Hard-hitting humour blasts EV policies

April 26, 2021April 29, 2021 John Carey 1707 Views

For a searing satirical summary of everything that’s wrong with EV policies in Australia, just take a look at the latest in the Honest Government Ads series from The Juice Media.

We’ve embedded the video below or you can view it directly on YouTube.

In less than five entertaining minutes their Electric Vehicles ad shoots the Federal Government’s Future Fuels Strategy and the Victorian Governments EV road-user tax to shreds.

While the spokesperson for the “Australien Government” is clearly fake, the facts they highlight are genuine. The ad also highlights the absurdity of Victoria’s EV tax with an excellent analogy: “Hey, that’s like taxing ex-smokers for no longer paying tax on tobacco”.

The Juice Media is a small crowd-funded outfit based in Melbourne, and it’s been producing Honest Government Ads since 2016. Its well-made low-budget productions are shot against a green screen in the living room of the home of founder Giordano Nanni.

He was an academic historian before moving into satire to reach a broader audience. Today The Juice Media’s YouTube channel has more than 500,000 subscribers.

John Carey

Grew up in country NSW, way back when petrol was laced with lead. Has written about cars and the car business for more than 35 years, working full-time and freelance for leading mags, major newspapers and websites in Australia and (sometimes) overseas. Avidly interested in core EV technologies like motors and batteries, and believes the switch to electromobility definitely should be encouraged. Is waiting patiently for someone to make a good and affordable EV that will fit inside his tiny underground garage in northern Italy, where he's lived for the past decade. Likes the BMW i3, but it's just too damned wide...