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Electric Vehicles – Red Herring?

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  • November 18, 2019 at 7:52 am #952685
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    hawkinspeter

    Thanks ktache – that’s a good

    Thanks ktache – that’s a good summary of the points.

    @CyclingInBeastMode – I didn’t know Labour were thinking of doing that. Seems like a poor idea to me unless they can ensure that the subsidies only go to people who would otherwise be driving ICE vehicles and would need the money. It seems to me that a lot of the EV promotion is aimed at people with a reasonable income and is almost a status symbol. As much as I would prefer each ICE vehicle to be replaced with an EV (if only for reduction in pollution), it perpetuates the road building/driving mindset and ignores the benefits of practical public transport and active travel.

    Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like all our politicians are just fiddling while Rome (the world) burns?

    November 18, 2019 at 2:32 am #952683
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    Anonymous

    Been saying this for a while,

    Been saying this for a while, Corbyn is backing using tax payers money to help fund EVs for all with free loans, frankly it’s a disgrace that Labour are backing this crap ‘solution’!

    Currently at the very least 40% of the UKs electricty is produced through burning fossil fuels, that would increase as EVs become more numerous as it would out-strip increases in renewables, which in themselves cause more pollutoon from being built and so many of them are unreliable. We could have tidal using the great rivers but various governments have poo-pood the idea – the last plan I heard about was around the time of the UK going for the 2012 Olympic games and the cost of a tidal barrier at the Severn was about the cost of hosting he Olympics. The government could have produced about 6% of the nations energy requirement at the time which would be an even larger % as overall energy use has gone down.

    All that said storage is the massive problem, having millions of small batteries connected (within motors) is deemed to be the solution for that, ignoring the pollution and cost of getting all the infra rolled out at the cost of hundreds of billions, even just having charging ports everywhere is going to cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money reduce the space available such that cycle lanes and footways will be narrowed or not be fitted in because there’ll need to be charging ports along every single effing road in the country pretty much, especially in residential and built up areas.

    EV promotion ignores so many problems from backing it, never mind the cost to human life from not getting people out of motors.

    Something like this as an electric assist that could be used for longer journeys would pique my interest, however it’d need its own solar panels/heat absorbing materials to produce energy and have the capacity to carry luggage or even a normal bike, lose the fancy wheels and extra crap that adds weight.

    It’s the weight of EVs that kills the range and EVs are ridiculously heavy not just due to abtteries but because of all the added tech, safety aids and many other such bollocks. With the most effecient speed for EVs being circa 18mph, that would be another reason why we should have 20 mph zones standard across all built up areas.

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