AndyH
Well-known member
There have been a couple of recent 'incidents' that suggest that the anti-EV lobby is alive and well and living in...well...at least the US and UK.
We have this from the Volt thread on this forum:
And we have this piece from Fully Charged:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM7UJRVkLM[/youtube]
Robert suggests that Mitsubishi is attempting to down-play their less-than-optimal conversion - and that they sent info to the BBC. The BBC apparently accepted the 'story' as 'fact' since it came from a reliable source -- that could have made the BBC an unwitting participant in the anti-EV effort. If this analysis is correct, I think it shows how our 'green' blog world can be so easily manipulated (intentionally or not) because they want a scoop and they want to get the story out fast...and as we've already seen, even the pro-EV bloggers don't have the experience and/or capability to really analyze the story and provide something close to a 'big picture'.
For a bit of history, we saw an overview of the 1990s-era EV madness with waiting lists for the EV1 on one hand being more than balanced by denials from GM that anyone wants the car.
Is the momentum of ICE really that strong - are people really so scared about EVs? Or is this simply a dramatic example of how powerful fear can be for the folks that will lose out when they can't sell ICE due to $20 a gallon gas?
edit:
BBC Article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11112820
We have this from the Volt thread on this forum:
lne937s said:GM is trademarking "range anxiety" and indicates the it will use this FUD as the core of the Volt marketing campaign
http://jalopnik.com/5626306/how-gm-will-use-fear-to-sell-you-a-chevy-volt
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/08/gm-wants-to-trademark-range-anxiety/
And we have this piece from Fully Charged:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM7UJRVkLM[/youtube]
Robert suggests that Mitsubishi is attempting to down-play their less-than-optimal conversion - and that they sent info to the BBC. The BBC apparently accepted the 'story' as 'fact' since it came from a reliable source -- that could have made the BBC an unwitting participant in the anti-EV effort. If this analysis is correct, I think it shows how our 'green' blog world can be so easily manipulated (intentionally or not) because they want a scoop and they want to get the story out fast...and as we've already seen, even the pro-EV bloggers don't have the experience and/or capability to really analyze the story and provide something close to a 'big picture'.
For a bit of history, we saw an overview of the 1990s-era EV madness with waiting lists for the EV1 on one hand being more than balanced by denials from GM that anyone wants the car.
Is the momentum of ICE really that strong - are people really so scared about EVs? Or is this simply a dramatic example of how powerful fear can be for the folks that will lose out when they can't sell ICE due to $20 a gallon gas?
edit:
BBC Article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11112820