Electric vs ICE During a Pandemic

[WannabeOwner]

My Rich Barsteward Mate will make a killing ... he always does. When he explains to me all the individual reasoning-steps he cogitated they will all make abundant sense. Two problems with that: no one but him strings all the steps together, and he never tells me what he is doING !

 

[pgkevet]

The ICE is marred by supplies getting short and then having to top-up-the-tank every day, just-in-case. If/When that comes there will be long queues too ...

My mate Jerry has a couple of cans for the lawnmower and I keep 200L of red about for the tractor if diesel gets short. What you going to do when there's no-one fit to fix the leccy wires?. You could panic buy all the batteries in Halfords....

 

[LukeT]

My mate Jerry has a couple of cans for the lawnmower and I keep 200L of red about for the tractor if diesel gets short. What you going to do when there's no-one fit to fix the leccy wires?. You could panic buy all the batteries in Halfords....

I'll go for a ride on my push bike. I'm quite looking forward to it. The frothy old fist-wavers will all be stranded fuelless in giant potholes.

 

[WannabeOwner]

What you going to do when there's no-one fit to fix the leccy wires?

Forecourt ain't going to be pumping Dino-fuel wither, when the power goes off ...

... not sure I have enough PV ... maybe June would be better than March ... and I do have generator, but haven't been brave enough to just put a hand-crank 100 gallon tank of Petrol in my shed!

About the 3 minute mark

 

[Masklin]

In all seriousness though, this media hysteria really bugs me. Inciting panic cannot be helpful.

Indeed. In all the current European lockdowns you are still allowed out the house to get groceries and the like and a fair number of people are still going to work.

Here, you may currently have to isolate for seven or fourteen days depending on circumstances, neither of which justify seeing the supermarkets being stripped as they have been.

There almost certainly will be a lockdown*, really don’t like that term as it doesn’t really reflect what is actually involved, in the UK at some point but, as long as folk can responsibly follow what has been asked of them to date, and will be asked of them going forward, it shouldn’t have to happen just yet and hopefully will not lead to a second spike when it is released.

* but you should still be allowed out to get groceries etc.

E&OE, it could all change at the next PM press conference

 

[Masklin]

Government advice now to avoid unnecessary travel. Is a drive to collect a Model 3 necessary or unnecessary?

As of now, if Tesla are still handing over, I would go as interactions minimal and can be managed.

 

[Moondevil32]

My trip to get my SR+ tomorrow is most certainly essential!

 

[Rooster6655]

Speaking of which....

Let me know if you hear where I can get more toilet rolls. I'm good through end April but looking uncertain after then.

And yeh, those bulk buyers are the ones causing the biggest problems.

I've been bulk buying for years at Costco surprised its taken so long to catch on!

 

[Dilly]

Government advice now to avoid unnecessary travel. Is a drive to collect a Model 3 necessary or unnecessary?

As of now, if Tesla are still handing over, I would go as interactions minimal and can be managed.

Necessary. Keeping business going . Would imagine handover will be outdoors where possible.

 

[pgkevet]

Forecourt ain't going to be pumping Dino-fuel wither, when the power goes off ...

... not sure I have enough PV ... maybe June would be better than March ... and I do have generator, but haven't been brave enough to just put a hand-crank 100 gallon tank of Petrol in my shed!

If memory serves it's illegal UK to store more than a small amount of petrol domestically? Since I live on my small hobby farm it's not such an issue so i do have a 210L oil drum full of the red with a handcrank pump. At least diesel doesn't catch fire as readily as petrol....

Fortunately local petrol stations are pretty lax re filling jerry cans with petrol (officially illegal) but out here in the stix it's easy to get through that sort of quantity with chainsaws and strimmers let alone ride-on mowers. Come summer I'll be using 20-30L a week.

 

[ACarneiro]

It’s annoying how cheap fuel is right now, though. No more smug feeling drive past the forecourt...

 

[Masklin]

I now see as of tomorrow lunchtime France is going into far stricter restrictions for fifteen days in which collecting a car wouldn't qualify, suspect it's only a matter of time before UK follows.

 

[thegruf]

I got one of them bike trainers that puts power back into the grid - wonder how long it would take to charge the Tesla?
more to the point I wonder if there enough in my legs to get the better of the vampire drain.

 

[ACarneiro]

Back of a fag packet calculations tell me you’d need to be cycling non stop for about a month for a full charge (assuming no vampire drain).
You’re better off just cycling to wherever you’d want to go

 

[WannabeOwner]

I'll be interested to see what the Climate Scientists report ...

After 9/11 when USA didn't fly for a few days there was a significant change ... the whole world with dramatically reduced flying / driving should be very noticeable. might also find that working from home will become more acceptable, we are already thinking about some satellite offices where we, reluctantly, have premises which cost a fortune for the minimal attendance they get ... and colleagues have already replaced phone with Skype/Headsets even to talk to the person at the next desk so working from home won't be any different in that regard.

Should have bought Nintendo shares

 

[rotor2k]

Should have bought Nintendo shares

Haha yes!

 

[Masklin]

There is no getting away from the fact that what is coming is not pretty...

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/im...-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf