Honest Government Ad | Electric Vehicles

Great work. Keep them coming.

LJC. You must be from the US. Here in Australia our government abandoned the motor vehicle industry which subsequently collapsed) and then opened up spending billions of dollars on weapons and 'defence' products to stimulate jobs- go figure). good work with your friends and spreading the message. Respect

I work in the auto-industry and we are all worried about what is being done to (avoid) EVs in this country. So I shared this video with all of my (sadly) right-wing colleagues, who loved it. I consider this my sneaky way of subtly pushing a bit of truth into their brains in the hope that they snap out of it just a little bit.

The shout out to "get on the beers" made my day- and that's saying something considering I saw a quoll this morning! Brilliant stuff, loved the outdoor filming

Hi Laurent. The maths changes dramatically if you believe that companies are successful in creating self-driving vehicles, and that services arise to shared those vehicles across multiple users (aka Telsa's robot-taxis). I personally am sure that will happen - then the 17% can drop to just about nothing. Watch this space!

@Giordano, even with improvements in batteries, nothing will change the fact that when driving a car 90% of the energy we use is wasted transporting 1.5 ton of steel. Cars are inherently inefficient regardless of the energy source. Assuming that Australia switches entirely its car fleet to electric and powers it using solar panels. This will still mean that 90% of those panels will be used not to carry the human but to carry one unnecessary ton of steel. Replacing those cars with an ebike or minimalistic car (200kg max) would reduce the number of solar panels by at least a factor of 8. And this is totally independent of battery technology, just pure physics. I recommend you look into the notion of "carbon budget". Essentially this is the total amount of CO2 that we are allowed to emit if we want to restrict ourselves under 2C of warming. If we go over this carbon budget, we will get more than 2C. If we are serious about staying under 2C, then once we reach that carbon budget we must entirely cease emitting CO2 (and that's preferably before 2050). After that, we are not allowed any additional emissions. If you divide that budget by the number of humans on earth, this gives the carbon budget per person until 2050 and at today's rates this does not give us much of a margin. Total budget is approximately 800 G tons of carbon so per capita that is 800/7.9 =101 tons of carbon. For comparison, manufacturing a Tesla Model S emits 17.5 tons of carbon dioxide, so by buying an EV, one blows 17.5/101 = 17% of our remaining carbon budget. (This would be approximately the same for a ICE car.) And this is not counting emissions when driving (due to how electricity is generated, losses in batteries, etc.). So, needless to say that an expense which removes 17% of one's budget for the next 29 years is not a good idea.

I love the video, great work as usual. Putting a tax on EVs is pretty counter productive as things go but I would like to point out that EVs are definitely not a longterm viable solution to climate change and on quite a few aspects: 1 - Construction and use. As things go, building an EV requires more CO2 emissions than an equivalent Internal Combustion Engine car (ICE). Emissions are lower during use but in countries where electricity is produced from fossil fuel, the whole energy chain is still 100% fossil fuel based even if the entire car fleet of the country switched to EVs. 2- General energy efficiency = that of a car = disastrous No matter how we slice and dice it, driving a car consists in moving a 1.5 metric ton of steel in order to carry a 50-200kg bag of water/meat/bones. In pure energy terms it is a horribly wasteful system: 200/1500 = 13% efficiency as 87% of the energy is wasted transporting steel instead of the human. So, all in all, EVs are at best a transition mechanism but we simply cannot afford to waste 87% of our energy if we want to seriously tackle climate change. The energy envelope afforded by renewables is way too small and too slow growing (even with the most optimistic of hypotheses) to allow us to replace the existing car fleet with EVs. We must downsize cars to human-sized vehicles like ebikes instead and wherever possible incentivize public transportation for long distance journeys. So, yes taxing EVs is silly, but it may not be as silly as thinking EVs actually help us fighting climate change. Here is a fantastic (even if depressing) video about how/if technology can save us from Climate Change by the top French expert on climate change adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s254IPHXgVA I highly recommend everyone to watch it to know what we can expect and not expect from technological improvements in the fight against warming.

You guys are the best! You always put a smile on my face. And you make me feel better to be Canadian... :-)

Hahahahahahaha! They really do seem to be doing your work for you--but then you just keep getting better at doing your work! As a Yank watching this, I feel just a tiny bit better about our own government: "Well--at least we're not so completely hopeless as their guys." Cheers and thank you, and...my sympathies.

Gooooaaallll! I've shared this one all over the place. The icing on the government's caca is that they'd actually use FFS for their ridiculous program. Methinks Ellen looks truly stunning in the car I drive. She'll covet one now!

Great work and Happy Anniversary! Love the new outdoor addition to the video.

This ad smashed so many points, one of your best? Awesome to see your next podcast is with Ketan, I've read a lot of his articles on RenewEconomy, I'm looking forward to it :)

Again I get the happys and the sads at the same time with satire that cuts just too deep... I wish we didn't need it! Thanks guys :) Any other nerds out there notice how the Tesla's headlights refresh rate is mismatched to that of the camera, in the behind the scenes video? :D Jealous you got to play with one. Tesla should give you one just for making this HGA!

This is better th(a)n great! Excellent messaging. It's unbelievable: the list of short sighted policies is never ending... it's clear the heavy metals are affecting their brains. I still can't get over the $440M given to their coal mining mates in 2018 to look at Gt Barrier Reef damage and tell us it's all good as they can't prove coal did it... but hey, $56M to the marine dept who do have a track record of research on protecting the reef. Just like they re-announced $285M of funding for renewable energy research last week which they also announced in Sept 2020 (a real term reduction) blocking support to wind and solar while promising $1Bn for gas and carbon capture.... which is like burning your house down to see if you can condense enough water out of the atmosphere to put the fire out. Lest we forget how corrupt these puppets are - looking after their mates - so long as your mate is a billionaire coal or right wing media exec, who really must hate Australia to poison it so.

It's a race to the bottom. Go for it!

I think I see an evil plan. Once Morrison has said everything ridiculous, he can claim copyright - and leave you with no new scripts!

Australia is a great place, though I’m rather glad I don’t live there - love the humour!

Juice Media team, you're fucking amazing. Thank you for doing what you do!