Arch EV ZEALOT admits electric cars CANNOT survive without subsidies | MGUY Australia
MGU’s famous three Fs, the only things that keep EV sales going, are fanboys, fleets, and freebies. Fanboys are the brainwashed evangelists that would buy anything with a battery. Fleets are the huge corporate buyers that make up most of the purchases of EVs in the UK and Europe. And freebies are the neverending government handouts that are a desperate attempt to stimulate a flagging demand. So whenever the EV zealots go begging bowl in hand to the government for more freebies, it is nothing less than a humiliating admission that electric cars simply cannot compete on a level playing field with regular cars. And of course they can’t. They’re hopelessly impractical for most people. So when that arch EV zealot Quentyn Wilson says that private EV buyers need support to stimulate the EV market, it’s conceding the obvious. EVs are simply an inferior product that cannot compete on its own terms. Something with which we can all agree on. Welcome back to Muy, British announced another £700 million to prop up the electric vehicle market because sensible people are avoiding them like the plague. The government is never going to reach its ridiculous fantasy targets of EV sales that it just plucked out of the air, foolishly expecting everyone to go along with it. So, they have to throw yet more taxpayer money at the problem. They’ve backed this horse, and by golly, they’re going to make sure it wins no matter what the cost. But every plea for more government subsidies from the EV zealots is a confession. A confession that EVs are incapable of competing in the auto market with regular cars because they are a vastly inferior product that does not produce customer demand. Nobody wants to spend even half an hour charging a battery car when they can fill up a tank of fuel in 5 minutes. Nobody wants to make do with 300 km range when a tank of diesel can last a thousand. To those of us not brainwashed by the propaganda, this is blindingly obvious. So once again, the government props up the market with taxpayer money that could be spent on something better. Anything would be better than this. Return of electric car grants could spark demand. Get it? Industry says adoption of battery EVs by private buyers has fallen 10.8% 8% this year, prompting government intervention. The return of electric vehicle grants for motorists could be the firecracker unfortunate term given their EVs needed to increase demand. Industry experts have admitted ministers are poised to unveil a package of grants this week in an attempt to stimulate sluggish demand. It will include a 640 million pound grant scheme to reduce down payments on EVs. It will be the first time since 2022 that ordinary buyers of EVs have been eligible for grants. At the time, Grant Shaps, the then transport secretary, said that the handouts were being withdrawn as they had successfully kickstarted the electric car market. However, sales of EVs to private buyers have been sluggish in recent years. Sales figures have been bolstered by commercial fleet buyers. Adoption of battery EVs by private buyers has fallen by 10.8% so far this year and fewer than one in five new battery cars go to private buyers. Quentyn Wilson, the former Top Gear presenter and founder of Fairch Charge, the lobby group, said that the return of grants could stimulate the sector. He said support for private EV buyers who have been neglected by both political parties is long overdue and has the potential to be the firecracker needed to drive demand and stimulate the entire EV sector. Let’s hope this is a carefully crafted strategy that provides support for drivers on lower incomes. Well, ignoring the fact that using the term firecracker is a little bit inappropriate when we’re talking about EVs, it won’t. Most drivers on lower incomes wouldn’t touch an EV, and so it will end up handing wealthy middle-class liberals the money snatched from poorer taxpayers. And one of the other FS, fleets, is basically driving the market. Electric car sales rose 39.1% to 47,354 units in June according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders SMMT, but this was dominated by fleet sales. The number is also still below the minimum mandated level, which stipulates that 28% of new car sales and 16% of new van sales should be zero emission this year. In a recent SMMT survey of automotive CEOs, 55% said they believed the UK was significantly behind schedule in its aim to end the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2030. Concerns were raised about the lack of government support for adopting battery electric vehicles, particularly among private buyers. Well, I’ve said this before, but the whole EV push is like the compact fluorescent light nonsense. Governments pushed those awful things for decades. Again, driven by mad climate policies to replace regular incandescent bulbs. But frankly, they were terrible, expensive, flickery, fragile, and if you broke one, you needed a hazmat team to deal with it. And along came light emmitting diodes, LEDs, a far better product that didn’t need any government subsidies or propaganda to become the best-selling light technology, which now everyone uses. So, it’s hilarious when someone like Wilson says that subsidies are what is needed to stimulate the EV market, because you might as well say that EVs are rubbish compared to regular cars, which they are, of course. Just like with CFLs, governments backed the wrong horse then. And guess what? With EVs, they’ve backed the wrong horse now.
Simply stating that EVs need government support is an admission that they cannot compete in the auto market because they are inferior to the vehicles they’re supposed to be replacing…
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