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Category: Electric Vehicles
Govt Announces £120,000 Grants for Electric HGVs
the Telegraph reported that the Green Finance Institute has estimated £100bn worth of additional finance and subsidies would be needed to support electric lorry take-up.
Professor Emeritus Criticises Letting People Choose Whether to Buy an EV
“… (“letting the market decide”) can’t be the only factor without … externalities …”
Hybrid Horror – You are 3x More Likely to Die in a Hybrid Vehicle than a Gasoline Vehicle
Recently released UK government stats suggest Hybrid vehicles are significantly more dangerous to vehicle occupants than gasoline vehicles.
China Daily: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will Allow Chinese Companies to Dominate Renewable Energy
In the parallel universe of Nick Robbins and the Grantham Institute, business opportunities require massive state subsidies.
Jaguar’s Woke EV Campaign Crashes Sales 97%
Supporters claim the crash in sales is all part of the plan.
Why Your EV Won’t Fill Up In Five
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, it’s happened again. The tech press is in full swoon, the Twitterati are high-fiving in the digital aisles, and the battery boys at Huawei…
Markers On the Road to The Green Energy Wall — Electric Trucks Edition
Does anybody really think that this battery charging issue is going to be solved within a couple of years? People have only been working on batteries that are suitable for…
Next EV Battle Pits Truckers And Red States Against California-Led ‘Cartel’
Fully electrifying the U.S. commercial truck fleet could cost nearly $1 trillion in infrastructure investment alone, according to a report from Roland Berger released in March by the Clean Freight…
China Bans Electric Vehicles from Underground Carparks
… They explode “as if packed full of toxic dynamite” …
Italy Demands the EU Scrap its 2035 Internal Combustion Phaseout
“… the ideological vision has failed. We need to acknowledge that …”
Petrol Cars “Rationed to Meet Net Zero Targets”
“The new car market is no longer a market, unfortunately. It’s a state-imposed supply chain.”
Jane Goodall on the Futile Climate Crusade
But taken together, the problems of wind, solar, and batteries are substantial and call for a mid-course correction from look-the-other-way, mention-and-run, wish-and-hope Big Green. Jane Goodall, just as James Hansen,…
Green Dilemma: Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Could Provide Half the USA’s Lithium Needs
They have to extract the gas to get to the Lithium…
Electric Van Sales In Decline
…it’s just not viable to buy expensive assets such as electric vans and not really use them in the operational roles where you actually need a solution.
Ford Threatens to Ration Gasoline Vehicle Sales to Comply with UK Net Zero Diktats
Remember when we used to laugh about Soviets queuing for years to purchase an automobile?