Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Its like an Eskimo boasting about buying a fridge.

if you have only used 100 euro of fuel I'm struggling to think when you would have needed to use public charging

Two trips iirc, one to Dublin, one to west Clare for a long weekend. Maybe it was up to €150, I don’t recall that precisely.

taxi from portlaoise to cork one way is €250 8 years ago. I paid it once when a wheel bearing failed in my w203 at 2am.

not completely sure why I would take a taxi rather than put petrol in a car though!!!

This is based on data from 2013 to 2017 so it's basically completely irrelevant, but it's done the job of generating many headlines that I've seen both here and abroad.

One reason that it's irrelevant is that the main hypothesis is that it's due to the lack of engine noise, which has of course since been rectified as all EVs are required by law to generate a fake engine sound for pedestrian safety and have done for years now.

Another reason why I would question the finding is that it is based on number of pedestrian collisions per million miles driven of each fuel type. But for the time period covered the vast majority of electric vehicles were much lower range than they are today, with early Leafs being dominant. These vehicles would do the vast majority of their driving in urban areas, where all the pedestrians are, while ICE vehicles in this period would have covered far more motorway miles, thus "watering down" the amount of mileage where they could possibly have been in an incident with a pedestrian. I think a "per journey" or "per urban mile driven" statistic would have made a lot more sense, though data probably doesn't exist for that.

Data must surely exist for more recent years than 2017 though and with modern EVs now excelling at longer distances the comparison would be a bit more balanced, it would be interesting to see if there is actually any difference nowadays. I suspect not.

From how I'm reading it, it was very close when they heard it.

very true my 2020 etron made no noise, i often had to open the window to let people know i was behind them in car parks etc if they were walking in the middle of the lane, my current one makes a pretty audible spaceship noise !

ICE cars have running into people for a hundred years. Obviously hearing them isn't the safety feature you'd assume.