Dutch EV expert debunks Murdoch-pedalled myth about electric car emissions

Dutch electric vehicle expert Auke Hoekstra has cut through the latest claims of renowned climate denialist Bjorn Lomborg, published this weekend by The Australian, on the emissions from electric vehicles.

The Lomborg article, as Hoekstra puts it, has one clear message: “electric vehicles are an expensive and meaningless way to combat climate change and only useful for virtue signalling by people with too much money.”

As it happens, this is a view trotted out by the Murdoch press on an at-least annual basis.

But Hoekstra – an EV, energy and smart grid researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the same university from which the 2019 winners of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Cruiser Class hail – is not having any of it.

He took to social media channel Twitter on Sunday (Australian time) to debunk the latest claims.

Read the story from The Driven by Bridie Schmidt - “Dutch EV expert debunks Murdoch-pedalled myth about electric car emissions.”

We are 'One Nation' under climate science denial

Climate science denial is espoused by many throughout Australian society.

The fact is illustrated in a Guardian story headed: “Australia’s One Nation under climate science denial”.

It says fringe and extremist groups in Australia are pushing climate science denial.

“One Nation”, it writes, “appears to have gone shopping in the Climate Science Denial Mart and come back with a while deli of debunked talking points.”