The #2 problem is that most EV owners buy one out of cult-like belief that it's saving the world from warmageddon.
If the only people buying EV's were the people for whom it meets practical use, there'd be few to no problems. But that's too much like free market thinking for the control-freak left.
repeal cafe
cafe kills
now it distorts the market
“tap the breaks” ????
'They do great work for our customers': UAW members at GM to receive $12,250 profit-sharing checks
Since money is fungible, three guesses where GM got the money to do this.
EVs are great, but they have been grossly oversold.
They are greatly upgraded golf carts, good not only for picking up your hot date at the Villages, or riding out to the street to hit the mailbox - they run like real cars, on real roads, and you can commute a reasonable distance and go home on a single charge.
I got an all-electric snowblower this year, and it’s great.
But the idea of replacing ICE vehicles en masse, or especially mandating their use? It’s just ridiculous. For many reasons, supply of that much electricity on demand for one thing, and (speaking from central NH) WINTER for another.
Battery-powered EVs are a technological dead end, suitable only for niche applications, and pretty much a rich man’s toy.
Forget “carbon neutral”, that is a pipe dream and an unattainable objective. The answer was ALMOST right with the hybrid vehicles that are still available, utilizing an on-board electrical generation system, driven by an internal-combustion engine, and teamed up with electric traction motors, whereby the engine power was transferred with a minimum of drivelines and transmissions to provide a variable torque output.
Diesel-electric locomotives have been in use for the last eighty years or so, and the technology is well developed, and is scalable to road vehicles, beginning with heavy trucking. But the on-board power generation system is still going to have to be in place, batteries just will not do. This will be able to be scaled even further down to very oompact vehicles.
This should be relatively easy. Take away all the subsidies for EVs and then Let the market decide which technology succeeds.
Electric Vehicles are like the trend in the 50’s and 60’s of little cars like the Messerschmitt.
The goal is for everyone but those in charge to use public transportation, so there is no problem.
Just verifies that the old Russian Communist central planning just doesn’t work well in free societies.
It’s not that problems are plaguing the industry, it that the natural stupidity of the concept finally is coming to the fore.
It’s an immature technology. But, like Krucschev’s corn crop and fouchy’s ouchies, let’s jam it on them anyway.
Gov’t allows lying about how good mileage the electric vehicles have and gives $7,500 rebates to rich people who can afford to buy them and of course the dealers raise the price of the electric by $7,500....