But less than L405? ;)

Lovely colour.

:) True, just more aggressively. They did not do it as much 5-7 years ago. And then Tesla came along with all their cameras and over the air updates.

"Enemy of the State" was good. Car manufacturers are moving towards collating data on you so that they can sell it to ad agencies for extra revenue. They market it as getting to know their customers in order to improve their products.

The other option, have you tried calling the dealer and asking what is up with that? They may know or have an advice without calling you in and charging.

On the EV subject, away from pro/cons conversation, not sure where to put this, an interested current affairs state of the market and industry in the USA review. Title might be a bit gloom, but the conclusion is positive.

In classic fashion we have went off topic from the original OP :D Re the original post, spoke about it with a friend and he has read that a lot of it happens in London, but not in rural. The working assumption there is that such people in the rural would have a shotgun. Have you thought of...

Oh yeah, in billions of years.

:) Do not worry, Earth will be there way past us, in its history we are not even a spec. Earth does not depend on us, but we depend on it.

Ah, thought it was for the inside the cabin. For the outside it is needed. Then seeing how some people are on headphones or just in their own world, does it matter...

So is the problem in the UK insulation/good quality of build, rather than the heating method? We can keep spending money and resources to heat outside.

Should be able to. But then, why do you need to have a sound?

Agree, given the quality of house building in the UK, but even the new ones, it will not work with heat pumps. You need to build like they do in Scandinavia. It is worse due to the price. Friend is waiting for the prices to drop once Germany starts to produce heat pumps in anger due to their...

Oh yeah, the public transport is a joke in UK. London transport is very expensive. Where it is good, people have less cars. There is no question about the benefits and that it works.

I have seen many of such videos over the years and the conclusion I came to with Tesla is that until I seen it on the road myself, it ain't real. How many times we have been told/promised - Tesla roadster, Tesla self-driving, tesla cyber truck, Tesla cyber truck bullet proof windows, Tesla is...

Of course there will discussions. No, battery production is not clean, it is well documented that it is a dirty business. Yes, circular battery economy would be nice, but at the moment we recycle hardly any batteries. We are only starting to put a system in and force it. Not sure about...

Plus, there is just not enough of material to produce the same amount of EV cars. EV alone is just not feasible or sustainable. If all needs battery, we do not have enough of it to go around. Then the price will sky rocket for everything that will need the material. Working public transport for...

Yes, they would suffer as more weight, as a rule of thumb, will lead to higher wear and tear. But the roads are already very bad, hence I drive the cars I have (seems like a loop - drive big, heavy vehicle, because of bad roads. Big heavy vehicle helps to create bad roads. In all seriousness...

Btw, can someone please explain to me why UK is chasing EV production, apart from obvious political, historic and prestige reasons. UK does not mine the resources (ok, subject to promise above, IF), has costlier labour, atm energy is cheaper than EU (but not vs the world). How would it be...

Interesting, history repeating itself and Wales having a mining industry again. From what I have seen, I think it was lithium, it takes a lot of very vital and scares resource (in the UK as well) in its production process - water. It is a large concern in South America, where water is already...