Nope

@GarymcMcleod @karma44921039 What's to moan about Petrol & diesel are paying around 12 to more than 40p/mile via existing fuel duty. If it ever reaches 15p/mile in todays money then it would be something to seriously consider.

@karma44921039 So what you all going to do about it? Cry and moan? Then vote in the same vile creatures time and time again and continue paying! Get out the house, block the streets, shout as loud as you can and stop tapping the keyboard

@WhatNeverNext @karma44921039 You mean like paying per mile aka fuel duty ~53p/ltr as well as road tax

@karma44921039 Electric, zero or low emission cars registered from 1 April 2017, you’ll pay the standard rate of £200. From April 2028, you will be charged 3p per mile for EVs and 1.5p per mile for PHEVs. The catch.... 👉on top of standard road tax.

@rushyjunior @EnergyMix_UK @karma44921039 Deluded take. EVs with a 3ppm add on are still 40-70% cheaper per mile than petrol or diesel with fuel duty (depending on model mpg) Pay per mile will be much higher for petrol and diesel when it comes in. (fuel duty would be removed ~53p/ltr).

@Object_Zero_ It wouldn't take much for a foreign aggressor to sabotage that. There's no energy security from undersea pipelines

The Forties Pipeline System (FPS) This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK. It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas. FPS is a British oil pipeline system. Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power. As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years. INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away. 550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy. This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power. Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real. 38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system. With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future. Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe. BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse. The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will. The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble. Likewise the UK’s North Sea. The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System. The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan. In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo. A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan. A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics. So what replaces this? Nothing? Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?

@latimeralder When motor vehicles first came along the use of horses was still trending upwards for many years, even after the use of motor vehicles hit an inflection point. Coal, like the horse, is a proven technology for the time. Coal, like the horse, will be replaced in time.

Since 1992 when the world was first lectured by Climatistas about their wish for us to stop using coal, worldwide coal production has DOUBLED! The world loves coal far more than it cares about Climatista's feelings

@Carsofglasgow1 Ford for a long time have liked to share platforms. Fiesta mk4 - Mazda 121 Maverick - Nissan Terrano Focus mk3 - Volvo V40 Ford Ka - Fiat 500 Today Capri & Explorer - VW ID4, 5, Audi Q4, Skoda Enyaq, Cupra Tavascan. Connect - Caddy Transit Custom - Transporter

It is interesting that in 2026 you can buy an Audi and a Ford which share the same platform. Has there been another Audi & Ford product crossover before? 🧐🚘

@latimeralder I see way more posts from the "Anti anything other than gas groupies" posting only the lowest snapshot moment of the day. I do see more of the whole day /week /month / year on year from the renewables folks though. 1hr of 1 day is irrelevant data regardless of gas or wind

Renewable folks proudly tell us of the high point of their favoured source 'Wind power got to 80% for 10 whole seconds in the middle of the night in April!' But are much more bashful about the 10 DAYS in April when it never got to provide even 20% of our electricity! Beware!

@commandant64907 @Lgiannatta48389 @KathrynPorter26 @Gilles_Borghese @ret_ward Best analogy 👌 Doesn't alter the statement that Kathryn herself described

@Lgiannatta48389 @KathrynPorter26 @Gilles_Borghese @ret_ward chocolate teapots are not inherently unreliable it's a case of heat management

Another example of @KathrynPorter26 making false claims. The Iberian blackout was not caused by renewables, as this independent investigation pointed out: entsoe.eu/publications/b…

@omotforest @Lgiannatta48389 @KathrynPorter26 @Gilles_Borghese @ret_ward KP said it herself only last year. No need to be defensive when the facts don't align with narratives

@Lgiannatta48389 @KathrynPorter26 @Gilles_Borghese @ret_ward If that is your reasoning why was solar rolled out on an unmanageable grid? "Not caused by but could not have happened without is weaseling of the worst kind.

@techsconsult @KathrynPorter26 @jemmm85517813 @ret_ward @Ed_Miliband @latimeralder @PeterDClack @NetZeroWatch Bit of stretch going from planning & compliance failures* [KP 2025] to now solar causes deaths* [KP 2026] But here we are eh

@KathrynPorter26 @jemmm85517813 @ret_ward Thanks for a clear explanation of the Iberian Blackout causes, in what is a complicated area of Energy engineering. Perhaps #Green renewables have their downside? .@Ed_Miliband @latimeralder @PeterDClack @NetZeroWatch eandt.theiet.org/2025/06/18/spa…

@KathrynPorter26 @ret_ward This you saying it was caused by "planning and compliance failures"

The Iberian blackout was DEFINITELY caused by renewables according to the report by system operator REE 1. The initial fault was traced to a faulty solar inverter 2. Wind and solar generators tripped when solar generators disconnected due to negative prices. This was a violation of the grid code 3. This loss of wind and solar caused frequency to fall outside grid code tolerances leading to conventional generators and interconnectors tripping and a full grid collapse You may find the facts inconvenient but those ARE the facts

@renewablesmiffy In her own words only a few months ago "planning failure plus a compliance failure". youtu.be/MzCiEHGVMwA?si…

Now she is rewriting the official Spanish report to make it say what she wanted it to say. A demonstration that if you state things with confidence people will believe you even if it is BS

@sonzella21986 @EnergyDems There is, its called incinerators. China has so many they're digging up closed landfills to feed them.

@EnergyDems With all the trash that we humans produce, you would think some one could come up with a system that would use the trash to make energy. Instead of just plain fossil fuel?Supplment the fossil with trash.

Sen. King: I don't understand why you continually say wind and solar aren't reliable when your own state is the sixth highest wind source state in the nation and it's saving you from the currently exorbitant cost of fossil fuels.