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.

Has Porsche and Siemens synthetic Petrol just blown the electric battery vehicle myth out of the water ?

 

The work of Porsche and Siemens looked to have paid off -

 Is the writing now on the wall for the Electric vehicle?

Breaking news - Porsche and Siemens now have seemingly cracked the synthetic Petrol alternative and are about to set up a reining plant for their new synthetic fuels so is this development going to kill off the battery powered vehicle offerings?

Also, Pay Per Mile driving on Electric cars will come in and no one knows how much per mile will be taken from Drivers - as governments seek to recoup the 80% fuel duty money lost on Petrol and Diesel sales. Will the electric car drivers look so smug then? Driving could really cost them.

The recent introduction of the 'not very Green' E10 Ethanol blended Petrol is somewhat farcical - that is this fuel generates a carbon footprint, it needs more fuel to do the job of what it replaced, it damages some vehicle fuel systems and has a limited shelf life and will need disposal when it goes stale (which is quite quickly) a fact that has not been thought out - and that is just for starters.

The 'race to the bottom' of car makers to pander to the Eco warriors and their plan to rid us of internal combustion engines when they are at the most efficient they have ever been, is frankly crazy. Then to rape the planet of rare earth, finite materials to fulfil their warped battery car ideology? You couldn't make it up.

We are being asked to as an alternative to old Dinosaur derived fuels to rip up the Earth they care so much about to extract a finite palate of minerals to satisfy these smug individuals and their egos. F*ck the planet, in this case - so long as it puffs up the egos of the smug lefties. Oh and what about the child labour used to mine the Cobalt for electric car batteries?

Where is the extra electricity to come from to power these battery devices? Good question. The power we get at the end of power lines these days is noticeably down - domestic cooking shows that.

Fuel Stations run on low margins of profit from Petrol and Diesel sales - it is just that these stations sell a lot of fuel which keeps them in business. Have a car sitting on a charger for 2 hours and you could have sold a lot of liquid fuel in that time. Simple. As the Meerkat says. This means we could see many petrol stations close on profit grounds.

This new fuel

The Porsche Siemens fuel is derived from Methanol and if this can run satisfactorily in a Porsche then hopefully it will be safe in other cars including classic cars which are at risk from this awful E10 compound and shelf serving green lobby. The stupid argument about banning the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles is because they use fossil fuels. 

If you fuel these same vehicles with Porsche's fuel, it is still going to produce some CO2, but the difference is that the fuel isn't made from old Dinosaurs extracted from the ground - that seems to be the big bugbear for the Eco Warriors. 

These smug self-serving Eco Warriors have not yet realised that China now has control over the majority of the minerals on this planet needed to make the green revolution happen - which have to come out of the ground and it is free to charge what it likes when the stupid idiots have taken the viable alternative away -  that is stopped the production and sale of ICE cars. So why don't these green guardians not take their climate protests to China? That;s were the real problems are.

We have alternatives to help reduce emissions - firstly to commute less and work remotely more at home and other sites if that suits people, secondly to cull most luxury tourist aviation. We have had free energy available since 1954 but because we are an oil based world, it has been supressed.

An airline taking off and attaining altitude expels in that few minutes the same volume of CO2 that a family car does in 10 years of average mileage - around 70,000 miles of driving. Multiply the Heathrow daily output of aircraft movements by that metric and that is a lot of the world we could help to save by not flying most 'luxury' airline routes.

The bottom  line in reality is we have to reduce the world population because we are running out of world. Shortages projected in the 1980's to impact 'anytime now' are now starting to bite, as our population has doubled in size since 1965.

The electric vehicle scenario brings a ton of problems that could be avoided. People are jumping on this trendy bandwagon which is a race to the bottom and the wheel might well come off it. There are a lot of unknowns about the future of battery vehicles which are in their infancy and may not deliver what is expected, then what?

Synthetic fuels are the future and fuels like E10 are not. Electric is not the future either as 1 in 5 Californians are rejecting electric cars and going back to gasoline powered cars as the electric cars don't have the range and take too long to charge.

You have to ask yourself who is getting rich by al this stuff? They say follow the money and that's where you need to look to see where the vested interests reside.