22 October

They were talking about cars today. I tried an experiment, asking people if they would ever buy an EV. ‘Why would anybody do that!’ ‘The batteries cost a fortune when you have to replace them!’ ‘Even when you charge them, the electricity comes from fossil fuels anyway.’ ‘They catch fire.’ ‘You have to charge them all day to fill them.’ A laundry list of the common slogans about EVs. Every single one of them just plain wrong. This is public life now, circulating slogans. Sponsored by vested interests determined to head off change. It’s like talking to zombies.