Lewis Standing

youtu.be/T5CnjDDibF4 Mega episode for 2026."every" UK EV on salary sacrifice scheme is shown here Find out which EV is for you by seeing the tax savings on offer for very low cost clean travel #Goelectric

@ctrlaltrefuel I've seen a fair few on the road, they look great 👍

Right. Will be doing a review of the Ford Puma Gen-E (Jenny) EV today for you lucky viewer. Anything you’d like to see/ask about it or have me do? Pop your questions below 🤓 Newt

@red4treble @SiOldridge @TiceRichard @AkshatRathi UK renewables get paid on CFDs. Eg Dogger Bank A B and C plus Sofia just coming online now at £53/MWh So the gas marginal price may have been £140/MWh but we'll be paying 72% less via AR3 offshore wind projects Fabulous eh?

@LewisStanding1 @SiOldridge @TiceRichard @AkshatRathi @LewisStanding1 @SiOldridge @TiceRichard We are told net zero protects us. The grid ran 71% zero-carbon for a week in April, yet households paid gas-linked prices. Octopus Agile saw 15 hours of negative pricing. The rest of us paid record bills.

Well this is interesting. @TiceRichard appears to be basing his opposition to upgrading our energy system on a quite a major misunderstanding. I urge Richard to catch up on this. Excellent interview by @AkshatRathi. Links below.

@AvonandsomerRob @co_charger It just gets worse! £2000 for a home charger!? What are you smoking!? I paid less than 1

@AvonandsomerRob @co_charger makes this seemless and I sell at 30p/KWh to let people get it affordably, while making a small profit Win win

Electric vehicle drivers online like to quote their home charging rates to wind-up ICE motorists. The reality, however, is somewhat different. Usable range of the majority of EVs is under 250 miles, or about £30 of petrol in the average modern ICE car. The reality is that unless you are a granny that only uses your car to go to Tesco, or you have a simple daily 40 mile commute, you're going to be using public chargers half the time. Your EVs sat nav does a very good job of building in charging stops into long journeys, and to be even more clever, it tells you if someone is plugged into the charger, or if it's available. Now here's where the fun ends. Firstly, a lot of supermarket chargers, which have the lowest rates, are out of order for long periods. You'll easily be able to get on a 7 or 22kw charger, but with supermarkets having a 2 or 3 hour parking limit, you'll be lucky to get 100 miles of charge during that time. If someone is plugged into the other chargers in the car park, this reduces your charging speed even further. In short, forget supermarkets. Other options include BP Pulse, fitted at most Co op stores, but many of these are out of order too, and charge a whopping 93p per kwh. That works out about 30 to the gallon in petrol language. Instavolt & Ionity are also expensive but fast and reliable. You'll get 70kwh charge on a 160kw charger, enough to pump 100 miles top up in just 15 minutes. They are situated at Starbucks and many retail parks. Also 93p kwh, so about 20% more expensive than petrol. EV owners don't charge their cars from 5 to 100% on the road, they just top up from 30 to 60% as its expensive, just enough to get you home. Once you get tired of expensive charging, you might want to consider a wall box, these charge at 7kw, and will fully charge your car overnight in about 10 hours. Average cost is £2k, including installation. So make sure you're going to run an EV permanently to make it worth it. Having spoken to many owners whilst charging, those with home chargers still often choose the public option for speed and convenience. As for the cars themselves, they actually don't drive any different to an ICE car, although they usually feel more powerful under acceleration. Motorway cruising is quieter with just tyre noise. They feel more modern, and you feel like you are part of a major technological change in society when you're driving one. But don't think you'll be doing all your charging for a fiver a tank at home. Life isn't so mundane that you won't need fast charging for certain trips, or that you'll forget to charge at home before a business meeting. My take - I wouldn't buy one outright with my own money yet, but I'd take one over an ICE car as a company or lease car. The latest tech is an exciting sea change, as important as the invention of the PC. After all, that £500 a month you'll save on company car tax due to a 4% BIK rate, can buy you a lot of Starbucks while you're waiting at a charging station..

@tobiascollison @AvonandsomerRob That's his modus operandi to be fair

@AvonandsomerRob My EV does 320 range in summer, 260 in winter. 8k-10k miles a year. £3 to fill at home overnight. Not once have I had to use a private charger. Through my work scheme, saves me a fortune. You're talking nonsense

youtube.com/shorts/vOP5P... How are we all doing with @OctopusEnergy greener nights this month? I'm smashing it And why isn't 70g/KWh good/low carbon enough today? Help me understand the algorithm!

@OrestisDel @janrosenow So it's about relative size of security risk What's the biggest risk , daily FF imports or solar panels once every 25 years?

@OrestisDel @janrosenow When you live in the UK and you're definitely almost out of oil and reliant on imports now and increasingly in the future They pose a much lower risk Once you've imported batteries, you've got those minerals forever if you make a recycling infrastructure

JUST DROPPED: Europe thought it won the energy war. Build LNG terminals, swap Russian pipelines for LNG, job done. Then Hormuz closed & prices doubled. We didn't end our dependency. We just changed who we are dependent on. But bright spots on horizon. open.substack.com/pub/janrosenow…

@ukevowners @ListerLawrence No one strikes if they are paid a fair wage

@ListerLawrence Did the strikes not ruin the uk motor industry, when I was young it seemed they were on strike lots.

One thing that REALLY gets on my goat is the UK police force buying foreign cars. There are around 40,000 police vehicles on the road and the majority of them are built abroad! That’s approx £1.2bn going off-shore if they’re replaced every 3 years. It’s only a matter of time until we have BYD police cars… If I was in charge of the country the first thing I’d do is mandate that all UK emergency services must buy vehicles built in Britain. 🇬🇧 I mean how obvious is that to help our own economy, job market and above all pride?

@AllQuizAble @KateFantom Less smog for his kid to have to breathe in, less overheating for his kid to have to live through, less illnesses caused by air pollution that the nation has to pay for, less oil imports and energy insecurity, less fossil price spikes every 4 years

@KateFantom the only reason you are advocating for EVs that bad is because you have a business that links to it. it's no passion. no soul. just profit expectation. bias. weather's nice in the following days, grab a cold lemonade and try not to make a sour face

We bought this van for £11,500+vat with less than 1000 miles on the clock. I’ve since added another 1500 miles over the past 10 days and charged almost exclusively on home charging. This 1500 miles has cost us approx £84 in home charging and £47 in public charging, so £131. If this was a diesel the 1500 miles would have cost us £276. Over a year the savings here make a massive difference to the business.

@peterrhague We should be I agree we should ban solid fuel burning

In developed nations we demand our water rigorously quality controlled and delivered at the temperature we require. Why aren't we so fussy about the air we breathe?

I'm considered a climate criminal in the UK for having AC. But I want more AC in my house. And I want to go beyond it - I want full on home ECLSS which lets me control every aspect of the air - not just temperature and humidity, but CO2, VOC levels etc.

@agingroy It's important people know how it works. Would you forget to tell a patient with T1DM that if they stop taking insulin it stops working? No Nor should you for these drugs.

Stop a statin and your LDL cholesterol rises 30% in four days. Nobody writes a WSJ feature about it. Stop certain blood pressure medications and your BP can spike within hours. Nobody calls it a design flaw. Levothyroxine, antidepressants, insulin, metformin, antihistamines. Chronic treatments for chronic conditions, and all of them stop working when you stop taking them. None of them generate think-pieces questioning whether patients should have started. The AMA classified obesity as a disease in 2013. Thirteen years later, it’s still the only chronic condition where “you have to take it forever” is framed as an argument against treatment rather than a description of how medicine works.

@roe6521 @SkySportsPL We didn't buy one , because mo wasn't playing truly awfully

@LewisStanding1 @SkySportsPL Doesn’t need to. They didn’t try and use him to his strengths. Same reason why VVD ain’t asked to go in and tackle hard to aggressively hold the high line anymore. And not like we had a RW in waiting, unless you rate Frimpong lol

Mo Salah on his decision to leave Liverpool this summer 🔴

@OrestisDel @janrosenow But they clearly are.

@janrosenow Electrification reduces exposure to Hormuz-style fuel shocks, but shifts dependence into supply chains: minerals, processing, components, grids and manufacturing. That is only a security gain if the new bottlenecks are less fragile, more controllable and easier to diversify.

@roe6521 @SkySportsPL He can't play to the level anymore

@SkySportsPL This interview is 12 months too early. Not how it should have gone down. Both should been mentoring handing over not being forced out.

@Emotion78687 Hammy fake crowd reactions don't add anything, just make it obvious it's staged

This is what genuine talent looks like. 👏

@smartroad78 What software do you use for that? X

Remember, EVs can't do long journeys, my trip through Europe this week with Merv - my LR Tesla Model 3 (not including return trip here, software is a bit fiddly on phone lol) Some seriously stunning scenery going into Spain!