Sales of electric vehicles plunged across Europe last month, fuelled by a sharp drop-off in demand in Germany and the Netherlands. The Telegraph has more.
Official figures show that sales for new EVs fell by 30% in Germany last month, which led to a broader fall of 12.5% across the Continent.
It comes a week after Brussels launched a crackdown on an influx of cheap EV imports from China, which they claim have benefited from unfair state subsidies.
The European Commission unveiled a raft of new trade tariffs of up to 48% on EVs, including those made by MG, Volvo and BYD – all of which are China-owned.
However, the measures are at risk of increasing EV prices for drivers across the bloc and sparking a diplomatic row with Beijing, which has threatened to retaliate with its own tariffs.
The new duties will come into force from July 5th unless the EU strikes a deal with China.
Against this backdrop, data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association on Thursday revealed that the year-on-year market share of fully electric cars fell from 13.8% to 12.5% in May.
As well as a drop in demand across Germany, the Netherlands also reported a 12.5% decline in new EV sales last month.
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“It comes a week after Brussels launched a crackdown on an influx of cheap EV imports from China, which they claim have benefited from unfair state subsidies. “
Er, aren’t EVs in Europe also subsidised? Isn’t the reason the Chinese ones are cheaper that they are cheap crap?
Surely the EU should be launching a campaign advising that the reason Chinese EV’s are cheap is because they are manufactured using electricity produced by burning coal and not via the not as cheap eco method of waiting for the wind to blow.
That should do it eh Fond of Lying? Hit ’em where it hurts.
Yeah that should put off all the virtue signalling crowd.
Cheap crap is better than expensive crap, I suppose…
Yes I suppose so though I’ve no intention of ever owning an EV – though a friend of a friend did have an old milk float they used to save them the daily walk from home to their local railway station
Exactly. The EU accusing other regimes of unfairly manipulating markets is like Harold Shipman accusing his colleagues of medical malpractice.
Well that’s some good news at last!
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-parliaments-legion-of-the-damned/
A properly thought provoking article concerning our failed democracy by Andrew Cadman at TCW which ends on a note of optimism:
“over the next five years many defeats lie ahead, the future will seem ever darker and hope ever more diminished. However, as Farage himself says, good ultimately will defeat evil, and no matter how much we will mourn the destruction of all we hold sacred, what we have lost and have yet to lose, let us have faith in, build and look forward to the new truly democratic – directly democratic – golden age that our children will inherit.”
And running alongside collapsing EV sales we have the eco gravy train which is filling up with renewable subsidies supplied by taxpayers.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-renewable-energy-gravy-train-only-the-subsidies-keep-flowing/
“A TaxPayers’ Alliance investigation Council energy companies of 13 local authorities which had invested in energy companies found that they lost more than £74million of council tax receipts in ill-conceived ventures. And the unavoidable reality of cold windless nights and a frequently sunless UK which make Net Zero impossible is simply ignored.
The question that all candidates should be asked in this upcoming election is who’s paying and for whose benefit? Why are taxpayers funding an eco-lobby sustainables gravy train which helps the balance sheets of the globalist corporations and the wallets of their cronies, while putting up consumers’ own energy bills? Economic vandalism at its worst in exchange for virtue-signalling at its finest just about sums it up.”
In a way EV’s are an example of old fashioned Soviet style,top-down, market authoritarianism. They are also a glaring example of how the eco-techno-crats do not understand motorists, motoring and why EVs are not an easy direct swap for ICE cars.
Thank goodness there are so many brilliant small business garage outfits out there, like Barry in Barnstaple, who seem so keen and capable of keeping elderly ICE cars driving on to ”infinity and beyond”!
But in the end if they stick to this EV Net-Zero policy, small garage businesses and much of the economy linked to motoring will be devastated and the lives of ordinary people will be immiserated by a huge reduction in travel freedoms.
Just asked my local Reform candidate ‘Adam Jones’ if he would be willing to talk with UK Column. I will await a reply.
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https://anthonycolpo.substack.com/p/censorship-industrial-complex-loses
A superb sledgehammer job on the BMJ Public Health magazine offshoot…
“Something unusual happened on June 3, 2024. BMJ Public Health, a prominent peer-reviewed British Medical Journal offshoot that covers public health research and policy, published a paper by Dutch researchers exploring the excess mortality in various countries during 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Three of the four authors, led by Saskia Mostert, hailed from the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Mostert is one of the relatively few researchers with sufficient character to speak out against the abundant corruption within the health and medicine fields.”
Although BMJ Public Health published the article which exposed the huge numbers of deaths generated worldwide by the toxic injections it has since rowed back and has attempted to throw the authors to the wolves.
Obviously there is no suggestion that Billy and his murderous cohort are involved. Honestly.
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I posted at the time of the October 7th massacre in Israel that I did not believe for one minute that the IDF could not have known in advance of the incoming attack. I believe this article provides the proof.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-criminal-court-icc-prosecutor-karim-a-a-khan-kc-accuses-palestine-of-waging-war-against-israel/5857711
https://youtu.be/7qI0xQSn8Y0?si=4CpsHjKG_z8JFHqt
This is it:
Kneel, ” I choose Davos over Westminster.”
I read a comment yesterday which made me smile. Imagine EVs were the norm and the combustion engine came along. The benefits of this new combustion engine technology would include a longer range, a lighter car so less impact on roads, getting rid of long charging times, preserving Earth’s metals, cheaper….What is not to like?
I understand that one of Trumps election strategies is to reverse the push for EVs and re-position ICE cars as the main stay of motoring. If the USA does go back to ICE cars it makes you wonder where that will leave Europe and the UK?
Also, backing down on EVs is one way to ‘put one over’ on China, the Chinese have gone big on EVs driven by state driven subsidies and direction. Any backing down on EVs will leave China with egg on its face and piles of unwanted EVs in parking lots.
My prediction is that in 20-30 years time neither current type ICE or EV vehicles will be the mode of transport. I think the human ingenuity will come up with new workable technology to replace both ICE and lithium-ion EVs. The currenty EV debacle is that result of an ignorant, authoritarian and blinkered drive to force the introduction of a new unsuitable and unworkable technology.
The only problem is that Trump is the only one doing that —-(Well maybe Reform might force a few rethinks here and there) but once Trump is dead and buried the global communism will be free to march ahead.
They could be contemplating the latter for all we know.
Given the weight I wonder what the survival rate looks like for pedestrians hit by them?
Ah so the Protection Racket EU wants to save the planet, but they want all the Europeans to pay top dollar for the cars that are going to save it? —–Has there even been a bigger politically motivated disorganised clutter of incompetence, mixed with ideology, subsidy farming, and this desire by the world government people at the UN and WEF to control every aspect of every person’s life on the planet in what is really a Communist World Government pretending they are saving us from a planetary emergency but with not a shred of evidence. ——-In the past communism was something that happened in various places and was mostly gotten rid of because people want FREEDOM, not Tyranny. No one ever jumped across the Berlin wall from West to East. They all jumped in this direction to prosperity and freedom. But now we have a serious problem because the technocrats are using climate to control not just a few countries here and there, but the whole planet. —————–Wakey wakey people. —None of this has anything to do with the bloody climate.
After the Wall came down, we thought Communism was finished!
Balls to the Wall:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0
Oh, let me think: where does the EU electric car, and other electric industries, principally buy batteries from? Which country controls almost the entire market?
How does it even begin to be possible that people so dense can get into any position of power? All China has to do is stick the same percentage tariff on every Chinese item that EU manufacturers need to make cars that set on fire. This is hardly rocket science.
Given that manufacturers in Europe will be required to hit nonsensical targets all that China has to do is wait for the European car industry to go bust. Then they buy it all up at rock bottom prices as they have done with so much else.
China is in the same position as OPEC: when you control the market and the availability you control the price. The EU is heading down the dust pipe but not to as good a tune as the old Status Quo hit.
It’s worth pointing out that EU electric cars are so expensive because the EU manufacturers have to pay extraordinary amounts for electricity to make their cars. In the UK, for example, the hidden tax on gas and electricity, if removed, would cut the price by a third at least. Remove the subsidies on top and you lopped off an easy 50%. La La Land is exactly the same.
Deliberately murdering your industries is not some other countries fault.
But people are blissfully unaware that the whole Green Agenda as Klaus Schwab freely admitted is to “Bring about the collapse of Industrial Society”. ——Our Political Class that are telling us they are going to give us growth and clean cheaper energy are a pack of lying UN lackey parasites speaking with forked tongue. Green = Anti Growth. Green = Lower Living Standard. Green = Going without.
I’m in Italy at the moment. Been here for a week. I’ve not seen ONE electric vehicle so far.