1917 is fantastic. Very unsettling and claustrophobic in places, but a brilliant movie.
Not sure about watching Pete eating chicken though. I’m a bit fragile and it might upset me. 
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I don’t
Home from a curry 
Who was having that argument?
I expressed a view that in order to get new car buyers to choose clean(er) EVs and hybrid cars, polluting ICE cars should be taxed significantly more than they are currently and cleaner EVs and Hybrids should be taxed in a way that is sustainable. New car buyers should be discouraged from buying polluting cars, rather than incentivised to buy EV’s / Hybrids.
EG tax (VED) an average EV car £250 (not £0), tax the diesel / Petrol equivalent £2500 (not £250)
I don’t agree with changing perfectly serviceable cars every 3 years which many lease, pcp and hp deals perpetuate. This is over consumption.
I’ve no issue with scrapping cars when they’re beyond economical repair (aka driving them into the ground). 14 - 15 years / high mileage is very reasonable.
hth
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there’s no “might” about it! 
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But if the average car is 14 years old before being scrapped, then the feed in of new cars needs to match demand. I’m not sure the majority of the market is driven by consumption as such. There is a need as well. I wonder if manufacturers were required to provide a 5 year warranty people might keep them longer.
I actually think the EV incentives are fine to start with, its a small market the EV sector. The car industry is slow to react and a valuable employer, you cant just whack up tax on 99% of their products over night.
Over the next ten years or so I’m sure we will see it happen though.
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I think that there should be an incentive for EVs and a charge on ICE cars. The former should gradually diminish and the latter should increase.
The government should indicate the rates, but state ranges rather than absolute values, with clear criteria for where in the range the actual value comes.
And I don’t buy the argument that leases drive waste. The lease companies take into account the residual value, and sell the car on. The lessee usually pays a fairly high amount for the pleasure of first use, but I’m not convinced that lease cars have lower life expectancy than owned cars.
My car, owned from new, is over 15 years old now. I’m probably going to scrap it (via the fire brigade) as I can’t find anyone who wants it, I can’t even give it away. The expensive car tax and low fuel efficiency mean that it’s simply not desirable, even though it has a few years left in it IMO.
Hereis an interesting article on Norway’s transition to 100% new cars being EVs by 2025.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123160_why-norway-leads-the-world-in-electric-vehicle-adoption.
They’ve taxed ICE cars to 11, and dropped tax on EVs.
Full potato.
I think taxes on cars have always been bonkers there and Denmark. We have some b&b guests that come twice a year from Norway and they always moan about it. (while driving an old Jag and a 70s Chevy Pickup)
Everything is taxed to the hilt in Norway. A kitkat cost £2 and a pint od shit larger is nearly a tenner.
Bloody social democrats providing a decent standard of living for everyone.
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The brake test 
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Jesus no way.
Range extender.
You can tow it! 
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Been done.
T-zero. A lot of that tech ended up in Teslas.
Mmmmm giant battery in a trailer rental for long journeys might be a thing though.
Caravan with a floor of battery, genius. 
maybe.
Edit: yes, @browellm, you have official Norwegian approval for twitrage.
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Norwegians Against Perpetual Motion Machines.
Saw them at Brixton Academy in 2014.
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