Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories
3 May 2024
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
4 May 2024
by Toby Young
Footage released by the London Fire Brigade shows the moment yet another e-bike spontaneously catches fire and explodes in a London block of flats.
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 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.
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