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- Hotels in China start to ban EVs and electric scooters from underground parking lots Thu, 19 Sep 24, 6:21amLest we forget, the Luton airport carpark fire October 2023. By Jo Nova We know it’s coming. One day, sometime there will be a skyscraper inferno started by an EV or a scooter and made so much worse because there were...
- Australia is running out of electricity to charge electric cars, and they’re only 0.9% of cars on the road Thu, 22 Aug 24, 6:32amBy Jo Nova No one saw this car crash coming? EV’s represent just 0.9% of all cars on the road in Australia but plans to install fast chargers are already grinding to a crawl. Last year, Ampol was planning to build 180...
- Germany Green Transition Collapse: Electric Vehicle Sales Plummet 47% In First Half of This Year! Thu, 8 Aug 24, 7:00pmMeanwhile petrol and diesel engine car sales have risen 24% and 20% respectively.
- German EV sales down 37% “The market has lost all momentum” Thu, 8 Aug 24, 5:44amBy Jo Nova Doubts are spreading about the “prospects of electric cars” Sales of electric vehicles in Germany slumped 37% in July, compared to sales one year ago.
- “EV-phobia spreads” in South Korea after a Mercedes EV spontaneously combusts in the basement Wed, 7 Aug 24, 5:24amBy Jo Nova It could have been so much worse A Mercedes Benz EV started smoking in an underground carpark in Incheon, South Korea last Thursday at 6:15am...
- Electric car fiasco “on the brink of collapse” Tue, 30 Jul 24, 4:44am… By Jo Nova It’s hard to keep up with the great EV unravelling The best news for the EV industry this month is that Ford is only losing $50,000 a car now on its electric vehicles...
- To make EV’s our battery bandaid for a wounded grid we need another $10b in inverters Fri, 26 Jul 24, 5:24pmBy Jo Nova The government has this hope that homeowners can be tricked into paying for the batteries (in the form of EVs) that the wind and solar industry need to make their useless random energy into something reliable...
- Electric regret: Almost half of Australian and US EV owners want to go back to a combustion engine (and many in the UK already have) Wed, 26 Jun 24, 5:45amMKinsey Survey By Jo Nova EV Mandated Revolution hits a hurdle The first buyers of EV’s were their most passionate fans, and presumably the people-most-likely to love them, and in the best position to use them...
- Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them Wed, 26 Jun 24, 3:00amThis is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution…
- Not the Transition they expected: People paying thousands more for second hand petrol cars rather than equivalent used EVs Tue, 18 Jun 24, 5:08amBy Jo Nova The cost problem is solved (for all the wrong reasons), but it’s still not enough Around the world, governments are trying to force people to buy electric vehicles because they are nice people who are worried...
- Not the Transition they expected: People paying thousands more for second hand petrol car rather than equivalent used EV Tue, 18 Jun 24, 5:08amBy Jo Nova The cost problem is solved (for all the wrong reasons), but it’s still not enough Around the world, governments are trying to force people to buy electric vehicles because they are nice people who are worried...
- Germany May Sales Of Electric Cars Plummet 30.6% Compared To Year Earlier Mon, 17 Jun 24, 3:00pmCO2 emissions of new German cars also rose 3.3%…indicating the green transition has stalled and is reversing.
- VW takes €60 billion out of the EV budget and puts it back into combustion cars Sat, 8 Jun 24, 7:25amBy Jo Nova EV manufacturers are backing away slowly from the Great EV Debacle The government commanded the EV bubble, but even with billions in subsidies, schemes and advertising the chemistry didn’t obey...
- Electric car drivers face astronomical costs to replace tyres Mon, 27 May 24, 7:00pmTyre manufacturer Michelin has previously said that conventional tyres wear out around 20pc faster in an electric vehicle, while Goodyear said they can degrade as much as 50pc faster.
- EVs twice as likely to kill pedestrians (and who knows how many cats, dogs, ducks and wombats?) Fri, 24 May 24, 6:24amBy Jo Nova Saving the world with silent killers A new study shows electric cars are twice as likely to hit pedestrians compared to petrol and diesel cars...