Posted on 09/12/2023 5:51:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The electric vehicle honeymoon is over. Don’t expect the marriage itself to last much longer either.
The mass conversion from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs) to electric vehicles was never more than a Democrat/environmentalist hallucination anyway. It was the most ill-conceived government policy objective in modern history.
The transition should have been a non-starter. It’s riddled with numerous deal killers. It’s like having a dozen fatal diseases all at the same time.
Any goal as massive as a total conversion from ICE vehicles to EVs requires careful planning and infrastructure preparation. It would necessitate a rapid doubling of electricity generation and grid expansion. In today’s world that’s impossible.
EV promoters could never deliver on their promises. Their grandiose assurances were nothing more than wishful thinking.
There was no market research. Hmm -- I wonder why. There were no feasibility studies. Hmm -- I wonder why. Did they actually believe everyone would tolerate spending hours to charge their vehicles rather than the minutes they were accustomed to?
Car dealers are resisting further deliveries of EVs because of swelling inventories. Avis and Hertz can’t even get people to rent EVs! Yet, manufacturers are ramping up production just as consumers are balking. Something will have to give, and soon. EV makers and their shareholders will tire of pouring money down a rathole.
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EVs today are just indirect coal powered vehicles with the smoke stack in someone else’s backyard.
It IS the most ill-conceived government policy objective in modern history...................
In all of US history.
This Democrat/Environmentalist hallucination will come crashing down RIGHT AFTER all the government subsidies end.
For now manufacturers and their beloved shareholders are ONLY surviving by government subsidies. In other words making PROFIT through FAILURE!!!
So, short Tesla.
Banned from parking garages but they can turn the garages into living quarters for Illegals
its a cramdown
they are moving forward
because they are going to declare a climate emergency
its coming
winter is coming
Let’s see, what could go wrong...
Travel to a different city for vacation (most airports are usually not in the best parts of town BTW), get your EV Rental and drive off. Not familiar with the area, not knowing where to go for chargers, turn the wrong way in certain neighborhoods, watch out!
Or, was that the plan all along???
EVs save the planet the same way CoupFlu vaxxes protect public health.
The only thing governments know is how to waste money but now they’re climate experts ,LOL
I have thought that as the government forces ICE cars to the sidelines, hybrids would become the norm rather than battery EVs. But looking at the Toyota Prius, sales peaked ten years ago and have fallen precipitously since then. Suggests that EVs will follow the same trajectory, short of government control and coercion. It appears the gas guzzler is here to stay, short of draconian measures.
Using an electric motor to provide traction power for road vehicles, in fact, for self-propelled vehicles of many types, including off-road and industrial/agricultural use, has a large number of advantages, in that the motor may be located close to the traction wheel, and every wheel on the vehicle may be a traction wheel. There are no complicated transmissions, or differentials, or vulnerable drivelines.
The answer was almost right with the introduction of the hybrid ICE/electric vehicles, and the concept was highly adaptable. Power was generated on-board with an ICE driving an attached generator, which in turn supplied power to each of the traction wheels.
To allow for differential speeds of each of the wheels while turning, a computer-guided power supply to each of the traction motors, slowing those wheels with the shorter turning radius while applying more power to those with a longer turning radius, should work reliably. Because electric motors have maximum torque at stall, unlike most ICE engines, complicated transmissions with multiple progressive gear ratios would be unneeded, and with the electric motor located close to the traction wheel, driveshafts and axle housings would be eliminated.
The concept is not new. Railway locomotives have used a similar Diesel-electric system for what is now nearly a century, and the steam locomotives, highly complex mechanisms on the best of days, were virtually eliminated by the early 1950’s as the greater efficiency and reliability of the Diesel-electric locomotive was proven over and over.
EVs which rely on batteries alone for power storage are a dead-end, suitable only for niche applications, and are no more applicable to wide adoption than the mini-car designs from the 1950 to 1960 era, and which were little more than glorified motorcycles.
A fad that shall soon face.
EV’s could still have use in cities where drives are short. They are not a fit in the open country and pulling loads.
Ain’t Communism Wonderful.
Oh, NOOOO!
Winter is coming and that means the climate will CHANGE.
Quick, pass another law to stop this dangerous act of Mother Nature!
“The electric vehicle honeymoon is over.”
oh stop it already.
You don’t want one, don’t buy it.
EV’s are prefect for lots and lots of folks.
I want one but can’t justify the cost for my limited use.
Would really like something like a simple, stripped 1985 Toyota Pickup with a Tesla motor, or an EV powered Kei truck. I don’t need a 2 Ton, $50K, 13 Ft long ICE monster.
Stop the subsidies (for ICE cars and Petroleum too), and let the market work.
We don't have a market economy anymore. Government picks winners and losers.
Kind of, government tries to make winners which seldom occurs. And they are proficient in making losers out of once profitable enterprises.
“EVs today are just indirect coal powered vehicles with the smoke stack in someone else’s backyard.”
Until is catches fire, then the toxic smoke is all over the neighborhood.
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