The new phenomenon. Saving the planet whilst also reducing emissions and exorbitant fuel costs. What’s the catch? Freedom?
Switch to electric; it’s everywhere you turn. If it’s not public transportation making the switch, your local food courier is already travelling the greener way. First thing’s first, do the benefits outweigh the cons?
Completely. Less pollution, less noise. But this comes at a cost. Time, more importantly – freedom. Sacrifice? Your manoeuvrability is limited. You don’t often get first hand experience with electric motors up close and personal, more often than not hybrids are the more accessible alternative. But may I add: nothing alike. Petrol hybrids for example, you can still travel long distances (plug-in hybrids I’ve not had experience with).
You do feel like you’re a Good Samaritan doing your good deed for the world, you’re essentially saving lives.
This is something fuel cars cannot compete with. With the addition of a home charger for lower rates at your disposal, saving many pounds in comparison to fuel.
The problem I’ve witnessed with EV cars, they’re just not practical – in the UK. It’s difficult to travel 240 miles in a day without charging an EV car with a so-called 379 range. Now, I know in China as they’re more advanced and has built an incredible infrastructure to suit the times: 1.1 million public charging points and counting – 51% of the global total; additionally the extremely long mile range of their EV cars, with the leading boasting 1300 miles by BYD (but if you know electric, that’s not a literal term, depending on weather conditions, load, efficient stately driving etc, but it’s a stark difference to the the UK market – longest being Mercedes EQS with a range of 452 – 481 miles.
Difference being, not even a third of what other drivers around the world are experiencing.
Another theory some have, is that EV cars are the way to curb the freedom and movements.
Since most lithium-ion battery packs are made in China, conspiracy theorists believe that a tracking device could easily be fitted within the battery pack. After all, take America for example. Joe Biden signed a bill on April 24th that would ban TikTok, the short-form video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, over the security of data and links to the government in Beijing.
Separate issue of course, but there could be similarities.
Let’s say you have £40k. You buy an EV car. You own the vehicle outright; correction – you’ll never own the vehicle outright, you own the bodywork, little gadgets and some spec but you have to rent the battery. Technically speaking, you spend £40k to own most of the car. Now if a world war happens for example: they decide to stop the functionality / servicing these batteries; they could even cease the worldwide distribution of batteries, what are you left with? A car that doesn’t function. A car that doesn’t move. A car that cannot transport. You’re left with metal.
Being reliant on electricity could also be a problem. The power grid could be broken. You’re left with an electric car without electricity. The EV market should be far more competitive and the infrastructure needs to be far more prevalent and reliable to maintain the rising demand to go electric.
I think being too dependent on anything could in time be a problem. Gadgets can have a close link with governmental strategy reaching a desired favourable result. That comes from extensive planning and forecasting your next move to achieve the end goal.
What that is or may be, I cannot speculate or determine.
Outlined dates we must all go electric by, dependant on what country you reside in I think can feel like a dictatorship. I think there should be encouragement and incentives to go green and opt for EV vehicles, but I don’t believe it should be prohibited entirely.
This is not the first blanket ban we’ve witnessed. And it will not be the last.
There’s a place for choice. There’s a place for independence. And there’s a place for freedom, without setting complete bans we must obey.
In the future, will we ever ask ourselves what we want? Or will we be told that too?
What do you think? Do you like EV cars? Will you be getting one? Do you believe the conspiracy theorists claiming spy material? Do you think EV vehicles are for our own good or enforcing limitations? Comment below!
Beauty File 
I wasn’t really sold until a friend bought an EV Porsche, and I talked to him about it….I’m not going to be on the market for a new vehicle for a while – I drive maybe 6K a day, otherwise I’m on my bike or walking – it’ll be EV. The thing about China….my IPhone was manufactured in China, just about everything walmart sells comes from China, heck Lululemon is manufactured in China….the tracking thing? GPS was created by the American military….if they ant to track me, go ahead, heck Britain has a security system that can track pretty much anyone….one criticism I hear about EVs is distance….driving to Vancouver in my car, I stop probably 3 times to fill up, that Porsche, 3 times…driven year round, winter is not a problem….and yeah batteries are expensive, but whatever, a transmission in a regular car is expensive too…cars are expensive….my only complaint….they are quiet, on my bike I can’t tell when one drives up behind me…
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There are no Pros it is all a Con. The way to go is Hydrogen – wind, tidal, and solar can all be used to turn water in Hydrogen, that can be used in your car or in your home for heating and cooking. We have had Hydrogen busses on our streets for years so they do work. However the market wants you to buy EV, not travel on Hydrogen powered busses. The materials that are used in the manufacture of batteries have to be mined and open cast mining is costly and not very environmentally friendly. The batteries have a shot life span (measured in the amount of time they can be re-charged) and cost more to replace that the value of the second hand car by the time it needs one, and by the time you get to that stage they are probably obsolete anyway and no longer avalable. If you live in a high-rise or tenament flat then you are not going to be able to charge one at home anyway, I don’t believe the council will be all that happy about cables dangling from building to street level. Batteries are also very heavy so need more power to simply carry them.
Modern cars are very light weight, and their engines are very efficient and if fitted with a Catalytic Converter, they are not polluting, so I believe petrol cars will be with us long into the future – and Hydrogen as a fuel will gradually replace them, for making Hydrogen using green energy is a good way to store the surplus energy (as sort of battery in a way) that’s my pennyworth – for what it is worth.
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I believe that actual cars with piston engines could spy on us using the many computers that now run the many systems on our modern cars. Scary!
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Energy still is needed to generate electricity to charge the EVs. No one seems to want to discuss the pollution of the ground when the batteries are replaced which places things like lithium in the soil. The same is true of solar panels when discarded.
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EV cars sound great but they simply aren’t the best if you have to drive long distances nor do they work as well in the vicious winter cold. The hybrid is a bit better since it alternates between the battery and gas, but until the infrastructure is there and they can improve distance and performance in the cold, I’ll stick to my car.
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For cities they can be handy, but in Arizona driving up to those mountain towns can take hours and you are driving across miles and miles of deserts with nothing around, no water, no trees, no stores, no people for miles and miles…nothing.
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No doubt
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100%. Thankyouu so much for reading and commenting!😊🤍
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Your welcome
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Who or what isn’t spying on us already?! It’s just awful. An EV is just another gadget on the list for Big Brother to keep tabs on us. But then again, all new cars now have devices that allow you to be tracked and spied on. I guess that’s the price we all have to pay for advancement and being futuristic.
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Exactly this! I recently experienced this with a new petrol car that unexpectedly, I realised I could unlock/lock the car additionally via a mobile app rather than the key remote advertised. That rather shocked me, as it shows almost everything we own is programmed to be synced to a computerised system, which some may seem as a security breach/risk.
What do we really own? As it seems most is beyond our control, especially the data which is forever evolving. It’s now as easy as pie to be tracked/spied on.
Thankyouu so much for sharing your insight, Fay!😊🤍
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