34 - The FUD Episode

<p class="p1">This is Episode 34 of ‘EV Musings’ a podcast about Electric Vehicles and things that are interesting to Electric Vehicle owners</p> <p class="p1">Today’s show is called ‘The FUD Episode’ (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), subtitled ‘They’re banning Fossil Fuel cars in the UK from 2035!’</p> <p class="p1">The UK government announced recently that they are bringing forward the deadline at which new fossil fuel cars will be banned from sale, from 2040 to 2035.</p> <p class="p1">There have been commentors throwing out lots and lots of positive and negative (but mostly negative) comments everywhere about this.</p> <p class="p1">But here’s the thing. The vast majority of the negative comments are based on Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt rather than anything concrete.</p> <p class="p1">What I want to do in today’s episode is address a number of this comments and give you some facts about the actual situation.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Timestamps</strong></p> <p class="p1">Intro: 00:07</p> <p class="p1">Feature topic: 02:19</p> <p class="p1">Cool things: 14:45</p> <p class="p1">Outro : 16:18</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Links to Articles etc.</strong></p> <p class="p1">Episode 1 - Myths and Legends : <a href= "http://evmusings.libsyn.com/myths-and-legends">http://evmusings.libsyn.com/myths-and-legends</a></p> <p class="p1">Episode 30 - The Apps : <a href= "http://evmusings.libsyn.com/30-the-apps">http://evmusings.libsyn.com/30-the-apps</a></p> <p class="p1">Episode 3 - Mainstream dealers ; <a href= "http://evmusings.libsyn.com/mainstream-dealers-and-evs">http://evmusings.libsyn.com/mainstream-dealers-and-evs</a></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Tom Callow tweet re chargers/ infrastructure : <a href= "https://twitter.com/au_tom_otive/status/1224628237470519298?s=20"><span class="s2"> https://twitter.com/au_tom_otive/status/1224628237470519298?s=20</span></a></span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Cool things</strong></p> <p class="p1">Falkirk Stadium Hub: <a href= "https://www.locale