Best things about working as a #photographer , you get to go to amazing places and #events , just about anything can happen and usually does and no two days are ever the same!
@cjb_twit@MrRoryReid Yes, you can typically expect 20-25% annual depreciation whatever car you buy. In the very long term an EV will be cheaper to own, but with much higher up front EV prices, the break even EV-ICE is years down the road, encouragingly that gap is narrowing.
@MrRoryReid Could do, but on a like for like car for car comparison, ICE models still make more sense for me. The gap EV-ICE is defo narrowing year by year, & I 100% want to go EV, but I reckon at current rate of change, that’s 5ish years away.
@KateFantom Let me guess, the £1,200 quote was from a franchised Renault dealer, yes? A few years ago my father in law was quoted over £4k by a franchised dealer to sort electrical gremlins on an Audi A8, the issue was a 95p fuse!!!!
@campbellclaret Horrendous story, I can relate, I’m a photographer based in Cambridge and I’ve had to shell out over £800 for a 12 month carnet document so I can take my cameras with me for jobs in the EU. And each overseas trip now involves 4 visits to customs.
@jonpaudav@au_tom_otive @mrmarshallob @AutoTrader_UK Lads, Autotrader data simply doesn’t include the majority of private used car sales, so their avg value is way, way, way higher than the overall UK market.
@au_tom_otive @mrmarshallob @AutoTrader_UK Even Autotrader wouldn’t claim their figures are a representative average of the UK used car market, they are the top end.
@au_tom_otive @mrmarshallob @AutoTrader_UK Autotrader’s numbers are based on what’s been advertised on their website, which is almost totally dealer stock. They list maybe 500k cars, the UK used care market is circa 8m units. RMIF or one of the trade bodies might be able to help you with more realistic numbers.
@mrmarshallob @au_tom_otive @AutoTrader_UK He’s being totally mis-leading Tom is using the the average price of used cars on Autotrader, which is way, way, way higher than the average price of used cars in the UK.
@au_tom_otive @mrmarshallob @AutoTrader_UK @au_tom_otive totally mis-leading Tom, that’s the average price of used cars on Autotrader, way, way, way higher than the average price of used cars in the UK. Sorry for calling you out, but that’s just not correct.
So I made it to the conference in Stockholm with my ATA Carnet documents for my gear stamped by UK customs on the way out and Swedish customs on the way in to the EU. The process ate an extra 30 minutes at Heathrow and 45 minutes in Stockholm. #brexit#eventprofs#photographer
If this scene at Heathrow T5 this morning is any kind of barometer for the vibrancy of global Britain, I think someone needs to light a fire under the Department for Trade.