I bought my Kia Niro EV from a couple who were isolated by flooding, when cyclone Gabrielle hit NZ. They used the V2L (Vehicle to Load) power outlet in the car to keep refrigeration and some lights going for a ten day period.

Im not sure what the title has to do with the video.... but glad to see another year of great content!

A few weeks ago we went to stay with my Mother-in-Law at her Villa in a retirement village. We arrived with about thirty percent charge remaining. It was late, so I left plugging in until the next morning. When we woke up next day, there was no electricity; a sparky was wiring in a new generator at the hospital wing. I plugged an extension into the V2L socket in the Niro, and we fired up the kettle and toaster. The word got out, and before long we had a steady stream of neighbours with cups in one hand and slices of bread in the other! We went from unknowns to heros in thirty minutes. (It does a pretty good job as a car too!)

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Now that'd be a great Fullycharged episode. Ecotricity New Zealand did a similar thing for their YT channel, during cyclone Gabrielle they dropped off V2L cars to customers who were without grid electricity for weeks.

@Anonymous-ib8so

4 ай бұрын

About all EVs are good for,back up power supply

@PiefacePete46

4 ай бұрын

@@Anonymous-ib8so : My early days were as a hardened rev-head petrol-head motorsport nutcase. I have had BMWs for the last forty years - the last four years being a 330e Hybrid. Seven months ago we bought the Kia Niro EV. Our electricity plan supplies free power to our home from 9pm - midnight daily... the car charges during this period. Our total "fuel" costs for the first five months came to USD8.00. (It would have been zero, but we took a wrong turn on a trip, and had to top up to get home.) While it is not a Tesla Model S Plaid, it has satisfying performance, and we ain't ever goin' back! Our thoughts are that the decision to go with an EV has more to do with your circumstances than the actual car... It really works for us... If you do huge daily mileage, can't plug in at night, need to tow big loads etc., an EV isn't right for you, but it could be a great second car. I know from the tone of your comment that this is wasted on you, but others might find it useful.

I just don't see how exactly EVs are better in anyway ? My wife wanted a new car so I was like "ok get what you want" we went round every dealer and no matter what make or model she looked at financially it made no sense as the car would cost more than the petrol version & with the price of electricity cost about the same to run so whares the saving? Even the dealer told us "it's just people on company car scheme buying EVs for the low tax cost we have hardly any private sales on EVs" Then there's the total hassle actually living with one we had a mg4 on test for two weeks & I could not wait to give it back to them it's like we've gone back in time. In a petrol car you just drive to anywhere you like keep driving untill you get a fuel warning & then in five minutes time your ready to go for another four to five hundred miles but in a EV you find yourself actually having to plan whare you go and how long you have to stop and for how long it's a absolute joke a vehicle should not dictate what you can and can't do because of range & charging times ect. Look I know your all probably all fanboys on this channel who will say anything to protect the EV but please can you tell me in which way there better ? Because for me to want one it has to be better or how is that progress ?

Great work Robert and all the team. Safe to say, having retired, found your channels on KZread and having respect for your previous work, I am now embracing the whole electric future. Got the car, panels, heat-pump - just some quirks to be sorted but its all looking good. Thanks for all the great advice. PS. Need a Fully Charged show in Scotland somewhen. (A site near Ingliston, Edinburgh would have airport, trian, road, tram ...and maybe even international ferry access.)

@JamesSmith-qs4hx

4 ай бұрын

I bet you took the 3 dart finish.... 💉💥💔

@aussieideasman8498

4 ай бұрын

What a wimp! I'm driving 900 kms and back again to spend three hours at the Sydney show in about three weeks from now. I'm doing it in my EV, too.

@Anonymous-ib8so

3 ай бұрын

Government lies pretending to be true. EVs are awful and dangerous. Second EV bus fire in London in a week.

Happy anniversary, lovely team! Thank you for being... there from the very beginning! 👍

14yrs and just getting started👍

I mean if you started in 2010, technically 2024 is your _15th_ year on KZread...

@trappedmoss1172

4 ай бұрын

It wasn't always electric vehicle channel. They used to review normal ICE vehicles. So no.

@TheStuartstardust

4 ай бұрын

One of his first videos was with the to-be fugitive Carlos Ghosn - one of the more crazy interviews 😊

@ObiePaddles

4 ай бұрын

I bet you agree with me the real millenium was 1 Jan 2001!

@ObiePaddles

4 ай бұрын

@@trappedmoss1172it wasn’t only about EVs.

@Neojhun

4 ай бұрын

@@TheStuartstardust Yep I remember when that video was released, impressed how they could get Ghosn for an interview.

Congratulations to Rob and the team, I think Rob had around 10 videos when I first found his channel all those years ago, it's been quite a ride 🙃 The technological developments over the last 13 years have been incredible, imagine where we will be in 10 years from now!

@Anonymous-ib8so

4 ай бұрын

Yes EVss will be history.

@DavidKnowles0

4 ай бұрын

More like fossil fuels. Someone at Toyota hopefully in the basement will still be blabbering on about how they want to powered electric cars with a fuel cell I'm sure.​@@Anonymous-ib8so

@JamesSmith-qs4hx

3 ай бұрын

In other news, Polestar's value is written down to zero by its bank, EV sales tanking once people stop being paid to own one, China flooding the market with cheap MGs and Ford stops production of the F150 in Detroit as it can't find any customers for them. This channel comes over as polemic rather than informative and balanced. Then again, it's promoting big $ events around the world, so is more of a PR front for an events business than anything else.

@Anonymous-ib8so

3 ай бұрын

Of course the truth and this channel are strangers. Take a look at China Observer if you can take the truth about EVs or even the exposes of Tesla misinformatio. EVs are soon to be total dodos. Only a better battery would give them any chance. Lithium ion is both deadly and destroying the earth

Glad the show is back.

Well done - looking forward to another informative year of videos & podcasts.

Awesome short video... but was there a rendering issue? It seemed like the frame rate was jittery all the way down to 144p.

Does a member of your team still have 2 OW number plate on the 4wd Lamborghini urus twin turbo petrol 4WD ?

Love your work! ❤

Great stuff. keep them coming

Hello Team can you get Tall (Jack S) to feature EVBikes too please. 😀

OMG... has it been really 14 years?! Geee... even you make me feel old now, since I've been watching your videos since good old times. Glad you are here. Glad you have expanded your venture... and glad you have chosen various presenters, who are all different but they have (at least) one thing in common: they are all likeable. Wishing you all the best for the forthcoming years and will certainly be watching your new videos in the first minutes you post them. :o) PS. No... EVs can't solve the WEF's "advertised" food and water crisis... that is their next "agenda".

What about a show for the US? San Diego was canceled last year.

@aussieideasman8498

4 ай бұрын

Embarrassed themselves with promoting the Aptera, lol.

Good work on the last year. Though I am using a gas-powered car now, I switched from a diesel one. I learn interesting new developments from this channel every day. Small behavioral changes can make big improvements. Let's see what the future brings.

@Richard-io9xe

4 ай бұрын

I am not sure that switching from a diesel car to a petrol car is the kind of small behavioural change that 'Stop Burning Stuff' has in mind.

@eeerrraaannn

4 ай бұрын

@@Richard-io9xe Don't get me wrong, I won't invest in every idea offered here, but it's good that they are trying. Behavioral change takes time...

please join the Cybertruck parade. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 it is the golden goose and you are my favorite channel. we need you to cover the Cybertruck asap. 😍

I'll be there on the 30th in the Excel London!

Great trailer 😃👍

To quote "Research recently published by the Trancik Lab of the highly esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could wipe the smug expressions off thousands of electric car drivers’ faces. The boffins at the Trancik Lab have shown that an electric Tesla Model S P100D saloon produces more carbon dioxide, at 226g per kilometre, than a petrol-driven run-around such as the Mitsubishi Mirage, which is responsible for just 192g/km. Tesla Model S P100D saloon produces carbon dioxide at 226g per kilometre, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology And unfortunately for Tesla drivers who would rev their engines in fury and declare the research an anomaly, the MIT finding backs up that of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which last year declared: ‘Larger electric vehicles can have higher life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions than smaller conventional vehicles."

@armadillito

4 ай бұрын

I'm going to do you the honour of assuming you're an interested commenter and not a disinformation bot. Yes, cars in general use lots of energy and do lots of other harm while they're at it. Smaller vehicles is always better, and fewer vehicles better still. All that said, you're comparing apples to oranges - like-for-like EVs have substantially lower full lifecycle emissions than ICEVs, even if the electricity to power them comes from natural gas. The efficiency of a utility-scale natural gas generator, electricity grid and EV powertrain is better than that of an ICE, plus the combustion products are slightly different. That's before you even consider the harm done by tailpipe emissions in urban areas, which is probably 'the next tobacco' for society.

I'll take 2!

Fully Charged/Everything Electric has been going for 14 years! How time flies, it seem like yesterday you were only a small Spark.😆

0:03 I have never seen a better anti-endorsement of a Ring doorbell than that cheap fake metallic paint flaking off the faceplate. Since Ring has only been around since 2013, that unit is no more than 10 years old; a while for fancy electronics, but quite frankly a pretty short time for a "simple" household device like a doorbell.

@armadillito

4 ай бұрын

And they're a citizen-funded part of our de-facto surveilance state. I do wish people were a bit more aware of the risks filling the entire world with internet connected eyes and ears. At least for now no one can possibly watch all the footage but AI might change that.

You guys are simply the best. No other channel or organisation does what you are doing, all for the good of what is right, and what is long overdue. You deserve all the success, and so much more. Hoping to see you again for the THIRD time at Everything Electric Europe 2024!

@Anonymous-ib8so

4 ай бұрын

Except everything they claim is lies and has been disproved over and over again. The governmets are paying them to misleaad you

@tonyireland2234

4 ай бұрын

Because all the other channels think they are rubbish ?

@peterwoad8087

4 ай бұрын

Sycophant 🤣

Nice 😇.

Well done! Keep it up

Well done Robert and the team. I have been following you since the beginning and your videos have inspired me to go as electric as I possibly can. Solar powered off grid home and an electric car powered mostly by the sun. Thank you for giving me so much inspiration and information to enable me to make it all possible.

@Anonymous-ib8so

4 ай бұрын

Don't do it you will lose shed loads of money as the EV bubble has well and truly burst

Happy New Year. I am already looking forward to Fully Charged Live South 2024.

Electrification really has to go hand-in-hand with cleaner power generation. Kick fossil fuel off of energy generation and we'll have an affordable future for all.

Love Love Love you guys. Thank you for all the great work you're doing 💖

Probably about 1% of the general public want.

❤❤❤Thank you.🎉🎉

Oh god we were talking about camera placement on Car Pool when I was at Uni...

Isn't it amazing how there's never a negative comment about EVs 😂

Thank you

Where have you been Fully Charged?, missed you.

Some reality checks. Total highway capable BEVs delivered (not sold 2023) 4 million world wide out of a market of 100 million light vehicles. 2023 Lithium production only capable of producing 14 million Y, or 1.2 million Semi size battery packs - Since at least 30% will go to cell phones, laptops, power tools ebike; power walls - you'll looking at 8 million. Market penetration of 1.4 bilion ligth vehicles - 0.05% to move this to 25% would required 10x lithium production - probably won't even see 5x in 10 years. To be real BEVs need a battery break through; to make it green the world needs Thermo nuclear or some other massive green energy; other wise 80% fossil fuel powered and 20% heavier.

We, as a society, really need to lift our game on EV infrastructure. It seems at present we are building ‘carts’ at full speed without the necessary ‘horses’.

@toby9999

4 ай бұрын

We also need cheaper EVs. I would love one but current prices are prohibitive for most people, even in wealthier countries. I live in Australia. I'll never afford one here. The starting price is around 45k last time I checked. That's more than I've spent on vehicles combined in my whole lifetime, and I'm already in my 60's.

@DavidKnowles0

4 ай бұрын

​@@toby9999well I don't know Australia prices but several EVs should be hitting the UK market for 20k and lower.

@entropydomain

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidKnowles0 should 😂

Love this channel's committed fight against the concerted efforts of legacy auto & energy to spread misinformation in the media. One of the most recent examples is the 'uninsurable' EV narrative, so I decided to put this to the test when I got my renewal quote. Using one of the well known comparison sites I got a quote for my EV then found an ICE BMW model that was closest to the same price when it was new, mileage and current value (yes the depreciation was about the same!). I simply swapped out the EV for the ICE in the same quote and guess what? The BMW was about £100 more expensive to insure than the EV.

The video title is a lie!

If the Australian gov't allowed small business owners to 'write off' BEVs the same way they do commercial vehicles (mainly diesel utes), BEV sales would go up drastically! If BEVS were exempt from both GST and FBT, like pick-ups are, ZEVs would grow from ~7% seen in 2023, to 15-20% easily! But our Gov't is so a5s backwards, they won't. They'd rather keep raking in fuel excise (on imported fuel), than promote BEVs.

You guys are making the world a better and more sustainable place, and I really look forward to every episode, podcast and live show. Can't thank you enough. x

❤

I have a couple of friends who bought EVs. Both of them got rid of the cars after less than 2 years of ownership. They said they would never buy another one.

@harrygroundwater2590

4 ай бұрын

Why?

@Aaron-ir4he

4 ай бұрын

You need new friends 😂

@toby9999

4 ай бұрын

Two people didn't like them... doesn't really prove a lot.

@sheepcute

4 ай бұрын

And I love my Nissan LEAF. And I'd buy another EV in a heartbeat. And it's 7 years old! And I haven't got rid of it! Takes all sorts.

@whisperingcatphotographyby7274

4 ай бұрын

Just got a E-Niro. Amazing car. Never want to drive petrol again. So smooooooth...

Happy to see UK electrification, apart from risk of an energy-source monopoly and eventually price cartels. So long as there are sufficient charging points, adequate electricity infrastructure and the cars, boilers etc, are not too expensive to buy - I can live with the car range anxiety. What about countries with large carbon fuels underground, feeding the majority China, India, Middle East, Russia, even USA for the next 100 years ?

RE How many BEVS will BYD and Tesla make in 2024? I'm skeptical of the BYD "sales" numbers for 2023. BYD sells 92% of BEVs in China, they increased the number of domestic resellers from 1100 to 3400 in 2023. The Qtr. by Qtr. sales growth matched almost exactly 1:1 to the quarterly increase in resellers, normally there is some lag as new resellers come online. BYD measures a "sale" when a car has passed from BYD to a reseller, not based on registrations. How many of BYD's sales were actually sitting as inventory at resellers vs sales to the public?

That's what I like about plastic. We cannot do without it, and we don't burn plastic, we recycle it.

How can you say they are surging when others are saying they are not selling and big manufacturers are talking about pulling out

@shhhyouknowhoo3753

4 ай бұрын

I think it depends where you get your news.

@ChaosSwissroIl

4 ай бұрын

@@shhhyouknowhoo3753 Well, considering that it's based on the quarterly/investor reports from the companies themselves.....

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Um fullycharged. There is a concentration of misinformation bs in comments of this very video. Idea, when you post have your anti-misinformation team ready to be the first reply to each d̶u̶m̶b̶ ̶a̶r̶s̶e̶ I mean poor misinformed person.

@aussieideasman8498

4 ай бұрын

@@shhhyouknowhoo3753 There's a lot wrong with that.

@sheepcute

4 ай бұрын

*European and American* manufacturers are saying that because they were Ill-prepared. It's true. Meanwhile Tesla (the only American ones saying otherwise), the Koreans, and the Chinese are feasting over their losses. BYD are selling crazy amounts of cars, Volvo have a year waiting list for the new EX30, and Hyundai flat out denied the lack of demand on their products.

Can we talk about Hyundai replacement batteries that cost more than the car?

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Why? Hyundai would be paying none are out of warranty yet.

@entropydomain

3 ай бұрын

@@theunknownunknowns5168 if the undercarriage get a scratch, the warranty is invalid

Cars are the problem, not the solution. No matter which drivetrain is utilized. Trains, buses and especially bikes are what makes our cities livable space. Chose yourself, a car centric city with endless consumption and traffic jams, or a human centric city with enjoyable life experiences. 😉

@bigredog100

4 ай бұрын

Some people like their personal space and their ability to be able to pick up their loved ones/friends from wherever. Plus, the problem with public transportation is that you have those that abuse the system and don't pay their fare. That also leads to safety concerns. I for one wouldn't want my future wife riding the metro by herself. Also, when these services undergo maintenance, that forces everyone back on the street anyway.

@jantjarks7946

4 ай бұрын

@@bigredog100 Not sure what are you writing about. But I guess bikes aren't public transportation in the first place. Second, those cities who have invested in public transportation properly do not have the issues you describe. In other words, you have an opinion, but that's it. But I guess the company you work for closes down during maintenance. Not sure how otherwise you can come up with something like that.

@Ahrimas

4 ай бұрын

And for the rest of us that dont live in the city, electric cars are the best option available

@davidcottrell570

4 ай бұрын

If you live in a densely populated urban area, you have a good point, to some extent. In large, sparsely populated countries like Canada with -40C temperatures in Winter and 60kph winds on the Prairies, a bike won’t cut it. We also have 40 tonne transports carrying goods from one end of the country to the other. We have an EV to get us around as it suits our needs. If you can meet your needs with a bike and a bus, good for you, but one size doesn’t fit all.

@jantjarks7946

4 ай бұрын

@@davidcottrell570 The word "cities" was used for that reason. Rural country side can be difficult without a car, depending on how far away from a city center and how decent public transportation connections are. The Netherlands shows quite well how even rural areas can profit from public transport. Even the USA taught us a lesson, by putting rails into "nowhere". Without it the USA wouldn't be as populated as it is in the center of the country. As such, successful transportation always adapts to the regional or local needs, as general traffic solutions don't work. We can see that with the car. The game of "another lane" obviously doesn't work, as the local traffic needs aren't addressed by that. Nevertheless, bad infrastructure planning will add another lane, despite the outcome being known. 🤷😉

Is this channel satire?

We need nuclear power stations in the UK!

@Likr666

4 ай бұрын

Too expensive, too risky and do you want to store the nuclear garbage on your ground?

Um fullycharged. There is a concentration of misinformation bs in comments of this very video. Idea, when you post have your anti-misinformation team ready to be the first reply to each d̶u̶m̶b̶ ̶a̶r̶s̶e̶ I mean poor misinformed person.

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Also if you do that complete with references we all can copy and paste around the webs. No point keeping the debunking a secret.

@armadillito

4 ай бұрын

It's not just my imagination then? I wish it was bots but I think the artificial culture war really has been so successful that people want to make these whacky arguments.

Electric cars are not the answer to a greener world, producing less cars and ending capitalism is the ONLY path to a greener world, you do not solve climate crisis with an economical system of endless growth and production.

@justinstephenson9360

4 ай бұрын

Capitalism is a bad system until you consider the others (apologies to Churchill for the misquote). But if you want to stop growth does that mean you consider that some parts of the world should be reduced to being permanently poor? Nobody says that EVs are THE ANSWER to a greener world, but they are part of the answer

@Stekopo

4 ай бұрын

@@justinstephenson9360 Capitalism is a bad system because it forces major parts of the world to live in poverty so it needs to be exchanged with Communism so everyone can live with all needs met at the expense of no western billionaire class flying in private airliners and super yatches and castles.

@jantjarks7946

4 ай бұрын

It is said that democracy, combined with capitalism, are the best of the worst government and economic systems. Stop thinking in systems, which schools want to prepare you for, with you working all your life instead of living it. Start thinking in spirituality, or at least humanism, and you will get far further than with just bad systems, which do not even have an option for good systems, as there are none. Humanism is no system. It is a way of living life. 😉

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

You think we can end capitalism and get a new global financial system running smoothly before CO2 reaches 800ppm? Tell him he's dreaming! The Castle quote. Read or listen to The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Then come back to have a adults conversation.

@jamesphillips2285

4 ай бұрын

​@@justinstephenson9360 If you don't stop economic growth: we will boil the oceans within 400 years from process heat alone (neglecting global warming effects from CO2). Sabine Hossenfelder has a video entitled: "I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years." discussing this. She was citing "Limits to economic growth" by Murphy Jr, Published in Nature Physics volume 18, pages 844-847 (2022) dated 21 July 2022. Capitalism is a bad system that needs to be dismantled.

Combustion free technologies...put the bongs down...you've had enough. Almost all of the environmental damage with electric cars is the BUILDING of them...and it is MORE than todays car diesel engines. Fact... It's a sleight of hand marketing...gimmick.

@Galerak1

4 ай бұрын

Not to mention the 'green' energy retrieval systems currently in place. Acres & acres of solar panels heating up the air, causing localised thermals disrupting weather patterns and masses of wind farms disrupting wind flow (due to Newton's 3rd law) thus disrupting global weather patterns. But 'Green' is the way to save the planet apparently 🤔

@nathansuss

4 ай бұрын

You're brainwashed beyond repair, the building of them is only more than other stuff not over time which is what matters more. In other words: long term philosophy > short term philosophy

@drunkenhobo8020

4 ай бұрын

I don't see how that's a negative. Almost all of the damage is done during manufacturing, therefore hardly any once it's built and in use? Ok then? Why would constantly damaging the environment after production be preferable?

@JACKnJESUS

4 ай бұрын

@@drunkenhobo8020 Because the amount of damage is the same or worse...it's the totality that counts in the real world. So you can drive your EV and tell yourself it is friendly energy...but that's simply a lie. That's why.

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Um fullycharged. There is a concentration of misinformation bs in comments of this very video. Idea, when you post have your anti-misinformation team ready to be the first reply to each d̶u̶m̶b̶ ̶a̶r̶s̶e̶ I mean poor misinformed person.

IS THIS SHOW STILL FUNDED PARTLY BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT?

@Stephen-Jones

4 ай бұрын

It was never funded by the British government, why do you think it ever was?

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

​@@Stephen-Jonesprobably robot generated comment or under influence of drugs and alcohol.

🔌🚙 NOT the future 🔌🚙

@Likr666

4 ай бұрын

Not any arguments, not any facts -> no reason to believe that bullsh*t.

@StephenLawrence01

4 ай бұрын

What happened to your friends? Have they gone back to rubbing 2 sticks together 😁

@JamesSmith-qs4hx

4 ай бұрын

@@StephenLawrence01 They could just sit in their EV if they wanted to catch 🔥

Electric cars are good, genuinely. Battery powered cars are terrible, genuinely. The solution is methanol fuel cells. All the benefits of electric, none of the downsides of battery power that make BEV's non-viable toys only for the rich to virtue signal with.

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Um fullycharged. There is a concentration of misinformation bs in comments of this very video. Idea, when you post have your anti-misinformation team ready to be the first reply to each d̶u̶m̶b̶ ̶a̶r̶s̶e̶ I mean poor misinformed person.

@ChaosSwissroIl

4 ай бұрын

@@theunknownunknowns5168 I guess thermodynamics and physics don't apply because that'd be inconvenient for the people profiting off of these terrible ideas that are a net drain on society.

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Methanol literally keeps you tied to a provider that you'll pay money for the whole life of that fuel cell. I'm sure those lot will give the shit away and never make a profit.

@ChaosSwissroIl

4 ай бұрын

@@theunknownunknowns5168 You can literally grow methanol... You can not only just ferment it, you can also thermal crack ethanol into methanol with just an iron pipe as a catalyst...

@theunknownunknowns5168

4 ай бұрын

Well do it then. Put you money where your mouth (keyboard) is. BEV's are ramping YoY dispite overall vehicle sales down. Hundreds of thousands of BEV engineers must be completely wrong, and some dude rage commenting on internet is of course the only correct one. Go ahead put your progeny inside a two tonne metal box on wheels powered by highly flammable invisible rocket fuel travelling down the interstate at 80mph. Good one genius.

Well that was a load of crap! Happy to stick with Diesel ⛽😄😄😄😅😅😅😅

@danielcarroll3358

4 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to inform you that he has been dead for years.

@jamesphillips2285

4 ай бұрын

You must be one of those unicorns that spends all day driving. For you average car spending 90% of it's time parked: battery-electric is fine.