Live at 5:55, it's Bobcast number 4, Electric vehicles - renewable energy - the Energy Transition

still, but some people go. die for it and I mean it might be worth treating them slightly differently. I quite like the notion of the highway code, call me a bureaucratic fascist if you must, but I quite like the idea that there are rules on the road that we respect and to help us not kill each other when we move with machines, especially when they machines go faster than a trotting horse, many of you will have seen those horses on that thing in London, but anyway, yeah, so, I am, but I. I mean it's a brilliant easy mobility system and I've used lime scooters and a couple of other brands in various cities around the world and I are brilliant you know they're really good I like them so I don't know , so I think it's a very difficult law to get right and I think what we're dealing with. although it is an infrastructure that does not support it when you see and I cannot.

I hate to keep talking about the Netherlands, but when you see really well-built urban infrastructure that facilitates the safe use of bicycles and scooters and people walking, then push the cars out of there and there is public transport when you see that when you are on a bike and you don't It's not the least bit worrying about a car coming up and knocking you down from behind because there are no cars on that particular stretch of road that you're on. That's what we need, so in some ways it's an infrastructure issue as much as it is an issue. legal.

Grid stabilization and battery shutdown stations in China are a pretty interesting piece of technology. You don't say no, it's brilliant. I mean, Neo is the car company changing batteries in a big way. I was at a conference now, actually, this is before the pandemic. I'm trying to remember where she was where there was a neon spokesperson and she said someone asked how many Do you know these battery changes are realistic? How many have you exchanged? You know, there are one or two of them and in that time 1.8 million battery changes were done, so they have hundreds of battery changing stations. changing batteries like right, left and center, please help me because I'm a fanatic.

I asked you to say hello to my fabulous partner who recently purchased her first

electric

vehicle which she called kryon, oh but I forgot to add her name, it's Lee. That's lovely to hear, thanks Lee for calling your

electric

car kryon and I hope it serves you well and keeps everything clean and tidy. It's wonderful, yes, yes, her name is Lee, yes, well done John for forgetting to say her name. God. I can't believe it, um, BN, all Chinese EVS, yes, any thoughts on the proposed legislation in the US Congress to ban all Chinese EVS. I mean, I can't quite understand it, so the United States is protecting its native auto industry and because the The unfortunate thing about this is that it is unfortunate for Americans who want to buy a car and who at the moment can only buy certain European brands and American brands, which is really restrictive and they don't benefit from much cheaper and very well made products.

Safe, sensible, electric cars from China, so that's difficult, I think, and I don't know what will happen, and you know, all kinds of high-level criticism about China and I'm not for a moment justifying what's true. aspects of the Chinese government and what they're doing to certain people in China and the human rights issues in China, you know, I'm not trying to whitewash that at all, but I think we have to recognize that at the last minute. Since the war, which country has invaded China with an army and killed people? I can't think of what countries the United States has invaded and killed quite a few people if you think about it and I mean, maybe for a good reason or a bad reason, but I have done it and that's why all this fuss about China, you know?

I don't know, also, almost everything we consume is manufactured in China or partially manufactured in China, so it is something very difficult, difficult, I don't know what, what can they do about it? What should the next sections do? Hopefully the UK government will offer incentives for

renewable

energy

. For example, new incentives for electric

vehicles

. Extend the road tax offer that expires soon. Increase the heat pump plan. Etc., heat pumps, definitely, um, and there's already a plan that supports the heat. heat pump pumps and uh, but I don't actually think that electric

vehicles

and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles should be subsidized or boosted.

I think it will happen. I think that's called capitalism. I think once people understand the benefits of driving. an electric car, uh, they outweigh the disadvantages by a huge, embarrassing and humiliating margin, uh, and when you stop buying imported toxic liquid fuels that come from countries around the world that often have less than benign regimes and once you stop of buying that you realize that you don't buy it and save money, I mean, even if you charge your car during peak hours or if you charge your car at public charges, you know, the cost of oil, there is only one thing and this.

Don't you? I mean? These are people who work in the oil industry. There is only one thing that is going to happen in the next 10 years and that is that oil is going to become more expensive. It's simply inevitable. We've already used up all the easy oil. and now we have the expensive and difficult oil and the longer we can keep that oil in the ground and not burn it, we still have to extract it because we use it for many different things, I just don't want us to burn it, so soon I will interview people, just I'll check with people they interview that work in the oil industry about what we can do when we refine crude oil, how much we can use and turn into products that we don't burn and I and I think it's more than some people imagine.

I can't help but notice that a tea leaf said that our RBA, which for those of you who don't know, is a self-contained vacuum cleaner, our Rumba is called Kiton because it always gets stuck in the laundry room. yes, results, I love it, oh god wait, or a funny cat turning heads in Rochdale, oh that's good. Wiline just told me that there is a Great Wall Motors. Actually you got it wrong because you have a big Motors wall gwm. it's the company gwm Aura uh or just the aura funky cat as it's called, it's a cool little car, a little electric car and it's turning heads in r Dale and I managed to say that without doing a Cod nonsense, uh, northern accent which I am very proud of.

Of that, yes, there is a good one, surely, why is it more expensive? Really interesting hot topic, the original reason was because electric cars were more expensive, and then there was a bunch of stuff about, you know, if you buy an expensive car, then the insurance is more expensive, that makes sense. I mean, if you have an advanced third-hand approach and you insure that or you have a new Rolls-Royce, I think you'll find that the insurance is more. expensive with the Rolls-Royce and that was one of the reasons for electric cars, but now electric cars are becoming cheaper and there are a lot of second-hand electric cars on the market and there is more backing, support and understanding on how to service them. and how you repair them.

I just read two reports where insurance premiums have specifically dropped more recently for EVs. The problem I have with insurance is because I have to say on my insurance form that I am an actor for a lot of people. I don't agree with that, particularly with the actors I've worked with. Your insurance is automatically higher and it is the most annoying. I have always had very expensive insurance and I and I keep saying that I will no longer perform. I do not do it. Acting I'm not an actor and there's a chance I'll be acting later this year, so I can't say I'm no longer an actor yet, but soon I'll be a retired King actor, um uh, and I do trucks. to the city of P San region, oh how kind, John Ria, sorry John, if I mispronounced your middle name as a comment, there is a Rivan truck owner in my city in mura.

I like that and I see Amazon e trucks making de

live

ries in my city in the Puget Sound region. how wonderful to

live

in that beautiful area of ​​the world and yeah well Amazon is now running it on the hundreds of thousands of electric trucks in America and there's a recent podcast that I did with an amazing man um I'm just now I'm looking for your name, it's Gan Dylan, thanks gugan Dylan, amazing guy who runs a company called sinop that runs software that manages multiple charges for fleets, but particularly in the case of American school buses, the big long yellow buses, there are thousands now of electric buses and you know the idea is that eventually the half a million electric buses will all half a million school buses will be electric, but they also manage the vehicle network so that those buses when they are not in use, which is Let's face it , most of the time they are supporting local grids so you know if you think a thousand buses can deliver enough power for a small city, so if you have half a million buses, you're looking at a lot of power, so you charge them when the Electricity is cheap and there is no demand late at night and you use that

energy

to drive, but then you can also use the excess you have left to throw away. on the network and it is actually somewhat easier to manage than at the individual household level, but that is another complicated topic.

Well, here's a good one from Wolverine. My EV did 180 miles for £129 last week. My boss's LPG did the same. for £40 the benefit to him I have a V8 I can feel my genitals expanding because I have a V8 this you are talking to someone who used to have three V8s I think in my life and I love them and they were great and they drank petrol like someone. um I don't know what's wrong with our local buses but every week there is at least one that bursts into flames and that one is a bright rainbow, well I wonder what those buses are that are quite alarming if they are all going up in flames, the chances are, statistically, that they are diesel buses because the vast majority of buses are diesel and diesel vehicles catch fire quite regularly, it's very sad, it's been very horrible, but that happens, and I think there have been some things wonderful.

There are stories that they have stopped doing this now, but for a while, the lovely Sun newspaper in the UK published negative reports about EVS every day for 126 days straight. I wonder why that would be an editorial decision. for any CH or even a message from the boss I wonder anyway uh uh we have more here we go Big Murray says how can we get more involved with stop BS I'm already patreon thank you very much Graeme but it would be great if you could become more acting more active more activists I mean , the whole idea was to stop burning things.

This is an organization that we do. I'll put the links to this when we're done. What is the time? Oh, okay, but, that's right. It was an organ, a kind of pressure group that we created to counter the absurdity and stupidity of the negative stories in the press, radio and television. We actually had good luck with that. I had some success with this, uh, and it's not me doing it, it's other really good people like Quenton Wilson going on the radio and talking to Reese Mog on gbtv. It's so brave that I couldn't do it, um, uh, I can't read yours.

I'm trying to be polite, Novo, but anyway, stop burning things. You can see if you Google my name and stop the nonsense, you'll find it and there's a Patreon support page which is what helps us fund researchers and people. Those who are writing the rebuttal and we are not, they are not one of them, they are journalists, but most of them have a scientific background, so Yan Murk, for example, is a battery chemist who really knows how batteries work and what they are made of. and how long they last, it's an important thing to have someone like that and Helen Chery is involved, she is a real, genuine scientist who really understands the materials and what they do, um, can start in the H to reduce the use of fossil fuels even in In a small way, yes, Charlotte Endersby, yes, I mean, the difficulty we've really had over the last 10 years is that the only way to get an electric car is to buy a new one, which is incredibly expensive to buy a new one. new car of any type. or rent one and that's still expensive because they were expensive.

What we are seeing and it is happening very quickly is an incredible reduction in the cost of a new electric car, which is still too expensive because I don't think I ever bought new cars until I was old. man, I couldn't have dreamed of it, you know, um, and I've only bought two in my life, I bought two new cars, one or two, and they were the stupidest thing, this is before electric cars, so I rent them. Now I don't buy them, uh, and you know, I bought my Nissan Leaf years ago, but it was a press car, so I bought it cheaper than the new price, but I still paid quite a bit for it, they didn't give it to me. give me like a backwards Nissan I still have to pay um uh so you know that they will be cheaper second hand electric cars, you know and third and fourth hand, which is what you need and then you go, well, thebatteries will be as if.

Will the batteries be okay? The car will break down before the batteries. Now we know it's an easy half a million miles. That's what we're talking about. We just interviewed a guy in Australia who drove half a million miles. on a battery that is quite long, like 30 years of normal use, it was a limousine, so they were using it a lot more than normal. What we save by using it, I mean, the thing is, there are a lot of things here that people talk about. personal, do you know the carbon footprint, do you know who came up with the idea, the word, the two, okay, two phrases, range, anxiety and carbon footprint, both came from the fossil fuel lobby, whose Is it our fault that we burn fossil fuels? blame because we have no choice no it's not our fault it's the fossil fuel industry's fault for doing everything they can to delay the

transition

away from using the fuels they sell yes it's 100% their fault the carbon footprint is entirely yours until We have the choice to decide whether to use fossil fuels or not, and that is very difficult.

A challenging

transition

will not be overnight, it will be very difficult indeed, and it will take decades, but what we have seen this year for first time is an absolute decrease in global fossil fuel consumption, so not in this country, no. in France or in Europe, all over the world, so we are talking and the main reason behind this is electric scooters and mopeds in Asia because we are not talking, oh, there are 10,000, it is 280 million as of December 2023, 280 million of mopeds and electric scooters, well it would consume a lot of 280 million mopeds, although they don't use much each when you combine them, that's a lot, so there has been a 1% drop in oil use and that really has raised old alarm bells in the fossil fuel industry. all over the world because that had never happened before knowing that there have been declines for economic reasons, there have been declines due to wars, there has never been a decline because people don't buy it because they no longer need it and the more we can do it than the more leverage we have with the fossil fuel industry to say, guys, you really need to stop investing in more extraction and start investing in more

renewable

energy, you drag morons with your knuckles, here we go.

I see someone going to work every morning on an electric scooter. I'm so tempted to try it too well, you should try it, yes, I think so. I wish boats had decent electric options. I mean, we've covered some ships. I mean, there are some amazing solar luxury yachts out there, but I think they cost more than average. British city, I mean, they're not cheap but they're amazing. And there is a solar boat that has sailed around the world. There is a solar plane that has flown around the world. But you know it exists. It is still a very expensive technology, but.

We've been on We've done a lot of shows about electric boats over the years. Well, how are we doing? We are approaching time. Oh, we've been going a little during the night. 32 I am a photo. Okay, I'm going to ask some questions about red dwarfs. Someone asked if there will be more. I was being really, what do you call that discreet? And I didn't say anything and then I went to At a science fiction convention a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting next to Craig Charles and someone asked him. I heard him ask if you were signing autographs.

Someone asked him. Will there be more red DF? and he went. yeah, yeah, we're going to do something later, yeah, yeah, man, uh, that's a really bad impression of Craig, uh, so what's the point to me that we all agreed to do more? We're not going to do a whole new series, but we are doing something and it should be fun and we hope to do it later this year, if not it will be early next year, so that's Red Dwarf news, um, uh, um, what else was there? The list remembers any of the remote missions that went to Earth to rescue Rimer in terraforming because at the end of mcor you reconstructed his personality from the CCTV footage, that's a proper Red Dwarf question that I think only Doug can answer and even he would have done a little research, we learned the lines and then as soon as we delivered them, we practically forgot them, so I know exactly what you mean.

It's a brilliant question, but uh, animated series, I don't know anything about that. I don't think so, but, oh, there we go, quite an interesting God, are the comments, if you have the opportunity to see them, they go. Red Dwarf electric buses. Red Dwarf electric scooters. Red Dwarf electric cars. Since when does Red Dwarf care? continuity is a very good point, in fact I think it is very true and I forgot the lines before delivering them. Well, yes, sometimes I forget my lines while delivering them or in one particular case that I always thought was perfect, I went in with Tal Gusto and made my lines like Cryon, absolutely brilliant in Word Perfect, but the paragraph I delivered at that time was for the wrong scene, which left a bit of confusion, so I had the right words, but not necessarily in the right order.

That note, I'm going to end this broadcast. It's been a pleasure talking to you and it's actually been very interesting to see all the questions that are coming in and I really appreciate it and it was lovely talking to you all and I hope to see you soon when I get the chance to do another live at 5 :55 until then, goodbye.