I also think the industry has stalled with developments in wfp- there never seems to be anything new to talk, or get excited about anymore.🤔
We're seemingly stuck with the same old poles and brushes. Definitely think there's still plenty of development left in brushes at least.
I hope someone comes up with a decent water heater that is compatible with an electric van in the future as the diesel heaters will become obsolete once we re all driving electric vehicles(unless of course you want a separate diesel tank in the back of the van)
Electric vans 
will be retired before they become compulsory thank goodness.
If Govs around the world continue with this madness of forcing manufacturers to build vehicles not many folk want then Luton will be the tip of the iceberg.
Been studying VW and they are closing 4 plants I know of and the German people are getting hung out to dry.
Customer is always king whether we like it of not. No customers means no busy ness and the business folds. Vehicles are depreciating assets so all that happens is they get parked on big carparks until they are sold. Folk that run businesses are actually a people person, how to please our customers. Although we don't realise this until we go through a bad patch.
The one thing I didn't like when working in public sector was working with people that no one wanted to work with but it also was a good experience.
Northvolt has declared bankruptcy.
China was building 2 lithium battery factories in Europe. This has been cancelled. The large lithium battery factory in the UK looks like folding.
The state of VW and Audi are testament to the dire straights the European motor industry is in. Europeans are buying petrol and diesel vehicles again having fallen out of love with EVs.
A report I read over the weekend says that the UK government is to revaluate their EV policy.
It will all change from 20th January and we will go back to combustion and hybrids. When one wants to jump the stepping stone then you end up falling in the water. When we try and walk, we crawl and then try and stand up and then we try and take steps. Problem with politicians, they have no patience and want it all at once and then it collapses and they blame someone else.
When I rush, I generally make mistakes.
When my clutch went Friday morning I decided to lose two days and move them on to Sunday and Monday. Contacted some customers to let them know and the rest I wrote on the card I posted. Everyone was great with it and were more interested in how much it cost to fix.
When would you want to know bad news? Right away so its the same with our customers, worse thing to do is hang them out to dry, infact, that's how you lose customers. fwiw
