News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Gripped by a culture of climate catastrophism, society seems hell-bent on ripping up the energy system that is the foundation of our civilisation with only the vaguest idea of what might replace it, says Andrew Montford.
Those who dodged the electric car bullet are feeling pretty smug right now, as the value of second-hand EVs plummets, free chargers vanish and the price of electricity soars.
Buyer interest in new electric cars has slumped by nearly two-thirds since the start of last year, new figures suggest, but Government is full of ideas to push the unwanted products on an unconvinced public.
The collectivist Net Zero political project is starting to come apart before our very eyes. Making everyone poor, cold, hungry and confined to small living territories was always a tall political ask.
A looming British ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after Brussels watered down its own restrictions amid opposition from the German auto industry.
A mass market in affordable electric cars will not happen soon because of the difficulty of producing them on a commercially viable basis, one of the largest makers of ‘zero-emission’ vehicles for UK drivers has warned.
The world’s reliance on hi tech solutions such as electric cars and wind turbines to fix climate and ecological crises is “perpetuating racism”, according to the Guardian. Oh dear.
A “silent majority” of car companies is concerned that electric vehicles will not alone be able to end reliance on fossil fuels, according to a senior Toyota executive.
A huge recent rise in electric vehicle battery fires and explosions has led to new concerns about safety, even as experts point out the seemingly insurmountable challenges of sourcing the battery raw materials.
The world has insufficient reserves of minerals such as lithium and cobalt to continually replace all the batteries needed for Net Zero every decade, a report for the Finnish Government has said.
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