Let them. No subsidies.
I can’t charge at work or home. I can stop at a charging area in a local parking lot or gas station but that eats up my day. ICE I can go from E to 400+ miles range in maybe ten minutes.
The only way I will get an EV is if a direct trade for one of my current vehicles with no money out of pocket on my end. Example: I’d trade my 05 Pickup for a brand new Ford Lightning EV. Seems fair to me. It won’t help the environment at all and it will burden the electric grid but hey; I only use the truck for specific things anyway.
It’s simple. Build an EV with a longer range, faster charging, lower cost, and lower cost of ownership than ICE. All without subsidies, taxes, and fines. They would naturally become the standard. Until I will take the best vehicle for my needs.
As more and more people buy into EV I am looking forward to seeing hopelessly long lines at charging stations the next time we have a hurricane evacuation in the SE.
People will come around when the government bans ICE engines and prohibits the refining and sale of gasoline.
Consistent with what my favorite car salesman is telling me about the pushback he’s getting from his customers. They do not want an EV. Nor do they wish to discuss EV. (BTW, he’s a Cadillac salesman so he’s dealing with relatively affluent and upscale customers.)
Who cares what people want, or don’t want? It’s all about what the government wants. If they want you to buy an electric vehicle, your vehicle choices will continually be narrowed. Eventually, an electric vehicle will be your only option.
Saw an interesting video today. Some guys got a new Ford lightning and a new GMC with the 6.2 gas engine.,then they got 2 identical pull type campers weighing 6,000 pounds each. Then they set out to see how long each could go before they ran out gas/battery. Well the lighting got all of 85 miles when the battery got to 9% charge. Totally f’n worthless.
With the rapidity and certainty that auto manufacturers are moving to EV offers, I have no doubt we will be forced into EVs.
47 % working full time
14% part time
39% Not Working
participants from linked survey
I met a fellow the other week, who had a Tesla. He was spending the night at an AirBnB and was charging his car overnight.
He was quite proud at how he was able to siphon off electricity at various stops for free, and what a great thing having an EV was since gas was so expensive now. 12 hours of charging at 15-20 continuous amps got him about 20% of capacity, or by my figuring an additional $10-15 on the owner’s electric bill.
I wanted to slug him, but thought better of it.
So, based on the fact that a majority of those who would consider buying an EV are open to the possibility of NOT buying an EV, the OP invented their own headline and wrote as if only a small portion of the public would buy an EV, when in reality the vast majority would consider buying an EV.
The biggest obstacles were (1) charging logistics, (2) range anxiety and (3) cost, all of which necessarily decline as the technology achieves wider and wider adoption.
But practically everyone is about to vote Dem in the midterms and Presidential elections again?*
As in hit me again, go ahead, I love it.
*Since the 1990s I have seen polls on various topics and would-be candidates and have come to the conclusion that around 36-38% of voters are conservative or moderately right.
We have to get the so called independent and undecided ones to join us. Those terms mainly mean “don’t really follow the news and don’t really know anything about this issue myself.”
This abortion frenzy is causing agitation here in Michigan and that hag Whitmer is a beneficiary, at least up to now. News stories make people think they will be arrested if they have a miscarriage now that Roe’s end supposedly took away their “woman’s right to choose.” Dangerous.
Nope. No way. My wife is the driver in our marriage due to my physical limitations. She does not do well with modern technology, especially iPhones. From what I’ve seen, using Tesla as the standard, she would forget to plug it in at night. Plus, we like to take car trips over 500 miles. The thought of stopping every 250 miles to do a 30 minute charge is ludicrous.
Since Solar and Wind power cannot be depended on to meet present demands all the time now, how can enough electricity be produced to charge all the electric vehicles that everyone should run out and buy?
And how to they intend to charge them? Unicorn farts?
Every single time an EV battery is fast charged, the life of the battery and it’s range is incrementally reduced.
EV, not ready for prime time. I can buy a lot of fuel for my existing ICE car before I am forced to buy an EV.
That is the point though, they are trying to force this upon us.
EVs are more like cabbage patch kids or mood rocks, a fad for the times made moreso by the feds.
So many things are wrong with them. They are a solution in search of a problem that is being created for them. They may make sense for some but not for me, not now. Not with all the problems they have.
I definitely bought an electric car. It’s almost 3 years now. If I had to do it again I would buy the top model for 4000 dollars more. I don’t charge at home except on rare occasions. I have to unplug the dryer to plug in my car. I got free 600 dollars from the utility as compensation for a home charger and I took the money and spent it elsewhere.
One thing that made it possible for me to buy electric is the fact that my wife has a gas powered car. It takes five minutes to get enough fuel to go 400 miles. With electric it takes an hour to get enough fuel to go 200 miles. The energy cost is about half or better these days for electric. The net cost of the difference in range is measured in hours rather than dollars.
On the upside I have 33000 miles on it and have not changed the oil. Hahahaha. It’s great if you live in the southwest. Air conditioning works good without too much loss of mileage. Heating not so much.
I have taken several road trips of more than 500 miles and plan to again. The only problem is that there are places you can’t go. If you are on a stretch of highway you can’t easily take a side trip of 30 or 40 miles to hime to a waterfall. We drove to the Bristlecone Pines Park but we charged up first.