i would guess christmas card list and first name basis at least 
never mind im just slow on the uptake this morning
Yep exactly my point.
Very handy for that ‘EV spontaneous combustion moment’ on the M6.
…a priority callout.
Anyone else figured that one of the reasons why cars seem to move off from lights slower than 2 legged tortoise on Midazolam, is because they are using stop start, not paying attention so when the green light comes, they all sequentially have to restart before beginning to move.
What should we expect from the prince of oil, trump is so keen for the support and money from big oil, he’s gonna cut anything perceived to be anti oil
On a slightly different note to avoid a second post. I came across a .gov document about electric buses. It said that predicted break even time on electric buses was around 12 years while admitting that the economic lifespan for buses was 15 to 20 years. i.e bus companies will have to fork out big money for an asset that costs them more than it makes them, for a long time only to have to scrap it soon after it starts to make a profit.
.gov clearly need to somehow make the cost of large vehicles propelled by battery electric, far cheaper to the bus and haulage companies. Else all the legalisation is going to do, is make transportation more expensive, bus routes decimated leading to lower economic activity if commuters can’t afford to switch themselves to BEV cars.
Then there is the on going and worsening issue of mystery substation fires.
Talking to an expert (no not Karen, a real expert) Part of the problem is drugs. When naughty people bypass the meter to grow their soothing greenery in the loft, they have started to bypass or exchange the main fuse too. A normal fuse is between 60 amp and 100 amp for each house. If the “green house” is also been lived in, people cooking brownies… and having a shower and playing X box or whatever young men do nowadays when not forking and watering the plants, then to have on top of that the high heating and lighting load from the propagation equipment, it would blow a 100 amp fuse in no time.
Add in rapid chargers, and people who have had high power showers fitted, the modern network faces high demand. And it’s these extra high loads from just one or two houses in a street, that create a large imbalance in the system, because normally the supply to a street is three phase and shared out to each house in sequence to balance the total load on each phase. It’s the imbalance that is messing up the substations more than the total load. So Karen from offa facebook says anyway 
I had to say Karen to protect the names of the innocent. It’s actually Charlotte and Sarah.
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I think the only electric tractor unit I’ve seen out and about so far was an Amazon unit.
I thought most of their trunk drivers kip in the cab during the day, dunno if they would let them stay on site if it’s got to charge for ages.
What! And have Amazon allow their (subbie) drivers to use toilets showers etc on site rather than tell them to bugger off and kip on the verge?
An Amazon distribution centre is located nearby, with locals saying the lay-by hogging has become a problem since it was built just before the pandemic.
For its part, Amazon says its provides “extensive facilities for HGV drivers” which include free hot drinks, toilets, access to food and even a pool table at the site in question.
The company also says it has “very high standards for the service providers we work with and will investigate any issues.”
We need decent well equipped truck stops across the country. And the bosses to pay for them, not us. What other job does a worker have to sleep by a random roadside 4 nights a week? Other than a non tacho van driver of course.