I am frequently irritated by the "clickbait" approach adopted by the crappier sections of the media.
This time it's GB News. It's been investigated by Ofcom several times, has faced allegations of misogyny, homophobia and racism. I detest its TV channel.
Anyway, it offers this headline:
"Electric car owners told not to 'charge above 70%' amid serious risk of battery fire"
When you read the article you find this:
"Some drivers are being warned not to charge their vehicles beyond a certain point..."
And finally get to this:
"Volvo has released a statement, warning that some of its EX30 electric vehicles could have battery issues... Volvo confirmed that it was treating the issue 'very seriously', noting that the affected vehicles represented a very small number."
Contemptible journalism. An attempt to capitalise on, and increase, anti-EV hysteria.
Here it is if you want to check: tinyurl.com/y7rmkppk
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If GB News were a newspaper it would be cut into strips and hung in the lavatory - probably before it had even been read.
But there’s no accounting for taste - some folk no doubt regard it as a source of serious, responsible authorative journalistic talent.
Not I!
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"a source of serious, responsible authorative journalistic talent."
Nah. You need the DM for that.
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To be fair, it was truthful, in an undefined lacking in detail kinda way.
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Is there really anti-ev hysteria? There are certainly some web sites and journalists who specialise in writing rubbish to pander to a cult like following of anti ev individuals but I don’t think the population particularly have very strong feelings about means of vehicle propulsion do they? Not seen much in the way of hysteria here.
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>>pander to a cult like following of anti ev individuals
Oh! we are a cult now. I prefered enlightened and paractical.
>> I don’t think the population particularly have very strong feelings about means of vehicle propulsion
>> do they?
As long as it says Miele the bonnet you would be happy.
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Are you strongly anti EV then? I thought I had read some time that you would buy one but an EV would not suit your towing requirements with which I agree.
The point I trying to make is that most people do not have strong feelings one way or other. They would be happy to have an EV if it suits them. For a lot of people it would. There are however for reasons I don’t quite understand various YouTube channels and journalists whose subscribers seem to be fanatically opposed to electric vehicles and delight in posting misinformation about them. They do seem to have the feeling of being a cult.
Personally I don’t care what anyone drives. I have an EV because it suits me and I like driving them.
Electrification of our energy supply is clearly the future and part of that will be the need to switch to EVs.
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>>Not seen much in the way of hysteria here.
They only get excited about mangel-wurzels in Norfolk.
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Mangel Wurzels is the past. Sugar beet it the what it is all about now. Mountains of the stuf everywhere.
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>> Mangel Wurzels is the past. Sugar beet it the what it is all about now.
>> Mountains of the stuf everywhere.
Not for much longer I understand, seems that farmers are now refusing to grow the stuff at the prices offered at Bury St Emunds.
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Am actually in Bury at the moment. Huge cloud of steam over the factory as the campaign is in full swing with the accompanying smell of boiled beet pervading the town.
As I said in another post farmers are always moaning. You never see a farmer on a bike :-)
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>> Not for much longer I understand, seems that farmers are now refusing to grow the
>> stuff at the prices offered at Bury St Emunds.
Do you mean the price negotiated with the NFU is too low or that NFU and British Sugar cannot agree?
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British Sugar dropped the price, again apparently, to the level the farmers have decided is uneconomic,
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 14 Jan 26 at 16:47
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EVs - Misleading media headline - Terry
