Is it any wonder that politicians like Rishi Sunak & Donald Trump are pushing back so hard against Electric Cars when there is so much wrong with them? Too expensive, too heavy, flawed batteries, flawed infrastructure, & are they really ‘greener ‘ anyway? These are just some of the things that we hear every day. So why are sales of battery electric vehicles growing like crazy around the globe?
Watch as an ex-Top Gear presenter & a ‘scrapheap specialist’ dismantle everything you thought you knew about electric vehicles. See the “Biggest Electric Car ‘Bull’ Shattered”, & in front of a live audience. Isn’t it time to #StopBS, & start to put the poor motorist & the beleaguered taxpayer first?
This episode was filmed very recently in Westminster in front of an assembled audience of politicians, press and motorists. Be sure to share ‘the truth about electric cars’ widely….
For more on the organisers of this event, head to: https://www.patreon.com/STOPBurningStuff
There are several stories quoted in this episode, here are as many of them as we could fit here:
– “Electric cars are better for the climate than petrol or diesel” – Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data; https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ev-fossil-cars-climate
– “EVs are really much better” – Auke Hoekstra, Eindhoven University of Technology; https://x.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1333192338139701249?s=20
– “Do Electric Vehicles reduce air pollution?” – Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data; https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-vehicles-air-pollution
– “The End of the ICE age, and how EVs will win” – Rocky Mountain Institute; https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-cars
– “Consumer support key to faster and fairer EV transition as market enters new phase” – SMMT;
https://www.smmt.co.uk/2023/09/consumer-support-key-to-faster-and-fairer-ev-transition-as-market-enters-new-phase/
– “Battery makers slash cobalt intensity in face of accelerating demand” – SP Global; https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/metals/082922-feature-battery-makers-slash-cobalt-intensity-in-face-of-accelerating-demand#:~:text=FEATURE%3A%20Battery%20makers%20slash%20cobalt%20intensity%20in%20face%20of%20accelerating%20demand,-Author%20Camellia%20Moors&text=Makers%20of%20electic%2Dvehicle%20batteries,fraught%20with%20troubling%20labor%20practices.
– “Tesla is already using cobalt-free LFP batteries in half of its new cars produced” – Electrek; https://electrek.co/2022/04/22/tesla-using-cobalt-free-lfp-batteries-in-half-new-cars-produced/#:~:text=Now%20with%20the%20release%20of,and%20expand%20our%20supplier%20base.
– “Here’s why sodium-ion batteries are shaping up to be a big technology breakthrough” – CNBC; https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/10/sodium-ion-batteries-shaping-up-to-be-big-technology-breakthrough.html
– “The electricity grid won’t be able to handle the increase in EVs” – National Grid; https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/electric-vehicles-myths-misconceptions
– “Electric cars catch fire less often than fossil fuel cars” – Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency; https://www.warpnews.org/transportation/electric-cars-catch-fire-less-often-than-fossil-fuel-cars/#:~:text=%F0%9F%94%A5%20Electric%20cars%20catch%20fire%20less%20often%20than%20fossil%20fuel%20cars,-The%20fires%20in&text=Gasoline%20or%20diesel%2Dpowered%20cars,for%20car%20fires%20in%202022.
– “No EVs in the multi-storey car park collapse” – BBC News; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65319586
– “No EVs in this multi-storey car park fire” – Sky News; https://news.sky.com/story/fire-has-destroyed-all-vehicles-in-large-liverpool-car-park-police-say-11191272
– “Do EVs produce more tyre & brake pollution than petrol and diesel equivalents?” – Euan McTurk; https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/do-electric-vehicles-produce-more-tyre-and-brake-pollution-than-petrol-and/
– “I’m Grateful That I Was Driving My EV When I Got Stuck On I-95” – ZETA; https://www.zeta2030.org/insights/im-grateful-that-i-was-driving-my-ev-when-i-got-stuck-on-i-95
– “Owning an electric vehicle in Europe could be cheaper than you think, new research shows” – World Economic Forum; https://europeansting.com/2023/02/23/owning-an-electric-vehicle-in-europe-could-be-cheaper-than-you-think-new-research-shows/
– “Winter range for popular EV models” – Recurrent Auto; https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss
– “Electric Car costs set to plummet” – Sky News; https://news.sky.com/story/electric-car-prices-are-about-to-plummet-heres-why-12536407
#ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #Tesla #NetZero #ZeroEmissions #Motorist #RishiSunak #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #StopBurningStuff #TopGear #rowanatkinson
00:00 Intro
02:59 Doubt
12:40 Stand Up
14:48 EVs Cleaner?
19:14 Dirty Batteries?
29:08 Fire Risk?
34:12 Tyre Dust?
36:40 Grid Cope?
40:37 Invisible Infrastructure?
43:20 Heavy BEVs?
47:30 Too Expensive?
49:15 Too Soon?
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Its the same clandestine group that controls and profits from hydrocarbon industry while holding other advancements in energy generation in the dark by every horrible way you can imagine that is now spreading lies like feathers in the wind to the world. They think that they will slow adoption and rejection of legacy hydrocarbon based energy via this approach. Lets not let them do this as they only care about their bank accounts and not a wit about the future of Earth and all of its inhabitants
Oily people are very dirty… Electric is the way forward.
What a necessary event, and what a great idea to have it in person so that it's not just "someone on the internet telling people stuff"; great job! But a few pointers:
– It's the effect(s) or consequence(s) of making the battery, not the "impact" (crash force). Even in the proscribed, jargon sense of "strong/violent/marked effect", saying "the impact is huge" is redundant.
– Kilometres is pronounced in the same way as (i.e., as if it rhymes with) "nanometres" or "millimetres", not as "thermometers" or "speedometers" (because it's a unit of measurement, not a measuring device).
– It's not "America", but the US.
– Similarly, I don't know why you keep distinguishing the UK from "Europe"; the UK is in Europe. If you mean the EU, just say that.
I would like to hear more about EV’s that are not humongous bloated cars and more on lighter EVs. Why doesn’t Tesla make light EVs? It’s madness
Inflammatory Negative information=clicks=advertising revenu =monetisation. There’s no mystery there….
Quentin Willson is the voice of reason. He should be a permanent fixture on Fully Charged especially on reviewing and recommending second have EV’s to increase EV adoption. Thanks 🙏
I have friends working in car manufacturers (aFORDable ones! wink) and they say the industry has invested lots of money for the 2030 change and are furious at this government for delaying the transition to 2035… the industry and people in the UK were getting ready and the economy was able to make these changes but the government is trying to appeal to a minority of the population that still thinks we can afford (as a species) to keep burning stuff… old dinosaurs who are steadily dying out leaving the younger generations to sort their sh*t!
Propaganda BS. BEVs are a dead end.
Wow 14,000 miles a year. I probably do half that, no more than 8,000 anyway. My last car I owned was a ‘62 plate and I bought it in 2020 with 19,000 miles on it, so that person only did about 2,500 miles a year.
I guess for these lower mileages the “break even” point of an EV would be more like 4 to 6 years?
The sun newspaper are campaigning against electric cars . Every day my Apple News feed is full of misinformation published by them.
Great that you did this, but it would have been better to have had an audience of ev sceptics rather than preaching to the already converted. I'm sure it would have made for quite a heated debate!
I rented a Polestar 2 in May and drove from Stansted Airport to Kent and the charging options were surprisingly poor; and I live in Ireland where charging is garbage. I'm very pro-EV but I genuinely don't think charging infrastructure problems can be dismissed; Kent isn't exactly the Gobi desert.
Both for and against doing the same thing. The reality is between the two, when the EV market gets its vehicles act together in what it provides to the people and industry then it will make better progress.
Have you seen the videos of phone batteries exploding?
Who's the "ex-Top Gear star"?
Guys stop burning stuf is also misleading..it should be stop extracting stuff as it will level the playing field between these competing technologies. And it would be better for mother earth. The EV boom should come to grips with its own environmental nightmare scenario.
Where is all the extra electricity needed for these cars going to come from? Don't have enough as it is, especially in places like California. Not enough room for the incredibly inefficient, bird killing, windmills and solar farms. My electric bill has doubled in 7 years because our local power company is investing in alternative energy sources. That is the first solve before forcing these cars on all of us. BTW I drive one and love it. But they are not the answer unless battery tech gets multitudes more advanced and we can generate clean electricity cheaply.
I would have liked to see some mention of the exposure health impacts of battery fires and progress in terms of putting out the fires.
I get that it rarely happens, but it does happen and these things shouldn't be ignored.
My 12x400Watt Solar power panels are a waste of money, Payback in 10 years and the batteries will not last that long and the Chinese company that makes them will probably not exist then, so will have to change the inverter and batteries ~ payback time.
Oil is really really useful. This is why we should try not to burn it all so we can save it for future generations to use for all kinds of other uses like plastics and dozens of different products/uses.
Purchase cost and fueling convenience are most important to me. I will happily buy an EV when I think it is better than a petrol car (not just driving) . I am sure this will not be to far into the future. I drive a £16000 Hyundai i10, at the moment no EV can compete at this price level
If LED bulbs reduced the demand on the grid so much, why has the cost of electric sky rocketed?
I drive an ev and appreciate many of the benefits, however emf exposure is real in an ev. We still don’t know the long term effects, if any. We need to stay open to potential issues with ev’s if we are going to keep the discussion honest.
The worse thing is when a well respected educated public figure repeats and try to push disinformation on others
I’ve go t an Aptera Solar Electric vehicle on order. It will weigh about 2000#, get up to 40 Miles range per sunny day from the solar panels, 3x as efficient as a typical EV (10 miles/Kwh) and mine is a 600 mile range version. I’ll be easy on the grid, easy on the roads, easy on tires.
At least they try to find some arguments for their case. But still a lot of laughing and going after even a private person who actually talks about his experience as an electric car owner. I could say a lot about all the points they presented, and some day I might do, but it's a lot, so not today. And then I'm not even an "expert". Off course they do not go for the objective analyses. And most of their solutions is in the future and new inventions that might come. Actually we have to deal with what we have. We can not trust in dreams. Still the whole idea "forcing these "things" on us is not going to make anything better. And also there is no need for this new communistic world order. There is no big climate threat around the corner. I can talk about it, but what about listen to both sides, you might be surprised.
Just build small very high efficiency cars. There isn't the infrastructure for this dream.