Today's Headlines - 2 December 2024

 

"Corrupt To The Core": Dems In Disarray Over Hunter Pardon As 'Rule Of Law' Narrative Implodes

Zero Hedge

Absolute chaos has broken out on the left following Joe Biden's blanket pardon of his son Hunter - which spans the period right before Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma (for $1M/year), through yesterday evening.

It was also revealed that months of denying this would happen were pure lies, as the pardon had been in the works for months.

In short, it couldn't be any more obvious that Hunter was simply the Biden family bag-man.

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French government on brink of collapse after forcing budget past parliament

Telegraph

The French government is on the brink of collapse after France’s hard-Right and Left-wing parties filed motions of no confidence against Michel Barnier, the prime minister.

Their move came after Mr Barnier, 73, said on Monday that he would force through a controversial new social security budget without a parliamentary vote by invoking presidential decree, having failed to win enough support for the bill.

This caused fury across the Paris parliament. The Left-wing La France Insoumise party responded by filing a motion of no confidence on behalf of the New Popular Front.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the hard-Right RN, announced that her party would also file its own motion, but said it would also vote for any similar bill put forward by other parties.

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COVID: EVERYTHING WAS A LIE FROM THE BEGINNING

The Burning Platform

Dr. Richard Urso shares some truth bombs about COVID-19, vaccines, lockdowns, masks…“Everything was a lie from the beginning. The asymptomatic people don’t transmit. Kids were not harbingers of the disease. They don’t actually, they’re like a break on the disease. Lockdowns were a farce. Masks don’t work.”
“I tell people, I joke sometimes I say masks do work. A lot like bathing suits work to keep pee out of the pool. They’re not very effective. So that’s one of those things that, you know, it was a farce. Pretty much everything they said was a farce.

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Net Zero is Now Costing Serious Jobs and Threatening Entire Regional Economies

Daily Sceptic

Britain’s Net Zero policies, such as the incremental ban on non-electric cars, are a fiasco, now costing serious jobs and threatening entire regional economies, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.

The decision to close [the Luton van-making factory] was taken by Stellantis – the world’s fourth-largest auto-making conglomerate, comprising European and U.S. brands including Chrysler, Fiat and Peugeot, as well as Vauxhall.

Carlos Tavares, Stellantis Chief Executive, said earlier this year that the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate was making car-making in the U.K. economically unviable – which is obvious, to anyone who has been paying attention.

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Arla’s project adding anti-methane compound to cows’ feed is another limb of the fake food agenda
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European dairy foods giant Arla has enlisted 30 farms to participate in trials of an additive to cattle feed that they claim will reduce methane gas emissions.  As the safety of the product is as questionable as the dubious reasons for introducing it and the risk to humans is unknown there has quite rightly been a public backlash.

Aside from the health and environmental risks, as Dr. Lawrie highlights, this is just another instance of billionaires meddling with our food supplies. This should raise red flags for anyone who understands what, for example, Bill Gates’ aims are.

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The Great Grid Gamble

Centre for Policy Studies 

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband hailed a recent report from the National Energy System Operator (NESO) as vindicating his plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030.

But new analysis shows that the NESO report is built around a series of assumptions designed to cast Miliband’s plans in the best possible light, rather than reflecting the reality of the energy markets.

As other critics have pointed out, the NESO report says that ‘several elements’ of Miliband’s plan are ‘at the limit of what is feasible’. For example, it envisages building twice as much transmission network capacity in the next five years as was built in total over the last decade, with zero delays.

Far more alarming, however, is that the NESO justifies Miliband’s plans by forecasting high gas and carbon prices – substantially higher than market projections, or even the numbers produced by his own department.

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Just When You Think We Had Reached Peak Crazy - Man Dressed As Bear Wrecks Rolls Royce In Insurance Scam

 

California has seen its share of insane behaviour and of bears breaking into cars (but usually only to steal picnic baskets, Boo Boo.) But the bears recently caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn’t quite right.

In what has been dubbed “Operation Bear Claw,” the California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested on Wednesday (13 November 2024), ad charged with of defrauding insurance companies out of nearly $142,000 by claiming a bear had caused damage to their luxury vehicles.

The trio are accused of providing video recodings shot in the San Bernardino Mountains in January of a “bear” busy tearing apart the insides of a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes to the insurance companies as part of their damage claims, the department said. Photos provided by the insurance department show what appeared to be scratches on the seats and doors.

On viewing video of the Rolls-Royce, an assessor for one of the insurance companies suspected that he was looking not at a mischievous bear, but a human in a fancy dress shop bear costume.

A biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, sent by the state Insurance Department to review the three videos, concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the insurance department said.

After executing a search warrant, detectives found the bear costume in the main suspects’ home, the department said. 

Watch video on LA Times website (best to go full screen)

 

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Mind Control: How It Works and how The Elite Use It
Mind control, the ability of science to deliver a completely compliant and uncomplaining population. It had been the goal of tyrants for over a hundred years, just as the abilty to comtrol human minds and turn us into humandroids has been the goal of mad scientists. But is such scientific advance getting uncomfortably close to reality? The idea of a scientific dictatorship able to subjugate individuality was born over a century ago by insane scientists and control freaks who saw human qualities like empathy and compassion as an obstriction to scientific progress. welcome to Dystoipia.

More Good News For UKIP As IDS Has Gone Down The Plug Hole
"Gloat all you like Farage, my dick is this big, nygh!" - IDS
It has been a good few days for Nigel Farage and his team. While some Labour and Conservative commentators are trying the anti EU Party did not do well in local elections, UKIP Candidates did better than expected in elections for local councils where in the majority of cases they were trying to ...

Civilisation Isn't Over 'Til The Bearded Lady Sings

Freak shows went out of fashion in the 1950s and rightly so in my not so humble opinion. Two headed dogs, a man with goat hooves, people who swallowed live animals (geeks) and bearded ladies were not anybody's idea of sophisticated entertainment. That being the case, why do Europe's media luvvies who think they are oh so sophisticated persist with the annual freak show that is the Eurovision song Contest?

Labour, the (very rich, elitist) People's party plans to ban your beer and pies
Are Labour still the peoples party or have they forgotten their core voters and working class roots and sold out to the metrpolitan left-wing intellectual media mafia. After the latest P R faux pas, few voters over 40 will be able to asociate the people's party with cloth caps and ciggies. Ed Miliband's proposed crackdown on tobbacco, alcohol and 'unhealthy eating' could well be the policy that loses the election.

Don't Worry If You Are A Barm Pot, Insane Is The New Normal
Have you noticed more and more people seem to be mentally ill these days. It isn't that we are getting crazier (the world is going insane, we are no more mad than our ancestors were), but that the bar people must jump to be diganosed bonkers is being set lower...

Technowanks for technowankers with Google Glass?
Almost every day we are reporting the latest 'breaktrhough in dehumanisation and a further step towards making us all slaves to technology. The scientists are out of control, semi - autistic nerds with no understanding of ethical boundaries are giving politicians with no scruples about reviving Naziism the tools to enslave us.

Mr. Hollande's Soap Opera
The bedroom antics of France's latest President would have brought down the government in most nations, particularly those tending to the protestant version of Christianity. So why has the exposure of a love affair betwen France's Francoise Hollande and a beautiful actress much younger than himself caused so little difficulty for the distinctly uncharismatic M. Hollande?

Oxbridge bias equals unfunny comedy says Bob Mortimer
If you don't know who Bob Mortimer is, you are either very young or an alien. He was half of the Reeeves and Mortimer team that made some hilariously surreal sketch shows throughout the 1990s and more recently co presenter (with Vic Reeves) of the bordertline insance panel game Shooting Stars.

Meat Will Only Be For The Elite If Leftie Scientists Get Their Way
A group of leading environmental scientists have tabled a report blaming cow farts for global warming and demanding punitive taxes on meat. Is there anything solid in their theory or are they all piss and wind?

Scientists Prove Science Is For The Terminally Insane
News coming out of the world of 'science' is getting crazier. But is that any wonder when the government and the BBC keep throwing money at idiots like Brian Cox who does a little come in his pants every time he uses the word science (which explains why he uses it six times a minute)

Haunted Vagina Star Opens Up For Boggart Blog
The latest music business Hollywood celebrity MK Ultra meltdown comes from bubble gum music act Ke$ha who is boasting about having a haunted vagina ...

Man Sues Wife Over Ugly Baby
Back to China for this nutty story. In the week the Chinese Renminbi replaced the US$ as the reserve currency it seems the Chinese are getting ready to replace Americans at the world's top nut jobs. According to a Local 10 news report Jian Feng sued his wife over their ugly baby recently. According to the lawsuit the "beautiful" couple could not ...

A Dragon Flies Over Truro
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Sales Of Electric Cars Fall As Market Forces Bite

Costs and lack of charging network deter drivers

September 20, 2023

Hyperbolic propaganda of the advantages of 'clean, green' electric cars has been punctured by figures revealing a fall of more than 11 per cent in the sale of zero-emission vehicles to private buyers.

Commenting on the figures released this week The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said that motorists are being put off buying electric because of the high cost of the vehicles, (an entry level electricv family car costs as much as fossil fuel powered, executive range model from a quality brand,) uncertainty about whether a government ban on petrol and diesel cars can be enforced, the difficulty of selling EVs on the second hand market, the cutting of financial incentives, range anxiety and fears about the lack of an adequate public charging network.

Ministers and the industry have been waxing lyrical about the rise in sales of electric cars for years, claiming  rising sales has been a sign that Britain is ready to move from the “early adopter” stage of battery electric vehicle (BEV) ownership to mass market. Funny how the rise came to an abrupt end once buyer subsidies were removed, just as it had in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

However, the number of electric cars bought in the first half of 2023 was down on the comparable period of the previous year, with the huge drop in sales to private buyers accounting for most of the loss of sales. Fleet operators and contract hire companies continued to support the electrification of personal transport as their businesses still benefit from subsidies and tax breaks while incentives to private buyers have largely disappeared.

In his review of net zero policies, deatiled in a televised speech today, Rishi Sunak announced postponment of the proposed ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035.  But it is by no means certain the car industry can actually meet that target as there are already vast acreages of what was formerly agricultural land now pack with thousand of unsalable electric vehicles as the predicted public enthusiasm for flushing money down the toilet failed to materialise.

While headline sales of electric cars might seem to be healthy  the details tell a different story. Sales to corporate buyers are buoyant, encouraged by a favourable company car tax regime. But sales to private buyers are faltering. In the first half of the year, 37,000 private buyers bought an electric car, down from 41,800 a year earlier. So how can total sales have held up?

The fleet operators, large corporations and car hire companies, are given huge discounts (up to 40%) on list prices because they buy bulk. On top of this there are subsidies and tax breaks for buying electric. These corporate owners then tend to replace the vehicles they buy as an early stage in the car's life. And a lot of the electric cars bought last year are now choking up the showrooms and forecourts of second hand car dealers. The dealers are already refusing to take more pre - owned EVs, simply because they can't shift existing stock so by next year we can expect to see fleet sales dropping because the operators will not be able to offload existing stock at acceptable prices. 

So far, the private market for electric cars has been dominated by wealthy early-adopters buying them as second cars, town runabouts for shopping trips and school runs. The reasons of those buyers for choosing electric include virtue signalling, impressing the neighbours and simply ostentatious displays of wealth. Downmarket a little, pragmatism has a much greater bearing on the buyers choice

It is painfully clear that electric cars are not yet selling themselves on their merits. They have been sold with the help of of generous grants and tax breaks from government and huge amounts of free publicity from mainstream media, but now those government incentives are winding down and news media are losing interest,  buyers are looking more critically at the problems of owning an electric car: namely the higher purchase price, the short range, the length of time it takes to recharge and the paucity of the recharging network.

Maybe one day someone will launch a competitively priced electric car which can travel 500 miles between charges and takes no more than 15 minutes to recharge, at which point electric cars will become as useful as petrol ones. Toyota has claimed it will produce such a car by the end of the decade, (but don't bet your life savings on it.) In the meantime, the government is trying to force a product on motorists which they are going to be reluctant to buy.

The obvious answer would be to allow motorists to gravitate towards electric cars gradually via hybrids. The trouble is that the government has promised to outlaw new sales of these too. As a result, the industry has been disincentivised from developing the concept of a hybrid. Most of the hybrids on offer are really just token efforts – ‘mild’ hybrids designed to extend the life of existing ranges while meeting government targets, but which will spend most of their time being powered with large, gas-guzzling petrol engines.

It's all bollocks really.

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VW Audi Suspends Electric Vehicle Production Due To Battery Shortage
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Tesla Stock Hit After German Regulator Warns Self-Driving Cars Are Unsafe

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House battery to store energy will 'change entire infrastructure of the world' - or maybe not
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Google Self Driving Car Can't Drive Itself
A lot of nerdy types have been getting very excited about the self - driving cars being developed by Google. Being nerdy they are not making such a fuss about the decent looking rides being developed by the likes of Mrecedes Benz, General Motors and Toyota. No, it's the Google wankermobile that turns them on.

All The Reasons You'll Ever Need For Not Buying An Electric Car As Tesla Electric Car Turns Into Firebomb after Collision.
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Google Car Driverless Because No Sane Person Would Be Seen Dead In One
A few years ago Google boss Eric Schmidt said the company's aim was to get as close to creepy as they could without crossing the line. Well they had crossed the line long before he said that. The latest Google wirdness is the much hyped driverless car. It looks as if it was designed by a five year old. On the other hand it might be the ideal car for paedophiles who want to go cruising for jailbait.

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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.” Pichai’s comment was met with a healthy dose of skepticism. But nearly five years later, it’s looking more and more prescient. College professors are tearing their hair out because AI text generators can now write essays as well as your typical undergraduate ...

Will The Online Safety Bill Protect Free Speech Or Assist Censorship?
The UK Online Safety Bill is presented to parliament for its final reading next week. Secretary of State for Digital Culture Michelle Donelan announced this morning that the controversial “legal but harmful” clause has been removed and thus free speech has been protected. Anti self-harm activists and groups opposinthe Gay BLTQ movement's push for paedophile equal rights and the sexualisation of children don’t like it one little bit, though free-speech enthusiasts should take no comfort from that. The Bill puts into legal jeopardy anything that creates “a material risk of significant harm to an appreciable number of adults in the United Kingdom”.

Green dreams of Heat Pumps
When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.

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Italian Politician Demands Bill Gates Arrest For Crimes Against Humanity
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World Domination Freak Bill Gates Appeals For World Government
In a recent interview with the German magazine ?Süddeutsche Zeitung?, Bill Gates, son of a CIA director and the New World Order’s ‘made man’ uttered some highly sinister comments in support of abolishing democracy and nationhood in favour of world government. Now those of us in the know have never been puzzled about … Continue reading

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European Rebellion Against Enforced Swith To EVs Gathering Support

Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire,

You may not know it if you rely solely on American media, but there is a growing revolt across much of Europe against Net Zero mandates in general and electric vehicle mandates in particular.

It seems that, led by luxury carmakers, the future may be bright for the venerable internal combustion engine if new synthetic fuels technologies can produce an affordable replacement for gasoline and diesel fuels.

The revolt had been brewing ever since Europe got a wakeup call with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that upset the Net Zero applecart and led even Germany to reopen coal-fired power plants. Still, the EU last November had struck a provisional deal on a new vehicle emissions law that would have banned the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035.

Two months later, though, the new Meloni government in Italy began to raise objections. The forced transition to EVs has already hit the Italian auto industry with job cuts, leading Transport Minister Matteo Salvini to argue that it makes no sense to put thousands of jobs at risk when there are plenty of reasons to keep ICE vehicles on the road with a carbon-neutral fuel.

Italy’s balking opened the door for German Finance Minister Christian Lindner to switch his government’s position to demand an exception for hydrogen-derived, carbon-neutral synthetic e-fuels (produced by electrolysis with added carbon) that can power ICE vehicles. Porsche, which has invested $75 million in a pilot plant to make e-fuels, and Ferrari could preserve their rich heritage and iconic models and still comply with zero-emissions requirements with e-fuels.

German Transport Minister Volker Wissing agreed, stating that, "We need e-fuels as there is no alternative if we want to operate our vehicle fleet in a climate-neutral way. Whoever is serious about climate-neutral mobility must keep all technological options open and also use them. I don't understand this fight against the car and why people want to ban some technologies."

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has long objected to the EU ban and had pledged to do “anything” to stop the “pseudo-green idea by rich countries and bureaucrats from Brussels” to ban gasoline and diesel engines. Polish families, he contended, cannot afford these expensive vehicles, and an ICE ban would cause Polish firms producing car components for well-known global brands to suffer irreparable harm.

As by simply abstaining from a final vote on the hard ICE vehicle ban, Germany could have killed the proposed EU legislation, the European Commission agreed to draft a compromise to allow the sale of ICE vehicles capable of running on e-fuels after 2035. Environmental groups objected, claiming that – because gasoline and diesel will still be available to power older vehicles – owners of e-fuel capable vehicles will cheat and fill up with gasoline.  ... Continue reading >>>

 

 

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All The Reasons You'll Ever Need For Not Buying An Electric Car As Tesla Electric Car Turns Into Firebomb after Collision.
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Brussels Cancels Looming Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars

 

Picture: Fords of Winsford

Wednesday 29 March 2023

The UK's plans to achieve net zero ahead of any other developed nation was dealt a blow yesterday and the proposed ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2030 was thrown into chaos when the EU Commission (de facto ruling committe of the European Union,) scrapped its own proposed restrictions on the sale of petrol and diesel fuelled cars after opposition from Germany's powerful auto industry.

Senior figures in the industry warned that British rules due to take effect in 2030 are untenable following the European climbdown, which will allow internal combustion engines as long as they burn carbon-neutral petrol alternatives.

The European Union will go ahead with its ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 but will now allow these so-called e-fuels, which have been reclassified as carbon neutral following a backroom compromise forced on it by the German negotiators on Tuesday night.

Sources in Brussels and London suggested the UK government was considering following the Commission’s lead by also allowing an e-fuel exemption. British carmakers Aston Martin and McLaren are already understood to be examining e-fuels as an option for powering future models.

Critics of the Government’s Net Zero plans claimed a victory for common sense on learning of the EU decision, with some going so far as to demand a total review of 'net zero' policy is needed. Ecoloons representing Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have said that it could slow down electric vehicle adoption although recent sales figures suggest take up of EVs is declining as owners become aware it is almost imposssible to offload an electric car in the second hand market.

The former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “The 2030 deadline for the elimination of petrol and diesel engine cars in the U.K. is simply not achievable. Unless we delay, we hand a massive boost to the Chinese car manufacturers. They are already dominant.”

Britain is to ban the sale of new cars that run on petrol and diesel only in seven years’ time under plans drawn up by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson but this policy now looks to be in jeopardy.

The EU’s e-fuel exemption will allow a synthetic alternative to petrol which is made by mixing carbon dioxide captured from the air with hydrogen obtained by splitting water molecules using renewable energy.

Currently this is expected to be more expensive than petrol, however, Benedetto Vigna, the boss of Ferrari, said this week that he expects the price to fall as the market grows and economies of scale become viable. Industry experts believe synthetic petrol and diesel could be the beginning of a return to sanity that would allow carmakers to focus on collaborating with chemical companiesproducing lower-cost e-fuels instead of expensive battery powered cars.

Andrew Graves, a car industry veteran and professor at the University of Bath, said: “I think it’s a very exciting technology that we’re looking at, so that we can not only use it for things like motorsport, but we can also more importantly use it for keeping existing vehicles on the road. I think there’s a lot of things that the Government needs to look at before it goes hell bent on just having a blanket ban on diesel or petrol.”

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from Quora:

I’ve heard people worry about charging them, and they are quite right to worry about that. The usual counter argument is that “I can always find a place to charge and they’re putting in more”.

Well yes, possibly you can always find a place to charge whilst electric cars make up three per cent of those on the roads, but as soon as electric cars become the norm and not the exception, it’s going to be problematic.

Seen from a logistical point of view the problem is in the transportation of the fuel. Liquid fuels can be placed in a tanker and distributed that way. You can’t do that with electricity. It needs to be transported down wires. If all thirty-two and a half million cars on UK roads became electric, and only one per cent want charging, that’s 325,000. That’s smaller than the number of electric cars on the roads today for sure, since it’s about 1,000,000 (give or take) but again if the number wanting charging is only one per cent, that’s only ten thousand. There are in fact about 42,000 charging points across the UK but not all cars can use all points (some are private, some need adaptors) and so just to get to one per cent of all charging needs we need another 273,000 charging points. All of them need to tap from a live grid fed by a generating station.

Well, logistically, I suppose it can be done if you are determined enough but now we run into a technical problem. Because of this:

I total is the sum of currents for those nodes. Put simply, the wires between nodes 1&2 and 7&8 have to cope with the currents of R1, R2, and R3. Between 2&3 and 6&7 they only have to cope with R2&R3 and between 3&4 and 5&6 only that of R3.

That’s the sort of idea. Multiply that several times for several nodes and much lower resistances and you’ll see that some pretty big wires are going to be needed there if you don’t want them to melt. Having both worked with and made big wires, the adjectival phrase there is “not cheap”.

Plus we’ve got a finite current source. It might be nice to think that magic electric fairies will provide us with enough current to satiate our every need, but I’ve been in electrical and mechanical since 1982 one way or another and I’ve never laid eyes on such a creature yet. The Set-on-Fire fairy though, she turns up regularly if you aren’t careful. At some point whatever’s feeding the current will be topped. There are a number of ways you can do this but the easiest is a bangy fuse.

Then we’ve got the problem of what’s generating it. Wind and solar won’t cut it. The Germans are finding that out at the moment because the Energiewendepolitik they’re pursuing has managed to shove up the cost of the electricity and the carbon footprint. Krass. Danke, Tante Angela.

This means that we are either going to have lots of nukes (Greta says no) or lots of burny/bangy things (Greta says no again) making steam to rotate some big spinnies to get some electron-juice out. More than we have now. This means that we may have cleared up local pollution by running cars with no emmisions, but we’ve transferred it to central locations instead. The only other alternative is to use our cars for essential journeys and public transport for getting about and to and from work. Which is what I do now; hey, how bloody green am I without knowing it? Well, what’s a boy to do once he’s found that out? I’ve got a day off and so down to Next it is to get my ethnic skirt and sandals.

Then we come to the battery itself. I’m having this argument that the battery materials may have changed but the technology has not. Any battery you care to name provides a flow of charge that needs a couple of plates separated by an electrolyte. The technological equivalence of the Cruickshank battery of 1802 and the shiniest newest one coming out of a factory in China is therefore so close to 1 in the working principle that arguments are moot. The fact that we can stuff a microprocessor into the Foo-Qingbig battery is neither here nor there; the principle of charge and discharge is just the same as Cruickshank used in 1802 and Planté used in 1859.

One thing that is moving the equivalence to <1 is one of the reasons the microprocessor is there. Car makers are building grace capacities into their batteries. You can do this by linking together discrete lithium cells some of which don’t get used until others deteriorate. This means for years the battery won’t have any noticeable degradations. However, once the grace is used you’ll start to see this:

which is a graph of some Cadex played about with in their labs and is pretty much what we’d expect to see from a normal test. What you’re doing when you recharge a battery is shoving a current through it backwards; the anode becomes the cathode and vice-versa. Every time you do this you cause a tiny bit of irreversible damage to the battery. Tiny bits sum up to honking great bits. What we normally find is a gentle slope to 80% capacity, then a knee, where the rate of degradation becomes sharper. Shall I tell you that there isn’t a full understanding of the complete chain of chemical reactions in how a battery operates? We know how to work the materials, but we don’t fully understand why it does what it does in the reaction process. Sometimes we get surprises. Sometimes they’re bad ones.

The act of building in grace capacities is good as far as longevity is concerned but bad as far as battery mass is concerned because it means bigger, heavier batteries and adding more mass to a vehicle means more inertia to overcome from rest. It also increases the costs of the batteries.

So it’s not that we think they’re a scam. What we do think is that the Tesla Fanboys are hyping it up too much and they aren’t looking at how vehicles are used and the logistical and technical problems if instead of ten cars on the street being electric, a hundred are.

Now, people think I’m anti-electric vehicle. I’m not. I’ve made and repaired hundreds since 1982. Electric vehicles are great for certain jobs; can’t have a reach truck in a warehouse on any other power. Trams are quick and unobtrusive and a much better ride than busses (and I’m currently having the argument about whether it’s busses or buses too, you buses-nazis can all knob off because it’s either and busses was the way I did it at school and nobody red-penned that in a grammar, so stuff it up your arses without Vaseline) with their horrible Diesel knock, and all-electric trains you can hardly tell when you’re moving, unlike Diesel-electric when you certainly know when they’re setting off.

If you are a housewife who drops the kids off at school, then does an hour or so of poncing about in Lidl and seeing to your elderly granny, an electric car (providing you can charge it at home) is great for you. You’ll have less maintenance to do on it and it may well be cheaper than petrol. If you are somebody that depends on their car for getting round multiple sites though, spread far and wide, knocking up lots of miles per day, it’s not. You are going to need to fill it with six gallons of bangy hydrocarbons to get through your day and back home.

That latter isn’t what we’re being told, though. We’re being told that electric cars are the cure for all our transport evils, and they aren’t. That’s where the objections are coming from.

 

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Deutsche Bank: “A Certain Degree of Eco-Dictatorship Will Be Necessary”

20 December 2022 3:45 PM

Izabella Kaminska, formerly the Editor of the FT’s Alphaville and now the Editor of the Blind Spot, has flagged up an alarming passage in a document published in January 2021 by Deutsche Bank Research entitled ‘What we must do to Rebuild’. Eric Heyman has written the section about the tough choices the EU must face it if’s to meet its goal of achieving ‘climate neutrality’ by 2050 – Net Zero, in other words – and says the following:

The impact of the current climate policy on people’s everyday lives is still quite abstract and acceptable for many households. Climate policy comes in the form of higher taxes and fees on energy, which make heating and mobility more expensive. Some countries have set minimum energy efficiency standards for buildings or similar rules in other areas. However, climate policy does not determine our lives. We take key consumption decisions, for example whether we travel at all, how much we travel and which means of transport we use, whether we live in a large house or a small apartment and how we heat our homes, how many electronic devices we have and how intensely we use them or how much meat and exotic fruit we eat. These decisions tend to be made on the basis of our income, not on climate considerations.

If we really want to achieve climate neutrality, we need to change our behaviour in all these areas of life.  ...  Continue reading >>>

As Propaganda For electric Cars Intesifies Disasters (Personal and Financial) Continue to Stack Up

 

Two People Killed After Tesla Crashes Into A Tree And Becomes "Engulfed In Flames" In Florida

Another two people in Florida, USA, died on Monday night this week when their upmarket Tesla electric car crashed into a tree in Coral Gables, Florida and burst into flames. As has been the case with other Teslas, some of which caught fire after accident while others apppear to have spontaneously combusted, the lithium fire defied the efforts of firefighters to extinguish it..

The "fiery wreck" took place at the intersection of Alhambra Circle and Coral Way, according to Local 10. A police officer at the scence said the driver crashed the car into a tree, but no further details about the accident have been determined yet. 

Video shot by witnesses on smartphones shows the wrecked vehicle "engulfed in flames" killing both occupants of the vehicle. "That's a Tesla," the person taking the video of the wreck can be heard saying. 

Firensic examiners spent Tuesday collecting evidence at the accident scene and a full investigation is now under way. The driver was a 20 year old male and the passenger was a 19 year old woman, the report says. 

The National Highway Transport Safety Association (NHTSA) said recently it had opened a formal investigation into the Tesla company's Autopilot feature after numerous accident of a similar nature over the past few years. An NHTSA statement on the opening of its investigation  into Tesla's Model X, S, and 3 for model years 2014-2021 indicated the broad range of models and model years means that this could be the broad investigation that Tesla skeptics have been demanding for many years. Specifically, the regulator is looking into a litany of accidents involving Teslas on Autopilot slamming into immobile emergency response vehicles on the road. 

The NHTSA said the investigation would assess technologies, methods "used to monitor, assist, and enforce the driver's engagement" during autopilot operation, according to Bloomberg.

Goldman Sachs appeared anything but optimistic that the probe into Autopilot would be resolved quickly. “Given the current probe is related to a Level 2 driver-assist system, one solution could be for an enhanced driver monitoring system to ensure driver compliance with Tesla’s terms of use,” the investment bank wrote last month. Part of the problem is that Tesla's branding of its system as "Autopilot" suggests the car can be trusted to dive itself however the system is only an electronic assistant for drivers, not an autonomous control system for the car. One hopes drastic action will be taken, Tesla have been getting away with murder (metaphorically,) for too long.

Watch Local 10's coverage of the wreck here. 

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After Two Recalls, GM Finally Just Tells Bolt EV Owners: "Don't Park Your Car Within 50 Feet Of Another Car"

from Zero Hedge

After a series of recalls that we have documented here on Zero Hedge, General Motors looks to be taking its precautions with the Chevy Bolt one step further: the automaker is asking Bolt owners to park "at least 50 feet" from other vehicles if you're going to leave your car in a parking deck. 

GM spokesman Dan Flores, who we're sure isn't getting paid enough to deliver this line with a straight face, said this week: "In an effort to reduce potential damage to structures and nearby vehicles in the rare event of a potential fire, we recommend parking on the top floor or on an open-air deck and park 50 feet or more away from another vehicle. Additionally, we still request you do not leave your vehicle charging unattended, even if you are using a charging station in a parking deck."

"We are aware of 12 GM confirmed battery fires that have been investigated involving Bolt EVs vehicles in the previous and new recall population," he continued, telling The Detroit News. "We're still working with LG around the clock to resolve the issue. Both companies understand the urgency to move as quickly as possible, but, again, the most important thing here is we have to get this right."

Recall, back in July, General Motors issued their second recall for the Chevy Bolt after it announced that two Bolts had caught fire without impact and that at least one of the two was related to the battery and happened despite the owner getting a fix from a previous recall.

The second recall included all Bolt EVs from 2017 to 2019, encompassing 68,000 vehicles. 50,925 of those vehicles were located in the U.S. and they have batteries that are produced at LG Chem’s Ochang, South Korea, facility, the report notes.

A spokesman for GM said earlier this summer: "As part of GM’s commitment to safety, experts from GM and LG have identified the simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell as the root cause of battery fires in certain Chevrolet Bolt EVs. As part of this recall, GM will replace defective battery modules in the recall population. We will notify customers when replacement parts are ready." 

GM, at the time, was recommending that owners: 

• Return the vehicle to the 90% state of charge limitation using Hilltop Reserve mode (for 2017-2018 model years) or Target Charge Level mode (for 2019 model year), or visit a dealer to make that change.
• Charge the vehicle after each use and avoid depleting the battery below  70 miles of remaining range.  
• Park the vehicle outside immediately after charging and do not leave the vehicle charging overnight.
• Customers who have not received the advanced diagnostics software should visit their dealer to get the update.  After obtaining the software, limit the state of charge to 90% and follow the advice above.

We're guessing those rules still run concurrent with the new "50 foot" rule.

 

 

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