Is the 2035 Petrol and Diesel Vehicle sales Ban also now dead in the water? Here's the reasons why EV's may cease to be made in the future

The recent U-Turn on Electric Vehicles might be down to a few stark reasons:

Britain is a less than 1% contributor to Global emissions and has already cut its output by 40% off 1990 levels, it has done enough. Banning Petrol and Diesel vehicle sales will make no noticeable difference to our emissions and will just make the UK poor for no real benefit. 

There is little point in making a clean air zone in London when you have airliners taking off from Heathrow pumping out pollution on takeoff that is blown back across the capital. For which they are not penalised or taxed. Unlike the Drivers.

Purchase cost is a very big issue putting people off purchasing electric vehicles.

The charging infrastructure coupled to short battery life of around 7 years before a noticeable loss of performance occurs means that the financial return on investment is also very poor value for money. 

The car is effectively scrap unless a new battery costing a third of the car's original value is purchased, whereas a Petrol or Diesel vehicle can go 20 plus years.

The electricity generated to fuel these vehicles often is from fossil fuels despite the quoted source being electricity generated from Green sources. 

When you add it all up, the benefits are very few and the sudden surge of secondhand EV's on the car market (Many dealers will not touch them) is a sign that people are seeing the drawbacks of the EV and getting out whilst they still can.

Petrol and Diesel vehicles are now the cleanest in their history and this will only improve, they provide a transport solution that is viable, Electric is not and will fail for the same reasons these vehicles failed in the 1900s, the battery and charging.

Germany has wisely added a loophole that vehicles able to use synthetic fuels can be sold after 2035, Porsche intends making Petrol vehicles 'for the foreseeable future' - they can see the future is not Electric.

Motor manufacturers have put their eggs in the wrong basket, advised by misguided politicians and influencers and have made their plans for mainly electric production, this has been a big mistake and it is no wonder that they are now angered over this, the reality is that the EV adoption to achieve parity with ICE vehicles by 2030, 2035 or even 2050 now looks a dead duck. 

So here are some September 2023 Polls that show what people really think these vehicles:- 87% Against buying an EV as their next new car  and an 80% opposition to the 2030 ban. Says it all. They have no future.

That looks like a No then........ 

a very big NO........

Electric Vehicles Poll - the Public speaks and votes. They don't want them Polls show.

That looks like a No then........ 

a very big NO........

Why is 142.6 Billion Euro turnover car maker BMW to be given £75 Million UK Grant to build Electric Mini reportedly dropped from production in 2021?

BMW is to continue building the Electric Mini at Cowley-

Despite reportedly sales demand drop-off?

Why is Multi-Billion turnover car manufacturer BMW to 'continue' to build the Electric Mini at the Cowley plant, in a seemingly dramatic U-turn on its 2021 decision to reportedly stop production?

These Yahoo News reader Polls results from September 2023 show that people just do not want Electric Vehicles. So why does the UK Government not get this?

Here's the official business revenue turnover statistics for the BMW concern: 

BMW in 2022 turned over 142.6 BILLION Euros.

It does not need a grant to build cars full stop.

Automotive Gerrymandering?

BMW saw a lack of demand in 2021 for the Electric version of the mini. 

It led to the production reportedly halting, with an option to move the production

line to China. The Petrol versions continued to be produced.

The disappointing sales of Electric Vehicles in general has led to an 'over supply' situation for the industry as the costs and limitations of these vehicles becomes apparent. They are an infant technology in contrast to Petrol and Diesel technology which is the cleanest it has ever been and can continue that way.

The limited battery 6 year or so EV Battery life also does not represent good return on the investment compared to a Petrol or Diesel vehicle with a 20 year plus life.

So, why is a multi-billion turnover vehicle manufacturer apparently being given state aid to build a vehicle that saw sales dropping off leading to its discontinuation?

Good question. But why does successful BMW need a big grant to to continue production? One answer is jobs, but why produce Battery Mini cars just to have them potentially sitting on airfields in storage for years as the batteries go flat and lose their efficiency just for the sake of production? Can't see the logic. 

I can see the logic in making the Petrol and Diesel vehicles that people do want to buy.

The race to Net Zero is a ridiculous load of nonsense for the UK which is a less than 1% contributor to global emissions. Whatever Britain does will have no real impact either way on things.

Yet there is a blinkered, head-down stampede towards Net Zero, a 2030 vehicle ban and any other green agenda you can name. None of this is worth a light without major polluters like China making changes and now and will only serve to destroy industry and the national economy of nations who embrace these 'Green' fads.

With only 6 years to go until the stupid 2030 ban on sales of new Petrol and Diesel 

vehicles come into force, which Germany has clearly managed to circumvent unlike 

the stupidly complacent British, we are watching a slow motion car crash as the Electric Vehicle project is exposed for the limitations it has, along with the environmental costs of the battery production and also providing the energy for charging these new batteries.

To achieve parity of replacement of Petrol and Diesel vehicles will require building a power supply network not just equalling our current domestic output, but two and a half times greater than that capacity of what we already use just to service the power demand for charging these EV batteries. That is, Britain will need additional power generation in place, above what we need just to power our homes and business needs her and above vehicular requirements.

Porsche for one has been instrumental in seeking an amendment made to the 2030 legislation in Germany and states that it plans to build Petrol and Diesel cars 'for the foreseeable future' - it is the sensible one.

The synthetic fuel that Porsche has helped develop can be used in older cars too, the fact that it is a Net Zero fuel made from Wind Turbine operation really just shows the Green justifications for the 2030 ban are pointless. 

It will not stop other less squeamish countries from burning the fuels. We will also need Oil for making Tyres and Tarmac. The by-products in distillation of Oil for Tyres and Tarmac oil base products are Petrol, Diesel and Kerosene amongst other things. If we don't use it, others will, it is dangerous to store.

Net Zero is a colossal vanity trip. BMW must be laughing all the way to the Bank with this one.

Ineos Grenadier shows the way forward is Petrol and Diesel and NOT Battery Electric Vehicles

 

Jim Ratcliffe the motive force behind the Ineos Grenadier

stands by a classic old Series type Landrover

Jim Ratcliffe has invested £400 Million in the production of the Ineos Grenadier, what some might see as a Landrover of the old school, for tomorrow.For which he should be roundly applauded, having the foresight to see where the future actually is.

The Grenadier is no vanity project, it is a well though out vehicle without the over complication of electronic circuitry that bedevils just about all modern automotive output from the 1990's onwards.

He also sensibly sees that Petrol and Diesel vehicles do have a future in our transport provision beyond the stupidly arrived at 2030 ban, where there is no practical and completely suitable transport solution ready for implementation on that arbitrarily imposed date.

Yahoo Poll September 2023 on EV Purchase

Politicians grabbing headlines with sweeping statements have been exposed by leading industrialists who have stated that there was no practical solution to take the place of Petrol and Diesel vehicles in place when these arbitrarily made dates have been announced.

Indeed it has seems like some sort of a contest has been in place to see who can usurp the previous implementation date.

Germany has wisely, unlike the blinkered British Government (which is carried along on a thin veneer of wokery), to allow after 2030, the continued sale of Petrol and Diesel vehicles that can use alternative synthetic Petrol and Diesel fuels.

Porsche states that it will sell such vehicles 'for the foreseeable future' which is past 2030 at any rate.

This looks quite conclusive

Like Porsche, Jim Ratcliffe can see the limitations of the Battery Vehicle, they will fail for the same reasons that they did in the 1900's - range and battery.

Whilst Jim Ratcliffe sees some future in Battery, it is for city and shorter trips potentially viable, the problem is that the 6 year battery life is the killer, along with the increased cost of vehicles reliant on battery power and of course the charging issues.

It shows the stupidity and blinkered rush down Electric Avenue - that at the outset of all this, no one made the decision to standardise the charger plug pin layout or plug size. A schoolboy error of epic proportions.

Jim Ratcliffe may have the last laugh, whilst other manufacturers have been grudgingly cajoled down Electric Avenue to build electric for the future, this may all end in failure and his Grenadiers are still rolling off the production lines.

UPDATE:

The EV Grenadier production has been postponed until 2027 - maybe it will never be made in the edn?