Is the EV dream OVER? Europe's SPECTACULAR sales crash | MGUY Australia

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

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  • @DianaTownsend-kj5kj
    @DianaTownsend-kj5kj Месяц назад +724

    a crash in sales is a big deal. If people aren’t buying EVs in Europe, one of the most eco-conscious regions in the world, that could mean the demand is drying up. Maybe high costs, lack of charging infrastructure, or range anxiety is finally catching up to the market?

    • @AliciaCrone
      @AliciaCrone Месяц назад +1

      EVs have had a meteoric rise over the past few years, especially with all the government incentives and push toward green energy

    • @NelleHummell
      @NelleHummell Месяц назад

      But the current market is dealing with supply chain issues, inflation, and maybe a saturation point in some regions. I wouldn’t call it a collapse-just a cooling-off period.

    • @ericbergman7546
      @ericbergman7546 Месяц назад +1

      True, the market has been under a lot of pressure, especially with the semiconductor shortage and rising raw material costs. But if demand for EVs continues to slump, wouldn’t that suggest deeper problems?

    • @cherylhills3227
      @cherylhills3227 Месяц назад

      Perhaps, but markets tend to move in cycles. Look at the early days of smartphones there were plenty of ups and downs before they really took off. I think the Ev market will rebound, especially with advancements in battery technology and continued regulatory support. Governments are still pushing for green transitions, and automakers are heavily invested

    • @sebastiaanthijn7982
      @sebastiaanthijn7982 Месяц назад +1

      But what about the financial side of things? If Ev sales drop off too much, wouldn’t that hurt automakers who’ve poured billions into R&D? Investors might start pulling back from Ev stocks, and that could affect the entire industry

  • @paulconnolly4483
    @paulconnolly4483 Месяц назад +686

    We are living in a world where ideology and feelings has become more important than facts.

    • @skylershank9309
      @skylershank9309 Месяц назад +47

      ...and reality

    • @skuggeboy
      @skuggeboy Месяц назад +8

      It's always been like that.

    • @Jchathe
      @Jchathe Месяц назад +8

      So true!

    • @a64738
      @a64738 Месяц назад

      Actually it is still not important but the globalists and 0,1% hyper rich parasite class is using ideology and feelings of all the woke idiots to make themselves even MORE rich and powerful.

    • @Matt123a
      @Matt123a Месяц назад +8

      It the political and media realms, yes.
      In public opinion, absolutely no.

  • @ianjohnson4753
    @ianjohnson4753 Месяц назад +477

    Anything government want and tell us is good, never is.

    • @brianbucklew-g4c
      @brianbucklew-g4c Месяц назад +15

      So Very True
      The Last 100 years

    • @aindriubradleymarshall6226
      @aindriubradleymarshall6226 Месяц назад +6

      🎯

    • @andrewflies9119
      @andrewflies9119 Месяц назад +4

      @@brianbucklew-g4c I agree with that

    • @davids-c1f
      @davids-c1f Месяц назад +18

      Didn't people learn from Covid vaxs ???????????

    • @geoffreybanditt4355
      @geoffreybanditt4355 Месяц назад

      @@davids-c1f People didn't learn from history either. But only dumb people will trust the government. Also covid was only a test run for something much bigger.

  • @lakak4056
    @lakak4056 Месяц назад +190

    Ideology meets Reality.

  • @keithpearson8355
    @keithpearson8355 Месяц назад +243

    Mr Clarkson was spot on we don't want to drive a fridge 😅

    • @leonardgibney2997
      @leonardgibney2997 Месяц назад +5

      Except when it burns.

    • @FredFox-m9v
      @FredFox-m9v Месяц назад

      ​@@leonardgibney2997 or when it is exploded remotely.

    • @psilocybemusashi
      @psilocybemusashi Месяц назад +12

      i never saw a fridge burn for 32 hours so i would rather drive a fridge around than an Ev but that is just my opiniono

    • @roydavis5613
      @roydavis5613 Месяц назад +8

      @keithpearson8355 Glorified milk floats !!

    • @harold6863
      @harold6863 Месяц назад +8

      @@psilocybemusashinor spontaneously combust 😂😂😂

  • @matttravers5764
    @matttravers5764 Месяц назад +187

    Electric era?
    It’s more like the Electric error😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @xperyskop2475
      @xperyskop2475 Месяц назад

      VW sales collapsed but mainly in China as VW don't have cheap reliable electric cars. 60% of cars sold in China is electric right now.

    • @DHW256
      @DHW256 Месяц назад +3

      They refuse to acknowledge the "electric (car) era" ended in 1910. It's not that they don't have a place in the market -- they have since the inception of the market -- they're not practical for the bulk of motorists.

    • @xperyskop2475
      @xperyskop2475 Месяц назад

      @@DHW256 They impractical for some driving crazy distances and spending to much time in their cars if your round trip to work is less than 100miles they perfect ( 200miles if you can charge at work)

  • @Leo-tr7sc
    @Leo-tr7sc Месяц назад +278

    Goal is being achieved. Replace cars with bikes, people with robots, meat with soya, spirit with utility, thinking with following. People are dumb.

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 Месяц назад +27

      You forgot the big one. The one where it always ends: Blood soaked streets and battlefields.

    • @JanKowalski-vj9py
      @JanKowalski-vj9py Месяц назад

      Eko-nazi has always one ultimate goal: fast reduction of Earth's population. In Europe they are trying to use cold - ekonazi wants us to survive the winter without fire.

    • @bikersoncall
      @bikersoncall Месяц назад +14

      20,000 AD ;
      ''They were too dumb to realize that
      the biggest threat to their own extinction
      was themselves.'' - Me (..as a shellfish in the year 20,000 AD.)
      😄

    • @paradiselost9946
      @paradiselost9946 Месяц назад

      @@k.chriscaldwell4141 wait until the puters dont turn on...

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 Месяц назад

      @@k.chriscaldwell4141 When was the last time that happened over BEVs or any other consumer product?

  • @Hope_Boat
    @Hope_Boat Месяц назад +326

    A couple of years ago my son was invited to spend part of his summer holidays at a friend's country house in central France. He had no idea his friend car was electric. The trip turned out to be a nightmare as they struggled to find working charging stations. He was calling me a retrograde before that trip when I used to tell him that EVs cant replace petrol cars. Now I'am his hero again...

    • @reekinronald6776
      @reekinronald6776 Месяц назад +54

      Old people have two superpowers, experience and cynicism.

    • @pisko1
      @pisko1 Месяц назад +4

      It's true for your son's reality, but if your son has driven a Tesla using the Tesla Charging network he would have been probably alright.
      So you are right in your case or situation, but to extrapolate this into some overall truth regarding the EV industry, is false.😊

    • @alexispaterson814
      @alexispaterson814 Месяц назад

      Tesla's are just as useless and as dangerous as the EVs made in The EU and China. The EVs are more damaging to the environment than ICE cars.
      Also the mines are using slave and child labour to extract the minerals needed for the batteries.

    • @Kaesemesser0815
      @Kaesemesser0815 Месяц назад +27

      @@pisko1 No, no he wouldn't. EVs are no option outside the big metropolitan areas.

    • @67ak7632h
      @67ak7632h Месяц назад +30

      ​​​@@pisko1Unless it gets too cold or too hot. I'm sure they wouldn't mind hanging around for hours to charge it, all to save a non- existent climate emergency.

  • @michaelstevens3479
    @michaelstevens3479 Месяц назад +229

    I cannot understand such a huge industry not putting up a fight against being told to spend billions on behalf of others.

    • @VancouverCanucksRock
      @VancouverCanucksRock Месяц назад

      Right, like who TF are these Govts? Human eating Reptoids, FFS? Why are they all so afraid?!

    • @liberty0758
      @liberty0758 Месяц назад +50

      Tells you that a much more powerful figures than owners, CEOs, shareholders and top executives are running the show.

    • @JanKowalski-vj9py
      @JanKowalski-vj9py Месяц назад +35

      Companies are now led by finacial bourgeoisie not by engineers. They have same mindset as Green Khmers from EU. They won't opose the caste they belong to.

    • @ryszard68
      @ryszard68 Месяц назад +23

      Yes it seems totally illogical that they'd go along with policies which will inevitably cause the implosion of their business model. It's like committing commercial hari-kiri.

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад +25

      Those big old lazy companies are full of chicken-shit go-alongs.

  • @davelowe1977
    @davelowe1977 Месяц назад +280

    These zealots are so good at inventing new problems.

    • @pertwee9376
      @pertwee9376 Месяц назад

      Yeah, it's all a part of a co-ordinated world wide attack on society. If you want to build a new world order you have to destroy the old one first.

    • @dafyddroberts6176
      @dafyddroberts6176 Месяц назад +5

      We have 20 mph limit

    • @We-Do-NOT-Consent-303
      @We-Do-NOT-Consent-303 Месяц назад +10

      I could have told this idiot car companies that this will happen 10 years ago😅😅😅

    • @davelowe1977
      @davelowe1977 Месяц назад +5

      @@dafyddroberts6176 that's another good example.

    • @RemusKingOfRome
      @RemusKingOfRome Месяц назад +5

      Zealots, YES ! Time to Out cat Law enforced moralism. Amazing what words will get your post deleted these days.

  • @noelgibson5956
    @noelgibson5956 Месяц назад +83

    VW will go from proud German automaker to an importer of EV's made in China........and expect the public to buy them. At that point, all you should give them is your middle finger.

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад

      That's what I do as an European. For me there's even no such thing as a full electric car. It doesn't deserve to be called a car. A car is by itself more than just a four-wheel vehicle, right ?

  • @douglasb.5601
    @douglasb.5601 Месяц назад +80

    We have a game of Chicken going on between the governments and the people....stay strong people. 👍🏻😎

    • @EwanM11
      @EwanM11 Месяц назад

      Forget it. The Chinese are coming. Just like the Japanese did.

    • @Ziegfried82
      @Ziegfried82 Месяц назад +5

      @@EwanM11 the Japanese sold affordable quality products. The Chinese are selling the lowest priced products minus the quality. Every nation that takes in these Chinese EVs is gonna regret it, the quality control simply isn't there.

  • @Pomdownuder
    @Pomdownuder Месяц назад +49

    Who'd've thunk?
    Certainly not us realists😅😅

  • @jamesdavis8021
    @jamesdavis8021 Месяц назад +78

    Governments should never meddle in private business.Most politicians have no clue what it takes to run a business.

    • @philpearson1714
      @philpearson1714 Месяц назад +6

      The truth is that most politicians couldn't run a whelk stall.

    • @markseehawer3762
      @markseehawer3762 Месяц назад +8

      Most politcians have no clue what it's like to pull on a pair of work boots and put in a day's work either.

    • @JM00-v9c
      @JM00-v9c Месяц назад +1

      100%

    • @cloudrdr
      @cloudrdr Месяц назад +2

      That there is called "FASCISM" ... plain and simple.

    • @billybloggs9667
      @billybloggs9667 Месяц назад +2

      Most politicians have no clue full stop.

  • @nickgood8166
    @nickgood8166 Месяц назад +69

    EVs are an expensive non solution to a non existent problem.

    • @dps615
      @dps615 Месяц назад +1

      So respiratory diseases don't exist you're saying?

    • @nickgood8166
      @nickgood8166 Месяц назад +11

      @@dps615 Congratulations, you win today's Cathy Newman award!

    • @martinbingham-l5m
      @martinbingham-l5m Месяц назад +3

      @@dps615 Neither does hard earned cash either apparently. With one thing and another, I'm on course to save around £1800 in my first year as EV owner. And that's whilst driving a Leaf+ doing 0-60 in under 8 secs. My only regret is not having done this years ago.

    • @martinbingham-l5m
      @martinbingham-l5m Месяц назад

      @@nickgood8166 I don't think you meant to ceed his point here. But you just did. As, ordinarily at least, people resort to sarcasm and name calling when they've run out of arguments to support the position they wish was true. In this case you've not even begun the discussion. You've clearly got issues with EV, so take your time and articulate them. EVs are by no means perfect yet, its your world as much as it is mine, so don't let anti EV rhetoric trigger you. Take some time and write out the issues you have. You may very well have a real issue that needs correcting. New EVs for example are very expensive. Mine on the other hand only £5000 second hand. But initial cost is not affordable. And the Li-ion batteries do make a mess of environment. But now EV fuelled research has discovered, in theory at least, that graphene can be used. So one day soon, the batteries of the future could be made from the carbon captured at power stations.
      My friend, please don't let anti EV rhetoric force you into a corner where you loose out on all the savings to be had. Do yourself a massive favour. Sit down with a spread sheet, and do the maths. Using the real numbers for yourself, not the ridiculous 120,000 miles per year scenario. If you're not mathematically inclined then send me the numbers. I'm a former nuclear physicist/programmer for the Atomic Energy Authority in the UK. I became chronically ill over a decade ago now. So I'll happily do the maths. It might well be that EVs won't work for you personally. But I'm currently unable to work, can barely walk any distance etc. So, saving someone else money would be a break from my own situation. So please, do yourself a favour and do the maths, don't loose out because triggering anti EV rhetoric made you emotional.
      Stay well

    • @martinbingham-l5m
      @martinbingham-l5m Месяц назад +1

      @@dps615 GOOD POINT!!! This is the problem though. Anti EV rhetoric is designed to triggering people into emotional reactions. It works for the channel owners very well. By constantly triggering their viewerships, they ensure they keep coming back for reassurance they're making the right decision, for another fix of EV doubting. They're unable to see that whilst it's costing them personally £500+ a year to keep listening to anti EV ideos. It's not a sacrifice the channel owners suffer alongside of them. There's a lot of money in you yube advertising to be made, in keeping viewers constantly triggered. This channel owner isn't one of them however. As he is at least allowing contrary views like ours to be posted. So keep commenting on the none truths my friend.

  • @leemace9638
    @leemace9638 Месяц назад +93

    Germany is on its knees economically they cannot afford their car manufacturers to go bust 😮

    • @stevengriffin7873
      @stevengriffin7873 Месяц назад +9

      That may well be so but they will do exactly that,then expect the tax payers to bail them out.

    • @harold6863
      @harold6863 Месяц назад +27

      Maybe if they hadn’t imported half the third world countries they wouldn’t be in such a mess.

    • @marcodarko6941
      @marcodarko6941 Месяц назад

      Spot on. ​@@harold6863

    • @G-ra-ha-m
      @G-ra-ha-m Месяц назад

      Germany was finished when their 'friend' the USA pulled the plug on their cheap energy.

    • @Ziegfried82
      @Ziegfried82 Месяц назад +9

      Going green was a fatal mistake for Germany. I saw the drastic increase in electricity bills while I was there in 2009 and returned in 2016. They are paying over 3X what people pay for electricity in the US. Russia pays even less for electricity by the way because they didn't go "green" at all.

  • @nottmfunguy
    @nottmfunguy Месяц назад +176

    If we look at this just 10 years ago, this would have been seen as madness, wilfully destroying the motor industry. Totally crazy.

    • @VancouverCanucksRock
      @VancouverCanucksRock Месяц назад +10

      "They" know what happens, when you throw a stick into the spokes....

    • @JanKowalski-vj9py
      @JanKowalski-vj9py Месяц назад

      Econazi want perhaps to return to ancient Rome. With slaves, proletariat, motorless mobility for low class and hypersonic jets, electric Rolce Royces for patriciate and senators.

    • @a64738
      @a64738 Месяц назад

      The WEF end goal is to ban ALL private car ownership and ownership in general under "YOU will own nothing and be happy (or else...) " slogan of WEF. ONLY the 0,1% parasite class is meant to own things and have freedom.

    • @reekinronald6776
      @reekinronald6776 Месяц назад +18

      It's does push us closer to being equal in our poverty, which seems to be a goal.

    • @cristig243
      @cristig243 Месяц назад +7

      Because it is.

  • @ghengiscant538
    @ghengiscant538 Месяц назад +82

    I was never a Thatcher fanboy , but she was right about one thing . " the markets will decide ".

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад

      Nah. Government creates the market when it defines property. The market decides nothing.

    • @MyerShift7
      @MyerShift7 Месяц назад +2

      I've discovered dear Margaret recently, and I adore her logic

    • @FredFox-m9v
      @FredFox-m9v Месяц назад +2

      ​@MyerShift7 she was my heroine when I had grown up and realised she was right all along, after being brought out on strike, against my will, by the unions, as a steelworker, in 1979.

    • @davidbrayshaw3529
      @davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад

      @@FredFox-m9v England wouldn't be what it is today without her. From the death of manufacturing to the rampant immigration used to hide its absence, Thatcher's mitts are all over it.

    • @luigivincenz3843
      @luigivincenz3843 Месяц назад +3

      the most basic and logical of market capitalism: markets will decide aka if there is a demand for it, it will sell.

  • @RosscoeDownunder
    @RosscoeDownunder Месяц назад +109

    As always: reasoned and clear argument, supported with sound evidence and delivered with verve and wit. Well done.

  • @daveb2wright
    @daveb2wright Месяц назад +40

    Net zero will destroy livelihoods for sure. What makes it worse is that you are paying for it. Enjoy!

    • @DHW256
      @DHW256 Месяц назад +1

      We are *FORCED* to pay for it, especially those of us with low and middle incomes hedging EV manufacturing by way of carbon credits, compliance credits, cost-sharing, etc.

  • @philby1
    @philby1 Месяц назад +88

    I'm amazed that the manufacturers all fell for the con. This was the obvious outcome from day one. Why would people buy an overpriced useless mess that is an ev. I really would not have one given to me. It would not be worth the hassle.

    • @aliendroneservices6621
      @aliendroneservices6621 Месяц назад +17

      Toyota didn't fall for it.

    • @ms-jl6dl
      @ms-jl6dl Месяц назад +12

      All European car manufacturers were mandated to do so,it wasn't their choice. And workers in those factories joyfully voted for green parties.

    • @onastick2411
      @onastick2411 Месяц назад +1

      Weeeeell if it was given to me, for free, i probably would, but that's the only reason.

    • @roybatty-
      @roybatty- Месяц назад +2

      @@aliendroneservices6621 Well they sort of did. They do offer EVs and their whole new fleet is turbo, hybrid. No simple ICE options anymore.

    • @aliendroneservices6621
      @aliendroneservices6621 Месяц назад +1

      @@roybatty- Outside of body-on-frame models, and one sports car, 2024 Toyotas do not have turbos.

  • @EliteRock
    @EliteRock Месяц назад +28

    Put simply, there has been no "slowdown" in the _demand_ for cars, *manufacturers are being forbidden from selling them by government edict.*

  • @AndrewTSq
    @AndrewTSq Месяц назад +96

    I do not have the money after paying my living, electricity, phone, food to pay $800 a month for a EV I only can drive 10000km a year, that means I pay $9600 per year to drive 10000km... My commuter car I bought new for a couple of years ago for $10k, and its 300000 right now. And people still try to convince me that the EV would be better for my wallet?????? what was in the jab they took a few years ago?

    • @HuFlungDung2
      @HuFlungDung2 Месяц назад +10

      Micro blood clots clog up the capillaries. That's going to have an effect on the brain.

    • @stevengriffin7873
      @stevengriffin7873 Месяц назад +10

      Sadly they didn't need to put anything in the jab,the stupidity is insidious and overwhelming.

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 Месяц назад +4

      @@HuFlungDung2 What brain and whose?

    • @mex6623
      @mex6623 Месяц назад +4

      A whole host toxic substances, unless you were lucky enough to get a saline shot, or smart enough to not get any.

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 Месяц назад +3

      @@mex6623 Shame they couldn't inject intelligence...

  • @morganthunder290
    @morganthunder290 Месяц назад +37

    😂😂😂 Net Zero is the biggest con ever invented.

    • @helencook5414
      @helencook5414 Месяц назад +5

      YES

    • @paulmcguckin7448
      @paulmcguckin7448 Месяц назад +6

      I’m afraid it’s probably second -behind Covid ?

    • @RogerSutton-ik9fj
      @RogerSutton-ik9fj Месяц назад +2

      You will own net-zero and be happy 😁

    • @TheRealSnakePlisken
      @TheRealSnakePlisken Месяц назад

      Trump is the biggest con…c’mon man. Elon is the biggest grifter…like a magnet to government subsidies.

  • @seesharp81321
    @seesharp81321 Месяц назад +104

    The new rules of the EU means it's cheaper not to sell cars in the EU anymore.

  • @DCGreenZone
    @DCGreenZone Месяц назад +17

    Have they capped the volcanoes yet.

    • @maxgomila8209
      @maxgomila8209 Месяц назад +5

      Don't give the climate scammers ideas...

  • @keithphilbin3054
    @keithphilbin3054 Месяц назад +72

    213k EVs sold in the UK ? Somehow I find that hard to believe... 🤔

    • @AndrewTSq
      @AndrewTSq Месяц назад +33

      Registered is not the same as a sale, which many ev lovers forget.

    • @Zuludarkthirty
      @Zuludarkthirty Месяц назад

      I saw on a u tube Chanel that a Chinese ev
      company was buying and registering their own cars to increase the percentage of evs sold to make it look like that car was popular
      In the end the cars were just put in a field gathering dust and waiting to spontaneously combust

    • @schrodingerscat1863
      @schrodingerscat1863 Месяц назад +19

      That is new registrations not sales, there are thousands of year old EVs on the market with just a few miles on the clock now being dumped for a loss because the dealerships just can't shift them.

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 Месяц назад

      @@AndrewTSq The delta is not significantly different.

    • @AndrewTSq
      @AndrewTSq Месяц назад

      @@csjrogerson2377 who told you that . If it was not, they would not give huge discounts

  • @notgoingtotakeitanymore
    @notgoingtotakeitanymore Месяц назад +42

    I am over 50, own my own home, have off street parking and 95% of the journeys I do are less than 150 miles.
    In other words an EV would work for me 95% of the time, but I'm still NEVER GOING TO BUY ONE because I can read & do basic maths.
    There is no way replacing my fantastic 25 year old Subaru with an EV would mean a net reduction in my carbon footprint. Not even close. If you then add the misery & pollution caused by mining & refining lithium & cobalt, not to mention the danger to myself & my home from this dangerous battery technology, it's a total non starter.
    I blame my physics teacher. Mostly thanks to him I passed my A level physics & will never be dumb enough to fall for this bull***t. Mr Collis, aka Big Verne, I'm not ignorant or stupid & it's mostly your fault. Thank you 😌

    • @CondorAHLS
      @CondorAHLS Месяц назад +3

      Yeah, EV’s are coal-fired cars.

    • @martinbingham-l5m
      @martinbingham-l5m Месяц назад

      Your totally right of course. At present they're just pushing the pollution up the pipeline to the power stations. The idea being that it's easier to clean up a few hundred co2 sources than it is a few million. But, it's a new industry that needs public investment to perfect it. All over the world they're trying to figure out how to effectively/economically capture that carbon. But you know what. If there's one thing I've learned, it's this:
      We're humanity, we get the job done!

    • @TheRealSnakePlisken
      @TheRealSnakePlisken Месяц назад

      This is an outstanding comment. EVs are entertainment devices that serve some transportation requirements - they are NOT the solution to climate change or carbon emissions.

    • @michaelmcarthur8364
      @michaelmcarthur8364 Месяц назад

      Behind your intelligent response is still the residue of net zero religious zealotry which is insane. CO2 is an atmospheric benefit to life on this planet. Europeans are still living in a feudal mentality.

  • @timchapman5567
    @timchapman5567 Месяц назад +9

    Good research, MGUY. It does seem that once the wealthy city-dwellers’ demand has been met, EV sales do not look healthy.

  • @davidmccall2897
    @davidmccall2897 Месяц назад +91

    Never, never buy an EV, total crap on wheels.

    • @Thetyrerepairer
      @Thetyrerepairer Месяц назад +1

      Rubbish, EVs are far better than any ice car. Have you driven one.

    • @goingpostal5858
      @goingpostal5858 Месяц назад +2

      ​@@Thetyrerepairerlol, er no.

    • @robbie2447
      @robbie2447 Месяц назад +7

      EVs are just garbage.

    • @goingpostal5858
      @goingpostal5858 Месяц назад +4

      @@robbie2447 Correct.

    • @iainw5081
      @iainw5081 Месяц назад +1

      @@Thetyrerepairer They are environment destroying

  • @Leo555ZZZ
    @Leo555ZZZ Месяц назад +31

    Government interference in car markets needs to end.
    Vote them out.

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад

      On the 1st point, no, it is impossible to have a market without government to define and enforce property rights.
      On the 2nd point - YES. Vote in better people who will create better markets.

    • @barryj388
      @barryj388 Месяц назад +3

      @@davidvanderklauw While I don't disagree the protection of property rights are vital to a market economy, what governments are doing is legislating/regulating what the market is permitted to produce and therefore what consumers are permitted to buy. They are neither defining property rights nor protecting/enforcing them, therefore I don't see how the OP's first point has anything to do with defining and enforcing property rights. On the second point governments can only create the conditions for better markets by minimizing their involvement in them.

    • @3UZFE
      @3UZFE Месяц назад +1

      Cant vote for the EU members

    • @Leo555ZZZ
      @Leo555ZZZ Месяц назад

      @@3UZFE EV mandates and emission controls are enforced by elected Governments.

    • @RavenAutoPartsCo
      @RavenAutoPartsCo 25 дней назад

      It's a bit hard to vote out the maggots in Brussels. With all the silly countries giving Brussels the upper hand only bad things can happen.

  • @chrisaris8756
    @chrisaris8756 Месяц назад +107

    And you can bet a pretty big percentage of those 90k EVs registered were dealers pre registering vehicles in a desperate attempt make it look like people are actually buying these piles of garbage. In the U.K. 2022 registered EVs are now turning up for sale with just 11 miles on the clock. So they’ve been hiding these away and are now trying to dump them at cost. Sadly though, no one is buying them.

    • @stevengriffin7873
      @stevengriffin7873 Месяц назад +27

      No,wisely not sadly.

    • @TonyRule
      @TonyRule Месяц назад +8

      Sadly?

    • @Kaesemesser0815
      @Kaesemesser0815 Месяц назад +12

      This sales 'strategy' doesn't work for more than two or three years, if even that. At some point the number of unsold EVs cannot be ignored.

    • @marcodarko6941
      @marcodarko6941 Месяц назад +22

      What a massive waste of resources and the damage that's been done to the environment just to manufacture all that junk.

    • @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
      @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Месяц назад +9

      @@marcodarko6941 thumbs up. Exactly.

  • @lesklower7281
    @lesklower7281 Месяц назад +42

    Europe are flogging a dead horse when it comes to EVs

    • @BD-bditw
      @BD-bditw Месяц назад

      Everything produced in the EU is substandard junk. The only good German made product I ever came across was a washing machine and I guess most of the parts in that came from Asia anyway.

    • @lesklower7281
      @lesklower7281 Месяц назад

      @@BD-bditw A washing machine well l do agree with you about all European vehicles have a tendency to fail and most of them won't reach 500000 kilometres but on the other hand most Japanese manufacturers make good reliable vehicles and there are only two countries in the world that make decent reliable vehicles that is obviously Japan and lndia

  • @paulodisano502
    @paulodisano502 Месяц назад +26

    Thank you Simon. Keep these informative videos coming, please. Cheers mate from Canada 🇨🇦🇦🇺

  • @g8ymw
    @g8ymw Месяц назад +36

    So, Germany is now going through what Britain went through in the late 70s / early 80s

    • @davidbrayshaw3529
      @davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад

      A menopausal megalomaniac with a will to return England's living standards to the 19th century? Germany's not going through that.

    • @BrandonGolets
      @BrandonGolets Месяц назад

      What's that?

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 Месяц назад

      ​@@BrandonGoletsback then, the UK has the label of being the sick man of Europe.

  • @klimatbluffen
    @klimatbluffen Месяц назад +66

    Many people claim that these garbage piles for cars are very energy efficient.But to charge a battery, you have to change the electricity from alternating current to direct current, and there up to thirty percent of the electricity is lost to no use at all.

    • @We-Do-NOT-Consent-303
      @We-Do-NOT-Consent-303 Месяц назад +21

      Not to mention that you have to carry a 500 kg battery all the time that's like 7 people sitting in the car all the time😅😅😅

    • @klimatbluffen
      @klimatbluffen Месяц назад +6

      @@We-Do-NOT-Consent-303 Exactly.

    • @mickwolf1077
      @mickwolf1077 Месяц назад +8

      and if they are pv or wind offset that energy is converted too, so you have twice the efficiency loss.

    • @aaronbryan5095
      @aaronbryan5095 Месяц назад +11

      ​@@We-Do-NOT-Consent-303 that's like easily 400 kg heavier than a fully fuelled fuel tank in most ICE cars, then add in the extra weight high voltage cables have over regular fuel lines and you can see why EVs with any decent range are so ridiculously heavy.

    • @yesicanhearyouclemfandango
      @yesicanhearyouclemfandango Месяц назад +7

      ​@@We-Do-NOT-Consent-3037 people, or two standard Americans.

  • @Rex_Racer
    @Rex_Racer Месяц назад +13

    Why would any country let the government decide what you can and cannot purchase instead of its citizens?! A tiny subset of people you’ve never met get to decide how YOU live YOUR life?!

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад

      Not only proplr who we have never met, but people that are NOT elected either…

  • @markc6714
    @markc6714 Месяц назад +28

    Last year I went to buy a golf R but the price had gone up by 20k. It's not just the ev issue. Their price is out of control for ice vehicles too

    • @johnlesoudeur3653
      @johnlesoudeur3653 Месяц назад +8

      Plus the increase in insurance and with the state of the roads in the UK, extra costs for damaged suspension etc.

    • @davidellis8141
      @davidellis8141 Месяц назад

      They probably put the fine on top, although I thought it was £15,000.

    • @markc6714
      @markc6714 Месяц назад

      @@davidellis8141 no fine. No in the UK. I thought Americans were egocentric but clearly poms are too

    • @primafacie6442
      @primafacie6442 Месяц назад +1

      Just don’t indulge the greedy stupid car market …..buy a used low mileage car

    • @markc6714
      @markc6714 Месяц назад +1

      @@primafacie6442 I did actually, but that's not the point here.

  • @stigmontgomery7901
    @stigmontgomery7901 Месяц назад +62

    It's not that they can't see the EV issues, it's that they DON'T want to see it!

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад

      No. It is that voters have not yet FORCED them to see any problem. A lack of vote would greatly concern our elite politicians. Let's give it to them.

    • @gerbre1
      @gerbre1 Месяц назад

      What EV issues?

    • @V0YAG3R
      @V0YAG3R Месяц назад

      @@gerbre1🤡

    • @stigmontgomery7901
      @stigmontgomery7901 Месяц назад +1

      @@gerbre1 You mean you didn't listen to the video? Range, poor depreciation, charging, not emission free, toxic battery disposal issues......

    • @gerbre1
      @gerbre1 Месяц назад

      @@stigmontgomery7901 I‘m driving an EV, enough range, cheap to buy if you want one, no local emissions and battery recycling. Drives way better, good acceleration, no noise and vibrations, no gear switching. I can charge the car with PV power from the roof. EVs are part of the green energy transition to save the planet.

  • @al251049
    @al251049 Месяц назад +19

    I would not have one, for free

  • @jsejat
    @jsejat Месяц назад +28

    The question we are not asking, “What is really behind this world push to EV”. There is something bigger going on here than what seems obvious. Why else would major companies willingly do self suicide. We have to look deeper.

    • @sirjohng1
      @sirjohng1 Месяц назад +1

      The slavery of the world to the WEF dream.

    • @SJBW196
      @SJBW196 Месяц назад

      UN Agenda 2030

    • @thesolver1970
      @thesolver1970 Месяц назад

      yes, its to move away from reliance on oil and to send the middle east back to the dark ages. The US has failed with its war machine so they'll just cut out demand. Probably applies for gas in the EU as well. Electricity is a micro market energy source and not reliant on global pricing that gas and oil are subject to.

    • @haderlumpi
      @haderlumpi Месяц назад

      I really hope that AfD will come into power in Germany at some point. So that we can stop the green movement madness and return to solid and viable technologies. And stop telling the climate change lie. So sick of it.

    • @DanRyan-v5y
      @DanRyan-v5y Месяц назад

      Marxism. Net zero means they can control you and you will love them for it , for they are saving you from yourself. Sounds a bit like a religion or cult doesn't it?
      Look up Maurice savage of the UN. He was one of the first to start this climate change thing. It was always about control, otherwise why do the top knobs still buy property near the sea, private jet around and have cop meetings face to face? If they believed their own crap they wouldn't do these things, or maybe they are so sociopathic that they don't care.

  • @noleftturn5964
    @noleftturn5964 Месяц назад +16

    The EV industry is a slo-mo car crash. You'll never convince or force the majority to adopt EVs. This overreach will wreck the EU.

  • @Acolyte_of_Cthulhu
    @Acolyte_of_Cthulhu Месяц назад +13

    in sweden its down with 33%-39% since last year

  • @stevehaug5469
    @stevehaug5469 Месяц назад +5

    Your videos help me understand how the world is thinking with ONE mind. Thank you.

  • @julesviolin
    @julesviolin Месяц назад +19

    EV = Extremely Volatile

    • @Jchathe
      @Jchathe Месяц назад +3

      Nice one!

  • @prettyridesmedia
    @prettyridesmedia Месяц назад +3

    It was a dumb idea from the beginning if you sat down and thought about it but corrupt politicians only worry about themselves.

  • @richardhale9664
    @richardhale9664 Месяц назад +15

    Cuban solution here we come.

    • @niviuk8335
      @niviuk8335 Месяц назад +2

      Thats what I do: I have put aside several 1.9d/ Tdi Audi and VW models plus all the spares I need for the forseeable future. Me and my wife will not live long enough to use them all up. If needed they run on veggie oil too.

  • @willisheung1083
    @willisheung1083 Месяц назад +16

    Fire Hazard is not a factor ? That's the biggest concern to me.

    • @dps615
      @dps615 Месяц назад

      Even though ICE cars are 20 times more likely to catch fire?!

    • @johnlesoudeur3653
      @johnlesoudeur3653 Месяц назад +2

      @@dps615 And how many times easier to put an ICE fire out?

    • @HuFlungDung2
      @HuFlungDung2 Месяц назад +2

      ​@@johnlesoudeur3653Probably a trillion times easier because waiting around for an EV to burn itself out is NOT fighting fire at all.

    • @davidbrayshaw3529
      @davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад +1

      @@dps615 Nonsense. Do try and keep up with the latest data. I suggest you look at the NHTSA research pertaining to EV fires, their likelihood and effect.

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад

      @@dps615 You must be a liar. No ICE car will burn all by itself at the gas station or just parking somewhere. In at least 99 % of cases, it someone outside who set the car on fire by spreading fuel on it during riots, insurance scams, stolen cars after commiting a crime and such.

  • @virgiliustancu9293
    @virgiliustancu9293 Месяц назад +14

    Nobody want an expensive car that has a 10 years life without the possibility to sell it.

    • @joshualandry3160
      @joshualandry3160 Месяц назад +2

      10 years is optimistic. With what I would consider normal non-commuting use an EV range would fall below acceptable levels long before 10 years. Probably 5 useful years at most before a replacement becomes a matter of necessity. A battery would be too expensive and I doubt there will be much of a 2nd hand market.

    • @koggism
      @koggism Месяц назад

      @@joshualandry3160 With the fire risk of the battery I'd guess most EV's would be lucky to see two owners, who would take the risk of buying a dud ev battery and the cost of replacing it with new?
      There have been and will be many more horror stories of people buying secondhand ev's only to be faced with a £20,000 REPLACEMENT BATTERY BILL! And it doesn't end there, there is a cost of disposing of ev batteries, storage too. Faulty ev/batteries must be stored 15 meters away from any other combustible item

    • @stefan2796
      @stefan2796 Месяц назад

      @@joshualandry3160 Agree, most battery packs will last 8-10 years. Apart from the yearly degeneration.

  • @dachautv
    @dachautv Месяц назад +6

    I live in Germany and quite a lot of our friends have EVs. But they all have one thing in common. We live in a little village so everyone has off-road parking. Most of them have solar panels on their house roofs. They all charge at home or at work. These from a marketing point of view are the „low hanging fruit“. The rest of the population who live in the towns or in tenements are a completely different nut to crack and cannot use home charging ever. It is amazing how the leaders of industry and politicians are so stupid not to see this. So they have to rely on charging stations which is basically the EV Wild West! Firstly, there aren’t enough of them, they are in the wrong places. But worse still, a friend of mine said that - in Germany - there are about 15 different charging Apps and charging systems. Apart from Tesla, all different. And the price can also be widely different. There is nowhere where you can read the price on the charging point, swipe your card and charge. They are all complicated. So until the government has sorted this mess out, they are wasting their money on any other subsidies!

    • @andyharman3022
      @andyharman3022 Месяц назад

      Governments don't care how much money they waste. They didn't earn it, so they don't care about it. They only care about virtue signaling with how much money they have thrown at a problem. The more money they spend to achieve no definable goal shows how much they "care" so the politicians can keep getting reelected.

    • @arsyadidris6349
      @arsyadidris6349 Месяц назад +3

      Exactly.
      BEVs are a fine choice… IF you tick all the right boxes.
      - your own landed property for homecharging
      - a widespread n robust public infrastructure for longhaul travel
      - a second ICE car (pure or hybrid) for those occasional cases.
      Ur in a tight pickle if even one of these boxes isnt checked. And the ability to tick all these boxes means u are one rich mofo living in a very rich n stable nation, relative to the rest of the planet.
      And solar panels is a bonus.

  • @frednerk8366
    @frednerk8366 Месяц назад +17

    I can only speak of the UK, but if you live in a place without the facility for charging then electric vehicles make no sense at all. The public charging network is a disgrace and shows no sign of improving. Think of the millions of homes that cannot charge a car, for example, terraces, flats and anywhere without an off road driveway.

    • @stevengriffin7873
      @stevengriffin7873 Месяц назад +1

      It all goes back to common sense and reality.When petrol cars first came out it was the same argument.However in time they became popular and the supply network grew to accommodate them ALL without hand outs and rebates.

    • @maxgomila8209
      @maxgomila8209 Месяц назад

      You can fast charge it at a charging station - and pay 20 per cent VAT on the price for the privilege.

  • @abjectt5440
    @abjectt5440 Месяц назад +11

    In Canada we just tax the carbon away. Until the country dies.

  • @Kaesemesser0815
    @Kaesemesser0815 Месяц назад +7

    Not so much a dream but a perpetual nightmare.

  • @ic2433
    @ic2433 Месяц назад +26

    The world is rapidly going in all the wrong directions, just wonder how bad it will get ☹️

  • @Mrmaddog
    @Mrmaddog Месяц назад +4

    The reason EV sales in the UK are as high as reported is that manufacturers are pre registering vehicle's on a massive scale then selling them at tens of thousands of pounds cheaper than a "new" vehicle, this can't continue for long before the bubble bursts and manufacturers go bankrupt.

  • @neilhoganwa
    @neilhoganwa Месяц назад +23

    There is NO way I could travel two and a half hours plus to my job sight. Spend an hour there and return home in the day. I would have to stop overnight to recharge.
    Plus I tow a caravan for recreational purposes. That in its self is a disaster.

    • @Hitstirrer
      @Hitstirrer Месяц назад +2

      There are many EVs with well over 300 miles range these days. Well within your round trip. Or 6 hours at an average 50mph. And they charge fast too. A ten minute stop can load an extra 100 miles as you nip into a service centre for a pee. You are remembering the early days of EVs and not updating your knowledge base.

    • @AndrewTSq
      @AndrewTSq Месяц назад +1

      @@Hitstirrer This summer I drove 1000km with one stop to pee at Ikea, but never had to fill up my petrol, and this in a normal ice gasolin car. I was going like 120-130 most of this trip :) drive thru, eat in the car. I do not have time to stop to recharge

    • @shaunluckham1418
      @shaunluckham1418 Месяц назад +1

      @@Hitstirrerthe car you say has 300 mile range and can pull a caravan is?

    • @davidwatkin2993
      @davidwatkin2993 Месяц назад +1

      @@shaunluckham1418 I'm waiting for an answer. A diesel Superb is hard to beat for a 1500kg caravan.

    • @Hitstirrer
      @Hitstirrer Месяц назад

      @@shaunluckham1418 I'm sorry, I didn't realise that you don't have access to Google. There are many. Start with a Tesla Model 3 or Y long range.

  • @daintree2455
    @daintree2455 Месяц назад +55

    Bet there's lots of 2nd hand EVs for sale in Lebanon right now...

    • @BCNeil
      @BCNeil Месяц назад +2

      Actually they don't have many at all.

    • @daintree2455
      @daintree2455 Месяц назад +7

      Cheap 2...get em before they're hot...

    • @davidwatkin2993
      @davidwatkin2993 Месяц назад +1

      and probably in Ukraine and Gaza. So dependent on electrical infrastructure .

    • @asdasdasdasdasd9795
      @asdasdasdasdasd9795 Месяц назад

      @@davidwatkin2993Get solar panels and you're far more independent than any ICE car :D

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад +1

      @@daintree2455 Before they burn to a cinder, you mean ?

  • @Mehrunes86
    @Mehrunes86 Месяц назад +4

    Got a full service today, on my 2004 Grand Vitara, only 150000km on the odo. Starts everytime, dosen't matter if it's cold or hot😁

  • @jackking5567
    @jackking5567 Месяц назад +8

    Just when vehicle manufacturers had gotten the formula correct, even with diesels, Governments have thrown a spanner into the works and destroyed 100 years of impressive progress.

    • @ldnwholesale8552
      @ldnwholesale8552 Месяц назад

      Problem with stinkers is they are so hi tech and stangled they use 25% more fuel and cost 50% more to service. And yes they were stinking filthy things and probably still are.

  • @philipgrobler7253
    @philipgrobler7253 Месяц назад +6

    There are several parking garages banning all EV's from entering their parking areas because of the very real potential danger these vehicles pose to buildings and the public.

  • @epicchannel4724
    @epicchannel4724 Месяц назад +10

    Locally here in UK we have been seeing EVs on council estates because of UK disability scheme. People can only charge these EVs at local shopping centres and the people who drive them need another car to pick them up when car is left overnight charging and same to go back and pick it up. They can't charge at home because often they only have on street parking. Also the disability scheme is basically refusing to supply them with ICE cars.

  • @garykendall3776
    @garykendall3776 Месяц назад +12

    Toyota has produced a report saying that the amount of rare earths in a full EV would allow for the construction of 6 PHEVs or 98 standard hybrids. The number of new mines required to produce said minerals and the energy needed for them and subsequent processing makes the total emissions chargeable to full EVs over their respective lifetimes 38 times that of hybrids.

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад

      There doesn't seem to be a shortage of any EV material yet.

    • @maxgomila8209
      @maxgomila8209 Месяц назад +1

      Don't spoil the scam..

  • @davebarron5939
    @davebarron5939 Месяц назад +19

    The 1970's "Pet Rock" hype strikes again. At least a stone still has a practical use when its latest widget attraction wares off.

  • @FredFox-m9v
    @FredFox-m9v Месяц назад +9

    And now we learn that if somebody tampers with a device with a lithium battery in it, ( pagers / walkie talkies ) the battery can superheat and kill you at the press of a remote button. Just imagine the explosion with a 60 to 90 kwhr battery going off in such a manner, as in an EV.

    • @briant1319
      @briant1319 Месяц назад

      Those devices had explosive material, likely PETN inserted into them by Mossad. Too much explosive to be the battery alone

  • @jesperFrost
    @jesperFrost Месяц назад +32

    They’ll solve the problem with failing sales by force -just you wait and see!

    • @stephenrichards5386
      @stephenrichards5386 Месяц назад +3

      Exactly

    • @davids-c1f
      @davids-c1f Месяц назад +1

      JUST LIKE THE FORCED COVID VAXS

    • @mguytv
      @mguytv  Месяц назад +4

      I hope you’re wrong…

    • @liberty0758
      @liberty0758 Месяц назад +3

      Impossible to achieve. People can barely pay bills, rents and put food on the table, yet they expect them to buy brand new electric shitboxes? Maybe if they start giving unsold cars away for free.

    • @davidvanderklauw
      @davidvanderklauw Месяц назад +1

      The government's market force can indeed stop all ICE cars and replace them all with EV's. But the voters election force can replace all these governments. Each could happen. What will?

  • @dps8435
    @dps8435 Месяц назад +64

    The only reason any are sold in the uk is fleet sales,council fleet zealots and forcing them on motability users who get benefit cars from the government,house of cards built on sand😂😂😂😂.

    • @mguytv
      @mguytv  Месяц назад +15

      The Motability push for EVs is just wicked. I have heard about it from several viewers.

    • @drstrangelove4998
      @drstrangelove4998 Месяц назад +7

      @@mguytvmy old mate was foisted off with a motability EV. He has recently bought an older used 500+ HP Range Rover.

    • @andy530i
      @andy530i Месяц назад +10

      They are also pre-registering cars & storing them on airfields, so that the sales figures go up.

    • @dps8435
      @dps8435 Месяц назад

      @@mguytv pressuring vulnerable and disabled people into getting EVs by telling them ice cars have long waiting lists,imagine having mobility problems and having to manhandle one of those charging cables ,despicable rats.

    • @thesolver1970
      @thesolver1970 Месяц назад

      @@mguytv probably mean evil. in 'straya wicked is a term of endearment for something cool, well it used to be in the 90s.

  • @petefletcher984
    @petefletcher984 Месяц назад +11

    Motability UK are now advertising Mercedes-Benz EQS for lease, that's a £98,000 car! You just cannot get rid of them.

  • @royal1956
    @royal1956 Месяц назад +6

    It's not just that thousands of people will be directly laid off, but associated suppliers of materials and components will also have to let go of some employees, if not even close shop for good.

  • @cjcowboy7625
    @cjcowboy7625 Месяц назад +13

    Good reporting of facts!

  • @quickben4219
    @quickben4219 Месяц назад +4

    In Ireland we would say " They're probably blinded by the Brown Envelopes " . Cheers, keep up the great work. 😄

  • @ahorton6786
    @ahorton6786 Месяц назад +6

    How can they work out CO2 emissions for an EV. If that power is coming from coal fired power station it's likely to be more than a petrol or diesel. EVs simply export their emissions they are NOT zero emission vehicles.

  • @sirjohng1
    @sirjohng1 Месяц назад +9

    EV SALES FALTER? 70% DOWN is curtains for any company.

  • @davidadams5116
    @davidadams5116 Месяц назад +4

    Isn't it great when the voters ignore what their governments want. We must know best looking at the state of the EV market. I for one are proud we say NO to our governments

  • @codeblue9004
    @codeblue9004 Месяц назад +4

    I never had a dream about EV’s in the first place. I like real cars.

  • @EliteRock
    @EliteRock Месяц назад +7

    Consider the potential waste of resources and disposal nightmare from the megatons of BEV batteries degrading in fields of unsold cars.

    • @thesolver1970
      @thesolver1970 Месяц назад

      I'd make them geofenced local community cars or something so they would at least have some utility until they quit for good.

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix7307 Месяц назад +1

    Another great video. The destruction wrought by these people is now verging on a crime against humanity.

  • @andyhowlett2231
    @andyhowlett2231 Месяц назад +5

    Quite right to point out the fact that it was the early-adopters, the hipsters and the climate panickers who fueled to initial sales boom. Now they've all bought them, it's down to ordinary drivers to buy them and guess what - we are NOT impressed. Great for buzzing round the city (especially if you can charge at home) but not good for long trips and certainly no good if you don't have a drive or garage. This is what you get for trying to force the issue.

  • @McVaio
    @McVaio Месяц назад +2

    The automaker should ignore the government. It's her own fault for going along with this madness.

  • @blakespower
    @blakespower Месяц назад +4

    no energy no industry no income no wealth

    • @DanRyan-v5y
      @DanRyan-v5y Месяц назад

      No taxes, no money for politicians

  • @hannecatton2179
    @hannecatton2179 Месяц назад +6

    Here in Denmark the E.V. market is expanding but I suspect that is because this is a very small country with no long distances between destinations.

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад

      And then Danish people will have to rent a ICE car if they need to go in holidays somewhere outside their small country. Something they wouldn't have to bother doing if they had a ICE car in the first place.

  • @retroonhisbikes
    @retroonhisbikes Месяц назад +11

    Most of the co2 in youre exhaust comes from the air used to burned the fuel. For example 1ltr will needs 14.7 kg of air (roughly).
    Also while visiting la Rochelle. I notice 0 zero ev charging points around the town. Nor would you want an ev fire in such narrow streets

    • @Hitstirrer
      @Hitstirrer Месяц назад

      All wrong. A total lack of chemistry knowledge. There are 8 EV charge stations in the inner city of La Rochelle and 46 more in the outskirts. And petrol cars catch fire around 40 times more, pro rata the fleet numbers, so you should be more afraid of those.

    • @geoffsclassiccars
      @geoffsclassiccars Месяц назад

      That's CAR BON MON OX IDE

    • @geoffsclassiccars
      @geoffsclassiccars Месяц назад

      Not

    • @geoffsclassiccars
      @geoffsclassiccars Месяц назад

      Di oxide

    • @julosx
      @julosx Месяц назад

      @@Hitstirrer Stop bullshitting, you troll.

  • @nosretep1960
    @nosretep1960 Месяц назад +1

    I was planning to EV for years in US, but as time went on I realized what a bunch of hype it was, so last April I bought my first hybrid 24 Corolla Cross SE AWD. Couldn't be happier. Local hyper miling, 2/3-3/4 mileage I get 85+MPG 65-70%EV @2k/mi engine run time between oil changes.

  • @richardharris7214
    @richardharris7214 Месяц назад +4

    "You will own nothing and be happy, but it won't change the climate".

  • @broederbond60
    @broederbond60 Месяц назад +2

    EXCELLENT NEWS!

  • @erocoptics5642
    @erocoptics5642 Месяц назад +4

    In Sweden one of the largest battery factories is going to be closing. Has strategic implications

    • @maxgomila8209
      @maxgomila8209 Месяц назад

      Swedish people can buy Chinese batteries instead.

  • @dwayne7356
    @dwayne7356 Месяц назад +2

    Don't forget that there is no secondary market causing a loss of sometimes 6 figures in value, a fire hazard and expensive to service.

  • @MecTecher
    @MecTecher Месяц назад +10

    MG just slashed the price of their MG4 by $10k. Just goes to show how much they were gouging on them

    • @aliendroneservices6621
      @aliendroneservices6621 Месяц назад

      Government sales-mandates forcing price-cuts, do not indicate profit-margins.

    • @AndrewTSq
      @AndrewTSq Месяц назад +3

      They probably sell those cars with a loss. When the car goes down in price mean they have too many in stock, and they have todo something to get rid of them.

  • @pascalouellette8516
    @pascalouellette8516 Месяц назад +2

    Governments in America and the EU threw away tax money on subsidies, ruining the EV market only about 30 percent of buyers are in a urban area with charging available to consider using these vehicles...

  • @Hawkeye2001
    @Hawkeye2001 Месяц назад +4

    EVs are wonderful IF: -- 1] you live, work and commute inside the city limits. 2] you have a second, ICE vehicle for longer trips, towing & work. 3] you have access to off street parking for charging. (I wouldn't want to charge a potentially lethal bomb inside an attached garage.) 4] if, there's adequately trained and accessible service centers located in the same city.

  • @WeAreAllDoomed-n5i
    @WeAreAllDoomed-n5i Месяц назад +2

    VW already has two empty factories! I'd say they have already closed two factories.

  • @jonboy9912
    @jonboy9912 Месяц назад +5

    Where are all of the unsold vehicles being stored? What will they do with all the scrap?

    • @liberty0758
      @liberty0758 Месяц назад

      Left to rot because it's cheaper that way than to invest again in their recycling. That's how it is in China.

  • @BenWharfe-vr1pn
    @BenWharfe-vr1pn Месяц назад +1

    Politicians really have yet again made a total cock up of things.

  • @drstrangelove4998
    @drstrangelove4998 Месяц назад +4

    The cost of a mad nut-zero drive by prime minister Scholtz imposing unsustainable energy costs on manufacturing was disastrous too. The Labour Party in the UK is following the same way…😡😡😡

  • @BJARNE-SOLBERG
    @BJARNE-SOLBERG Месяц назад +2

    I am very glad to listen to "your ideas". Have y heard about about the Chinese market?

  • @WeAreAllDoomed-n5i
    @WeAreAllDoomed-n5i Месяц назад +3

    EU told car manufacturers are going bankrupt! EU response? Job done! Davos will be happy.

  • @mortenjohannesen5429
    @mortenjohannesen5429 Месяц назад +1

    Keep bring on the good news 🙂

  • @garypowell1540
    @garypowell1540 Месяц назад +4

    I only needed to find out a few basic facts about EVs to know that this was all going to end in tears. the most important one being that I assumed that it would start at the very bottom of the market and the batteries would be hired and exchanged at the station. It never occurred to me that they would be so expensive or that the batteries would be part of the car itself. This was never going to work, and may not have worked anyway. This is before we come on to the other many issues that have been glossed over as if unaccountably turning into a portable crematorium if not even worth a consideration. The truth is that nothing like it should be allowed anywhere near our public roads until such an event becomes less likely than being hit by lightning on a calm cloudless day.
    Which begs the question, what were these idiots in the industry and in government thing? Were they thinking at all? Battery powered cars are not even a new idea. It was abandoned back then for very similar reasons that it should have remained so. Milk floats seemed like a good idea at the time, but were in practice an absolute disaster.
    One can't help in thinking that maybe they aren't stupid at all, just extremely evil. If the plan was to destroy most of the worlds car industry and along with it most of the entire worlds private transport then EVs will turn out to be highly successful in achieving what they were set out to do. In the future if you want to go any further then to your local park or corner shop, you will either have to hire your means of transport or buy a ticket.

  • @20twenty4can
    @20twenty4can Месяц назад +2

    Being the EV is a giant computer on wheels, how would an owner of an EV avoid being hacked by the modern day 21st century hacker, or government etc?

  • @roybatty-
    @roybatty- Месяц назад +7

    Offer EV cars, sure, but don't mandate them. Let the consumers decide.

    • @asdasdasdasdasd9795
      @asdasdasdasdasd9795 Месяц назад

      Yes. Also drop the tariffs on foreign made cars.

    • @stefan2796
      @stefan2796 Месяц назад

      @@asdasdasdasdasd9795 Apart from the chinese tofu crap. As they are part of the CCP mass surveillance program.

  • @yvonnegonzalez5616
    @yvonnegonzalez5616 Месяц назад +1

    Fossil- Fuel, Vehiclez= Automotive- Perfectionz.