What is the BIG EV Lie? Will electric vehicles save the planet if we all buy them?

Are cars definitely the worst causes of Global Warming? And if not, what is? This week it’s the long-awaited EV episode, and I’m afraid, it might not be what you were expecting…

Chapters:

• 00:00 It’s the EV episode!
• 02:11 Definition of Global Warming
• 06:34 Why EVs are not the answer
• 10:00 Major countries & causes of GHG
• 16:22 Where does your Electricity come from?
• 21:20 Why do cars get all the attention?
• 23:05 What is the answer?

When we first embarked on a whole episode about EVs, we thought it would be easy. Take the piss out of electric cars and their owners, add in some amusing movie clips for comedic effect, do some impressions, use that clip of Greta Thunberg a lot, and Bob’s your uncle.

But the deeper we dug, the more we found, and it became simply impossible to be… well… funny. You see there are some huge issues to deal with here, and it would seem, a lot of misinformation.

Yes, it’s easy to criticize EVs for range anxiety, charging waiting times, the upfront cost of the vehicles, and in one case - that autopilot mode. But forget all that short-term guff and explore with us what will happen in the future – do we have the energy and raw materials to cope with mass EV adoption? And perhaps more importantly, is electricity actually all that green anyway?

This episode has been a year in the making, and whilst it’s not two old guys wise-cracking in a supercar, we still felt it needed to made. We hope you enjoy it. 

Thank you for watching.