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Interest in Electric Vehicles Is Nosediving
The Liberty Daily ^ | September 10, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 09/10/2024 8:42:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/10/2024 8:42:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Experience is the best teacher.


2 posted on 09/10/2024 8:47:26 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: Red Badger

Getting what you were told you needed to ask for, good and hard too.


3 posted on 09/10/2024 8:48:46 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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After the green label is applied, and you have an endless positive and glowing reports of how awesome and great it will be, selling some “vision of the future,” reality settles in.

Expensive
Often low range
Temperature dependent
Limited life span batteries which are very expensive
Long recharge times
Limited charging stations and locations
Questionable environmental net benefit

Form (a feeling/image) vs. function.

Especially if the economy turns negative and people become more aware of the bottom line, this fad (everything in the US is a fad or trend), will end.


4 posted on 09/10/2024 8:50:04 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Red Badger

Another marxist-central-planning, social engineering failure.


5 posted on 09/10/2024 8:50:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

The more it nosedives the more the politicians will enjoy mandating EVs


6 posted on 09/10/2024 8:51:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

Big government pinkos pushed too hard too fast. There are many not so many virtue signalers out there. Yes, they are squeaky wheels that make a lot of noise, desperate to be heard, which is why they run for office. Once there, they have moose their will upon the rest of us.
No one wants your battery card at your increased expense and risk of burning down the vehicle and house.


7 posted on 09/10/2024 8:52:10 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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But the clock is ticking on electric car mandates in California and some other states. Supposedly in California in 2035, sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles are to be banned.

Supposedly you can still buy a used car in 2035, but who knows if sales of used cars will be restricted too.


8 posted on 09/10/2024 8:54:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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How about they stop making EV “Sports Cars” and just make a simple econobox?

Put a battery powered drivetrain in something basic like a 1985 Hilux or 1985 Ford Escort Wagon?
A Big Boy, limited use, road going Gold Cart?

Ford Probe EV’s are still a groovy idea.

Maybe even go whole hog and have an EV Kei Truck?


9 posted on 09/10/2024 8:55:10 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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oh but wait:

“IT HAPPENED! Elon Musk’s $15,000 Motor Home FINALLY Hitting The Market!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTZBEj_-qM

(no way is it gonna be $15,000- can’t even buy his tesla electric car for that price)


10 posted on 09/10/2024 8:55:18 AM PDT by Bob434
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I saw a guy at my local grocer with his EV in the designated parking space yesterday. He was standing next to his care holding the cord of the charging unit in the receptacle of his car like he was pumping gas. My only guess is that he was low on charge and was just being impatient.

I got into my ICE vehicle and left.

11 posted on 09/10/2024 8:55:41 AM PDT by fwdude
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Easy solution: make cost of owning an ICE car more expensive to match or exceed an EV. Bingo.


12 posted on 09/10/2024 8:56:22 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: butlerweave
The more it nosedives the more the politicians will enjoy mandating EVs

They'll mandate EV's, mandate the prices the manufacturers can charge for them, and mandate the price for the power. That will result in shortages or severe quality problems.

The used ICE market will thrive, though.

13 posted on 09/10/2024 8:57:48 AM PDT by fwdude
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This is an Easy Fix:

Mandate Every Public Employee in America be required to exsclusively use an EV or Mass Public Transit for ALL Transportation or be Terminated and All Pension and Retirement Benefits are rescinded.

Watch how fast they fix the problems


14 posted on 09/10/2024 8:58:12 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Rural_Michigan

Easy solution: make cost of owning an ICE car more expensive to match or exceed an EV. Bingo.


Increase Auto Insurance Rates, Gasoline Taxes, etc. they have Six Ways to Sunday.


15 posted on 09/10/2024 8:59:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Hybrids aren’t good either, that’s just a different lie. You still have oil maintenance routine, and the battery will need replacement and is still around $5000 last I knew, which is not a repair the average household can absorb.


16 posted on 09/10/2024 9:00:35 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Red Badger

Never was interested in electric cars.
Doubt I ever will be interested.


17 posted on 09/10/2024 9:00:48 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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I was interested in these Electric Cars...


18 posted on 09/10/2024 9:02:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
IMHO EV's are a bad decision for most situations.

I say that as an EV owner who likes the EV for doing most of our driving (we also have a gas pickup). But we're in a good situation for an EV being one of our two cars (in the south where there's little winter cold, charge at home, drive lots of miles for the gas savings and oil change savings to be significant, most of our trips are along routes with good charging options, and we have the gas pickup for the times an EV isn't good for a trip). Most people aren't in a situation like ours in which an EV is good as one of the two cars.

19 posted on 09/10/2024 9:02:15 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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EVs make sense for local fleet vehicles, like delivery trucks and airport taxis..................


20 posted on 09/10/2024 9:04:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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