Car Parking Spaces Will Have to Be Bigger Because of Electric Car Fires
Car park spaces should become wider and burning electric cars dunked in baths of water, under proposed Government guidelines to prevent battery fires spreading out of control.
Car park spaces should become wider and burning electric cars dunked in baths of water, under proposed Government guidelines to prevent battery fires spreading out of control.
Electric car sales have hit a bump in the road after demand from private motorists fell sharply by 14.3% last month, leading to calls for subsidies for electric vehicles.
If electric cars and heat pumps were improvements on current technology there'd be no need for coercion. It's time for the Government to admit they are simply not up to the job, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
Drivers report being shocked at the extraordinary cost of insuring electric vehicles – over £5,000 in many cases, if insurance is available at all, as insurers balk at the risks of EVs.
A family home was lit on fire after their "electric car" reportedly exploded while sitting in their driveway.
Four in every five vehicles sold must be electric by the end of the decade, ministers have told car bosses, despite Rishi Sunak’s decision to delay a ban on new petrol sales.
With news that private sales of electric vehicles fell last year and with the Prime Minister set to delay the looming ban on petrol vehicles, Patrick O'Flynn writes that you'd have to pay him to buy an electric car.
As the EU threatens to fight the rising imports of Chinese electric cars with big new tariffs, the UK, under "farcical" Net Zero laws, is set to do the opposite and force UK car makers to subsidise their Chinese rivals.
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
More electric vehicles are being made by manufacturers than drivers want, one of Britain’s biggest car dealerships has said, as the Government tries to artificially force the market to move against consumer preferences.
© Skeptics Ltd.