Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Feels very similar to the conspiracy stuff. For sure there's some truths in there, but its drowned in hysteria and hyperbole.

You know I see the same thing at work. People in meetings pluck bat crazy statistics out of thin air. People seem to assume no one will check anything that is said.

Promoting how they resolved the issue to the customers satisfaction would be a far better sales tactic than tabloid social media sound bites. Which seems to have just as much negative responses.

But people are obviously sucked into it without thinking too hard about it. Lack of critical thinking imo.

You shouldn't lead with defending something, that no one has challenged. It sets a negative tone from the start.

Several things to consider here.

1) note that she had to go to a Hybrid car for a real life story to back up her EV stance.

I would like to know what kind of hybrid it was.

Not only is the traditional "self charging" Toyota Hybrid one of the best modern ICE cars for reliability.

But from what I can see Toyotas back up service when things go wrong is very good.

I'm wondering if the Hybrid is actually a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV where Mitsubishi are no longer in Ireland.

This would be further complicated if the vehicle was actually out of Mitsubishi warranty but sold by the dealer under the dealers own warranty..

Mitsubishi were quite active in the PHEV game too - they were doing it on Outlanders before lots of the other manufacturers got into PHEVs.

It seems obvious to me that if it was a manufacturer still actively selling cars in Ireland and the part was still under its relevant warranty from new.

Then in a "we literally dont make the part anymore" situation. The obvious end game is that the manufacturer would have to find some alternative way to ensure the customer is looked after.

Anyway the fact she couldn't line up a bad BEV story for her stance is rather telling to me.

2) let's reflect for a moment her target audience. She does petrol head type cars as a flagship component of her business.

Her videos will frequently appeal to petrolheads.

Many of whom will lap up a good negative EV story because many will be sceptical of EVs.

3) she talks of EV batteries being 20 k to replace. But is imposing a blanket EV ban even on cars that still have battery warranty left.

She would refuse to sell a 3 year old EV with 30,000 kms even though there's 5 years or 130,000 kms warranty left from the manufacturer on that "20,000 euro warranty".

4) because of the way anti EV stories spread this is actually good publicity in terms of selling her used ICE cars...

Even if its just sceptical of EV drivers valuing her "honesty" and deciding she's someone worth buying from.

If I found the right website for her she actually sells a variety of ICE cars. She had a 1.4 Auris diesel for example.

This is the kind of arguments the EV is coming up against in the press. Some are vehemently anti EV

It seems to me that the whole hydrogen hype is just another example of ethanol as a petrol alternative, promote a technology which cannot economically work to divert resources away from EVs which do work.

The whole point of hydrogen and hydrogen promoters is that it doesn't work. I bet if you dig down you will find that the hydrogen boosters are all petro shills.

Her target market is obvious. I suppose there's just no need for these videos. Even with Harry's garage you have to wonder if his reasoning is disingenuous. I know dealers like Nadia are worried about EVs and I get it because they've been selling used ICE cars for years and a time will come when they have to change their business model. If anyone is familiar with Tony Gravelwood on YouTube, he spouts the same stuff. He's terrified of EVs but the market is volatile at the moment and second hand dealers are blaming EVs which I can kind of understand. Being a second hand EV dealer would be challenging in these times.

Tesla are in a price war for market share with Chinese manufacturers. That's the only reason they are dropping prices. It's competition that's mostly driving the fall in prices.

You can buy an ID4 in china for 18500 euro and a model 3 for 32000 euro.

Yes, EV owners know that but try telling everyone else.

The reference to tyres and brakes emitting more particulates than burning fuel... that's extremely disingenuous given that

1. ICE cars produce just as much of those particulates as BEVs do (actually much more brake dust as regen braking doesn't create dust the same way friction braking does)
2. They are almost certainly measuring the particulates by weight, but its actually the smallest particulates that are most harmful to human health, these are known as pm 2.5 emissions. (emissions smaller than 2.5 microns) Tyre and Brake emissions are considered PM10 emissions, in that they can irritate eyes and cause breathing issues in high concentrations, but they do not penetrate deep into the lungs and cause more long term serious respiratory distress
3. PM 2.5 emissions are also more persistent in the atmosphere as they can remain suspended for longer, while heavier pm10s are more of an acute problem that more quickly settle on surfaces and get captured as surface pollution, rather than air pollution.

Also, the reference to deaths from mining cobalt and lithium... they never mention the millions of deaths per year caused by inhaling smoke from petrol and diesel engines, a significantly higher number than the 2k deaths per year they mention from mining accidents. Also, when they're pretending to be outraged over some children working in cobalt mines, the fact that amongst the millions of deaths caused by burning are 230k children under 5 every year slips past their radar....

The amount of CO2 produced by a typical ICE car driven for 12 months or about 16k kms is about 5 tonnes. This is about the typical amount of CO2 it takes to create the batteries for typical BEV, a single BEV can pay back the CO2 cost of manufacture vs an ICE car in 12 months, or 10k Miles, if all the electricity used to charge the vehicle comes from a renewable source. the sums get much more complex when you add in emissions created when generating the electricity, but it's nowhere near 50k miles to pay off that carbon debt, or you're comparing very different use cases involving long range BEVs that have big batteries, typically, a BEV that has a big battery will be doing big mileage, and so they would actually overtake the equivalent ICE in lifetime emissions car even faster as the majority of emissions in the lifetime of a ICE car come from burning oil to power the vehicle.

My news feeds are absolutely crammed with 'EV is dead, Hydrogen is the answer' articles recently. It's obviously a campaign run by the fossil fuel industry to spread 'FUD' around any potential BEV owner, to get them to delay their purchase or buy another ICE while 'waiting' for the miraculous Hydrogen cars that will never come

In reality, hydrogen fuel station networks are declining, Hydrogen vehicle sales are falling, the costs of building and maintaining a H2 vehicle are much much higher than BEV or ICE and the fuel costs would be way way higher.

It's absolutely blatant disinformation by the Fossil fuel industry to suggest that H2 will overtake BEVs for personal transport.