Good to see Bjorn might be out the woods in the short term - cue video in 3 years where he is trying to escape the tyranny of his new investor.
I say good but it's totally his fault and if he lost it all I wouldn't have much sympathy. We cut a lot of things out of our renovation due to costs, an outdoor pool was never on the cards for us.
Note to self. Overpay mortgage.
Obviously you've never owned a 2.2 Mazda or a 1.6 Octavia or an insignia or or or..... I could go for a long time.
If you accept that an engine will last forever, clue, it won't, then you need to look at the clutch, turbo and servicing costs too before you say ice is as robust an an ev
Had my 2011 insignia for 7 years and it hasn’t missed a beat yet. Have to get the timing belt and water pump and brake pads done due to age but it’s grand otherwise.
To be fair, he admitted he made mistakes with the house. There were delays which drove the price up and he didn't have enough margin
People make mistakes, it happens
I think he's making another mistake by taking on this investor. If Rich Rebuilds is the bar then that channel has gone to shite since he turned it into a glorified sitcom
Bjorn seemed very taken back by the donations he received, he said he didn't really want that and would have preferred to pay back a loan than beg for free money
I disagree personally, people donated money because they're basically paying him for his content. If he stopped making videos then he wouldn't get donations, it's hardly free money
If he wanted to expand the channel I'd much rather see him move to a fan funding model and hire in a production assistant rather than give away creative control
Anyway, glad to see things are working out for him and we'll be seeing more 1000km challenges for a while yet
Watching Bjørn Nyland's long winter range test videos of Ioniq 28kWh back in 2016 in extremely cold Norwegian winter weather, convinced me that the car would be suitable as our family car. I watched both the videos twice, then booked a 24h test drive in one. First thing in the morning, the day after the test drive, I contacted all 30 Irish Hyundai dealers, spent all day communicating and negotiating and by the end of that day had agreed a deal with one of them, ordered it and paid the deposit.
Bjørn will always have a special place on my respect list even though I haven't really watched much of his content over the last 2-3 years
He seems financially naive, his >€1 million mortgage is fine but not sure why he got himself forced into this additional high pressure high interest loan with his house builder, but that seems to be his only mistake. And he wouldn't have been in any financial trouble at all if Tesla had delivered the two (!) free Tesla Roadsters that they have owed him for years because of the worldwide referral program that he topped for many years in a row.
Anyway the guy has huge leverage / sympathy in EV circles and I am sure all will be well for him and his family. Best of luck to him, he has done the world some favours.
Direct link to show recording. Nissan are saying car has 8 year warranty for battery degradation but fault is cell 73 failure and not normal degredation. Not covered under warranty, pay 3-4k for one cell investigation and presumably replacement.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22411678/
That's a disgrace from Nissan. Getting out of it on a technicality, that battery now has less than 70% of it's original capacity. Glad I didn't buy a Leaf now.
But surely that's a manufacturing fault and would be covered anyway?
Terrible attitude to customer service but hardly surprising considering they’re still peddling cars with no CCS charging ability. I hope the owner has the financial ability to take them on with a good solicitor. If they get away with this once, it won’t bode well for others. SIMI will be hiding in a ditch somewhere no doubt. IEVOA should be out in front here lobbying Nissan for fair play.
Nissan should try that with me 😂
Shooting themselves in both feet penny pinching like. It will hurt their sales far in excess what it cost to fix this.
I don't think battery swap is the future even for trucks but this might be a handy stop gap for some all go all day type users.
How often do trucks spend parked up.
EV charging hub in Germany including bus charging and Nio battery swap station.
Maybe, the problem with those automated battery swap stations is they seem very finicky
The Nio ones for example require the driver to sit in the car for the duration of the swap, something like 10 mins
Moving a 500kg or so battery is always going to be a bit tricky, especially if trying to automate it. What happens if the truck is at a bit of an angle, or it's snowing and the vision system freaks out
Often it just seems easier to bite the bullet and plug the thing in
One thing I'm surprised didn't take off was a battery that could be swapped by a forklift. Most warehouses would have a bunch already so no extra infrastructure.
You could have some "booster" packs of around 100kWh which could be added or hot swapped into trucks as needed. It would make the tractors themselves cheaper and maybe lead to some better utilisation of battery capacity
Might work well for construction sites or farms as well, where there isn't always power available where the work site is
imagine though if there was a liquid containing a high density of energy you could just pour in over the course of 10 mins…
If you think there aren't enough charging stations, which are vastly cheaper (and easier) than a battery swapping station. There will never be enough battery swapping stations. As such it's a dead end.
any whatever the argument about cars, hgvs need massive range, some trucks are going 24hrs with alternating drivers.
One that will cause great, even existential difficulty to the lives of our grand children and their offspring? Yeah who gives a **** about them, let's use that.
and if we’ve no choice but to use it for a while more, better to not be using it in such a way that returns only about 30% efficiency from it….
Most gas turbines in Ireland are set up for dual fuel operations, so they’ll run on diesel. And even at that they still return over 60% efficiency.
Ev trucks definitely aren’t the solution to that conundrum anyway. I’d ban non essential air travel personally.
I'd lay strong odds that only a small percentage of trucks are going 24/7. There's is no problem with a small % of vehicles being diesel. Its when the majority of vehicles in a city are diesel it's a huge problem.
"...Diesel powered vehicles accounted for 64% of all newly registered vehicles in 2018, petrol for 39%, and electric vehicles, less than 1%.."
Yet someone starts banging on about driving 24/7.
Not just our grand children, but us and our children.
Very much worth a listen.
if they are not running they are not emitting anything… Seriously though I have a new JCB loader with a 4.8 diesel, adblue, scr, the lot. You can run your finger inside the exhaust after 500 hours and it would be clean; no soot, carbon, nothing.
Not entirely sure what trucks going 24/7 but not running....or licking the tail pipe of JCBs has to do with anything.
If you can't see it or run your finger along it, then it isn't real.🫡
Would you shove your mouth against the same exhaust and breath normally while it's running?
You see that is the metaphor for the whole issue. Shure it was a bit hot the last few summers, but that's just the weather. Nothing to do with climate. All good anyway it was a bit cold here to start. Maybe we will grow grapes in Ireland soon. What we do in Ireland has no impact on the world anyway. Nothing we can do, nothing to see here, everything is grand, let's keep burning stuff until we run out.
Maybe, but buying a “thing” isn’t going to solve it either, whether that thing is a solar panel or an ev.
The reality is if anyone really cared about climate change they wouldn’t travel by air, would live less consumerist lifestyles, walk and cycle and probably drive an mb 240d on veg oil they pressed themselves when private travel is needed. Also probably get rid of all the data centres in the country and kill all the livestock.
All of us just pay lip service to this stuff and spend money to make us feel like we are actually doing something. Driving an ev maybe helps in some small way, but it’s probably all utterly quixotic and an expression of capitalism trying to solve a problem it cannot solve with out dismantling modern society.
(Don’t get me wrong, I’m big into the environment in general terms, and I’d like to think am close on carbon netutral with a low stocked all but organic cattle farm, and have a grant app in for a load of solar panels on my sheds, but fuc2it, a spade must be called a spade too)
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