I agree the infrastructure isn't where it needed to be for the 2030 ban on new pure ICE cars and am not sure many people would argue against that.
but we are in 2024 (were in 2023 when the government renagued). at that point there were 7 years remaining (still 6 now) to pull fingers out of collective asses and crack on.
even then hybrid cars would still have been sold for another 5 years and no one was going to ban ICE cars. those here saying they want to run their car for 20 years which is better than buying a new EV ....,... that would have been cool as well. anyone buying a car at end of 2029 with a 20year running time will have been good until 2050.
a good chunk of us here won't even be driving in 2050!
but forgetting all that what really cheeses me off isn't actually people unwilling to get an EV yet
it is the utter utter bunk which is spewed out daily by the main stream press.
not balanced journalism highlighting the evidence advantages but pointing out where things are not good enough yet and pushing what needs to be done but stuff so wide of the mark it isn't really even bias any more it's pretty much lies.
then that gets parroted around as fact.
ie there are no rare earth metals in car batteries.
there is cobalt in *some* car batteries but anyone wanting to not contribute to that there are plenty of options to not have cobalt in your car battery.
and they conveniently forget that cobalt in batteries is recyclable. loads of cobalt is used in running ICE cars that is conveniently not reported on and that ISNT.
I think if the media reported fairly then a lot of these issues on social media may actually resolve themselves (ok who am I kidding when people still believe the COVID vaccine was some government conspiracy..... social media crap won't go anywhere, and that is more of a scourge than the daily telegraph or express)
