Would you buy an electric vehicle POLL

would you buy an electric vehicle

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Robt

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Location
Suffolk
Yes really and I suspect lots of people played on the very fact to get out of work because nobody wants to work any more after covid. They are so used to being laid to sit at home watching tv. Any excuse from now onwards.
I had to cancel meeting as I couldn’t get fuel. I know quite a few that also did, I would t say any of us are lazy and sit at home. You do view life very differently from me though!. When I eventually got fuel I then had twice the meetings to catch up on!
 
It is obvious electric cars will fulfil the needs of probably 80 or even 90% of motorists very readily, only the initial purchase price is the issue today. Remember the average motorist only does something ridiculous like 7000 miles a year so an electric car would do this no sweat.

For heavier cars and towing, HVO will be the obvious drop in for now and it already exists and is cleaner than conventional diesel, along with having a 90% carbon emission reduction.

You can charge a lot of these electric cars quite quickly, and very few people are driving 300 miles in one go anyway, I personally would stop for around 30 minutes to an hour on such a journey and charging a car whilst I did it would suit me fine.
 
I had to cancel meeting as I couldn’t get fuel. I know quite a few that also did, I would t say any of us are lazy and sit at home. You do view life very differently from me though!. When I eventually got fuel I then had twice the meetings to catch up on!

Yes there were lots of queues around here but there was fuel available 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
It is obvious electric cars will fulfil the needs of probably 80 or even 90% of motorists very readily, only the initial purchase price is the issue today. Remember the average motorist only does something ridiculous like 7000 miles a year so an electric car would do this no sweat.

For heavier cars and towing, HVO will be the obvious drop in for now and it already exists and is cleaner than conventional diesel, along with having a 90% carbon emission reduction.

You can charge a lot of these electric cars quite quickly, and very few people are driving 300 miles in one go anyway, I personally would stop for around 30 minutes to an hour on such a journey and charging a car whilst I did it would suit me fine.
Why is 7000 miles a year ridiculous?

Serious question.
 

CPF

Member
Arable Farmer
I just wonder how many electric cars are moving, After they’ve had a fuel shortage since storm Arwen went through .Lease with the combustion engine vehicle you could go and sit in there put the heater on and have a drive round to get some more fuel. Out of the area where the electric is still on
 
I was driven home last week from an eye appointment in a Toyota hybrid taxi . It seemed OK to me and pulled well . Asked the driver if he liked it , the answer was a rather vehement "NO , not one little bit , heap'a sh1t" Can't please everybody I suppose .
 

feilding

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
At Home
I was driven home last week from an eye appointment in a Toyota hybrid taxi . It seemed OK to me and pulled well . Asked the driver if he liked it , the answer was a rather vehement "NO , not one little bit , heap'a sh1t" Can't please everybody I suppose .
That's the same reply I had from the four people I know off with electric or hybrid cars. All said the same. Electric vehicles are sh!t. They had no choice as all have company cars. None would get one themselves. There own cars are all diesel.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
I was driven home last week from an eye appointment in a Toyota hybrid taxi . It seemed OK to me and pulled well . Asked the driver if he liked it , the answer was a rather vehement "NO , not one little bit , heap'a sh1t" Can't please everybody I suppose .
Toyota are running a con in my personal opinion with their "Self charging hybrid" advertising.

The only time they self charge is when braking.

As for Mitsubishi claiming 148 mpg from the Outlander PHEV :mad:🤯

A complete distortion of the morals behind EVs imho.
 

Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
If a car is only doing max. of 7000 miles a year people should be seriously questioning whether they really need a car. I suspect the answer for a fair proportion of them is no.
A cheap taxi/ Uber is about £1-£1.50/mile. Unless public transport is a viable option, 7,000 a year needs a car. Sadly, there are lots of folks who can’t use public transport.
 
This is sitting next to the post on Storm Arwen in my feed appropriately. Imagine having no power for 5 days and not able to get to town for hot food because your car needs charged.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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