Matt Lyons

@InsideChinaAuto Solar attenuated glass is a must have. How do car makers forget this? I've never had a problem in the Polestar 2, 4 or BMW iX1 we have.

Not sure who thought the wrapover glass window in the back of the Geometry G6 was a great idea but it is fecking HOTTTTT in the back seat. Being cooked by solar.

@InsideChinaAuto Enshitiffication more like!

@mattlyon Suspect the first cars that come through without Wagoner's input will take a different route. He's the mastermind behind the Louis Vuittonification of the brand.

Dear Lord this thing's ugly. And what's with the racoon face on the back? I'll give it this...at least it's got 4 window switches.

@EVCircles Australia not being supplied with Audi A6 estate or BMW i5 touring? Or MG5 estate? Here in the UK, I'm waiting for an EV sports car. My shortlist: Longbow (longbowmotors.com), Caterham EV or Alpine A110 EV.

When can I get a low riding electric wagon though? 🎵 all my friends, drive low riders… 🎶

@EVCircles I don't think they're trying to. I THINK they're trying to provide a value for money "good enough" product. They mostly succeed at achieving this low bar (cars for people that don't care about cars), but entirely fail with Alfa Romeo and Maserati - drivers cars.

I know I’ve been hanging shit on Stellantis lately, so now I’d like to do it some more. Do they make anything anywhere that is class leading or even just really good? Are Rams still better than their competitors? Is that it? Even Leapmotor seems a bit “meh” compared to others.

@AndyatAuto @7Kiwi @hiltonholloway I do not understand the objections. Have you seen the climate predictions of we do nothing? Even if they're off quite a lot, the risk of most of East Anglia flooding and preventing food production isn't worth taking imho. To have cheaper energy too? And be energy independent? Win

It’s called batteries! A magic box (BESS) that allows you to time shift between supply and demand. Also works without solar input (buy electricity when demand is low, ship it back to the grid when demand in high) and here’s the really special magic, it work equally well with wind, tidal, gas and oil - meaning you don’t have to rely upon only one source of energy- but let’s keep it simple and just call it magic!

Solar is useless for energy independence in Britain. It produces most on summer days when demand is low and nothing at all on winter evenings when demand is highest.

@fesshole Hire a car if you need one?

WFH and get £600 car allowance. Sold the car because I wasn't using it and pocketed the money for the last year. No one has checked & luckily no meetings have required travel. Will get busted eventually.

@andrewmichta America - you need to hugely increase your industrial capacity. You just showed the world you would be out of missiles in a couple of months in a major shooting war.

🧵In 1951, Gen. Bradley bluntly told Gen. MacArthur that a war with China would be "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." As I watch the Iran war unfold, Bradley's words continue to ring mostly true today and are worth remembering. 1/6

@AutoPap I think a charger at home is much cheaper and convenient. I think public charging an EV is a little more inconvenient than a petrol car (but you can work or watch TV on a tablet) and probably about the same cost as petrol, particularly at the moment.

You can't own an EV without a home charger. FULL STOP. Public charging is a rip off which negates the point of having one. Dealers need to be more transparent about this before they take your money.

@AutoPap I went from a 2 litre diesel Mondeo to a 400hp Polestar 2. I love instant torque. EV's have given me somethin g I couldn't afford up to that point. So glad you are enjoying your Renault 5. I'll never go back to ICE, but I still love all cars. Haters can hate. Crack on Shami.

Mon Fun Car. #LeCar

@ShamiKalra TV volume was on 2 until the race started! :)

If you’ve woken up early, well done. If you’re trying not to wake the rest of the family up…with this national anthem and show? Good luck 😄 #f1

@renewablesmiffy @spectator @mattwridley Chris, you are utterly unceasing with this stuff. Keep it up. Appreciate it. With any luck Ed Milliband won't stop with it either. The safest place to be with this is self sufficient with renewables. It's coming. No doubt.

@spectator @mattwridley How did Ed Miliband Add 50p to diesel Double heating oil Add 30% to Gas Deliver fossil fuel inflation Rocker prices of fertiliser Create shortages of helium Create fuel shortages

Sooner or later it is going to dawn on Ed Miliband and the rest of the government that anger over Britain’s sky-high energy prices is not going to go away. They are no longer going to be able to conceal the obvious evidence that UK consumers and businesses are paying significantly more for their energy than their counterparts in comparable countries. They are also not going to get away with blaming the war in Iran, nor with maintaining the pretence that the government’s green policies are helping to bring down bills. ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/ed-mil…

@ChadMoran From tomorrow electricity for my car is gonna cost me about 1 pence per mile. We just don't care.

Remember when “gas money” meant a few bucks? What do EV owners call it? Zap money?

@TedWelford Very shiny! Cracking job sir!

I’ve wound back the amount of valeting I do because of a lack of time, but I’ll always stick by my best customers, even if they now live 45 miles away! Quite like this as a three-car garage. All in near perfect condition too

@simonbinns Many bags too. What's with that?

The amount of adult men who dress like giant children is mad. Full track suit and granny mugger trainers. You’re 45.

@anon_opin Or even abbreviate to OSR. Some do already.

It would be a huge relief to most Brits if we changed the name of our biggest oil seed crop to "canola" like the Americans.

@faisalislam Your scenario is possible. Equally, we could also see a global recession and the return of half percent interest rates and QE. Huge uncertainty at the moment.

BLIMEY. After disappointing borrowing numbers and the Bank of England’s hawkish tilt yesterday 10 year gilt yields reached highest levels since 2008 this morning above 4.9%… and possibly heading for 5%. This is rather delicate. The market judges the UK to be energy inflation prone, and somewhat political uncertainty prone too. UK political economy is sending messages right now… eg will the state always step in, in every circumstance now to stop energy bills rising for everyone, even in a generalised energy shock? See the Cornwall Energy projection of a possible £300 annual increase in energy cap typical bills. The IEA is about to advise the world on potential demand management solutions to help (of the sort Germany effected in 2022, which were deemed politically impossible in the UK). Across UK politics can there be reasoned conversations about these things? If the Gulf crisis continues all this will come to ahead in May, when the new energy price cap is set, in the middle of the aftermath of the May local elections, at a time when whispers emerge from leadership rivals of a looser relationship with fiscal prudence. As it happens, my sense is that the Treasury is firmly planning for a far more targeted offering for any support, IF needed, using data that was not available in 2022. The internal view is that many billions of pounds of Liz Truss’ universal £42 billion energy price guarantee scheme were wasted on rich households and on heating the air outside our badly insulated homes too. On top of that the market reaction to the Bank of England’s change of direction was somewhat overdone, as the Governor’s interview by me confirmed, as he told the MPC at the meeting, raising interest rates in the UK is not going to unblock the Strait of Hormuz… that said, some city economists are now saying we could get a rate rise next month, and markets imply three this year. Let’s see. These things could all change with one Truth Social post. There is some time here. We are less than a third of the way through the observation window on energy bills. Whatever the increase on bills summer is responsible for eg 7% of domestic gas consumption… so the immediate impact over summer would be around £10 a month. But there is an issue brewing at the crossover of political and geoeconomic uncertainty for the Autumn, and May is a key staging post. I can see why they keep saying they want a deescalation, both in the Gulf, and in gilts.

@electricfelix Its great. But why does it weigh 2,300kg?

we're done here 🤣 #ruined ⚡️⚡️⚡️

@AutoPap Havent we been asking for simpler lines? You don't like it? Honestly, I love cars, but gave uo having opinions on car design a few years ago whwn they all started looking the same. But the Telas are ugly.

Anyone who's my age will probably look at this and wince. However we're not the demographic BMW are appealing to anymore. Do the younger people on here like it?

@AutoPap A little angular for me. Lovely all the same. But I think I would prefer a really well looked after 612.

Love the F12 ❤️