Posted on 02/23/2023 12:42:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
California and a few other states are planning to halt the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles in 2035.
Presumably you can still buy used cars after that date but no one seems to know for sure.
This 2035 date came from a decree by the California air resources board, so it’s a bureaucratic regulation, and presumably the date could be changed, if it proves to be impossible to meet that 2035 deadline.
Tonight it will be -22 degrees in Regina, Saskatchewan. Care to charge your car there?
Battery technology needs to make some serious strides in safety and efficiency. As will the current state of power grids. Huge upgrades will be needed.
And lastly, the price of an EV is exorbitant. Those are just the ones that come to mind quickly.
And if everyone did adopt EVs, those subsidies would then disappear, and as soon as your first battery goes kaput and you can’t afford to pay more than you paid for the car to replace it, you are riding the bus.
“Where does the electricity come from?”
The electrical fairy, silly.
4) You vill own nothing and be happy eating da bugz.
One HUGE reason they will-—
Americans are the dumbest people in the world!
Remember, WE are (neo) Marxists now.
Government can, and will, push absurd social-engineering and fantasy economic schemes until literally they have to bash heads to enforce it, and many people start to die from the consequences
So there’s still a lot of runway on this road to insanity.
Once they can figure out how to sell a high quality EV for under 10k with a range of 500 miles and a recharge time of 15 minutes, they’ll sell like hot cakes.
Not an enviroweenie by anymeans but anyone who thinks we will be putting along on the same internal combustion engines forever is delusional. Post fossil fuel is coming and probably much sooner than some people here hope. Theres just so many advantages and entire industries that will unlock. Just because the libtards want needless mandates for something that is inevitable doesn’t mean we need to have a hate boner for superior future technology.
Electric vehicles are bull shiite. They will fail like Carter’s push to the silly metric system.
But more importantly eventually - and it won’t take too long - real car makers will relocate to Red Free States. That will collapse the ash holes that think that electric cars have a future. Two thoughts comes to mind New Coke - and remember when Chrysler used a Super Bowl ad to announce that “Detroit is back!” and thy would be building cars in Motown again!” REALLY? How’s THAT workin’ out for you fake liberal ash holes?
It is the height of stupidity to mandate reliance on the technology that isn't technologically feasible yet. We are in 20 years away at the earliest from better battery technology
Because they suck, are inconvenient and inferior to ICE powered vehicles?
“Once they can figure out how to sell a high quality EV for under 10k with a range of 500 miles and a recharge time of 15 minutes, they’ll sell like hot cakes.”
A bit extreme, but yes, you’re correct.
EVs are not yet for everyone, in all circumstances. But they are great for some folks, in lots of cases. And they are getting better and cheaper.
I’m for “All Of The Above”, but NO Subsidies. Let things survive on their own merit. (After 100 years of Big Oil Cronyism, EVs gotta do it on their own? Not Fair, but that’s the way it’s gonna be.)
“the silly metric system.”
That’s just a really dumb thing to say.
“This 2035 date came from a decree by the California air resources board, so it’s a bureaucratic regulation, and presumably the date could be changed, if it proves to be impossible to meet that 2035 deadline.”
A while back someone did an excellent piece explaining where each of the economy damaging California rules and regulations came from. California has numerous agencies who are making what amounts to laws. These laws are not created by the legislature, but by unelected people serving on boards of unregulated agencies with essentially infinite legislative power. It’s a crazy system. However, they’ve gone so are too the crazy side I don’t see this continuing forever. About finding a workaround to an impossible rule a wise boss once told me, don’t find a workaround. Force everyone to adhere to every letter of the rule. Trust me. It will be changed.
Ping
Electrically powered vehicles will never be more than niche market, so long as they rely on battery-supported technology.
When a viable alternative power source like hydrogen fuel cells become readily available, I can see a future for widespread acceptance. Using hydrogen as the fuel, it then becomes possible to meet changing power demands without a complex system of regulating the output and input of a battery array, and the inevitable problems with excessive heat from either too fast a rate of charge or too fast a rate of discharge.
Electric power could be delivered to the individual wheel, without all the complex gearing and shafts, making four-wheel drive more than just an approximation under all conditions. This in itself vastly changes the design of the undercarriage, in regards to ground clearance, suspension, and even passenger comfort
Making hydrogen gas is energy intensive.
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