I NEARLY DIED and FROZE to DEATH! The EVil truth about ELECTRIC CARS, SNOW, ICE & ARCTIC CONDITIONS! 

Good point

New evs don't use cobalt (lfp batteries) but cobalt is and always has been used in refining petrol and diesel. Also used on mobile phone batteries and laptop batteries. So if your so offened by cobalt are you going to stop driving ice cars and using battery powered appliances?

Might you like to guess what 50% of the world’s cobalt is used for?? Oil refinement. Used then has to be disposed of. The small amount that used to be in EV batteries is fully recyclable, along with 96% of the entire battery. Starting to doubt your precious Daily Mail now?

@petestan here's a fun fact. Oil refining does not have to use Cobalt. And if all goes to plan then there will be such a demand for cobalt that oil refining, assuming that is used, won't get a look in. BTW, what about Lithium mining? That's just as toxic and uses the same mining techniques but as fat as I know, lithium isn't used in oil refining. Beginning to doubt the guardian you love so much?

@Somerset Knight Oil refineries do use cobalt to remove sulphur from their fuels. Not sure where you get the lithium is toxic from, as the world's largest deposit on land is in Australia, where they protest about the pollution from oil refineries, not lithium mines. Lithium is also found in clays in the US state of Nevada, I believe, and new deposits were recently discovered in Sweden. There is also an estimated 180 billion tons in the Earth’s oceans. Lithium has also been used to treat bipolar disorder for many decades. As for concerns about cobalt, they are issues around child labour in illegal artisan mining in the DRC, but that is restricted to the black market and has been sensationalised by the media. It is an issue created by poverty, like most other forms of forced labour.

No they are terrible at towing too 🤣🤣

5 years worth… because petrol will be easier to find than electricity in a 5-year crisis! Perhaps you need to think about your comment a bit more…

@@SouthpawDavey because they are more powerful and have significantly more torque? Or do you maybe have things the wrong way around?

@@petestan no they do pull for sure direct power but see how long the charge lasts if you’re towing. Then the time to recharging. Maybe hook the generator to the car as you’re towing it and run the generator and charge at the same time eh? Sort of defeats the whole purpose of the electric car you’re driving though don’t you think 🤔

Surprised you are surprised

When has that NOT happened? I'm trying to think of a thing govylt has foisted on us that wasn't a shit show failure.

The government isn't pushing anything onto us. The growth in EV sales is purely down to market forces. Legacy automakers have been scrabbling to catch ever since sales of the Tesla Model 3 ripped into the market for combustion Audi, Mercedes, and BMW. In the UK last year, more people bought an EV than bought a diesel with only petrol car sales outperforming them. All this government has done is reduce grants on new EVs and hand out 120 new licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea 😢

I went into teaching 16 years ago, after a career as a plumber, and one of my work mates told me If it's in the papers or on the telly, don't believe it!! I suppose the same goes for youtube as well sometimes (Ha Ha )and definitely don't listen to what the politicians say!!!!!

@@FullFact548 are you smoking crack, yes governments aren't pushing anything it's not like putting in policies to ban the sale of ICE cars in the next couple of years would make any difference right

@@jeremyradford5103 Actually, there is not!

Can it start from today

@@TheMentalblockrock Weather is what you experience when you step outside on any given day. In other words, it is the state of the atmosphere at a particular location over the short-term. Climate is the average of the weather patterns in a location over a longer period of time, usually 30 years or more.

Happy days!! Get a petrol car while you can!!

@@jeremyradford5103 = Tesla sales agent.

Look up the uses of cobalt before spouting rubbish about materials and child labour. Cobalt mining doesn't kill children, poverty does. Emissions from transport in the UK is responsible for many thousands of premature deaths every year but mindless people talk nonsense about a much cleaner technology.

@FullFact548 I think I may have this wrong but it seems your justification for child labour in the DRC is its helping the health of our children? Don't think about the 550,000 hectares of forest cleared in Indonesia to mine for nickel for the batteries or how many miles evs have to be driven to reach offset for the excess c02 created in an evs manufacture. In fact ignore all the inconvenient truths . Definitely don't need to consider the carbon created installing the 3 phase grid required to support them and given the UK had to switch on coal fired power stations last night to meet demand its probably best if we ignore that as well. Some narrow minded people claim "oh my electricity comes from green sources only" but that power was probably boiling a few kettles until someone plugs into their charger. Don't ignore that despite the power stations being on, DEFRA reported the air quality across the uk yesterday was all in the green! If I may I would like to expand on this, take Wales, chargers are few and far between, the grid isn't up to it and I believe they have only achieved somewhere in the region of 6% of target for "greening up!" Please correct me if I'm wrong so how much c02 to dig up Gwynedd alone to lay cables and install the infrastructure? Just an example...

Try getting them to give you an answer the same for a petrol car. ANY transport is affected by the weather, if you think ANY petrol works the same in winter you’re clearly deranged.

@@salibaba the difference is we don’t have to turn things off…ever. While you freeze your a^^^ in your expensive EV we know that we can totally refuel in 5 minutes at the nearest petrol station…..and not have to download an app and register a credit card just for the privilege . While keeping the heat turned on.

Petrol and young children dont mix

Nahhh not in an EV these things work well in sub zero temps albeit if they have a little reduced range. My little BMW i3 does about 180-200 mles in the warmer months but recently on a 90 mile trip from Buxton to Blackpool in the cold with the heaters on I used about 10% more battery so still arrived with 45%

Thank heaven for heat pumps 😊

Snow squalls on the Thruway…epic to say the least. 🎿

Hey Was nice to meet you Steve. Keep an eye out for the breakfast review later today. :0)

Thank You.

I agree, you can't be suffering with it

anyone thinking about buying an EV should go straight to a head doctor for their own safety

@@keithskelton2287 You're going to need a lot of head doctors looking at global sales of electric cars.

@@jeremyradford5103 Okay, thanks, I will.

You do realise most EV drivers never have to stop for fuel whereas you’ve to go to a special shop every few days and pay a fortune for it? The EVs you see overtaking you all of the time all have a full tank of fuel every morning.

Eric, you should check out the TFL channel on RU-vid. They also live in Colorado and have tested all sorts of cars up to the Loveland pass and back. It would help some of your concerns. The other thing worth remembering is that electric cars are not affected by altitude in the same way as combustion engines.

Oops, sorry, I seem to be repeating myself. Must be old age creeping up on me 😞

I remember those days. Now people just fly everywhere

All of those locations conveniently have charge points. Of course, you only need to charge an EV on days when you have to drive for more than 6 hours. That almost never happens.

@@petestan How convenient we are making it illegal to travel further than 15 minutes.

Lol. 😂 That made me giggle. 😂

Every time I go over a road hump I have to replace the radio on my ICE car! Also the battery leads on my 12 volt battery fall off!

EV's are just rubbish all round. NEVER, NEVER BUY ONE is the best choice.

Exactly.

Lol. 😂

You can actually buy portable backup batteries in case you are foolish enough to run out of charge, which is extremely rare even in the UK. Meanwhile, more than 800k UK drivers run out of petrol or diesel each year.

@@FullFact548 wow your full of fun aren't you, its a joke 🙄

Sorry I missed it.

Sone EV have settings to change the available torque. Also a mode called slip start for sand and snow.

I love my diesel golf. But it won't comply with the LEZ being introduced in my city on 1 June. Luckily, I will be able to avoid the LEZ....but many won't.

At least it's no problem getting that" nasty" fuel without apps.

i use snow tires year round. snow tires are better in rain and have better all terrain properties and also have better grip in general. Studded snow tires for winter.

@@Jimothy-723 Live south of the snow chain/studded tire allowance in my jurisdiction, far enough north though to get five months of winter weather.

I'm glad I am not the only one to pick up on his overdramatic tale of a supposed near death experience! He was near a railway station around 9 at night. Surely there were several trains due before service shuts down for the night. But then again, he might prefer death over a trip on a common railway.

Lots of tows.

same here with my fiesta, but i dont do as many miles as you, the cost to swap would be crazy at no advantage. the last car i had was a focus for 14 years that sailed through every mot, got decent mpg and obviously none of the worries and problems you get with ev's. They'll have to prise the petrol pump outta my cold dead fingers as they say. GL

I love old bangers, had many over the years, learned how to fix them..cheap! Love how people look down on banger drivers, then they realise who are the dumb ones. Had a clio, went on for ever, until some one crashed into me. Peace be unto you.

Yeah, right. Apart from the Daily Heil, where else do you get those 'facts'?

You’re implying that the car was to blame…

It's not over dramatised at all. We have a Cyberman in our midst. "It's all for The Greater Good " EV'S are all. About control. Over priced milk floats. Useless.

@@TheMacMaster I believe you.

@@jeremyradford5103 He is saying the EVcar in the UK is not good, not enough infrastucture , It might be fantastic in Norway but not here.

Yes, it's now only two to four times as expensive to run a petrol car than an electric one (ignoring the cost of the car of course).

Yup, 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds and 2 tonnes of silence...what could go wrong?

I have a kia niro hybrid and i was driving in Leigh on Sea where people r walking in the road and i was driving very slowly behind when the car behind me bibbed his hooter well the man in front of me walking started shouting etc at me and i had to explain it was the car behind, u have to make allowances for people coz they really cant hear u

Look up this mate: VESS

Yes.Even for the able bodied person who is used to hearing vehicles approaching before stepping off the kerb! Deathly silence.

What about the children mining the lithium? There's an argument on every side. Personally. Take me back to the 80's as the world we are living in is not going to.be a great place to live. World has gone mad. I worry for my younger children.

Even in that role they're dead half the time you need them!

@@lorendjones ha!!

In the UK, they have a green marking in the number plate. The owners think this signals th out as special, I just easily identify a fool.as you said 😂

@@jeremyradford5103 they also have massive investment in snow clearing equipment because they get it every year, their airports likewise keep going. We don’t have 4 months of heavy snow a year thus we will never invest in the gear needed but in the UK 12 hrs of snow brings the country to its knees and that is plenty to cause danger to people caught in it. On the A53 Leek to Buxton road and A523 Leek to Ashbourne folk were trapped in their vehicles for over 12 hours on the 10th march.

I Think you will find you are way of the mark, These resources were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, remains were covered by layers of rock and sand. Under specific temperature and pressure conditions the remains were turned into oil and/or natural gas. Coal was formed from the vast forests, when we were coal mining we used to see many fossilised remain of ferns, and that was half a mile deep underground, Coal is coal and what you mine you sell as you mine it, gas is nott processed either and oil is only processed to seperate the various substances.

They only "naturally" occur where both fossils (and other prehistoric biomass) and great pressures come together though. So really they should be called "rare fossil fuels", as the supply is limited by the number of fossils of organisms (and other prehistoric biomass) that died in the past. Once it's gone, it's gone and it's getting harder and harder to find and when we do find it, the people that control it are often not friendly.

@@munehaus Point is, they are fossils, and if we ever need coal again the uk we still 300 yrs of reserves

@@grumpyoldgit8254 300 years is a very false claim, though we do have at least a decade or more. The issue is not reserves, so much as who controls them and how hard they are to get to. If it costs £50 to extract enough oil for a litre of petrol or we have to fight a war to get hold of it, that's not really much help to anyone, yet that's what we're looking at with some of the newer finds. The other issue is "peak" production. Once we know we're past the peak, supply won't be able to keep up with even current demand, so prices will skyrocket as only the rich and governments will be able to afford the cost. Some say we're already at peak oil, though personally I think that's also a few years a way. But not many years.

At least the EV industry is promoting jobs :-) for the locals in the Congo.

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No data or evidence for this long-disproven Daily Mail myth I suppose? Did you know all elephants weigh less than 50kg? I don’t need to provide evidence for this.

Sorry Richard but you are wrong on both counts. Over their lifetime, electric vehicles are far less harmful to the environment and much cheaper to run. This has been thoroughly researched and peer reviewed