Posted on 11/04/2019 12:17:12 PM PST by karpov
New York Senator Chuck Schumer has promised that if Democrats win the Senate in 2020, they’ll pass a law requiring that every car in America be electric by 2040. Chinese policymakers must be celebrating, because China makes the majority of the world’s batteries and has the most new battery factories under construction. The Chinese will need someone to buy all those batteries. This past summer, when China abandoned subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs), sales collapsed. China’s plan now is to require automakers to produce EVs, but at a paltry 3 percent to 4 percent of output. Perhaps Beijing will ultimately increase the allocation, but truly revolutionary technologies never require governments to order their adoption. As for Schumer’s plan, it will fail on every front—including saving China’s battery industry.
Let’s start with what consumers want. SUVs and pickups now account for 70 percent of all vehicles purchased. Most people, it seems, like big vehicles. The minority who buy purely for economy choose small cars with gasoline engines. This option, by the way, puts less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than a Tesla.
Consumers are price-sensitive in every category, a reality that politicians ignore at their peril. Batteries add about $12,000 to the cost of small and midsize cars. That’s meaningful for all consumers but the 1 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, automobiles constitute the most expensive category of consumables for the average household, costing twice that of health care. (Housing is the biggest expense, but that’s not a consumable.) A recent McKinsey analysis suggests that automakers could “decontent” EVs to cut costs—that is, take out the extra features that every salesman knows are what sells cars.
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Mark my words....Electric cars will go by the wayside....just as they did 100 years ago.
Great for all the ranchers out there raising herds of farting unicorns. The rest of us, not so much.
sCHUMER IS ANTI-sCIENCE AND eNGINERING?
Whoda thunk it.
NYC Lieyahs can be pretty dumb.
Until a new battery technology is developed that uses readily available rare materials the electric car revolution is a pipe-dream. Schumer is an idiot and this only reinforces that perception.
It’s all about the battwery[sic - typo] tech.
I find it somewhat humorous how many wires I now have to deal with all of my “wireless” devices.
A Diesel generator trailer for my future Electric Car [trailer hauling pickup?] would seem to be a necessary accessory.
We need Co for magnets and steel alloys too.
Remember when you actually had to be fat to be fat? Juggle the body-mass index, and PRESTO! Everyone is overweight! That way, good Leftists start grazing instead of eating meat, and without the protein to grow more neurons, they benefit from a wonderfully uncluttered mind.
I’m still waiting for the flying cars.
Here is a basic scientific fact rarely addressed. As long as you lug a half ton of very expense battery around, full sized cars, they’ll have to be tiny.
Nickel is going up now and Cobalt theft is increasing.
These idiots have decided that reason, logic and math are their mortal enemies..
What with the electric grid shut downs and the take over of PG@E
Look in a catalog of small engines (diesel, gas and LNG powered)
Anything suitable to make a generator has a note: Not available in CA.
Women, children and Mexican leaf blower operators hurt most.
What with the electric grid shut downs and the take over of PG@E
Look in a catalog of small engines (diesel, gas and LNG powered)
Anything suitable to make a generator has a note: Not available in CA.
Women, children and Mexican leaf blower operators hurt most.
Ping.
Makes me wonder how much money Schumer gets and has gotten from the ChiComs.
Wow, so EVs are only $12,000 more expensive than gasoline vehicles?!! That is a tiny margin considering the savings.
Still, I’m not wholly convinced. What are the mechanical savings on an EV? Is there less to break down? What does it cost to service? And what is the useful life of the batteries before they must be replaced?
Juggle the body-mass index, and PRESTO! Everyone is overweight!
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Diet and weight requirements change by age. Babies need fats and proteins to develop properly. Youngsters are still growing and also need fats and protein. Women in their reproductive years have specific nutritional requirements so they can provide for themselves and their babies. Middle-aged desk workers need less calories than manual workers, but manual workers require more protein. The elderly need to guard against unintentional weight loss and may need to add calories after 80.
If my 68-yr-old, physically active, manual-laboring husband weighed what the BMI charts say, he would be a skeleton with no muscle mass. When I did weigh what the latest charts demand, everyone tried to feed me up and said I looked anorexic.
The nannies want weak people with no muscle mass and no nutritional reserve. Such people are easily overcome and cannot function in harsh climates, doing required physical labor. They have no reserves when faced with illness.
Leftists may acquiesce, but the target of this nonsense is everyone.
Sorry for the rant, but this is a pet peeve of mine.
You all are missing the point. They mean to reduce the number of private personal transport conveyances by about 95%. Under the new feudalism, the ruling elite will have access to technology, while the serfs will live in a 7th century style, held down by a scheme adapted from Islam.
Indeed. Rather like a coal tender for a steam locomotive. Hey, that's progress!
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