Ten years tick tock the bell tolls for NZ petrol power

[Naki Rat]

The FUD campaign against EVs is alive and well and being driven by those with interests in ongoing fossil fuel use.

This campaign has been initiated to bring some truth and balance t the debate. Sodium ion batteries are already finding their way into EV production (e.g. BYD Seagull) and LiFePO4 battery tech is displacing that with cobalt dependance. Go back 100+ years and similar criticisms will have been levelled at the coming ICEVs but technology soon solved those problems and it will again as EVs become the mainstream personal mobility method.



The book I linked to above also covers off most of the criticisms being made about EVs, and the sustainability of most everyday products we have come to rely on. It's worth a read.

Also worth noting that the major conflicts we're seeing currently are in regions that oil supplies come from (as is so often the case) so for a country like NZ the independence from fossil fuels that electrification of our vehicle fleet offers is a great move in terms of energy resilience.

[pritch]

Ninety one Chinese EV manufacturers and only one is making a profit? There may not be ninety one for long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbxcvlqMis

[R650R]

Speaking of China…

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/ch...sions-targets/

China built 47GW of coal power last year and is “way off track” to meet emissions targets

By Jo Nova

If coal is a planet wrecking problem, if it really mattered, about 30 countries are beating themselves up in acts of grandiose public flagellation, while one country is wrecking the planet and nobody cares. The truth is that no one is behaving like they think CO2 is causing a crisis. All over the West everyone wears the hippie-care coat while buying the cheapest fridges, phones and fashion they can get from the global coal furnace. And China nods the nod then keeps on adding coal power plants.

Climate change: China at risk of missing its goals unless it takes drastic action to rein in coal expansion, new research finds
Eric Ng, South China Morning Post

Last year, the Chinese energy sector’s carbon dioxide emissions increased 5.2 per cent, the same as gross domestic product, highlighting a failure to rein in energy-intensive growth, they estimated.

According to the Global Coal Plant Tracker 70 gigawatts of new coal power was built around the world in 2023. Of the 107 countries they tracked, one country built 47 gigawatts. The other 106 countries combined built 22 gigawatts. The distribution of new coal plants is thus:

[R650R]

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/es...te-action-100/

The biggest climate bullies on the planet just got a bit smaller. There are two monster climate banker clubs in the world, and yesterday, one of them, the “Climate Action 100+” lost three of the six largest asset management funds in the world, namely JP Morgan Chase, State Street and BlackRock.

State Street manages about $3.6 trillion in funds, JP Morgan Chase about $3 or $4 trillion, and BlackRock $10 trillion, so that’s something like $17,000 billion dollars that just left the ranch. The fact that this kind of money was all grouped together in a cabal of any sort is bad enough, but ponder that now, after the biggest fish have left the tank, there’s still $50 trillion left in assets on the inside.

It appears the Climate Action 100+ group had grown too big for its boots — the new Climate Action 100+ “phase 2” strategy expected asset managers to actively hound companies to cut their emissions.

Climate Action 100+ started in 2017 and the day before yesterday it had 700 investors who managed $68 trillion in assets, yet mysteriously has no Wikipedia page (like the ghost that walks?). According to InfluenceWatch it was “conceived by members of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) in 2016 at the French Mission to the United Nations.” So it was set up by the largest government pension fund in the US in cahoots with the UN in order to use workers money to boss around companies and to force left wing policies on right wing states through a back door.

It’s big brother — the other climate banker cabal called GFANZ — was set up in 2021 by the UN and Mark Carney (former governor of the Bank of England). At one point GFANZ grew to an obscenely unbelievable $130 trillion in “funds under management”, giving it the financial power equivalent to a black hole. The largest 20 national economies in the world have a combined GDP of $87 trillion. So when a collective managing $130 trillion says “jump” there are not many Presidents or Prime Ministers inclined to say “No”. In October 2020, the CEO of BlackRock told the Australian government he wanted them to shut coal plants faster and three weeks later, Scott Morrison and the treasurer signed us up for Net Zero, even though the voters had picked them to do less climate action rather than more.

But it was all a big bluff, as I explained — all the giant funds use other people’s money to bully and cajole boards, ministers, and global leaders into doing things that none of them might want. They were supposed to be investing pension funds to earn money for workers to retire on, instead it looked and smelled a lot like they were squandering the returns in order to prop up socialist ideologies, dodgy companies, and to coerce governments to legislate policies that the voters didn’t vote for.

Larry Fink the CEO of Blackrock, and his pals, turned our pension funds into a leftist activist machine. Thankfully 19 US States fought back by asking the legal bombshell questions about whether these funds were cooperating in a way that breached antitrust laws and neglected their fiduciary duty. Ron deSantis in Florida took $2 billion of state pension funds back from Blackrock. It doesn’t sound like much, but it pulled the string on the big bluff, and threatened to unleash an exodus. Now a year later, many funds are backing away slowly.

Make no mistake, the term ESG or Environmental Social Governance is a dead dog, but all these conglomerate Financial Swamp Monsters like BlackRock et al, will still be buying and leveraging up their renewables investments whenever it suits them. They’ll still be flying to Davos to consort and coordinate behind the scenes.

[R650R]

A recent video on Geoff buys cars channel mentioned a guy getting a software update on his KIA suv.
The chap was a bit bored so he actually read the terms and conditions on touch screen afterwards and looked for changes.
Now installed was an ability to geofence movement and time restrict use of the vehicle remotely. The rose tinted glassed Ami gst us might think it’s anti theft tech. In reality it’s likely a tool for future “climate emergency” lockdowns on petrol powered travel.
The guy is lawyer so he’s now sueing for unconsented restrictions applied to car.

[pete376403]

Not just cars...https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SbrMdp5t3bQ

[R650R]

Not even depths of winter yet and we being told to conserve electricity….

[pritch]

Might as well leave this here as anywhere else...

[roogazza]

Not even depths of winter yet and we being told to conserve electricity….

I see the maree's are trying to hold up progress again !! It's what they do !

[Berries]

I see the maree's are trying to hold up progress again !! It's what they do !

Ka kite.




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[R650R]

The gods keep giving us signs why electric vehicles are not great idea….

Now we have a significant solar storm (random ejection of lots of energy from sun) that’s bad enough that trans power are disconnecting part of high voltage grid as a back up incase stuff gets fried.The last notable event was 2003 and the 1867 Carrington event.

[SaferRides]

It's a big one. I can't remember being able to see the aurora from Auckland.

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[R650R]

Drivers warned of petrol car shortages as net zero to ‘choke off’ supply
By Matt Oliver, The Telegraph

Car salesmen face a shortage of petrol vehicles under Rishi Sunak’s net zero crackdown, one of Britain’s biggest dealership chains has warned.

Vertu Motors said sales of electric cars had “stalled” in the UK, raising the risk that manufacturers will miss sales targets mandated by law. Under the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate, 22pc of carmakers’ sales must be electric this year with the target rising annually until it reaches 80pc in 2030.

But with manufacturers risking fines of £15,000 per car for breaching the rules, Vertu warned that many might simply throttle supplies of petrol and diesel cars to artificially boost their compliance.

By Jo Nova

Government plans to badger us into EV’s have hit a hurdle
Things are so bad in the world of electric cars that fields of the cars-of-the-future are appearing at ports in the EU. China has shipped 1.3 million EV’s there in the last quarter but they are piling up in car parks unsold. Countries within the EU are throwing money at customers to get them to buy EV’s, and companies are discounting too, but still it isn’t enough. EV sales fell by 11% across the EU and by 29% in Germany.

Across the Atlantic, something is going wrong in the USA too. The world’s top brand is renting space in shopping centres and airports in America to store the unsold cars.

Car dealers are warning they might not be able to sell many petrol cars, even when buyers walk in to buy them, because they can’t find enough EV buyers so they can meet the mandated target ratio. We might be at the start of a buyer freeze…

By John Varga, The Express UK

Major EU ports are almost full to capacity with Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) that no one wants to buy. A slump in sales across Europe has caused parking lots at the Belgian ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge to fill up with the Chinese imports.

A spokesman for the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the second largest in Europe, said: “This is what is happening in all European ports that handle large numbers of cars.”

[R650R]

So who’s up for a class action lawsuit against automakers and app developers selling your data to insurance companies???

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350...-may-lie-ahead

[pritch]

This new construction is in my neighbourhood. The enemy is that close. A friend who drives an electrical appliance tells me this layout is good. It's drive through so can be used by people towing caravans etc. That's as opposed to the many chargers that require the vehicle to back in to the space. I'll take his word for it.