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Electric car owners have HIGHER than average carbon footprints, study reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13916505/Electric-car-HIGHER-carbon-footprint.html By Wiliam Hunter Electric vehicle owners have a larger average carbon footprint than other drivers Researchers say the average electric vehicle owner is richer and more educated Electric cars have slowly but surely become the ultimate status symbol for Hollywood’s eco-minded elite, with everyone from Robert Downey Jr. to Kim Kardashian jumping in on the trend. But scientists […]
Even the car dealers agree — EV mandates are crushing the industry – Dealerships urge relaxing of emissions regulations in open letter as EVs pile up on lots
Even the car dealers agree, the EV mandates are crushing the industry. https://t.co/KicPHwV264 — Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) September 30, 2024 https://www.autonews.com/dealers/dealerships-urge-state-and-federal-officials-relax-ev-mandates Dealerships urge state and federal officials to relax emissions regulations in open letter – The flattening of EV sales growth has left vehicles piling up on their lots, the dealerships wrote. Dealerships Urge State […]
140,000 electric Mini Coopers recalled over major fire risk
140,000 electric Mini Coopers recalled over major fire risk By Paul Homewood h/t Graham Worthington Whoops!! From The Driven More than 1400 luxury electric vehicles are being recalled in Australia amid warnings their batteries could short circuit and catch fire while being driven. The federal transport department issued the recall on Tuesday for Mini […]
Hotels in China start to ban EVs and electric scooters from underground parking lots
Hotels in China start to ban EVs and electric scooters from underground parking lots By Jo Nova We know it’s coming. One day, sometime there will be a skyscraper inferno started by an EV or a scooter and made so much worse because there were other EV’s in the basement carpark. At the moment companies […]
Ford Files Patent to Spy on Drivers: ‘Ford wants to listen to your in-car conversations’
Damion Smy of Drive.com: Ford has filed a patent to eavesdrop on vehicle occupants and play adverts over its infotainment system based on those conversations. Only months after the US launched an investigation into whether Chinese-made cars were being used to spy on its citizens, Michigan-based Ford filed the patent designed to collect voice and data from the vehicle to create targeted advertising within the car.
According to US outlet Motor Trend, the system could also use information such as the destinations in the vehicle’s navigation system to create advertising for, say, an outlet at the shopping centre you’re travelling to – or have frequented.
The US car giant has patented tech enabling it to listen in on your conversations – and play you adverts based on what you and your passengers have said.
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Martin Armstrong: In September 2024, Ford filed a new patent to eavesdrop on riders. They plan to share this information with third-parties to personalize the advertisements riders hear. Ford will also take the driver’s destination into consideration to determine location-specific advertisements and suggestions.
“Cars have microphones and people have all kinds of sensitive conversations in them. Cars have cameras that face inward and outward,” a researcher with Mozilla Foundation told the Los Angeles Times. In fact, 19 automakers in 2023 admitted that they have the ability to sell your personal data without notice. Law enforcement may subpoena these records as well.
Ford claims that the patent was submitted, but they do not necessarily plan to use the technology. “Submitting patent applications is a normal part of any strong business as the process protects new ideas and helps us build a robust portfolio of intellectual property. The ideas described within a patent application should not be viewed as an indication of our business or product plans.
Michigan union members blame Biden electric-vehicle mandates for auto-industry layoffs: ‘Want to slit our throats’
https://nypost.com/2024/09/17/us-news/michigan-union-members-blame-biden-electric-vehicle-mandates-for-auto-industry-layoffs/ ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The auto industry is big business in Michigan, and a major round of layoffs is revving the election into high gear for industry workers in the critical swing state — who blame the Biden-Harris administration’s heavy-handed electric-vehicle mandates for the painful job losses. Stellantis, which manufactures Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles, announced last […]
Chinese Electric Vehicles Could Be ‘Weaponised’ by Beijing, Report Warns
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/18/chinese-electric-vehicles-could-be-weaponised-by-beijing-report-warns/ By Kurt Zindulka The British government’s open-doors approach to electric vehicles from Communist China threatens to undercut domestic manufacturing and expose the country to national security risks, with a think tank warning that EVs could be “weaponised” by Beijing. A report from the China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI) warned that the growing market share of and dependency […]
Electric Car Values in Free Fall as Second-Hand Prices Halve in Two Years in UK
Electric Car Values in Free Fall as Second-Hand Prices Halve in Two Years by Will Jones Electric vehicles are losing value at an “unsustainable” rate as a slowdown in consumer demand causes used car prices to halve in two years, leasing companies have warned. The Telegraph has the story. The British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association (BVRLA) warned that […]
RFK Jr. repudiates the Left on its out-of-touch climate policy: Rips EV mining, solar/wind land clearing, declares off-shore wind turbines are ‘exterminating the whales’ & rejects carbon capture pipelines as ‘boondoggles’
https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/15/rfk-jr-repudiated-the-left-on-its-out-of-touch-climate-policy/ By Peter Murphy “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” Those words were not spoken by Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. last week. Rather, they are words of our nation’s 40th president, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President all four times he headed the ticket. By the 1960s, Reagan made the formal Party switch. […]
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