Posted on 07/11/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Most salvage yards will NOT accept electric vehicles. The media is not reporting on many negative EV concepts having been compromised by the present administration and big money. This is huge news and the media is turning a blind eye. Where are they going to put these cars/batteries when they wear out. Huh???
Market???
With the massive State and Federal subsidies, there is no 'market.'
We no longer teach the incredible carbon cycle. The left has so bastardized the language that any mention of the word 'carbon' has leftists running for their Valium Jars.
Almost ALL life on Earth is carbon-based. Carbon Dioxide is PLANT FOOD! The more C02 released, the greener the world.
Here in western slope Colorado, it seems that dead, retired, junked vehicles, cars, trucks, buses, tractors, combines, backhoes, and balers and such, just get parked in a line against the back fence by the furtherest neighbor.
Only looks good in winter when covered with snow. Otherwise, a linear junkyard.
I’m from the South, where most people use an actual junkyard. With a fence around it. And junkyard dogs.
E.V.s are just another step in the destruction of America by the American haters.
Why not just do what China does with their new electric cars?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8&feature=sharea
“Most Salvage Yards will NOT take EVs.”
Why get rid of an EV? Their purpose is to sit in your garage and be shown to people the next time you have a social event (while you’re holding your nose up, of course).
So, even if you wreck your EV, most likely you can get it looking decent enough for the garage at a body shop, so you’ll still get your money’s worth, even if you never drive it again. Plus you won’t have to plug it in every night in the middle of snowstorms (at times).
I don’t know about the car shells but the only place I have heard of that recycles the EV batteries is a company in Oklahoma.
“I don’t know about the car shells…”
What do you want to bet that the lower end of the auto race world will find a use for them?
I read where insurance companies are totaling out EV’s after minor fender benders. I’m beginning to wonder if there might be a potential market for companies that retrofits IC running gear in an EV chassis. I’m guessing they could be had for little to nothing.
A lot of used cars get sold on the used market to be resold out of the country. No way in hell are EV’s going to be sold to 3rd world countries. No support systems.
Now salvage yards won’t take them and I have read that car dealers won’t take them in for trades.
So, if a person buys an EV, they are stuck with an albatross.
Which they should be. Every E.V. sold plays into the hands of America haters whose purpose is the destruction of the United States of America.
100%
Correct. I won’t. Fire risk from damaged ones. Cost to dispose of junk battery packs.
Buyers are starting to buy good or bad packs but they are not reliable. I recently managed to unload 6000 pounds of old nickel metal hydride batteries from mid 2000s civics and what not.
I was happy to see them go. Someone paid 50 cents a pound for them.
How about we just eliminate any and all subsidies regarding anything solar or EV.
Take away the government funding for nationwide charging stations.
And then we can watch these disasters go the way of the do-do within a year.
One more thing, any EV made in China gets slapped with at least a 20% tariff. If musk or GM wants to sleep with the CCP and make it money, let them pay for it.
It is the batteries, not the rest of the car. Battery recycling has always been a big problem for scrap yards.
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So true.
I tried to find a place to dispose of an old lithium ion auto jump battery ,,, never did find one.
Tried to pawn it off at the local firestation for them to train putting this type of fire out.
The captain wanted no part of it.
That would have been a hilarious episode.
“What do you want to bet that the lower end of the auto race world will find a use for them?”
Maybe an EV Clown Car with a leaky battery. That would be a hoot.
Almost all?
works for me...
You are correct. If you will review my posts (there’s lots of them), you will be hard-pressed to find where I posted something that was incorrect. Some on here already know. Perhaps you haven’t read enough of them.
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