It's hard to think of someone better to go to for an opinion on cars than a rental company. It's not just anecdotal, as they have a large sample size, and also corporate and accounting people who make it their business to do cost analysis
Posted on 01/25/2024 11:18:00 AM PST by Red Badger
but Apple will have the iCar in 2028 ,LOL
I’ll always believe that the point was to reduce the number of IC vehicles, and make the rest prohibitively expensive, for many.
There’s “range anxiety” and now we have “EV tire anxiety” — they are lasting 7,000 to 10,000 miles.
Fun historic tidbit: What was the original, first name GM gave the “EV1”?
Hint: It was one of the stupidest names for a car ever.
It has been long known that electric cars have some pretty severe problems in deep cold, and redirect a large portion of their banked power to heat the passengers and the car itself just to maintain function.
I did not know that the chargers quit working in the cold.
Impact...................
Volt
I have a friend who has an EV. She’s very, very proud of it. It is quiet, but she does get range anxiety, as I witnessed first hand. We were traveling on an unfamiliar route for her, and she wanted to make VERY sure we didn’t miss a turn on our way back to her house. I’ve never witnessed her be anxious before that trip.
Another thing I noticed was that she charged her car at one upscale grocery store while she shopped. I couldn’t help but notice how much higher the prices for groceries were there. I guess the other patrons are excited to pay the higher prices so that she can charge her car “for free”.
And that doesnt even begin to touch on the real problems.
I’m not ready to write the epitaph for EVs just yet.
The left keeps pushing them very strongly. Leftists are concentrated in cities. EVs are fine for city driving, where they are unlikely to run low on charge during short commutes (even with city traffic). The leftists who own EVs cannot imagine that anyone has different driving needs than they, so see no reason to not keep pushing EVs.
Of course, if they have their way and EVs become the majority of vehicles on the road, the problem of charging them is going to run head-on into the problem of electricity shortages caused by leftist “environmental” policies. Maybe then, they will realize what a boondoggle they have created—but then again, maybe not. They’ll just blame “greed” as they always do.
What the Left really wants is for the little people to have no access to personal transportation, be it EVs or ICE vehicles.
A general rule of thumb:
Any solution to anything pushed hard by government bureaucrats is going to end up being a boondoggle.
There are occasional exceptions, but they are far and few between.
They will blame it on greed.
They will also launch a new program to ‘fix’ the problems they have caused, usually in a way that causes more problems and abridges our freedoms.
I read an article some years ago about how auto manufacturers work with rental car companies to do market research on new technologies. One guy they interviewed worked for the R&D division of Honda or Toyota and was “loaned” to one of the big car rental companies to work an entry-level customer service job for them while observing the habits of their customers. This guy’s alleged claim to fame was that the industry developed remote key fob trunk and SUV hatch releases based on the research he had done with customers who had no free hands while dragging luggage through airports to car rental lots.
The EV will be a real alternative in the real world when U-Haul switches its entire fleet to EV’s. I have not seen that announcement yet.
“Hint: It was one of the stupidest names for a car ever.:
...the AOC?
Jack Kerouac. What a loser. All he did was write a book about vagrancy. The fantasy of the freedom to wander around doing drugs and having free sex before the days of me too was attractive to a lot of people who had no choice but to work 9 to 5 50 weeks out of the year. My wife does audit books and she finishes every one she starts no matter how crappy. Kerouac was crappy. I listened to part of it with her and was disgusted. He brags about getting by on the largesse of others and stealing to get by. I didn’t stay for the ending.
We don’t know why the chargers weren’t working. We think the cold made them stop. It is possible that they were not turned on. It is possible that the cars were unable to turn them on. Knowing technology, a lot of problems can be determined by being there when the problem is reported. Troubleshooting is a good next step but I don’t think there was any of that going on. The people who could not charge reported that the chargers were not working. Since 50 percent of people are below average intelligence, it stands to reason that 50 percent of EV owners are below average intelligence,therefore 50 percent of charger problems are misdiagnosed.
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