Politicians like Rishi Sunak and Donald Trump are pushing back against electric cars, and can you blame them? According to what we read in the media they are high cost, heavy weight, have battery and infrastructure issues, and questionable environmental benefits. However, despite all this negativity, global sales of electric vehicles are soaring.
To bust those common misconceptions, ex Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson, and presenter Robert Llewellyn are joined by a panel of sector experts to discuss the myths and misinformation that surround EVs, at the launch in Westminster of the Stop Burning Stuff initiative.
It is time to start putting the truth above politics and media sensationalism so that we can transition to cleaner technologies and transportation. It’s time to #StopBurningStuff.
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- Electric cars are better for the climate than petrol or diesel – Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data
- EVs are really much better – Auke Hoekstra, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Do Electric Vehicles reduce air pollution? – Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data
- The End of the ICE age, and how EVs will win – Rocky Mountain Institute
- Consumer support key to faster and fairer EV transition as market enters new phase” – SMMT
- Battery makers slash cobalt intensity in face of accelerating demand – SP Global
- Tesla is already using cobalt-free LFP batteries in half of its new cars produced – Electrek
- Here’s why sodium-ion batteries are shaping up to be a big technology breakthrough – CNBC
- The electricity grid won’t be able to handle the increase in EVs – National Grid
- Electric cars catch fire less often than fossil fuel cars – Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
- No EVs in the multi-storey car park collapse – BBC News
- No EVs in this multi-storey car park fire – Sky News
- Do EVs produce more tyre & brake pollution than petrol and diesel equivalents? – Euan McTurk
- I’m Grateful That I Was Driving My EV When I Got Stuck On I-95 – ZETA
- Owning an electric vehicle in Europe could be cheaper than you think, new research shows – World Economic Forum
- Winter range for popular EV models” – Recurrent Auto
- Electric Car costs set to plummet” – Sky News