Are electric cars the future? Climate Change Committee claims UK not on track for net zero by 2030
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2023
- James Court of the Electric Vehicle Association joins @Nigel_Farage to debate the feasibility of mass electric car adoption, as the Government's Climate Change Committee has said the UK is not on track to achieve net zero by 2030.
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Electric cars are $hit. Limited range, take time to charge and batteries degrade far too fast to make them worth nothing after a few years where a petrol engine can last for years. The point is to make private car ownership a thing of the past. Net zero is net zero for you, not those in charge.
Simply not fit for purpose
Love my Polestar. Just been on a holiday to Cornwall which was 300 miles away and had no issues at all for the whole week. As for battery degradation that’s nonsense my mate has a Nissan leaf that’s 5 years old and 60k miles on the clock and it’s only lost about 5% range.
Is 200+ miles a limited range? How long do you think the batteries last?
Nigel trotted out all the ancient myths and legends. There are 10 times as many Land Rovers and similar huge cars that are the same weight. No mention of those causing potholes and breaking multi-story car parks. Why? Because it doesn't happen. My car has 268 miles range and fills from 20% to 80% in 20 mins in public. At home, I have full range every morning. The battery is guaranteed for 7 years. Is your petrol engine? Almost every day there is a new charging hub opened. Nigel's list of negatives is ten years old. Time to update the knowledge base. And test drive a modern EV. You will be surprised at the difference.
@@gpw203 a lot, however you can pick up a MG which will do similar range from £25k and VW are just about to release a polo/golf sized hatch that starts at £20k. Prices are coming down and starting to be more comparable with regular cars.
if the WEF agents in parliament were serious about the climate scheme.. they would support JCB with their hydrogen engines
and Rolls Royce with their SMR's
👍spot on good sir.
They make it about the cars when its really about the fuel they supply to us giving us no choice but to use it making people trillions in profit, its always about the money and control.
@@criscross572 removing petrol / deasil vehicles will make little difference to over all Co2 levels either
@@criscross572 Yeah their schemes are obvious.. the MP's are WEF.. the UN is WEF.. ESG is WEF.. Wall st is WEF
klaus schwab is a protege of kissinger.. and kissinger visited china in the 1970's
it's obvious the WEF want the gook model for it's global one world utopia
cheap and nasty losers would want cheap and nasty communism
Where does the Hydrogen come from...??
Currently electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines are all extremely unethical.
I'll add unreliable and unrealistic to what you've put too.
You can't recycle the batteries and recycling the solar panels cost more than making them.
Wind turbines have a very short life. They also kill millions of birds.
Indeed, but also very lucrative tho hey, which is why our governments won't give up on it, plus they only want the rich to have them, as the price is ridiculous, they want poor people to use a unreliable bus service, problem is there's more poor in Britain than rich, so neither is sustainable. All this for a climate change crisis that doesn't exist.
@@philipharris7594Same thing with wind turbines too.
Hard to watch without laughing! If people kept their cars for over 10 years it would lower the carbon output against new cars. My diesel vehicle has got over 210k on the clock and is 15 years old and the garage mechanic says it’ll reach 300k. My carbon footprint is way lower than someone who buys an electric vehicle and changes it every few years.
You sir, are bang on the money! 👍🏻
But diesel vehicles emit pollutants that kill people.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Not modern diesels. Just because they got a bad press after VW's dieselgate today's diesel cars are just as clean as petrol and you get more miles to the gallon.
I've got 22 year old car and a 52 year old one.
It's embarrassing to admit,i'm probably more "greener" than any of these twats boasting about their EVs.
There are several research papers on this subject. Try reading them
EV manufacturers are already going bust!
Who has?
Tesla aren’t
But every car manufacturer build them. The third and fourth best selling cars last year were EV's. 12% of all new cars last year were all electric and 23% were hybrid. EV is the fastest growing type of new car
@stevec6427 That was last year! Look at this year so far!!!!
Especially the private buyer! EVs are no where to be seen 😄😄
Net zero is code for humanity wipeout
Like global warming and the supposed 1973 ice age
They better get ready to defend themselves
It’s de industrialisation of the west.
Going to keep my diesel, thank you so much😂
A man with brains
Yeah, wait till your injectors fail. It's going to be like Mad Max, everyone fighting over fuel and parts.
Only if they allow you too, we will be forced to do what benefits the elites regardless of whether they are ethical or good for the environment.
@@dave788 until Euro 8 emissions come in
Good idea, I like breathing in those very small particles your diesel engine is sending out, my kids can get their inheritance a bit sooner 🙂
Electric cars are definitely not the solution, there is a book coming out called “cobalt red” by Siddharth Kara about the Congo and the exploitation of people to extract 3/4 of the worlds cobalt. Electric cars pre dated the internal combustion engine and didn’t take off for a reason.
The testla cars battery's don't use any cobalt.nor byd cars to my knowledge.most of the cobalt is used in battery's for your cellphone.check it out .
@ala-hc4rx
unfortunately people hear only what they want to striving to save that precious thing in the garage thus making a favour to the Petroleum industry that awaits final bombastic profits before the Fossil fuels full run out.
It’s also used to de-sulpherise fuel so more cobalt used in ICE cars vs LFP batterie cars.
Will there be a book about the absolute destruction caused by oil exploration, refining and distribution.
@@ala-hc4rx Don’t Tesla batteries use Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminium?
@@ObiePaddles in regards to the destruction caused by oil exploitation, I agree but it is a separate point, the slave labour including that of children being used in Congo for Cobalt extraction is the point
Let's get UK reform in quick God help us with these people
After Covid and the Ukraine Invasion every western Government of every political persuasion and also China are dumping their interests in oil and gas and going renewable with lithium battery back up .Net Zero nothing to do with CO2
They did so well in council elections didn't they? 6 seats out of 500 contested
@@stevec6427 it’s was actually worse than that. About 7k councillor seats up for election and Reform won 9 and most of those were in Derby.
This guy is kidding himself....EVs are never going to do it for us !!
This guy is probably funded by either WEF or a global elitist who flies around in their private jets to islands they purchased cheap because of climate change (oceans rising) on profits from investing in the +$1trillion renewables energy markets.
And he prefers the pay package rather than facts and the truth
What horse owners said about new fancy fangled gasoline car contraptions ?
@@jimsouthlondon7061 said no real man ever.
Why not?
So much fudging with the figures, lets be honest, it's all about control and reducing amount of vehicles on the road.
Complete and utter pie in the sky! 😂
I live in the Hebrides and if you have a electric car and it brakes down Calmac will refuse to take that car on the ferry to the mainland to get fixed because of the risk of fire, my car is 30 years old , I rebuilt the engine last,year , its a 4x4 and I bet its carbon footprint during its lifetime is tiny compared to the footprint of building one of these EVs.
Absolutely
@@drstrangelove4998 and your ferry won’t take gas tankers either
I agree with you
Nigel on point as usual. EV by 2030 is a hype job.
The manufactures are on track to phase out petrol and diesel by then. Most have stopped R&D on combustion engines already
Love to see the look on his face when the mechanic tells him that the battery in his 10 year old vehicle is shot and it’s gonna be at least $10,000 smackeroos to replace it.
If they are even available.
Its hard enough to find a competant mechanic who can fix an ice car, imagine whats its going to be like trying to fault find and fix a problem with an electric car.
Goal isn’t to covert vehicle users from ICE to EVs it’s to eliminate all motorised vehicles from mass ownership. This mild mannered guy is likely unconscious of the hikes in unit cost and tax burden that will be imposed from 2030. Old ICE vehicles are going to be like gold dust until the fuel stations are dismantled, probably by act of parliament.
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They have no idea of the venom and backlash they will face when the majority realise they wont be able to drive.
even Elon Musk has seen the light and decided to start making Tesla hydrogen car..... Mmmm wonder why that is
what are you smoking? 🤣
Musk is an engineer, he would not do something so stupid. The cycle efficiency of batteries is around the 80% mark, hydrogen electric about 30% hydrogen combustion about 15%. Musk runs a tight ship, this is not something he would do.
The arguments for BEVs being some way better than ICE vehicles is irrelevant. The country does not have, and never will have the power infrastructure to charge them.
the the best thing i like is , there will be a massive target placed on the national grid and its infrastructure which doesn't take much to disable and completely paralyse all or large sections of the grid. good look charging your ev when that happens 👍
Charge up overnight cheap rate off peak . UK Grid currently only 40% efficient.30% grid transmission losses and 30% off peak heating up and cooling down Redundancy loss . Simple divert that extra steam from the cooling towers into everyone’s EV vehicle battery parked up overnight on their driveways and business depots.
@@jimsouthlondon7061 what about those people living in tower blocks ? they don't have access to cheap tariffs at anytime day or night
@@strider9191 not to plug in a ev outside the car , god your thick
Where is your evidence for this statement?
British roads are awful for potholes, electric cars weigh a hell of a lot more, what will that do to the potholes on the roads?
They are definitely damaging the top surface of many roads....
We will have big holes.
Ever wondered why there are so many potholes and the disrepair of the roads actually point to?
Like all those staircase that have to be. Strengthened because of the fast food NHS obesity crisis
No chance. I’m all in on petrol
Until Euro 8 emissions come in
They are the futures for the elite...the rest better get a bus pass..🤣🤣
Total dreamer!
Where do I start in deconstructing James's points. He evaded the factual questions and answers every time.
We have 4 electric teslas at work, if they try using the 3 charging points all at the same time, it trips the electric mains as it draws too much current and over heats the breaker….our building is 20 years old and was never designed in terms of mains draw/electrical demand to accommodate such a huge drain….it’s a 100 amp breaker and it takes about 15 minutes and it gets up to about 75oC then trips
just think when you run out of juice mid trip ....its a nice expensive tow bill instead of a quick jerry can fix what would happen with either petrol or diesel
I hope that they have fire extinguishers on board? Teslas are renowned for bursting into flame. Even worse, when they do, the electrics go down and the doors and windows cannot be opened.
@@petermitchell6348Extinguisher wouldn’t be much good, the batteries are extremely difficult to put out once they catch fire.
@@ianashton1593 I know, I was just hinting at the hazard :)
@@petermitchell6348 You’d need your own personal fire engine escort from what I’ve seen 😂 Saw an e-bike catch fire close to where I live, shocking how quickly it burst into flames and how intense the fire was.
Our village has regular power cuts they cant even cope with normal domestic demand . So how can they expect us to believe they can cope with the demand of EVs and living in a village we need a reliable form of transport. all the people I know who own an EV only have it as a second car because of its limitations . So if conventional cars are banned people will be stranded.
7 years away. This is a pipe dream. No other country in the world is transitioning that quickly even if they have the money which we don’t.
The bloke talking to Nigel, is spouting a load of twaddle.
Nobody wants to wait 30mins to charge, never mind waiting for a charger to become available.
Petrol is not good either, perhaps we should walk more.
@@localreviewking134 petrol is great! Diesel ain’t bad either 💨💨💨💨
@@captainflipflop8805 I'm not sure if I was clear. Can you help me understand what you think I meant?
30 minute charge, in your dreams. If you have a tiny battery that does 80 miles to a charge, maybe so if you are lucky. Go for a motor with a high capacity battery that might just get you around the 200+ miles per charge, then 1 hour plus to charge,if you can find a charger that works, if you can find one without a couple of cars waiting as well. We the working class are been duped.
Most of the smaller houses in my town are terraced dwellings, some roads stretching up to half a mile, with little chance of parking outside. Are we really going to have thick charging cables strewn all over the pavement for many, many meters?. . “Where there’s a blame there’s a claim” . .
Google Kirbo. Local councils installing gullies with retractable flaps for EV pavement charge cables.
@@jimsouthlondon7061 that will never get past Watford Gap.
Nigel should have leaned on the point of "our" country, not making any difference, to the World Carbon Footprint!!!
The batteries loose 10% a year so when do they become non re saleable - 5/6 years, when they may have 40% capacity left. Resale of evs is difficult in part for this reason
The second hand e-vehicle values are seriously plummeting…which supports your observation.
Considerable costs in recycling/scrapping the aged batteries.
No they don’t!!!!’ Where did you get that nonsense from??????? For a start it’s going to degrade based on how often it’s charged and used. Tesla for example will still have 90% battery left after 100k miles.
@@steveb951 depends on when you charge it, if you let it go down to 50% and charge you've only used 50% of the charge cycles ( over its lifetime), if you charge when its low, your battery wont last as long
Quite right. It has been reported that second-hand prices of used EVs have fallen by 21.2% from January to May this year and as much as one third in just six months - far quicker than equivalent petrol cars.
Rubbish, my Leaf is 4 years old, done 80k and is at 92% capacity. I've saved £8k on fuel too
The damage done to the planet to make electric vehicles 🤷♂️
Utter madness
Presumably, 10X the increase in EVs will result in 10X the charge points and 10X the power provision just to go from 2% to 20%. Never mind anything greater. Going to be difficult to charge your EV when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.
Here's an idea, fit EV's with solarcolecting paint and several small wind turbines, there, fixed the issues, no need for any new infrastructure. You're welcome green puritans/Taliban..
@@strider9191 Buffering is only used for short periods in case of outage. Buffering cannot be used when the power supply is simply not consistent. Be that variations according to season or from day to day. I note you quote power not energy. Energy is how long power will last. You didn't say. What buffering are you proposing to use? Gas, coal, nuclear, inter-connectors or what?
Electric cars are about one thing - control. The systems built into them means that by definition they can be controlled by government - geofenced so you can only drive to certain locations, track you, stopping you "fuelling" them if you end up on a naughty list. Old truly independent cars that can be fuelled independently with privately stored reserves of fuel are being forced off the road as quickly as possible.
Yes Steve , they’ll take your car off you at the same time as they take away your bank account by the thought Police.
Hopefully Net Zero in idiots by 2030
China is going Net Zero they can no longer trust Russian Gas either
Good interview, good to hear both sides. Great to have someone sensible that can have a normal discussion, thats whats been missing around this. Unfortunately it appears EV's have gotten mixed in with the Climate hysteria which I think is now switching a lot of folks off (same thing as happened with the pandemic hysteria). I'm not averse to electric vehicles but they have to at least meet the practicality, comfort, and affordability of my current car, else why would I swap? EV's feels forced (almost mandated with these hard deadlines - remember lockdown mandates? any similarities here do you think? do as your told.....get in your box). I'm going to be naturally sceptical of anything that doesn't sell itself in a free market. I should be wanting one because it's a no brainer and better for my needs. Currently, I aint feelin' it.
Look its just not going to happen. Its complete BS
Toyota no longer pursuing EVs and concentrating on Hydrogen !! Honda has followed. !
don't forget even Elon musk also going to be pursuing a Tesla hydrogen car this yr
Toyota has been fighting big oil for years to be allowed to make an electric car, see "Patent encumbrance of large automotive NiMH batteries" for details.
This so called expert is talking rubbish. I wonder why the number of EVs being sold is decreasing? Perhaps the British public has woken up and decided that they are useless. Poor range, to much stress in finding a working charger, too expensive, and worth nothing when the battery dies after less than 10years. Oh and they have a nasty habit of self destruction. If one goes on fire on a car ferry the death toll will be enormous.
No trade in price , because the depreciation of the battery cannot be assessed, the carbon footprint is a lot higher than a combustion engine , the grid cannot supply the demand for the extra electricity, hence more will have to be produced and not forgetting the poor souls in Africa , to provide on slave labour to mine for the materials
I am amazed how pretty much all the do gooders don't appear to care one iota about the mining in Africa, slave labour in China and what's to be done with old batteries. Talk about Deaf, Dumb & Blind when it suits.
None of this has been thought through, these people are jokers.
@strider9191 delusional, I have lived off grid for 6 years now , batteries do no last as long has manufacturers say they will , depreciation is more rapid , the more you ask off them , and to add , it seems all major car companies are knocking ev on the head , short lived scenario money making scam
The less well off drive 2nd hand cars of which at least 50% are over 8 years old. E cars batteries are only guaranteed for 8 years & cost £2-20,000 to replace!
Renew the battery car back to its original value . Lithium Cells are going sodium high density solid state btw
Your car is designed to last about 10 years BTW, you phone quite a bit less, your mower, also quite a bit less, in fact most of what you buy has a lifespan set by the manufacturer.
BUT my 10 yr old diesel car has a resale value of £8,000. An 8 yr old Tesla has nil value due to cost (£20,000?) of replacing the battery pack
it's not a problem, as us every day folk won't be allowed a car in the new green utopia.
Even if every vehicle was electric by 2030, by 2100 we'll have only reduced the overall temp of the earth by 0.01 degrees. What is the point.
That guy is delusional.
Think on this, when you fill your vehicle up with petrol or diesel, what percentage of the cost goes to government. Would any government give up this huge income.
Good point!
Always booze and ciggies to yet increase tax on!
I have a wife, a mother-in-law, 3 children, 2 dogs, 4 cats, 2 hamsters, 3 rabbits, a guinea pig, a parrot, and a tank full of tropical fish. I have enough aggravation thank you, why the hell would I want an electric car?🙃
Hardly and eco warrior then?
@@GimpSlayerGeneral Electric cars are far from being environmentally friendly, in fact the very opposite, but hey, that's another story🙃
CARRY ON DRILLING, DIGGING, DIESELS ARE HERE FOR A LONG TIME YET.....!!
Even if EVs were to replace ICE engine vehicles, at best it would just be kicking the can down the road in terms of net zero - what next then!!!
I'm begging, let's have more austerity & a beating with sticks for not being on target for 2030 Net Zero
What a perfectly reasonable chat by two perfectly reasonable chaps. Over a perfectly unreasonable problem.
Props to the EV guy for actually remaining amicable and answering the questions. I may not agree with him, but I can respect him unlike all the eco nutters
Electric for city dwelling home chargers. Hydrogen and current ICE for everyone else.
Why on these discussions are internal combustion engines running carbon neural and carbon free fuels never discussed? Many of these fuels can be transported and distributed using existing infrastructure and distribution networks. They get around the refueling time and related range issues and many can be used in existing vehicles with minor low cost modifications so you don’t have to build a new vehicle saving huge amounts of carbon in production and saving huge amounts of waste.
He admitted to speeding he said he drives over 70mph.😂
Synthetic e-fuel is the way to go as the infrastructure is already there and is compatible with current vehicles. Yes, at the moment it is too expensive to manufacture but lets see what happens after 2026 when this fuel will have to be used for F1 cars.
E Fuels 20% ,efficient Hydrogen 50 % efficient ,Lithium battery 95% efficiency.
@@jimsouthlondon7061 Efficiency is just one part of the truth and besides it depends on the source of the energy. Production of BEVs produces 15.3 tons of carbon dioxide whereas ICE produces 10 tons. Anyway, different studies show different figures as some say BEVs are 82% efficient and ICE due to energy being lost to heat are 35% efficient.
Just to comment briefly on the Car Park Issue, whilst the excess weight of Ev's is an obvious concern, don't forget that many such Car Parks are attached to Shopping Centres and Workplaces, enough thought isn't being given to the need to evacuate these places should an EV ignite, nor the accessibility for Emergency Services...
Very good points
the motor industry may well be able to manufacture at that rate, but they can't sell them, so they go bust! Or they take a commercial decision and tell Whitehall/Westminster to bugger off.
why don't they just say they do no not want the peasants to be able to afford to drive
Will never buy an useless (scam) battery car. Petrol only.
When a Ev can go from Portsmouth to Scotland and back to Portsmouth on a single charge. then and only then will a Ev be worthwhile to have.
4 years time 500 mile range £25 K EV on sale in the UK.
EV cars are too expensive, ordinary working people can’t afford them.
I wouldn't trust parliment to sell me shoe laces.
My diesel Golf never did the advertised mpg, no matter how I tried. So what's new there?
This guy is all for electric cars, only because he gets money to push this nonsense.
Nigel said the internet was a fad, he's obviously a visionary 😂
No way will I ever have an electric car. Total crap.
If climate change caused by carbon emissions is for real then zero carbon is not the solution. Considering China, India, Russia and Indonesia couldn't care two hoots about carbon reduction it is simply not going to have any effect whatsoever. In fact the maniacal greens, if anything only make it worse. An engineered response is the only solution, but that seems to contradict Green (watermelon) ideology.
We can't help the self loathing creatures that dominate everything to think of anyone else, ironic really..
Is there any particular reason your reasonable post needed the words "maniacal" and "(watermelon)", it turns a reasonable comment into an emotionally charged one.
@@williamevans4283 Because we are faced with ideological and intolerant zealots.
Never mind cars - diesel HGV's and machinery won't go to electric any time soon so diesel will 'always' be required - which is why I'm keeping my diesel car.
Neither will aircraft, or any military vehicle.
Where does the electricity come from? Fossil fuels. Electric cars also use rare minerals which have a limited supply. Mining those minerals uses equipment powered by fossil fuels, and causes inevitable environmental destruction. Let's leave electric power for our shavers and hair-dryers.
Shouldn't instead the question be "can we go on with oil cars ?"
Yes we can....
70 % of the public including me can't afford a electric car. Also even if I could i won't. This guy doesn't seem to give a toss about the kids who dig it out of the ground. Try going into rural areas and finding a charger. Sorry to tell you this London isn't the only place in the UK. Not that you would know that if you listen to MSM . Maybe electric cars would work for London combined with public transport. I'm always hearing people moaning about public transport in London ie not enough buses. Where i live we get no buses. There are bus stops and bus routes but No actual buses. So F electric vehicles and public transport I'll keep my diesel car .
VW are scaling back production of EVs. So what does that tell you ? They are more trouble than they are worth.
Why not call them what they are - milk floats. And they are not even any good at that.
HELLO JAMES STILL NOTHING SAID ABOUT THE BATTERY WHEN THE CARS AT THE END OF ITS LIFE ! WITH A ENGINE RUN CAR EVERYTHING CAN BE RECYCLED !!
or if they catch alight and it takes 3times the water to extinguish the flames that resemble a blast furnace going off
SPOT ON 👍
EVs don't do well in the winter or when driven fast. Then allow global warning to soar and reduce all speed limits. Easy fix.
Or in hot climates like South-West USA. Batteries have short lives here, and a/c is used year-round apart from a few weeks in winter.
EV are a deliberate attempt to restrict the populace from driving long distance. At present you can drive from London to Singapore. Try doing it in EVs.
I am not buying an ev, I will stick with something that is simple and reliable. Such as a Toyota Landcruiser 4.2td 100 series. They are as reliable as the day is long. And don't catch fire unexpectedly.
What to do with the used >8 years? Where to dispose?
Cant see any EVs ever becoming classics , they wouldn't last long enough
The infrastructure isn't in place for everyone to have an EV, As the guest mentioned he was lucky enough to live in a street that has charging points, Nigel mentioned blocks of flats but yet failed to mention terraced houses which are found in ALL British towns and cities, where are they going to put the charging points for those, sadly the British government is trying to run before it can walk as far as EV are concerned, hybrid vehicles are the way to go till the infrastructure problem is solved.
There were no petrol stations before there were petrol cars, or at least not many. Life moves on, bit by bit.
Nigel needs to get positive about EVs... They are much better than he suggests
Head of the Electric vehicle association.............At 1:01 "People forget we are not trying to ban all electric vehicles"...... Pardon???..... I think he is a litte bit confused! 🤣😂🤣
Create an unexistent problem illusion, and then sell them the solution....brilliant business.
EVs would be ok as second for doing small journeys around town.
Would that to be inline with 2nd house?
@@GimpSlayerGeneral I realise what you are saying, it was to make a point that as a main car it would be as good as a chocolate teapot. My apologies.
Another wonderful and insightful review of EVs... Brought to you by the Nation of Saud Wealth Fund
No ,electric battery powered energy comes from somewhere. Its all about control
Have you seen all these EVs that are catching fire in China and florida USA. They tried to extinguish with a fire extinguisher (as you can't use water) 13 times and it kept reigniting then a breakdown truck came and loaded it on a truck and it started again and they both went up in flames. Before I retired I used to work in most of the car design studios around the world as a contractor.. My impression is that they are poorly engineered and I don't think they have been crash tested, and are a disaster waiting to happen. The standard of education is extremely poor especially in Parliament and the civil service.
Freudian slip there, 'these cars are less reliable in the winter', really, I would never have thought that.
Just wait until you are paying pay mile regardless of what your driving and whatever fuel you use you will still pay a vehicle tax of some sort, better off i think not
we do not have the infrastructure to even have 10 % of these vehicles and certainly wont by 2030 so where are all these vehicles going to be charged up ?
maybe make electric bikes more accessible. 250W motors are a waste of time.
Petrol, petrol, petrol! 🫡
Let’s talk about retrofit and alternative generation such as fuel cell , green hydrogen, etc..
Get yourself a decent diesel and keep hold of it
Just Stop Oil want to stop oil production yet electric cars are made using a lot of plastic to make them lighter. How do we make plastic without oil?. There is also the problem that electric cars are not very recyclable at the end of their life.
Yup, it is complicated, but I think you only make the plastic once, and you can make it from vegetable oil, just costs a bit more.
Just wait till a major manufacturer goes bust because they cant sell their flawed products.
The Greens are SCREAMING at the African Lithium miners to pull their EFFING FINGERS OUT !!!!
i will never buy an ev this insanity has to stop, boycott ev's
What so why do we have an actual net zero owning an affordable car and housing which are out of reach getting absolutely absurd how are the young like myself meant to get ahead in life to have aspirations it starts leading to syndicalism or socialism. Nevermind having a job which affords a life with a family as ordinary folk do not care for climate or rainbow agendas we want to live (think maslow hierachy of needs )
There are a number of videos on RUclips about JCB's development of hydrogen fuelled ICEs. According to JCB batteries just can't cut the mustard when used for HGVs, tractors, construction equipment, etc. The hydrogen would be produced by the electrolysis of water using electricity possibly supplied by small modular reactors. I see no reason why similar technology couldn't be applied to cars. OK, a distribution network for the hydrogen would have to rolled out, but JCB already have a vehicle to transport this fuel, but I've not seen any details of it as yet.
Yep, Toyota also think hydrogen is a better bet than electric and have got their own working engines. It will be interesting to see what the inventors of the most efficient production system in history think of a Dr Evil looking mofo. 🤣🤣
@@jabbadabbajew6035 If these two companies protect their engine designs with multiple patents, it might end up with just two engine manufacturers supplying their products to what will become essentially just car body assemblers.
There is a use case for hydrogen for sure, but you accept about 15% efficiency overall vs battery which is 80%. There are 100% electric 200 ton dumper trucks that never need to be charge, infact they create 10 times more energy than they use. These are special cases where they are moving ore from the top of the hill to the bottom, but illustrates the point, that we need to be selective with our use cases.
@@williamevans4283 The main trouble I see with EVs is that they use large quantities of exotic metals, often mined in countries with appalling safety standards for workers, and little to no standards for the safe disposal of any waste products. I agree with you that it may be horses for courses, but I still believe that hydrogen fuelled ICEs are more likely to be the answer to the replacement of most gasoline and diesel engines for the majority of vehicles. Here in the UK (and Europe) much/most housing are terraces with street parking being the norm. It just isn't possible to run electric cables out of houses and across the pavement/sidewalk to the vehicles.
If anyone is short of cash just do what they do in Detroit strip charging points of that precious copper, soon adds up and its for a good cause.