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- A drop in new electric cars has been branded as 'alarming' by a transport consultant.
Sales of new electric cars are down 14.2% in the first three months compared to last year, despite the overall new car market growing by 8%.
It comes amid ongoing criticism of a lack of charging points around the country.
Transport Consultant Conor Faughnan told The Pat Kenny Show the drop-off is surprising.
"EV (Electric Vehicle) sales are down overall in the context when overall car sales are up," he said.
"General sales in the first quarter of 2024 [are] up by around 8%, but the EV - and specifically the pure battery electric vehicle - the market share for that has dropped by about 14%.
"That's a little alarming and you wonder what's causing that."
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The government should be encouraging people to keep and drive their cars for longer rather than penalising people for driving old cars. EV's are a total scam.
scam central
EVs are clean; old cars pollute. Work it out.
@@crm114.EV pollute also, the require a huge amount of resources too produce and don't last as long as a conventional vehical. Also what are we going to do with the vast amount of ev cars at the end of their life?
@@crm114. "EV's are clean", I think NOT when production and scrappage is taken into account, and where do you think electricity comes from. Such an uninformed comment!
No one is penalising you for driving and old car.
Another scam ...
If you want to know whats behind the decline in electric car sales dont listen to these fools,.
Cars peaked in the late 90s with the Toyota Carolla.
EVs…. The Betamax of the current decade.
Not really Betamax was better.
Because they are rubbish
You’ve obviously never driven one. Dinosaur.
@@crm114.Not all of us have the money to buy one.
@@copevortex I can't afford lots of things, doesn't mean they are rubbish.
@@copevortex Not all of us can afford to pay £0.14 per mile (based on £6.75 per gallon @ 50 mpg ) instead of the £0.025 per mile I pay!
Not all of us can pay almost double for their car’s service (based on my last ICE compared to what I just paid for my EV)
@@Christian-ut5um They are rubbish.
What do you class as “long charging times”. ? Time for a widdle and a sarnie will add another 80 / 90 miles of range in my ‘slow charging’ EV. From 0% to 100% is 6.5 hours. Whilst I sleep.
The range doesn’t “fluctuate hugely”! 328miles Avg range. from April to November then 295 miles Avg. range from November to the start of May. That is just over 10%! That is not what I call a “huge fluctuation “. Also, ICE cars lose range in the cold and wet.
Your ICE vehicle not paying Road Fund Licence then, next year?
EVs are NOT much heavier. A top of the range Mini is heavier than my car and so are quite a few diesel and petrol SUVs.
My tyres are no bigger than the typical SUV. And smaller than a Range Rover.
Again, it is a myth that EV tyres need replacing more regularly. Confirmed by Quick Fit and I think they might know. They do cost more than budget makes for ICE.
My insurance was not “very expensive “ compared to my previous low spec ICE. And it is held for three years. It also was easy to source.
No point in you “keep going “ as all your information/ knowledge of EVs is garnered from the legacy MSM and anti EV clickbait grifters on TH-cam.
It would be better if you based your ‘thoughts’ (and I use that term it’s loosest sense) on the experiences of those who actually own and drive EVs.
Even prices of EVs , people are losing a ball of money on them , garages are also causing this because they won’t trade them back in - I had one and had to change it back for a diesel car . I wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy one if I’m honest .
Garages trade them back in?
Why would They?
Who.ll buy a used EV?
YOU D have to be a total eejit
how much money did you lose on its price - and do the garages touch them if small repairs are needed?
I'm in Australia. The depreciation on EV's here is insane. It is the single biggest expense of owning one (We were looking to buy). And they sit in the classifieds for weeks and even months, unsold. No thanks.
Common sense has left the building
You can take my car and my bike from my cold dead fingers
Conor is a contradiction in terms. He’s one of the most anti car commentators in the media. Supposedly he advocates the motorists but constantly berates the very group that pays his salary. With friends like this who needs enemies.
Conor sounds like a member of the Green Party!
I bet his boxers are green...
Absolutely, he's a total WEF arsewipe, just like RTE/NEWSTALK.
@@captur69 I'm sure he is taking a kick back
@@captur69
🤑🤢🔋↘️💩🩲🤏👈 😝🤣👍
You mean Soylent Green.
Its cause no one wants them.
But hey, who listens to the people anymore.
We want EVs as much as mass immigration, yet here we are.
If “no one want them” explain why Tp the percentage market sales are rising year on year.
The sales for 2 main reasons:-
- massive corporate push by companies for all company cars to be electric
- you go into any dealership now to buy a new car, and electric cars are pushed into your face with very few other options
However you ask the vast majority of people if it’s an electric car they want? And the answer will be no.
But hey, we do live in a time of just no listening to anyone now. And the “powers they be” wonder why there is so much frustration and anger in the general public.
What's behind the fall in electric car sales ?
Answer: Objective reality.
SUV drivers should be paying at least 500 tax each year for the privilage of driving around in their expensive huge tyred polluters to collect one child from a school, they can afford it. EVs are a joke and im glad the sarse is dropping out of the market, used car sellers wont take them off you either.
Some suv owners pay 1300 a year tax the same suv that takes multiple people on board and has less emissions than a 2010 a4 or passat
@@user-yn6wk3wo6z There is little more pathetic and amusing than an SUV owner trying to justify the necessity for SUVs and as for carrying multiple people a basic Ford Focus or Toyota Corolla etc will carry 5 people and their gear very comfortably. SUVs are just standard cars on steroids but far bigger, heavier, less efficient and more expensive. SUVs are about image, making a statement and fashion and thankfully many are now seeing them for what they actually are. You are naive and possibly in denial if you believe SUVs are less harmful to the environment than normal standard vehicles young or old.
The depreciation is the main reason, the manufacturers will need to offer more for trade ins for people to continue to buy/upgrade
The depreciation is off the charts. Regardless of the potential for longevity, resale prices make these things virtually disposable.
most of us who live outside the pale can't afford the price of a new EV and then no trade in value
Rather than switch to EVs we should encourage people to drive cars for 20yrs rather than changing every 3 yrs with PCPs etc.
We live in a wasteful throwaway society.
The carbon footprint of manufacturing a car is insane...people should maintain and drive what they have for longer
I'm driving a 2007 Skoda Octavia and I hope it lasts forever.
Couldn’t agree more 👍🏻
Exactly the cars are made to last for decades not to be replaced every three years. Only Ireland shows the year of the car on the license plate. This is solely to create a keeping up with the Jones mentality and push spending on new cars.
In countries where the year of the car is not displayed to everyone, people keep cars for much much longer.
@@markfairman162 even the insurance companies won’t insure an older car - I get a company van and wanted to buy a 2000 car and they wouldn’t insure it so I had to borrow money to buy a newer car that I don’t even do 1000klm a year 🤷♂️
If EVs where any good you would not need incentives
My comment was censored again ..
Doesnt fit their agenda and narrative.
Just the other day I was told by a farmer that his wife's brother BMW failed the NCT because his one head light was not working properly took it to the garage and was told that it will cost him 2000, euros because they don't have any of these head lights in stock and need to import it from the UK or Germany and then they will need to get someone else to fit it in as they don't have any one who is able to do it, and this was by the car dealer whom he bought the car from, 2023 BMW he asked why can't their own mechanic fit it in they said they don't have the software to reprogram it on the car's system because that every new part is replaced needs to be reprogrammed on the car's chip system for it to work so much for a greater sustainable future, it's all about the massive amount of money being made by the banks and big corporates
German premium cars tend to be over engineered and expensive to run and maintain. If you desire one of these vehicles be prepared to pay big for the experience!.
@@fitzstv8506 majority of the parts are very much made in China and the rest of Asia and then imported into Germany and repackaged labelled made in Germany and then export with a massive price tag on the parts this practice has been going on for years now just that they keep on telling the public a new story, my wife's uncle used to work in these car manufacturers and told me that they get the majority of parts made in China and other Asian countries and been relabelled repackaged and export to the rest of the world as he was working in that area, so yes people are actually literally being ripped off by these big corporates and car parts dealerships and he told me that they get the parts made extremely cheap and put a 150% profit mark up on the parts and then the car dealerships and parts dealerships puts a lot more profit % upon the price tag, where the a head light only costs the car manufacturers 3 to 4 tops 8 euros depending upon what year and make of the car and then resells it to it the dealers tops 10 to 15 euros and then the dealers sell it to the public with a profit mark up 500% to a 1000% , which a BMW head lamp say 7 euros made in China for BMW manufacturers and then repackaged and labelled export to dealers at a 13 euros and then the dealers sell it at cost to the customers at profit of 700% to 1000% and he said this has been going on for years in the car industry for it's costs the German manufacturers to much to make the parts in Germany itself cost of labour and raw materials and energy consumption is just to high and they will manufacture a very small amount of parts in Germany itself to make it look like it's very much all being made in Germany in the EU, my wife's uncle said that the majority of all vehicles manufacturers parts are made in China and the rest of Asian countries very little is made in the EU and America, even Kenya is making car parts of these big corporates car manufacturers and a even lesser cost than China and this is currently causing the problem of car parts supply to Europe because China is starting to hold back in their production because of big car corporates manufacturers are looking to Africa for their new cheaper labour market system and China is very much rapidly expanding and pushing to mass production of much more cheaper cars for the world market system and this is very much causing massive issues and the majority of the world public does not actually knows this, America and its European partners said that they will be very much pushed out of the world market system if they keep China and Asian countries flooding the market system with their own cheap affordable cars that people are actually looking for if a Chinese made new car cost the same as a 2nd hand car in the European market then it would be worth the money to buy a new then a used 2nd hand car, and this is very much what is happening right now today because not many people are actually able to afford the high level standard of German made cars generally European made cars, you can think that I talking rubbish but look very carefully and you will see just how fast things are changing and how fast China is starting to flood the European Market with their new cheap cars and are very much just a high tech and comfortable in driving around in, and this is very much what the majority of car buyers are looking for today something that will be affordable to buy and to maintain because of the cost of living that's going through the roof, but Hay the car dealers don't want the public to know about any of this that there is actually literally a car manufacturing war going on right now today with China and its Asian allies, North Korea is very much looking to get into this by securing mass manufacturing parts for China and this way China is literally starting to take over all of the mining industry in Africa Zimbabwe owing China trillions of dollars in debt so China is taking over the mining industry as a debt payment method and Russia is moving in to help China to secure the raw materials needed in Africa and other countries around the world and this is actually causing a massive massive issue for the Americans and West globalist they are very much starting to lose their world dominance supper powers, don't think that this war in Ukraine and Israel is about the rights to the land etc it's actually much more bigger behind the scenes of closed doors on the world stage and this will bring ww3 about dominance of the world order and its supper powers climate change is very much just another massive massive scam to create a new world supper power dominance and China and its loyal allies are very much actually showing their dominance in the so called EV'S.
I do not think it has anything to do with money.
There are hardly any Tesla Superchargers in Ireland and they have now just opened up the few that there are to non Tesla owners. I wouldn't buy another one and truly regret selling my diesel.
So Conor seems happy with people stumping up €50.000 + for an EV thats not going to be worth half that amount in three years ...just ask any VW ID 3/4 owner and no mention of battery power loss over the years and the extortionate price of changing the battery if it goes bad as a lot of manufacturers only warrant there batteries for five or less years ,so here's a thought 💭 and its not rocket science ,1.Replace the bus fleet with hybrid electric or pure electric buses,2.If you wish to change your petrol/Diesel car and live in a city then it should be Vat/VRT free ,and if you decide to buy a second hand EV the it should have information on Battery health ,Battery power loss over a ten year period and replacement cost if it does go bad .
Is there even a market for second hand ev's?
No especially if the warranty has run out
Well, in the U.K. the sales of B.E.Vs almost doubled (2022/2023). 90.9%. So,yes I would say there IS a market for secondhand EVs!
There is a no market for second hand battery powered cars 😂
@@geoffersvoiceofreason2534nope false news
Conor you are so out of touch with the reality of the ev, it's not just the battery range it's the massive loss on the ev in comparison to the Ice so they are not attractive to someone that think out the long game.
ICE vehicles also suffer a massive loss after purchase. This is nothing new.
@@UserUser45654 percentage wise an awful lot less depreciation in Ice, I have a 2012 nissan leaf with 5 bars left in the battery that's about 20 miles range it's a useless piece of junk and nobody wants it not even the scrap yard
@@jamescarroll-gp8hl The Nissan Leaf has been known to be junk. It was among the worst cars, ICE or EV. Not representative.
@@UserUser45654 Yep
Rubbish. EVs are experiencing a temporary blip at the moment. Historically Nissan Leafs have had rubbish batteries hence why nobody wants one.
Other drivers are blinded by the crazy bright lights. Its like meeting someone with their full lights on!
That isn’t unique to EVs.
@@UserUser45654 I know but all EVs have them.
@@theeggtimertictic1136 No they don’t. Teslas actually have some of the most pleasant lights. The issue comes from jerks buying aftermarket lights that are not even meant for cars and applying them to the vehicle.
I think most of the auto dimming technologies are not working as advertised.
What do they expect when over half the charging units for electric cars are located in the big cities like London and Dublin? Not practical for those living outside cities
Charge it at your home… almost forgot but 40.5% of Irelands population lives in the Dublin metro area. The chargers are largely where the people are. The superchargers are indeed being expanded.
@@UserUser45654 When you pay to have it installed, sure
@@UserUser45654 that's fine if you have a driveway but if you live in terraced house or flats with on street parking where you're not guaranteed a space outside your house can't really charge at home. Then there's issues where you're out on the road and you've meticulously planned your long distance journey for charging stations, you get there and find out that only 2 of the 10 charging stations are working with 4 cars in each queue wanting to charge up, each car taking 30 mins to charge, your wait time is 2½ hours before you can actually start charging your own car then you have to wait another 30 minutes just for your car to charge. The infrastructure is no where near ready for the amount of ev we have on the roads now. There's no point encouraging people to buy ev's when the infrastructure isn't up to the task.
@@duncMAC150 The problem is the lack of charging stations typical of the feckless Irish government then. Given Ireland’s location and lack of petroleum infrastructure the future is EVs whether the Irish like it or not. Chargers are not even that expensive.
All the the chargers are usually in used ot broken limited time to charge your car fully they wanna fine you
My ford ranger is 8 year old i expect it to last 20 years
I have a 1995 Toyota Corolla (29 years old) with 450,000 Kilometers on the clock, it has never failed to start or let me down and has years of life left in it. I would suggest my car over it's lifetime will provide far better value for money and far less harm than your Ford Ranger.
Are you a farmer? do you need a large vehicle like that Ford?.
Conor Faughnan has always talked out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to EVs. One minute, he is with the government, and the next, he is with the people. Whatever way the wind blows. The reason why he didn't go into the mining of EVs is because he knew the backlash he would get.
The lithium - ion batteries evs use are large and require several different materials like lithium and cobalt. These materials require a lot of energy to extract and re-purpose into lithium-ion batteries. Cobalt is considered the highest material supply chain risk for EVs in the short and medium term. In 2019, the production of lithium-ion batteries consumed 65% of the global production of lithium and cobalt. Producing electric car batteries results in at least 70% more carbon emissions. A single electric car’s battery contains more cobalt than 1,000 smartphone batteries. The mining of lithium is not a green activity as when an electric car rolls of the production line, it has already been responsible for more than 25,000 lbs. of CO2, the amount of making an ICE car is just 16,000 lbs.of CO2.
Volvo has said that the emissions from the production of electric cars are far higher than a petrol/diesel equivalent. The Swedish car maker said that over a car’s lifetime the electric version will eventually become greener if you cover between 30,000 and 68,400 miles which takes between 4 and 9 years for the average UK motorist. Based on the latest UK driving statistics, average annual mileage is 7,400 miles. This means it will take 9 years of ownership before the EV is greener than a car with an internal combustion engine. New research from scientists now say that it takes 50,000 miles or to travel twice around the equator in an electric car to match the carbon footprint of a petrol car because of the massive amount of energy consumed during the production process. In a recent comparison, 14 tonnes of CO2 were produced during the manufacture of a fossil fuel-powered Volvo XC40 compared to 24 tonnes produced during the manufacture of an electric Polestar 2.
Irish drivers average about 10k miles a year so it would be covered in 3 years driving.
Manufacturers get listened too, the public can go whistle
The bug bear I have with all the EV bs is that the time to recharge compared with filling up at a pump is just not in the same universe. If I choose to drive from Dublin to Donegal & back in a day I can at the moment in a petrol or diesel car. If I need to fill up, it will take no more than 10mins max, depending on fuel level. A 10min charge would likely not get any EV very far, certainly not to the next charge point.
EV is not the answer. I would like choice. I'd like to see fuel cell cars & hydrogen pumps. Simply because you get more range & refill time is about the same as it is now with petrol or diesel.
Dublin to Donegal, round trip, is 272 miles. Most modern EVs are capable of doing that distance without recharging. Also, how long are you spending in Donegal? Are you turning straight around and going back. Charge at a destination charger when there, if need be.
10 min of charge, on a rapid charger, for my car, will add approx 70 / 80 miles of range. I think you will find in the U.K. and Ireland, there will be plenty of chargers in that distance. Do you drive for over three hours straight? Most sensible people will stop for a ‘comfort’ break and possibly a bite to eat. A 10 to 15 minute stop, so just plug in whilst you do that.
I don’t think you have researched this topic at all but like most anti EV types you just listen to the anti EV clickbait grifters.
ELECTRIC CARS AND THE TECHNICAL ISSUE CAUSING SALES RESISTANCE !!!
The major issue is the recharging time. But if a DYNAMO &/or an ALTERNATOR were included, car range could become THOUSANDS OF MILES, and it could be months before an actual recharge was necessary. Why don't they install such equipment ? Quite obviously because when everyone is using Electric Cars, Governments will want to add TAX to recharging, to recoup the tax they will loose on current fuel sales !!!
Most new houses don't have a front garden. Doesn't make sense for most people in that position to buy a PHEV. Another own goal.
Realty always trumps fiction....
When we become energy independent, maybe people will consider it somewhat
What happens when the battery gives up after 10 years. And you have to splash out 15 or 20k for a new one. Keep older cars running longer.
They’re extortionately priced for one
Oh dear! Conor has bought into the fake CC scam. Also - he claims that battery electric is superior but offers no reasoning other than his personal opinion.
Zero emissions making cities safe from pollution! Dohhhhh
@@knownpleasures Remote emissions, not zero emissions. Recharge an electric vehicle in Ireland and 60% of that power comes from burning gas and coal.
Sales are down for two reasons. 1 charging time. 2. Batteries is the most expensive and it degrades in performance with time and when new poor in freezing and hot weather.
It is also poor in recycling afterwards.
Remember the days when you could just buy pretty much any 12 volt battery and put it in your car. Now, batteries are model specific. Same with windscreen wipers, you used to just buy a couple of strips of rubber, and cut them to size. Now wiper blades are model specific too. A scam.
Wheres all this electricity going to come from if all cars were electric..next thing we'll have sails and pedal power..even better all new roads should be downhill...or run them on rainwater..😕
From the National Grid, who have stated there will be no problem supplying all the power needed. Or are you another who listens to the grifters? Do you think all EV drivers are going to plug in at the same time? What would happen if all ICE drivers turned up at the petrol stations at the same time? Oh wait, we have seen plenty of times what happens then, when they all panic about ‘invented’ scare stories of shortages of tanker driver strikes etc,
Vast bulk of people will charge at home......those who can charge at home.
EVs are too expensive and are a pain in the h0le when compared with the ease of filling up with petrol or diesel. The affluent early adopters have bought them now the rest of the population, they don't make sense. Yet.
A few years ago certain EV spruikers were coming on TH-cam and telling everyone that they should sell their ICE cars because soon they were going to be worthless due to the massive uptake of the new EVs. I never saw that in reality. On the road EVs here would be 8% of all vehicles. So certain people got caught up in the sales talk, paid far too much for their EV and got hit hard in the hip pocket when it came to depreciation, repairs and insurance premiums.
Our government want everyone to go green but yet there are no electric charger's the cars it doesn't matter what made or model three times the prices of the rest of Europe, yet our young people have to do a drive test in a automatic or manual car why not in a electric car if that all they want them to drive.
I believe in the circular economy, (use and reuse your products for as long as possible to save the environment). my car is 27 years old, its well maintained and can cover a range from limerick to Belfast and back in one tank, now it does not have aircon or any luxury item but I see it as more practical than the current offerings, I am so confident in it, that I don't have breakdown cover.
I am not convinced with the current electric cars from a fire safety concern, range, cost of ownership which would include tyre costs, insurance costs, depreciation losses, initial costs.
Another concern I have relates to the emissions relating to the building of these cars, the environmental impacts of mining the material for the batteries, the power to charging the batteries which comes from fossil fueled power plants.
It took us over 120 years to improve the internal combustion engine, so let's see how long all electric cars take.
ALARM!!!
Very strange how some none offensive comments disappear, if they point out errors presented in the Vlog.
What about the massive depreciation on a battery car cant give them away after a few years
Yes. I think you are destined to drive an EV into the ground.
EV batteries will last the for the average lifetime of a car.
I don’t think he’s correct (Conor faughnan) when he says that our cars are approved by the EU or indeed that the UK would have some “exemption“ that it could now flex its muscles post Brexit. Car types are approved by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which has nothing to do with the European Union and covers countries like Russia, which will never join the EU. The UK is a UN member and a UNECE member and will remain so. Nothing arises here from Brexit.
Need to have muc more discussion about the depreciation , over pricing and no demonstrated way for functional second hand EV market as they keep dropping like a stone and not everyone will want to always buy new car as if they are an IPhone
There was one (1) EV in the U.k.s top ten depreciating cars in 2023! So, yes let’s have a proper “discussion “ about depreciation!
Glad people are waking up to the scam.
I remember sealed beams...a long time ago...
They are nonsense need plugging in all the time and when in winter battery empty to quickly. Plus second hand cars are risky cause of battery condition.
But the dorks who work for big tech will buy them
5:12 "A degree of intrepidity" to drive cross country in an EV
Why is the cars so unstable so it need to have chargers everywhere, why is it a step back? Gas station dont take up parking spaces, i understand why i cant park where they use the wheelchair sign. But i cant see why they get their own disable sign, where i cant park. I like the excuse for the word new tecnoligy and even if gourvement remove tax on it, that its still very very expensive for cars, that looks like they are budget cars.
Scam central
Its ao much deeper and sinister, not to mention cost to buy parts. But truth be told is they know maany people caant afford but that's the plan for restricted area's for their 15 minute cities.. it controls freedoms to travel. But battery is dangerous too so much missing in this brief interview.
give me an american V8 mussel car over an electric car any day environmentalists deal with it it's your problem
Well it's your problem too dude or more importantly the problem of your children and their children who will have to live with the consequence of your desires.
@@fitzstv8506It’s the corporations and countries like China/India, not the average people😉
@@copevortex Average people in these countries or in most other countries for that matter do not drive American V8s!. What point are you making exactly?.
@@fitzstv8506
Point is that a V8 engine is better for the environment than the toxic earth ripping process of most EV car manufacturing.
@@Art-is-craft I am
Are you suggesting small EV or ICE cars are more polluting that a big gas guzzling V8.
Afraid as stated this week the ports are full of EVs in Europe from chinas and other countries as garages cancel orders as no one wants them can’t blame them
Overuse of advance technology has spiked the price of EVs. BYD Seagull show the promise of a mainstream EV, but tariffs and bias against China is going to hurt US sales if it is sold.
I think salve labour and national market dumping is the reason why they are not allowed into various countries. And the reliability issues also scare people. So they are not going to dominate in Europe or US.
I ❤ fossil fuels
Co2 is not a pollutant it's plant food
@@countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855 say it more often to raise awareness
@@countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855 Nice to hear people talking sense for a change.
Dinosaur
Relentless attacks on Tesla because its CEO committed the high crime of being a non-Democrat.
I don't like Democrats, or EVs.
Felicity Ace, Fremantle Highway.
Why is it alarming, they are a poor product compared to ice cars. Would you buy a car where the fuel tank shrinks every time you drive it?
How does the fuel tank “shrink every time you drive it”?
@@geoffersvoiceofreason2534 hi Geoff with an electric car every time you accelerate hard or through general aging the battery capacity and range reduces. A 5 year old petrol car will always go the same distance.
@@liquidusblue Well, that’s not quite true. An internal combustion engine will loose efficiency the more miles it covers over its lifetime. And bare I mind a petrol engine is only approximately 30% efficient brand new.
Recent studies have shown that Tesla batteries are down to about 90% efficiency after 169,000 miles (that’s about 20 years of life if driven the U.K.s average mileage per year. That still gives over 20l miles range on a short range Tesla. Although age does have an effect as does how it is charged. It certainly doesn’t “shrink every time it is driven”. If the vehicle is looked after (as with ICE cars) i.e. don’t “accelerate hard”. Don’t charge more than 90% unless embarking on a long journey and don’t do unnecessary rapid charging, the battery will, easily, last the lifetime of an average car. (150,000 to 200,000 miles or around 12 years)
I don't believe the drop off is as severe in a badly serviced ICE. 30% efficiency is up for debate. The wasted energy into heat from an ICE is quite useful in winter.
Also How many times has the electricity for an EV changed forms. Is it from gas or solar (emissions elsewhere vehicle). Even with solar. This is mostly hydrocarbons for all the resins and electronics. Same with wind. All carbon fibres and resins in the matrix. That said at least this way you aren't burning hydrocarbons.
It's not as clear cut when you consider all the lithium mining etc.
I think they would do better. If they weren't pushed so much. Just let EVs exist. Some people will buy. Some won't. But no mandates. If they are better people will buy. The market will decide without government meddling.
People have seen the reality of the EV it is not the solution. Zero Point energy cars are. But we won't get that until the Petrol is gone.
Ev = Ford Edsel
I don't understand why it's all up to us but the trains are still all diesels. When the government changes the trains then I will change my car.
Main line Irish trains are diesel/electric....trains have been hybrid for many decades.
@@fitzstv8506 maybe hybrid is the actual answer, not pure electric. Honestly , that does make a lot more sense to me.
How much is this Transport Consultant getting paid to promote this Soylent Green scam?
Friend of mines ev burst into flames after 200 miles. . don't buy
Ah, the usual “friend of mine” bovine excrement!
Electric cars end up on the back of a truck!!
Simple really, ev's are absolutely sh**e!
Thanks for your helpful insight.
@@geoffersvoiceofreason2534 glad to be of help
I don't drive long distances in a day therefore noone else does. Love the arrogance. Personally, I'll take the car that can go 1000 miles on a tank which is the big old diesel.
You drive 1000 miles a day?
Evs are subject to wltp cycle, it isn't a bench test.
THERE A COMPLETE CON FROM START TO FINISH
electric cars 😂