EU regulations might help to kill off the UK motor industry
if the Electric Vehicle folly is not reigned in, in favour of alternative Synthetic Fuels
EU Red tape and interference we should ignore if we are going to have a British motor industry. Plans to 'fine' by adding cost penalties to non-EU components of vehicles is a money grabbing exercise in the questionably unviable Electric Vehicle sector.
Britain has no sizeable EV Vehicle Battery manufacturer for a number of reasons - the EV technologies are in their infancy, the market is uncertain, the cost of Electricity has risen greatly, the costs and short operational lives of the EV batteries and with second hand EV's being dumped and people are going back to Petrol and Diesel cars, that's just for starters why this sector is doomed to fail.
The costly "Net Zero" farce is going to achieve nothing for Britain - Britain is a less than 1% contributor and has already cut emissions 40% on 1990's levels.
It is hobbling itself just to 'look good' when China and others continue to do little or nothing in that respect.
Britain like others pursuing this Net Zero mantra are just looking like fools tying their shoelaces together before a 100m race, whilst the others laugh at how stupid they are, before running off unimpeded by Net Zero 'hobbling'.
If we stop using oil derived Petrol and Diesel in the UK, China likely won't nor will Russia or India.
We should continue doing so until viable alternative fuels in quantity are available. Not destroy our economy by prostrating ourselves before some woke altar of green atonement.
People are not stupid and can see through all this crap, that's one reason the Conservatives lost a lot of votes in May - people are fed up being taken for fools by Net Zero evangelising proponents and this drive towards Transport Apartheid.
The UK motor industry needs to break free from any directives or pressures to move solely to Electric Vehicle production and to embrace synthetic fuels without delay.
If BMW, a successful and already profitable car maker has to be 'given grants' to build the electric version of the Mini in Britain, a car which there seems no viable market demand for from the UK car buying public for, extrapolated out this shows the EV project overall has no real viability. My own recent survey showed a ratio of 1 EV to 62 petrol or diesel vehicles on the road in a 20 mile journey. So much for parity of EV's by 2030.
The EV industry is based on supplies of finite materials that will not satisfy the demand for them globally, supply of which is largely controlled by China and mined sometimes involving slave labour and with egregious health costs to people and the environment otherwise. In any other situation this industry with this sort of record would be banned or shunned.
With 'fines' to come for UK manufacturers not selling a higher proportion of EV's over Petrol and Diesel vehicles apparently being implemented prior to the 2030 outright ban, this is nothing short of officially sponsored market manipulation.
This is the start of a wide reaching policy of Transport Apartheid, along with ULEZ and 15 minute cities. Your freedom of movement curtailment starts here.
The problem is that when the wheel finally does come off the EV folly, those who made the decisions will likely just walk away without penalty, they seem rarely held to account.
We should not be in a mad rush to embark on throwing our lot in with a 'primitive' battery vehicle solution - McLaren's boss says they will defray any move to a pure electric sports car for at least 10 years whilst that technology is developed.Sensibly.
If demand is not there and the EV project fails, McLaren for one won't have their fingers burned. In the early 1900's there was an EV industry, that failed too. Largely for the same reasons it will fail now. Remember the Sinclair C5 of the 80's? Nice idea. But the battery technology wasn't there.
Hydrogen vehicles are a pipe dream, the simple and cheap Net Zero solution that trumps even the battery vehicle are Synthetic Fuels - that can run in the engines of new and older cars. Mazda are wisely bring forward new ICE engined vehicles that cab use fossil and synthetic fuels. Sensible. This is the future!
The haulage, farming industries and the armed forces cannot rely on batteries - how do you charge a Tank in a war zone where electricity is cut off? A Tank sitting there charging batteries for 2 hours is a dead tank and will be if it gets hit. Anyone thought of this? Can you afford 2 hour down time harvesting when your Combine Harvester is out of power? anyone thought of this? Thought not.
However, politicians and the woke campaigners rarely have the technical 'nous' to understand the realities of their situation - they just decide something 'is a good idea' and as long as there are plenty of sycophantic, nodding arse-lickers telling the decision makers this is 'the way forward' and similarly vacuous sentiments, they clap each other on the back and congratulate themselves on being so clever.
Usually whilst sitting around drinking coffee and telling each other how good they are.
A transport minister who shall remain nameless apparently said in the 1980's 'Those (Black cab) Taxi drivers should treat themselves to a new set of spark plugs' - seemingly ignorant that 'those' Diesel Black cabTaxis do not use spark plugs, they rely on compression ignition to make the Diesel engine work by igniting the fuel not by an electronic spark.
See where I am coming from? A Transport Minister who has not the technical knowledge to know why they are talking about, this is not good government.
This is why we need people with real professional experience in decision making positions, not hapless amateurs who hop off to the next unrelated civil service portfolio without knowing what they are doing, being say a health secretary one month and armed forces minister the next, apparently without any experience or more worryingly, accountability?
Having idiots in charge who say 'we shall ban sales of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2050' and then decide 'we will bring forward this ban forward to 2030' as examples - when there is no actual existing viable and practical solutions in place to do so, merely belief, is sheer stupidity.
Especially when there are alternative fuels in place that negate these policy decisions on electric vehicles yet are being ignored by the apparently "I can't hear you" EV brigade acolytes.
Having left the EU we should not be involved with EU laws and should have torn up the raft of 'gold plated' legislation and 'job creation schemes' of coming up with ridiculous existing impediments to free trade and free movement of goods and not create new ones.
The EU is an insult to ordinary european citizens in that it presumes that its member states are unable to decide their own taxes or laws and then charges them hideously for the privilege, when did we last see audited accounts of all this money leeched off the ordinary European to run this organisation? How was it spent? We have a right to know.
The reasons that there has been so little investment in battery plants in Britain is obvious by the above, and why the EV 'solution' is doomed to fail.
For starters here are some pointers:
- Firstly there is no certain future in the EV market,
- Alternative fuels to Petrol and Diesel are being made,
- The costs of charging and electricity are rising,
- The products to make the batteries are finite and will not supply the global demand.
- No one unified the EV charging plug at the outset, stupidly
- The chargers are not unified meaning you need a variety of different ones
- Often chargers are broken, or taken and free ones are being removed due to cost
- Oil is still need to make tyres and tarmac and other products such as paints
- As a refining by-product of Oil, Petrol and Diesel are made and must be consumed
- Some existing EV owners are dumping their cars and going back to Petrol and Diesel
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