{"id":265656,"date":"2023-07-06T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265656"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:13:13","slug":"ev-fantasia-hits-multiple-speed-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265656","title":{"rendered":"EV Fantasia hits multiple speed bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, newspapers in the UK appear to be full of Carmageddon<\/a> headlines.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to NetZeroWatch<\/a> and Ballyb, for the compilation of EV warning signs on the road to West Debacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big advantage of an EV used to be the cheap fill but that\u2019s all changed in the least year with the energy crisis. If the workers can\u2019t afford to turn on the oven to cook a Sunday Roast,<\/a> they can hardly afford to power up a car.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a bit of a bombshell last week, Volkswagon admitted that people weren\u2019t buying their electric cars, quaintly referring to this phenomenon as \u201cstrong consumer reluctance\u201d<\/em>. Sales were so bad though, 30% down on forecasts, that they have closed the factory at Emden,<\/a> Germany for six weeks and are sacking 300 out of 1,500 staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the UK is speeding towards the 2030 EV mandate five years faster than the rest of the world, and the backlash is growing. A Daily Mail poll<\/a> finds only 1 in 4 people think it\u2019s a good idea to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Fully 53% of people don\u2019t like it. Is the UK a democracy or not? Manufacturing and industry leaders are using words like \u201cruinous\u201d and talking of \u201cthe end of UK car production.\u201d They\u2019re warning that 800,000 UK jobs are at risk. Nothing about this makes sense. EV\u2019s are a lousy way to change the weather. No one even knows if EV\u2019s will reduce carbon dioxide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment in the UK 36 cars are fighting over every public charging site. Electricity demand is expected to double in the UK due to EV\u2019s yet there is no plan to provide the extra capacity. Perhaps the real plan is to get half the country onto electric buses\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electric car \u2018revolution\u2019 is a disaster before it\u2019s begun<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Politicians are forcing electric cars on a public that doesn\u2019t want them<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Marlow, The Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electric car revolution is stalling, of that there can no longer be any doubt. It has left the big global carmakers floundering\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s the setback at VW that stands out, raising serious questions about whether politicians are making the catastrophic mistake of forcing electric cars on a public that doesn\u2019t want them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it for a second: an entire industry not only forced to abandon a product that the vast majority of people still want and use, but also bullied into channelling all its resources into making something on a colossal level that there simply isn\u2019t the market for \u2013 at least not within the horrendously short timeframe that is being imposed on car manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s industrial self-sabotage and a commercial, economic and social catastrophe in the making.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mandating EVs is an \u201cassault on the working class\u201d says Joel Kotkin.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

EV owners are wealthier, the cars are more expensive, and mandates will put owning a car out of reach of the unwashed masses\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rush to electric cars is a colossal mistake<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Spiked Online<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Replacing the massive $3 trillion global car industry<\/a> is an extremely high-risk economic gamble, particularly for the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In simple terms, the push for EVs represents an assault on the working class. Two-thirds of all EV owners<\/a> have incomes in excess of $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EV mandates<\/a> are also likely to force up the price of now restricted traditional cars. In the meantime, greens will demand higher fuel prices to reduce drivers\u2019 consumption of the demon petrol. Ultimately, as even the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> recently admitted, electric vehicles are hastening a return to conditions not seen since the early 20th century, when the automobile was a luxury item. \u2018New cars, once part of the American Dream, [are] now out of reach for many\u2019, it notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just to repeat\u2026 None of this makes sense. Even if people have a religious fixation on climate change, this isn\u2019t the path to salvation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economist Bjorn Lomborg<\/a> calculates that a wholesale shift to EVs will lead to a reduction of global temperatures of no more than 0.0002 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kotkin asks \u201cwho benefits\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n

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So, who wins here? Certainly not middle- or working-class families for whom climate change<\/a> barely registers as a primary concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026the biggest winner is China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, China<\/a> produces twice as many EVs as the US and the EU combined. Its leading EV maker, BYD<\/a>, is now the world\u2019s largest. Its electric-car exports are expected to almost double this year, helping it to overtake Japan as the biggest car exporter worldwide, according to the South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has control of much of the worlds rare metals. Giving up an industry with a century of expertise and mass public support for a new high risk industry that depends on foreign supply lines needs some explanation. No one believes we\u2019re doing it to fix the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joel Kotkin<\/strong> is a spiked<\/em> columnist, the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His latest book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism<\/a><\/em>, is out now. Follow him on Twitter: @joelkotkin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image by OpenIcons<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a>  |  Das Logo der Marke Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge <\/a>  | VW EV Photo by Vogler<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a young climate-change tzar,
Bought a brand new all E.V. car,
Found that very few joints,
Had quick charging points,
Means this car can\u2019t venture too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013Ruairi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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