no, they are better known in those circles as: Chelsea TRACTORS - but these "people" themselves, know nothing about farming ( except harvesting taxes )
When the rich and powerful people give up their ocean-from mansions, private jets, Ferraris, yachts, helicopters etc, I'll think about agreeing with Net Zero. If not, they can sod off.
Sadly, it will only be when all crops have been used to make bio fuels instead of food, all trees have been cut down or destroyed by fires, and all rivers and oceans polluted, that people will realise that you can't eat money.
All Britain has done is export our pollution elswhere. We shut our steelworks but we haven't stopped using steel so the pollution to make it is just made elsewhere. Itsvjust smoke and mirrors .
Our net carbon footprint actually went up, closing the last blast furnace means we now have to get the virgin steel all the way from India, so add onto that the diesel of a massive cargo ocean liner...jumping out black smoke all across the high seas...but at least Ed Milipede gets to sing with a ukele virtue signalling as our bills go up and up and up...closing the north sea was an insane policy.
Car manufacturers in UK should tell the government that if they implement their loony £15k fine mandate, then they will close their factories, permanently. That's 198,000 people on the dole. The loonies in the Westminster might then listen.
That's the problem, the loonies in Westminster don't listen. It's only become worse in the last 6 months as the left don't need to listen to anyone as they know they are correct in whatever they say.
One look at the North Sea windfall tax and the resulting withdrawal of International Oil and Gas companies shows that the government doesn't care. When the North Sea collapses, the number of high paid working taxpayers that will be out of work will be saddening. Not only that, but the rest of the country is then reliant on more imported gas to heat homes and power factories, we all saw what happened when Russia and Ukraine went to war.. what could possibly go wrong with this plan...?
The EV sales numbers are complete lies. The system of counting is based on registrations...not actual sales. The claim is that just 30% of car sales were EV's, but in reality it was 11%. In order to avoid the fines for not selling enough EV's, The garages have been registering the cars themselves before they are even sold....they are registered and left sitting on the lot. Just look at the sudden volume of EV's registered in Dec 24...before the year ended, to give the illusion of increased EV car sales. Some of these EV's are '23 models with only 3-17 miles on them. The whole car industry is going to collapse over this sharade!
Many legacy car manufacturers have many months worth of ICE cars they cant sell, unlike Teslas who ship every car they build direct to customers. Legacy Car Manufacturers EV's are collecting dust because they are overpriced bits of junk.
Yes thats correct. Its happened everywhere. China was the first example of this. EV Car makers there took the state subsidies and didn't sell any EV cars. It won't work here. Trump will fix it in the USA. We need a new gov to fix it here in the UK. Liebour gov is unworkable.
@stevehayward1854 In what could be classed as an accelerated experiment.....Hertz showed that they were neither reliable or cheap to run. But now rental companies are ditching them and moving to hybrids. But such facts only bring out the EVangelists who suffer from the sunk cost fallacy....like yourself.😂
@ so the plan is to have all electric cars to help in the goal of net zero so quite a lot If you want to drive EV then that is fine and nobody cares if it suites you. Not sure why you needed to explain that you drive EV however.
@@zitzong People like myself are buying them because they are far better than a ICE car, a Tesla makes every other car on the road seem dumb. I have been driving various EV's for over 7 years and you have been played by the media and the politicians that receive cash from the big oil companies. I am amazed how easily the braindead are fooled. 1 in 5 cars sold in the UK in 2024 was an EV and that was up 21% from the previous year, you went through the smart phone revolution that supposed to fry your brain, now your going through the vehicle revolution, so sad to see how easy it was to brainwash you, if you ahd a few brain cells you could have done your own critical investigation as to the truth
At this exact moment in time (7pm on 8th Jan) wind is providing 6% of our electricity, solar 0% obviously, nuclear 11% and Gas 52%!! The rest is mostly being imported. What a mess we’re going to be in
There was a scene yesterday in Canada where people were queuing round the block to recharge their EVS, cause they had to evacuate the town. There were 24 stations, but the demand was so great they couldn't cope. Not many stations have roofs, so good luck in the rain and snow.
Why would the rain ad snow be a problem, lucky for ICE drivers, seeing as there are a lot less ICE cars now, the queues at petrol stations are shorter. PS I very rarely need a rapid charger, I charge my EV's for free from the Solar Panels on my roof. How much does your ICE fuel cost you 😂
@@beedoox5613 do you think this stevehayward guy is a paid EV Shill? I know Quienton Wilson is a big time Shill and he is well paid by Tesla and the Gov.
my diesel is 20 years old this year. Close to 200,000 miles and still drives like a new car. Built to last, unlike new electric cars. Not that I could afford one any way.
Can you imagine what would happen if everyone had embraced EVs. We would be having endless power outages, especially now we have millibands ridiculous Net Zero push, the whole Country would just collapse!!
The Legacy Car Companies cant sell their EV's because they are over priced junk, whilst Tesla and the Chinese, sell everything they make. Also Legacy Companies cannot sell ICE vehicles either they have nearly a years worth of production, each, stacked up in car parks collecting dust and many of them will go bust soon, like VW laying off staff and shutting factories
I drive as a professional driver for a living. Driven many electric vehicles and frankly personally I'd avoid an electric vehicle at all costs. Wholly impracticable. Period.
@@stevehayward1854 plenty of YT videos of owners explaining how impractical EVs are particularly if you travel many miles a day. Fine if you tootle about locally and you have the pleasure of having a charger point at your home. I would like to know how lots of terrace home streets/ block of flats etc... would be able to charge their cars at home? Cables across pathways etc... If the UK went completely EV our national grid would collapse. As for EVs being green, they are in motion, very ungreen during production and wait for battery gate scandal in many years to come, I won't be surprised.
@@a0r0a7 My Tesla will do 280 miles at motorway speeds and in the time it takes e to vist the toilet grab a coffee and a snack my car has recharged to 80% givining me a further 225 miles before I have to stop again. I dont buy these statements that my ICE car can go 650 miles without stopping, I defy anyone with children in the car to drive for over 9 hours withour stopping. I charge once a week with free fuel from my solar panels, I dont have to service my Teslas and they dont break down as there are very few parts in them unlike the ICE engine/transmission that has thousands of parts that are wearing out continually. best of luck in your choice, but I'm going for the safe modern and much more fun choice. After all a Tesla makes every ICE car seem dumb.
@@a0r0a7 1) You don't need a home charge point. I have run EVs for 7 years by just plugging the things in. 2) Work it out for yourself: Yes if all cars go EV overnight, there is not enough electricity. That wont happen. If all cars in UK go EV we will need approx. 30% more juice than now, which takes us back to the the level we needed in 2005. No problem. 3) The production of anything uses physical resources and energy. EVs are greener after 3-12 months use, depending on grid generation makeup. I quite like our Julia. and I'm sorry she lives in a flat and 'cant charge', but 65% of the country do live somewhere with off street parking and can. Lets sort them out and in the meantime find ways to sort out the people who live in terraces or flats etc. and perhaps stop being so bloody negative.
I drive a Tesla. It just about works for me, and we also have a petrol car. However, due to the inconvenient and exceptionally expensive public charging network, an EV is impractical and very expensive for people who live in apartments and/or regularly drive on longer journeys. Every senior politician I know of is driven around in a diesel car. Hypocrisy?
Yes they are important people the MPs and Cabinet ministers. The rest are just second class citizens. They don't set an example. Look at all the COP delegates and how they travel.
That's a weird comment. As you have both an EV and an ICE car you should know that filling a car and filling an EV at public chargers is almost identical in cost per mile driven. Yes, public charging is expensive. It's just as expensive as buying petrol.
I'm asleep as it charges normally. And when on a road trip away from home it fills as I have a break for a leg stretch/coffee/meal/loo visit. A petrol driver does that too by the way. And when they have finished they get in the car and go to queue to refuel. I waste no time. They do though.
I wonder if the 1100 workers and thousands of subsidiary workers supplying the Vauxhall diesel van plant losing their jobs support net zero? I don't think they will be able to afford an electric car now.
Yeah, not much point bringing somebody on to discuss a topic and then talking over the top of them for the majority of the time. It’s one of the most irritating human traits imaginable.
@@RalfPinkaire-f7w Hmmm technically he is correct, but he misses the point electricity is a source of energy, just like gas, coal and fossil fuels are. Everyone has missed the real point, once every living being is utterly dependent upon a single source of energy (electricity), each and everyone of them can be centrally controlled with threats to their supply, and rationed by a central power at will. We already know smart meters can be used to 'throttle' supply. They're going to extend that threat to every aspect of your existence. Turn you into a proper cowering compliant state controlled drone.
@@teryd5672n …and how much of that is there? Do you even know? Our imports come mostly from France (nuclear) and Norway (Hydro) and a tiny bit from Denmark.
@ imports/exports occur for 2 reasons - to provide system resilience of the European grid networks and as back up (if possible) when wind energy is low in a given area. WRT the latter it usually affects larger areas of Europe and therefore gas (mostly) is called upon as its quick responding . Nuclear is base load and has little agility to make up surplus at short notice, hydro supports Norway’s own base load challenges to prevent black outs there. So I expect as grid demand increases due to Heat pumps, EVs and AI data centres, there will be a lot of firing up gas power to fill the gap until nuclear can be ramped up, but that will take decades.
Battery degradation is the issue with electric cars. As the batteries age they become less efficient with the consequence is that the re sale ( part ex) value of a used ev is poor.
@@michealridgway7607 🤣 This is usual EV Shill propaganda. A few EV cars hitting over 200k doesn't mean all will. Look at the averages. I've spoken to over 15 different taxi drivers all driving hybrids. All have dead batteries. Over 100 to 120k most of the batteries fail. I've seen Telsa fan boys with dead cars after 120k. Shelling out 13 grand for a second hand battery from Telsa.
How come EV sales are growing each year. Next generation batteries will give 1,000,000 miles of service. ICE vehicles average life 1,600 miles. If you don't sell your car it never depreciates!
@@johnsimpson1637 yes yes. I've heard this EV Shill propaganda so many many times. But as an engineer I know this 1 million miles battery will not materialise. It's a pity so many people believe this. EV sales with private buyers are shrinking. They have only sold in the UK due to company car drivers and fleets.
Pursuing a nett zero policy at any cost is ridiculous. By all means reduce carbon dioxide and other damaging emissions but dont expect us to revert back to the dark ages. We do need a realistic energy plan and like it or no it needs to rely heavily on new nuclear power stations.
Sick of these ideologs where were they educated..... Any sane person can see the current evs cannot work..weight...size..cobalt..power requirements...space....financial req..depreciation...repair..new battery costs...investment of household resources and liquidity. IT JUST DOES NOT ADD UP!!!
COBALT.... oh dear me ! YOU MEAN SOLID STATE LITHIUM ? as for New Battery my car has a 10 year warranty better than most ICE cars and the cost of a NEW ENGINE ?, my battery will last for hundreds of thousands of miles LITERALLY for example many EV's running now with 400,000+ miles on the clock and that's using OLD TECH BATTERIES ! YES EV's have their issues it a good thing ICE cars don't ?🤣
Cobalt Only 41% of cobalt mined is used in batteries (and that includes all batteries) the other 59% is used in other industries. So, do you want to do away with alloys, tipped drill bits, some paints and varnishes, pigments , magnets, soaps and many other products? Do you think we should not have: cordless lawnmowers, cordless drills, cordless vacuums, Bluetooth speakers, mobile phones, nail guns, cordless home phones etc. etc. Oh another thing you should research, and not accept the “spoon fed” misinformation; this from the Cobalt Institute. “Cobalt plays a vital role in catalysing the removal of sulphur from oil”. It is used copiously in the refining of petrol and diesel. Weight. You mean like the weight of a Range Rover, Mercedes SUV, Mercedes G3, Mercedes Maybach, BMW XM, BMW X7 etc. etc. Depreciation. 9 of the 10 fastest depreciating cars of 2023/ 024 were ICE cars! New battery. It has been proven that batteries will last the lifetime of the car and certainly more than the lifespan of the average car.(14 years in U.K. when scrapped) Repairs. Data PROVES that EVs are far less likely to be written off compared to ICE cars. It does “add up”. The only thing which doesn’t is you and your fellow 21c Luddites who swallow the anti EV, clickbait grifters on YT and the MSM in the thrall of big oil conglomerates and legacy auto manufacturers.
Nobody keeping up with “the mac masters” trials and tribulations with not being able to charge his Porches ev on or next to his/neighbours house because they informed him it could catch fire while charging. This has led to his car insurance tripling and an issue with his house insurance also. Not heard of this? No, general public not aware🤦
@@stevehayward1854 Why is that a load of rubbish??? You can find it on his own videos. He even showed the letter from Porsche telling him not to park near his home due to fire risk.!!!
There was almost no renewable energy from wind or solar 15 years, the growth in renewables has been incredible and will grow enormously over the next 15 years.
I see the Road Tax exemptions on EVs are now being removed, and the rate will be based on the RRP of the car, not the actual price someone pays. Over 40K will be £600 per year. Electricity going up as well.
I’m neither for or against EV’s. In my cul de sac there are 16 houses. Currently 8 out of 16 have EV’s. About half have been preowned. My neighbour last week got a 74 plate MG4. Looking in Autotrader you can get a big battery version with delivery miles for £25-26K. This is a similar price to my last ICE car. I do sympathise with people who live in flats. They should be allowed to drive what the wish, the mandate is too severe. Also we are being ripped off with public charging. The cheapest I can get locally is 75p/kwh. A very good RUclipsr is currently driving his Kia Niro from Orkney to the south of Spain for a holiday. He has been able to get charges at 26-31p/kwh while travelling through France using the Tesla membership scheme.
Here in Seattle, the city installed two neighborhood charging stations a year or so ago. The good news is that there is never a need to wait to use them. The bad news is that the charging cables are always cut and removed.
I have an EV, it's an absolute pleasure to drive, range is not an issue, most of the time we plug into our standard home power point, the cost of electricity per kilometre of EV is about a third of the cost of petrol.
That is the problem for many. If you are able to plug in at home and do not have milage issues the its a no brainer because its cheaper. But for those who do have longer journeys and cannot charge at home then they just have to avoid.
Net zero = 15min city's via travel range . Oh. no ownership just book yourself a selfdrive ev small bus space though Uber. Not enough resources for everyone to have EV. Not enough Electric for everyone to have an EV. Not enough charging points for an EV for everyone due to space. Let that sink in.. only if your rich will you have an EV. Jaguars commercial gives the last comment away. I might be wrong but I think this is the plan....
I've been driving an electric car for 3 years, in fact I've just got my second one, I don't charge at home and rely on public chargers. I use the cheaper fast chargers rather than the expensive rapid chargers, only using those on my annual holiday road trip. As for chargers being hard to find and lots being out of order, in my EV ownership over the last 3 years I have never had to queue to charge, I only on one occasion found a charger not working and that was in the Scottish Highlands. The running cost savings were enormous compared to my previous petrol car helped by the fact that there are still free public chargers around which are easy enough to find by using one of the numerous EV charging apps. In 3 years my fuelling costs per mile worked out at 4.5p my last petrol car was 17p, zero excise duty and cheaper servicing give further savings. Yes buying an EV brand new is expensive but prices are coming down and will come down even more in the future. I also agree that EVs in the UK aren't going to have any effect on climate change globally but they will have a very beneficial effect on air quality which is perhaps even more important, personally I would never go back to an ICE car, my EV is 8 years old, the battery still give over 90% of its range when new and it still has 100% of its performance, so sorry that your channel is so anti EV biased.
I was in a service station on the M5 just after new year and there was queue of about 10-15 cars all waiting to get on the 30-40 charger points - all paying 80p KWh
Some days last month all the thousands of wind turbines in the country were only producing 6% of demand. That was less than all the electricity supplied by sub sea cables from the Continent.
What about the EV owners in the flooded areas with the electric cut off at the moment. What about the EV owners stuck up north in the snow worried they will run out of charge because they are heating their vehicles. The potential of damaged batteries due to the flood water going off later when points have rusted and they short. So a load more charging points which cost a fortune on public areas.
There's a guy on RUclips who has a Porsche he had letter saying it was at risk of fire so he had to have software to monitor it,they tripled his car insurance he had problems getting house insurance if he charged next to his house and his neighbours are looking at legal advice for their house. Great electric cars aren't they.
The best way to empty the roads is to force drivers to go electric. Fuel will be very expensive come April 2030 so the smug rich and MPs will have the roads to themselves.
WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS THEIR ALL IN FIELDS IN CHINA AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT HAVE BEEN BOUGHT BY COMPANY'S THAT'S ALL 100 OF THEM THE REST ARE BOUGHT BY CAR DEALERS REGISTERED AND THEN SENT TO AUCTION SO THEY MEET THEIR QUOTA'S FOR GOD SAKE ARE THE SHEEP REALLY FALLING FOR THIS TRICK ???PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME HOPE FOR MY KIDS AND GRAND KIDS SAKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is room for both as the transition takes place but forcing people into a vehicle they don’t want is suicide, as a pensioner who drives on Long journeys for my lifestyle of 200 miles plus, I like to get the journey done and relax at my destination and the the same on the way home, no range anxiety fact no EV can do that journey without a couple of hours to charge up, so why not let us make the change our way. No matter how many EV’s we have it will make no difference to Global warming or carbon in the atmosphere here in the uk!
I feel your pain in the UK but you are not alone, over here in Australia we have the Federal Minister for Energy Chris (Blackout) Bowen forging ahead on this dream of net zero. The Government have pledged to close down all the coal fired power plants in Australia. Fortunately our chances of freezing to death are minimal but the elderly and frail could possibly die from heat exhaustion. At present we are only at the start of the hot season and the Government in some States are restricting the use of air conditioners and washing machines. It is mandatory for all new housing to have solar and other energy saving devices. The Federal Government has been handing out grants to have solar installed and the energy suppliers were paying a decent rebate (around 12 c /kw) but the energy companies are allegedly losing money and want to charge customers who put power into the grid ? Electric vehicles are a disaster for most people due to the large distances travelled by the population. A big joke is if you try to drive from Sydney to Perth and you stop at the Nullarbor roadhouse all its power is derived from diesel generation.
I have an EV and I think it is brilliant, I wouldn't go back to ICE. However I don't think people should push EVs or dis ICE cars. We should be allowed to decide what we want to drive without any pressure and EVs will find their own level of take up. Freedom of choice is key.
Plenty EVSE's near me. However they are prohibitively expensive. I can charge at home, which I do, but my electricity is almost 4 times the 7p quoted because some of us can't change suppliers.
Yet again, J H-B prefers the sound of her own voice to that of her guests. For gawd's sake, give it a rest and let them at least finish what they're saying in attempting to answer your questions!
Statistics that EV evangelists never mention (easily searchable). I’ve 90% of people who own or drive an EV also own, or have access to a ICE vehicle. Second, 30% of public chargers are always out of service. Most EV sales are fleet sales (BIK reasons). Private sales have plummeted.
It is obvious that neither Julia Hartley-Brewer nor Ross Clark know much about electricity supply in the UK. Most of it is imported from France, Norway and Denmark. It is often exported to Belgium at the same time as it is imported from, for example, Norway. The reason electricity is imported from, for example, Norway and Denmark is because it is much cheaper there than in the UK. To complain about the import of cheap electricity is madness
Ummm anyone gonna ask about the increased weight of EVs and the subsequent greater impact they have on road surfaces. If your EV is doing more wear and tear to the road surface you should be paying a commensurate amount more road tax. So if an EV weighs 4 times as much as an ICE vehicle, you should be paying 4 * as much.
Hey Julie I have saved a fortune in my car operating costs by running two EV’s for nearly 5 years now. I home charge and use solar and have battery storage. The mini has cost £300 to maintain since April 2020, and the Tesla has cost £0 over the last 4 years. Depreciation does not matter if you are not selling and they emit zero pollutants out of the tail pipe.
You are wasting your time commenting on this site. It's full of people who require fossil fuel to continue to provide a living. Most people don't care what a car has under the bonnet. EV works for most folk
@ hi Mr Hunt, as I mentioned depreciation is not an issue as I am not selling either of the two vehicles, they have 20 years or more life in them. The solar / battery system has 3 more years and it will be paid off. I am enjoying only paying £600 for electricity per annum, which includes running the EV’s for 20,000 miles per annum. It’s saving me a fortune on monthly outgoings.
If you only use gas power now and again it must necessarily increase the price of power produced by gas since all fixed costs need to be re-couped over lower production hours.
With the best will Julia I don't get your RELIABILITY comment in your first few words, are petrol or diesel cars RELIABILITY described by their access to FUEL ? Of course not, SILLY COMMENT !
If there is a charge point that has say 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, how quickly does an 1 average car to charge? 1-4 average csrs to chsrge at tge same time? 1-6 average cars to charge at same time? 1-10 Av. Cars to charge at the sNe time?
its not about EV cars and getting people to change over --- its about getting people out of cars full stop and driving GDP ie buy new throw away anything that is 3 years old, dont repair, service and maintain just buy buy buy .
UK has already reached Net Zero. Carbon Dioxide is 0.04% of the Atmosphere. It is a Trace gas. 99.96% of the Atmosphere is NOT CO2. 3% of that 0.04% is manmade The UK produces less than 1% of the 3% of 0.04%. That's 0.000012% Net Zero = 0.000000%
The people calling the shots, are being driven around in range rovers.
And it was the people who voted them in.
no, they are better known in those circles as: Chelsea TRACTORS - but these "people" themselves, know nothing about farming ( except harvesting taxes )
And not the electric versions either.
Because it all about money
When the rich and powerful people give up their ocean-from mansions, private jets, Ferraris, yachts, helicopters etc, I'll think about agreeing with Net Zero.
If not, they can sod off.
How about...when the well informed banks stop giving 20 year Mortgages on London, river side property.
@@escapetheratracenow9883 N Z is scam of the 21st century
Sadly, it will only be when all crops have been used to make bio fuels instead of food, all trees have been cut down or destroyed by fires, and all rivers and oceans polluted, that people will realise that you can't eat money.
Governments fall, if only people would stop voting them into power.
The level of incompetence would be funny if energy wasn't of such fundamental importance to us
All Britain has done is export our pollution elswhere. We shut our steelworks but we haven't stopped using steel so the pollution to make it is just made elsewhere. Itsvjust smoke and mirrors .
Our net carbon footprint actually went up, closing the last blast furnace means we now have to get the virgin steel all the way from India, so add onto that the diesel of a massive cargo ocean liner...jumping out black smoke all across the high seas...but at least Ed Milipede gets to sing with a ukele virtue signalling as our bills go up and up and up...closing the north sea was an insane policy.
Car manufacturers in UK should tell the government that if they implement their loony £15k fine mandate, then they will close their factories, permanently. That's 198,000 people on the dole. The loonies in the Westminster might then listen.
I thought that myself. Our government is holding us to ransom.
Don't bet on it, their bubble is puncture=proof.
I think closing the factories permanently is what they intend.
That's the problem, the loonies in Westminster don't listen. It's only become worse in the last 6 months as the left don't need to listen to anyone as they know they are correct in whatever they say.
One look at the North Sea windfall tax and the resulting withdrawal of International Oil and Gas companies shows that the government doesn't care.
When the North Sea collapses, the number of high paid working taxpayers that will be out of work will be saddening. Not only that, but the rest of the country is then reliant on more imported gas to heat homes and power factories, we all saw what happened when Russia and Ukraine went to war.. what could possibly go wrong with this plan...?
The EV sales numbers are complete lies. The system of counting is based on registrations...not actual sales. The claim is that just 30% of car sales were EV's, but in reality it was 11%. In order to avoid the fines for not selling enough EV's, The garages have been registering the cars themselves before they are even sold....they are registered and left sitting on the lot. Just look at the sudden volume of EV's registered in Dec 24...before the year ended, to give the illusion of increased EV car sales. Some of these EV's are '23 models with only 3-17 miles on them. The whole car industry is going to collapse over this sharade!
Many legacy car manufacturers have many months worth of ICE cars they cant sell, unlike Teslas who ship every car they build direct to customers.
Legacy Car Manufacturers EV's are collecting dust because they are overpriced bits of junk.
Yes thats correct. Its happened everywhere. China was the first example of this. EV Car makers there took the state subsidies and didn't sell any EV cars. It won't work here. Trump will fix it in the USA. We need a new gov to fix it here in the UK. Liebour gov is unworkable.
@stevehayward1854 In what could be classed as an accelerated experiment.....Hertz showed that they were neither reliable or cheap to run. But now rental companies are ditching them and moving to hybrids. But such facts only bring out the EVangelists who suffer from the sunk cost fallacy....like yourself.😂
@@stevehayward1854 That's because they are not allowed to sell th ICE cars. Teslas go to companies who get massive reductions.
Net zero is basically pie in the sky
Net Zero is a crime against humanity.
What has EV's got to do with Net Zero, I drive them because they are far better than unreliable and expensive to run ICE cars
@ so the plan is to have all electric cars to help in the goal of net zero so quite a lot
If you want to drive EV then that is fine and nobody cares if it suites you. Not sure why you needed to explain that you drive EV however.
@@zitzongtypical EV driver.
@@zitzong People like myself are buying them because they are far better than a ICE car, a Tesla makes every other car on the road seem dumb.
I have been driving various EV's for over 7 years and you have been played by the media and the politicians that receive cash from the big oil companies. I am amazed how easily the braindead are fooled. 1 in 5 cars sold in the UK in 2024 was an EV and that was up 21% from the previous year, you went through the smart phone revolution that supposed to fry your brain, now your going through the vehicle revolution, so sad to see how easy it was to brainwash you, if you ahd a few brain cells you could have done your own critical investigation as to the truth
At this exact moment in time (7pm on 8th Jan) wind is providing 6% of our electricity, solar 0% obviously, nuclear 11% and Gas 52%!! The rest is mostly being imported. What a mess we’re going to be in
Far right and proud.
So proud you've never told anyone except under an anonymous account on an obscure RUclips video. Your mum must be so proud!
@@brentmeistergeneral1054keep listening to Ed Miliband telling you how to live from a private jet 🛩️ 👏🏻
@@David-q9g5i strange post. I am sure you saw the purpose of it. But nobody else does.
There was a scene yesterday in Canada where people were queuing round the block to recharge their EVS, cause they had to evacuate the town. There were 24 stations, but the demand was so great they couldn't cope. Not many stations have roofs, so good luck in the rain and snow.
This sounds like BS to me. Do you have any clips or links?
Why would the rain ad snow be a problem, lucky for ICE drivers, seeing as there are a lot less ICE cars now, the queues at petrol stations are shorter.
PS I very rarely need a rapid charger, I charge my EV's for free from the Solar Panels on my roof. How much does your ICE fuel cost you 😂
@@jeff-m8o I wouldn't be concerned; Steve is almost certainly one of those AI bots put up to antagonise everyone.
@@beedoox5613 do you think this stevehayward guy is a paid EV Shill?
I know Quienton Wilson is a big time Shill and he is well paid by Tesla and the Gov.
Town in Sweden 300 metre long queue at charging station.
I'm going to keep my diesel until it falls apart
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If you buy new diesel in 2030 it should see you out.. I am sure by 2050 it will be a collectors item and worth more than purchase price..
@@caterthun4853 Yes, if they are still being made
my diesel is 20 years old this year. Close to 200,000 miles and still drives like a new car. Built to last, unlike new electric cars. Not that I could afford one any way.
Can you imagine what would happen if everyone had embraced EVs. We would be having endless power outages, especially now we have millibands ridiculous Net Zero push, the whole Country would just collapse!!
John pettigrew, ceo if National Grid disagrees ....more than ample capact, doesnt have any concerns at all!
No we wouldn't
@@David-bl1bt😂 complete BS
I smell shioiiikittyeee
@@David-q9g5iin your nind maybe
Dealers have registered lots of EVs but not actually sold them. They just sit in their showrooms or parks.
The Legacy Car Companies cant sell their EV's because they are over priced junk, whilst Tesla and the Chinese, sell everything they make.
Also Legacy Companies cannot sell ICE vehicles either they have nearly a years worth of production, each, stacked up in car parks collecting dust and many of them will go bust soon, like VW laying off staff and shutting factories
They can only do that for so long, after a few six month registrations they will have thousands of cars they cannot shift.
@@stevetodd7030 They already have thousands they cant shift
Complete 🐂 💩
@@stevehayward1854 That must really piss the dealers off as there is no money coming in.
Don’t know why she had a guest! He couldn’t get a word in.
She is a bit of a motormouth!!!
I drive as a professional driver for a living. Driven many electric vehicles and frankly personally I'd avoid an electric vehicle at all costs. Wholly impracticable. Period.
Obviously you havent driven an EV at all
@@stevehayward1854 plenty of YT videos of owners explaining how impractical EVs are particularly if you travel many miles a day. Fine if you tootle about locally and you have the pleasure of having a charger point at your home. I would like to know how lots of terrace home streets/ block of flats etc... would be able to charge their cars at home? Cables across pathways etc... If the UK went completely EV our national grid would collapse. As for EVs being green, they are in motion, very ungreen during production and wait for battery gate scandal in many years to come, I won't be surprised.
@@a0r0a7 My Tesla will do 280 miles at motorway speeds and in the time it takes e to vist the toilet grab a coffee and a snack my car has recharged to 80% givining me a further 225 miles before I have to stop again. I dont buy these statements that my ICE car can go 650 miles without stopping, I defy anyone with children in the car to drive for over 9 hours withour stopping. I charge once a week with free fuel from my solar panels, I dont have to service my Teslas and they dont break down as there are very few parts in them unlike the ICE engine/transmission that has thousands of parts that are wearing out continually. best of luck in your choice, but I'm going for the safe modern and much more fun choice. After all a Tesla makes every ICE car seem dumb.
@@stevehayward1854ignored some obvious facts there Steve. Home charge point, National grid and production of EVs not green.
@@a0r0a7 1) You don't need a home charge point. I have run EVs for 7 years by just plugging the things in.
2) Work it out for yourself: Yes if all cars go EV overnight, there is not enough electricity. That wont happen. If all cars in UK go EV we will need approx. 30% more juice than now, which takes us back to the the level we needed in 2005. No problem.
3) The production of anything uses physical resources and energy. EVs are greener after 3-12 months use, depending on grid generation makeup.
I quite like our Julia. and I'm sorry she lives in a flat and 'cant charge', but 65% of the country do live somewhere with off street parking and can. Lets sort them out and in the meantime find ways to sort out the people who live in terraces or flats etc. and perhaps stop being so bloody negative.
I drive a Tesla. It just about works for me, and we also have a petrol car. However, due to the inconvenient and exceptionally expensive public charging network, an EV is impractical and very expensive for people who live in apartments and/or regularly drive on longer journeys. Every senior politician I know of is driven around in a diesel car. Hypocrisy?
Yes they are important people the MPs and Cabinet ministers. The rest are just second class citizens. They don't set an example. Look at all the COP delegates and how they travel.
Thank you for your honesty.
I would rather that, as if the government buys all EV, we're the ones paying for it.
That's a weird comment. As you have both an EV and an ICE car you should know that filling a car and filling an EV at public chargers is almost identical in cost per mile driven. Yes, public charging is expensive. It's just as expensive as buying petrol.
@@Hitstirrer
It's not though, public EV charging per mile is more expensive than Ice.
Who in their right mind wants to spend 45 minutes of their life fuelling the car when 4 minutes will do it.
It takes 10 seconds to plug
My car in thek I walk away
I'm asleep as it charges normally. And when on a road trip away from home it fills as I have a break for a leg stretch/coffee/meal/loo visit. A petrol driver does that too by the way. And when they have finished they get in the car and go to queue to refuel. I waste no time. They do though.
I wonder if the 1100 workers and thousands of subsidiary workers supplying the Vauxhall diesel van plant losing their jobs support net zero? I don't think they will be able to afford an electric car now.
Poor guy couldnt get a bloody word in edgeways
Yeah, not much point bringing somebody on to discuss a topic and then talking over the top of them for the majority of the time. It’s one of the most irritating human traits imaginable.
Stop interrupting Julia.
She's a boot
A lifetime habit can't be stopped.
@ a gag would do it
Electricity is not energy.
It is a means of transmitting energy.
Wrong. Electricity IS energy.
@@RalfPinkaire-f7w Hmmm technically he is correct, but he misses the point electricity is a source of energy, just like gas, coal and fossil fuels are.
Everyone has missed the real point, once every living being is utterly dependent upon a single source of energy (electricity), each and everyone of them can be centrally controlled with threats to their supply, and rationed by a central power at will. We already know smart meters can be used to 'throttle' supply. They're going to extend that threat to every aspect of your existence. Turn you into a proper cowering compliant state controlled drone.
Probably better to consider it as Exergy.
You are completely correct. Electricity generation only accounts for about 25% of the total energy consumption of the UK.
importing coal on ships too!!!!!!!
What would this coal be used for?
@@robdavies6682
Heating stuff. Plenty of homes in the countryside still rely on coal fires.
@ our power stations!!!
@@alanreynolds2125it obviously escaped your notice that the last power station in the UK ceased operation in Sept last year.
Coal powered that is
You couldn’t make it up. Importing coal fired electricity and LNG gas shipped from the US which has been fracked instead of fracking our own.
The UK has closed it's last coal fired power station in September. Where have you been living?
@imported coal fired electricity?!
@@teryd5672n …and how much of that is there? Do you even know? Our imports come mostly from France (nuclear) and Norway (Hydro) and a tiny bit from Denmark.
@ imports/exports occur for 2 reasons - to provide system resilience of the European grid networks and as back up (if possible) when wind energy is low in a given area. WRT the latter it usually affects larger areas of Europe and therefore gas (mostly) is called upon as its quick responding . Nuclear is base load and has little agility to make up surplus at short notice, hydro supports Norway’s own base load challenges to prevent black outs there. So I expect as grid demand increases due to Heat pumps, EVs and AI data centres, there will be a lot of firing up gas power to fill the gap until nuclear can be ramped up, but that will take decades.
I don’t disagree. I just don’t see where the coal comes into it.
Battery degradation is the issue with electric cars. As the batteries age they become less efficient with the consequence is that the re sale ( part ex) value of a used ev is poor.
Not true .Many Teslas about with 350k and 80 percent batteries.the top 10 most depreciating are all ICE cars.
True..I wouldn't touch an EV with an extended barge pole
@@michealridgway7607 🤣 This is usual EV Shill propaganda. A few EV cars hitting over 200k doesn't mean all will. Look at the averages. I've spoken to over 15 different taxi drivers all driving hybrids. All have dead batteries. Over 100 to 120k most of the batteries fail. I've seen Telsa fan boys with dead cars after 120k. Shelling out 13 grand for a second hand battery from Telsa.
How come EV sales are growing each year. Next generation batteries will give 1,000,000 miles of service. ICE vehicles average life 1,600 miles. If you don't sell your car it never depreciates!
@@johnsimpson1637 yes yes. I've heard this EV Shill propaganda so many many times. But as an engineer I know this 1 million miles battery will not materialise. It's a pity so many people believe this. EV sales with private buyers are shrinking. They have only sold in the UK due to company car drivers and fleets.
Pursuing a nett zero policy at any cost is ridiculous. By all means reduce carbon dioxide and other damaging emissions but dont expect us to revert back to the dark ages. We do need a realistic energy plan and like it or no it needs to rely heavily on new nuclear power stations.
Sick of these ideologs where were they educated.....
Any sane person can see the current evs cannot work..weight...size..cobalt..power requirements...space....financial req..depreciation...repair..new battery costs...investment of household resources and liquidity.
IT JUST DOES NOT ADD UP!!!
COBALT.... oh dear me ! YOU MEAN SOLID STATE LITHIUM ? as for New Battery my car has a 10 year warranty better than most ICE cars and the cost of a NEW ENGINE ?, my battery will last for hundreds of thousands of miles LITERALLY for example many EV's running now with 400,000+ miles on the clock and that's using OLD TECH BATTERIES !
YES EV's have their issues it a good thing ICE cars don't ?🤣
But they do work. 1.5 million of them work every day in the UK.
Cobalt
Only 41% of cobalt mined is used in batteries (and that includes all batteries) the other 59% is used in other industries. So, do you want to do away with alloys, tipped drill bits, some paints and varnishes, pigments , magnets, soaps and many other products?
Do you think we should not have: cordless lawnmowers, cordless drills, cordless vacuums, Bluetooth speakers, mobile phones, nail guns, cordless home phones etc. etc.
Oh another thing you should research, and not accept the “spoon fed” misinformation; this from the Cobalt Institute. “Cobalt plays a vital role in catalysing the removal of sulphur from oil”. It is used copiously in the refining of petrol and diesel.
Weight.
You mean like the weight of a Range Rover, Mercedes SUV, Mercedes G3, Mercedes Maybach, BMW XM, BMW X7 etc. etc.
Depreciation.
9 of the 10 fastest depreciating cars of 2023/ 024 were ICE cars!
New battery.
It has been proven that batteries will last the lifetime of the car and certainly more than the lifespan of the average car.(14 years in U.K. when scrapped)
Repairs.
Data PROVES that EVs are far less likely to be written off compared to ICE cars.
It does “add up”. The only thing which doesn’t is you and your fellow 21c Luddites who swallow the anti EV, clickbait grifters on YT and the MSM in the thrall of big oil conglomerates and legacy auto manufacturers.
We have 3 charging points on our local car park, never seen any car charging on them!
Because using a third party charger makes running the car twice as expensive as a diesel car
Ross Clark is spot on as usual. Net zero is about control and making money for a few interested parties
Just check the mining for ONE EV battery. Game over.
Nobody keeping up with “the mac masters” trials and tribulations with not being able to charge his Porches ev on or next to his/neighbours house because they informed him it could catch fire while charging. This has led to his car insurance tripling and an issue with his house insurance also. Not heard of this?
No, general public not aware🤦
What a load of rubbish, did you hear that down the pub from one of your mates ?
Yeah its true. I've seen his troubles. It affects Porsche Taycans built during certain model years.
Is house insurance has been cancelled and he cannot charge his car at home.
I saw that video. And it will get worse as more EVs catch fire and destroy the house that is was feeding off.
@@stevehayward1854 Why is that a load of rubbish??? You can find it on his own videos. He even showed the letter from Porsche telling him not to park near his home due to fire risk.!!!
You will own norhing and be happy WEF style.
Absolutely not. No one will be happy. The WEF mo$ons will be the ones unhappy once they are knocked out.
There was almost no renewable energy from wind or solar 15 years, the growth in renewables has been incredible and will grow enormously over the next 15 years.
I don’t think Starmer would drive a Tesla Elon would probably switch it OFF. 🤭
I see the Road Tax exemptions on EVs are now being removed, and the rate will be based on the RRP of the car, not the actual price someone pays. Over 40K will be £600 per year. Electricity going up as well.
All the bribes to get us to buy an EV are now being withdrawn.
The exchequer has to make up the loss in revenue from somewhere.
ONLY GOVERNENT FLEETS
NOT PRIVATE BUYERS
Rubbish. Where are all these government fleets?
Expensive to buy. Expensive to repair. Expensive to charge. Expensive to insure.
And ‘expensive’ depreciation and difficult to sell.
If the EV revolution fails then the government should pay the manufacturers compensation. After all they were forced into producing them.
I’m neither for or against EV’s. In my cul de sac there are 16 houses. Currently 8 out of 16 have EV’s. About half have been preowned. My neighbour last week got a 74 plate MG4. Looking in Autotrader you can get a big battery version with delivery miles for £25-26K. This is a similar price to my last ICE car.
I do sympathise with people who live in flats. They should be allowed to drive what the wish, the mandate is too severe.
Also we are being ripped off with public charging. The cheapest I can get locally is 75p/kwh. A very good RUclipsr is currently driving his Kia Niro from Orkney to the south of Spain for a holiday. He has been able to get charges at 26-31p/kwh while travelling through France using the Tesla membership scheme.
Public charging pricing is ridiculous, they know many can't charge anywhere else so it's a sellers market
Hear Hear.
Here in Seattle, the city installed two neighborhood charging stations a year or so ago.
The good news is that there is never a need to wait to use them.
The bad news is that the charging cables are always cut and removed.
Lack of miles per charge and long charging times is the problem. EV's are crap.
UK, an Island of Coal in a sea of Oil but we import it?
I have an EV, it's an absolute pleasure to drive, range is not an issue, most of the time we plug into our standard home power point, the cost of electricity per kilometre of EV is about a third of the cost of petrol.
"Home" hello! 😂
That is the problem for many. If you are able to plug in at home and do not have milage issues the its a no brainer because its cheaper.
But for those who do have longer journeys and cannot charge at home then they just have to avoid.
Depreciation???
Sounds like the USSR and its tractor production claims.
Unicorns are real, especially if they have a rainbow mane.
Britisher pals, here sunny Japan, regular petrol is the equivalent of Stg.0.85 per litre and diesel is some 20% less than that.
I DO HOPE YOOK IS NOT POLLUTING THE AIR
WHILST HAVING THAT WAR
Net zero = 15min city's via travel range . Oh. no ownership just book yourself a selfdrive ev small bus space though Uber. Not enough resources for everyone to have EV. Not enough Electric for everyone to have an EV. Not enough charging points for an EV for everyone due to space. Let that sink in.. only if your rich will you have an EV. Jaguars commercial gives the last comment away. I might be wrong but I think this is the plan....
I've been driving an electric car for 3 years, in fact I've just got my second one, I don't charge at home and rely on public chargers. I use the cheaper fast chargers rather than the expensive rapid chargers, only using those on my annual holiday road trip. As for chargers being hard to find and lots being out of order, in my EV ownership over the last 3 years I have never had to queue to charge, I only on one occasion found a charger not working and that was in the Scottish Highlands. The running cost savings were enormous compared to my previous petrol car helped by the fact that there are still free public chargers around which are easy enough to find by using one of the numerous EV charging apps. In 3 years my fuelling costs per mile worked out at 4.5p my last petrol car was 17p, zero excise duty and cheaper servicing give further savings. Yes buying an EV brand new is expensive but prices are coming down and will come down even more in the future. I also agree that EVs in the UK aren't going to have any effect on climate change globally but they will have a very beneficial effect on air quality which is perhaps even more important, personally I would never go back to an ICE car, my EV is 8 years old, the battery still give over 90% of its range when new and it still has 100% of its performance, so sorry that your channel is so anti EV biased.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. A complete disgrace
All EVs are the same: A giant battery with a flashy, gimmick-filled toy car built around it.
Miss Hateley Brewer continues to work her best for her oil and gas paymasters
I was in a service station on the M5 just after new year and there was queue of about 10-15 cars all waiting to get on the 30-40 charger points - all paying 80p KWh
kWh
Solar farm just been destroyed by high winds that worked out well
The range is the problem.
I don’t want my care to control my life.
Some days last month all the thousands of wind turbines in the country were only producing 6% of demand. That was less than all the electricity supplied by sub sea cables from the Continent.
Less CO2 = less food = more control
The pro EV advertising is disingenuous to say the least.
The pretence that everything is working to our advantage is laughable.
They are leaving gas power stations live so they can continue to price in gas units not renewables…..
If everyone had a electric car the government would lose millions in fuel tax. This cost will be added to electricity.
It's pointless polishing your EV because it will be worthless by the time you've finished.
Diesel rules and always will
4.5 billion loss in automotive sector from discounts in 2024 thats without the 700million in fines
Unsustainable
Its all by design
What about the EV owners in the flooded areas with the electric cut off at the moment. What about the EV owners stuck up north in the snow worried they will run out of charge because they are heating their vehicles. The potential of damaged batteries due to the flood water going off later when points have rusted and they short. So a load more charging points which cost a fortune on public areas.
There's a guy on RUclips who has a Porsche he had letter saying it was at risk of fire so he had to have software to monitor it,they tripled his car insurance he had problems getting house insurance if he charged next to his house and his neighbours are looking at legal advice for their house.
Great electric cars aren't they.
It isn't a Revolution it's a flop
The best way to empty the roads is to force drivers to go electric. Fuel will be very expensive come April 2030 so the smug rich and MPs will have the roads to themselves.
WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS THEIR ALL IN FIELDS IN CHINA AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT HAVE BEEN BOUGHT BY COMPANY'S THAT'S ALL 100 OF THEM THE REST ARE BOUGHT BY CAR DEALERS REGISTERED AND THEN SENT TO AUCTION SO THEY MEET THEIR QUOTA'S FOR GOD SAKE ARE THE SHEEP REALLY FALLING FOR THIS TRICK ???PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME HOPE FOR MY KIDS AND GRAND KIDS SAKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Most of the wind was actually hot air produced by the climate evangelists.
There is room for both as the transition takes place but forcing people into a vehicle they don’t want is suicide, as a pensioner who drives on Long journeys for my lifestyle of 200 miles plus, I like to get the journey done and relax at my destination and the the same on the way home, no range anxiety fact no EV can do that journey without a couple of hours to charge up, so why not let us make the change our way.
No matter how many EV’s we have it will make no difference to Global warming or carbon in the atmosphere here in the uk!
Dig up the world for batteries.
I feel your pain in the UK but you are not alone, over here in Australia we have the Federal Minister for Energy Chris (Blackout) Bowen forging ahead on this dream of net zero. The Government have pledged to close down all the coal fired power plants in Australia. Fortunately our chances of freezing to death are minimal but the elderly and frail could possibly die from heat exhaustion. At present we are only at the start of the hot season and the Government in some States are restricting the use of air conditioners and washing machines. It is mandatory for all new housing to have solar and other energy saving devices. The Federal Government has been handing out grants to have solar installed and the energy suppliers were paying a decent rebate (around 12 c /kw) but the energy companies are allegedly losing money and want to charge customers who put power into the grid ? Electric vehicles are a disaster for most people due to the large distances travelled by the population. A big joke is if you try to drive from Sydney to Perth and you stop at the Nullarbor roadhouse all its power is derived from diesel generation.
Yeah I love it when the wonderful wind power blows away all the solar panels and tears off the turbine blades.
I have an EV and I think it is brilliant, I wouldn't go back to ICE. However I don't think people should push EVs or dis ICE cars. We should be allowed to decide what we want to drive without any pressure and EVs will find their own level of take up. Freedom of choice is key.
When the goal is you don't have a vehicle and remain within your 15 min city the Journey is seen for what it really is.
Plenty EVSE's near me. However they are prohibitively expensive. I can charge at home, which I do, but my electricity is almost 4 times the 7p quoted because some of us can't change suppliers.
EVs are selling in the UK! I'll say the same as I did back in March 2020! It's all bollocks!
Yet again, J H-B prefers the sound of her own voice to that of her guests. For gawd's sake, give it a rest and let them at least finish what they're saying in attempting to answer your questions!
And how many off-shore wind turbines are actually connected to the grid?? Less than you'd think....
She is right but I wish she let other people talk.
Statistics that EV evangelists never mention (easily searchable). I’ve 90% of people who own or drive an EV also own, or have access to a ICE vehicle.
Second, 30% of public chargers are always out of service.
Most EV sales are fleet sales (BIK reasons). Private sales have plummeted.
Why don’t you let people talk?
Talk about not being able to get a word in edgeways, poor guy. His net contribution was barely above zero
It is obvious that neither Julia Hartley-Brewer nor Ross Clark know much about electricity supply in the UK. Most of it is imported from France, Norway and Denmark. It is often exported to Belgium at the same time as it is imported from, for example, Norway.
The reason electricity is imported from, for example, Norway and Denmark is because it is much cheaper there than in the UK. To complain about the import of cheap electricity is madness
They are a scam.They dont do the mileage they say.,Especially in the cold with the lights on.
Ummm anyone gonna ask about the increased weight of EVs and the subsequent greater impact they have on road surfaces.
If your EV is doing more wear and tear to the road surface you should be paying a commensurate amount more road tax. So if an EV weighs 4 times as much as an ICE vehicle, you should be paying 4 * as much.
3000 billion for a UK net zero grid according to those who manage it, national grid map of substations on limit
Stop butting in Julia.
Hey Julie I have saved a fortune in my car operating costs by running two EV’s for nearly 5 years now. I home charge and use solar and have battery storage. The mini has cost £300 to maintain since April 2020, and the Tesla has cost £0 over the last 4 years. Depreciation does not matter if you are not selling and they emit zero pollutants out of the tail pipe.
"AT HOME" HELLO! 😅
You are wasting your time commenting on this site. It's full of people who require fossil fuel to continue to provide a living. Most people don't care what a car has under the bonnet. EV works for most folk
@caterthun4853
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EVs only work for folks with off street charging. That doesn't include million of people like me!
You forgot to factor in the cost of your solar installation, plus battery storage, oh, & the horrendous depreciation on EVs.
@ hi Mr Hunt, as I mentioned depreciation is not an issue as I am not selling either of the two vehicles, they have 20 years or more life in them. The solar / battery system has 3 more years and it will be paid off. I am enjoying only paying £600 for electricity per annum, which includes running the EV’s for 20,000 miles per annum. It’s saving me a fortune on monthly outgoings.
as soon as he started talking i was like "he's an ev owner"😂😂😂
If you only use gas power now and again it must necessarily increase the price of power produced by gas since all fixed costs need to be re-couped over lower production hours.
Who would want to spend loads of money on a potential fire bomb. Also on a car that wont work when it gets a bit chilly.
With the best will Julia I don't get your RELIABILITY comment in your first few words, are petrol or diesel cars RELIABILITY described by their access to FUEL ? Of course not, SILLY COMMENT !
What lack of chargers, they are everywhere plus 2/3 can charge at home
I bet they cant get the grid connections for the new charging stations.
If there is a charge point that has say 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, how quickly does an
1 average car to charge?
1-4 average csrs to chsrge at tge same time?
1-6 average cars to charge at same time?
1-10 Av. Cars to charge at the sNe time?
You are going to need a hell of a long charging lead if u live in a high rise flat
its not about EV cars and getting people to change over --- its about getting people out of cars full stop and driving GDP ie buy new throw away anything that is 3 years old, dont repair, service and maintain just buy buy buy .
Julie love your show but sometimes you do need to let people have there say,,,,,without butting in
UK has already reached Net Zero.
Carbon Dioxide is 0.04% of the Atmosphere. It is a Trace gas.
99.96% of the Atmosphere is NOT CO2.
3% of that 0.04% is manmade
The UK produces less than 1% of the 3% of 0.04%.
That's 0.000012%
Net Zero = 0.000000%
Musk is very happy taking subventions from UK taxpayers..😂😂😂..he will bleat about grooming gangs to try and cop a few quid more..