Hybrid cars defeat official greenhouse gas figures subtly so nobody notices. Their fuel consumption is two-and-a-half to three times higher than bureaucrats think. Hybrids emit more CO2 than petrol cars, which don’t have such burdensome batteries, so the government ban in 2035 should be no surprise. What’s missing is some encouragement for fuel cell and hydrogen research, or new technology to replace them. Pure electric cars with banks of recharging points won’t. Hybrids are fraudulent as dieselgate VWs.
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Sometimes you need Jeremy Clarkson: “Jaguar Land Rover delivery people: Don’t come to London to pick up the iPace tomorrow. I couldn’t charge it so it’s not there,” he tweeted. He could have phoned them. It was his way of drawing attention to the electric fervour engulfing car people. The virtue-signalling of spin doctors pleading with us to embrace cars with batteries.
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