Writing in Spiked, Joel Kotkin lists many reasons why shifting to electrical vehicles is a “colossal mistake.” A few:
- “[T]he UK government is already looking to ban people from charging their cars at home during peak hours.”
- “In California, the epicentre of green zealotry, policies banning the sale of non-electric vehicles mean the state will face ‘acute electricity shortages’ over the coming decade, according to one recent analysis.”
- ” Volvo estimates that its EVs require 70 per cent more emissions to produce than its conventional models, due largely to the difficulty of making batteries.”Economist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that a wholesale shift to EVs will lead to a reduction of global temperatures of no more than 0.0002 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
- “[T]he EV transition will require, according to the World Bank, something like three billion tonnes of minerals and metals—like nickel, lithium, cobalt and graphite. These will mainly be mined in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where working conditions are brutal.”