Posted on 01/07/2022 6:38:14 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Deloitte’s new report sees a messy future.
A new report from the big-time, grownup pants Deloitte consulting firm indicates just how big an undertaking that is proving to be.
Much of what Deloitte reports is unsurprising. People still vastly prefer personal vehicles over public transportation; are willing to embrace high technology as long as they don’t have to pay for it; that they still want to buy new vehicles in person and not over the internet; and that they’re fine with electric vehicles as long as they’re affordable and at least as good as those relying on internal combustion.
Governments are driving forward with aggressive plans for converting the vehicle fleet to alternative fuels. What prominently emerges from the Deloitte report is that ambitions are one thing, and reality is something else.
“There are a lot of big, all-in bets being made,” Robinson asserts. “We’re right in the middle of a very messy time.”
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No one wants them. They are being shoved down our throats. We cannot afford them or their fuel.
Not personally, but they keep pushing it hard.
As a second vehicle, I’d like a Tesla pickup. Not if I had to drive it a long way.
Not currently.
When I can fill up like a gas car.
That Biden fellow caused lithium prices to rise seven-fold since his election:
https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=lb&d=0
The Biden seven-fold lithium price rise impacts electric vehicle buyers world-wide, not just in the USA.
Rechargeable power tools with lithium batteries have shot up in price.
No. do not want an oversized battery powered golf kart with pathetic range and “refueling” time.
I have a hybrid Toyota and appreciate its efficiently. I would trade it for a plug-in with a gas motor but that’s about as far as I would go.
They need to make sure only electric vehicles can be used in Northern Virginia and DC.
Yes, I would.
I plan to have an offgrid place with a stream to generate power.
An old Leaf or something would be nice, but I would never give up my current fleet, the red barchetta especially
For Free?
“They need to make sure only electric vehicles can be used in Northern Virginia and DC.”
EV cars work perfectly well in Iceland and Finland, what you say makes no sense.
An ev battery can keep a seat heater running for weeks
Again, what is the “problem” EVs are trying to solve?
I’m guessing no one on I-95 the other day was yearning for an electric car.
Who here is planning on buying a Chrysler EV?
LOL!
I’m guessing that anyone stuck in the snow on I-95 last week in an EV is having second thoughts.
Whoever paid for the survey shouldn't have wasted their money.
Chrysler should have gone out of business in 1977.
No way the infrastructure will be able to handle everyone driving EVs, which is the point, to get rid of personal transportation.
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