In response to the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail’s recent coverage of electric vehicles is irresponsible in the face of deadly air pollution caused by road transport. 

The paper itself covered the news that illegal levels of air pollution near child Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s home in Lewisham were a cause of her death, noting that “politicians can no longer pretend” air pollution is a victimless crime.

Yesterday, however, they urged those same politicians to push back the ban on sales of the very source of that deadly air pollution: diesel and petrol vehicles. 

Their “poll of readers” that backed this call was completely at odds with mainstream consumer surveying: just last week EY reported EV buying intent is up to 54% in 2023, and is in fact significantly higher than petrol/diesel buying intent (41%).

Not supporting the clean transport transition risks the health of millions of British citizens and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Let’s stop the scaremongering and insulting consumers and businesses, who are driving the change and embracing the electric vehicles they know are the future.

Sources:

EY report: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2023/06/uk-electric-vehicle-buying-intent-continues-rise

Daily Mail coverage of air pollution: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9077107/The-extraordinary-moving-story-grieving-mothers-vow.html