I’ll never drive an EV
Really? That’s a hell of a hill to die on…Comment
Too often debate is reduced to zero-sum game. One where there can only be one winner – and according to the maths, that winner takes all.
Based on the rhetoric we suffer here at carsales HQ, battery-electric is a zero-sum game. You cannot possibly find EVs interesting and continue to have any automotive enthusiasm in your veins.
To suggest battery-electric is a technology with merits is just plain un-Australian…
On the flipside, if you question the bona fides of any EV evangelist’s claims, you’re immediately a climate change denier and environmental vandal.
Anti electric car sentiments are frankly boorish and uninformed.
Equally, the contention that EVs will save the world is just as misguided.
At carsales we’ve spent the past 24 or so months skilling up on EVs. We’ve boosted our EV content and we’ve started the long road to getting all of the team boned up on all things battery-powered.
It’s a journey and it’s a significant shift for many of us. But it’s a shift we need to make and technology we need to understand. That’s the only way we’ll be able to deliver informed judgements to you.
The more I drive electric vehicles the more I like them. That doesn’t mean I’m about to throw away my two petrol-engine BMWs (one classic, one fast), but it does mean that the next family car we buy will be electrified if not battery-electric. But that choice of vehicle will be reflective of our needs.
What’s become more and more apparent as we’ve skilled up is that the various interest groups are pushing big barrows. And they are almost equally intransient in their approach.
Like two primary school protagonists they seek to be heard by shouting louder and louder – at each other…
You and I are often caught in the middle, unable to think clearly for the racket.
Make no mistake, the next few decades of the auto world will be constant for one parameter –change.
In contrast to the better part of a century of automotive progress, there is no longer one killer app – ie: petrol-fuelled internal combustion.
Battery-electric vehicles are seen by so many as the only solution to reduce transport carbon emissions, but they will be just a part of the solution.
Hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel-cell electric vehicles, synthetic-fuelled internal combustion, hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion and combinations thereof will all play a part in our car, truck and heavy transport options over the next few decades.
Your particular needs will be met by one or more technologies. And if those needs align with many or most users, the choice of vehicles will be vibrant.
Those of us with more focused needs may not have the breadth of choice that 100 years of one killer app have yielded, but market forces will prevail, and choice will grow.
We ignore change at our peril. But it’s beholden upon us to shape change for the good.
EVs and a brave new world of low and zero carbon automotive solutions are coming and we’d like to take you along for the ride. The level to which you engage is your choice…
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