electric cars

EVs are not selling because consumers just don’t want them, despite massive subsidies to both the manufacturers and consumers. But capitalism is being blamed.

According to the Chef Exec of Thatcham Research, the motor insurers' research centre, electric cars may soon become uninsurable. The average EV insurance policy increased by 72% in the year to September.
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An industry expert is warning that Chinese electric cars flooding the U.K. market could be remotely controlled by Beijing to paralyse the nation.
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Carmageddon? Boris's 2030 ban on petrol cars was a bold vision for a green industrial revolution. But with a woefully inadequate power grid and prohibitively expensive EVs, Britain faces a race against time.
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Rowan Atkinson: The inconvenient truth about electric cars.
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US Representative Thomas Massie (KY-R), an engineer with degrees from MIT, warned US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg of the dangerous impracticality of electric cars as the US electrical grid would not be ale to provide enough power to replace gasoline powered cars with electric cars.

Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions. On July 14, the European Union unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would, according to Gulf News, mean “the end of the internal combustion engine”: The commission’s draft would reduce […]

Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars in his state by requiring all new cars and trucks to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. Currently, electric vehicles account for less than 3% of all vehicle sales in the US.

Electric vehicles have "significantly higher CO2 emissions than diesel cars," due to the large amount of energy used in the mining and processing of lithium, cobalt, and manganese, which are critical raw materials for the production of electric car batteries.

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