Posted on 04/28/2021 7:42:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
But there soon will be a time when electric vehicles will be as main stream as hybrids are today. It really won’t be long before charging times are in the 5 to 10 minute range and the battery range will be at least 500 miles or more.
These laid off auto supply workers can learn how to code.
“proposed banning of internal combustion vehicles”
Production or ownership? [though one will quickly follow the other]
Maybe, just maybe the laid off auto workers will learn that blindly following the union rule and voting for Democrats just does not work.
No wonder we lost the election.
No we didn’t.
Short version:
Gas cars have about 5,000 parts and last 250,000 miles.
EVs have about 300 parts and last 1,000,000 miles.
Bonus: electricity costs ~25% per mile vs gas.
Yeah, way fewer jobs - and major new EV factories are extremely automated.
I lived through the spotted owl debacle. That same comment was made about displaced loggers and saw mill workers. Most of them ended up leaving the area or, if they did stay, were night clerks at the Holiday Inn.
With EVs you are replacing mechanical parts with thousands of wonky electronic devices
“Red Barchetta”, by Rush. Very prescient...
Electricity demand will sky rocket. Costs will soar. God help us when the blackouts come and you need a gas car to get anywhere.
But we don’t have the generation, transmission or distribution infrastructure in place to support the rapid transition to EVs the Left is pushing. And it’s a really bad idea from an energy diversity standpoint. Think about the recent Texas grid down event. How much longer would it have take to come back, how much more pain for everyone involved, if most vehicles were EVs? No thanks.
Not in our lifetimes.
Do you think they have that much copper laid up somewhere?
It all has to be mined.
In the north, cars rust out before the mechanicals go.
The Coders Union strongly supports this UAW.
“EVs last 1,000,000 miles”??? Each time the batteries have to be replaced,, $5,000, $7,000, or more? They talk about setting up ‘fast’ charging stations. What they don’t say is that fast-charging a battery diminishes the overall life of the battery. I so enjoy fast-charging my 6 cylinder, gasoline-powered Ford. I can drive 4-700 miles per tank of gas, then pour energy into it, and go another 4-700 miles. I can ALWAYS use the heater and air conditioner without worrying.
Not only copper is needed but silver. Lots of silver.
Some don’t know that not only do you have to change the battery at $5K+ but you also have to change the inverter at another $5K a pop.
Plus tires, wear and tear of suspension components etc. With an ICE if you do regularly scheduled maintenance a motor can last the life of the owner and be handed down.
And lithium.
And oil, to make the plastic bodies for the cars.
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