Gothitjulie… nice to see you doing the full costings over the 3 years and that’s why I say they should be reducing the deposits to make EVs the smart choice for financial and environmental reasons.
However the argument about shareholders is poor… that’s the same as the gun manufacturers selling arms to Saddam so he can kill his own civilians… never mind the morals we need to provide dividends for the shareholders.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Colin…. you are completely wrong on almost every single point you made there. The only bit you got right was the first 8 words “financially the EVs make a lot of sense”</p>
Petrol and diesels might emit less crap than they used to… but they still emit crap and they still have to burn irreplaceable fossil fuel to do it? That’s like saying I don’t beat my wife as much as I used to so I should be allowed to carry on doing it?
You talk about the co2 produced in manufacturing an EV, you believe its higher than a standard car… well your wrong there cause it’s less, and over the lifetime of the cars the ICE will continue to produce co2 emissions every time the engine is running where as the EV won’t.
Old batteries… always a favourite that one, how are we going to get rid of them. Well we don’t get rid of them, they are recycled and reused as energy storage for houses, factories, offices etc. The charge they hold and how they use it may not be suitable for a car anymore but to run a house or an office is fine.
You may say you’re not anti EV but you are certainly swallowing all the scare stories put out by companies with a vested interest in keeping the oil flowing. Go do some proper open minded research on the subject, I recommend watching a film called Who killed the electric car, and a few of the Fully Charged videos on YouTube or ones by Dr Euan McTurk.