Heathrow car fire @TheSun @DailyMail @DailyMirror & @Daily_Express have been quick to share 'rumours' the car was an EV Even though @LondonFire has said "A diesel car...was destroyed by fire" and "the cause of the fire is under investigation" A🧵 thesun.co.uk/news/36881240/h…

2 weeks ago @BBCNews made a decidedly dodgy claim about EVs: "The average price of a new EV in the UK is nearly double the cost of a typical petrol car at £22k" This was categorically wrong, and we're pleased to say our request for a correction has been successful

Lots of Gov EV announcements in last 24hrs And lots of dodgy reporting The best/worst being this gem from @BBCNews "The average price of a new EV in the UK is nearly double the cost of a typical petrol car at £22,000" Categorically wrong - here's why: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5z…

Back in March, we complained to the BBC after @BBCr4today made errors in its reporting on the UK govt's relationship with Tesla A long overdue update: the BBC has admitted & corrected one of these *mistakes/errors* A win, but also disappointing... 🧵

Here's some A-grade EV misinformation from the @Telegraph "EV fires up 77% in two years!!!" What the @Telegraph fails to mention is that the number of EVs on our roads has gone up 105% in those 2 years Which means the frequency of EV fires has actually gone down! 1/4

Pleased to see the @guardian correct an article from a couple of months ago, which made some dodgy claims about EV demand falling A short 🧵 on three things they got wrong... theguardian.com/business/202…

OK, so, the SMMT's new car sales data for February What's it telling us? A thread

Today we published some analysis on what a weakening of the Government's EV sales targets - the ZEV mandate - would do to the 2nd hand EV market It's not pretty 2.7m fewer 2nd hand EVs would be available - adding £40bn in total running costs for UK drivers A thread

So, tomorrow we get the data for new car sales in January 2025 As always, attention will focus on how EV sales performed And, of late, quite a few misleading things have been said about EV sales Here's a thread on what they are, and why they're misleading

🚨 A recent article in @thetimes by political editor Steven Swinford contained a major factual error - the claim that demand for EVs was falling After our complaint to @ipsonews, and some stonewalling by the paper, the article has finally been corrected A thread 🧵