Thread by @AukeHoekstra

From #dieselgate you may know that carmakers get away with untruthful tests in the EU.

That's important for both scientists and consumers.

Here I explain on Dutch TV @kassa_bnnvara how these lies made taxi drivers buy the wrong EV:
bnnvara.nl/kassa/videos/5…

But there's more!

But it's not just bad for immigrant taxi drivers who see their entire livelihood threatened by the lies because they buy an electric vehicle with too little range and slow fast charging. It also leads to many more people dying of exhaust.

And finally it leads to combustion vehicles seemingly emitting less exhaust which in turn leads to newspaper stories claiming it takes 50k miles for an EV to emit less when it's already closer to 16k miles (and getting less all the time).

https://twitter.com/ColinBaines1/status/1332808329182269441

If you don't want to read the whole thread: here is a graphic summary of the corrections I made to the underlying study used by this cheap attempt to discredit @BorisJohnson's green deal.

Oh, and it also turns out (after some sleuthing by @MLiebreich) that it's probably secretly written by the PR manager from anti-EV company Aston Martin.

https://twitter.com/MLiebreich/status/1332717552888406016

So although much in the fight against climate change is unclear, that it means replacing combustion engines in cars with electric engines is abundantly clear.

https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1332464590156931072?s=20

This fact is obscured by the lies regarding energy use that are sold to the EU public. So let's change that.

In the meantime you can use US numbers because they are more or less correct: fueleconomy.gov