And do not forget the new and improved road taxes added to them by the states. Such a deal!
Logic?
"Average annual hydropower generation capacity in 2019 was around 131 TWh, about 95% of total electricity production."
iPhones on wheels.
What are all these car companies making electric cars going to do when man made climate change becomes a settled hoax like Russia collusion? It pretty much is now, isn’t it. 2006 Al Gore said we only had 10 years left. Well 2016 has come and gone 6 years ago. He could have said we have 10 years left in 2016 as well and now that is 4 years away and guess what? Nothing is going to be different.
What will we drive on after there is no more asphalt coming from the now defunct refineries?
Huh?
How did WSJ come up with that whopper? Zero?
There has to be another shoe to drop in the article to explain that fallacy but I'm not subscribing to find out.
Top speed 32mph - Range 60 miles(allegedly)
Pickup truck too
Unboxing & Testing My Chinese "$2,000" ELECTRIC Truck!(not me)
I can applaud laying of a few thousand UAW drones.
UAW = United Against Work.
Automation (I installed a lot of it in GM/Ford powertrain plants in the ‘90s) should have allowed Ford/GM to cut labor costs, but noooooo. UAW fought it tooth and claw. At one point workers were clocking in and then spending their whole shift in a “bull-pen” doing nothing, but getting full pay.
So I think Ford is being very clever here. GM needs to follow suit.
“The impact on climate of these cars will be zero.”
If one travels north on I-95 in the second half of April, one will notice that the trees can be green around Richmond, nearly bare just south of Fredericksburg, and increasingly green as one heads north through the Washington suburbs towards the Capitol.
One can also notice via the clouds in the sky a heat island roughly centered on downtown DC. This used to extend to the northernmost point in DC in the 1980s, but now extends to the Washington Beltway.
Higher levels of CO2 have an effect on the atmosphere, but it is limited in area.
I saw some moron charging an electric Jeep Wrangler yesterday.
The only time he’ll ever go off road is a gravel parking lot
Electric vehicles are being put on the road before there is sufficient infrastructure to support them. Worse, their FORCED adoption is probably stifling REAL engineering advances that could perhaps more easily and economically solve the problem of where to derive the energy needed to produce the power to propel road and industrial vehicles.
Fuel cells filled with hydrogen are still a more efficient and environmentally sound means of supplying the energy as needed, without resorting to sometimes clumsy and inefficient storage mediums like rechargeable batteries, which are NOT a prime source of energy, but only a stopgap measure. Ultimately, batteries will be abandoned except for intermittent use in initiating the operation cycle, then taken offline, to be recharged during the operational phase of the main power generation system.
The emotion-driven, reality-denying secular religion of the Left is based solely on “good intentions”. Logic, reason and, especially, wisdom has no place in the tenets of their cult.
EVs don’t need Exxon or OPEC
affordable car <-> used car
When a $5000 long-range battery system dies it could be replaced by a $2000 short-range battery system (paid for on a $50/month payment plan).
In the long run, as the technology of batteries improves, maybe. Maybe for daily commutes.
In the short run - I see this as a trapeze act for Ford and other manufacturers, and if they make the electric move too soon, as Ford appears to be doing, they run the risk of missing the transition to catching demand for electric vehicles and crashing and burning financially. Lookout US Taxpayers, Ford didn’t need a US Government bailout in 2008-2009, but they may well be at the front of the line in the near future. Watch your wallets!
Go have a look at the youtube video of the range test a couple of guys out in Colorado did using a GMC 1500 with the 6.2 motor and a Ford Lighting. They got identical toy hauler trailers and set out to see how far they would go on a full tank of gas/charge. The Ford got a whopping 85 miles down the road before they had to pull in and get a charge. The GMC still had a 100 miles + left in the tank. Essentially the Ford is a 60k grocery getter.
“And do not forget the new and improved road taxes added to them by the states. Such a deal”!
And the “miles driven” taxes that will be coming.
