Posted on 01/07/2022 6:38:14 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Deloitte’s new report sees a messy future.
A new report from the big-time, grownup pants Deloitte consulting firm indicates just how big an undertaking that is proving to be.
Much of what Deloitte reports is unsurprising. People still vastly prefer personal vehicles over public transportation; are willing to embrace high technology as long as they don’t have to pay for it; that they still want to buy new vehicles in person and not over the internet; and that they’re fine with electric vehicles as long as they’re affordable and at least as good as those relying on internal combustion.
Governments are driving forward with aggressive plans for converting the vehicle fleet to alternative fuels. What prominently emerges from the Deloitte report is that ambitions are one thing, and reality is something else.
“There are a lot of big, all-in bets being made,” Robinson asserts. “We’re right in the middle of a very messy time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at roadandtrack.com ...
At some point EV’s will be the only thing available.
The communists have decided the internal combustion engine must die.
Yep, they will tax the crap out of gasoline and ICE cars.
The global Marxist elite need better control of our conveyance?
Who here is planning on buying a Chrysler EV?
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Nope but I saw that and it’s in my future to short their stock....
There is too much electricity on the grid. The utilities need to put a few hundred thousand 100 amp charging stations in suburban home to sap off some of the excess electric supply, that is, when brownouts are not in effect.
Not if you gave me one.
No.
I expect that in the future, out of state EVs will have to stop at the Chicken Coups (scale houses) when entering/exiting another state to be sure the road use taxes are paid.
—”I’m guessing no one on I-95 the other day was yearning for an electric car.”
I have heard that it gets very cold and snows in Norway?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/electric-cars-take-two-thirds-norway-car-market-led-by-tesla-2022-01-03/
OSLO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Electric cars made up nearly two thirds of Norway’s new sales in 2021, with Tesla the top selling automobile brand overall, as the country pursues its goal of becoming the first to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars.
Nope. They’re right up there with electric airplanes.
“I’m guessing no one on I-95 the other day was yearning for an electric car.”
Why not? If an EV is not moving, it uses no power. You’d be in no more trouble there than in a regular car. You probably can’t sit in a gas powered car for 8 hours with the motor running.
I am not saying there are not problems with electric vehicles but you used a bad example.
That is true as of now, and a lot of the corporate PR about electric vehicles is just pandering to the leftist environmentalists and politicians.
Based on the survey something like 95% of people considering buying a car are not considering buying an electric car. So all the talk is about 5% of the market.
Reportedly Tesla has about a 2% share of the US market, slightly more than the market share for minivans.
If you are an early adopter of EVs, they are a fun toy for now.
—”In Texas, EVs have to pay road use taxes to replace the built in road used taxes in gasoline.”
Here in Illinois and in about 10 other states...So far.
How about the heater?
So where does the heat come from to keep you from freezing to death?
I guess they got sick of being called Toilet and Douche.
EV cars work perfectly well in Iceland and Finland
Considering how much lower battery output is in cold weather, that seems hard to believe. The range is significantly shorter in cold environments.
No thank you.
I agree. I hope the electric motor equivalent of a crate motor that GM has proposed comes to fruition. It would be great for hot rods.
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