Posted on 12/22/2022 6:24:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Ford is what too?
be the first big auto marker to go bankrupt building EVs
Agree. Toyota is putting a small effort into pure EVs but focusing more on ICE/EV hybrids which I believe is the rational way to go if one must choose any kind of EV. Personally I think that the future cost of battery raw materials will make EVs undesirable for us regular folks.
Maybe they will find ‘di-lithium crystals’ on the moon that are small enough to fit in passenger cars ...
>No ICE vehicles will get registrations.
Then they will drive them unregistered.
Too late.Done deal. China will flood the market with low cost EV’s in 2 years.
We have 2 Toyota cars. My hubby's Camry is 20 years old and still reliable. My Rav4 is 12 years old and hubby will begin driving it after we get a new Rav4. All that has ever been required with these 2 cars is normal maintenance. Very reliable vehicles.
When these vehicles first appeared, it became quite obvious that they did not perform well, or at all, in cold weather. But, it's the new thing--- it's "green"; so, no one looks at the actual facts very closely.
And, don't even get me started on the children in Africa digging up the toxic material needed for all of our EVs and phones.
The cost for infrastructure is more than most people can imagine. Wind and solar are inherently unreliable. As the EU how it's doing; also as TX how their solar did last Winter. Windmills are a joke. Combined, solar and wind are >10% of the power grid. A real non-starter.
I'll keep my 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Supercharged HEMI V8 'Trackhawk', thankyouverymuch, EV morons.
Only if 90% of people driving give up their gas vehicles and stop driving completely.
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