Posted on 07/16/2023 10:45:52 AM PDT by Signalman
Same here. I’ll sit still in my Expedition in the driveway and make motor sounds with my mouth if I haveta!
“It is worth it to pay twice as much for a car which is half as good to let everyone at Starbucks know you care.”
To millions of people in America, YES!!! But then that is the problem - they all have their Tesla’s...so now they have to compete against gasoline cars, which have been pretty much PERFECTED over the past several decades.
The EVs never had a chance, and other than the rantings of some Ukraine supporters, will be looked at as a MAJOR MISTAKE.
Hey, if the elites get their way us plebes will be riding bikes, eating algae and bugs and cooling ourselves with paper fans just to help them :save the planet”.
I just realized that I have a golf cart and live in a 15 minute city with gates. Bastages.
If left to sink or swim in the market, EVs do have a niche - they are probably OK for urban commutes. Wouldn’t want to take one more than 1/2 its range from home, though. And it’s not a free market - there are numerous thumbs on the scale.
And I’ve been in a battery factory - nastiest place on earth. Nobody who sees one would consider vehicles powered by them to be “clean”.
It sounds like manufacturers are losing money on these overpriced mistakes. That should tell them something. My kind of driving would allow me fair use of an EV, but my finances sure wouldn’t. At the same time my 18 yr. old ICE vehicle isn’t likely to catch fire just sitting in the driveway, either.
This article was posted days ago.
It all definitely does bear repeating. Thanks.
But the standardization of the NACS (SAE J3400) plug and the arrival of better bettery designs by 2026 could resolve a lot of the issues now with EV's. Imagine being able to plug into a charge like you connect a fuel pump hose on a modern automoobile and charging to 90% power in 10 minutes; that would suddenly eliminate a lot of the issues with EV's.
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