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Message Handling Protocol??? The BBC isn't a place for politics? You must be joking!

Thanks Eggy! I reckon it's chicken and egg(y) here: they depend on keen users flagging up new installations, and if practically no one is using it yet then practically no one will report it. ZapMap only covers the UK, so I've actually only referenced it once in the last five years. BUT if you are in the UK (and don't have a Tesla) it's the primary goto.

If you buy the right EV, there are no such problems. We go anywhere in Europe without any worries as to charging. The car knows where it's going to charge and when; it even predicts which chargers will be free when it arrives. The normal spacing of 160Km for superchargers is now being filled-in to 80Km in many places. In countless thousands of Km travelled, we've never had to wait to get charged anywhere. Forward planning gets us free energy at a hotel overnight, but we don't depend on this. I've even been toying with taking the car over to North Africa now there are a limited number of superchargers along the North African coast, but this is unlikely to happen as the last convenient car ferry from here ceased to run in the 1970s! So... it will probably be a discounted ferry trip to Greece in the spring for the car. I made an extremely long mains industrial-strength mains lead for our little charging block to pull out on an occasion when someone tells us the nearest domestic socket is too far away, but so far there's never been a need for it. But we still take it as extra insurance. You can go one heck of a distance on an overnight charge from just about any domestic socket. Indeed, for around a year this was our only way to charge the car out here in the sticks, but proved perfectly satisfactory. The only real motivation to install the wall charger was that we brought one with the car before we really knew what we were doing: it was collecting dust. The minimum selectable charge rate for the car is a bit on the high side at 5A though - a lower setting would enable us to use limited solar over the day directly, and spread the charge more evenly overnight. In regular daily use, it's normally fully charged (to 80%) by around 4 or 5am, even when it starts cheap rate charging after 1am. The mistake most people make when buying an EV is they assume they are buying just another car, rather than buying into a complete ecosystem. This echoes people who used to but computing equipment from spec sheets and reviews rather than looking at what applications were available and compatibility issues. The media is the main culprit here, though, as there is just so much garbage printed in the regular motoring columns, and the huge advertising spend of German manufacturers means they can't publish an objective view. So-called Hybrids: exactly why someone would buy into all the problems of lesser BEVs, and all the problems of ICE at one and the same time, is something I find hard to understand. It's always amusing to see someone with a plug-in hybrid trying hard to avoid buying dinosaur juice, though!

Cartoon? Google Data Center Under Construction in Central Ohio

Poor show this still isn't on Zapmap: it's probably missing a load of potential users! Can someone with a Zapmap account, and who can mark an exact position, please submit it? A tiny bit difficult from here! https://www.zap-map.com/add-a-charge-point

...just one competitor here. It's a race to the bottom of where power is cheapest, and Labour policy will ensure that we have anything but cheap power. I always hate to be pessimistic, but there are hard facts here that can't be ignored. So someone, please tell us why will this be any different to the doomed-from-the-outset battery factory? Blackstone don't seem to have a tenant; so it then becomes a speculation that they will be able to sell it on rapidly and leave someone else holding on to it when the invest in AI fad runs its course. To them, it's simply one of many fast turns of funds they must invest somewhere! There are so many things this government could be doing to encourage domestic enterprise. But - as per usual - it's all about the attention grabbing headline, and not serious consideration of the real factors behind domestic wealth generation. If the last government was poor, then this one is stunningly off-the-scale incompetent!

Connector type? Cost per KW/h? Payment methods? And most importantly... the power available? Is it on Zapmap - yet? Back in 2020 it was very disappointing to see just how backward the NE was when we drove our Tesla off the Zeebrugge ferry at North Shields. We'd driven some 1500Km from Italy and through the Alps with no problems whatsoever. As soon as we landed on Tyneside, it was like stepping back into the 20th century. The charger at Cramlington was utter c**p and had delivered a measly single kilowatt-hour when we returned to the car after an hour in the shopping centre. It turned out it couldn't process the credit card it initially accepted and had disconnected. The hotel (which I won't name) had a totally ambivalent attitude to EVs, and much else! They directed us to a couple of points up beside Northumberlandia, which clearly hadn't worked for months. The only charging that actually worked was at the roundabout on the spine road, and that had a queue for the single pathetic 50Kwh (minus a lot) connector post. It was also overpriced by a lot, and there were ICE vehicles making access to it difficult. Back on the continent again, it was plain sailing all the way to the Mediterranean, with no waiting anywhere for a charge; zero defective chargers encountered; and two hotels giving us free overnight charging.

Sales of pure EVs are up 23% year-on-year internationally. Much of what you read in the media about plunging EV sales is a distortion of the true position. The media has an agenda driven by their advertisers. It's true that consumers aren't buying German EVs, and that German sales fell sharply after a large rise due to German buyers bringing forward purchases due to their government scrapping subsidies. Except for the German made Tesla Model 'Y' German manufactured EVs aren't actually very good. The consumer eventually worked this out, but you won't hear this in the bought and paid for media reports! All German car sales are plunging worldwide, not just their underwhelming EVs! The German motor industry is facing its biggest ever crisis and lots of factory closures are imminent. All VW staff have been mandated a 10% pay cut, and they are just the lucky ones who aren't being made redundant.

How can they predict how many jobs there will be when they don't even know which company will tenant it? It's actually just a speculation on the current AI fad that some in the financial world think is a bubble that could burst at any time. There seems to be one major thing missing in this proposal: the impact on local electricity supplies. In truth, that's why they want to locate it here - because there's simply not enough available power in the South East! A planning application has been refused in the Irish Republic recently for this very reason:- Incidentally, the projected number of permanent jobs to be created for this proposal is a whopping 50, and that's probably egging it a lot in order to get the thing approved! Ours isn't even a firm proposal like the Google one, and simply a financial speculation by money-grubbing Blackrock. The majority of the actual jobs will be fairly lowly paid security, groundsmen, and cleaning jobs. You will probably be able to count the number of on-site technical jobs on your fingers with fingers to spare. Someone is being had or there's an epidemic of wishful thinking in the council!

Ah, but did you find out who the client was? Maybe it was a haute couture company? It's certainly a winning game for polling companies to come up with results that are far closer than the reality. This encourages more and more polling spend. Also - like so many other things in life - telling a customer what they want to hear is seldom bad for business.

Why do you say that? A polling company goes onto the streets and asks people. They pitch it so that it's easier to get responses than brush-offs. Actually, you can get a good statistical sample from less than a thousand people: so, two and a half thousand is a lot more than your average poll! I take it that you don't teach statistics? On partisanship: I'm not at all rooting for the Tory Party, but you are implying there are only two choices. The screenshot is from the Telegraph (I should have added that). Would you give Guardian polls more credibility?

I don't have a problem with Starmer not being a saint. I have a problem with him doing things which will have entirely the opposite effect to his stated aims. He's utterly simplistic in his view of the world and not up to the job. His unreserved support for BLM should have been a warning sign. He would be fully at home as an apparatchik of a communist state; he's a technocrat and actually despises what he sees as an ignorant electorate. He puts no value to the innate common sense of ordinary people. This is why the EU holds such appeal for him: he believes every problem can be solved if it's put into the hands of technocrats and the input of the electorate minimised, or better completely ignored. Saints are for moral guidance but make p-poor leaders! Yes, Trump has huge personality defects, and it's understandable why many don't like him. But there's nothing there that disqualifies him for being an excellent leader. He's already demonstrated this in his first term, but the media have set out to systematically rubbish his achievements. Increasing numbers of Blacks and particularly Hispanics aren't fooled by this and now support him. The main stream media in all 'Western' countries are so dumb that they are systematically trashing whatever morsels of credibility they now have left! If you're open-minded enough to listen to ex-Democrat RFK's recent speech, you will learn a lot about how things REALLY work. He's a really intelligent person who still holds left-wing views (despite what the media wants you to believe) and he's totally had it with the corrupt Democratic Party and their manipulation of the system.

Yes, he said the election was stolen: on the night after the poll there was one and a half solid hours of sworn testimony posted on YouTube - from mostly non-partisan ordinary people - who'd witnessed a host of election abnormalities, all of these favoured the Democrats. I watched about half of these before I had to turn in, intending to go back the next day and watch the full thing. Guess what? When I revisited the saved link, the video had been removed! This - and many other things - has led me to the conclusion that we are being gaslighted by the Democrat controlled media.

Fifty odd days and that "20% of the electorate" is likely history!

Does that make it wrong? The media has a problem with Trumpster because he mostly tells the truth, and they mostly don't these days. Anyway, after a pointless visit to Germany to exchange platitudes with a dead-duck German chancellor, The Great Leader - in his wisdom - has now determined that outlawing people smoking outside of pubs will relieve some of the burden on the NHS. The people who say doing something to stop the torrent of illegal immigrants into our country would be a far more practical way to reduce some of the demand are clearly very wrong here! More than 500 migrants cross Channel for second day in a row

If there was any doubt that Starmer is a total and utter moron, then his speech today dispelled all uncertainty. He sounds like a pompous headmaster who has been hilariously pranked by a group of bright types in the lower sixth, lecturing the whole school on "irresponsible behaviour"! If that sounds rather dated, then so is 2TK's delivery! A true leader would inspire confidence in the future, but this was a build-up to excuse certain failure. He is - of course - going to ditch every single election promise! I'm now believing those who claim he won't last the course of one parliament. He'll still be blaming the Tories when the furniture van arrives, and that can't come quickly enough! First Theresa May and then this pound-shop Tony Blair: what has our once proud country descended to?!

Are you implying that Sir Keir doesn't know what he's talking about, Eggy? I'd submit that he knows exactly what he's about, and the about is the wet-dream of all politicos: more power, more control! I think you should maybe be using the words Far-right in quotation marks. I will explain why a little later, as I've an urgent appointment fixing up the pushbike at the moment.

Got to say that, I agree with Elon Musk on the two-tier policing comments. Not many weeks ago, there was video on YouTube of people in full garb parading the flags of Hamas (a proscribed terrorist organisation) past the beaming faces of met police officers. Astonishment was expressed that zero action was being taken - others have their own examples of police inaction. Now we are told that terrorism laws are being invoked against ordinary UK citizens. Mark Rowley, however, dismisses any suggestion that different standards are applied to different groups out of hand. That simply doesn't wash - but we can expect this, as Rowley is simply a puppet of a government that is astonishingly rapidly out of its depth. Starmer could dampen all the protests by simply coming out and making a statement that his government recognises that there is a major problem, but that he needs a few months grace to tackle it. The present Labour government was elected by barely 20% of the electorate, so he has zero mandate for any radical measures, let alone the Draconian misuse of laws designed to mitigate external threats. When you have the confidence of so little of the citizenry, as the first priority, you really should be listening to what the people who refused to vote for you have to say, and make bold efforts to gain confidence. Starmer is doing the exact opposite of this, and it won't end well!

Yesterday your Winter Fuel Allowance was axed, and today it's any hope of the railway reopening! Stand up the people who voted for this metropolitan globalist shower of Oxford PPE graduates with no life experience and a lust for power, and repent your crime against your fellow citizens! Do you really think this is the end of it? The Blairites are coming for your pension next! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/30/labour-restoring-railway-cuts-beeching-reeves/ And yes, we are number two on the list of trashed funding! Next time, maybe you'll have the elementary common sense to vote Reform!