Tag: Electric cars

“Fact Checks” and Fecklessness

Join us for Episode 59 of Climate Change Roundtable. This week’s episode features a smackdown of the recent “fact check” that AFP conducted on Heartland’s best-selling and highly acclaimed book, “CLIMATE AT A GLANCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS – Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics.”

The Heartland Institute

Join us for Episode 59 of Climate Change Roundtable. This week’s episode features a smackdown of the recent “fact check” that AFP conducted on Heartland’s best-selling and highly acclaimed book, “CLIMATE AT A GLANCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS – Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics.”

Host Anthony Watts and expert weekly panelists H. Sterling Burnett and Linnea Lueken will demonstrate how AFP simply ignored the facts referenced in Climate at a Glance. Instead, they opted for a zealous attempt to label the book as “propaganda.”

We’ll also cover the shifting priorities of the EPA and Biden administration regarding the new EPA emissions mandate designed to force Americans into electric cars they clearly don’t want.

And finally, we’ll laugh at some of the hate mail sent to the show!

Get your own copy of Climate at a Glance: https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Glance…

EV Sales Stall

To get to the 2030 target, EV sales would have to increase market share by about 10% every year. In other words, by 2024 sales would have to more than double last year’s.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

As has been becoming increasingly apparent, sales of EVs are beginning to stall:

Car Registrations

The market so far has mainly consisted of company car buyers, who are attracted by tax breaks, and eco-minded city drivers. That market now seems to have been more or less optimised.

To get to the 2030 target, EV sales would have to increase market share by about 10% every year. In other words, by 2024 sales would have to more than double last year’s.

I cannot see this happening.

Electric car can cost nearly 50% more to insure than a petrol equivalent

An electric car could cost nearly 50 per cent more to insure than a petrol equivalent in another blow to the UK’s climate ambitions.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Dave Ward

An electric car could cost nearly 50 per cent more to insure than a petrol equivalent in another blow to the UK’s climate ambitions.

Drivers can expect to spend around £650 per year on insurance costs for the most sought-after models compared to about £435 for a petrol vehicle, claims car-selling website Cinch.

It noted a key reason behind the higher cost was that fewer garages around the UK were equipped to repair electric cars even though the cost of fixing them was usually lower due to having fewer moving parts.

Cinch also warned electric cars were due to become subject to road tax in two years, potentially pushing up costs even further.

Road tax and the spectre of higher insurance costs are likely to be a drag on the UK’s climate plans as the Government tries to get more people to switch to electric cars.

Figures last week from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed that while sales of battery electric vehicles reached a record 46,626 in March, they still represented just over 16pc of the market, the same proportion as a year ago.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-11954681/Electric-car-insurance-blow-going-green.html?ico=mol_desktop_money

I suspect one of the main reasons for higher insurance costs is the fact that batteries may need to be replaced, even if only slightly damaged.

Car parks could collapse under the weight of electric cars

Multi-storey car parks across the country could be at risk of collapse as heavier electric vehicles put pressure on ageing infrastructure, experts have warned.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

Oh the joys!

Multi-storey car parks across the country could be at risk of collapse as heavier electric vehicles put pressure on ageing infrastructure, experts have warned.

Car parking experts and engineers have told The Telegraph that the growth of EV use in the UK could put pressure on car park floors, with unloved structures most susceptible to buckling.

So worried are some about the ability of car parks to hold new vehicles that new guidance is being developed that will raise the weight levels for what car park floors should be able to hold.

Chris Whapples, a structural engineer and car park consultant and the author of the new guidance, told The Telegraph: “I don’t want to be too alarmist, but there definitely is the potential for some of the early car parks in poor condition to collapse.”

“Operators need to be aware of electric vehicle weights, and get their car parks assessed from a strength point of view, and decide if they need to limit weight.”

New electric vehicles are much heavier than the average petrol or diesel car. EV batteries account for much of this, usually weighing around 500kg.

‘Toxic batteries’ of electric vehicles to become ‘environmental disaster’: Bernardi

“These toxic batteries, chemicals and solar panels, and wind panels; they are the environmental disaster of two decades time,” Mr. Bernardi told Sky News host Caleb Bond.

Sky News Australia

Sky News host Cory Bernardi says there needs to be more talk around the “disposal costs and dangers” of electric car components, as a recent report found electric cars are worse for the environment than petrol ones.

“These toxic batteries, chemicals and solar panels, and wind panels; they are the environmental disaster of two decades time,” Mr. Bernardi told Sky News host Caleb Bond.