4. EVs and The Mainstream Media

This is Episode 4 of EV Musings a podcast about Electric Vehicles and things that are interesting to Electric Vehicle owners On our podcast today we’ll be talking about the mainstream media and how they tend to portray electric vehicles in a negative light. We'll cover topics such as the type of articles that get written, who reads and comments on them, the influence of Big Oil and how we can help move the conversation forward constructively. Showlinks: Evolt charged me £60 to charge my car! https://youtu.be/rLv3zZjPLQ8 Daily Mail article search phrase: inurl:dailymail.co.uk renault electric car Living with an EV didn’t go well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fThI2bCFqxQ&t=3s Electric cars will lead to National grid collapse: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/854502/electric-cars-UK-2017-National-Grid-collapse Electric vehicles at risk by charging from home mains supply. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/30/electric-vehicle-drivers-at-risk-by-charging-from-home-mains-supply EVs use more Co2 than ICE cars in their manufacture: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-21/new-study-shocks-electric-cars-considerably-worse-climate-diesel-cars New York times article on Big Oil pushing back: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html   Cool things Charging sites outnumber petrol stations: https://www.zap-map.com/ev-charging-sites-outnumber-petrol-stations-for-first-time/ Tesla Gigafactory: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/09/elon-musk-confirms-that-construction-of-teslas-new-gigafactory-in-china-is-on-track/ Social media Simon Roe :  https://twitter.com/theevside and Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWjTTQM5s3W3J9sXL0KMcw Gary Comerford:  https://twitter.com/TheRealGaryC “So, you’ve gone electric?’ on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Youve-gone-electric-Electric-ebook/dp/B07Q5JVF1X/