Sky News host Liz Storer says Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson can’t be blamed for the decline in EV sales in the UK as companies have “mothballed” their production lines due to decline in demand.
“You can’t blame this on him,” Ms Storer said.
“You’ve got companies like Volkswagen in the UK, GM in the US.
“They’ve mothballed their battery production.
“Because there simply isn’t the demand for it.”
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If Mr Bean is the reason…shows how WEAK there argument is…🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
The worst part is when the technology does finally reach the point where EV is viable most of us will still be flipping the Marxist Watermelons the bird.
China is stopping, Ford have stopped, looks like reality has dawned
But bowen says their, the future 😂
people don't see why mr. bean is to blame…he still needs to sell his car and buy a new version of it…
Less than 1% of vehicles here in the US are electric and I think it was more of a fad than a genuine effort.
BLOODY BEAN !. 😂😂
SATT.
For once? I don't recall him doing the opposite.
The genuine costs of building these batteries and disposal costs should be discussed,lies about net zero are impossible to meet.
I'm with Mr Bean &Teddy
The climate crazies will blame an actor, since they are too stupid to blame the obvious issues!
They are not practical outside local commute with home charging set-up with solar and home battery…
Mr Bean is 1000% correct
Lots of car companies are reducing production. Jaguar once offered 24 different models of its XF saloon but they didn't sell. Now they're down to 4, and only 1 in Australia. Same with the XE, and both are ICE cars. It's reduced & changing demand, Sky. Dump the propaganda.
Still Haven't figured out where the power comes from to charge the batteries Dumb arses.🦖
Lying politicians they must lie to there wife children all the time
It’s just that Mr Bean can see the obvious….
Golf carts and milk floats have their place but for every day trips more than just local …
Your joking!
I will never buy an EV, ever. I won’t fall for the lies and fear mongering propaganda used to bully ordinary people. Bury me in my diesel Merced
38%? Dream on.
My parents bought solar cells when the feed-in rate was 71cents kw/hr. Now that I have the panels on my roof, the feed-in rate is 12 cents kw/hr. You wait and see what happens to the cost of electricity, insurance and road taxes, once most people are bullied into owning one of these environmental imposters. 40 new lithium mines planned for the US using literally billions and billions of litres of otherwise clean, life sustaining water to process.
Depreciation of EVs will continue because EVs will get cheaper, Goldman Sachs amongst others predict price parity in 2025. As for repairs and insurance costs for EVs, they are high at the moment because of the lack of experienced repairers and lack of third party suppliers, with increasing numbers of EVs on the road repairs and insurance will get cheaper. The other thing that will drive repair costs down is decreasing battery costs and better safer batteries like the Zeekr golden battery and the CATL 4c LFP battery.
When EVs reach price parity in 2025 depreciation will level off and ICE cars will then start to depreciate faster because they offer less value.
EVs will offer better value than ICE because with onboard V2G (Renault 5) a car that costs the same as an ICE car but has less maintenance and running costs and it also comes with a huge battery that can be used as a house battery, a campsite/worksite 240v supply and it can earn the owner an income with energy arbitrage.
Many Chinese manufacturers are very capable of making quality cars, after all they already make all the European, Japanese and US models locally. The Chinese now are more capable than the US (except Tesla) and Europeans as far as quality, capacity and price goes.
Only legacy automakers are scaling down production of EVs because they cannot make a compelling offer at a competitive price. They have given up, Tesla and the Chinese automakers have won. Yes some Chinese manufacturers will be culled but that's just because there's too many manufacturers there.
It won’t matter if legacy auto protests and lobby to extend the ICE ban because with price parity in 2025 Tesla and the Chinese automakers will just keep increasing their market share 25-30% year on year and will only accelerate with price parity.
Hydrogen vehicles are not an option. Fuel costs are way too high and they will always cost 3-4X more than battery charging just due to the inherent inefficiencies. The charging infrastructure does not exist and costs at least 100X more than EV charging and every hydrogen car needs to use a bowser whereas 95% of EV charging is done at home. Hydrogen cars are more expensive, don’t perform as well and require much more maintenance. One hydrogen tanker can only carry enough fuel for 50 cars. Hydrogen leaks, it’s explosive, it’s difficult and expensive to store and transport. How do you or anybody for that matter still think this is a good idea? Green hydrogen will be in short supply for a long time and will be first used in the hard to abate sectors such as fertiliser, chemical feedstocks and shipping (see the Hydrogen Ladder), they will be very little left for cars.
Toyota and other OEMs are still selling cars but sales of EVs is increasing year on year, these increasing numbers of EVs will inevitably displace ICE sales. You can point to EV sales in the USA and Australia but they are just at the very beginning of the transition. Look to Europe and China.
You can knock Tesla but they are leading the way with innovative design and manufacturing technologies. Remember how impressed the Toyota engineers were when they tore down the model Y. Toyota and others are now talking about adopting the OTA updates, gigacasting and the unboxed production processes that Tesla is pioneering. Now Tesla is developing 48v electronics, LAN communications (instead of CANBUS) and steer by wire which all save time and money and produce a superior product.
1:52 A ten year lifespan for a lithium battery seems fairly optimistic. A lithium battery in a moderately-used device lasts about two years before its capacity drops to about 90-80%, which is about the time you start realizing it no longer holds a charge as long as it used to. Then, the cost to replace the battery in an electric vehicle is astronomical- nearly the price of a whole new vehicle… And if just one single cell in the multi-bank battery that is an EV’s “fuel tank” goes bad prematurely (which is a common cause of failure in batteries for things like cordless drills or cordless lawn equipment and causes the batteries to lock up and stop charging) the manufacturer won’t replace that one dead cell to fix the problem, they’ll replace the entire $25,000 USD (not including labor costs) battery.
It's Mr Brain, not mister Bean. Blind Freddie can see the shortfall of Ev's. In a word of increasing natural disasters and regular disruptions, it is becoming more difficult to rely on electrical infrastructure for households, let alone something that is as critical as transport to escape these natural disasters. How many kilowatts can you carry down the road in a Jerry can to your Car that just ran out? Enough for 400km of travel?
Beans teddy bear has more intelligence than the politicians.
To those EV manufacturers….don't blame Rowan for your own misgivings. Only the 'woke' are buying the damned things…that is, the pure EV's as opposed to the more sensible of the two..the hybrids. But, not being woke, I will stick to my ICE car. Well tuned…and goes nicely. And suits my purpose of carrying all my music gear around. Yep. It's a 4 cylinder wagon, a large one at that.
The House of Lords is simply a collection of rich and privileged idiots.
But the sale of three wheeled cars has skyrocketed.
The House of Lords. Can you believe the poms?
Rowan Atkinson wasn't casting doubts about EVs, he was simply telling the truth. And the truth about EVs and the EV support industry is something governments of all persuasions would prefer the general public knew nothing about.
Well done Rowan, it's refreshing to hear honesty in these dark days in which we live.
Where there's arrogance, there's ignorance. So the saying goes. If the House, the ALP and like keep telling themselves stuff like that, they are heading for net zero to collapse in their face. Due to their own mismanagement and beliefs. What a surprise it will be to them.
It's a club of the elite. They know what's good for them, and you're not included – George Carlin
Typical Government's they con you into buying these hideous EV,s and when enough are in circulation tax, the shit out of them.Love it😊
Good on Mr Bean, more brains in his little finger than that w⚓ blackout bowen has in total
And now the latest trend is theft of the copper in the charging cables. Who knew !!!!
GO WOKE…GO BROKE!!!!
Since they are igniting in flames everywhere thank goodness for people speaking out.