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You are completely missing the point, nobody is suggesting that we install a Tesla power wall in to every home in the UK now! The point is that the technology is at a point where we are on the cusp of this being a possibility. Likewise we are not going to replace our petrol cars with electric...

This is incredibly short sighted, it is perfectly possible to generate all the power that we need in the UK from renewables, the biggest barrier to this is undoubtably storage. We already In the UK after all are generating over 25% of our energy from renewables using a combination of wind...

There are a few like polar, charge master (now owned by BP) and charge my car but a lot of the motorway ones tend to be by Ecotricity. You can find where chargers are located on www.zap-map.com, in most cases you just need to download the relevant app to use them.

I am no expert of the technical elements of this but as I understand it the battery technology is key to this, the latest rapid chargers that are being rolled out deliver the charge from huge battery packs and not directly from the grid. The answer to mass adoption of EV's is also not...

Ranges are improving all the time and costs are coming down. A couple of years ago 200-300 range vehicles would cost in excess of £70,000, now you can pick one up for around £35,000. The first Nissan leaf I had did 100 miles, my latest model 150 miles and the newest one 226 miles and this is...

It was a new type Nissan Leaf which has a real range of up to 150 miles, the top of the range current Nissan Leaf (e+) is 226 miles. Pretty much every service station in the UK has generic rapid chargers so if you don't mind stopping for a coffee on route then its fine. We also booked a hotel...

We own 2 fully electric cars in our household and both cars travel to Eastbourne and back on a daily basis. Never ran out of charge in the 3 years since we have owned a electric vehicle and recently drove up to warrington and back. Would never go back to a petrol car now. Infrastructure does...

Weststander's Avatar Weststander said: Today 17:33 Quote Originally Posted by Half Time Pies View Post The planning system in England restricts the number of new homes. I know from many businesses and families I’ve acted and act for that many councils (eg BHCC, LDC, SDNP) and existing residents...

Yes absolutely crazy for the government to claim we needed austerity whilst at the same time the Bank of England was effectively creating billons of pounds of QE money to plough into the money markets and artificially inflate asset prices. If only we had instead used that money for...

I would be fully in support of a change in the way that we view home ownership and house building in this country but I think the point actually was 'if it was possible to get projects like this off the ground during a recession?' which I doubt it is/ was with the UK economy geared in the way...

I understand that Germany has a very different approach to housing than the UK with more of a focus on renting than home ownership which would probably account for the difference.

Our economy is very different now to what it was in the 1930's, in many ways we have an economy that is now based around house price inflation and cheap credit. House builders restrict supply in order to keep prices high and the psychology of the nation is that prices always go up, hence in a...

Doesn't seem to be the case in Britain, the crisis in 2008 saw the lowest house building rates since records began. As a result the government had to step in and effectively subsidise the house building industry with the Help to Buy Scheme.

I would imagine its because Brighton and Hove desperately needs new homes and particularly affordable ones and there are only a few sites in the city where it is possible to build them. I suspect therefore that for the council building new homes on that site is a much bigger priority than a new...

Ok so a few things here, you are making assumptions about a boxer using PED;s who has never tested positive i.e. Joshua, but calling someone who has i.e. Fury an honest guy?! Joshua is actually pretty rare, a boxer who has been tested regularly throughout his career as an amateur at the olympics...

I can’t work out if you are fishing but if not do you know how ridiculous that argument is? Boxing more than any other sport should have a zero tolerance to PED use. How long is it going to be before we a boxer dies in the ring and his opponent tests positive? It’s completely unacceptable in a...

All opinions, I could well make the argument that Klitschko was underprepared for Fury and took him likely whereas he was completely up for it and focused for the Joshua fight. Fact is that you don't win a gold medal at the olympics win a world heavyweight title, defend it 6 times and become...

You may not like Joshua's personality but calling Fury honest and real when he has served a back dated ban for steroid use is laughable! If honestly really did shine through in boxing the likes of Fury, Canelo and the other drugs cheats would be treated the same as they are in other sports...

Boxing has to be one of the only sports where one loss and a boxer becomes pony overnight! AJ won an olympics, was a unified heavyweight and beat one of the all time greats in Klitschko, he put in a terrible performance against Ruiz but hasn't become a terrible boxer overnight. By the same...

I would agree if we had seen the best Joshua in the original fight, however all the body language during and leading up to the fight suggested something was up. He then went in to the fight and tried to smash Ruiz out of there and got caught in the process. I think a 100% Joshua who sticks to a...