Member Info for Daytradenovice

Absolutely Selecta (Cracking group by the way)
Not as if the two sellers are clueless minnows in the mining world without fingers on the pulse.

Getafgrip, absolutely technology will accelerate the change, however currently that is costing significant capex and research monies, with little payback and reward for the companies concerned at present. That cash is not a never ending amount, without more significant take up of EV's (overcom8ng peoples hesitancy and wait and see approach) i see that investable cashpile reducing. Manufacturers wont keep investing if they aint selling..
My family members battery manufacturing/supplier company,and it is a well established substantial buisiness, only has a couple of hybrids in its large vehicle fleet, with no 100% ev vehicles - that tells me everything i need to know!
Your final point on on miners, 'how green is green' if you will is very valid and once people start to research this properly, rather than rely on the spin from government, ER, Greta, media etc etc then the true cost of this electrical/EV push will become plain.
Who wants a mine in the back garden? or worse still wants to ship minerals from all over the world? Wont go into the aspirations of billions in the third world to improve their lot, might be able to pay for a twenty year old toyota but certainly not a EV like a Tesla (maybe why china manufacturers are churning out cheap EV's).
Oil will be with us for a good while yet. Cheap, plentiful, infrastructure/tech in place worldwide.
I would suggest the better approach from the environmental lobby, would have been to limit the consumption of fuel by placing tighter controls on the miles per gallon of vehicles made, i.e. ban gas guzzlers. my wifes Polo does 70mpg, my much larger vehicle considerably less, if i could be encouraged to change id half my usage and hence pollution, maybe that is the way to go rather than produce equally non green vehicles that cost a fortune and aint fit for my usage?

B Eagle
Oh i do understand a little of the EV battery industry, as much as i need to - family member is director of a battery specialist/manufacturer and counts JLR as one of his customers. Have been round the factory for a looksea myself.

Incidentaly, you think that 'energy' companies are going to stand the financial outlay of these £10k (?) battery packs out of the goodness of their hesrts so that joe public can just pull up and have them switched out? why would they want to take on all the finacial risk of doing this for buttons? Of course they wont, not until the battery packs are made universal and to a standard design/shape/size to reduce their 'at risk' costs and assist replacement.
This is the industries third biggest challenge, after public perception/hesitancy, and mineral availibilty, not going down the 'how green are they route'.
Try buying a new battery for your three year old GTech bike or hoover - you will either pay through the teeth for one or end up chucking the perfectly good item away.

Hit post on my comments exactly as you did Selecta.
Just seems an utterly ridiculus thing for Ivan to be doing to me.
Its like somebody buying a betamax video recorder factory to restart production nowadays.

Now i dont get this one bit.
JV partners in a coal mine decide to sell up and exit.
Rather than leave those portions of a coal mine (which we are supposedly moving away from) for a n other to buy, Ivan gets the dosh out and buys them himself, stating "sustainability" whilst also stating "expected declines" in production and hence value from 2030, which is not far away.
Why the f*** would you want to spend lots of your own cash buying more of an asset that you have specifically stated doesnt fit your 'green' company model/ethos and is doomed very shortly?

Eviking, good god no man.
He's the healthiest bloke for his age that i know, he's absolutely fine.

gove didnt get it, javid has

Looks like the plane to be based out of Stansted

https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-first-737-max-8200-flight/

of people from the EU it seems.

https://simpleflying.com/us-secretary-of-state-eu-travelers/

"I saw a program on TV about EV battery replacement i.e. car pulls up with low juice and gets a full battery replacement - automatically by machines - and drives away in a matter of minutes fully charged"

I love the idea around this plan. . . . . that is until i think about all the copious cr@p normally floating around in my wifes car. would take longer to empty just the rubbish out to get to any battery than to just plug a lead in and charge the slow way.

He has a couple of irons in the fire currently, but no airlines. cottage is going very well, nipping round again soon for another gander and a fishing session. Only trouble with rya is calling the exit time as i cant rebuy when i sell. Im looking for 20e (o'leary retires then and i think they will miss him when he goes) got in in the 9e's so am sitting comfortably at the moment, might just sell half at the 20e when it gets there and pull my stake back out, decisions decisions, but patience certainly pays

definately not, no, sold to fund refurb on his second cottage. Im holding a fair few :)

Sage is still on here. different id but keeping away from the usual boards as he gets hounded by a few idiots and rebanned when they recognise his writing style.
Cant keep a good man down as the saying goes.

on dead bb

Noticed the same climb back Seaking, fingers crossed it continues, twas a hefty drop after ex divi but hopefully in the rear view now.

That would make a good deal of sense, its not as if he hasnt lent the business his own monies already. Would have been a good move, perhaps two years back to start the mine up.

must have been some heavy people in first class cabin!

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-787-nose-gear-collapse/

over the traffic lights system. Now, i rate Mikey as the best in the business, seems the market does too, but he does seem to like chucking plenty of wonga in the direction of the courts. . . . . keeps the headlines but seems seldom successfull.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57505736

Separate note the first new Max arrived in Ireland yesterday, seems the bulk of the rest wont land till next year - excellent timing there me thinks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57480835

cheeky bugger, blames coal for being dirty, despite the emmissions scam his firm pulled for years.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Volkswagen-CEO-Slams-G7-Over-Slow-Coal-Phase-Out.html