Sunday 27 November 2022 11:56 PM The cost of electric cars: EVs are a vehicle for government control trends now

Sunday 27 November 2022 11:56 PM The cost of electric cars: EVs are a vehicle for government control trends now
Sunday 27 November 2022 11:56 PM The cost of electric cars: EVs are a vehicle for government control trends now

Sunday 27 November 2022 11:56 PM The cost of electric cars: EVs are a vehicle for government control trends now

Even if they weren't part of the global net-zero accounting trick where cars magically become 'green' even though they are powered by coal via a battery instead of by petrol or diesel.

Even if their batteries weren't toxic, dangerously heavy, prone to early expiry and built with rare earth metals using slave and/or child labour at a horrendous environmental cost.

Even if they weren't noiseless, soulless, pod-like moving computers that go bleep-bloop instead of vroom vroom, I still wouldn't buy an electric car right now.

Driving is one of our last pure freedoms, but this simple pleasure is already in the firing line, not only from climate crusaders, but also from tyrannical health and safety obsessed road toll reducers, who want ever more control over our vehicles and how we use them.

Driving for fun will be considered far too dangerous and damaging to the planet, and when we all drive electric cars it will become a thing of the past (stock image)

Driving for fun will be considered far too dangerous and damaging to the planet, and when we all drive electric cars it will become a thing of the past (stock image)

New Zealand already has a ridiculously utopian Road to Zero campaign which aims to completely eradicate deaths and serious injuries from crashes.

This is the same country that found no freedom too sacred not to sacrifice on the altar of Covid Zero, and safety-obsessed bureaucrats are behind both unrealistic schemes.

Just as there was no price too high for preventing even a single Covid death, the nanny state will never stop eroding our driving freedoms for the sake of saving lives.

And electric vehicles give the virtue signalling paternalists the perfect mechanism for protecting us from ourselves - computer cars that can be controlled or even switched off remotely.

Online data collection and the pandemic have shown us that we are more than happy to exchange freedoms for convenience and safety.

And it's a very short step from self-driving electric cars that obey you to those that obey the government instead - for your own good, of course.

New Zealand's Road to Zero campaign is unachievable, but nanny state bureaucrats won't hesitate to seize as much control as they can over electric cars to try and make it happen

New Zealand's Road to Zero campaign is unachievable, but nanny state bureaucrats won't hesitate to seize as much control as they can over electric cars to try and make it happen

In July BMW owners were shocked to be told that previously included features like heated seats would now be unavailable unless a monthly subscription was paid.

But, as always, surprise gave way to resignation and we can expect this to become standard industry practice, with Mercedes bringing in a similar plan this week.

The German carmaker will charge a $1,200 yearly Acceleration Increase fee to maximise horsepower and torque for its EQ series of electric vehicles in the US and Canada.

Modern vehicles already have speed limit detectors - how long before the government orders car companies to prevent drivers from speeding?

What's wrong with that, you might think, we would

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