Reading elsewhere in this blog, its obvious I’m not a fan of electric cars. If we did have more electric cars, which most people can’t afford in any case, where would the electricity come from? We can’t keep shipping wood…
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Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
My wishes for 2024
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Climate We need to stop worldwide deforestation. Now. We need to replace all the rain forest that has been destroyed in the past 30 or 40 years, by planting the equivalent new trees. Then we need to plant some more.…
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SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds
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As I have said on other posts, electric cars need to be big and heavy to get enough batteries to give them the puny range they have. Its a constant battle between weight and range, but extra weight = extra…
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Why electric cars are NOT green machines: The environmental benefit of EVs may never be felt
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The environmental benefit of electric cars may never be felt – with their production creating up to 70 per cent more emissions than their petrol equivalent. Electric cars need to be used for tens of thousands of miles before they offset the…
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Electric Cars are becoming Uninsurable
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Electric cars risk becoming effectively uninsurable as analysts struggle to put a price on battery repairs, the researcher for the car insurance industry has said. Jonathan Hewett, chief executive of Thatcham Research, the motor insurers’ automotive research centre, said a…
Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
I burn dead dinosaurs, I don’t chop and burn trees
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Climate Change, Electric Cars
How to be Greener than an Electric Car
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Not many of us have £50,000 to spend on an electric car, and a second hand one for now at least won’t be anywhere near affordable for the majority of people if the battery is knackered (£15,000 to replace anyone?).…
Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
Self Driving EV’s – Available Now?
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There is a form of self driving electric vehicle, that you don’t get range anxiety with, aren’t just restricted to the few of us that can afford to spend £50,000 on a new car, that poor people should be able…
Climate Change, Electric Cars
Electric Cars will Never Work – Heres Why
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Lets just take the UK as an example. There are over 30 million cars in the UK, of which 1 million are low emission vehicles, presumably electric cars, hybrids or cars that fall into the zero road tax bracket. There…
Climate Change, Electric Cars
Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car
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If this article is anything to go by, its another nail in the coffin of these so called green things that are anything but. It turns out that if your electric car is involved in an accident of any kind,…