Posted on 11/28/2020 5:56:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Love them or hate them, electric vehicles (EVs) are in our future. If you doubt that, look at signs. Car companies around the world are in a mad rush to pivot to EV manufacturing. Some examples follow.
"Since March 2019, General Motors has committed to invest more than $4.5 billion in three U.S. manufacturing sites to prepare for EV-related production. The company announced it plans to release at least 20 new electric vehicles globally by 2023." This includes a monstrous Hummer which GM is repositioning as a pickup truck to compete directly against Tesla.
Volkswagen (VW), the world's largest car manufacturer, invested tens of billions of euros in electric vehicle manufacture. The company is now accelerating its forecast for electric vehicles and is gearing up to produce 1.5 million of EVs in 2025.
The Ford Motor Company is saying goodbye to gasoline powered vehicles. Ford Chief Executive Jim Hackett
told investors the automaker would slash $14 billion in costs over the next five years and shift capital investments away from sedans and internal combustion engines to develop more EVs and hybrid cars. By 2022, a little more than a year away, Ford expects to have 40 EVs available.
Honda is co-developing EVs with GM. Toyota is pushing up its planned EV rollout by five years, and six new Toyota EV models are appearing in 2020, starting in China. Daimler, the world's third largest car manufacturer, plans for more than ten different all-electric vehicles by 2022.
EV sales in the U.S. are expected to jump from 345,000 in 2020 to over 585,000 in 2021. That's nearly a 70-percent increase.
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Electric vehicles don’t do anything to stop carbon emissions. Sure you’re consuming less gasoline, but the amount of hydrocarbons involved in the production of them and in the energy grid to power them offsets any gain.
Unless there is some break through, where is all the lithium, cobalt, and other limited resources coming from to produce all these EVs? And what is the environmental impact on all the battery waste and production waste?
How long before massive amounts of my tax dollars will have to go to the millions of “poor” who don’t have access to home charging ports? Home much tax money is being spent to extend Internet service to all areas? Getting national infrastructure electrical upgrades, to include homes, will be exponentially more than extending the Internet.
Will my solar panels charge my car overnight while I sleep? Asking for a dim
Electric vehicles are not the car of the future. As soon as one of these almost there hydrogen modules gets perfected so that you are not driving on a bomb hydrogen cars will end up on top.
Because of loss of gasoline taxes, I expect
to be taxed on my electric bill whether or
not I have a electric vehicle.
Last week, I was cruising along at 73 mph and a black Tesla passed me doing at least 85. He had an open left lane and soon was out of sight
If EVs take off, I can guarantee that there will soon follow a battery waste/disposal tax just like the current tire disposal tax, only this “fee” will be significantly more hefty.
You’re going to be taxed based on the distance you drive. It’s that simple.
“who don’t have access to home charging ports?”
What about public charging ports? There are 170,000 gas stations in the US. EV companies say they’ll have 50,000 ports in three years. Nothing like cross-county trip looking around for charging stations, eventually getting towed to one. Then how long would you have to wait for a charge?
Someone tell these nimrods that they need fossel fuel to make the components, batteries, electrical wiring and so forth to create these energy efficient climate friendly vehicles. All a scam to put new people in power of new corporations and get rid of the old
Great point. And it’s not just the number of charging stations that needs to be addressed. It’s the charging time, too. I’d say EVs will not be attractive for most drivers until batteries can be recharged as quickly as a gas tank can be refilled.
In theory, most would be able to add a 220 port in their garage. Therefore, women, children and minorities would be hardest hit by not having access to charging at home, unlike their privileged counterparts. New mandates would follow.
(Great tagline.)
There actually was a guy who made a documentary exposing this. He’s a close friend of Michael Moore and an environmentalist, but he completely exposed the scam of alternative energy and how left-wing groups are making money from corporate lobbyists. It was called “Planet of the Humans”, and YouTube briefly censored it. The guy was completely demoralized and throughout the documentary is trying to cope with the fact that everything being touted as a solution is a lie.
That, coupled with the battery limits/life, effectively corrals us to a short radius around our neighborhoods.
As this is happening, they will also push "self-driving" cars - which will be integrated into the government network "for safety".
They can and will control where and when you go and who you will carry in the near future. The "freedom of the roads" will be a thing of the past - and another link is added to the chains that encircle us "for our own good".
Why not do ‘it’ the American way?
If it is a good investment, investors will be falling over themselves to set stations up.
If a gas station in town has a charging station and stays ‘full’, other stations will install them, then your investors will come up with stations in rest areas etc etc etc or build stations specifically for that purpose.
ALWAYS REMEMBER...
Go back to cars etal in the end of the 1890s and start of 1900s, they were ELECTRIC cars for the most part...with almost 40% electric in 1900.
First electric ‘car’ was in 1830s......
So, electric cars are nothing ‘new’......
The Amazon, UPS, etc. Vehicles are perfect candidates for electric propulsion but are all diesel. Why?
Among examples in Manhattan would be the densely populated Upper East Side and Upper West Side. Along with townhouses. How is charging possible for these rich SJW/AGM leftists (the very demographic most likely to buy EVs)?
States like CA are having trouble meeting the electricity needs of the population _now_—electric cars could turn into a sick joke in a hurry...
Electricity does not grow on trees.
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