Posted on 08/08/2024 12:06:44 PM PDT by Signalman
Germany’s leading car parts supplier ZF has recently been forced to cut one-fifth to one-quarter of its workforce, owing in part to Chinese competition and in part to “weak demand for electric vehicles.” Other firms like Bosch, Continental, and Webasto have also been forced to “restructure.” Yet the CEOs of these companies continue absurdly to believe in the future of “electromobility,” since the European Union plans to outlaw fossil fuel-powered vehicles as of 2035. The short-sightedness of EU bureaucrats will lead inevitably to market implosion and an economic collapse, and the car-makers have no option, it seems, but to comply with government fiat.
Fewer and fewer people want these cars. As I’ve written in meticulous detail, they comprise a technical hazard, a convenience disaster, an energy cannibal, a financial liability, and a moral ignominy. The defects associated with the industry are effectively insurmountable for the indefinite future. Cost is prohibitive. EVs are overall polluters. There is not nearly enough available electric power to fuel them. They are not eco-friendly, despite what the propaganda industry would have us believe. The lithium-ion battery is an IED waiting to detonate, flammable, corrosive, and toxic. My neighbor, a Director of Engineering for a major tech firm, cautions: “Never park an EV in an enclosed garage. Not if you value your house.” A test driver for a German EV manufacturer in a comment to the above-linked article reports: “The vehicle's range was too low [and] charging station connectors failed to communicate with the onboard computer.” EVs tend to stall during a downpour. Charging times can run up to an hour and a quarter for an 80% fill compared to a few minutes for an ICE vehicle.
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I fully agree. And the spankings should be bloody.
Every time I see a list of the faults with EVs, I learn of another hazard with them. Somebody in the industry needs to wise up & quit building them. Government officials need to start ignoring the so-called environmentalists on this subject as well. The EVs are just not worth it, but I do understand that they meet some people’s needs. Maybe they will change their minds when they can’t go anywhere in the winter or the
thing catches fire & burns down their house & garage.
I really don’t object to the idea of storing energy in battery plants to stabilize the grid but question the long-term affordability of these plants with the inevitability of battery replacement looming (sooner then you think). Some of the advanced storage batteries like vanadium redox flow type can last longer but still, 25-30 years is the outside limit.
“This is nuts.”
What do we do about it? As the 3rd world floods in, who is “we?”
A 20% import tariff will more than eliminate any cost advantages to building factories in the 3rd world.
“A 20% import tariff will more than eliminate any cost advantages to building factories in the 3rd world.”
I agree that tariffs are a reasonable idea, but I wish we could compete with the rest of the world on a level playing field.
The owners of the company will steal some of the .gov money and then run.
Then the plants will close—and everybody will wonder why that happened.
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