Featured UKs Daily Mail peddles half truths to knock green motoring

Isn't that the entire point of The Daily Mail? I don't think it has ever been held in high regard for factual reporting. They are the Fox news of UK print media.

 

The big issue choking EU/UK is smog/NOx/particulates in cities and the big issue causing that is diesels.
EV's in cities (as well as ultra low emission gaso hybrid Prii) will be better there, no doubt.
This is what the article fails to convey.

Now if/when you start to say EV is better for climate change/CO2, or has better life cycle analysis, then I think you do start to get on a little shakier ground, that the article is pointing out, but that's a "red herring" because diesel smog/NOx/particulates is the issue (if I understand the EU/UK situation).

 

I've heard that particular tabloid called "the Daily Fail" for its quality journalism.

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About 10 years ago, the Sunday Mail wrote about Sudbury nickel mining destroying the region only they cited 1972 photos and data. Lightning strikes twice at the same press only this time they didn't cite a City that would sue them for slander. Regardless, I added this comment:

"Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave" Rachael Nealer, David Reichmuth, Don Anair, Union of Concerned Scientist, November 2015, pp. 3. "Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle. However, replacing gasoline use with electricity reduces overall emissions by 51 percent over the life of the car. A full-size long-range (265 miles per charge) BEV, with its larger battery, adds about six tons of emissions, which increases manufacturing emissions by 68 percent over the gasoline version. But this electric vehicle results in 53 percent lower overall emissions compared with a similar gasoline vehicle (see Figure ES-2)." Bob Wilson, Huntsville, AL​

Bob Wilson

 

Also known as “The Daily Fail”.....


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Another criticism of the Daily Mail article:

Bob Wilson

 

Is the Daily Mail owned by Rupert Murdoch? It sounds like the Fox News of the UK.

 

We have "supermarket tabloids" which are sold on the checkout lines at grocery stores. They cover the latest news about space aliens, bat boy, and impending deaths of famous people. In 1974, I was in the Marine Corps and our lady Gunnery Sergeant would bring her's in. We kept telling her it was a terrible paper but she would say,'No, they have good articles.'

One day, it was on the desk and I idly thumbed through it. The Gunny and Staff Sergeant were talking about something and noticed what I was doing. So I stopped, stood back, and pointed to it in an anxious voice,"Hey Gunny, here's an article that blind man can't see."

She and the Staff Sergeant came over to see the article about 'a blind man can't see' and I instantly regretted the joke. They laughed a little and about an hour later, I got the assignment that was the equivalent of 'cutting grass with scissors.'

The main content of these tabloids are advertising for 'health food' and all sorts of dubious, over priced, products. They are just another scam designed to separate the foolish from their money.

Bob Wilson

 

You have to give some of us more time to get through all the postings. FHoP is towards the end of my list!

 

More like a supermarket tabloid

 

enquirer?

 

i threw one in for good measure

 

Popularly known as “The Gutter Press” in the UK. I’ve been known to peruse it online - purely for the comments section - mildly amusing occasionally (and often a good measure of how irretrievably “stoopid” so many humans are in the 21st century), otherwise it’s one of the worst, mildly toxic news rags in the UK.....I’m not sure if they have proper journalists or a large room filled with a thousand gibbering monkeys and typewriters bashing away............. the dire mediocre quality of some of their articles is something to behold.

The worst bit is when they gratuitously slaughter a technology article they’ve written; with such inconsistencies, mistakes and spelling errors (never mind butchered technology facts), that you wonder why the journalist couldn’t simply double check his facts on YouTube.

p.s. The comments section of this online news rag is an unfiltered magnet for inbred mindless trolls - any article about EVs or The Prius is met with the most repugnant form of pure hatred and astounding levels of deeply ingrained illiteracy.


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I can’t really see how that post actually contributes