"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
It seems that we that are electrified are well into the third phase, and I have faith that the battle is winnable.
Like you Robert we live semi rurally and our home, 2 EVs and garden tools are all solar powered, and we wait for the day when at least one of those EVs will be able to serve duty as a battery for our home. Changes in electricity regulations for Australia and New Zealand are due in a few months that will allow V2G though just V2H is our intent.
Friends and family members who work in NZ's oil and gas industry are seeing first hand the manipulation from politicians to push CCS and hydrogen production and are mystified and disappointed by their blinkered approach and ignorance of these technologies failings. As is usually the case in order to understand the situation it's a matter of 'following the (fossil fuel) dollars'.
I'm chuffed to hear you'll be gracing NZ with your presence soon and I'm sure the Electric Cherry orchardist will provide you with a healthy dose of optimism when you visit him. Best wishes for a progressive and electrifying 2025.
With each EV made they lose £000’s of fuel, each and every solar panel, reduces the demand of gas, each house battery and every turbine whittles away at their profits it’s inevitable they will lose. Just like when the USA finally joined World War 2, the moment of defeat for the Nazis was set in stone. Even the Orange man cannot stop it …..
Thanks so much to you Robert and your amazing teams at Fully Charged and Everything Electric. Don't underestimate your contribution to the energy transition. I believe the future will be green, simply because technologies like EVs, Heat Pumps, Solar, Wind are just better. You're on the right side of history and don't forget it!
Talk about old age ...my hybrid - electric buses have recently been retired! Released to their service 25 years ago!
I thought EVs were the next best thing, but quite a lot of tire pollution remains ...the next big deal should be closing streets for pedestrians...and then, batteries are the next best tech milestone...on the way to nodnoL .
Many cars on the roads now are over 12 years old (Petrol and Diesel), if they drive 8,000 miles a year = 96,000 miles if lucky enough to do 50 miles a gallon, thats 1920 Gallons of fuel burnt (so far) at a cost of (@£1.30 a Lt) £6.50 a gallon £12,480....no wonder big oil is spending so much money to develop FUD stories about EV's
"This year (2024) there are 8353 petrol stations in the UK. That's 36% reduction since 2000.
A slow decline continues.
One day each of the 2000+ towns in the UK will have a petrol station.
And a while later, not all of them will.
Hardly any of them are at home (farmers may be an exception) and only some at work, so people with ICE cars have to go somewhere special to refill publicly.
This year (2024) there are 72 000 public EV charging points in the UK.
They are somewhat evenly spread, and still being steadily added to.
One day, every street might have one.
But most drivers don't often need them, they charge at home, using the 900 000 private charging points, or in some cases from a 13 Amp socket, of which the UK has ... several.
I can't see this combustion car thing taking off, I suppose you can just about manage to get around with one, if you adapt your life to it, but the usefulness is just falling off steadily. Sensible people would only do it for fun."
Labour do know they don't work. They're shit scared of the RW MSM and are using this as an appeasment policy which will end in tears and cost us all dearly...
Reading Grace Blakeley's latest book atm, and it would suggest the oil industry is simply a pusher of global capitalism, not a social /people based promotion.
Sadly your correct and they have done it with the EV auto industry by making EV's way too expensive for the average Joe andthreatensing to tax EV's and charge more for electricity! It does not have to be this way.
Keep fighting the good fight Robert to encourage people to Stop Burning Stuff 🔥
You have more supporters than you know and the tide is turning 💪
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
It seems that we that are electrified are well into the third phase, and I have faith that the battle is winnable.
Like you Robert we live semi rurally and our home, 2 EVs and garden tools are all solar powered, and we wait for the day when at least one of those EVs will be able to serve duty as a battery for our home. Changes in electricity regulations for Australia and New Zealand are due in a few months that will allow V2G though just V2H is our intent.
Friends and family members who work in NZ's oil and gas industry are seeing first hand the manipulation from politicians to push CCS and hydrogen production and are mystified and disappointed by their blinkered approach and ignorance of these technologies failings. As is usually the case in order to understand the situation it's a matter of 'following the (fossil fuel) dollars'.
I'm chuffed to hear you'll be gracing NZ with your presence soon and I'm sure the Electric Cherry orchardist will provide you with a healthy dose of optimism when you visit him. Best wishes for a progressive and electrifying 2025.
With each EV made they lose £000’s of fuel, each and every solar panel, reduces the demand of gas, each house battery and every turbine whittles away at their profits it’s inevitable they will lose. Just like when the USA finally joined World War 2, the moment of defeat for the Nazis was set in stone. Even the Orange man cannot stop it …..
Thanks so much to you Robert and your amazing teams at Fully Charged and Everything Electric. Don't underestimate your contribution to the energy transition. I believe the future will be green, simply because technologies like EVs, Heat Pumps, Solar, Wind are just better. You're on the right side of history and don't forget it!
Talk about old age ...my hybrid - electric buses have recently been retired! Released to their service 25 years ago!
I thought EVs were the next best thing, but quite a lot of tire pollution remains ...the next big deal should be closing streets for pedestrians...and then, batteries are the next best tech milestone...on the way to nodnoL .
Many cars on the roads now are over 12 years old (Petrol and Diesel), if they drive 8,000 miles a year = 96,000 miles if lucky enough to do 50 miles a gallon, thats 1920 Gallons of fuel burnt (so far) at a cost of (@£1.30 a Lt) £6.50 a gallon £12,480....no wonder big oil is spending so much money to develop FUD stories about EV's
Found this amusing on the ID.3 forum:
"This year (2024) there are 8353 petrol stations in the UK. That's 36% reduction since 2000.
A slow decline continues.
One day each of the 2000+ towns in the UK will have a petrol station.
And a while later, not all of them will.
Hardly any of them are at home (farmers may be an exception) and only some at work, so people with ICE cars have to go somewhere special to refill publicly.
This year (2024) there are 72 000 public EV charging points in the UK.
They are somewhat evenly spread, and still being steadily added to.
One day, every street might have one.
But most drivers don't often need them, they charge at home, using the 900 000 private charging points, or in some cases from a 13 Amp socket, of which the UK has ... several.
I can't see this combustion car thing taking off, I suppose you can just about manage to get around with one, if you adapt your life to it, but the usefulness is just falling off steadily. Sensible people would only do it for fun."
Since many people now have more than one vehicle one of them could easily be EV.
Labour do know they don't work. They're shit scared of the RW MSM and are using this as an appeasment policy which will end in tears and cost us all dearly...
I'm wondering if this a capitalist problem?
Reading Grace Blakeley's latest book atm, and it would suggest the oil industry is simply a pusher of global capitalism, not a social /people based promotion.
Keep on fighting the good fight - misinformation needs calling out and you do that every day, thank you
Sadly your correct and they have done it with the EV auto industry by making EV's way too expensive for the average Joe andthreatensing to tax EV's and charge more for electricity! It does not have to be this way.