In fact Parker’s are understating just how expensive running costs are for EVs, because their figures for petrol/diesel include fuel duties, which account for nearly half of the cost.
Category: Electric Vehicles
Another day, another EV Battery Fire
Public awareness is growing of the apparent tendency of electric vehicles to spontaneously combust, and burn with a blazing hot, difficult to extinguish fire.
Dear Neighbour, Please “Roster Ration” Your Electricity Use so our EVs can Charge
Sydney radio station 2GB has reported a hilarious request from an Electric Vehicle owners group for neighbours to ration their use of electricity, so their EVs can charge.
New Hurricane Ian Challenge: Spontaneously Combusting Electric Vehicles
Flooded electric vehicle fires on a scale firefighters have never faced before, according to Florida’s top fire marshal Jimmy Patronis.
New York Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate
The State’s obsession with being a climate leader is pointless. Worse there is no recognition that the pursuit of zero emissions has unintended consequences and will likely cause more harm…
Coal Miners Rescue a Dead EV, Push it to the Mine for a Recharge
One mine worker presented the EV driver with a “friend of coal” number plate before going home for the day.
California Urges Residents Not to Charge EVs after 4pm
As California’s global warming ready energy grid of the future buckles under a heatwave, residents have been urged not to charge electric vehicles between 4-9pm.
Oops: Alaskan Electric Buses Run Out of Power in Winter
Who could have guessed electric vehicles might struggle in cold climates?
Inflation Reduction Act will hinder EV growth
EV growth will be hindered as locals’ revolt over lithium mining impacts on water supplies and environmental degradation in their communities.
Ampol CEO: EV Prices Need to Halve to Interest Consumers
According to Aussie Ampol Chief Executive Matt Halliday, whose company is investing heavily in a charging network, Electric Vehicles are currently too expensive to replace Fossil Fuel powered vehicles as…
Connecticut Steps Up to Save The Planet
It’s really quite something when one of those big lithium-ion batteries suddenly explodes into flames. As usual with these lithium fires, they couldn’t extinguish it with water or anything else,…
US Electric Vehicle Sales Finally Catch Ford F-Series Pickup Trucks
Electric vehicle sales hit new record in Q2Despite supply shortages and high prices, many consumers are flocking to EVs. Published July 14, 2022 The number of battery-electric vehicles sold in…
Biden’s Transportation Department targets CO2 emissions of cars on highways to push EVs
the Biden Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed a rule targeting CO2 emissions from highway vehicles, for which DOT also has no legal authority.
E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations
In summary, by the time you’d reach your destination (if ever), your vacation would be long over. Gasoline, and especially diesel, leave electric vehicles in the dust.
EV’s Fossil Fuel Economy No Better than ICE Vehicles
…But the price per mile of EVs energy use is cheaper for the time being ($2 per gallon of gas equivalent)
Top Producer Albemarle Risks Shutting German Plant if EU Declares Lithium a Hazard
Top lithium producer Albemarle Corp (ALB.N) may have to shut its Langelsheim plant in Germany if the metal used in electric vehicle batteries is declared a hazardous material by the European Union,…
Is It Ethical to Purchase An EV Lithium Battery Powered Vehicle?
With most of the exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries being mined in developing countries, is it ethical to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in…
The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Claptrap
If the World Bank and British government follow through on their plan to ban the combustion engine, they may well have riots on their hands.
Battery Powered Flight–Still A Pipedream
As any aviation expert would have told her, battery powered flight has a fundamental obstacle, which it cannot overcome except for this sort of microlight, short range flight – the…
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