This is the second 40% + increase from ring in 2 years for the basic product.
June 2022 they increased from £2.49pm to £3.49pm (40.16%)
March 2024 increased from £3.49pm to £4.99pm (42.97%)
Terrible idea. If my family knew how much I really make, they would nonstop be pestering me to "borrow" some.
Exactly. ~10 years ago they decided to put a high voltage power line (the huge 365KW type) across my property. We fought it to the bitter end, but they just used eminent domain and condemned our property. It's on the far side of my property so I learned to live with it and farm around it. Now that the power line is here, Solar is rolling in and building 6000 acres of panels surrounding my house. We learned our lesson, there is no fighting it, we are just moving. Our beautiful scenery and country life are being ruined, so we are moving to the city.
Yes, but you are missing the point completely. By stopping at random people's house's and charging, you are having to use a L1 charger. Depending on the amperage of the circuit and the vehicle, it can take upwards of 34-54+ hours to fully charge your vehicle (12Amp typically gives an average of 5.5 mile range per hour of charge). Your idiotic assumption that people want to sit around all day while waiting for a car to charge is ludicrous. Taking a 2 day break every 300 miles is not something most families want to do on a road trip. When I go skiing every year, we drive ~950 miles each way. We typically make it in 16 hours and do it in a single day, but if I was to have to stop for an extra 68-108+ hours to charge, then most of our vacation would be spend -not- skiing. It takes all of 4 minutes to "recharge" my gas guzzler. As for using EVs, there are no fast chargers on the route we take, so even if we used a decent L2 charger, it still takes ~13-14 hours per charge, so you just changed your trip to take 3 days to get there and 3 days back and lost 4 days of ski time in the process. Your idea to take a plane if I wanted to get there fast is about as backwards as can be and defeats the entire "save the environment" that the EV craze is trying to champion. If your so worried about the environmental costs of travel, then maybe you should get rid of the EV which has a huge environmental cost to build, and go back to riding a horse and pulling a wagon (and yes I say that because I own and ride horses).
Yes, there is electricity everywhere. Yes, you can use a L1 charger, but this is something that is only usable for overnight / all day / emergency charging. Only being able to go 3.5 miles per hour of charge (on the low end) [1] means it would take me ~2 hours of charging just to get off my dirt road and 34+ hours of charging just to get to the grocery store and back (120 miles). On the high end of the rate (6.5 miles per hour of charge) that changes to 1 hour and 18+.
I want an electric truck, but at minimum I will be installing a highest Amp L2 I can at my house. There are days that I will run that 300 mile range out completely, and then need to go back out the next day and do it again. I can't wait for days for it to charge back fully. If I am running low on my way home, the closest charging station to me is 60 miles from home and its only an L2 @ 6.6kW (so it would be ~2-3 hours of charging just to get home). Its not close to the grocery store, so its not like I could just plug in for a bit while I am in there. Instead I would have to sit at the charger for a few hours before the store (because I don't want my ice cream melting!)
Sounds like a pretty big hassle compared just pulling into a station for 4 minutes and going on my way. I will eventually be getting one, as I think I can make it work as my errand vehicle (but have to keep my F350 for actual farm stuff and maybe the Jeep for long distance travel), but you have to realize that these things are definitely not made for every situation and every life style. Telling someone that they live in the Dark Ages because they realize this just shows your own ignorance about how life is lived outside your plague ridden cities.
[1] Charge rates pulled from https://calevip.org/electric-v...
While your example does show that electric vehicles can travel long distances, its actually a really poor example to try and make your point against the OP. Don't get me wrong, I am all for electric vehicles in most cases (and I was one of these F150s) but it certainly not great in every situation.
As for your example, I've never had to be towed because I ran out of gas. He was towed because he couldn't make it to the next charging point (was 20km away). Gas can be brought to me fairly cheap, versus the cost of towing my vehicle to a charging station.
Based upon the "Plug Me In" data. It also took him 1069 days on the road to complete the trip, and I would imagine that most of that time was sitting around waiting for the car to charge so he could continue on, as he was mostly using L1 charging. He also relied on other people for electricity/food/etc.. (1688 people). So he wasn't hitting up only charging stations like a normal person, he was "borrowing" electricity from complete strangers who agreed to help him. Not something any of us want to do on our road trips.
You may be vastly over estimating the amount of electric chargers in rural areas. I live in a rural but still fairly close to several largish cities in Texas area. The closest charger to me is over 60 miles away, and they are again, in the actual cities, not in the rural area itself. All of them appear to be only L2 chargers also, so plan to be there a while.
Many farms (like mine and all my neighbors in central Texas) use equipment that runs off of diesel, not gas. We buy Red Diesel (diesel with red dye in it) as you don't pay the tax on it (farm exempt) so its way cheaper. Using it in any truck is a complete no no and comes with some hefty fines, so you still go into town to fill up. None of the farms around me have normal gas/diesel storage onsite.
I use an F350 for towing hay and horses long distances. It would take a pretty serious battery to allow that with the loads I carry at the distances I go. Looking at Google's map of charging stations, there isn't one within an hour of my house.
I wouldn't mind one of these F150s though. Living 6 miles down a rough dirt road means I normally drive my truck or Jeep for the weekly 60 mile each way into-town trips to get groceries, etc... You can't drive a car out here because it wouldn't survive a trip down the dirt road (as we found out when we first moved here). Get an electric for the errands, use the F350 when its time to do actual work.
Yes, and that is the transaction fee that I mentioned, the rest is talking about physical ATMs (same as the parent of your reply). If your bank does that, I would drop said bank. I know mine doesn't, but then again I rarely use debit cards for online purchases as there is a major lack of protects like there are with credit cards.
For ATMs, its pretty easy to justify why there is a fee. Someone had to drive around with an armor car getting 8 MPG with a stack of cash to fill that thing up. For most bank's own ATMs, they eat the cost of that as the price of doing business (some banks don't). Other banks charge your bank a fee for pulling their cash that they paid someone to fill and your bank may pass this on to you. This all makes sense (unless your bank is charging you a fee on top of the ATM fee). The transaction fees on electronic purchases though, that's a completely different question, and like most other things the banks do, is akin to highway robbery.
Maybe Lenovo decided to do a bit of mining at their customers expense.
They would have to narrowly define the definition of "remote".
Even then, a lot of "remote" workers' compensation is already based upon the fact that we work remotely.
Some of us remote workers haven't "disconnected themselves from face-to-face society". Even though I am classified as remote, in a normal year, I am typically on a plane and in a different city every single week and am rarely ever "home" except the weekends. I guess the $60k+ in expenses I racked up last year from flights to hotel to food isn't counted as "paying into the system like those who go out to work".
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone
