Does it feel as if the world is heading rapidly towards electric car adoption at a speed you can barely comprehend? You’re probably not alone… Here’s why it’s happening.
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The problem I have with EVs is the charging network still relies on proprietary operators who offer limited cross compatibility. With an ICE, you can go to any petrol station. With an EV, you need the right app, or the right subscription, or the right chaging connection.
I am keeping my old petrol car "mothballed" for when the bubble bursts and ev get proper expensive to operate. I only got one as a business user for the tax advantage and I can charge at home and free at work. When the situation changes – which it will – I am going back to petrol
I don't understand why they are trying to force evs on us when there's nothing green about them and they are more polluting that ice cars and that's before they come off the production line all these ev evangelists don't realise the harm that is caused to the environment in the production of these totally useless cars i don't think they will be around much longer. They are already failing nobody wants them 😂
Corrupt government is the reason. It’s not even efficient or good for the environment.
Electric cars are worse in virtually every conceivable way to ICE cars. The government has been totally captured by a mid-wit level rationale of 'CO2 – boogeyman'. Its not only pathetic and anti capitalist, it is downright dangerous to jobs and will make everyone's life worse off.
The review has just been announced and it is useless. The mandate is unchanged but hybrids are going to be allowed until 2035. Big deal. The real issues are lack of public charging, needing an app or dedicated card to charge, range anxiety, ludicrous range claims, any strategy to recycle batteries, and no one seems to be addressing the environmental effect of EVs which are polluting. Is there really a need for EVs other than as city run abouts?
Obviously this ‘force’ doesn’t exist for super rich in supercars as the can has been kicked further down the road only this week 😂😂😂😂😂 it’s only the great unwashed that are being forced to
What you haven't said that In that 18% is Fleet vehicle, and mobility cars. 10% is the private car buyer, the other 8% is the other .
Now car dealers are pre registered cars to save the £12,000 fine. If you look on autotrader you will see electric cars with 300 miles or leas.
The truth is the private car buyer don't want them.
i needed some explanations thanks mate. (glad u got coco pops too) 😛
Ev's won't solve the problem of traffic jams, but bikes, trikes, mobility scooters, buses, trains and trams will?
So it’s not about offering customers whatever they want. Go to LA and sit in traffic with 100,000 cars spewing carbon monoxide every few hours in cars with one driver mindlessly going to work. Not about the driving experience, just vehicles that are destroying our planet. Buy old V12’s for fun and electric cars for our children to enhabit a better planet.
Agenda 21…..all tracked completely. Most will not drive pushed to public transit to work and rent from elites.
if buyers won't buy them new,will they buy second hand ,will they remortgage their home to buy a new battery.
He could it his cereals behind the camera. I don't want to hear his ASMR. Slurping is annoying. Or maybe he thought he was smart.
same question about SUV's why are we forced these tall heavy small boots when estate cars are the best family car by far
just keep £0 , £20 & £35 a year road tax car on the road regardless of maintenance costs
Electric vehicles are gradually replacing fuel-powered (PMS) vehicles, making investments in EV charging stations one of the most promising opportunities available. As the demand for sustainable transportation grows, EV charging infrastructure is becoming the new gold mine for investors.
The UK government won't do the needed steps to make the EV come in by 2035. They will not build the needed infrastructure for them. They create political goals like 2035 with no real plan to get there. I don't know why we don't invest in creating better cleaner fuels as well? Why not have electric and cleaner combustion engines?
I personally find it hilarious how the government steps in and tries to regulate a "free market" economy then throws a fit when the free market economy doesn't play ball. EVs are still in their infancy. They are amazing, yes. However, expecting everyone to jump onboard is ridiculous.
I'd love an EV. However, just like how I wouldn't appreciate my gas tank shrinking over time, I don't really want that out of an EV. Once solid state batteries become a think, I'm hopeful that this will no longer be an issue.
Is Rory trying to be clever by using Granola as the healthy option when it absolutely isn't?
IE, is he trying to claim EVs aren't the green option?
For the record, I'm not one of these haters that simply believes all the anti EV drivel out there.
WEF they want us all off the road do your homework FFS.
The mistake uk legislators made (unlike europe) was picking a technology rather than limiting emissions. Limiting emissions forces manufacturers to refine technologies of their choosing while retaining freemarket benefits
No one’s forcing anyone, but the Toyota bZ4X makes going electric an easy choice. It’s safe, efficient, and good for the environment — plus, it offers great value and a comfortable ride.
Complete scam. Gas will stay forever.
Both products have too much sugar.
I do you one better "WHY IS GAMORA"
It's 3am & I'm going through the kitchen cupboards looking for CoCo Pops!
EV's are a very poor solution to a non existent problem….all a scam
Auto makers should stop forcing crappy ev on the populas and keep making petrol cars at an actual affordable price, and stop with the increase of price every time a new model is released
Im glad that they are no longer forcing ICE vehicles on us. Finally a better option.
There is one huge problem for the government. You cannot force consumers to buy something they don't want. All their targets will succeed in doing will be to decimate the car industry. We know this because it has already started. And yes, public charging fees is a massive issue. Without a really sensible government cap on chaygers EVs will NEVER be an option.
I wish we could get the old affordable Honda Civics & Acuras again from the 90’s – that would be dope
😤💨
I find it hard to like electric cars..most are blunt nosed heavy SUV boxes with poor drag coefficients and poor range and have big price tags I can't afford. Charged by a national electricity supply that is 50% fossil fuel generated. Meanwhile my 13 year old 1.5 diesel does well over 600 miles on a tank…
Also if you live in flat or rented house or terraced house with no off street parking you can't charge at home, so pay more to charge on public chargers…so unfair to poorer households
It's all about control. COVID they controlled us. The public are a lot of sheep who can't think for themselves.
In your scenario Cocoa Puffs are killing people and the environment. Manufacturers need to get it together and put in the work. The technology is there, car makers need to get to engineering
There is no rrason for electric cars climate change is a bullsnhit lie,they refuse to tell us what carbin must be zero,we have nit nearly enough carbin dioxide in the air and they want that at zero then evetything is dead.
Level the playing field by ending all subsidies on EVs and Charging points and let the market decide. I know which car I would bet on.
Top gear tool 3 million a year off Shell, how much does Rory at AutoTrader take from Fossil Fuel sponsors?
I'm off to buy some cereals now
Yes, they heard and they are going to sell us, in the UK, cheaper electricity…pppffff😅😅 like they care about us
Control?
The question I am asking is where are all those flying cars we were promised ? I waiting for them to hit the showrooms.
You all have big government problems over there, better start pushing back befits too late!
not enough, there's no chinese models available, they seem to have been blocked.
Remember, 10% of total CO2 emissions come from transport. Buses, cargo and cruise ships, insane amounts of passenger flights and at the very bottom of the pyramid, privately owned passenger vehicles. This includes heavily populated and unregulated countries. Modern IC engines contribute a negligible amount to the total score. The other 90%?? Government couldn't give a donkey's arse about because they profit directly from those industries.
EVs don’t reduce emissions, they just transfer the pollution from part of the world to another.
You can pollute your part of the world when you build it, so that we can look good when we use it over here.
Only problem Rory you're sponsored by Auto Trader who have interests in EVs, so ever so slightly biased. Apart from that very good analogy thank you 😊