paulmerton

I don't think it will affect things much. Umicore have been doing that for ages already. https://pmm.umicore.com/en/sustainability/

As you may have seen in another thread, I bought a Trial of the Pyx coin last week - one of only ten to be returned from the trial! Due to an evident lack of care at their end, they installed it wrong-face-up in its tamper-evident display card, so I asked them what they could do about it. One week later... The Royal Mint has eventually responded to my email. They have apologised for the way my item has arrived, but because the item is no longer available, all I can do is return it for a refund. I am far from impressed.

Which Paul Merton will perform well during the rise of electric cars.

Look away!

Haha, topically, hot off the press: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58899006

I would only consider getting an electric car when the ranges on the cheaper ones hits, say, 400 miles, such that I would only ever need to charge it at home apart from the odd time. Hopefully in the future it'll just be a case of parking in a normal car parking space and your car will automatically be charged, or even charged while you're going along a motorway, but the transition to that is going to be long and annoying I bet.

But what about the wheels? Surely it can't take long for the reeding to wear down to less than 1.6mm!

Read the article, it's good.

Locomotor Wibbly!

Plus everyone's new electric heat pumps!

i8 to think of the running costs on that!

I hear the weight really adds up when you go all fancy and start using half sovereigns as tyre balancing weights 😄

I always assumed it was because electric cars can accelerate like poop off a shovel 😄

Does anyone know when the double set is coming out?

My guess is that there will be 6,000 single coins in the single presentation case, 1,000 coins in the double presentation case, and 10 left over for the Trial of the Pyx.

Mobile ringtones were an inexplicably big business over a decade ago. Maybe downloadable vehicle tones will becone the next big thing when they become a legal requirement 😂

But they aren't pretending to be legal tender - they are legal tender!

Bearings, tyres and brakes will always be consumables no matter what the method of propulsion is. Probably not many opportunities there, though!

I'm not sure they count as precious metals (yet!) but a lithium coin would be an interesting thing to have Actually, even an aluminium coin would be neat. At least it wouldn't tarnish!

It's clear that electric car production is really going to ramp up over the next several years, and that the demand for catalytic converters will dwindle accordingly. During that period, I can imagine platinum, rhodium and palladium all being a bit risky simply because most of their production currently ends up being used in cats. Will their prices plummet when this demand has gone? Are there any obvious precious metal opportunities relating specifically to the production of electric car motors, car batteries, car electronics and so on? Copper seems an obvious choice at the cheap end, but what precious metals would you bet on?

I had a feeling this case would go in his favour, simply by virtue of how a petrol station transaction typically works (i.e. get product and become indebted to pay for it, as opposed to how it works in a conventional retail transaction). Even without Tesco confirming beforehand that they would accept these coins, I think he still would have "won". While this was pretty obviously done for the youtube value, I've seen some people claim that it's stupid to try and spend commemorative coins like this because they cost far more than their face value, but that's not true - I suspect it was one of these £100 coins, which were actually sold for their face value (£100) https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/ranges/denomination/trafalgar-square-2016-uk-100-pound-fine-silver-coin/ Those coins also led this this unfortunate situation https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3390519/I-buy-Royal-Mint-commemorative-coins-bulk-credit-card-gain-airmiles-cash-bank-s-refusing-accept-them.html

Oh man, this side reminds me of a now-defunct shock site from the late 90s, only with three robotic arms instead of two human ones. 😆

Those types of gold proofs just don't appeal to me - I think it's the weird salmon pink copper colour! If they added a bit of silver to make it a bit yellower, or just made them 24-karat gold, I think they would look a lot nicer (although I probably still wouldn't buy one!)

Topically, I hadn't realised @LawrenceChard's favourite word was a registered trademark of the royal mint 🤫 https://www.trademarkelite.com/uk/trademark/trademark-detail/UK00003376718/MINTY