How long do Electric Car batteries last? Are we been SCAMMED? 

When I sold Craftsman tools the battery for a power tool often was more expensive than the tool itself. Cars are the most wasteful ridiculous unsafe dangerous means of transportation ever invented. England was so much better off when Transportation consisted of a British motorcycle and a sidecar. You can build and run a medium-sized motorcycle for 50,000 plus miles just on the energy required to build a compact car. A classic motorcycle that you keep on the road for 40 years with the proper maintenance is a lot more greener than buying an electric car and generating all those electric battery waste that have to be disposed of. My hats off to you Uncle stew for all you do and the way you keep us informed.

Congratulations on the award, well deserved. I remember talking to the wife about battery life and how expensive they are to replace. If you want an EV you are better off leasing one. It is a flawed technology especially now it costs as much to charge one up as it does to fill up a petrol car. To get the raw materials is very expensive and it does create terrible working conditions for people but people ignore this as it is happening a long way away from our country.

Speaking as a "Fixed route operator" of a metropolitan area, I can attest to the problems associated with EV in public transportation. For over two decades I have driven the city bus in Austin TX and it would seem that the Capitol Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CMTA)are tripping over themselves to get EV buses into service. Unfortunately, it hasn't been particularly "successful". Texas summers are long and *HOT* and the people of Austin ain't trying to ride a bus with no air conditioning. As you stated earlier, the bus can't remain on route for an eight hour shift, let alone be on the street for twenty hours as can a "diesel pusher". (We typically leave the yard and are relieved in route by another driver after eight to ten hours of driving) An EV can't pull *that* off even if the AC is left alone. I left the city of Austin a few months ago (cost of living and the uprising of violence)and have since moved to a significantly smaller town with a proportionately smaller public transportation system where the question of EV isn't even being considered. (Thank goodness for that!) In the beginning, I was a full blown fan of Elon Musk and the promise of Tesla right up to a few years ago when a hurricane was approaching the gulf coast. As I recall, Elon came on television and proclaimed that he was going to throw some switch that would send out a signal to all his cars to extend the range of his cars in order to help people get out of the path of the oncoming storm. It was at that precise moment that I fell out of love with Tesla and consequently EV in general for if "they" could "extend the range of your vehicle remotely" then "they" can *TURN OFF YOUR VEHICLE* just as easily. Learning about slave labor being used to "make the world a better place" only added to my disillusionment. Thanks for another excellent video Uncle Stu and congratulations on your award!

Many people will have missed a gov transport minister's statement last year, when speaking at an industry event - 'Personal transport is SO last century'. So, there you have it. There won't be a need for masses of new charging points, or increased generating capacity, or loads of new mines for rare minerals. EVs will be for the elite, everyone else will be cycling, walking or on public transport - if there is any, lol. As for leasing, well, remember we'll own nowt and be happy, so that's perfect.

This is a very informative piece Stu. Gives me a lot of ammo when dealing with EV advocates. Thank you 👍 FYI, I'm a Civil Engineer who works to build facilities on RAF bases for the UK Govt. They have released a Safety Directive that all EV charging points must be 25m away from sleeping accommodation. Likely due to the amount of spontaneous combustions that EV's are experiencing....

Congratulations Stu on the well deserved award. Your fight against tyranny on motorcyclists is legendary. I am a no, never EV kind of bloke. I cherish my freedom too much. Once again, congratulations and Thank you.

A typical electric car battery has: 25 pounds of lithium 60 pounds of nickel 44 pounds of manganese 30 pounds cobalt 200 pounds of copper 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic , you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, 25,000 pounds of ore for copper Digging up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust

This should knock the E V market for six , the initial price / cost to buy an E V and then only get eight years max , is totally unexceptable.

Agree with you all the way. EV with batteries is not a solution. In fact, we don't need a solution yet. According to IPCC, which people have a tendency to regard as truthfull, the temperature is not rising. And have not done so for the last 7 years. The CO2 is at the same level as in 2012. We have oil and coal (if used at the same level as today) for the next 2-300 years. All accordingly to IPCC. No need to rush. We have time to think and do it right. Thank you mr Fillingham!

Thank you for another great video. I really appreciate you putting the truth about EV and the nightmare they are most likely to be.

Well done on the award , I attended a course on EV`s some 12 years ago now , when I worked for a certain motoring organisation , even then the course providers said EV is just a stop gap , not the answer , the battery life/charging trap was also part of that course , so this is something I`ve been aware of since that point . Moving forward I ended up working for a company who used an EV van as our main daily run about , stated 150 mile range ect , best range according to the vehicle charge/range on the dash rarely said more than 89 miles , in reality if we took it to the nearest dealer for service it wouldn`t make it there and back without being charged , round trip of 70 miles at that time , most on motorways and if held at 70mph you could literally see the charge meter drop . As you say it`s all smoke and mirrors , followed by the powers that be wishing to please the Greta`s of this world , easiest way of dropping carbon emissions , stop doing the school run in your car , kids are able to walk , they have legs . All those type of trips account for massive usage on the road , I know I work in transport an the difference between school days and holiday traffic in the morning is huge . I`d say at a guess nearly 30% quieter on the road in school break times !

Thank you for your research Stu. If someone believes the whole EV fairytale they can buy one. I have no problem with that. But forcing everybody onto these appliances is the wrong way.

I still run my 1967 Morris minor 4 door saloon , great little car which is cheap and easy to maintain. Can’t see an electric 55 year old car somehow.

Totally agree, I was taken in by all the EV hype last year. I bought a new MG EV last October, I’ve just traded it in for another petrol car. Everything you have said is correct, and I’ve no plans to ever go back to an EV. By the time they are mainstream, I’ll either be dead or too old to drive. Unless you want hassle on any journey over 100 miles avoid them at all costs.

I'm really glad to see your channel still up and running still, 🏃‍♂️ and giving people the truth about what is happening with the moter industry thanks 😊 👍🏻

I can happily say that my oldest Volvo is 23 years old, and has covered around 270'000 miles. The funny thing is, when I recharge the fuel tank with petrol, I stills get the same number of miles per fill as I got when I first bought it, and, I can fill it in a rapid charger, about two to three minutes to put 450 miles in the tank, and it doesn't damage the capacity. It has another nice feature too, it doesn't self discharge petrol all the time it's standing doing nothing, how about that?! I can also go the extra distance without having to worry about keeping 20% of the charge in the tank at all times, and it doesn't refuse to take a charge if I let it stand for a few weeks or months. My newest Volvo is also 23 years old, but only 93'000 miles in the clock, so still only a chick. The important thing is, they're both over twenty years old and still performing as good as new. If takes an EV twenty years to break even, then there's little point in me buying one anyway - I'm not likely to be around in twenty years time! I think my next car could be a diesel!

Good to see your hard work getting the recognition it deserves. Well done Sir.

Morning Uncle Stuart, I'm reading this from a cottage in Scotland that we've rented for a week, we're using my wife's twenty year old Toyota Yaris that's done 113,000 miles so far , and so far we've done 750 miles this trip and have got more touring about to do , it takes me a couple of minutes to pull in and fill the tank and we're good for three or four hundred miles easily, we paid eleven hundred quid for it three years ago and it's still going well , so there's not a chance on earth I'd ever be buying an EV at the prices they command, and suffering range anxiety out in the middle of the Highlands on a tour. Great and informative video, Cheers .

The first volume-sold EV I know about is the Nissan Leaf which started life in the UK market in 2011 therefore we are only now starting to see batteries over 10 years old. In another 10 years we will get a much better understanding of the rate of deterioration of various EV makes/batteries. I would personally consider an EV at the right price, as a second vehicle used for journeys of 15 miles or less (30 miles round trip). Looking on Autotrader however, I see people typically asking over £5k for these "unsaleable" cars and I can buy a much younger/better ICE car for that money.

Congratulations on the media award Stu, well deserved and today's video is another good example of your efforts to keep the motorcycling community well informed about relevant issues. Lots of good information today. The mining of lithium should be a major concern for all governments and to date I have not heard anything about the disposal of battery systems once they are no longer serviceable. I think this will prove to be a very serious problem in the future, an unintended consequence of our headlong rush to EVs.

Well done Stuart, I done the same research earlier in the year. We need to terminate the W(E)F. End of

Absolutely love you videos and really appreciate your input and sound advice given. I personally will give it at least a decade before even thinking about a battery powered vehicle. And then I'm hoping that I can have my present car converted. But we'll see. Cheers Stuart 👍

Thanks for this brilliant upload and your efforts Stu, and congrats on the MAG award, very much deserved 👍

Well all this hate over EVs is nonsense. My old milkman used one for years. Never complained. All we need to do is drive at two miles an hour and carry milk crates. Sorted!

I have been gently nudging everyone around me for years. Treated as if insane. You have provided a neat little video reiterateing everything. Keep The Faith.

Glad to here of your award, I rejoined MaAG after a few years absence after watching your Vlog about anti-tamper etc, I confess I’d let my eye drift from the ball and had though most of that stuff had gone away some years ago, I guess that sort of complacency is what the Thought Police rely on- anyway glad to be back as a libertarian grumpy pensioner! Thanks for keeping us in our toes!

Hi Stu. Congratulations on the award and another informative video. Ironically given the subject matter the adverts made me laugh though. Five adverts over three breaks with two of them for fully electric cars! I'm not saying a word. Don't worry, I know that you don't pick the ads 😂

Well deserved award , sir !! Governments lie! And, they know that they lie and, it does not bother them. Dear Uncle Stu, please do not ever give up ; we all need you and other like-minded folk. More power to your arm, sir !

We need service stations where the batteries get changed automatically, speeds up the "stop-to-charge" times - Easy technologies with batteries changed from under the vehicle using a specific hoist or forklift - the batteries being loaded onto a vertical rotating belt, charging as it moves around - given that the battery is the most expensive component in an EVehical - just requires the manufacturers to cooperate and standardise the battery and mounting

Those wind turbines at the beginning of the video are an eyesore for that beautiful countryside. Cheers for the content mate!

You guys keep telling yourselves this. Meanwhile our seven year old leaf still has 84% soh and we haven't bought any petrol for years.

I 100% agree with you and I've been telling people these facts all along. I do believe there is a place for EVs but they should never be shoved down our throats as the replacement for ICE vehicles.

The Salesmen may not, but, Uncle Stu did, thank you, for another great one.

Very interesting comment thanks. As an Aussie who often rides hundreds and occasionally thousands of km for a holiday I cannot see an immediate electric future for me. Perhaps hydrogen in time? I have recently been following a German motovlogger on his Zero ride about the UK and take his experience as being representative, and quite frankly I think the time has spent looking for a suitable charging point and then spending the charge time eating takeaway food would seriously put me off an ebike!

Thanks it's about time more people get to know what's involved with EV's

Just the rising price of electricity alone has surely killed any slim financial advantages an EV had in terms of running costs for those in an urban environment using their vehicle to commute? The whole thing sounds like a lose-lose situation in every aspect! Thanks Stuart for pointing out some of the grey (or more like “smoke covered”) aspects of EV ownership. I’ve never fancied one and can’t honestly ever see me ditching internal combustion for electricity. I don’t need the complication and aggro in my life!

Thanks Stu. Good video. You mirrored my thoughts on EV’s. The way forward is with ICE’s but with different fuels. “Not Zero, Not Net Zero”

Well done Stu on your award - well deserved!! Can't say I've ever been tempted by an EV; far too many cons....

That bus journey, reminds me of going to work in the 1960s, at 6am with sheets of ice lining the inside of the vehicle.

I’m too poor to afford an EV that’s only good for the 7 years or so of its life, and all the while keeping me imprisoned in a city with constant anxiety for the need of an hour nursing from one of the grids few electric teats.

Hi Stuart, It wasn’t that long ago when the powers that be where diesel was the fuel of the future ! Now the dictators move the goal again…like not being able to alter or improve the motorcycle you want to buy is going to be illegal. The fact that choice is being denied us is wrong,we should be able to buy and run what we want not what we are told. Another great video again,and congratulations on your award.

Sorry for keep commenting on this but I have another observation. How will people in terraced houses go about charging their vehicles? Surely we won't have leads going across the pavement and as you know, no-one is entitled to the space outside their house, so, say a visitor to another house is parked there, do you have to knock to ask them to move? Sounds like a nightmare to me !

My present car is 23 years old and running on most of what it left the factory with save wear and tear. It has clocked just over 100'000 miles. It is a long way away from falling to bits in any respect. I have had many like it.

Here's one for you. I was speaking to a man who designed from the ground up the very commercial vehicle he was demonstrating with the intention of selling it to the organisation I work for. I asked as a general question, "are E.V's environmentally friendly" his answer was a resounding no It is about ticking government boxes.

Great vid uncle Stu! I’m aware that if the many misdirections carried out to get us to go green, but what really rattled my cage is I won’t have a choice in the matter. Tyranny at its most blatant!!!😡 By the way, a mist splendiferous opening “eeeey ooop”. Wonderful vast tone there!!😎👍😂

E bikes and scooters, just don’t expect to take them on trains, the can spontaneously catch fire violently and are therefore banned - for the same reason don’t charge them at home. Scrapyards hate taken written off EV, they can reignite in a scrapyard in the yard weeks later causing utter chaos.

Congrats on award. Increased EV uptake and associated anxiety creating issues, ie range anxiety and battery life anxiety, may extend the covid related sweet spot pharmaceutical companies are now experiencing with the accelerating prescription of anti-anxiety meds. Cynical I know. Well researched and informative vid Stu.

Well informed video once again thanks 👍. We all know that the biggest pollutants are industry's, airline's, shipping. Bottom of the list vehicle owners with modern combustion engines. Take away people vehicles and it will make no difference to the pollutants.

This video should be required viewing for all those who are pushing not just EVs but an over dependence on grid destabilizing renewables. Great job.

I'd have more respect for your opinions on EVs if you had been using one for any length of time. I bought a plug in hybrid in 2014 and that convinced me to go full EV sooner rather than later and I've owned and used an EV now for over 3 years. In fact my wife and I now both have one and we don't have an ICE car at all. Believe me or not I don't recognise any of the problems you have listed, as negatives of owning and using EVs and I've done many long journeys and always charged to 100%. Accross the two cars we have a combined mileage of over 30,000 miles in the last 12 months, so it isn't because I just use a car as a run-about. In fuel alone my savings over the last 12 months have been in excess of £3,500 (I've not updated my calculations since the recent changes to fuel costs). Oh, and there is no cobalt in my newest car's battery, but every gallon of petrol you put in your car was refined using guess what? Anyway I enjoy your videos on motorcycling; I used to own a Triumph Speed Twin but sadly parted with it earlier this year. Congratulations on your award.

I reckon it's a push to get people to lease their cars, going hand in had with the WEF "you will own nothing and be happy" How about a catch up video on how the interceptor is doing, you have had her a good while now ?

With regards to emissions during manufacture, according to Harry Metcalf on his channel "Harry's Garage" VW have stated that building an electric vehicle creates emissions 50% higher than the equivalent ICE. Great, informative video thanks Stu.

many of my local car dealers here in sweden wont give u a penny for for ev once over 5 years old lol. the warranty for the battery only covers failure. loosing capacity is wear and tear and NOT covered under the warranty.

Great rundown on the truth about EV’s. It’s sickening to think that the British government is targeting their home grown motorcycle industry with draconian regulations. It’s the most eco friendly form of transport aside from the bicycle! All in the name of political power…

A good friend of mine who is far better off and an idealistic chap, bought a Tesla Plaid now if you know your Teslas it's the quick one 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds or something like that, he bought it new, I think it was in the region of 100k to buy. Anyway to cut a long story short, the Plaid model because of its performance has a shorter life if you use it to its full potential too often, being as he'd taken it to Santa Pod ran it too its limits often used it on a fast charger( it was all recorded on the onboard computer) him being an ex fighter pilot now a commercial pilot he liked the speed, anyway to cut a long story short, his battery failed, and Tesla weren't happy about fixing the cars issues, batter failier, transmission issues ect, they wouldn't replace the battery for free, or fix the other issues, even though the car was only 28 months old, so he was hit with a 34k repair bill!! Or his 65k Tesla was worthless. So after hearing his woes that finished electric vehicles for me....for good. And with the price of electricity as it is, electric cars are no cheaper to run and soon they'll be taxed by the mile, so they arn't good for the environment from their inception, they have a very limited life, poor range co2 is created to create electricity to power them, where is the sence? Oh yes its a good idea from people who fly in private jets, own super yachts, live in mansions have numerous staff. The WEF.

Remember when we were all "encouraged" to buy diesel cars because they were better for the environment? See how that went.

I learnt also that on some batteries if you drain them completely you cannot recharge them and have to have new batteries. The recovery people can I am also told can access the battery to gain enough energy to load it onto a recovery truck, that’s all. I have been on courses and sales days for EV’s, so I cannot confirm this to be read anywhere , but an interesting thought and would need confirming.

Come to Norway. 79% of all new car sale is EV now (2022). My Nissan Leaf 2016 135' KM is still as good as new aprox 90% of new battery range. Waiting for my new Tesla M3 -and Classic 350(will buy next year)

Thank you for pointing out the ethical position. In your time constraint this is simply scratching the surface.

This is the best and most informative video on EVs I have seen to date. It answers most of the questions that I have and wanted to know. Well done Stu, brilliant video. Well worth sharing.

We are being conned into buying EVs , its a dead end technology , also a very interesting point about Part Ex, thank you. AND my wife has now banned my from riding my Kawasaki Cruiser telling me its too dangerous, wonder why ? Best regards Sisaket Thailand.

My RE Meteor is considered a bad means of transport, apparently. Although giving 100 mpg and occupying a small road space. I got sucked into the EV 'thing'. I fully owned a very nice 2 year old petrol car. I traded this in for an EV and now pay £240 a month for the EV. The cost to run is no longer attractive. I do get over 250 miles on a charge and at worst 180-200 miles during the winter. It's not true that all EV's use electricity to heat the car, EV's generate heat in the battery and 'engine' and the coolant is used to heat the car. Many use heat pumps. However, with the huge increase in electricity prices and public charging costs going through the roof, I am thinking of going back to a diesel.... I am sadly thinking, that the lunatics are running the asylum and we are being sucked in... I think that all politicians should undergo a sensibility, common sense and reality test before being allowed to stand for parliament!

Was in a taxi in Ireland last week, a brand new electric MG. Taxi driver said he got a 20,000 (TWENTY THOUSAND!) euro grant to buy it as long as he proved he'd scrapped his old diesel Mondeo. He said there was nothing wrong with the Mondeo, still faultless but it had to go to the scrapyard. I wonder what EV sales would be without governments handing free cash (our taxes) out left, right and centre!

Our depot had an EV Refuse vehicle on demo, it turned up on the back of a trailer (pulled by a dirty diesel truck) because it didn't have the capacity to get 'up north'. Fair enough, I believe some vehicles are transported that way but the EV didn't have the capacity to last a full shift of 8 hours, and this was in the summer, so no heater or wipers running etc. It went back the next day........on the back of a trailer............

I have a BMW C Evolution I always use a trickle charger, public chargers expensive, I got, not for my carbon foot print (invented by BP) but something for local and for the next eight years I have had for two years I can't think of anything cheaper to run I only do one thousand a year on it. For work I use a twelve year old diesel-powered car, value not a lot, if I was going to spend twenty K on a vehicle it would be red with two wheels and Italian. When we have millions of tons of coal under out feet but no way to use it? Thorium is the way forward instead of Uranium. always enjoy this channel

This "get out of jail" clause which absolves the manufacturer from honouring a battery warranty claim makes no sense. Modern batteries in mobile phones, laptops and nearly everything else use intelligent charging and conditioning technology to ensure the battery has the best chance of achieving the longest life possible. No matter what we do, they will never charge beyond a healthy voltage nor allow discharging beyond the point of minimum working level. In short, the manufacturer has considered carefully that we as consumers can't be expected to manage this technically complicated matter ourselves. A reasonable assumption you would think. An EV should be no different and I suspect that if a battery fails within it's warranty period, then it's a fault of the car's own battery management technology and not the fault of the consumer? Also, if hard acceleration and spirited driving can adversely affect the batteries health, then that too should be taken into account by the car's own tech? The problem here is that nearly every manufacturer seems to insist on sub-seven second 0-60mph time being really important for their marketing. So maybe they themselves are placing unacceptable expectations on their own technology?

Well done Stu' sounds like an honest unbiased video and very very clear!

Good video as always.people also forget the weight of these cars.extra weight wear the road surface out quicker .also it's been reported if you have a check down a normal recovery truck can't lift it as it would be over weight so they have to employ another truck what can legally carry the extra weight.

You are a well thought out man arnt you. I am well impressed with some of you videos. Like this one. The bike thrown under the bus. Yes you put in the research. You delivery of content. 1st class. And your narrator skill is good and clear. You do have good top quality information to share. So keep going. Dont let em grind you down.

Excellent video Stu... I'll never get an EV until they 1) Improve the Battery because as most know you can only charge Lithium Ion batteries only a limited amount of times until it drops to 80%. 2) The information is NOT on ALLDATA where all ICE vehicles are available to diagnose and repair. Most like Tesla... you are forced to take it to their garages and pay up the nose or lose your car for months to wait for parts. 3) I've yet to see an EV do over 100K miles without having to replace the battery or have a degradation of the battery. 4) They still don't have an infrastructure set up to handle the demand of EV's. 5) Petroleum products are used in many products from fuel, to plastics, and cosmetics. So I will never give up my Toyota's which have well over 200K with only replacing battery, tires, and brakes during its lifetime and all the data I need is available to make any repairs.

Congrats on the award Stu! Myself and Mrs SteveW have discussed EVs and have come to the conclusion that if/when we are forced to eventually use them, we will have only one car from that point onwards and I'll buy another motorcycle (but a cheaper runabout that I won't worry about keeping sparkly clean) rather than having the two cars we currently own (my Seat Leon 184 Diesel and my wife's Dacia Sandero Stepway, which is our current local runabout car). I would also probably lease the EV and it would be the cheapest EV I could find at the time. Then for longer trips/holidays in the UK, I'd just hire a more "premium" EV for that trip. I think this will be the best choice for us financially anyway.

Congrats on the award Stu, well deserved in my opinion. Just been reading the comments on this article & who’s put the cat amongst the pigeons now then! Enjoyed it & seems to sum a few articles I’ve read from various sources as well. Keep up the good work, by the way have you still got the Interceptor?

Would not touch an EV with a barge pole. My 300 mile journey in normal times would expand by at least 50 percent. Stuck on a motorway in snow, what happens when in runs out of power. Plus 90 mins max parking time at some places, what happens when you are forced to wait for someone else to finish charging. Sorry but i sense total chaos on motorway service areas, alongside large fines for exceeding allowed parking times.

I recently read about a local man burned to death in his electric car when it overturned. Apparently the batteries shorted out and the door mechanism had no power to allow him to safely exit. 😭

Another great and realistic video on this subject Stu. Thank you. Personally I think electric vehicles have about as much character and soul as a synthetic carbohydrate factory. Fortunately, my age (56), means I'll never have to use one of the darn things :-)

Good one, Stu. There is one more thing worth considering as well from an "eco" point of view. What happens to those batteries when they reached end of life? Just to mention one study; Ambrose, Hanjiro and Jimmy O’Dea. 2021. Electric Vehicle Batteries: Addressing Questions about Critical Materials and Recycling. Cambridge, MA (there are quite a few more) There are a good few problems with that and the sheer cost of recycling as LIB technologies used for EVs do not all contain cobalt (which would increase the cost gain in recycling), the question of the economic model for recycling them remains unresolved, and there is still no real industrial sector for recycling these batteries. I'm sure that there are promises that there will be when the time comes, but the current model for second life for energy storage will see them shipped off to third world countries - who are left to deal with the problem in as much the same way we love to ship our recyclable waste to them already where they end up on a landfill, but hey - it will be their carbon/toxic problem, so we would not need to include that in our own spreadsheet...

I remember Clarkson covering similar relating to the making of a Prius back in the old Top Year days! Always remember there are lies, can lies and then there are statistics!

I know someone who has fallen out of love with his ev for the same reasons mentioned here (less range, lack of charging points, resulting in 2 £70 parking tickets)

Very thought provoking, Stuart. Referencing Volvo, as you have, they state "Using only renewable energy, it takes the Volvo C40 30,000 miles to break even with the XC40, rising to 48,000 on the average EU mix and 70,000 miles on the global mix." Essentially, the average UK driver will see net reductions in emissions after 2.5 years of ownership assuming the average of 20K mile average for the UK driver. In areas like British Columbia, Sweden, or Norway, where 100% of electricity is produced by hydroelectric dams and wind, the owner of a new C40 could see a net reduction in emissions after 1.5 years based on 20,000miles per year. Not bad, and undoubtedly, this will be further reduced as manufacturing processes become more streamlined, environmentally friendly etc.

Always well thought-out and well-spoken...we need everyone to hear that EVs are not better, are not inevitable, and regardless, should never be mandated upon anyone. We're on a dangerous path here.

Good content👍 As you say, leasing may make sense. This shifts the risk for the new buyer and makes the EV effectively a “disposable” that you never have to stump up to own. Some cells in the battery pack may fail before others - there is potential therefore to have the defective cells replaced rather than the whole battery pack. Cost savings possible. PS - my dpf-equipped diesel at nearly 80,000 miles is just run in nicely and gives me a 600 hassle-free mile range on a tank. Just a pity it is considered such a “bad thing” from noxious (unseen) exhaust pollutants. PPS - I now see EV’s beginning to populate 80 mph life in lane 3 on motorways. Times change!

Another very interesting video,I think I would tend to believe what Volvo are saying rather than believe anything that comes from any government!

Totally agree with all your comments stu. It would be interesting to see how much the government are prepared to invest time and energy into the development of hydrogen vehicles as this would totally upset the applecart if they did.its food for thought.

They lie and, they ,now that they lie! Thanks again Uncle Stu. David B Graham.

Brilliant video at last i think some people are being to see the failing of evs or on road golf carts as I like to call them if this is progress god help us i personally think its to get a lot of drivers off the road i could go on but keep up telling people the truth and no way am I getting rid of my new petrol car

Very interesting. I'm going to stick with my old Merc until it drops to bits. 12 years old, 130,000 miles and will give me over 50 mpg on a long trip.

Great points another issue is if you have a crash and the battery is damaged, what then?

Morning Mr F. New subscriber here. Enjoying the videos 👍

Thanks for the education! Really expanded my views.

I found it funny after downloading an MG manual and reading that they recommend a CO2 fire extinguisher to put out an ev fire..

Brilliant video as always Stuart and congrats on the award 👍🏻, you might take a look at “The big EV lie” by the car guys on RU-vid, very informative about these EV’s. 😮, and btw the government is already hiding coal at DRAX.

Correct Stuart EV's are a nightmare

The whole process of extracting oil, shipping it around the world in large tankers, refining it into fuel (using a huge amount of electricity), then driving it by road to your local petrol station before you can fill up your bikes, is pretty expensive to do. How long before the energy companies realise that its more profitable to provide a line of fast chargers at their fuel stations, as it saves a lot of the infrastructure cost associated with moving fuel about. It may well get to the point where its no longer cost effective to stock liquid fuels. Maybe we will be back to buying petrol in jars from Chemists, like when cars were first invented! Also, Cobalt is also used as a catalyst in the process of removing Sulphur from petrol and diesel.

Thanks for your research and summary of the EV aspects.

Eyup! This is absolute insanity. All MPs should be made to watch this. I Ihave long been a sceptic of the zero emissions nonsense but this adds fuel to my anger! Wake up people.

Well done for speaking out.

My e-bike battery packed in after 3 years and 30-ish charges. The bike lived in the house and was left at 60% between charges, the replacement is £600 and this is just for a bicycle. I’m selling it and going back to total pedal power😠

Take a look at TFL truck & TFLEV, watch the tests and comparison tests for the Ford F-150 Lightning EV and the mind blowing Hummer EV which weighs 4,500kgs which can accelerate o-60 in 3*5secs which takes a week to charge at home off a normal socket or 39hrs on a proper home charger. And this behemoth is exempt the congestion charge in London! The lack of logic is tragic, good vid.

I have a friend who jumped onto the ev bandwagon and bought one as a car for urban use, he also owns a Diesel campervan for holidays etc, he was very vocal on his green credentials and his cheap urban transport for about 12 months then went very quiet about it all, interestingly he now uses his campervan all the time and when I asked about this last weekend he says he's done his sums and it's now cheaper to use the campervan and what about the green credentials?, Well he admitted to now not believing the hype, go figure...

Well, there's all the reason that you have gone through here which explain the realities of running an EV. But there's a big elephant in the room which no-one is talking about and that is infrastructure. I've watched a few channels with people doing long trips in EV's, even on going all the way the Italy! And yes, it is possible to do, with planning. There's the usual chestnut of the stops to charge where in a ICE car you'd still be driving and these are conveniently explained away with a "I would be stopping anyway, for a rest or to eat". All I can say is, in the future there are going to be a lot of overweight EV owners on this basis. The EV trip to Italy even had to involve an extra overnight stop in a hotel, it took so long. So more expense which you wouldn't have had in an ICE vehicle. But getting back to the infrastructure, EV's only work at present because there are relatively few of them. The infrastructure as it stands (although still rubbish) can just about cope with the amount of EV's there are now. You go to a motorway service area and there might be a row of say 10 Tesla chargers and the same amount of other chargers. And even now, you've got the problems of chargers not working or having to wait for other people to complete their charging. How many car parking spaces are there on a motorway service station car park? 500 maybe a 1000 on big service areas? Just imagine what it is going to be like when every single vehicle on that service area car park is an EV! I reckon about 1 in 4 of those parking spaces are going to have to have the facility to charge an EV. No-one is considering the sheer amount of infrastructure which is going to have to be put in place. The national grid will just not be able to cope with the demand. The whole national grid is going to need to be built again from the ground up, with much MUCH more generating capacity. Anyone who thinks that wind turbines are going to be able to supply this much electricity are living in some kind of delusion. And who do you think is going to pay for all this new infrastructure..... Oh yeah, that's right, that'll be the public!