Harry has another intriguing EV video out. The topic is laced with questionable arguments, and reading the comments, its clear who his target audience is. He's either on the payroll for a lobby group or has gone full grandad mode and is stuck in the past.
Ok, watched the video... and I wasn't disappointed by your portrayal. The video is all about why the government should abandon the EV mandate but doesn't really give any arguments as to why other than they are behind on sales. He says the EU version is better but in reality the only way to meet it in the long term is to sell a shed load of EV's.
A few specific comments:
Stripping out Tesla from the stats is disingenuous, presumably if those buyers didn't buy a Tesla, the vast majority would have bought something else electric - I know I would have.
Depreciation argument was fine, no issues with that. 10 year battery life myth perpetuated - complete nonsense.
He seems to have a bit of a thing for plug in hybrids (inc. range extenders) but then destroys his own argument by quickly mentioning you need to plug them in to make them work, if a PHEV works for you (used as intended), a fully electric is likely to as well. He says the testing regime needs to change significantly - his right because it produces silly numbers for PHEV's which just don't reflect reality on the emissions which undermines his argument about the EU system being 'better'.
As for eFuels and sustainable fuels, he hypes them up 'look motorsports are using these, they must be good' quickly glosses over the £lol cost (£4.50/litre) that makes a new EV look like a bargain and grossly glosses over the challenges in making it a scale that would serve my local Tesco filling station let alone a material part of the fuel market for road transport.
I sort of agree with his point about incentives but also not really. They are too heavily weighted to businesses and really you need to be targeting 'people' who drive them not the companies who own them.
As for the engineers vs politicians argument, that's cringe... lets check who those engineers will be working for, ah yes they businesses who's objectives are chasing profit, not the right thing to do. Politicians don't get it right, we know that but I'd argue that when it comes to the 'greater good' they have a fa far better track record than capitalism.
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