Battery EVs – not fit for purpose – more woes that mean Net Zero plans based on replacing ICE vehicles are “pie in the sky” - reducing living standards through price hikes for energy and insurance

I have often posted this piece:

The People Promising Us 'Net Zero' Are Clueless About Energy Storage - Climate Change Dispatch

The costs of Net Zero are already consigning millions of people to a drop in living standards in order to virtue signal their ignorance.

Here’s a couple more articles that highlight the factors not considered by the chicken littles beyond the absurdities of providing exemption or breaks for road taxes for EV’s that stress and wear multi-storey car parks. road and bridges at twice the rate (at least) of ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles or even the need to strengthen every guard rail/crash barrier to reflect the extra weight. Never mind the propensity to spontaneously combust when in contact with salt water or not, or allergies to extreme heat and cold.

Or the ease with which EV’s can be hooked up to the internet to record driving habits – not just speeds but also head positions and failure to indicate when switching lanes or not ALWAYS looking straight ahead – via installed sensors INSIDE the vehicle.

These factors represent more indirect taxation and subsidies paid by non-EV users even beyond the obvious ones advertised by chicken little politicians.

Well. here’s a reality check for plans to force manufacturers to meet quotas for the manufacture of EV’s in the US. The initial demand is faltering leading to massive losses by manufacturers.

From here:

(100) Biden’s green fantasy of two-thirds electric cars sales in 2032 is just not happening (substack.com)

“Last year, Joe Biden’s White House and his command-and-control regulators at the EPA imposed new emissions standards designed to force automakers to invest billions into retooling their plants and processes to crank out increasing percentages of electric vehicles. The Biden goal is to force two thirds of all cars sold in the US to be EVs by 2032, whether consumers want them or not.”

This use of “emissions standards” regulations match those in the EU and UK, remember this article about the EU using emissions standards for laughing gas (N20) to mandate manufacturers to meet quotas for EV production?

(100) The EU War on Laughing Gas – how the Union of European Socialist Republics (UESR) is forcing electivity prices up and the price of ICE autos to the same levels as EV's - using regulation of N2O output (substack.com)

The same fine for failure to meet EV production quotas are also being applied in the USA – in true communist style. One World Government and all that

Back to Biden’s green fantasy:

“… the domestic EV industry saw itself beset by an array of troubling indicators and events during the second half of the year. Foremost among these was the levelling-off of demand for electric cars, causing dealer lots to become filled with unsellable EV models as the months rolled by. A lack of demand for used BEVs created even further difficulties at the dealership level.”

To the tune of billions of bucks of losses to the likes of Ford and GM. More detail in the article.

But there’s more:

(100) Institute for Energy Research: UK Insurance Premiums for EVs Are Double Those for Gasoline Vehicles (substack.com)

Turns out that aside from the shortage of “technicians” qualified to repair EV’s, they also sustain more damage (batteries on the floor of the chassis mounting concrete roadside kerbs, for example). The batteries are half the cost of the EV – so, insurers have done this:

One way traffic for insurance costs. Now, consider that the majority of ICE vehicle owners are on a tight budget, how is forcing people to buy EV’s going to impact their living standards. Now factor in that electricity prices in the UK are four times the rates of five years ago and this comment really sticks in the craw:

“As a result, some car makers including Tesla cut prices to increase demand. In the United States, government subsidies also reduce the initial cost of an electric vehicle for consumers under certain conditions. The trade association is urging the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to increase demand by cutting VAT (the value added tax) on electric car purchases for three years in his next budget, due on March 6.”

“Manufacturers must sell a portion of pure electric vehicles under the UK’s zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate. Car makers that do not meet the mandate will face fines, which take effect beginning this year.

The UK mandate for 2024 is 22 percent, increasing to 28 percent in 2025, 52 percent in 2028 and 80 percent by 2030.

Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, delayed a planned ban on sales of new gas cars from 2030 to 2035. London has introduced measures making it harder for owners of cars to enter parts of the city, an anti-personal car approach that has been discussed in some cities in the United States as well.

More subsidies needed to force behaviour modification into unwanted, expensive EV’s.

Imagine how much better off people I the UK would be if “Net Zero” targets did not exist. Lower taxes AND cheaper fuel. Remember THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS.

(100) Updated compilation of articles that debunk the “climate crisis” mantra -showing the utter folly of spending tens of trillions whilst allowing millions to die of disease and hunger (all ID'd/injected) (substack.com)

The entire premise is BS.

So far, the US has escaped some of the rising insurance costs.

“On average, the cost of electric car insurance is $206 per month ($2,468 per year)–$44 more per month than the cost to insure a gas-powered car.”

The UK is about to see an even larger increase (of 50%) in EV insurance rates? Compare those rates to those in the UK.

“Data from the UK shows that the typical insurance premium for electric vehicles increased to £1,344 ($1707), an increase of 50 percent compared with a year earlier, and double the cost of insurance for combustion engine cars due to higher cost of repairs for electric models.

I could show some articles about EV buses spontaneously igniting in underground car parks in Sweden and Germany, or the failure of charging stations in the cold weather in Chicago or the collapse of EV bus companies in the US and the breakdown rate of EV buses, but hey, the case against EV’s should already suggest that the technology does not yet exist to make these a viable proposition.

There is an absence of demand for the bloody things and their “renewable” power sources. Not at all like the times when there were queues for “any color you like as long as it’s black” for the Model T that was prices to sell.

Onwards!

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