Ian Griffiths

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There’s not one automative podcast that doesn’t send me to sleep. Feel irritated with myself as I end up listening to them at least 3 times before I get to the end.

Chris can I check why it needed a name

@doylech Chris are you OK? Why did it need a name?

But it is an Arabic name .... Taraf Al Ghar. A hillside of laurel.

@tothepiste @TheSolarShed Oh yeah 🤦‍♂️

@IanGriff @TheSolarShed Didn’t he say each has produced 1400. So doesn’t that mean you’re just calculating the return for one?

Each one of these solar panels cost around £100 At today's rates, each has produced electricity to the value of £1400 They will be 8 yrs old in June. Now tell me that solar energy doesn’t work in cloudy old Britain

@initialcomms @TheSolarShed Also no mention of wires or brackets, or paying someone to stand on your roof, I think he was attempting to say he's almost home from the outlay, might have been better knowing the numbers and waiting to say it

@IanGriff @TheSolarShed When has a solar install ever been £1500, they were about £12,000 at one point, then fell to £5000. Think Kev is chatting merd

@DVATW That’s after you paid tax to exchange your time for the money to buy it

That awkward moment when you are shown to be the cause of high fuel prices…

@au_tom_otive @OurCrazyWorldT "No US insurer"

@OurCrazyWorldT It has to be insured to cover such usage though. And no US insurer is covering someone to drive their non-approved truck on UK roads. In fact, promoting himself doing this seems odd, as his insurer may cancel his policy if they find out.

If you are a UK resident, it is illegal to drive your foreign registered and foreign insured car on UK roads, so is this what the owner was admitting? 🤔

@richardbrunning The disadvantage of the EV is you now need to tell everyone about it

Charger installed today, EV arrives Friday. Put £80 petrol in the Jag on Saturday to do less than 400 miles. £80 into the ID7 Touring gets me more than 4000.

@Steven_Swinford So glad you boys are here, I was about to pour it on the floor

The AA and the RAC are advising motorists to conserve fuel amid concerns that soaring oil prices will soon feed through to pumps The AA is saying that people should cut out non-essential journeys The RAC is advising people to drive fuel-efficiently by avoiding harsh accelerating and braking Edmund King, president of the AA: 'Drivers should not change their refuelling habits but can consider cutting out some non-essential journeys and changing their driving style to conserve fuel. These measures linked to warmer weather means that drivers can ensure their fuel stretches further' Simon Williams of the RAC: 'We encourage drivers to continue filling up as normal but to shop around for the best prices. 'Driving fuel-efficiently by avoiding harsh accelerating and braking and ensuring tyres are inflated to the right pressures can help eke out every last mile and save money'

@MaxFRobespierre Educate me, why can we not sell it locally to ourselves

Any oil and gas drilled will be sold on the international market. Why is Martin not telling people that?

@bantifa_ @hillsidemeadow @YoungBobRB No it doesn't

@hillsidemeadow @YoungBobRB Depends on the context. Hence why I’m asking.

Punched in the face again by Antifa. I was decked again by Antifa and I have a swollen nose, and they have stolen more of my camera equipment. Antifa keep on rushing around the protest and then catching out people who are filming the demonstration.

@LGBTQPrideUK @YoungBobRB "oppose"

@YoungBobRB Maybe don’t be fascist if you don’t want anti fascists to oppose you.

@renewablesmiffy @0123456789tommy Equally, you have failed to explain why it is not possible, are the oil police going to come and tell us the price

@0123456789tommy Ah so it’s possible but you cannot explain how!

I repeat. Drill the life out of the North Sea all you want but it will never lower our Gas prices at 0.1% of global reserves it’s just not significant enough to have any impact. Ross is lying.

@renewablesmiffy Might be a daft question but if we extract it and we refine it and we sell it, how is the price dictated by someone else

@KMc_head @tomhfh Does GCSE maths not include efficiency

@tomhfh 9 minutes at 1.5 MW is 225 kWh. Yet car battery capacity is a fraction of that. Irrespective of not physically being able to supply 1.5 MW at the right voltage, that GCSE-level maths simply isn't mathsing there, Our Tom (non-STEM)...

The new BYD flash charger can use 1,500kW of power to recharge a battery from 10 per cent to 97 per cent in just nine minutes. All the drawbacks of electric cars are being eliminated one by one.

@ShabanaMahmood 48 grand to put someone on a plane, are you drunk

Our pilot of new incentives to remove failed asylum seeking families will save taxpayers up to £20 million. Here's why 👇 1. It costs 158k to put up a family of 3 in an asylum hotel for 1 year. It costs 48k more to forcibly remove someone. A 10k per person incentive, up to a max of 40k per family, will save money. 2. If someone refuses an incentive, we will move to a forced removal. If you have no right to be in this country, you should not be allowed to stay. 3. There is nothing new about incentive payments. The Tories did it. Even Reform say they will do it. 4. Higher incentives have worked in Denmark. 95% of returns there are voluntary. 5. These incentives are not a pull factor. Asylum claims in Denmark are at a 40-year low. And asylum seekers spend tens of thousands of pounds getting to this country, that's more than any incentive payment. 6. This is a pilot of 150 families. We will see if it works and scale it if it does. That's taking a smart approach, that saves taxpayers' money, to restoring order at our borders. I make no apology for doing that.

@AndyatAuto We need to be honest, modern cars are not very good on any metric be it nanny driver aids that are just annoying, reliability, cost. As someone senior in the business you should be reflecting upon why you’re basically failing to make a good product.

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are electronic, sensor-based technologies that are designed to increase vehicle safety and improve the driving experience by reducing human error. Using cameras, radar, LiDAR, and ultrasonic sensors, these systems monitor surroundings for hazards, providing alerts or taking automatic corrective action, such as emergency braking or steering assistance. Today my car performed a phantom emergency stop, which is not uncommon. The car industry has a love/hate with this technology which is largely mandated on them. It adds cost and weight and reduces reliability; on the other hand it’s part of the roadmap to autonomous cars. I’m interested in your view point - should we?

@Reds1967_LFC @SandyofSuffolk I think the exact wording is 'its a fucking bus, what were you expecting'

@IanGriff @SandyofSuffolk Does the highway code say that once you are about to go around a parked bus or a truck and it’s safe, then it’s ok for a bus or truck to pull out just as you are parallel to it just because they indicated. I think fukin not

And another thing. Hey lorry drivers, just indicating doesn't mean it's ok to pull out into lane 2. You also have to look to see if it's safe to do so. Seen three different instances today of lorries just pulling out without seeing a car there and the car driver has to slam brakes on.