Many of you have no doubt noticed a lot of anti-EV rhetoric in the media of late. And it may seem that no matter how often EV myths are refuted, they continue to be revived frequently supported by “new research”. Among the latest claims, is one stating that the emissions associated with mining the materials needed to make EV batteries…
Virtually every member of the general public I meet at the car shows the VEVC attends expresses the desire to make their next car an EV. When questioned on how soon that might be, the answer is invariably related to the Electric Car Myth that they’re too expensive. Even considering the purchase rebates and Scrap-it potential a new EV buyer…
The minute many people hear the term “Lithium-ion Battery”, what comes to mind are those rechargeable Double A’s their kids interminably waited on to power their toys. And as soon as they see both the size of an EV battery and the attached components appearing freshly harvested from a desktop computer, they conclude that paying for years of gasoline purchases…
All great mythologies feature a tale of the apocalypse! The Norse had Ragnarok, when wolves ate the Sun. The Aztecs predicted a never-ending solar eclipse and the ancient Japanese feared a day the Goddess of that great glowing globe in the sky would hide herself away. Notice a pattern here? Something took away the source of energy on which those…
Let’s face it. The most creative people in the world aren’t artists, writers or composers. They’re bean counters. A good accountant or statistician can make numbers sing or dance and add up however they want. And in the ongoing campaign to denigrate Electric cars, playing with numbers has created one of the great EV myths – that electric cars are…
There are a lot of myths out there about electric cars. Half truths and urban legends given enough coverage in the media to cause many people to reconsider buying an emission free vehicle. This week we begin a series of myth-busting articles to reveal the reality of electric vehicle ownership. And we’ll begin with the one myth that continually makes…
