[bwilson4web]

http://www.thechargingpoint.com/2011...ll-about-then/

. . .
The body, called the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, has issued a report that points out how important it is to be able to measure “whole life carbon emissions” of cars in order to compare vehicle performance.

It then goes on to state how electric vehicles are clearly the lowest carbon option and with an increase in renewables and low carbon electricity generation this gap is set to get wider.

There is also some semi-informed guess work – nothing more than that – on how much carbon is released in the manufacture of the twenty thousand electric vehicles produced last year; compare that with the truly breathtaking 73 million vehicles produced and the obvious economies of scale therein. They state that due to battery manufacture, electric cars emit more carbon in their construction than their grubby old-fashioned cousins.

I won’t go into the details of why this is hotly contested in the scientific community, but let me just say that it is.

So, a fairly plausible and well-constructed projection about the possible future, clearly stating all the way through that these figures are estimates and with the introduction of composite materials instead of steel in the construction process the carbon emission figures will drop.

Well, forget about that folks, because all around the world, the irrational anti-electric vehicle lobby has had a field day: ‘British Report Proves Electric Vehicles Aren’t Green After All!’

Every right wing blogger, newspaper columnist and proto-Clarksonian ranter has exploded with self-righteous delight. All this nonsense about ‘green’ cars is a con, global warming is a con, Obama is a communist Muslim and we can get back in our massive, inefficient, overweight cars and sit in another traffic jam in the middle of a city next to a primary school and know we are in the right.
. . .

Robert goes on to point out:

. . . I’ve driven plenty of electric cars and they work, they’re fine, they do the same job as the old fashioned ones. It’s obvious from the reaction that a bigoted opinion is an ignorant opinion. Very, very few of the people who have jumped on this non-story have driven or in many cases even seen an electric car. Essentially they don’t know what they are talking about, so it’s hard to understand this kind of blinkered negativity.

This is no different than the anti-hybrid noise that was so strong and still echos in obscure places on the net.


Bob Wilson