my grandma died 7 years ago and a few months before she passed she had said she was pleased she was on her way out as world was fcked and would only get worse and how right she was
@@Gggggggg618 It's because most 'clowns' that buy EV's do it with some intelligence. They do it because it works out for them. Funilly enough these stories are boring and don't reach the newpapers or magazines because they wouldn't sell copies. I suppose a good indicator is how often EV owners then buy another EV to repalce their old one. Time will make that clearer.
A 76-year-old retired vehicle engineer / designer. All you have done is enhance what I already knew. Thank God, I'll probably be dead by the time the 'greenies' control the world. Subd - cheers mate.
People definitely have blinker’s on, i saw 👀 pictures of a lithium mine years ago at the start of all this and I nearly shit a brick at the sight of it, it really scared 😱 the crap 💩 out of me, please take a look 👀 for yourselfs
@@LysanderLH did they really say that? Your talking out yer sphincter said everyone who understands your grasp of reality isn’t perhaps as good as you think
Exactly what I've been telling people, there's so much against ev's. I work in accident repair and the batteries are a real headache having to be shut down before you lift a spanner to them. They will kill you, and that said, what about the poor emergency services that attend accidents. Wouldn't want to be them in the rain and dark trying to extricate a casualty from something that has the potential to put 420 volts through anything near by . That stuff will melt anything metal, fillings ,glasses, jewellery etc and it will also jump as it takes the easiest route it can to ground. I've had enough and I'm retiring early to get away from this modern electronic crap that keeps on breaking.
My workmate didn't want to work on them either but he's alot older was made redundant anyway now just doing odd bit of work in his mates workshop. I've done all the ev training and same on the mot yearly courses a couple of years ago they brought all ev questions into the test and anyone with a pace maker can't work on electric cars or mot them due to the neodium magnetic fields could skip the heart beat. Its always in the back our minds me and my other workmates that one wrong move working on the battery you could die.
@@GeoffBuysCars its just powering the battery down to work on it. If you don't power it down you can die with DC voltage as your pulled onto the voltage rather than thrown off with AC. Doesn't take long though and if your workmate doesn't notice you dying well your erm burnt toast and the hoop off life won't save you
I'm at a loss for words to express my appreciation for you having the information and courage to air this video. Electric cars are, like the covid lock down, examples of the global government's mind control and psychological warfare (successful) experiments.
@@jonvb2439 I am a self sufficient individual I grow as much food as I can in the limited space I have and live in a home that was condemned and derelict before my wife and I renovated it with our own labour and by literally buying a done brick at a time from pay day to pay day. You make some very big assumptions about people. I presume your self righteous attitude stems from a privileged background of some sort. Private school and university educated, taught to look down on the lower orders as untermench. Where as the truth is we lower orders earn all the wealth in society and the over educated self styled ubermench just live by our sweat and rent.
covid lockdown was made to prevent people from spreading the virus. Electric cars are made both to prevent fossil fuel combustion and to not depend on said fuel. nothing is related. making some countries not depend on fossil fuel gives said country indepenence, and thus reduces leverage to the ones that sell it. It just makes sense to switch. both geopolitically and economically. and since everything runs on batteries nowadays if a major discovery is made, then it will affect the car manufacturing process, making it an investment too. eventually this will become cheaper since it will be a secure investment to sell those, now it isnt, we are in the "developing phase" of change. seeing most efficient yet most secure way of doing this. sadly it will take time. but it will get cheaper. would be interesting to see how things change when people start using fision instead of nuclear plants... that too could increase rentability, since it would lower the cost of electric production.
Brilliant video, Geoff! One of the best condemnations of the insane drive towards electric vehicles that I've seen. I'll stick to my Fiesta ST200 till it falls apart ..... or I do!
If I wanted an battery powered vehicle I’d buy an ex-United Dairies milk float. I’m more than happy with my 1990 Mk3 Granada. Great video @GeoffBuysCars. Keep up the good work 👍
Great video! My mechanic just told me that his mate bought an e-transporter brand new. He is a trader, went from Portsmouth to London, and had to stop halfway to charge the van. Coming back same! Dealership told him that he shouldn't put his tools in the back and don't use the heating! Insane!
yeah, my barbers got a brother in law, that says exactly the same, NOT, can your mechanics mate, "do me a favour" and post a VIDEO here on UA-cam to back up his "fairy story" about his BOGUS ev.
Don’t use the heat? Well, the van might get a few more feet off the charge in the battery if they had just left the heater and it’s associated weight off the vehicle altogether. Why bother to put a feature into a vehicle if you’re then going to tell the prospective owner not to use that feature.
At first I loved my Zoe as you just got in it and drove off. So my early departures did not keep annoying the neighbours. Plus it did not waste fuel or wear out the clutch in queues and was economical. I was commuting into the centre of London so saved on Zone charges but in winter the need for an expensive recharge stop on the way home wiped out any gain. Then the car started to go wrong. In heavy rain the headlights, console instruments, rear view camera and SatNav would switch off. Seat belt and boot/door open warning lights kept flashing for no reason. Despite a 5 year warranty the dealer wanted £120 per hour to investigate each problem and threatened me with a £450 bill on the first of many returns to the garage. The final killer blow was when the car started to drop off charging for no reason. 3 times I needed the car to get to work only to find this had happened and I had been left stranded at home.
I'm 100% with you on this one Geoff. In my opinion there are just too many issues with these cars and there is just something not right about the way they are being forced upon us.
They’re being forced upon us for 2 reasons; 1. The green levies certain politicians are financially benefiting from, be it stakes in companies producing, handed contracts for the infrastructure etc, 2. Control. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if a dictatorship government could restrict your movement at any time by removing your ability to charge it? Or better yet, remotely switch it off. Can’t really do that with ICE cars.
My daughter works for a car hire company. They can't rent out the EV vans as they have no range and the time to charge them makes it difficult to operate
This is why there are no viable ev camper vans or motorhome. The whole idea of the leisure industry is to travel the country. Also try charging your car with a caravan in tow, the bays are not designed for it & you would have to unhitch & rehitch every 80 miles. Some holiday!
Geoff, it's all so obvious, the longer term plan is for us to have little to no cars on the roads, and confine us to our designated districts. Only the rich will be able to afford to travel, whilst the rest of us scramble to find the means and ways to put food on the table. Thank you for getting the truth out there.
Yep the brainwashed sheep will eat up this video while ignoring the technical facts. Cornwall to Bristol is just freaking 167 miles, while many BEVs have 230 miles range in rough Blizzard weather.
Great article Geoff! Actually, the BEST article on this scam perpetrated on the brain-dead ever! Keep up the GREAT work, Geoff! Thank you soooo much!!!!
Made it to the end. We live in times where people don’t think and believe whatever their TV tells them. They have outsourced their thinking, to conmen. What could possibly go wrong!
And, in EV-central for Europe, Norway, one of the ferry & shipping companies, Havila, just banned EVs from their car ferries, citing safety/fire issues. I am helping the environment - I'm keeping my 18 year old petrol car going. The best thing to do, Geoff - it's all so obvious, that it is the best way!
Brillliant. Guess a fire that you cannot extinguish is a bit of a problem on a ferry. It'll only take one fire in the channel tunnel and they'll be banned there too, although I can't imagine many people take them touring...
The problem with EV fires is not being spoken about currently and if you are unfortunate enough to be near an EV fire do not breathe the fumes they are highly toxic
I emailed my ferry company about this as I commute weekly on their ferries. Got a nonchalant email back saying that they have special fire extinguishers and appropriate training. This tells me that they are underprepared for an EV fire on board and when it eventually happens, it's going to be a shit show.
I'm surprised they're not banned from shopping centre multi storey car parks.... howd you put yhat fire out on the 3rd level on a Saturday? No chance of z fire engine getting anywhere near.
Totally with you dude. The world is MAD. While some humans are starving, others are busy obliterating each other, ... humans don't learn from our past mistakes. We just selfishly carry on to make share holders and powerful people neuter us. Sad!
Well, how can we learn when we keep suppressing information from the people? In the early days of COVID, for example, many doctors and scientists were trying to get the word out that many of the knee jerk reactions in the beginning were not going to help and in fact might be worse (such as lockdowns). Banned from Twitter, demonized by the media and now look.... they were all right. Even the "conspiracy theory" that the shots were causing people to suddenly die has now been confirmed! It's utter insanity.
You "forgot" to mention why humans do this: war is profitable! War profiteering nations like the UK and UK make a lot of money from war and they're not bothered about the consequences. They don't care about democracy, human rights, or the International Courts of justice.
Geoff it's all so obvious. I've tried telling people this but they think I'm mad 😂 all I get in response is "why would the government lie"? . My personal thought is control.✌🏻🏴
amazes me people are still stupid enough to trust the lying government and media at this point, Specially after covid and the vaccines. Of course, most fell for that too.
In the summer, when I switched my Zoe EV to ecodrive, its range was 230 miles at 62.5mph. In the winter this crashed to 180 miles or less and that was without using the heater or main headlights. The car was great to drive but very expensive. The car was twice the cost of the equivalent petrol version, and took 13 hours to fully charge. A super-fast home charger plus converting my car to use this facility was over 2 grand extra. On the road the cost of recharging quickly was twice that of a petrol journey plus the wait to do this. On many occasions these chargers were broken or stopped working for no reason. I gave up and sold my Zoe after just a year.
@@GeoffBuysCars a 'super fast' home charger would likely require a huge current draw and many houses electrical incomer not capable of it including the existing load....
Strange how a Zoe costs twice the price of an equivalent petrol when my Mini electric cost about £3k more than equivalent. Which is easy to make back in fuel saving.
Just over two thousand for the charger is the equivalent to 12000 miles at 45mpg and £1.80 a litre, the charger plus the extra for even just the mini is three years driving, without the cost of the electricity to charge for that time, my current car, (a diesel Duster), is returning around 58mpg making the economics of the EV even more less attractive, and I have been informed it is lez compliant should I ever wish to venture into Claudius Khan's little thiefdom.
I am 70 years old and moved to Australia in 1975, I used to drive between Sydney and Melbourne about about 880 km today, Please do a shoutout to an EV owner in Australia who would do the trip and the calculation - I like your videos 😊
Geoff, it's all so obvious. It's a shame that so many people are blind to this, but I hope that one day with the help of people like you shining a light on these issues that people will make a stand and put an end to this insane nonsense.
I truly believe that we, the population, are awakening to the great electric green con keep up the great work and keep exposing the lies that we are being fed on a daily basis 👍
Its not a con its a great product but governments should not be forcing people to use them. People should have choice. However once you have been to Paris you won't want to go back on the farm. Drive one and you will be converted.
@Michael Dawson as i mentioned earlier, child slaves in horrendous conditions working with life shorting materials, plus when the battery reaches the end of its working life, it's totally unrecyclable still think that this is a good idea
@@johnmcfarlane1580 you mean, bad parents in Africa, forcing their kids to scavenge for Cobalt (a mineral used in petrol refining and in catalytic converters) on Cobalt mine waste heaps, (IF baked beans cost a fortune and came out of the ground, those same kids parents would force them to mine baked beans too) oh and 95% of an EV batteries are recyclable too, "BANG GOES yer self made up anti EV Urban Myths"
Wait until you learn about the heavy machines used to screen and crush material in those mines... They use tons of diesel and hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil which often leaks.... And ends up in soil too. I know cause we repair, service and sell those machines. This is madness.
@@GeoffBuysCars will do mate this week hopefully, gotta be careful cause even when being sneaky most of this stuff ie places, customers is easy to identify by those that know...
Another idiotic statement from the government is to use public transport. Imagine a factory with 3000 employees deciding to take the bus to work; that would entail about 60 buses. Can you imagine how long a bus stop would be for 3000 people. If you caught the last bus you would arrive at work in time to clock off. That's just one factory.
They know this already. It’s just a Con job on the peasants. After all you will live in a 15 minute Ghetto own nothing eat bugs and won’t travel anymore!! But apparently you will be Happy!! 😂 😂
Hi Geoff, last week I fuelled my BMW440d, 6 cylinder, 3 litre diesel in Haverfordwest, back home to Llantrisant. Next day Kidderminster and back, next day Windsor and back. Total mileage around 640, refuelled 4 miles from home with still 120 miles left in the tank. Mpg for all 3 days was 58. No stopping multiple times, no thinking required, no range anxiety, no stress, no additional money spent on tea, coffee and snacks in services and no weight gained from that. EVs are the biggest scam in motoring history. Fact. For the foreseeable future (30 to 50 years) at least. And last n8ght the electrical infrastructure barely coped with demand.
diesels and gasoline engines can be much better...........look up Achates 2 stroke. Cummins diesel make it for the US military. Why arent cars made of aluminium, no rust and better mileage?
you have just confirmed what i have said for years people should look at how the end product is arrived at good on you for putting this vlog together lets hope people take notice
They have been telling us 'we're running out of oil' since the 1920's "By 1920, oil production reached 450 million barrels - prompting fear that the nation was about to run out of oil. Government officials predicted that the nation's oil reserves would last just ten years. Up until the 1910s, the United States produced between 60 and 70 percent of the world's oil supply."
@@bsimpson6204 Exactly! And there are so many places where we haven't even begun to explore for oil, where we know it is present. We need to continue to invest in new technologies and over the next few decades progress will be made, and we can all gradually transition to new modes of powering cars. But forcing us all to make the leap to EV now is just crazy.
Have a look at exponential runaway heat issues with the batteries. A mate of mine wrote the training for the fire service in the UK. He said not only do batteries turn into flame throwers in seconds they also emit a deadly gas when they’re punctured which will kill in minutes. The fire brigade now have to cut people out of EV’s in rapid time to prevent them dying from toxic air pollution. This doesn’t allow them to slowly remove the person to prevent spinal injuries.
I'm not defending EVs (as an ICE driver) but remember Cobalt is not just used in EV batteries. It's used in Diesel and Petrol refining, there's laptops, mobiles also, artificial joint replacements, bricks and cement, ceramic paints (Blue colours), clothing fasteners, buckles, buttons, hooks, pins, rivets. Then we have cosmetics - eyeshadow. Household Tools and Utensils. Hair Ornaments. Jewelry. In short a whole range of pruducts. BYD batteries are Cobalt free and they are the biggest battery maker in the world. Look no manufacturing is perfect, we just need to reduce what we use when we can. In terms of mileage/ kwh etc we know EVs are not at their best on non-stop runs because of the lack of regen, but they will not be polluting when they are on the move.
Geoff! It's all so obvious! It's frustrating talking to people about this, the response I get is: "well it's going to happen anyway so there is nothing we can do about it". I dare not speak to anyone I know who has an electric car because they are my bosses at work so I'd probably get the sack for not following the corporate narrative. So love your videos when you go off on one! Take care, Poo
Geoff it's all so obvious,! Another informative well produced video it's utterly horrific regarding the production of lithium batteries 😢, again more sheeple should be voicing up against this, best wishes to you and your family Michael Edinburgh 🏴
Good vid Geoff. I came across your channel recently and find it very informative. By profession I'm a Driving Instructor albeit with a small number of 'Learners' as I specialize in Advanced Courses and Fleet training with some well known multi national companies. My Ford Fiesta (diesel) 1.5 returns a regular 65-66 mpg and has never dropped below 63 mpg. There are a number of Instructors I know who now all regret buying 'all' electric vehicles, because primarily what they are saving on road tax, is lost when it comes to charging and the limited range. The area of the UK I live in has no local driving test centre, so to take a 'Learner' to the nearest town/city with a test centre is a 30 - 50 mile round trip and that's before you clock-up any mileage to familiarise the pupil with the local roads etc. My nearest local petrol station is only a 5 min drive, so if I don't fill up the night before its no issue, but if you forget to charge your 'school car' or get an overnight 'power cut' and it has happened to Instructors, it's a big issue. Until recently I did a lot of training with Royal Mail on 'induction' courses and 'post collision' courses and none of the 'Posties' are happy about the change to all EVs. The local (15 miles away) RMG delivery office does not have enough room to park or charge the vans they currently have, with a ¼ of the vehicles being parked on the road or in the public car park.
I read a few years back, that in the USA, they were saying you were 27% more likely to get serious injuries if you were unlucky enough to be hit by an SUV while you are driving your standard petrol / diesel cars.. What does that percentage go up to if you are hit by a battery powered SUV EV?, imagine the weight of that hitting you.. 😨😞
I dread a motorway pileup with these vehicles. Just one of them catching fire would be a catastrophe because these batteries are a bit like phosphorous, impossible to extinguish.
I agree. But it would be good to have someone experienced in EV’s with no bias to debate with him. Because a lot of what he says is either not necessarily true (ie source of cobalt) or exaggeration (ie weight, reliability, efficiency etc)
Geoff! It's all so obvious! About a year ago, I was considering a small electric car, but after looking into it I decided against it. My eco car has ended up being a high mileage BMW 318d GT which I will service and run until it's not economically viable to do any more. Way greener than any EV.
Well said Geoff,I’ll come clean and say I was lured into buying an EV a few years ago after watching various channels. I never thought it would save the planet but it was fun and interesting.However the truth slowly dawned and on one particular holiday in Devon we had a lot of charge point problems.My wife said get ‘get rid of this bloody car,I can’t stand the stress’,so I bought a old petrol banger which now is no dearer to run,as long as I can avoid emission zones,which probably will catch us all eventually.The EV will be sold in due course.
@@jamie0193 Hi,first was a used 24kwh Leaf back in 2016,which was challenging but sort of fun as well,on long journeys.Then I sold it in 2018 and bought a 41 kWh Zoe which to be fair is a decent little car,however by 2022 the whole idea was getting a bit stale and the camaraderie changed.I saw frustration and arguments because charge points were more busy. My situation is that I am ancient (81 yrs old in 2030),when I probably will stop driving.If I keep the Zoe until then it will be junk,so better to sell it now for a good price and use the old petrol car I bought cheaply.So economics and poor chargers are my motivation for selling.
@@timeast6412 I have also noticed how much busier chargers got between 2018 and then 2022 when I sold mine. It’s really the main issue is having enough chargers at each location. I think with a bigger battery ev or Tesla with their great charger network would remove a lot of the stress
@@jamie0193 Hi,that is true and in the future much better batteries may develop,but for now we are all guilty in some way for the Lithium and Cobalt abuses because these batteries are in all of our devices.
@frank o'brien I got a 15kwh i3 to share with a family member who did 7 miles a day. It was perfect for its use as that. I then changed jobs and was able to use it for my 30 mile round trip easy as you like. I took it on a 2000 mile road trip…wrong vehicle for the job so yes it was stressful but I knew before going into it
I knew someone with an EV, who like most enthusiasts boasted about how cheap it was to run. But one night there was reported massive traffic jams on the main road he used to go home. With an ice vehicle he could just consult the maps and find an alternate route through the country roads. But with his range anxiety he couldn't garuntee that he would get home without depleting and getting stuck out in the styx. So he had to remain at work for several hours until the traffic jams were reported as gone. He was trapped at work, horror of horrors!
got any more "fairy stories" like that one, LOL, WHY didn't you start it with "once upon a time, not that long ago" so this "mythical EV driver" lol, didn't have Sat Nav in his EV, when virtually ALL EVs have built in Sat Navs, (even my "cheap and cheerful" Mini EV has got Sat Nav) hm, this "mythical" EV driver, must have ONLY had enough battery power left, to get himself from work to home, with NO ROOM for deviation, so INSTEAD OF, parking up at his workplace, for many hours, he should have used the Zap Map, to find a charging point that was available and an easy short driving distance away, drove there, charged up a bit there and used his sat nav from there to "fuck off home pretty sharpish" as "EV drivers aren't thick bastards either", as they can spell "guarantee" correctly too, and not spell it "garuntee" like "the average thick bastard would spell it", hm, you cant even spell "STICKS" properly either, you THICK CUNT.
@@organickevinlondon I'm surprised you have time to post given all the time you spend biking to the supermarket to charge your car!😊 Yes it is a true story and reflects the actuality, outside of your privileged bubble, for many people who actually have EVs. These are the type of things that colour the impressions of EVs to other people who are more reluctant to make the leap. They can't afford the time and money involved in faffing around with current EVs. They don't and won't have free fuel like you do, so nothing to make up for all of the downsides.
@@argtv1007 you sound like "some sort of an irate, old timer, stuck in the past, fuddy duddy" to me, what's WRONG with you hey, can't you MOVE WITH THE TIMES and realise the ICE vehicle is fast heading for EXTINCTION within the next 10 years and just get over it, lol.
@@crabby7668 ANYONE considering getting an EV would "CERTAINLY NOT" be reading your wholly biased crazy bat shit anti EV rants here, (on a devout petrol head You Tube channel) as like me, they prefer to make a fully informed choice over that issue, you still havent pointed out ANY downsides to me owning an EV either, during ONE WEEK, like I have mentioned before, that 40 mins per week, cycling either from or to the FREE EV charging point, is just sooooo trivial in reality, why dont you just "FUCK OFF" to your nearest EV charging point, and "try???" taking the piss out of the EV owners there, FACE TO FACE, and post a You Tube video here as PROOF of that too, lol,
Keep up the good work Geoff, the more people that realise the shameful truth behind the mining of these raw materials the better. The government are complicit and wilfully blind to this and should be held accountable for ‘fuelling’ the demand for these materials and the evil modern day slavery that is happening in another part of the world, conveniently!!
You want the truth? Well if you did a bit of research, you'd discover it is the oil companies who use most of the cheap labour to mine cobalt. They've mined cobalt for decades, and cannot refine oil without it. The oil industry are the largest users of mined minerals on the planet.
Cheers Geoff.. you are spot on! I've been banging on about this EV crap! You've somed it up perfectly.. and the kids lives. Don't start me about the child trafficking and that goes on.. keep up the great work. Cheers from down under
@@GeoffBuysCars Have a look at Neodymium production for the magnets in the motors (Neodymium is need to for the power it has in magnets as it reduces magnet weight by about 80% and without it EV's would be even heavier). Anyway Neodymium production is never mentioned and is as destructive environmentally as cobalt and lithium.
Cobalt is also used extensively in the oil refining industry. There are new battery chemistry that are free of cobalt. You can't extract rhe sulphur from oil without cobalt catalyst!
My boss had a similar experience in his Tesla. Cornwall to Kings Lynn 9.5hrs. He comes into work wearing my cloth than I would on a motorcycle cause he can’t use the heater.
Look up the convicted criminal who is currently Trudeau's Environment Minister trying to sell EVs in -45C Canada....takes over an hour,just for the battery to heat up to take a charge in -9C,nevermind -45C
Geoff, recently found your channel, immediately subscribed, absolutely loving your content. This EV piece has had me howling with laughter at the mugs who have so smugly and piously leapt into the one wheeled bandwagon. You highlight everything I have said and believe, I’m so proud to be the little boy in the crowd looking at the Emperors new clothes 😂 Thank you!
Don't presume everyone who buys an EV is an idiot. Most people who have one are genuinely smug because it's saving them money and it's a superior powertrain in a lot of ways. You can't expose a few disaster stories and expect everyone falls victim like that. All it does it make non-EV owners unjustifiably smug.
I would not say I am smug for driving my EV. I drive an EV becasue it makes commercial sense and I love the acceleration. They are a lot of fun to drive. I also have a diesel Van and a pertol car that I also like. I really dont give a stuff for the environment when China and India are polluting at 100 times or more what we here on our tiny island are doing. I am doing what I want and I do not care what others think. I am free. If they stopped me buying a new ICE car in 2030 I would buy a good 2nd hand one or import one from abroad almost new :-)
I'm hanging on to my low mileage 2015 Fiesta Zetec 1.0 ecoboost till the wheels fall off. Car tax and ULEZ exempt and up to 68mpg on a steady motorway run. A great little car without all the EV stress and expense.
People will hold onto petrol engines as long as they can. I sure will but you know for a fact that the government will just raise the tax on fuel and force you to change over
@@letzvisit1661 It may not be the tax on fuel that could be the issue. It's whether you'll actually be able to get petrol and diesel. Shell's latest report states they plan to cut fossil fuel production 40% by 2030. If they do, that will mean just 6 out of every 10 pumps will be dispensing fuel. Things could get tricky another 2 to 3 years after that. Range anxiety with ICE cars? Possibly....... There is also the raft of ULEZ zones to consider. These things will be springing up everywhere in the next 2 to 3 years, and they will add considerably to the cost of driving into towns and cities. The Mayor of London is fighting to get his £12.50 per day (7 days a week) charge through. The Birmingham scheme has already been charging £8 per day for some time ( again, 7 days a week) to enter the city centre if your car or van can't meet Euro 6.
*Quite agree with all your comments, a few years ago did consider buying an EV as were stated to be the best thing since **_sliced bread_** however now so glad I opted instead to get a Mercedes (W247) B200 CDi AMG with 81 miles on the clock (ex Demo) and got a massive discount of nearly £10k from list price. This has absolutely amazed me, so so quiet, incredible range and over 35 mile journey (A6/A46) to Newark did nearly 90 mpg - hit traffic near end. This car will no doubt still be running in 20 years time and still giving good sensible practical use.*
Geoff, it's all so obvious that while many reviewers ignore these details or are dishonest about EVs, you absolutely deserve a new subscriber! I've been looking at EVs for a while, considering what I might eventually buy once they're within my budget and can get me from the Welsh border to visit family in Norfolk, about 450 miles return, with no more than a single stop each way. My 20 year old petrol car weighing about 900kg that cost me under £1,000 can do it for about £60 of petrol. A used 41kWh Renault ZOE, around £10k on autotrader, get about 155 miles according to EVDB's 'real range' figure. That's a lot of mileage (or VED savings) to get anywhere near breaking even. Secondly, the ZOE uses Lithium NMC batteries, one of the worst as you've pointed out. The MG4 fairs a little better with LFP but still fair from ideal. I'm hopeful that sodium or sulphur will soon be the battery tech of choice as they do have some advantages, including cost, but we'll have to wait and see on those. Since you mentioned smartphones, my last two (lasting years) have been used phones from eBay for under £200 with comparable features to much more costly models. Much better than these going to waste. BTW, right now on a Monday morning about 20% of the electricity I'm using is from so-called renewables, with just over 50% from gas and 1% coal. We should have gone nuclear long ago like France did and is now selling their surplus.
@@esm7708 my lads car is now eighteen years old, still gives good mileage and is easy to start. The battery is the heart of an EV so your comment would indicate the battery lasting twenty years plus on a modern EV, EV batteries are a known chemical process and my experience with batteries would lead me to think they would only last around ten years, fifteen at best with the last years giving less and less range/ power, not an environmentaly friendly product when we can make cars last years beyond that,
@@CrusaderSports250 maybe I should have expanded a bit. Battery life in EVs is defined as, depending on the manufacturer, the point where the battery loses 20 to 25% of its original capacity. CATL batteries are currently rated at 2 million km, Tesla 1 million miles and Lexus 1 million km. Mk 1 Nissan Leaf battery packs are currently being used for grid storage in Japan. Crucially Nissan Leaf batteries are terrible due to their lack of thermal management. Even the worst batteries are having a second life.
@@esm7708 its good that they can reuse the battery but what about the vehicle? At that sort of age its uneconomic to put a new battery in and the vehicle is still too good to scrap due to its environmental cost to replace, it might seen a bit retrograde but an LPG powered engine could be an answer to keeping the body shell going until it reached the end of its life, Its all very well talking about how good something will be in the future but that is just fantasy, we have to live in the here and now, in the sixties we should have been living on the moon by now, along with many other predictions of which we are still waiting, you can guarantee we will not get the "million mile" battery as that doesn't make economic manufacturing sense.
@@CrusaderSports250actually popping new batteries into mk1 Leaf's is very much an industry. For mysterious reasons Nissan built the Leaf like a brick out house. Battery life has been enhanced because they found a way to inhibit the formation of dendrites. Additionally temperature management, chemistry and quality control have all moved on.
Excellent video, hopefully the big EV con will start to come to light and articles like this will help. They have a place in a big city and big towns for people that will only use them for short runs but they have never ever been a silver bullet, cure all for personal transport
It's all so obvious Geoff. But scary times ahead. I'm a taxi driver in Swansea (where you drove Craig the geoffle winner last week!) last week I read the government white paper for the future of taxis in Wales. It's an interesting read which will probably end the Hackney cab trade and be replaced by large private hire firms with higher costs for both public and worker's. I'm sat on the rank now 1st car and I've been here nearly an hour watching you videos. Going to start another one now!
It just confirms it’s all a con we’re being had over time to stop buying these things until alternative technologies come along. Thank you for highlighting these issues I’ve been banging on about it for sometime over the environmental catastrophe caused by these mining practices.
And does that include the environmental catastrophe caused by the big oil companies, mining for cobalt? After all, they are the World's largest users of mined minerals......
An here's my 20 year old diesel van with 460,000 miles on the clock. 5 min fill up and Im good for 800 miles without a worry. 5 mins later Im good for another 800 miles. I can fill up and pay with cash. I dont have to worry if my phone has charge, internet signal and if Im registered and bank account linked with the correct apps, and I dont have to wait hours. If an EV was a viable form of transport, we wouldnt need the government forcing us into them.
Geoff, it seems obvious to me. I've been telling friends about this for ages. It's not just the pollution from power stations, it's not jkust the stripping of resources for chemicals, it's not just the monetary cost of producing lumpen great batteries, but it's the HUMAN cost that is so tragic. Those gleaming goods in the showroom along with the slick salesmen with too many teeth try to make you ignore this evil trade in exploitation, environmental destruction, and death.
Any cost of human life is terrible and in the year of you posting, you’ll be glad to know that many major manufacturers are now recycling batteries. I’d it perfect ? No.. but do consider this, would you trade in your smart phone ?well, the batteries in your smart devices all originated in the same place.
Keep up the good work ....... we're living through a madness the likes of which I never imagined. Many years ago I asked my father what he'd been reading and when I mentioned that there was no fiction he replied "Because the real world is so much stranger" ..... that's stuck with me, but was I just not seeing the strangeness .... or is there much more of it now ?
keep your videos coming man, they are brilliant, this needs putting out more and more, people will finally wake up to all this madness bullsh*t. luck forward to the follow-up
Geoff it's all so obvious!!! Some of us have been saying this for years! As a professional engineer I have been painfully aware of the fundamental flaws in these technologies for years... yet only now is this sort of information really starting to become more widely recognised. There is no scientific or technical justification for mandating EVs, it is ENTIRELY politically and economically driven!
@@slugger7520 In the short term biofuels are a much better option and don't need infrastructure changes... and eventually hydrogen as the technology is improved and existing infrastructure can be updated and adapted... both of which have the ability to actually support vehicles with credible ranges and both of which are far better environmentally that battery technology!
@@slugger7520 There are some really good and legitimately credible technologies out there... which is why it irritates me that flawed technologies are pushed as the only solution, by politicians who have nothing but political intentions!
I heard that if you are involved in a serious road crash whilst driving an EV, the fire brigade MUST disconnect the battery from under the car BEFORE they can get you out of a mangled wreck, that's 'if' they can reach the battery in time to save you.
Don't forget the more and more commonplace dropping of crashed EVs into water tanks in case they ignite/reignite. EVs aren't even close to being viable.
When I lived in Cornwall... 20 years ago... I learned to build and fly electric model aircraft. I learned all about batteries, rates of charge, battery capacity, flight time, and worked out the cost. These modern electric cars are an absolute scam.
You are so right about everything. At this point, can we believe anything we are told? It is going to take every normal person to stand and say enough is enough.
Brilliant video. Hit the proverbial nail on the head. The ITV Tonight programme last week 'Your car - time to switch?' talked about the reality of EV's and they admitted the infrastructure just isn't ready and isn't keeping up with the rise in EV sales. I just cannot get enthusiastic about EV's. I love the idea of instant torque of an EV but it's not enough to make me want to get one. If I fill up my car with petrol it takes five minutes - ten minutes tops if the garage is busy. I don't want to be sitting around a grotty services for an hour hoping the chargers work or the login system works or they're not all in use. And don't get me started on prices. Certain car review channels gleefully talking about some 'Foo Yuk' EV SUV costing £47k with a 180 mile range or a PCP with mortgage sized monthly payments.
How often do you actually need to do more than 350 miles? I live in Spain and have family in the UK, and even I don't need to do such a trip more than once a year! The rest of the time, all you need to do is occasionally plug your car into your home supply, and that costs me about €0,10 per kWh, on average. The fact that UK electric prices are so ridiculously high has nothing to do with EVs, it's got everything to do with an absolutely useless government.
I was a massive fan of electric vehicles, but the reality has turned out to be a nightmare. I'm like a lot of people... having trouble making ends meet... strangely I don't have £20k+ sitting idle in a savings account.
Good stuff Geoff. We'll keep our 13 year old 520d Touring, which gets 50mpg on a long run, does 700+ miles on a tank, and was paid for long ago. At 90 000 miles on the clock - it is nicely run in...
Geoff "ITS ALL SO BLOODY OBVIOUS ". I have these conversations with some of my clients who have ev's and they tend to look at me as though I have lost the plot.
Cobalt in EVs is a serious problem, best not use cobalt at all. Everyone stop using stuff that uses cobalt, mobile phones, laptops, petrol, diesel and all the other stuff!
As an American its even worse. Most houses use 110- 120v at between 15 to 20 amps. You might have a 220-240 v at 30 amps but it might be a plug for an AC, dryer or a range. Your scenario even worse in the United States. Now i grew up in NYC with 100 year old houses. Drapping a wire across the street on cloth covered house wires is a recipe for a spectacular great fire of NYC 2023 at worst breaking someones neck by blocking the sidewalk a best.
Fantastic video expressed so passionatly !! I hope people do wake up from their sleep state and stop blaming and pointing fingers at those who try and bring about real awareness on what really happening. Thanks for making and sharing this
Except that he's not. He is repeating exactly what Big Oil want him to repeat. Why don't you actually inform yourself, rather than paying attention to this BS. He just rants on and on without any actual facts. But the facts ARE available, and they are well presented on the video I link here ua-cam.com/video/_mYDV4Tfse0/v-deo.html
Another great video Geoff! It's all so obvious! It's all so the people in London can have slightly cleaner air, at the expense of millions of other people around the world 😱
Interesting article, I am an evil EV owner, and I must confess that I didn't know how bad cobalt mining was, apparently 30% of all mining in the Congo is 'artisan', meaning it's done by hand, can't imagine how awful or dangerous that is. Having read a little further, cobalt (as an example) has been mined in the Congo for over 100 years and is used in all sorts of products, including phones, laptops, and it looks likely Geoff that there's probably some cobalt in the catalytic converter for your diesel engine. If I am guilty of 'blood' mining (and I suspect I am), may he or she, who is completely without lithium cast the first stone. I suspect those poor people living among the oil swamps of the Niger Delta don't feel they are any better off than the Congolese artisan miners
Surely the West should be holding their governments to account? If not then why not? is it because slavery and child labour still benefits the west economically? If so, then why upset the apple cart?
I’ve be questioning a number of things that are so obvious for a while now. Good vid, pros and cons with EVs and ICE, i like the acceleration stats for the former, but just can’t be bothered with the faff of planning longer journeys and charging anxiety. IMO all new cars are way too expensive nowadays so given up on chasing the latest model, not that I ever did. Quite content for now in my 19 year old Subaru Impreza daily drive, if not the ever increasing road tax and 25 mpg but I new that when I bought it. I’d be interested in more vids reference the energy crisis that we are currently in and will be for the foreseeable, given the government’s apparent lack of desire or will to pull any number of levers that would set us on a long road to energy security and greater self sufficiency using a mix of power generation techniques not just effing wind. Keep up the good work👍
@@GeoffBuysCars that was like me on a bad car trade day. At every juncture the day just accelerates in strain. And he was only driving a sub 12 month year old motor !!!!
Best video so far on EVs, Geoff its all so obvious. Its disgraceful that politicians never touch on the immoral mining issues. They prefer to leave it to the Chinese and pretend its not happening. I have a diesel car that does 55/60 to the gallon and I spent my working life in the oilfield looking for hydrocarbons to run it. Its a pretty dirty business as well but at least everyone in the business gets good wages and safety is paramount. Keep the videos coming
Now.....imagine my dear elderly mother after dad passed away in the early 2,000's. Being an independant soul she went to the local Ford dealer and bought herself an really nice Ford Focus. She was very proud of herself...the dealership really supported her...helping with oil changes...maintence and more. Can you even imagine her in her 80's trying to work through all of this totally useless BS.
An EV for your mum (if she has a driveway) would be much simpler. No gears, No oil or water, No exhausts, starts even on cold days, Instant heat to keep her warm. Less maintenance so less outgoings. EV's are the future they really are. The issue at the moment is that EV's at the moment are where VHS and BETA were in the 80's but soon they will quickly jump to the iPhone with much better range even though most even now have great range. My little BMW i3 goes 160 miles even in winter. Over 180 on a warmer day without the heater. That 160 is with the heater on and two people. I charge it one a week ! for £12 even with the silly electric prices. Watch the market in 2023-4 you will see some quite impressive EV's coming to the market initially from China where they make a lot of them and they are good made by the 2nd largest car company on the planet BYD who make VW's under licence for China. 300 miles for an overnight charge that for most is over two weeks driving. The issue here at the moment is the crap public charging system.
@@TheSmallRabbit Hi ...thanks for the reply...your right the vehicles are not the problem.. The failure to have standardised and reliable charging network is huge. Here in Ontario Canada long drives to visit family in many cases are the norm. In winter it can be bitter cold. Breaking your nerves planning multiple charging stops is just too stressful Also before you can even connect one must own a smart phone...be able to download and manage a different app for every unique supplier then trouble shoot it if problems arise. Something I know my dearly departed mother would had massive problems with. I do know a few 80 year olds and lots of 70 year olds that have no problem with this level of tech but none would tolerate the hassle. Others I know are completely thrown by it. I dont have a driveway...I dont have a smart phone...I have only a basic cell phone. Not really a big deal because I could upgrade but only by adding to my monthy costs. How is it that you can't just plug in...swipe your credit card...come back once charged and be billed accordingly ? The model people have used for decades for fuel and are happy with ? Im glad your experience has been positive in the UK. All the best going forward.
@@TheSmallRabbit No, the issues are your lack of education and indoctrination in to the climate change con - Start your education process by listening to the worlds best academics on the subject here..... Alex Epstein (JBP Interviewed) Bjorn Lomborg (JBP Interviewed + Rogan, Unheard, Lex Fridman etc) Andrew Revkin (climate journalist) (Lex Fridman Interviewed) Malcolm Moreno Dr Richard Lindzen (Top professor JBP interviewed) - Richard Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist. He has contributed to the development of theories for the Hadley Circulation, hydrodynamic instability theory, internal gravity waves, atmospheric tides, and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratosphere. His current research is focused on climate sensitivity, the role of cirrus clouds in climate, and the determination of the tropics-to-pole temperature difference. He has attained multiple degrees from Harvard University, and won multiple awards in his field of study such as the Jule Charney award for “highly significant research in the atmospheric sciences”. Between 1983 and 2013, he was the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT where he earned emeritus status in July of 2013. Dr Steven Koonin (JBP Interviewed) - Dr. Steven Koonin, a University Professor at NYU, has served as the Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science, as Chief Scientist for BP, and as professor and Provost at Caltech. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Governor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a senior fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and a Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses. Koonin holds a BS in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT. He wrote the recent bestseller “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” Dr Judith Curry (JBP Interviewed) - Dr. Judith Curry is an American climatologist with a Bachelor’s degree in geography from Northern Illinois University, and a geophysical sciences Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Curry is the professor Emerita and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has had an accomplished career, working with NASA, the US Government, and numerous academic institutions in the field of climate change. Reply
@@TheSmallRabbit modern ICE cars are pretty much zero hassle for owners. Servicing is usually fixed or capped price, dealers offer loan cars... contrary to the legend, EV's have scheduled servicing too, if only to check brakes, tyres, suspension etc. At the costs quoted in the UK, it's only cost effective to drive an EV if you can do nearly all your charging at home. Even then, compared to an economical car like a Focus, it would be questionable. Add in the significantly higher cost to buy, and they really don't make economic sense at all.
Hi Geoff, filled up my diesel MkTransit, drove 375 miles, still had half a tank left. My journey cost £50 took me 8 hours! No problems, no range anxiety ..just sailed it with no worries!
Thank you for your narrative, regarding electric vehicles. For me, you have confirmed it is a load of old bollocks.
And another thing, I don’t want to waste my life charging the bloody car for 40 minutes at a service station.
@@speciallion1135 ME TOO! i didn't really linger on that bit. i have no desire to spend extended time in service stations!
Brilliant 👋
Here here
Electric cars are a scam!
The worlds gone mad mate and I’m glad we have people like you who are happy to put the time in to expose the bastards!
my grandma died 7 years ago and a few months before she passed she had said she was pleased she was on her way out as world was fcked and would only get worse and how right she was
@@megane230f1 yep, both my parents and my uncles have said the same…glad they had the best years!
Agreed and very well said
These clowns will always defend their decisions to buy their EVs they are hapless 😂😂😂
@@Gggggggg618 It's because most 'clowns' that buy EV's do it with some intelligence. They do it because it works out for them. Funilly enough these stories are boring and don't reach the newpapers or magazines because they wouldn't sell copies. I suppose a good indicator is how often EV owners then buy another EV to repalce their old one. Time will make that clearer.
A 76-year-old retired vehicle engineer / designer. All you have done is enhance what I already knew. Thank God, I'll probably be dead by the time the 'greenies' control the world. Subd - cheers mate.
75, same philosophy
It has been obvious for a long time. It is good to see that people are finally seeing it.
Yup! And thank you.
Said everyone who owned a cart and horse when trains and cars arrived.
@Lysander Lives Here
A cart and horse weren't formed from forcing a third-world child down a lithium mine.
People definitely have blinker’s on, i saw 👀 pictures of a lithium mine years ago at the start of all this and I nearly shit a brick at the sight of it, it really scared 😱 the crap 💩 out of me, please take a look 👀 for yourselfs
@@LysanderLH did they really say that? Your talking out yer sphincter said everyone who understands your grasp of reality isn’t perhaps as good as you think
Exactly what I've been telling people, there's so much against ev's. I work in accident repair and the batteries are a real headache having to be shut down before you lift a spanner to them. They will kill you, and that said, what about the poor emergency services that attend accidents. Wouldn't want to be them in the rain and dark trying to extricate a casualty from something that has the potential to put 420 volts through anything near by . That stuff will melt anything metal, fillings ,glasses, jewellery etc and it will also jump as it takes the easiest route it can to ground. I've had enough and I'm retiring early to get away from this modern electronic crap that keeps on breaking.
Email me some more about this...? geoffbuyscars at gmail dot com
My workmate didn't want to work on them either but he's alot older was made redundant anyway now just doing odd bit of work in his mates workshop. I've done all the ev training and same on the mot yearly courses a couple of years ago they brought all ev questions into the test and anyone with a pace maker can't work on electric cars or mot them due to the neodium magnetic fields could skip the heart beat. Its always in the back our minds me and my other workmates that one wrong move working on the battery you could die.
@@GeoffBuysCars its just powering the battery down to work on it. If you don't power it down you can die with DC voltage as your pulled onto the voltage rather than thrown off with AC. Doesn't take long though and if your workmate doesn't notice you dying well your erm burnt toast and the hoop off life won't save you
Great, nobody needs outdated mechanics telling engineers how things should work.
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@@davejohnson3474 OMG DIDNT KNOW THIS , ITS JUST GETS WORSE
I'm at a loss for words to express my appreciation for you having the information and courage to air this video. Electric cars are, like the covid lock down, examples of the global government's mind control and psychological warfare (successful) experiments.
And another opportunity for control of the population by increasing the costs of private transport.
Well said!
@@jonvb2439 I am a self sufficient individual I grow as much food as I can in the limited space I have and live in a home that was condemned and derelict before my wife and I renovated it with our own labour and by literally buying a done brick at a time from pay day to pay day. You make some very big assumptions about people. I presume your self righteous attitude stems from a privileged background of some sort. Private school and university educated, taught to look down on the lower orders as untermench. Where as the truth is we lower orders earn all the wealth in society and the over educated self styled ubermench just live by our sweat and rent.
covid lockdown was made to prevent people from spreading the virus. Electric cars are made both to prevent fossil fuel combustion and to not depend on said fuel. nothing is related.
making some countries not depend on fossil fuel gives said country indepenence, and thus reduces leverage to the ones that sell it.
It just makes sense to switch. both geopolitically and economically.
and since everything runs on batteries nowadays if a major discovery is made, then it will affect the car manufacturing process, making it an investment too.
eventually this will become cheaper since it will be a secure investment to sell those, now it isnt, we are in the "developing phase" of change. seeing most efficient yet most secure way of doing this. sadly it will take time.
but it will get cheaper.
would be interesting to see how things change when people start using fision instead of nuclear plants... that too could increase rentability, since it would lower the cost of electric production.
Brilliant video, Geoff! One of the best condemnations of the insane drive towards electric vehicles that I've seen. I'll stick to my Fiesta ST200 till it falls apart ..... or I do!
ST200, yes!
@@GeoffBuysCars This is it, we love our ICE cars. 👍
If I wanted an battery powered vehicle I’d buy an ex-United Dairies milk float. I’m more than happy with my 1990 Mk3 Granada. Great video @GeoffBuysCars. Keep up the good work 👍
@@jackwagongaming1159 Sur-Ron light bee, all the cool kids have them
St200, what a load of toast
Great video! My mechanic just told me that his mate bought an e-transporter brand new. He is a trader, went from Portsmouth to London, and had to stop halfway to charge the van. Coming back same!
Dealership told him that he shouldn't put his tools in the back and don't use the heating! Insane!
yeah, my barbers got a brother in law,
that says exactly the same, NOT,
can your mechanics mate, "do me a favour"
and post a VIDEO here on UA-cam
to back up his "fairy story" about his BOGUS ev.
So, no tools, no heat. May as well stay home. Oh, now it makes sense.
Dealers Know Squat! He will Figure it out Eventually.
Better off with a Honda 50 !
Don’t use the heat? Well, the van might get a few more feet off the charge in the battery if they had just left the heater and it’s associated weight off the vehicle altogether. Why bother to put a feature into a vehicle if you’re then going to tell the prospective owner not to use that feature.
At first I loved my Zoe as you just got in it and drove off. So my early departures did not keep annoying the neighbours. Plus it did not waste fuel or wear out the clutch in queues and was economical. I was commuting into the centre of London so saved on Zone charges but in winter the need for an expensive recharge stop on the way home wiped out any gain. Then the car started to go wrong. In heavy rain the headlights, console instruments, rear view camera and SatNav would switch off. Seat belt and boot/door open warning lights kept flashing for no reason. Despite a 5 year warranty the dealer wanted £120 per hour to investigate each problem and threatened me with a £450 bill on the first of many returns to the garage. The final killer blow was when the car started to drop off charging for no reason. 3 times I needed the car to get to work only to find this had happened and I had been left stranded at home.
I'm 100% with you on this one Geoff. In my opinion there are just too many issues with these cars and there is just something not right about the way they are being forced upon us.
Same with the arm dart being forced upon people. It’s not for good reasons and not for our own good or safety either.
@@firstnamed1501 Yep so many wrong things going on these days and the people that should be are not questioning it.
They’re being forced upon us for 2 reasons; 1. The green levies certain politicians are financially benefiting from, be it stakes in companies producing, handed contracts for the infrastructure etc, 2. Control. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if a dictatorship government could restrict your movement at any time by removing your ability to charge it? Or better yet, remotely switch it off. Can’t really do that with ICE cars.
Most of us lived under OPEC and oil wars.
Same with the smart meters.
My daughter works for a car hire company. They can't rent out the EV vans as they have no range and the time to charge them makes it difficult to operate
This is why there are no viable ev camper vans or motorhome. The whole idea of the leisure industry is to travel the country. Also try charging your car with a caravan in tow, the bays are not designed for it & you would have to unhitch & rehitch every 80 miles. Some holiday!
Geoff, it's all so obvious, the longer term plan is for us to have little to no cars on the roads, and confine us to our designated districts. Only the rich will be able to afford to travel, whilst the rest of us scramble to find the means and ways to put food on the table. Thank you for getting the truth out there.
A vision of our future: ua-cam.com/video/xjXrl4tDC7U/v-deo.html
Soon we will become North korea 2.0
The government will control your car if you even have one.
or you could just use public transport, you know
@@discinfiltrator_games PT is filthy and expensive……
thank you for this geoff. we are being conned by the rich they are rich because they love money. the love of money is the root of all evil. .
I totally agree and they don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves
Lol, like you think the fossil fuel industry isn't rich and been conning the world into buying their known to pollute products for decades?
@@m3hnlbored billionaires with god complexes....
Geoff, it's all so obvious, thank you so much for putting this out there, all we need now is to teach the sheep to question everything
Yep the brainwashed sheep will eat up this video while ignoring the technical facts. Cornwall to Bristol is just freaking 167 miles, while many BEVs have 230 miles range in rough Blizzard weather.
Spoken like a true flat earther.
Great article Geoff! Actually, the BEST article on this scam perpetrated on the brain-dead ever! Keep up the GREAT work, Geoff! Thank you soooo much!!!!
The globalists don't want us to travel, it's all just a big con. People need to wake up
Made it to the end. We live in times where people don’t think and believe whatever their TV tells them. They have outsourced their thinking, to conmen. What could possibly go wrong!
Just like President Nixon once said.
Now they just believe whatever the daily Mail and what someone on UA-cam says and it’s much better.
And, in EV-central for Europe, Norway, one of the ferry & shipping companies, Havila, just banned EVs from their car ferries, citing safety/fire issues.
I am helping the environment - I'm keeping my 18 year old petrol car going. The best thing to do, Geoff - it's all so obvious, that it is the best way!
Brillliant. Guess a fire that you cannot extinguish is a bit of a problem on a ferry. It'll only take one fire in the channel tunnel and they'll be banned there too, although I can't imagine many people take them touring...
The problem with EV fires is not being spoken about currently and if you are unfortunate enough to be near an EV fire do not breathe the fumes they are highly toxic
Obviously they heard what caused the fire on that large car ferry carrying new VW group cars some of which where mostly EV's
I emailed my ferry company about this as I commute weekly on their ferries. Got a nonchalant email back saying that they have special fire extinguishers and appropriate training. This tells me that they are underprepared for an EV fire on board and when it eventually happens, it's going to be a shit show.
I'm surprised they're not banned from shopping centre multi storey car parks.... howd you put yhat fire out on the 3rd level on a Saturday? No chance of z fire engine getting anywhere near.
Totally with you dude. The world is MAD. While some humans are starving, others are busy obliterating each other, ... humans don't learn from our past mistakes. We just selfishly carry on to make share holders and powerful people neuter us. Sad!
Well, how can we learn when we keep suppressing information from the people?
In the early days of COVID, for example, many doctors and scientists were trying to get the word out that many of the knee jerk reactions in the beginning were not going to help and in fact might be worse (such as lockdowns).
Banned from Twitter, demonized by the media and now look.... they were all right.
Even the "conspiracy theory" that the shots were causing people to suddenly die has now been confirmed!
It's utter insanity.
You "forgot" to mention why humans do this: war is profitable! War profiteering nations like the UK and UK make a lot of money from war and they're not bothered about the consequences. They don't care about democracy, human rights, or the International Courts of justice.
Geoff it's all so obvious. I've tried telling people this but they think I'm mad 😂 all I get in response is "why would the government lie"? . My personal thought is control.✌🏻🏴
This is a theme with everything. Be it firearms, green energy, etc etc etc etc
amazes me people are still stupid enough to trust the lying government and media at this point, Specially after covid and the vaccines. Of course, most fell for that too.
The government always lies.
why would the gov lie,,well,,maybe they havnt heard about covid.. biggest bs since adam..
In the summer, when I switched my Zoe EV to ecodrive, its range was 230 miles at 62.5mph. In the winter this crashed to 180 miles or less and that was without using the heater or main headlights. The car was great to drive but very expensive. The car was twice the cost of the equivalent petrol version, and took 13 hours to fully charge. A super-fast home charger plus converting my car to use this facility was over 2 grand extra. On the road the cost of recharging quickly was twice that of a petrol journey plus the wait to do this. On many occasions these chargers were broken or stopped working for no reason. I gave up and sold my Zoe after just a year.
Great comment, thank you!
@@GeoffBuysCars a 'super fast' home charger would likely require a huge current draw and many houses electrical incomer not capable of it including the existing load....
@@andygozzo72 a 7kW home charger isn’t anything more and a shower or induction hob.
Strange how a Zoe costs twice the price of an equivalent petrol when my Mini electric cost about £3k more than equivalent. Which is easy to make back in fuel saving.
Just over two thousand for the charger is the equivalent to 12000 miles at 45mpg and £1.80 a litre, the charger plus the extra for even just the mini is three years driving, without the cost of the electricity to charge for that time, my current car, (a diesel Duster), is returning around 58mpg making the economics of the EV even more less attractive, and I have been informed it is lez compliant should I ever wish to venture into Claudius Khan's little thiefdom.
I am 70 years old and moved to Australia in 1975, I used to drive between Sydney and Melbourne about about 880 km today, Please do a shoutout to an EV owner in Australia who would do the trip and the calculation - I like your videos 😊
I knew it was bad, but I never realised just how disastrous it really is. Thanks for enlightening me and many others, well done.
You, sir, are a breath of fresh air. I’ve said this for ages, but this video supports my beliefs. Thank you!
Geoff, it's all so obvious. It's a shame that so many people are blind to this, but I hope that one day with the help of people like you shining a light on these issues that people will make a stand and put an end to this insane nonsense.
I truly believe that we, the population, are awakening to the great electric green con keep up the great work and keep exposing the lies that we are being fed on a daily basis 👍
Its not a con its a great product but governments should not be forcing people to use them. People should have choice. However once you have been to Paris you won't want to go back on the farm. Drive one and you will be converted.
@Michael Dawson as i mentioned earlier, child slaves in horrendous conditions working with life shorting materials, plus when the battery reaches the end of its working life, it's totally unrecyclable still think that this is a good idea
Agree its a con. They need to ban EVs.
Absolutely! 100% agree!
@@johnmcfarlane1580 you mean, bad parents in Africa, forcing their kids to scavenge for Cobalt (a mineral used in petrol refining and in catalytic converters) on Cobalt mine waste heaps, (IF baked beans cost a fortune and came out of the ground, those same kids parents would force them to mine baked beans too) oh and 95% of an EV batteries are recyclable too, "BANG GOES yer self made up anti EV Urban Myths"
Wait until you learn about the heavy machines used to screen and crush material in those mines... They use tons of diesel and hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil which often leaks.... And ends up in soil too. I know cause we repair, service and sell those machines. This is madness.
Do feel free to email me some juicy anonymous stuff I can turn into video rants!
@@GeoffBuysCars will do mate this week hopefully, gotta be careful cause even when being sneaky most of this stuff ie places, customers is easy to identify by those that know...
Anybody who believes all the ev guff and buys an ev deserve all the problems they get.
Hydraulic oil in the ground? You do know where oil comes from in the first place?
@@Brian-om2hh dude, there's a dufference between oil and hydraulic oil... Even when on surface
Another idiotic statement from the government is to use public transport. Imagine a factory with 3000 employees deciding to take the bus to work; that would entail about 60 buses. Can you imagine how long a bus stop would be for 3000 people. If you caught the last bus you would arrive at work in time to clock off. That's just one factory.
You're spot on Geoff 👍 If only I could post this video directly to Greta Thunberg and Klaus Schwab and his WEF.
They don't care about people - just money.
They know this already. It’s just a Con job on the peasants. After all you will live in a 15 minute Ghetto own nothing eat bugs and won’t travel anymore!! But apparently you will be Happy!! 😂 😂
@@magfan77 True - rich and powerful psychopaths who care about nobody.
Hello fellow critical thinkers 👍🏻🙏👌
They would laugh in your face. Do you think they are stupid.
...no words can explain the utter stupidity of all that is going on in the world right now 😕
Right on sir! I worry about the environment now and I’m horrified at what the future is looking like if this madness continues.
It's a sad bad mad world Geoff and I fear for the younger generations. It may sound selfish but I'm glad I'm 70 and not 17😪😪😪
The younger generations are arrogant, self assures idiots. Loving their srrvitude
Great video. This all needs to be more widely publicised.
It wont. :(
You are fantastic for revealing this disgraceful situation the world is in. Thank you.
Hi Geoff, last week I fuelled my BMW440d, 6 cylinder, 3 litre diesel in Haverfordwest, back home to Llantrisant. Next day Kidderminster and back, next day Windsor and back. Total mileage around 640, refuelled 4 miles from home with still 120 miles left in the tank. Mpg for all 3 days was 58. No stopping multiple times, no thinking required, no range anxiety, no stress, no additional money spent on tea, coffee and snacks in services and no weight gained from that. EVs are the biggest scam in motoring history. Fact. For the foreseeable future (30 to 50 years) at least. And last n8ght the electrical infrastructure barely coped with demand.
You should go back to horses and carts, or steam engines. This video is very poorly researched and yo believe it.
@@dmomcilovic9185 well if you give us your facts and figures addressing every point that he makes, then we can compare. Thanking you in anticipation.
diesels and gasoline engines can be much better...........look up Achates 2 stroke. Cummins diesel make it for the US military. Why arent cars made of aluminium, no rust and better mileage?
@@wazza33racer Some cars are. Do some research.....
👏👏brilliant, brilliant, brilliant……no more to be said 🏁
you have just confirmed what i have said for years people should look at how the end product is arrived at good on you for putting this vlog together lets hope people take notice
The mining is only the tip of this nightmare. I’ve worked in the Middle East we are not running out of oil either. Keep it coming Geoff 👍
They have been telling us 'we're running out of oil' since the 1920's
"By 1920, oil production reached 450 million barrels - prompting fear that the nation was about to run out of oil. Government officials predicted that the nation's oil reserves would last just ten years. Up until the 1910s, the United States produced between 60 and 70 percent of the world's oil supply."
@@bsimpson6204 Exactly! And there are so many places where we haven't even begun to explore for oil, where we know it is present. We need to continue to invest in new technologies and over the next few decades progress will be made, and we can all gradually transition to new modes of powering cars. But forcing us all to make the leap to EV now is just crazy.
SA has around 700 years of oil….
WE are not running out of oil either. Shetland isles if you don’t want fracking here (can’t imagine why you wouldn’t)
Mining is good honest and godly work. Keeps you fit all that hard work.
Have a look at exponential runaway heat issues with the batteries. A mate of mine wrote the training for the fire service in the UK. He said not only do batteries turn into flame throwers in seconds they also emit a deadly gas when they’re punctured which will kill in minutes. The fire brigade now have to cut people out of EV’s in rapid time to prevent them dying from toxic air pollution. This doesn’t allow them to slowly remove the person to prevent spinal injuries.
You must suffer a tiny bit for reducing pollution......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I'm not defending EVs (as an ICE driver) but remember Cobalt is not just used in EV batteries. It's used in Diesel and Petrol refining, there's laptops, mobiles also, artificial joint replacements, bricks and cement, ceramic paints (Blue colours), clothing fasteners, buckles, buttons, hooks, pins, rivets.
Then we have cosmetics - eyeshadow.
Household Tools and Utensils.
Hair Ornaments.
Jewelry.
In short a whole range of pruducts.
BYD batteries are Cobalt free and they are the biggest battery maker in the world.
Look no manufacturing is perfect, we just need to reduce what we use when we can.
In terms of mileage/ kwh etc we know EVs are not at their best on non-stop runs because of the lack of regen, but they will not be polluting when they are on the move.
Geoff! It's all so obvious! It's frustrating talking to people about this, the response I get is: "well it's going to happen anyway so there is nothing we can do about it". I dare not speak to anyone I know who has an electric car because they are my bosses at work so I'd probably get the sack for not following the corporate narrative. So love your videos when you go off on one! Take care, Poo
Geoff, it's all so obvious. Excellent video.
Thank you! Wasn't sure about this one.
@@GeoffBuysCars It needs to be said! The more people that say so the better. This subject deserves widespread ranting.
Geoff it's all so obvious,! Another informative well produced video it's utterly horrific regarding the production of lithium batteries 😢, again more sheeple should be voicing up against this, best wishes to you and your family Michael Edinburgh 🏴
Good vid Geoff. I came across your channel recently and find it very informative. By profession I'm a Driving Instructor albeit with a small number of 'Learners' as I specialize in Advanced Courses and Fleet training with some well known multi national companies. My Ford Fiesta (diesel) 1.5 returns a regular 65-66 mpg and has never dropped below 63 mpg.
There are a number of Instructors I know who now all regret buying 'all' electric vehicles, because primarily what they are saving on road tax, is lost when it comes to charging and the limited range. The area of the UK I live in has no local driving test centre, so to take a 'Learner' to the nearest town/city with a test centre is a 30 - 50 mile round trip and that's before you clock-up any mileage to familiarise the pupil with the local roads etc.
My nearest local petrol station is only a 5 min drive, so if I don't fill up the night before its no issue, but if you forget to charge your 'school car' or get an overnight 'power cut' and it has happened to Instructors, it's a big issue.
Until recently I did a lot of training with Royal Mail on 'induction' courses and 'post collision' courses and none of the 'Posties' are happy about the change to all EVs. The local (15 miles away) RMG delivery office does not have enough room to park or charge the vans they currently have, with a ¼ of the vehicles being parked on the road or in the public car park.
I read a few years back, that in the USA, they were saying you were 27% more likely to get serious injuries if you were unlucky enough to be hit by an SUV while you are driving your standard petrol / diesel cars..
What does that percentage go up to if you are hit by a battery powered SUV EV?, imagine the weight of that hitting you.. 😨😞
Such a good point....
I dread a motorway pileup with these vehicles. Just one of them catching fire would be a catastrophe because these batteries are a bit like phosphorous, impossible to extinguish.
Is that why they're trying to lower the speed limit?
@@bonk352 Good point... I'd not thought of that..
"Geoff, it's all so obvious" well done brother. Utter madness.
*This ought to broadcast on TV at a peak time !*
The MSM is being financed by the government, to a degree. So it won't happen.
His maths wouldn't last a minute under scrutiny away from this bubble...
No way - we can’t contradict “the message”!
I agree. But it would be good to have someone experienced in EV’s with no bias to debate with him. Because a lot of what he says is either not necessarily true (ie source of cobalt) or exaggeration (ie weight, reliability, efficiency etc)
Geoff! It's all so obvious! About a year ago, I was considering a small electric car, but after looking into it I decided against it. My eco car has ended up being a high mileage BMW 318d GT which I will service and run until it's not economically viable to do any more. Way greener than any EV.
Geoff, its all so obvious. Thank you for your work.
Well said Geoff,I’ll come clean and say I was lured into buying an EV a few years ago after watching various channels. I never thought it would save the planet but it was fun and interesting.However the truth slowly dawned and on one particular holiday in Devon we had a lot of charge point problems.My wife said get ‘get rid of this bloody car,I can’t stand the stress’,so I bought a old petrol banger which now is no dearer to run,as long as I can avoid emission zones,which probably will catch us all eventually.The EV will be sold in due course.
What ev did you get? I had a similar experience, I enjoyed owning it, apart from one long trip where it was pretty stressful
@@jamie0193 Hi,first was a used 24kwh Leaf back in 2016,which was challenging but sort of fun as well,on long journeys.Then I sold it in 2018 and bought a 41 kWh Zoe which to be fair is a decent little car,however by 2022 the whole idea was getting a bit stale and the camaraderie changed.I saw frustration and arguments because charge points were more busy.
My situation is that I am ancient (81 yrs old in 2030),when I probably will stop driving.If I keep the Zoe until then it will be junk,so better to sell it now for a good price and use the old petrol car I bought cheaply.So economics and poor chargers are my motivation for selling.
@@timeast6412 I have also noticed how much busier chargers got between 2018 and then 2022 when I sold mine. It’s really the main issue is having enough chargers at each location. I think with a bigger battery ev or Tesla with their great charger network would remove a lot of the stress
@@jamie0193 Hi,that is true and in the future much better batteries may develop,but for now we are all guilty in some way for the Lithium and Cobalt abuses because these batteries are in all of our devices.
@frank o'brien I got a 15kwh i3 to share with a family member who did 7 miles a day. It was perfect for its use as that. I then changed jobs and was able to use it for my 30 mile round trip easy as you like. I took it on a 2000 mile road trip…wrong vehicle for the job so yes it was stressful but I knew before going into it
I knew someone with an EV, who like most enthusiasts boasted about how cheap it was to run. But one night there was reported massive traffic jams on the main road he used to go home. With an ice vehicle he could just consult the maps and find an alternate route through the country roads. But with his range anxiety he couldn't garuntee that he would get home without depleting and getting stuck out in the styx. So he had to remain at work for several hours until the traffic jams were reported as gone. He was trapped at work, horror of horrors!
got any more "fairy stories" like that one, LOL,
WHY didn't you start it with
"once upon a time, not that long ago"
so this "mythical EV driver" lol,
didn't have Sat Nav in his EV,
when virtually ALL EVs have built in Sat Navs,
(even my "cheap and cheerful" Mini EV has got Sat Nav)
hm, this "mythical" EV driver, must have ONLY had enough battery power left, to get himself from work to home, with NO ROOM for deviation, so INSTEAD OF, parking up at his workplace, for many hours, he should have used the Zap Map, to find a charging point that was available and an easy short driving distance away, drove there, charged up a bit there and used his sat nav from there to "fuck off home pretty sharpish" as "EV drivers aren't thick bastards either", as they can spell "guarantee" correctly too, and not spell it "garuntee" like "the average thick bastard would spell it", hm, you cant even spell "STICKS" properly either, you THICK CUNT.
@@organickevinlondon I'm surprised you have time to post given all the time you spend biking to the supermarket to charge your car!😊
Yes it is a true story and reflects the actuality, outside of your privileged bubble, for many people who actually have EVs.
These are the type of things that colour the impressions of EVs to other people who are more reluctant to make the leap. They can't afford the time and money involved in faffing around with current EVs. They don't and won't have free fuel like you do, so nothing to make up for all of the downsides.
@@organickevinlondon choke on you lab grown "meat" and cockroaches you freak
@@argtv1007 you sound like "some sort of an irate, old timer, stuck in the past, fuddy duddy" to me, what's WRONG with you hey, can't you MOVE WITH THE TIMES and realise the ICE vehicle is fast heading for EXTINCTION within the next 10 years and just get over it, lol.
@@crabby7668 ANYONE considering getting an EV would "CERTAINLY NOT" be reading your wholly biased crazy bat shit anti EV rants here, (on a devout petrol head You Tube channel) as like me, they prefer to make a fully informed choice over that issue, you still havent pointed out ANY downsides to me owning an EV either, during ONE WEEK, like I have mentioned before, that 40 mins per week, cycling either from or to the FREE EV charging point, is just sooooo trivial in reality, why dont you just "FUCK OFF" to your nearest EV charging point, and "try???" taking the piss out of the EV owners there, FACE TO FACE, and post a You Tube video here as PROOF of that too, lol,
Geoff It's all so obvious. Superb video. Thanks for making it.
Keep up the good work Geoff, the more people that realise the shameful truth behind the mining of these raw materials the better. The government are complicit and wilfully blind to this and should be held accountable for ‘fuelling’ the demand for these materials and the evil modern day slavery that is happening in another part of the world, conveniently!!
You want the truth? Well if you did a bit of research, you'd discover it is the oil companies who use most of the cheap labour to mine cobalt. They've mined cobalt for decades, and cannot refine oil without it. The oil industry are the largest users of mined minerals on the planet.
Cheers Geoff.. you are spot on! I've been banging on about this EV crap! You've somed it up perfectly.. and the kids lives. Don't start me about the child trafficking and that goes on.. keep up the great work. Cheers from down under
thanks so much! I just... care, you know? like how can you be OK with this going on anywhere?
@@GeoffBuysCars Have a look at Neodymium production for the magnets in the motors (Neodymium is need to for the power it has in magnets as it reduces magnet weight by about 80% and without it EV's would be even heavier). Anyway Neodymium production is never mentioned and is as destructive environmentally as cobalt and lithium.
Cobalt is also used extensively in the oil refining industry.
There are new battery chemistry that are free of cobalt. You can't extract rhe sulphur from oil without cobalt catalyst!
My boss had a similar experience in his Tesla. Cornwall to Kings Lynn 9.5hrs. He comes into work wearing my cloth than I would on a motorcycle cause he can’t use the heater.
Look up the convicted criminal who is currently Trudeau's Environment Minister trying to sell EVs in -45C Canada....takes over an hour,just for the battery to heat up to take a charge in -9C,nevermind -45C
Lol
Geoff, recently found your channel, immediately subscribed, absolutely loving your content.
This EV piece has had me howling with laughter at the mugs who have so smugly and piously leapt into the one wheeled bandwagon. You highlight everything I have said and believe, I’m so proud to be the little boy in the crowd looking at the Emperors new clothes 😂
Thank you!
Don't presume everyone who buys an EV is an idiot. Most people who have one are genuinely smug because it's saving them money and it's a superior powertrain in a lot of ways. You can't expose a few disaster stories and expect everyone falls victim like that. All it does it make non-EV owners unjustifiably smug.
I would not say I am smug for driving my EV. I drive an EV becasue it makes commercial sense and I love the acceleration. They are a lot of fun to drive. I also have a diesel Van and a pertol car that I also like. I really dont give a stuff for the environment when China and India are polluting at 100 times or more what we here on our tiny island are doing. I am doing what I want and I do not care what others think. I am free. If they stopped me buying a new ICE car in 2030 I would buy a good 2nd hand one or import one from abroad almost new :-)
I could probably do that trip for £35-£40 (diesel TT) no stops. But I fear we’ll all be priced off the road eventually anyway 😢
I'm hanging on to my low mileage 2015 Fiesta Zetec 1.0 ecoboost till the wheels fall off. Car tax and ULEZ exempt and up to 68mpg on a steady motorway run. A great little car without all the EV stress and expense.
most unreliable engine around
get rid while you can
They call that the ecoboom engine lol
If you keep them serviced and don't expect more than 80k out the engine they won't disappoint. It's not a Volvo V70 just a cheap runaround.
People will hold onto petrol engines as long as they can. I sure will but you know for a fact that the government will just raise the tax on fuel and force you to change over
@@letzvisit1661 It may not be the tax on fuel that could be the issue. It's whether you'll actually be able to get petrol and diesel. Shell's latest report states they plan to cut fossil fuel production 40% by 2030. If they do, that will mean just 6 out of every 10 pumps will be dispensing fuel. Things could get tricky another 2 to 3 years after that. Range anxiety with ICE cars? Possibly....... There is also the raft of ULEZ zones to consider. These things will be springing up everywhere in the next 2 to 3 years, and they will add considerably to the cost of driving into towns and cities. The Mayor of London is fighting to get his £12.50 per day (7 days a week) charge through. The Birmingham scheme has already been charging £8 per day for some time ( again, 7 days a week) to enter the city centre if your car or van can't meet Euro 6.
Excellent video Geoff, thank you. All this needs to come out and be shared as far as possible.
Geoff! It's all so obvious. Spot on man,. Fellow Brummie and Volvo family member.
People are slowly waking up. Great video mate. 👍🏻
*Quite agree with all your comments, a few years ago did consider buying an EV as were stated to be the best thing since **_sliced bread_** however now so glad I opted instead to get a Mercedes (W247) B200 CDi AMG with 81 miles on the clock (ex Demo) and got a massive discount of nearly £10k from list price. This has absolutely amazed me, so so quiet, incredible range and over 35 mile journey (A6/A46) to Newark did nearly 90 mpg - hit traffic near end. This car will no doubt still be running in 20 years time and still giving good sensible practical use.*
Geoff, it's all so obvious that while many reviewers ignore these details or are dishonest about EVs, you absolutely deserve a new subscriber!
I've been looking at EVs for a while, considering what I might eventually buy once they're within my budget and can get me from the Welsh border to visit family in Norfolk, about 450 miles return, with no more than a single stop each way. My 20 year old petrol car weighing about 900kg that cost me under £1,000 can do it for about £60 of petrol. A used 41kWh Renault ZOE, around £10k on autotrader, get about 155 miles according to EVDB's 'real range' figure. That's a lot of mileage (or VED savings) to get anywhere near breaking even. Secondly, the ZOE uses Lithium NMC batteries, one of the worst as you've pointed out. The MG4 fairs a little better with LFP but still fair from ideal. I'm hopeful that sodium or sulphur will soon be the battery tech of choice as they do have some advantages, including cost, but we'll have to wait and see on those.
Since you mentioned smartphones, my last two (lasting years) have been used phones from eBay for under £200 with comparable features to much more costly models. Much better than these going to waste. BTW, right now on a Monday morning about 20% of the electricity I'm using is from so-called renewables, with just over 50% from gas and 1% coal. We should have gone nuclear long ago like France did and is now selling their surplus.
We also have to remember that fast charging at service stations etc. degrades the battery quicker.
Nice retro argument. Battery life is now in excess of vehicle life.
@@esm7708 my lads car is now eighteen years old, still gives good mileage and is easy to start. The battery is the heart of an EV so your comment would indicate the battery lasting twenty years plus on a modern EV, EV batteries are a known chemical process and my experience with batteries would lead me to think they would only last around ten years, fifteen at best with the last years giving less and less range/ power, not an environmentaly friendly product when we can make cars last years beyond that,
@@CrusaderSports250 maybe I should have expanded a bit.
Battery life in EVs is defined as, depending on the manufacturer, the point where the battery loses 20 to 25% of its original capacity.
CATL batteries are currently rated at 2 million km, Tesla 1 million miles and Lexus 1 million km.
Mk 1 Nissan Leaf battery packs are currently being used for grid storage in Japan. Crucially Nissan Leaf batteries are terrible due to their lack of thermal management. Even the worst batteries are having a second life.
@@esm7708 its good that they can reuse the battery but what about the vehicle? At that sort of age its uneconomic to put a new battery in and the vehicle is still too good to scrap due to its environmental cost to replace, it might seen a bit retrograde but an LPG powered engine could be an answer to keeping the body shell going until it reached the end of its life,
Its all very well talking about how good something will be in the future but that is just fantasy, we have to live in the here and now, in the sixties we should have been living on the moon by now, along with many other predictions of which we are still waiting, you can guarantee we will not get the "million mile" battery as that doesn't make economic manufacturing sense.
@@CrusaderSports250actually popping new batteries into mk1 Leaf's is very much an industry.
For mysterious reasons Nissan built the Leaf like a brick out house.
Battery life has been enhanced because they found a way to inhibit the formation of dendrites. Additionally temperature management, chemistry and quality control have all moved on.
Excellent video, hopefully the big EV con will start to come to light and articles like this will help. They have a place in a big city and big towns for people that will only use them for short runs but they have never ever been a silver bullet, cure all for personal transport
It's all so obvious Geoff. But scary times ahead. I'm a taxi driver in Swansea (where you drove Craig the geoffle winner last week!) last week I read the government white paper for the future of taxis in Wales. It's an interesting read which will probably end the Hackney cab trade and be replaced by large private hire firms with higher costs for both public and worker's. I'm sat on the rank now 1st car and I've been here nearly an hour watching you videos. Going to start another one now!
It just confirms it’s all a con we’re being had over time to stop buying these things until alternative technologies come along. Thank you for highlighting these issues I’ve been banging on about it for sometime over the environmental catastrophe caused by these mining practices.
And does that include the environmental catastrophe caused by the big oil companies, mining for cobalt? After all, they are the World's largest users of mined minerals......
An here's my 20 year old diesel van with 460,000 miles on the clock.
5 min fill up and Im good for 800 miles without a worry.
5 mins later Im good for another 800 miles.
I can fill up and pay with cash. I dont have to worry if my phone has charge, internet signal and if Im registered and bank account linked with the correct apps, and I dont have to wait hours.
If an EV was a viable form of transport, we wouldnt need the government forcing us into them.
Well said Northy
What van have you got? I love a high-mileage hero
@@paulie-Gualtieri. Vauxhall Combo 1.7Di
Geoff, it seems obvious to me. I've been telling friends about this for ages. It's not just the pollution from power stations, it's not jkust the stripping of resources for chemicals, it's not just the monetary cost of producing lumpen great batteries, but it's the HUMAN cost that is so tragic. Those gleaming goods in the showroom along with the slick salesmen with too many teeth try to make you ignore this evil trade in exploitation, environmental destruction, and death.
Don't use gasoline or plastic or any device that uses a lithium battery then if you actually care
Well said.
Any cost of human life is terrible and in the year of you posting, you’ll be glad to know that many major manufacturers are now recycling batteries. I’d it perfect ? No.. but do consider this, would you trade in your smart phone ?well, the batteries in your smart devices all originated in the same place.
Keep up the good work ....... we're living through a madness the likes of which I never imagined. Many years ago I asked my father what he'd been reading and when I mentioned that there was no fiction he replied "Because the real world is so much stranger" ..... that's stuck with me, but was I just not seeing the strangeness .... or is there much more of it now ?
keep your videos coming man, they are brilliant, this needs putting out more and more, people will finally wake up to all this madness bullsh*t. luck forward to the follow-up
We need this video shared everywhere, I'm never buying an ev, IV never wanted to anyway, this extra knowledge just makes it certain.
Geoff it's all so obvious!!! Some of us have been saying this for years! As a professional engineer I have been painfully aware of the fundamental flaws in these technologies for years... yet only now is this sort of information really starting to become more widely recognised. There is no scientific or technical justification for mandating EVs, it is ENTIRELY politically and economically driven!
So what is your solution Al?
@@slugger7520 In the short term biofuels are a much better option and don't need infrastructure changes... and eventually hydrogen as the technology is improved and existing infrastructure can be updated and adapted... both of which have the ability to actually support vehicles with credible ranges and both of which are far better environmentally that battery technology!
@@alsmith5604 Interesting proposition Al and good to hear of alternative technologies for a change
@@slugger7520 There are some really good and legitimately credible technologies out there... which is why it irritates me that flawed technologies are pushed as the only solution, by politicians who have nothing but political intentions!
Geoff it's all so obvious 🙂
I heard that if you are involved in a serious road crash whilst driving an EV, the fire brigade MUST disconnect the battery from under the car BEFORE they can get you out of a mangled wreck, that's 'if' they can reach the battery in time to save you.
So the 160'000 ICE cars which catch fire each year in the US don't show on your radar then?
Don't forget the more and more commonplace dropping of crashed EVs into water tanks in case they ignite/reignite.
EVs aren't even close to being viable.
there is a disconnect switch in the vehicle
The voltage is so high on these cars it's deadly to mess with
And they can avoid getting electricuted in the process.
When I lived in Cornwall... 20 years ago... I learned to build and fly electric model aircraft.
I learned all about batteries, rates of charge, battery capacity, flight time, and worked out the cost.
These modern electric cars are an absolute scam.
You are so right about everything. At this point, can we believe anything we are told? It is going to take every normal person to stand and say enough is enough.
60% of people don't seem to be normal these days
Brilliant video. Hit the proverbial nail on the head.
The ITV Tonight programme last week 'Your car - time to switch?' talked about the reality of EV's and they admitted the infrastructure just isn't ready and isn't keeping up with the rise in EV sales.
I just cannot get enthusiastic about EV's. I love the idea of instant torque of an EV but it's not enough to make me want to get one. If I fill up my car with petrol it takes five minutes - ten minutes tops if the garage is busy. I don't want to be sitting around a grotty services for an hour hoping the chargers work or the login system works or they're not all in use. And don't get me started on prices. Certain car review channels gleefully talking about some 'Foo Yuk' EV SUV costing £47k with a 180 mile range or a PCP with mortgage sized monthly payments.
How often do you actually need to do more than 350 miles? I live in Spain and have family in the UK, and even I don't need to do such a trip more than once a year!
The rest of the time, all you need to do is occasionally plug your car into your home supply, and that costs me about €0,10 per kWh, on average. The fact that UK electric prices are so ridiculously high has nothing to do with EVs, it's got everything to do with an absolutely useless government.
I was a massive fan of electric vehicles, but the reality has turned out to be a nightmare. I'm like a lot of people... having trouble making ends meet... strangely I don't have £20k+ sitting idle in a savings account.
Well done Geoff, hopefully your humanity spreads❤
It’s all so obvious
Keep up the great work. Get the message out there, people need to have a look at themselves and wake up to what greedy elites are attempting to do.
Good stuff Geoff. We'll keep our 13 year old 520d Touring, which gets 50mpg on a long run, does 700+ miles on a tank, and was paid for long ago. At 90 000 miles on the clock - it is nicely run in...
It’s all so obvious! The best ever clip on what I’ve been trying to get through to people the last 4 years. Good on ya mate
Geoff "ITS ALL SO BLOODY OBVIOUS ". I have these conversations with some of my clients who have ev's and they tend to look at me as though I have lost the plot.
Cobalt in EVs is a serious problem, best not use cobalt at all. Everyone stop using stuff that uses cobalt, mobile phones, laptops, petrol, diesel and all the other stuff!
So good to hear someone telling how it really is people need to stop being brain washed and wake up
Geoff, it's all so obvious! Some of us could see the way this was heading.
Keep on exposing the madness of eco-mentalism. You're doing a grand job.
As an American its even worse. Most houses use 110- 120v at between 15 to 20 amps. You might have a 220-240 v at 30 amps but it might be a plug for an AC, dryer or a range. Your scenario even worse in the United States. Now i grew up in NYC with 100 year old houses. Drapping a wire across the street on cloth covered house wires is a recipe for a spectacular great fire of NYC 2023 at worst breaking someones neck by blocking the sidewalk a best.
Fantastic video expressed so passionatly !! I hope people do wake up from their sleep state and stop blaming and pointing fingers at those who try and bring about real awareness on what really happening. Thanks for making and sharing this
Thanks for the kind words!
Except that he's not. He is repeating exactly what Big Oil want him to repeat.
Why don't you actually inform yourself, rather than paying attention to this BS. He just rants on and on without any actual facts. But the facts ARE available, and they are well presented on the video I link here
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Another great video Geoff! It's all so obvious! It's all so the people in London can have slightly cleaner air, at the expense of millions of other people around the world 😱
It’s not possible to have clean air in London. The air is governed by which way the wind blows. These people pushing these cars are nuts.
Wind is a big factor
Interesting article, I am an evil EV owner, and I must confess that I didn't know how bad cobalt mining was, apparently 30% of all mining in the Congo is 'artisan', meaning it's done by hand, can't imagine how awful or dangerous that is. Having read a little further, cobalt (as an example) has been mined in the Congo for over 100 years and is used in all sorts of products, including phones, laptops, and it looks likely Geoff that there's probably some cobalt in the catalytic converter for your diesel engine. If I am guilty of 'blood' mining (and I suspect I am), may he or she, who is completely without lithium cast the first stone. I suspect those poor people living among the oil swamps of the Niger Delta don't feel they are any better off than the Congolese artisan miners
All the more reason to use your own north sea oil, hey?....
Surely the West should be holding their governments to account? If not then why not? is it because slavery and child labour still benefits the west economically? If so, then why upset the apple cart?
I’ve be questioning a number of things that are so obvious for a while now. Good vid, pros and cons with EVs and ICE, i like the acceleration stats for the former, but just can’t be bothered with the faff of planning longer journeys and charging anxiety. IMO all new cars are way too expensive nowadays so given up on chasing the latest model, not that I ever did. Quite content for now in my 19 year old Subaru Impreza daily drive, if not the ever increasing road tax and 25 mpg but I new that when I bought it. I’d be interested in more vids reference the energy crisis that we are currently in and will be for the foreseeable, given the government’s apparent lack of desire or will to pull any number of levers that would set us on a long road to energy security and greater self sufficiency using a mix of power generation techniques not just effing wind. Keep up the good work👍
What a terrible day. I can feel the pain on all the levels. Cost. Stress. Anxiety. Needs a large beer x5 on return.
I bet he bought an 8 pack at exeter services on that final run!
@@GeoffBuysCars that was like me on a bad car trade day. At every juncture the day just accelerates in strain. And he was only driving a sub 12 month year old motor !!!!
GEOFF!! IT'S OH SO OBVIOUS.....thank you for speaking out!!!! Canadian here hanging on to her gas powered vehicle ....
Best video so far on EVs, Geoff its all so obvious. Its disgraceful that politicians never touch on the immoral mining issues. They prefer to leave it to the Chinese and pretend its not happening. I have a diesel car that does 55/60 to the gallon and I spent my working life in the oilfield looking for hydrocarbons to run it. Its a pretty dirty business as well but at least everyone in the business gets good wages and safety is paramount. Keep the videos coming
It's all so obvious, is it?
Here's a YT video that completely debunks every one of your hero's BS
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Geoff it's all so obvious. Love your passion and humanity.
"It's all so obvious". But thanks to you, also seen and heard by those of us who had no idea. Thank you.
Now.....imagine my dear elderly mother after dad passed away in the early 2,000's. Being an independant soul she went to the local Ford dealer and bought herself an really nice Ford Focus. She was very proud of herself...the dealership really supported her...helping with oil changes...maintence and more. Can you even imagine her in her 80's trying to work through all of this totally useless BS.
An EV for your mum (if she has a driveway) would be much simpler. No gears, No oil or water, No exhausts, starts even on cold days, Instant heat to keep her warm. Less maintenance so less outgoings. EV's are the future they really are. The issue at the moment is that EV's at the moment are where VHS and BETA were in the 80's but soon they will quickly jump to the iPhone with much better range even though most even now have great range. My little BMW i3 goes 160 miles even in winter. Over 180 on a warmer day without the heater. That 160 is with the heater on and two people. I charge it one a week ! for £12 even with the silly electric prices. Watch the market in 2023-4 you will see some quite impressive EV's coming to the market initially from China where they make a lot of them and they are good made by the 2nd largest car company on the planet BYD who make VW's under licence for China. 300 miles for an overnight charge that for most is over two weeks driving. The issue here at the moment is the crap public charging system.
@@TheSmallRabbit Hi ...thanks for the reply...your right the vehicles are not the problem.. The failure to have standardised and reliable charging network is huge. Here in Ontario Canada long drives to visit family in many cases are the norm. In winter it can be bitter cold. Breaking your nerves planning multiple charging stops is just too stressful
Also before you can even connect one must own a smart phone...be able to download and manage a different app for every unique supplier then trouble shoot it if problems arise. Something I know my dearly departed mother would had massive problems with. I do know a few 80 year olds and lots of 70 year olds that have no problem with this level of tech but none would tolerate the hassle. Others I know are completely thrown by it.
I dont have a driveway...I dont have a smart phone...I have only a basic cell phone. Not really a big deal because I could upgrade but only by adding to my monthy costs.
How is it that you can't just plug in...swipe your credit card...come back once charged and be billed accordingly ? The model people have used for decades for fuel and are happy with ?
Im glad your experience has been positive in the UK. All the best going forward.
@@TheSmallRabbit No, the issues are your lack of education and indoctrination in to the climate change con - Start your education process by listening to the worlds best academics on the subject here.....
Alex Epstein (JBP Interviewed)
Bjorn Lomborg (JBP Interviewed + Rogan, Unheard, Lex Fridman etc)
Andrew Revkin (climate journalist) (Lex Fridman Interviewed)
Malcolm Moreno
Dr Richard Lindzen (Top professor JBP interviewed) - Richard Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist. He has contributed to the development of theories for the Hadley Circulation, hydrodynamic instability theory, internal gravity waves, atmospheric tides, and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratosphere. His current research is focused on climate sensitivity, the role of cirrus clouds in climate, and the determination of the tropics-to-pole temperature difference. He has attained multiple degrees from Harvard University, and won multiple awards in his field of study such as the Jule Charney award for “highly significant research in the atmospheric sciences”. Between 1983 and 2013, he was the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT where he earned emeritus status in July of 2013.
Dr Steven Koonin (JBP Interviewed) - Dr. Steven Koonin, a University Professor at NYU, has served as the Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science, as Chief Scientist for BP, and as professor and Provost at Caltech. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Governor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a senior fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and a Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses. Koonin holds a BS in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT. He wrote the recent bestseller “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.”
Dr Judith Curry (JBP Interviewed) - Dr. Judith Curry is an American climatologist with a Bachelor’s degree in geography from Northern Illinois University, and a geophysical sciences Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Curry is the professor Emerita and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has had an accomplished career, working with NASA, the US Government, and numerous academic institutions in the field of climate change.
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@@TheSmallRabbit modern ICE cars are pretty much zero hassle for owners. Servicing is usually fixed or capped price, dealers offer loan cars... contrary to the legend, EV's have scheduled servicing too, if only to check brakes, tyres, suspension etc.
At the costs quoted in the UK, it's only cost effective to drive an EV if you can do nearly all your charging at home.
Even then, compared to an economical car like a Focus, it would be questionable.
Add in the significantly higher cost to buy, and they really don't make economic sense at all.
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You seem to have conveniently forgotten the environmental issues 🤣
Geoff it is all so obvious. Love not fear. God bless 🙏
Love not fear. Love it. We live in hope, and we are many, and more are joining us daily.
Hi Geoff, filled up my diesel MkTransit, drove 375 miles, still had half a tank left. My journey cost £50 took me 8 hours! No problems, no range anxiety ..just sailed it with no worries!
BTW Geoff.. Love the 850. Had a T5 saloon, T5 estate, 850R estate and a V70 back in the day. Brilliant cars.