Squaredy
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I may have got the name wrong of the electric lorry I will check. Speedy hire had a fleet but not for long.
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As you say having predictable cash flow is important, but for me it is mainly about risk. What would a full set of batteries cost for a modern electric vehicle? Not a risk I am willing to take, so a full maintenance lease is the only option I would consider. Have you heard about the Aixam lorries? I feel for anyone who invested in one of them ten years ago. It might be different in five or ten years time when they are common but imagine taking a full electric vehicle to a back street garage hoping for a budget repair!
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The only problem I have with these is they appear to be wrapped in plastic. I really couldn't buy these in bulk I have found a briquette maker just across the water north of Bristol, who do wrap them in paper. Only problem is the paper bags are highly branded. I would prefer to buy plain packed briquettes so I am still looking.
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Yes tax years. Pure electric vehicles will have a benefit in kind tax charge of 0% 2020/21, 1% 2021/2022 and 2% 2022/2023. Only zero for one year but then pretty close to zero. It is worth bearing in mind also that an awful lot of the charging points are currently free. This will not continue indefinitely of course, but for early adopters many are quite literally getting free fuel!
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No tax charge at all from 6 April this year. It is as you say based on vehicle type (well emissions actually) and electric vehicles are zero rated. So no tax to pay for the employee at all.
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Yes and supposing the batteries or motors need replacing when you come to sell. For this reason I am leasing so none of that is my problem.
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Interesting, I had not heard of Rivian. At least their pick-up looks better than the Tesla pick up. I don’t know what Tesla we’re thinking with the design of it. Here it is for anyone wondering. Sorry I am too much of a dinosaur to get a picture to appear on this post you will have to google it!
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Yes; I have put a deposit down on a Kia E-Niro, and hopefully delivery will be in Spring. From April the benefit in kind tax charge is reduced to zero, so in effect there is no tax charge as a benfit at all. For me it will be almost the same cost as my current 15 year old car. It will only very rarely be used for business - my wife will use it mainly; taking kids to school, etc; but this is quite legitimate. It is going to cost over £400 per month, but savings in tax, fuel, maintenance, etc will reduce this drastcally. The main issue is having somewhere to charge it - ie a drive. Luckily I have an ideal spot next to my house, so I will have no need to use public chargers except for rare occasions when we drive to (for example) Cornwall. The range of the vehicle we are buying is nearly 300 miles.
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Lots of burring by the looks of it. Might even make up for the barbed wire inclusions!
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I have just looked it up, it seems London still has 10 hydrogen powered buses and has just ordered 20 more. Still seems a bit slow considering how long ago they first had them.
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I remember seeing a hydrogen fuel cell bus working in London about 15 years ago but they seem to have given up on this now. I read somewhere that Sweden has a fleet of these buses and they are all scrapped now or in museums.
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Yes the article does state this, but of course this was written by a journalist and I am pretty certain this is nonsense! Not easy to prove without spending the afternoon trawling the web though, so maybe someone more in the know can shed some light on this?
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Yeah coal gas - made by burning coal without oxygen - similar to charcoal making. Terrible for the environment and the gas itself was poisonous. This new development is not to do with coal gas - but it sounds a little pointless to me. They are saying they could use up to 20% hydrogen. Maybe it would be better to use the money to subsidise good quality house insulation. And I don't mean the awful debacle of government sponsored cavity wall insulation, but properly specified and installed insulation. It is a minefield though, I will admit.
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I know I am a techno dinosaur but what is condensing the posts? Have I been doing it the hard way all these years? I admit I do not use the app as I have no idea what my password is so I stick to my laptop and phone.
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It is all about adequate controls and auditing. Biomass is a great idea if it is done right, and worse than useless if it is done wrong. There is a danger of giving the whole wood burning concept a bad name.
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Yeah mainly being shipped in from USA. It was meant to be low grade waste from sawmilling and other operations but it has been shown that some is from old growth forests hence causing deforestation.
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The sawmill the OP spoke to was me. I did indeed advise she posted here. However I did not suggest the felling might be free. I said most sawmills would not want the stem but someone on Arbtalk might be interested. I did not express any view on likely felling cost - I didn’t even see a picture! it is a shame one or two Arbtalk members were less than polite with her. What was wrong with nicely pointing out it is a full days work for a highly equipped and qualified team therefore will cost at least £xxxx, and that the stem is worth no more than £xxx.
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The owner of the land surely should meet the cost of disposal? To do it properly you will have to register as a waste carrier and take them to a commercial waste disposal site. As long as you can charge for time etc this seems OK. Actual landfill charge will be minimal. The bigger question is why are they still used so extensively? In the last 7 years I have helped the Woodland Trust plant around 100,000 trees in my area and yep you guessed it they almost always have the guards. When I say ‘helped’ my involvement was just storing and handling stakes tree guards etc - not real work!
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There used to be a lower rate for bicycles. Is it now the same as a car?
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No I think we will sell bundles of unprocessed milling waste instead. The problem is the time and space it takes up I really need to use for more profitable avenues! Hence I am considering just buying in briquettes as it would take up so little space and need no processing, but still provide a product for our customers with UK provenance. I have been in touch with Penntree who sell briquettes as Hotblocks, which looks good. I am trying to compare prices with logs so I can work out if it is viable for me and my customers..
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I am trying to find out if there is a UK firm that makes wood briquettes and sells them wholesale. I am only interested in UK made and entirely UK sourced material. I am stopping selling firewood and I am considering selling briquettes instead - not on a big scale, just enough to satisfy my existing customers - maybe 12 to 20 pallets per year. I will not consider any material sourced outside the UK for environmental reasons, so UK only please. Is there anyone out there?
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Stephen Cull provides a great product and service. Highly recommended. He sharpens about 300 blades a year for me.
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Make The BBC a TV subscription (pay as you go) channel
Squaredy replied to Baldbloke's topic in The Lounge
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Make The BBC a TV subscription (pay as you go) channel
Squaredy replied to Baldbloke's topic in The Lounge
It also partly funds ITV channel 4 and S4C. As well as loads of radio of course and one of the world’s largest websites. -
Ah now if only all lights were like those nobody would mind. Sadly I have to report that the lights which prompted me to start this thread are back. Departed for the weekend and now back to protect the same empty stretch of road. I guess even traffic lights need a weekend off!
