markm

Family friend moved to Florida When retired 6 years ago. Think of retiring to Spain, but chose the US instead. loves it. But due to age is always on a long term holiday. Periodically flies out of the US to Canada or Mexico (occasionally the UK) to get a visa to stay. Won't come back permanently until she needs to.

Good luck with the sale. Part of my favourite Facebook page.

This stove has seen very little use as it was too hot in the room. Fully refurbished with - New baffle, firebrick, door rope and resprayed with factory paint, to take it back to as new. Located in NE61, Northumberland. Happy to put on a pallet and deliver at buyers expense. More photos on request. £1100 ono

There was on doing the rounds from Northumberland a few weeks ago with 2 charging points with a generator behind. The generator was for four traffic lights out of the picture.

Come on then. How do pot holes form? If remember correctly, that aren't a new phenomenon. Is a EV heavier? Yes. So...... Has heavy road traffic increased in recent years? EV and VANS? Don't you get home deliveries? How much does a VW golf GTI weigh now compared to a MK1? I know my beige Datsun Cherry was very light.

2 (well 3) points for you to ponder. I'm not wasting time analysing full stats or data. This is just a quick google. 1. The surface treatment company Asphalt Group has debunked the rumour that electric vehicles are causing an increase in the number of potholes on the road. (from me - potholes have always been formed due to the soft road surface in the uk combined with freeze thaw conditions) add onto that government / council reduced spending on roads) 2. A study by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency found that EVs are 20 times less likely to catch fire than ICE cars.

What an awesome contribution. Did Barry down the pub tell you this?

1. I think you will find that is hybrid. More ICE cars go on fire than full electric. Surely you should have known that. 2. Those weights are nothing compared to other vehicles on the road. Every know that most potholes are caused by water ingress and freeze / thaw conditions. 3. Loads of small ICE cars had zero tax. It's not free to run them, I pay tax on my fuel. Come next year I'll also have road tax.

You probably think they also go on fire all the time and everyone has a charger plugged into a diesel generator in their back garden. it's got nowt to do with the increase in traffic (inc a significant increase in delivery vans) and the reduction of road repair budgets with councils. Yes, I own an electric car.

All depends on how much deposit you put down, mileage, credit rating. Also model Y is a lot cheaper APR as it's older spec. Rough monthly payment are shown / calculated on their website and then when you commit (pay £200 initial deposit) you get lots of different options. You can lease, PCP and HP. My interest rate went down a little after I committed. The £200 is taken off the cost of the vehicle. Tesla don't want PX so offer silly money. Sold our Nissan QQ on motorways. It was seamless and £2300 more than WBACDC.

Picking up a black Tesla Model 3 next Saturday. We don't have any perks / business deals so we went for a 3 year PCP rather than leasing as - 1. Payments are very similar a month. After 3 years we can still hand the keys back, but took a gamble on the fact we may keep it or have some equity (looking at current 3 year old models with the mileage we will do). 2. Tesla are throwing in 15,000 miles supercharge for every car registered this month (not on a lease) There is a Tesla site 1/2 way between the 150mile round trip to see the outlaws (the wife visits at least once a week due to age / health). A new local Aldi and Lidl have free chargers in store with a 'charge whilst you shop' type sign. Whilst it won't fill up the car, a free journey there and back, isn't to be sniffed at especially as I can spend 1/2 an hour raking through the middle isles and the boss goes mad - I now have an excuse. Now we are joining the 'sparkside' it's surprising how many elec vehicles you start to notice on the road. Still keeping my x trail so when the world ends, I'll be able to siphon diesel out of the tanks.

Only interested in full electric, as that's what I'm looking into. What do you have? Lease, company car or buying it? What do you think? Would you go back to ICE?

Mac all the way. It just works (well)

I done a cruise out of Miami last summer and a 2 others over the years. We visited - Grand Cayman, Jamaica and Cozumel - it was on one of the bigger ships out of that port. For nearly the whole 7 days you could see other ships from the same place. I'm not keen on massive crowds, you’d be surprised how well they are designed to spread out people. You never hear of a modern cruise ship sinking, even the Costa Concordia was due to an idiot… and the law has changed since the - they have the most advanced technology for weather forecasting and stabilisers have been on cruise ships for more than 20 years to deal with rough seas. They will change routes and ports depending on predicted weather. its not my thing, but I’ve enjoyed the 3 I’ve been on

Les 2 Alpes in a month for a ski holiday. The boss wants to do a tour of Italy in the summer travelling around via train.