Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Gumbo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121885302#Comment_121885302

+1

Nothing major in the complaints but he gives a decent review and mostly is fair and on the middle. I’ve never found him to be biased away from EV’s and @MarkN has had some nice ICE cars over the years. Still has his toe in the radio scene so that’s his side hustle 😂

No harm questioning him but it’s still the same old statement that runs true….Non EV owners worry and stress about EV’s more than actual EV owners!

yllw.ldbttr

Pro EV article for a change.

https://m.independent.ie/farming/comment/jim-obrien-how-were-using-the-old-battery-from-our-electric-car-to-run-the-house/a1328404739.html

witnessmenow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121886427#Comment_121886427

I have a YT channel (not super active recently), majority of my videos are about a fairly niche topic (arduinos) and in general there is not a lot of negativity around that type of content.

But I have branched out into other bit of content a few times, robot lawnmowers for example and there is some difference in the type of comments I get on those videos! And I guess there are even some similarities between the types of comments on EV and robot lawn mower videos, people giving out about this "new" approach for doing things going against what has been done for years, that despite being cheaper and potentially more convenient in some use cases, you'll pry their petrol tools out of their cold dead hands before they'd use a robot lawn mower.

People complained that im lazy, that its too slow, that they don't have pretty lines and then on the exact other end of the coin, people complaining about how bad lawns are for the environment and they are a waste of water (that is certainly not an Irish complaint!). It's the only video on my channel that has ever received comments about my appearance too :D

I got offered a robot lawnmower for review that was about to be on kickstarter, when I told the company i'd be happy to review, but I'd have to include a portion of the risks of backing something on KS, they stopped replying. When I made a video about that mower and mentioned this, people were complaining that I was just sour that they didn't send me one. I said in the video that unless the product is already made, there is no way they will ship on time, sure enough they didn't ship on time, but I still had people commenting when they received their product, a year late I might add, that I needed to eat humble pie!

But thats just part of YT, you throw something out there and hopefully people like it. I'm sure the majority of people who watch enjoy his content, he just needs to write off the minority as noise. I couldn't believe how many times he brought up the Stellantis comment, he was clearly really bothered about this, who gives a crap, just ignore them!

I'm sure he'd like to grow his channel more, but as YT starts recommending the channel to more and more people, your going to get more and more of the negative people too, so he's only going to get more negative comments, no matter what he does.

It's easier for me cause its not my job, a video does well or badly, there is still food on the table, so I do have sympathy , I do think people think its a much easier thing to do that it is, but the negative comments are just part of it unfortunately.

munchkin_utd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121884725#Comment_121884725

interestingly he is saying that a portion of the negative commenters are people who themselves or someone close to them had bought a particular ev brand or model and got stung on (long overdue, consumer friendly, opening Evs to more than just rich people or early adopters) price cuts and have rants against that model or brand because of the price cut.

Funny how many anti ev people get wound up because Evs are so expensive but he is seeing Ev owners getting even more wound up because they have ceased to be expensive!

MrMusician18

Most ridiculous article in the Belfast Telegraph today. John Laverty dumps his electric car but couldn't be happier. Article is replete with image of what I presume is an EV in a skip.

Only issue is that Laverty was actually driving a PHEV and just didn't want to use his petrol engine.

So he got rid of it for a petrol car. I don't understand myself how someone could write an article like that and not be embarrassed tbh.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121892579#Comment_121892579

Its published in Indo too

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/john-laverty-ive-just-dumped-my-electric-car-and-i-couldnt-be-happier/a239134145.html

Got to get the word out to as many people as possible. Evs bad.

ColemanY2K

i'm sure i read on the forum last week about a guy in england who had some sort of failure with the braking system in his Jag I-Pace. The car sped up to 90mph or so before the cops boxed him in and forced the car to a stop. needless there was an anti ev vibe to the stories and it wasn't long before a rabid mob formed in the comments section of the articles which reported the incident and of course on twitter.

lo and behold this week the geezer was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and causing a public nuisance after jaguar looked into into the incident for the police. looks like he made the whole thing up to try and get off with speeding. love the way JLR put it "‘Where there has been an investigation into reports of uncommanded acceleration, they have been confirmed as driver-commanded application of the accelerator pedal." 🤣

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/man-arrested-after-jlr-investigates-reports-jaguar-i-pace-unintentionally-accelerated/299210

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121892579#Comment_121892579

I must admit I had to google him to see what he looks like. I was not disappointed.

v10

Another EV bashing Irish Independent article, this time not even and EV but a PHEV !

<<snip>> do not post paywalled articles

OP would you not just post a link as opposed to copying and pasting the article across multiple posts?

Gumbo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894689#Comment_121894689

The link is behind a paywall.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894693#Comment_121894693

Not when you archive it 🤣

edit: https://archive.ph/BEEpK

there we go.

Atlantic Dawn

How in the jaysus could anyone have range anxiety in a PHEV, proper uneducated fool.

Gumbo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894701#Comment_121894701

Agh that’s better then. 😂

Gumbo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894705#Comment_121894705

Just another motoring journalist wing a door. Maybe afraid of the hands that feeds them. Or the lack of buyers for physical papers so he needs to have some clickbait.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894729#Comment_121894729

Keep the life hack in mind!! Can be very useful 🤣

Dayor Knight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121893015#Comment_121893015

Yes, a completely B.S. article.

liamog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121895104#Comment_121895104

My favourite part has to be

The task invariably meant using the car’s clever regenerative deceleration — resulting in other drivers blaring horns in anger at the slowcoach idiot crawling towards a set of traffic lights.

In 7 years of driving cars with some level of regen I've never had a person behind me beep the horn whilst approaching a red light.

Buddy Bubs

I don't think he even had one. It's not realistic at all, doesn't read like my real world experience. I've had phev and bev.

He never mentions a model or make or anything

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121802867#Comment_121802867

This popped up today

https://www.ft.com/content/0985f16c-105c-4b62-aa80-3658fa9b629a

looks like manufacturers cooperating is on the cards

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121895162#Comment_121895162

And it's the most read article now on the Indo website. His job is done.

MojoMaker

Didn't realise he was John Laverty, ex-motorcycle racer, and brother to two very successful World Superbike racers. Clearly a family love for petroleum...and what harm.

Rubbish article though, I don't think his professional future lies in journalism.

KCross

Rubbish article though, I don't think his professional future lies in journalism.

He did a newstalk interview earlier and they also got the car dealer lady (Ashford?) to come on too to add more salt to the wound!

Range anxiety in a PHEV!! 🙈... he needs his ar*e kicked! He's getting his clicks I suppose!

zg3409

Councillors and the council thinking about it.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121897637#Comment_121897637

Last interview I seen her do she was talking about an iPhone battery and keeping the battery at room temp.

Fair play to her for getting free advertisement but she is a small dealer who less than 1% of the market will ever buy off her so honestly she is totally irrelevant.

When you see Adrian Kennedy doing an bit on it today you can imagine the type of people who are saying they will never buy EV.

Let them off in my opinion. Some people will never cop on

bruschi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121895115#Comment_121895115

My favourite bit is this. Pretty much EV scaremongering bingo - massive depreciation, check. happened to a nameless friend, check. complete lies about the value, mileage and offer, check. No manufacture or car model name? check.

"But not as much as the pal who paid £70k for his all-electric motor around the same time as me and was offered £27k for it last week — a 65pc drop, for a car that had only 5k miles on the clock"

His "friend" drove on average 63 miles per week in his car, yet was offered 65% off the retail value. Someone, somewhere, is getting an absolute bargain.

Hotblack Desiato

Someone, somewhere is telling porkie pies for personal gain.

bruschi

I see Ashford motors are getting a huge amount of free advertising with their anti ev stance. Great that they also admitted on their instagram that they exaggerated their claims, and that a "child would have known they were exaggerating." I'm not entirely sure thats how interviews work though to be honest, plenty of idiots believe the rubbish stated particularly if its not challenged. and then when people are challenging it, go running to instagram to say people cant handle the truth. an endless cycle of rubbish, with Ashford motors getting plenty of air time and new followers

spudwiser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121912202#Comment_121912202

I reported them on Instagram for spreading false information. Probably won't make a dent but at least it blocks their account for me.

Orebro

https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/2024/03/20/used-ev-bargains-to-be-had-at-auction-but-should-you-take-the-plunge/

More nonsense from this Neil Briscoe guy - it seems he'll print any auld quote from people talking out their behinds.