The False Promises of Electric Vehicles Are Being Exposed

 Shipping giant Matson declared last week that it would no longer transport electric vehicles (EVs) or plug-in hybrids on its vessels, citing the fire risks posed by lithium-ion batteries. This decision, effective immediately, followed the catastrophic sinking of the carrier Morning Midas earlier in June. The blaze, which aerial imagery showed billowing from the ship’s stern, underscored the perilous nature of lithium-ion battery fires — intense, almost impossible to extinguish, and prone to reignition.

Lithium-ion battery fires, as seen in incidents like the Morning Midas, Felicity Ace (2022), and Fremantle Highway (2023), are a unique hazard. These fires, driven by thermal runaway — a rapid, self-heating reaction — burn hotter than conventional fires, produce toxic gases and can reignite days or weeks later. In response, some German cities have banned EVs from underground parking due to fire risks, and a Norwegian ferry operator has prohibited them outright.

Matson’s move is a stark symbol of a broader reckoning: the electric vehicle revolution, once heralded as the inevitable future of mobility, has come full circle. Like a Rorschach test, the EV experience has exposed its hollow promises, revealing a deeper pathology in Western society’s obsession with ‘green’ ideals....<<<Read More>>>....

Labour to Reintroduce Grants for Electric Cars to ‘Bribe’ Motorists

 Labour will give out new grants for electric cars, the Department for Transport has confirmed, despite a previous scheme that failed to spark enthusiasm for EVs being scrapped three years ago. The Telegraph has more.

Drivers will be able to reduce the purchase cost of a new electric car by up to £3,750 for vehicles priced up to £37,000.

Officials hope the measure will encourage more drivers to switch to electric motoring, after Labour pledged to ban the sale of new fully petrol or diesel cars and vans from 2030.

The DfT said 33 new electric vehicle (EV) models were available for less than £30,000.

Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, said: “This EV grant will not only allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money, it’ll help our automotive sector seize one of the biggest opportunities of the 21st century.

“And with over 82,000 public charge points now available across the UK, we’ve built the infrastructure families need to make the switch with confidence.”

Drivers buying electric cars can benefit from tax breaks if their employer has a company car scheme, but there have been no universally available grants since they were axed by the Conservative government in June 2022.

Labour has been criticised for its pledge on electric cars, with some motorists reluctant to switch to them for fear of being stranded on long journeys.

The grants will be funded through a new £650 million scheme, and the amount buyers can claim will be based on a car’s “sustainability criteria”, the DfT said.

The greenest vehicles will be in band one and eligible for grants of up to £3,750, while band two vehicles will receive up to £1,500.

Car manufacturers will be able to apply for the money through the electric car grant from Wednesday....<<<Read More>>>...

The environmental devastation and loss of life in Indonesia caused by China’s EV industry

 7 News Spotlight is a series of investigative specials from 7 News Australia that focuses on major breaking news events and long-form investigations of national significance.

In April, Spotlight released a documentary about the dirty truth behind so-called “clean, green” electric vehicles (”EVs”) and how China is getting away with causing a toxic environmental catastrophe.

Reporter Liam Bartlett was smuggled into Indonesia’s Morowali Industrial Park, the world’s largest nickel processing facility, producing 50% of global nickel supply.

“Having returned from witnessing what must rank as one of the world’s worst industrial landscapes, all in the name of the ‘green EV revolution’, I can safely say that anyone who genuinely cares for the future of the planet would be horrified by the damage that is being done by our northern neighbour, Indonesia, with the financial backing of China,” he said.

He went on to describe how the EV sector’s reliance on fossil-fuel fired power stations and nickel from Indonesia, produced with lax environmental and labour standards, undermines its “green” reputation.

Indonesia’s nickel mining complexes, backed by China’s Belt and Road initiative, have devastating environmental and health impacts, including air and water pollution, respiratory illnesses and fatalities among labourers, he said.

The Australian government’s inaction and subsidies for Chinese EV makers, despite the loss of 7,000 jobs in Australia’s nickel industry, highlight a lack of leadership and hypocrisy in promoting a “green” future....<<<Read More>>>...

Electric Cars Crash in Value With Some Worth Just a Third of Original Price After One Year

 Electric cars are crashing in value with some worth as little as a third of their original price after just 12 months. The Mail has the story.

EVs in general have suffered catastrophic depreciation since the end of 2022 when a cocktail of issues sent used prices into a downward spiral.

This perfect storm hit almost simultaneously, involving a cost-of-living crisis, rocketing energy prices, hard-hitting media coverage of EVs, an oversupply of vehicles entering the second-hand market, and Tesla slashing new model prices.

It quickly brewed into a destructive tornado for used electric car values.

Three years later, this punishing depreciation is still hitting EV values – and to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds for owners who bought them outright and leasing and financing companies burdened with undervalued vehicles, according to data shared with This is Money and MailOnline.

Cap hpi – experts in the field of vehicle pricing – provided us with market information showing troubling EV residual values compared to cars of other fuel types, while also revealing the models that haemorrhage the most money after only 12 months.

To understand what’s stalling a recovery for second-hand EV prices, we also spoke to industry insiders to get their perspective on the crippling impact for the motor sector....<<<Read More>>>...

Electric vehicles collect huge amounts of data including psychological, genetic and health information

 A recent investigative report on Channel 5 explored the data security and privacy risks of electric cars.

According to a cybersecurity campaigner, electric vehicles capture and store a huge amount of data, including location details, facial expressions, and genetic and health information, which are shared with various organisations, including data brokers.

A computer engineer highlighted cybersecurity failures in EV chargers. Using the example of one brand of charger, he explained how hackers are able to easily steal the EV owner’s wi-fi password.

On 6 June, Channel 5 aired an investigative report titled ‘Electric Cars: Are They Really Worth It?’. The programme explored the viability of purchasing an electric vehicle, examining factors such as cost, range realities and charging truths. It featured comparisons between electric and traditional petrol cars, including discussions on maintenance costs and environmental impact.

Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel and streaming service that can only be viewed if you are in the UK. If you are in the UK, you can create an account on Channel 5’s website and watch their investigation into electric vehicles (“EV”) for free HERE.

If you are outside the UK, you can watch it for free on the Documentary Area website HERE. The only problem is that you have to put up with an annoying watermark which has been placed across the middle of the screen for the entire documentary.

The section we want to draw our readers’ attention to is the final 9 minutes or so about data security and privacy risks. This segment begins at timestamp 35:12.

“Most people today just simply won’t be aware of the data that is actually being captured by a vehicle,” cybersecurity campaigner Martin said. “They certainly won’t be aware of how it’s being used or how it’s being shared.”

EVs are heavily reliant on computer software to manage the vehicle as a whole and interact with their external environment, for example, the car’s keys. “[With the keys on your person, the car] is generating and storing a huge amount of data as soon as you get near the car,” Martin said...<<<Read More>>>....

China unveils game-changing SODIUM BATTERY standard

 As the world scrambles for sustainable energy storage solutions, China has taken a revolutionary leap, unveiling the first national standard for sodium-ion batteries — an innovation that could reshape global energy independence. 

Ehe GB/T 44265-2024 certification, enacted in April 2024, sets rigorous benchmarks for performance, safety, and longevity in grid-scale energy storage. Highstar Sodium Battery, a subsidiary of Jiangsu Highstar Battery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., became the first company certified, proving that sodium-ion technology is not just viable — it’s superior.

For decades, lithium-ion batteries have dominated the EV and energy storage sectors, propped up by corporate interests and government subsidies. However, critical flaws linger...<<<Read More>>>....

 

Second-hand Teslas flood the market as Elon Musk faces British backlash

 British drivers are offloading Teslas in record numbers amid a political backlash against Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive.

Figures from Auto Trader showed that 4,822 second-hand Teslas were advertised on the car site in February and 4,639 in January, a significant increase on previous months.

The number put up for sale in February was up 36pc from December and up 70pc from the same month last year.

It comes as the company faces growing competition among electric car makers. Meanwhile, Mr Musk’s closeness to Donald Trump and support for far-Right European parties has divided opinion.

The number of second-hand Teslas advertised on Auto Trader has risen steadily over time, as increasing numbers of motorists who acquired new cars several years ago put them up for sale.

However, the rise in listings between December and January was the biggest month-on-month increase on record.

Second-hand Tesla prices have also fallen heavily as more owners put them on the market. A three-year-old Model 3 cost an average of £20,887 on Auto Trader in February, down 17pc year-on-year. This compares to an 8.2pc fall in like-for-like prices of all electric cars in the year to January.

Tesla shares have fallen by more than 30pc this year as it faces falling sales in multiple markets. This week, figures have shown orders falling by 76pc in Germany, 72pc in Australia and 49pc in China.

In the UK, sales of new Teslas rose by 21pc in February, although this was an unusually strong month for electric car demand as buyers pushed to avoid a tax rise on new electric vehicles (EVs). The rise was slower than wider EV sales which were up 41.7pc....<<<Read More>>>...

UK government uses disinformation in industry consultation about electric vehicles

 On Christmas Eve, the UK government launched a consultation inviting industry to shape the country’s transition to zero-emission vehicles. The transition to “zero-emission vehicles” means the phase-out of petrol and diesel vehicles and how the public can be cajoled into making the switch from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles.

Unsurprisingly, as with all initiatives based on a fabricated anthropogenic climate change crisis, the consultation is based on disinformation. In the following, Paul Homewood explains why.

The so-called “industry research” comes not from the car industry at all, but from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (“ECIU”), which would be better described as a Disinformation Unit. The link given takes us to their analysis HERE.

And the ECIU analysis makes it clear that they have based their petrol costs on the pump price, including fuel duty and VAT...<<<Read More>>>...

Labour panic on Net Zero: Business Secretary says government has ‘heard’ backlash at EVs targets after Luton plant is SHUT – with fears of more job cuts to come

 Labour’s Net Zero plans have been thrown into confusion as ministers voice ‘profound concerns’ about the impact of EV targets.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds signalled an overhaul after Vauxhall announced plans to close its van-making factory in Luton.

Stellantis, which also owns Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat, said it would combine production at its other plant in Ellesmere Port.

Labour’s Net Zero plans have been thrown into confusion as ministers voice ‘profound concerns’ about the impact of EV targets.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds signalled an overhaul after Vauxhall announced plans to close its van-making factory in Luton.

Stellantis, which also owns Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat, said it would combine production at its other plant in Ellesmere Port.

Under the zero-emission vehicles (Zev) mandate, at least 22 per cent of new cars sold by each manufacturer in the UK this year must be zero-emission, with the threshold rising each year.

Under the current rules, the mandate will reach 80 per cent by 2030.

At present, car and van-makers will be slapped with fines of £15,000 per vehicle sold above the targets.

The Government has committed to bring the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans forward from 2035 to 2030, reversing a change introduced by Rishi Sunak’s government last year.

In his speech to the SMMT, Mr Reynolds said the Government was ‘absolutely committed’ to the 2030 target, but had ‘heard you loud and clear on the need for support to make this transition a success’.

Announcing a ‘fast-track’ consultation on changes to the Zev mandate, he said he was ‘profoundly concerned’ about how the policy was operating.

He said: ‘I’m going to be frank with you – I don’t believe the policies that we have inherited, and I mean specifically in relation to zero-emission vehicles, are operating today in a way anyone intended them to.’...<<<Read More>>>...

Motorway Driving in an Electric Vehicle Can Cost Twice as Much as in a Petrol Car

 The Telegraph’s motoring correspondent Andrew English has been writing about driving Ford’s Mustang Mach-E. The Telegraph isn’t noted for its general support of the present and last governments’ energy policies, but even so his experience was a memorably expensive and salutary one.

The first thing I learnt during 11,000 miles in the Mach-E was that it isn’t a ‘proper’ Mustang. Secondly, if you regularly cover high mileage in an EV, you need to travel when everyone else isn’t to avoid queuing at chargers.

English set out during autumn half-term to see his elderly mother, his petrol Civic being in for servicing.

It looked as though Gridserve hadn’t done much planning, either. Of its 24 high-current chargers at Exeter services, eight were out of service. It was chaos

“I’m glad my boss will be doing this next week so he can see what it’s like,” said Gridserve’s Matt Sidwell, who was doing sterling work trying to instill order to the rambunctious queuing system. With no space to stack cars, no signposting and people constantly trying to push in, he was fighting a losing battle.

“The thing that drives me crazy is the people who stay on the charger to get a 100% charge,” he said. “It’s virtually impossible to achieve and takes so long because the charger is only trickling current in at that point.”

I looked enviously at the rows of Tesla-only chargers, most of them unoccupied.

It took 45 minutes for a charger to become vacant. I plugged in the Ford, unwrapped a bacon sandwich and wondered why Colmans no longer sells mustard in tubes.

There was a sharp tap at the window. “The chargers are rated at 175kWh,” said an elderly motorist who’d emerged from a Nissan Leaf and was peering at the charger display. “You’re only getting 80.”

I didn’t tell him I’ve rarely seen more than 80 and even then not for long, although the Ford’s DC fast charging is rated at 150kWh.

I just wish Ed Miliband, the energy security minister, was there so I could stuff my bacon sandwich where the sun doesn’t shine, but he was packing his swimmers for the COP conference in Baku.

With the Mustang averaging 2.8 miles per kWh on motorways, it has an effective range of 250 to 270 miles (from the 91kWh lithium-ion battery) against a claim of 372 miles (although, to be fair, Ford advertises the Mach-E with a “motorway range” of 306 miles).

To eke out the range I travel everywhere with the heater off, which currently demands a substantial coat, hat and gloves. I’m writing to Santa for thick socks this Christmas.

Fighting off the drastic effect aerodynamic drag has on an EV’s range, English reached his mother, who quizzed him about the Ford.

My poorly mother proved to be in rather better health than the U.K. charging system on that day. She was interested in the Ford parked outside.

“So, how much does it cost to run?” she asked, ever the mathematician.

I grabbed some paper.

While I once had to pay a whopping £1.12 per kWh at a Shell Recharge station, in general fast charging averages at between 85 and 90p per kWh. On a long motorway journey, the Ford averages between 2.6 and 2.8 miles per kWh, which is by no means unexceptional in large battery SUVs I’ve tested. Using the more generous figures in both cases, the Ford is costing at least 30p per mile for the electricity alone....<<<Read More>>>....

“Environmentally conscious” electric cars found to produce a BIGGER carbon footprint than gas guzzlers

A study has found that "environmentally conscious" electric cars pushed by celebrities are actually worse for Mother Earth, given that they produce a bigger carbon footprint compared to conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.

Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland found that the average EV owner churns out half a ton more of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, with owners of the sportiest EV models producing almost two tons more. Someone who owns an ICE vehicle, i.e. running on diesel or gasoline, only emits 8.05 tons of CO2 or equivalent greenhouse gases per year. In contrast, the average EV driver churns out 8.66 tons of emissions annually.

The study authors also made a distinction between two types of EV owners – those focused on performance (PF) and those focused on economy and reliability (EF). The PF group generates an average of 10.25 tons of CO2 every year, almost double the 5.75 tons produced by those who don't own a vehicle. The EF group, meanwhile, generates 7.59 tons of CO2 annually.

According to the study authors, the glamorous and high-living lifestyles of EV owners are to blame for this. They noted that income is one of the strongest predictors of carbon footprint, writing: "Since EV households tend to have a high income, their total carbon footprint is also above average."

Higher income typically leads to larger homes, more frequent travel and greater consumption – factors that significantly increase a person’s overall contribution to climate change. Nearly a quarter of all EV-owning households in the study had a monthly income of more than £6,250 ($8,201), while the average household income in the U.K. is just £2,875 ($3,772)...<<<Read More>>>...

Electric Car Drivers “Being Plunged into Negative Equity” as Prices Collapse

 Collapsing electric vehicle prices are leaving a growing number of drivers in negative equity, a top dealership chain has warned. The Telegraph has more.

Vertu Motors said on Wednesday that car retailers were coming under pressure as EVs coming off financing agreements were found to be worth less than the loan they are attached to.

In most car finance deals, this is not a problem for drivers as – provided they have kept up with their payments – they can hand back the keys and walk away.

The lender that funded the leasing deal then typically takes the financial hit.

However, the issue creates a headache for dealers that often allow customers to “roll over” positive or negative equity into new financing deals to win repeat business.

The steep drop in electric cars’ value is being partly fuelled by the discounts offered on new vehicles, as manufacturers attempt to boost sales to hit legally-binding government targets.

Rob Forrester, Vertu’s Chief Executive, said: “We all know that battery electric vehicles have depreciated at a significant rate, and that tends to feed into the creation of negative equity.

“If you think about when many cars were bought two to three years ago, new car prices were quite high because of supply constraints, but since then there’s been a reduction in used car value.”

It follows warnings last month that so-called fleet operators, such as car leasing firms and rental companies, were having to swallow large losses when reselling EVs because of “accelerated, exceptional depreciation”.

In the past two years, the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) said the average amount of “residual value” left over at the end of a car’s lease period had plunged from 60% to 35%. (Read More)

Western North Carolina has world’s richest lithium, purest quartz deposits: Is Hurricane Helene a land grab by DOD to steal these valuable resources?

Conspiracy theories are circulating the web about what really happened with Hurricane Helene and how it is allowing the federal government to seize valuable land underneath which are large deposits of valuable minerals.

Some analysts say there was unusual atmospheric activity during Helene's track that appears to have produced such a high voltage that something was able to "push" it towards the areas that got hit the hardest. The reason could have to do with all those valuable minerals.

"We have the richest deposit of lithium in North Carolina," reported 100percentfedup.com.

"We have a top producer of lithium, Albemarle, getting a $90 million contract from the Department of Defense to create a lithium mine. Guess who has 12 million shares of Albemarle? BlackRock."

Keep in mind that before Helene hit, many local residents were protesting against the creation of lithium mines in their area. Now, many of those same people's homes and livelihoods are destroyed and Albemarle and competitors like Piedmont Lithium, presumably, now have access to exactly what they want without the citizen protests.

Albemarle, by the way, received a $90 million grant from the DOD to advance its domestic mining operations – operations that locals throughout western North Carolina do not want in their now-destroyed backyards.

"Something doesn't smell right," 100percentfedup.com noted. "Are we seeing a similar tactic that was used in Hawaii for a land grab? Lahaina, Maui 2.0?" ...<<<Read More>>>...

The HUGE differences in electric car efficiency revealed – which models could cost you almost £850 extra every 10,000 miles?

 Some electric cars are massively less efficient than others, a study has shown.

What Car?’s latest real-world test highlights the vast difference in electric car range efficiency, and how drivers could be forking out hundreds of pounds in charging costs by choosing an inefficient model.

We reveal which electric cars are the most and least efficient – the one’s to snap up and the ones to avoid, and how to calculate efficiency if you’re shopping for an EV....<<<Read More>>>...

Ford scraps its SUV electric vehicle; the US consumer decides what should be produced, not the Government

 The news that Ford was scrapping its SUV EV came just a month after the company announced it was switching the manufacturing at its plant in Oakville, Ontario, which had been earmarked for EV production, to Ford’s F-series pickups, its flagship fuel-powered trucks.

“The move,” the New York Times reported, “is the latest example of how automakers are pulling back on aggressive investment plans in response to the slowing growth of electric vehicle sales.”

Several factors contribute to the low demand for EVs, including high prices, range anxiety and a lack of charging infrastructure. EVs are significantly more expensive than comparable fuel-powered vehicles, and the price gap is widening. Consumers also express concerns about limited driving range, particularly in cold weather, and the availability of charging stations.

Ford’s aggressive push into EVs, driven in part by government incentives and pressure, has resulted in significant financial losses.

“The costs of listening to industry experts and politicians in Washington instead of consumers – and profits – have been severe,” the American Institute for Economic Research (“AIER”) said.

The company lost billions of dollars on EV sales, selling each unit at a substantial loss. Ford reported a loss of $4.7 billion on EV sales in 2023, roughly $40,525 per vehicle sold.

It highlights the importance of meeting consumer demand in a free market economy.

“Ford’s massive pullback from EVs is part of a broader return to economic reality. Companies flourish in a free market economy not by serving bureaucrats but consumers, the true ‘bosses’,” AIER wrote.

As economist Ludwig Von Mises wrote, “The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying, decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor.”

Automakers are paying the price for their poor decisions in the form of losses. But were not for the federal government’s attempts to coerce Americans into EVs – which included taxpayer-funded subsidies, overt pressure from Washington and federal regulations designed to phase out fuel-powered cars – misallocation of resources likely could have been avoided....<<<Read More>>>...

EV boosters cannot do math

 According to Electrly, the electric vehicle charging manufacturer, it takes an average of 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity to fully charge a Tesla Model Y long range all-wheel-drive vehicle, 83 kWh for the Model Y performance version, and 67 kWh for the standard range Model Y. 

Each Tesla uses between 0.24 to 0.30 kWh per mile, or about 4,500 kWh over a year for 15,000 miles of driving. Other electric vehicles use more or less, but within a similar range. At 0.30 kWh per mile, that’s 90 kWh for 300 miles of driving for the typical week.

The average American household without an in-home EV charging station consumes about 30 kWh per day, or about 10,720 kWh over a year’s time. With just one electric vehicle being charged at home, that total increases to about 15,220 kWh. For two-EV households, that total runs up to nearly 20,000 kWh per year (assuming both drivers commute to work). That’s nearly double current electricity usage for such families.

Without an EV in the garage, air conditioning uses nearly a fifth of household electricity, followed by space heating and water heating (a combined 25%). But adding just one home-charged EV changes that calculus dramatically. The EV takes up about 30% ot the much higher total electricity use, dropping the share for all other uses significantly.

Two home-charged EVs would eat up nearly half the household’s total electricity usage – and require thousands of dollars to upgrade the house’s electric panel. Today’s 50-kva transformers, which cost about $8,000 each, can power about 60 homes; that number drops closer to 40 if each of those homes houses one electric vehicle, closer to 30 with two EVs using home chargers.

For a city with 120,000 homes, which today may require about 2,000 transformers, the addition of 120,000 home-charged electric vehicles means adding 1,000 transformers, about $8 million. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because distributing 50 to 100% more household electricity requires generating 50 to 100% more electricity.

All this costs money that most Americans today do not have, especially at the generation end. Especially with the push to eliminate electric generation from coal and natural gas and even nuclear energy. It also requires massive construction of electric infrastructure, from transmission lines to transformers to in-home charging stations accompanied by larger electric fuse boxes...<<<Read More>>>....

California introduces tax-by-the-mile plan as state revenue from fuel tax drops due to electric vehicle usage

 Buyers of electric cars in California may not have been aware of the new tax-by-the-mile plan before they decided to purchase their vehicles. Had they known about the potential added cost, they may have made a different decision. But regardless of personal choice, California law mandates that all new car sales be electric by 2035.

“This pay-to-drive scheme essentially turns your car into a rental,” Patrick Wood said. After quoting from a course on technocracy in 1934, he added, “Don’t tell me that Technocracy is not in play here.”

We would add, do you remember the World Economic Forum’s threat “you will own nothing”?

California has the highest income tax rate in the USA (top tier of 14.4 per cent), the highest statewide sales tax rate (7.25 per cent, plus local sales taxes), and the highest fuel tax rate ($0.78 per gallon). The old joke is that California would tax the air we breathe if it could. Well, California’s latest tax proposal comes close. The state is recruiting drivers for a pilot program to track and tax the miles they drive.

The plan is borne from the fact that Californians have switched to electric and hybrid vehicles at a faster rate than other US states because of the state’s green initiative which has convinced Californians to switch to hybrid or electric vehicles from combustion engine vehicles.

While electric vehicles are more expensive, Californians were enticed to buy them because of the subsidies and savings they would enjoy by no longer having to buy gas. But like most government programmes, this was not well thought out. California has lost millions in tax revenue because of this scheme and now needs to make up for that. From the many options available to it, it has chosen a plan to begin tracking drivers with GPS monitors...<<<Read More>>>....

Sales of electric vehicles in Germany is in crisis; the public doesn’t want them

 Many Germans regret their purchase or lease of an electric vehicle and Germans overall are increasingly unwilling to consider them. This has led to a crisis in German electric vehicle industry.

An article last month published by Merkur about the German electric car industry being in crisis and no recovery is in sight in the short term noted: “A recent YouGov survey shows that more than half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or leasing. The main reason is rising electricity prices. 

In contrast, other car sectors are experiencing an upswing, as current figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority in Flensburg show.”....<<<Read More>>>....

Failing EV industry is a lesson to businesses; never underestimate the power of consumers

In China, electric vehicles have been assigned to vast graveyards of unsold vehicles. While ride-share services bought the vehicles at subsidised prices, private buyers are not so keen. So last year China began dumping its electric vehicles in Europe, where they are filling up the ports at Rotterdam and Antwerp.

The US also has unsold stocks of electric cars. And in Britain, the momentum for electric vehicles has slowed.

The great electric revolution that was promised just three years ago is already failing – and it will bring the car manufacturers down with it....<<<Read More>>>....

Electric cars release more toxic emissions than petrol-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment

 Electric vehicles may release more pollution than petrol-powered vehicles, according to a report that has recently resurfaced.

The study, which was published in 2022 but has begun circulating again after being cited in a WSJ op-ed, found that brakes and tires release 1,850 times more particulate matter compared to modern exhaust pipes which have filters that reduce emissions.

It found that EVs are 30 percent heavier on average than petrol-powered vehicles, which causes the brakes and tire treads to wear out faster than standard cars and releases tiny, often toxic particles into the atmosphere.

Hesham Rakha, a professor at Virginia Tech told Dailymail.com that the study is only 'partially correct' because even though EVs are heavier, their tires will emit more microplastics into the air, but this could also be true for sedans versus SUVs.

Rakha said it is very challenging to determine the difference between the amount of microplastics emitted from EV tire treads and petrol-powered vehicles because you have to separate the microplastics that are already in the air from other sources with what's coming off the tires.

Rakha and his team at Virginia Tech are in the process of conducting field tests to determine how much microplastics are emitting from EV and petrol cars by using traffic simulators that will mimic an urban setting.

He added that he doesn't expect there to be a major difference between the EV and petrol-powered vehicles, saying that they haven't measured it yet, but expect the difference to be about 20 percent.

This doesn't mean that people should gravitate away from electric cars because they 'are more efficient depending zero emission,' Rakha said, but added the caveat that 'it also generates a lot of CO2 when charging your vehicle.'

EV batteries weigh about 453kg, and can result in tire emissions that are nearly 400 times more than exhaust pipe emissions....<<<Read More>>>...