Reader, of course not...
Electric cars will need to be smaller with shorter ranges and people must make fewer private journeys by road to ease the inevitable surge in demand for critical metals when transitioning to battery vehicles, according to a new report.
These people cannot be appeased.
These are among the recommendations outlined by a green transport thinktank as part of a study looking into how to moderate the consumption of key metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. And it has called on governments to introduce 'weight-based taxation' on the heaviest and largest motors.
And government will jump at the chance!
"'Weight-based taxation'" - Which will be the final nail in the EV coffin!
ReplyDelete"Electric cars will need to be smaller with shorter ranges and people must make fewer private journeys by road ...." .
ReplyDeleteThe first question any think tank, whether relating to green transport or not, is "Who is providing the funding?" .
If your pay check depends on finding data the fund holders want, then you will find it.
Will the 'people' referred to, also include the elite or, like the old Zil lanes, will there be exceptions?
If the think tank tank says no, and you believe them, I suggest you stay away from bridge salesmen.
Penseivat
"Electric cars will need to be smaller with shorter ranges!
ReplyDeleteShorter ranges? They couldn't get much shorter than those of the currently available fantasy vehicles.
Also there'll be yet another highly-paid think-tank to examine the distress done to millions of potholes which are left for cyclists to fall into. These holes include the drain covers which are deliberately left about three inches below the road surface after re-tarmacing, to deter anyone riding a bicycle.
ReplyDeleteMulti-storey carparks will collapse, a few days after all the bridges in London fail at the same time...
So that's about a hundred and fifty more quango members doing absomutely nothing to help the situation!
It was obvious from day one that the aim was to eliminate virtually all private transport, but not before making us buy into this with usually borrowed money and those enticing "subsidies" that have to be paid for, usually another tax or clawback. Once hooked, the original VED exemption disappears, then the ULEZ and congestion taxes are applied, then road pricing and all while you're paying that loan, lease or whatever. I'm sticking with my ULEZ compliant, paid for, 21yr old petrol Volvo V70 until it falls apart.
ReplyDeleteThis nothing to do with "saving the planet" and everything to do with total control over everything you do, say, spend, think and go in your 15 minute total surveillance panopticon prison cities. The sheeplike compliance over the so-called pandemic, proved to those running the show, that the majority would go along with house arrest, censorship, removal of freedoms, media propaganda, violent suppression of dissent, cancellation of those who won't confirm, and police brutality unseen in the UK since the eighties, all promoted as "saving the planet". Welcome to Airstrip One. Welcome to the WEF Fourth Reich globalist nightmare under wannabe World Führer Klaus Schwab and his elite acolytes such as the vile Bill Gates and co.
"Which will be the final nail in the EV coffin!"
ReplyDeleteIt's like they say things without any fear of ridicule, isn't it?
"The first question any think tank, whether relating to green transport or not, is "Who is providing the funding?" "
Oh, I think we can see .... it's us, somehow!
"Shorter ranges? They couldn't get much shorter than those of the currently available fantasy vehicles."
Quite! And how does that fit in with '15 minute neighbourhoods'? Is that foing to be the range goal?
"So that's about a hundred and fifty more quango members doing absomutely nothing to help the situation!"
Do any of them do anything to help anyone other than themselves?
"It was obvious from day one that the aim was to eliminate virtually all private transport..."
If it wasn't clear at the time, it surely should be now...