Posted on 07/28/2022 10:55:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Just don’t charge them during heat waves.
Such an informative article — SNORT! The author conveniently omitted critical information:
1. Energy density of the new batteries. Are they closing in on hydrocarbon fuels? Or still at 1/13 of hydrocarbons?
2. Life of the battery
3. Dependence on China for materials. How convenient the author left that out.
4. Dependence on African child labor for cobalt.
5. Recyclability of the new batteries.
6. And biggest of all, where is all the power coming from to charge these batteries?
I don’t want one.
What are the electric utilities doing to support this?
Ford will produce them - and government will FORCE you to buy them.
Yeah, they can build them, but will they sell them. I’m not buying.
I wonder just how many engineers and marketing analysts at Ford have been sending out their resumes since no one at Ford listens to them.
Force will not be required
There won’t be anything else to buy..........................
Yes, you can see BAILOUT steaming straight at us on a collision course. Before that hits us, there will be more HUGE federal tax subsidies to get people to buy EVs. Both ways our pockets get picked.
How many gasoline stations will close before people admit “Whoops, big mistake. The EV demand is not what we forecasted. We need to continue reliance on gasoline and diesel”?
This is what’s happening in Europe with them scrambling to restart old mothballed coal plants with the natural gas shortage and with the failure of “green” energy sources.
Heat waves...or winters. Here in Buffalo, (and this may come as a surprise to some of you), it can get cold during the winters. The car heaters run on battery power. This drains the battery quicker. God forbid you as stuck in a traffic, or a snowbank during a blizzard and the power goes out.
Electric cars have one advantage: When utilities are out and gas is rationed, those with solar systems can charge and drive.
NADA.......................
And I don’t mean the National Automobile Dealers Association!....................
It’s a very hard decision for automakers - how fast to transition to EV’s. I have the feeling that Ford may be moving too fast and like their investment in Rivian, it may be the exploding cigar in their face. Ford miraculously survived the 2008 recession without resort to Title 11, but if it gets ahead of the curve too much on EV’s may be prime for a bailout.
Wow.....I will never buy one
get woke, go broke.
In other words, Ford is saying that if you are under 30 years old, you will have an EV in your lifetime, and you will have no choice but to have an EV.
Won’t be able to if they can’t sell them
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