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    cliveb replied to the thread Random Irritations.
    Surely it can't be long before we'll be able to get out of the car and let it park itself into very narrow spaces?
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    cliveb replied to the thread Random Irritations.
    I understand your attitude. I have to admit that whenever someone does something unacceptable it annoys me. But stuff like this is...
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    cliveb replied to the thread Random Irritations.
    We all like a nice tidy car, but it will inevitably "get Tesco'd". Once you've acquired a few dinks, you can relax and just accept...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    I worry that there seems to be a growing number of people who are happy to buy a car without a test drive. Cars are such personal things...
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    cliveb replied to the thread Random Irritations.
    Trying to remove the moss from my mother-in-law's fairly large tarmac drive using a domestic Karcher pressure washer that frankly wasn't...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    I agree that the the way to go is to buy a car that's a couple of years old. But I don't see any reason to replace it with another after...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    What makes you think I haven't looked into leasing? When you lease, you pay for the early years depreciation over and over, never...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    Plenty does. But I haven't drunk enough of the KoolAid to blindly believe that everything to do with EVs, solar and batteries does. OK...
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    cliveb replied to the thread Over-rated Bands / Musicians.
    Well yes they did, but in any ranking of the greatness of bands, there is a dogma that The Beatles are obviously #1, when perhaps there...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    No, it never made sense. The lease cost was stupid expensive. Minimum lease was ~£45 a month, and you were limited to (IIRC) 5000 miles...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    And after 12 years the Model S is still the only Tesla that isn't ugly as sin. Who the hell are they employing in their design department?
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    cliveb replied to the thread Over-rated Bands / Musicians.
    ATTWT is listenable, but that's where the rot set in. Duke has four fabulous tracks (Behind the Lines, Duchess, Duke's Travels, Duke's...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    I agree that is the best scenario. Like how those compact fluorescent bulbs were around for a while before LEDs became common. But as...
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    cliveb replied to the thread The all things EV chat thread.
    So even PJ87 agrees that running an EV entirely on public chargers is a non-starter. Which reinforces my earlier observation that in...
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    cliveb replied to the thread Over-rated Bands / Musicians.
    A lot of In Through The Out Door is pretty dodgy, with the notable exception of Fool In The Rain, and possibly In The Evening. And of...
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