Expensive, low range, 2 hour plus charging, batteries scrap after 8 years and cost the car's value to replace, etc. Not to mention exploding battery risk (BYD means Burn Your Driveway)...
Why would you buy an EV if you really thought about it? I will keep my 25 year old zero electronics, ultra simple and ultra reliable, 4x4 petrol burner thank you!
The closest we can park our cars to our house is 30 yards away. I'm not sure our neighbour would be happy for us to trail three cables across his garden to allow us to charge three cars every night.
The people who come up with these ideas are infinitely stupid.
I'm a beekeeper. I'm sure the local bus company would be delighted if I took a hive of bees on the bus when moving them from one Apiary to another. Or lovely sticky supers full of honey to be extracted. 🤣
Every conspiracy theory is proven to be true eventually.
The government believes that 80% of people will believe everything they’re told so only 20 percent of people will ask questions..
The people who ask questions are the conspiracy theorist and the 80% percent of people are the ones who laugh at conspiracy theories.
Perhaps the reality is that people who have no idea what they’re talking about. Should listen a bit more to the people who think ,study. And understand how and why governments tell a pack of lies.
This is an example of the utter failure and hypocrisy of the 2030 agenda. Children in poor countries use their bare hands to extract minerals for EV batteries, coal is burned to charge them, studies have shown that EV’s have an absorbent amount of tire wear and tear and don’t remain operational in extreme weather. All in all, this a total scam. Don’t get me started on the rape of the natural world that is evident every time you see a wind or solar monstrosity. The landfills are already filling up with spent turbine blades and solar panels.
Forced to use deteriorating public transport... The push to get us out of our cars doesn't seem to be associated with any push to improve public transport or cycling facilities.
Under our current misogynistic culture where women do most of the unpaid labour to maintain capitalism the drive to get us onto public transport massively impacts on women. Women are likely to do multiple errands on one journey, what is called the trip chain, and take other people with them (children, old people). Public transport use increases time in the trip chain or derail it so that errands must be disagragated, meaning more work for women usually in what is laughable called their leisure time.
I used to commute from a station 10 miles away in the next county, which meant I had to drive and park. The first bus to get me to the station didn’t arrive until 1.5 hours AFTER my train left…
Quite so. NE Somerset very similar, though Frome has trains to London. I recall when Padstow station was still in use; we holidayed at Treyarnon all through the 50s and 60s, and the old man would take the train back to Macclesfield to check all was well at the mill he ran.
The legal status quo will adapt into reality, by then. Maybe data centers will compete for energy. Maybe. But I would like to ask you why do you approach EV VS ICE cars, when transportation of people and goods by land, goes much beyond that.
Until range is 1000 miles, charging time is 1 minute, cost of the car is the same as an ICE vehicle, batteries are £100, resale value is reasonable, and there are as many charging stations as there are petrol and diesel pumps, an EV is not under consideration.
Expensive, low range, 2 hour plus charging, batteries scrap after 8 years and cost the car's value to replace, etc. Not to mention exploding battery risk (BYD means Burn Your Driveway)...
Why would you buy an EV if you really thought about it? I will keep my 25 year old zero electronics, ultra simple and ultra reliable, 4x4 petrol burner thank you!
The closest we can park our cars to our house is 30 yards away. I'm not sure our neighbour would be happy for us to trail three cables across his garden to allow us to charge three cars every night.
The people who come up with these ideas are infinitely stupid.
I'm a beekeeper. I'm sure the local bus company would be delighted if I took a hive of bees on the bus when moving them from one Apiary to another. Or lovely sticky supers full of honey to be extracted. 🤣
Every conspiracy theory is proven to be true eventually.
The government believes that 80% of people will believe everything they’re told so only 20 percent of people will ask questions..
The people who ask questions are the conspiracy theorist and the 80% percent of people are the ones who laugh at conspiracy theories.
Perhaps the reality is that people who have no idea what they’re talking about. Should listen a bit more to the people who think ,study. And understand how and why governments tell a pack of lies.
A conspiracy theory is usually just a spoiler alert!
They want us banged up in our open air 15 minute prison cities
Thanks Toby, seems governments around the world have put zero thought into this.
The Government and politicians clearly don’t want the public to drive cars. In fact they want to make it as difficult and expensive as possible.
We the people and what is left of the car industry should tell them to go to hell.
This is an example of the utter failure and hypocrisy of the 2030 agenda. Children in poor countries use their bare hands to extract minerals for EV batteries, coal is burned to charge them, studies have shown that EV’s have an absorbent amount of tire wear and tear and don’t remain operational in extreme weather. All in all, this a total scam. Don’t get me started on the rape of the natural world that is evident every time you see a wind or solar monstrosity. The landfills are already filling up with spent turbine blades and solar panels.
I don’t want a load of batteries that could/would/will explode into a fire ball either in my garage or outside my home thank you.
Forced to use deteriorating public transport... The push to get us out of our cars doesn't seem to be associated with any push to improve public transport or cycling facilities.
Under our current misogynistic culture where women do most of the unpaid labour to maintain capitalism the drive to get us onto public transport massively impacts on women. Women are likely to do multiple errands on one journey, what is called the trip chain, and take other people with them (children, old people). Public transport use increases time in the trip chain or derail it so that errands must be disagragated, meaning more work for women usually in what is laughable called their leisure time.
I used to commute from a station 10 miles away in the next county, which meant I had to drive and park. The first bus to get me to the station didn’t arrive until 1.5 hours AFTER my train left…
Lucky you; in deep Somerset, public transport is largely conceptual
And in N Cornwall where there aren't any trains and few buses.
Quite so. NE Somerset very similar, though Frome has trains to London. I recall when Padstow station was still in use; we holidayed at Treyarnon all through the 50s and 60s, and the old man would take the train back to Macclesfield to check all was well at the mill he ran.
And Ed Millepied is rumoured to be the next PM?
Seen the film "Idicracy"? It's a documentary...
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Reality is a bugger, eh?
The legal status quo will adapt into reality, by then. Maybe data centers will compete for energy. Maybe. But I would like to ask you why do you approach EV VS ICE cars, when transportation of people and goods by land, goes much beyond that.
Until range is 1000 miles, charging time is 1 minute, cost of the car is the same as an ICE vehicle, batteries are £100, resale value is reasonable, and there are as many charging stations as there are petrol and diesel pumps, an EV is not under consideration.
The “crash” you’re hearing is inside yer head, dude…
«More than 20% of new cars sold worldwide were electric
Electric car sales topped 17 million worldwide in 2024, rising by more than 25%.https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2#reference-1 Just the additional 3.5 million cars sold in 2024 compared to 2023 outnumber total electric car sales in the whole of 2020.»
I just posted a link to your article on a repost of mine, on the same topic.https://substack.com/@aussiepamela/note/c-210829778?r=1rwyw3