Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Sounds reasonable.

Was just out on a grocery run and radio nova was on, don’t know the full context as they were mid conversation when I turned on but they were talking about general environmental stuff, recycling, bee friend gardens etc, then they turned to EVs and immediately the host started blurting out the usual fossil fuel industry talking points - range anxiety, it’s impossible to get from Dublin to Galway in even the longest range EV apparently, hybrids are better for the environment, Toyota’s hydrogen cars are just around the corner, hydrogenated vegetable oil has none of the disadvantages of EVs so that’s also a better option. It’s utterly depressing.

They’re burning it now

This vehicle is not some new-fangled electric car – it is a Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (HICEV).

https://pressroom.toyota.com/the-familiarity-of-sound-sensation-without-all-of-the-carbon-toyota-refines-its-hydrogen-engine-corolla-concept/

Much less pollution with HVO. But there so many other issues with HVO it's not considered a viable replacement for all ICE fuels.

The low power kettles work, but will blow the fuse if used with the TV, or obviously the gas hob ones

I think you're getting caught up anyway in the smaller detail. The reason for the PHEV is to be able to do long journeys and long holidays in a mobile home without worrying about charging.

Range anxiety is over inflated. Last weekend I had a wedding in Connemara. I drove from Dublin, used 2/3 of battery one way. The hotel had 6 or 8 chargers I can't remember. I plugged in, had my night out and after breakfast drove back home using again 2/3 of the battery. 500 km not a minute of anxiety. In the last 5 years I drove on average 30,000 km a year. Again not a sweat. There are so many examples of such drives on this forum but we still consider EVs hysteric. Here is a good one. Did any of the mainstream media talk with Thomas?

We have chargers in work, great option for reps and people without home chargers. They have been offline all week. Head of facilities doesn't rate EV s, thinks it's a scam and has no interest in fixing the bay of 8 chargers. It's this type of person fooled by the bull in the media that will ruin it for everyone. No doubt people in local councils and government bodies and in positions similar dragging their heals on infrastructural projects because they are gullible.

At the actual tailpipe the emission reduction is fairly negligible from what I've read - there's a study here that puts it at a 4% reduction in conclusion, though it's complicated and varies with ambient temperatures and other testing parameters and ratios of different emission types vary too.

The headline figure that gets advertised is often 90%, which is when you compare the entire supply chain before arriving in your fuel tank versus that of oil, and in particular consider the CO2 that gets sucked out of the air by the plants that are grown to produce the HVO. It's also a waste product of the food industry so it's recycled - though this of course means that CO2 was being pulled out of the air regardless of the HVO being produced or not so there's some creative accounting going on there in my opinion. The other issue is that to do it at mass scale there isn't enough waste product out there so it would need significant land use that would be better for the environment if left to natural vegetation.

I think it has a place to help in the transition and could be a long term solution for keeping older vehicles on the road, but probably not a mainstream future solution.

As far as I can tell EV range anxiety is much higher among people that don't drive EVs than people that do.

Workplace charging is receipe for resentment and annoyance. In my old workplace (public sector and fairly toxic) when the idea of workplace charging was raised a few years ago, the reaction from senior decision makers was "shur we don't provide diesel pumps for staff so why should we provide chargers".

Even if chargers had been installed, guaranteed that some of or all of the following problems would have occurred

-awkward and selfish individuals hogging the chargers and nobody tackling them over it

-morons manging to break the chargers through roughness and clumsiness

-chargers not maintained/fixed because the person assigned the role didn't want the job or give a sh*t as he drives a diesel himself

Easily changed?

You've never working in the public sector so.

"No one's being forced to buy an EV or PHEV. You can buy and run a ICE same as you always could"

For now you're not forced to but in 10 years time you will be, and this causes resentment towards EVs.

EVs have their place but in decades to come a huge percentage of people will be denied the opportunity to drive at all because of the ICE ban. This is probably the real plan all along, with the climate emergency nonsense used as the excuse, and the public can sense this.

There would be a lot less anti-EV sentiment if the ICE ban wasn't there and EVs were seen as an alternative that would suit a lot of people's needs. 

Worry about that in a decade not today. If it happens. Which isn't likely. Nothing stopping someone from buying a diesel to day. They should do that instead of complaining about EVs they don't have to buy.