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The problem with hydrogen is that while it can be clean, it often is just greenwashed oil creating about the same carbon output in its processing. But it doesn't HAVE to be. For slightly more money per litre, there is a more sustainable form of hydrogen. The pronlem is manufacturers can't be arsed to do it.
The best M5 is the E39. No question. IMO. And many others’ opinions too…
I went through the same “Sub-editing” experience that James did in the 1980s as there were VERY few copy editors in the ROK where I was who could be trusted to catch all the small mistakes. In 1985 in the ROK, Jon[etta] Carter Covell, the first Westerner to get a PhD in Japanese Art/Archaeology (1941), who had 35 books to her credit already, published a collection of her newspaper columns about Korean, Art, Culture, and History, from the English Language daily the *Korea Herald* into a coffee-table book called *Korea’s Colorful Heritage* and this book had to be ready in *6 Weeks* for the Frankfurt Book Fair. We were successful, as it won a Korean Pulitzer Prize-equivalent of “One of the 10 Best Books published in Korea” for 1985. Now that was a crazy experience, as between my Army job (Classified) I was driving back and forth across Seoul several times a day in a 1975 Dodge Aspen Wagon-many of those streets were a REALLY tight fit and the traffic rules were insane, much more like Boston, MA than anything I’d seen on the West Coast. Keep on trucking James!
Still think red bull is the fastest in race. Not quali. Thats why verstappen passed easily. Perez is too old now.
This wasn’t a great race at all it was a good parade at best
FIA favoring Ferrari???? What an absurd suggestion. Next thing you will tell us, is that earth isn't flat
‘Ferrari international assistance’ from the 2000’s 😂
I'm a regular lsitener via a podcast app and here watching on YT, I think the conversation would benefit from flashing up images of the drivers/cars/places to add context given it's a visual medium.
The best M5 is the F10, good power, confort, amzing looks, awesome performance!
Looking forward to the live podcast gents
So looking forward to this!
I’m still longing for hydrogen and the infrastructure to support. Lots of brrrm-brrm, same performance, water as an emission and complete refuelling in minutes, but everyone just says “it’ll never work”. Well, if we say it won’t and never try, of course it won’t!
Rain in England? What a surprise.
There is room for EVS and gas cars. I like V8s, I'm no environmentalist but I got a Tesla Model 3 performance a year ago, right when they had the price cut. Car works for me. Its super quick, handles well, and I don't have to go far. I can charge in my garage. As a bonus, it has really strong AC too, which is important to me. If you drive super far all the time and don't have a place to charge, don't get one. If you DO have a place to charge, like instant acceleration, and don't need to go more than 250 miles round trip on a regular basis, get one. It's really that simple.
It works for the same reasons why my wife and I work. Very different minds have differing solutions. What seems hard for one seems a simple fix to the other. Or hearing how the other explains their answers is equally enlightening to understand them but also can be used to better your thinking and wider understanding. Be a drag to be around clones of yourself your whole life.
top gear is about two guys mocking a third guy, then they rotate again and again
Although I know schumacher was a great driver, the stat on beating his teammate every year comes with the fact that he was a tyrannical undespituted number 1 driver in the team
Why not just have both? Enjoy V8 noise when you want it and enjoy the quietness of EV when you get tired of it. 😊
Love my leaf and it can only go 40 miles.
I’d like to compare EVs from 10 years ago to what is currently available. Changing time has probably dropped significantly. But as James said the chargers available to charge at those times are rare. I think upgrades are slow partially because new technologies are emerging so quickly. Tesla is the only company so far that really attempted to develop an infrastructure to support reasonable recharging. In the US the establishment is shunning Tesla when subsidizing new recharging stations and these companies don’t have the technology or drive to make a successful product. I think Tesla’s dumping of their presently inefficient charging system was a hint for other companies to take up the slack. Fortunately they may revamp their own efforts to create a more efficient team.😊
He has become a green climate change activist, Jeremy will disagree
I once drove my bmw diesel 710 miles on one tank
“At this price point, they are too expensive to throw out when they go wrong and very difficult to sell once they have” Welcome to my 996 C4S 3.9 Hartech! Such a good car now though.
The 296 is far from the SF90 in looks and performance. So maybe second best. I have owned both!
56:00 wise words!
Click bait for those who can’t afford the M3
"not convinced"? as in ev's are part of the fucking satanic agenda to rid man of all freedom and life duh.
The charger network is only part of it. Another part of it is the false premise that electric vehicles will save the world. I believe in the total 4-6 billion years that earth will support life, IF electric vehicles do somehow "help the environment", the difference in time would be so so low that honestly it wouldn't make a big difference if you chose an ICE or an EV. The "total lifespan of the earth" ISN'T going to change much by switching to EV, and that's if the entire premise of the argument is even correct, which I'm not convinced on. I think earth has had a good run, and "environmentalism" is an unfair thing to claim you support. It kinda puts the "advocate" in the high road position when they MAY NOT even be correct/totally correct in their arguments. This high road thing is a problem in my book because I have just as much a right to exist as the 100 billion people that came before me, and I'm not obligated to change the way I live my life just because you're personally offended by my existence. Go look in the mirror and shit talk yourself with the environmental crap. People should search in youtube and google for the "carbon drought" argument and give that one a serious listen. Don't brush it aside just because it says "you might not be TOTALLY correct in your climate change arguments". I have to deal with my dream motoecycles being discontinued because of your "environmentalist" bullshit, so the least you can do for me and those forced to listen to you is to listen to us.
Schumi came into Ferrari in 96. Ross Brawn came in Ferrari after Schumi. In one of his podcast Ross mentioned that when Schumi left Benetton it was the toughest time of there relationship he also mentioned that if he had not left Benetton in 96 the car he had in Benetton could have gotten him another WDC. Lauda and Todt were one of the major influence for Schumi to Join. Ferrari letting Schumi go was one of the biggest mistake in my opinion he would've won the championship in 07 and 08. Just a Schumi nerd talking. Love this episode!
Interesting speculation about the future of the manual gearbox in the 911. You mentioned the Carrera T--I'm wondering if Porsche even has plans for a 992.2 T.....seems like sale of the .1 was gone in a flash. Anyone have any insight?
I think what will make yhe neurolonk and vr become main stream if yhey can be seemlessly intergrated... Imagine being able to control the headset with jist thinking
F12 TDF for life! There is nothing like TDF 👌
how many fucking ads do u wanna put on every 5 minutes wtf
I’ve owned a Tesla for 3 years with 65k miles put on it, 95% of my charging is at home. Obviously I drive a lot much more than what the average European drives.
if you live in a CBD then you might as well go for a EV. If you live outside and use the car for many other purposes there is no reason to have an EV unless you're rich af or have all the time in the world or youre just some clueless EV fanboy lol. EVs are still impractical in current society. Alot of limitations!
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re Electric Vehicle charging, doesn't it only impact exceptionally long journeys? If you're plugging it in at night it's never an issue. It's only an issue if you're looking at 300+ mile road trips, in which case you actually should be prepared for multiple stops along the way.
Great review!
Well people used to criticize Porsche for being too perfect, and it hasn't done them any harm.
Arnage T was 450 bhp.
for me EVs are great, I rarely drive long distances where a full charge isn't enough, so for over 95% of the time I never have to stop since the car gets charged at home over night. previously I had to go to a gas station around once a week. the amount of time I save right now is quite a lot. with over 10.000km driven so far I literally only had to stop 3 times to charge it up because of a longer trip. but I understand not everyone is in the same situation and I'd likely never get an EV if I couldn't charge it at home, that's a key factor.
Would any true petrolhead buy an overblown ugly new RS6? Drinks fuel, has all the charisma and charm of a freevue box and costs a fortune. No ta!
Don't worry James neither is the US. We're still about 5-7 years away from electric cars being a thing. Even then gas engines will never go away since the price of fixing electric cars or replacing their batteries (every 5 years) will still be astronomical by then. Not to mention the damage they're doing to the environment now just by making them.
i think alongside Palin, the grand tour lads are internationally the most recognizable British tv personalities, to the general public, at least among the over 30s
I’m waiting for a Brooklands to come up at auction at these prices
Grown "men", with child brains. Fascinated with the "pros" of the NEW TECH, while ignoring the "cons". Like jiggling a set of shiney keys in front of an infant. At the turn of the previous century, gas powered automobiles replaced horseless carriages, and surpassed electric & steam powered vehicles, because there was no government intervention to sway the free market choice of motorists. Gas powered was superior in every way, and has been constantly improved ever since. Hydrogen is a pipe dream. Until a tech breakthrough allows the H to be kept in a liquid form at room temp & pressure, there is no hope for it. It will remain a fascinating "possibility" for children & corrupt politicians. It takes more energy input to produce the H, than the energy output available from it. No doubt, you think that energy difference will be obtained through solar & wind. Ignorance unmitigated. If your child brains must fixate on "alternate" power systems, look to flywheel energy storage. It is not suitable at its current tech state. But, with sufficient research, it has a viable chance of working. Unlike H, chemical batteries, & hybrids. Do you damn fools understand, many child people will listen to your drivel and "believe". Have you no shame, integrity, character, or honor? You probably believe there's a "perpetual motion" machine out there somewhere, if only the "Big Auto Conspiracy" would allow it. And you are allowed to vote. Despicable.
If you think the lack of charging stations sucks in the UK, I invite you to visit Canada outside of one of our 5 major cities. To get to my province's capital from where I live, I have to drive 750km. There are precisely 0 charging stations on the way. Our area has a population of roughly 85-100k people, so it isn't exactly an empty wasteland, yet we have no chargers, at all. It also gets rather cold here, several -45°C days a year isn't rare, with 3 months of basically -30°C. I'm really curious how many charges it would take to get to Winnipeg at -45.
EVs are rich man's toys.
What about the Turbo R 🤔
As with all things, progressives are wrong on this issue.
In fairness, it does depend on what country you live in. I think the concerns expressed are very UK-centric, which is fine because it's a UK-centric channel, but you should be careful painting infrastructure issues that are specifically British as "problems" with BEVs as a technology, when actually they're more representative of governments failing to effectively support electrification. For example, I live in France and the charger installation progress has been incredibly rapid over the last 18 months. To illustrate how quickly things have changed: We've had an EV for about 5 years now. The first one was a Renault Zoé that couldn't fast-charge and had a range of about 180 miles, so we only used it for ducking about, and it was brilliant for that. Was a perfect replacement for the Panda we had, even saved us money in the end. (I kept a spreadsheet, so I know this.) Charging infrastructure was patchy, but we didn't care because we mostly charged at home (still do, actually). We now have an MG4, which has about 280 miles of range, if you drive it carefully in Eco mode. In reality I probably do about 230 miles and then stop somewhere, but it charges plenty quickly enough, so we use it for everything! The first time we did a long journey with it we had plenty of what James rightly refers to as recharging anxiety. Although it was perfectly doable, it wasn't ideal, we ended up charging in a Lidl car park at some point on the way home. However, at the time (and this was only 14 months ago) almost all the motorway service stops had brand new fast chargers still wrapped in cellophane and off-line. Fast forward 3 months and they were all operational. So the *second* long journey we did, some months later, no problem at all. And now we routinely drive to Italy and have no issues stopping and charging when we need to. My experience leads me to I disagree with the idea that we'll need "millions" of chargers. We certainly DON'T need millions of fast chargers. There are two categories of BEV charging requirements - "I'm halfway to somewhere and I want to recharge fast", and "I'm here all day/night so charging can take a while". The vast majority of use cases fall into the latter category. For fast charging, there's about 400 motorway or near-motorway service stations in the UK with, say, a dozen pumps each. So you'd probably want about 20,000 fast charging points in those same service areas to replace the 5,000 pumps, just to allow for the fact people are on them for 20 minutes rather than 5 minutes. And once you're off the motorway you're never very far from where you're going, so you fall into the second category, as long as you know you can charge when you get where you're going, no problem, right? And for that we need to STOP putting charging points in library car parks and market squares, and instead focus on making sure each lamp post has a couple of ordinary, low-powered domestic and/or type 2 sockets on it (see Westminster). Then there's no "recharging anxiety" on long journeys, because the motorways and A-roads have plenty of charging points, and when you get to where you're going you can recharge gently while you're parked, by plugging into a 10-16A kerbside socket, or at your work or your home, if you can. I don't see charging points as a huge barrier to BEV take-up, in fact I'm seeing here in France that it *isn't* a barrier with a bit of sensible planning. Sadly there seems to have been precious little of that in the UK to date, when it comes to planning BEV charging infrastructure and what people really need and where they need it.