Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

I agree that people should buy what suits their needs, but this is a thread about anti EV articles in the media.

We're debunking the myths and falsehoods that are being peddled in the media. There is a campaign to detract from EV adoption afoot. Whether it's just uninformed people, lazy journalism, deliberately negative PR, or a mixture of all is unclear, but it's happening.

I've no problem with PHEVs and they have their place, and they're perfect for some people, but they're not the silver bullet their made out to be.

Do you mean the media or boards.

Just because someone disagrees didn't mean they are anti some thing.

This thread. And it's more than some people just not liking PHEVs, they come across personally aggrieved that someone would buy one over an EV.

But the idea that there's a grand media conspiracy to downplay EVs because they're in the pockets of some industry or another is a bit far. Car manufacturers themselves are moving away from ICE so who's steering the ship from the murky depths, the oil industry?

Doesn't read like that to me, unless someone takes anyone mentioning any disadvantage of a PHEV personally.

The media is mostly ignoring phevs for some unknown reason. Perhaps BEVs create more clicks.

You can't fill an ICE car at home either. The charging infrastructure is improving annually. The batteries and tech are improving. A 10 year old EV versus a current EV are eons apart. It's also worth noting that there is about 47 years of oil left in known reserves, if its being used at the current levels. Oil is a finite resource, and as the supply dwindles, the price will keep increasing thus making driving inaccessible for many people... supply and demand.

Regarding CO2, you have cherry picked the one thing that suits your agenda and dismissed the rest. It's a familiar trait for those who bash EVs.

When the experts say it's a problem, I listen. The earth is warming, at least you have admitted that, but to say the saturation point has been reached is ridiculous. Have you a time machine that you've used to see into the future? Nobody knows if there is a 'saturation point', or what that point is. The only thing we know is that if it keeps rising, we're screwed and if it gets to the point of no return, we won't be able to do anything to reverse it.

The experts have given their view on the critical temperature where atmospheric changes will be irreversible, and this is not like a pot on the stove that we can just take off. I'd rather not find out what happens if we hit that temperature because no amount of apologies or admissions of being wrong will make a blind bit of difference.

What do people do with an ICE. They fill it somewhere else then drive around all week until they need to fill it up again.

They could quite easily charge an EV somewhere else and drive around all week until they need to fill it up again.

I did it before I had a home charger fitted.

Briscoe was never a patch on Michael McAleer and with EV’s in particular he’s getting worse. Probably related to the fact he doesn’t get a free tank of fuel to use with each press car when he has to review an EV.

A long term question but whats Musk's long term view?, I have this memory that its a solar electric world? ive been more in the it should be a nuclear electric world as the backbone

Kinda, there was one done about 2009 wher eite was 100kkm was the break even point, but that was focused on all the worse case scenarios and that was the build cost of the ice vs the build AND running damage on the ev. , now the 50kkm seems to be the worst case for build and running of the ev and the ice, but, best case is only 20kkm for the ev to be better. either way teh ice will only damage more the longer its on the road, espcially compairing old to new ice

so, its more of an update with better data then debunked.

still he is not to be ignored that he knows which way the wind is blowing (excuse the pun) . Self driving Electric is a no brainer, but what's behind it is another issue

Not following, sorry.

If it comes along then yeah absolutely. If it doesn't at least you have nice cars to drive