The 28 Electric Cars We're Most Excited to Drive in the Next 3 Years
Mustang ... 
Nissan Ariya
And the rest at the link provided
Posted on 01/28/2021 8:32:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
GM plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines.
The company’s “aspirations” are part of a larger plan for the Detroit automaker to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global products and operations.
GM’s plan comes a day after President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change.For several years, GM has touted a guiding “triple zero vision,” including a future with zero emissions through electric vehicles, but it never announced a timeframe. The other goals include zero congestion and zero crashes through advanced safety technologies and self-driving vehicles.
“For General Motors, our most significant carbon impact comes from tailpipe emissions of the vehicles that we sell – in our case, it’s 75 percent,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in message on LinkedIn. “That is why it is so important that we accelerate toward a future in which every vehicle we sell is a zero-emissions vehicle.”
Electric vehicles, including battery-electric and fuel cell-powered vehicles, are currently a niche segment of the global automotive industry, estimated at less than 5% of sales by analysts. EVs are more costly to produce than those with internal combustion engines due to the battery and fuel cells that power the vehicles. But automotive executives and analysts are bullish that EVs, led by stricter regulations to reduce carbon emissions, are the future for the automotive industry.
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Electric motors are great. I’ve been designing a system to replace the gasoline auxiliary motor on a small (30’) sailboat, which would give me true off-grid capability. Propulsion isn’t the problem, the motor is a fraction of the size of the gas engine it would replace.
The problem with current technology is to get the 400 amp hours of storage I would need at 48 volts turns into a massive, heavy and incredibly expensive battery bank.
So, obviously, the push for all-electric vehicles can’t be about finding a practical solution to transportation. Something else is in play.
Need an better perspective of that number. What's our current electric consumption in gigawatts?
I keep going back and forth about buying a new car. Just made up my mind I am going to fix up my 15 year old car. Engine, body everything. Probably end up being cheaper than buying anything newer and being in more debt.
Get ready for $50,000.00 mid sized cars, AND where in the hell is ALL of this electricity going to come from?? Right now in CA. we don’t have enough electricity for homes!!!
Don't know, but there are a couple shops that do mods to Tesla vehicles, adding loudspeakers and electronics that make the Tesla roar like a V8 beast. Complete with tailpipes, vibrations, and running through gearshifts noise. Good enough to fool people.
Not going to happen. Not full electric. Best estimates that electrics will only have 25 percent of the vehicle market by 2035. There will still be a 75 percent demand for gasoline/diesel vehicles in the world by 2035. A lot of companies are promising to build electrics, but they will still be heavily invested in building gasoline vehicles to meet demand.
Well learned my lesson about GM long ago.. unless I had absolutely no choice would I ever purchase a GM product again. So, make your cars run exclusively on wind power for all I care
Electricity consumption in the United States was about 3.9 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2019
That is like Castro in his benevolence gave out electric rice cookers to all families in Cuba. But most of them didn’t have access to electricity. Oh well.
Good bye, General Motors. Gone, gone, gone.
The 28 Electric Cars We're Most Excited to Drive in the Next 3 Years
Mustang ...
Nissan Ariya
And the rest at the link provided
Neither the power grid nor our national power generation capacity can handle EV loads of more than 5 to 10% EV’s.
And there is no solution for either. Libs won’t allow any new power plants and are shutting down all coal and even gas - so that number is going down, not up. And no, solar and wind are not ever going to catch up for a continual power source.
Cost and logistics to upgrade the grid are both killers on upgrades there too. But that is irrelevant with out the generating capacity.
Answer when EV’s are only thing available? Outages. Rotating outages just like in 3rd world countries, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc.
Marxists are idiots with no common sense.
And I’m a power EE, though admittedly not HV.
The Marxist don’t believe the prols should even breath much less buy and drive cars. It’s not your grandfather’s commuinism comrade.
“Models come standard with 500 hamsters, and an high-end option of 1200 hamsters.”
50 chinchillas will put out more power than 1200 hamsters.
Time to invest in stocks for companies who make power station for the cars.
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