Posted on 01/28/2021 8:32:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
GM To Go Bankrupt ,again, in 2035.
“If you want a well made car, look for those three little words “Made in Japan” So if youre like me and my hubby and you got a lot of kids, get a Toyota Sienna. If its just for you, get a Corolla or a Civic.”
Ah yes, like the Toyota Tacoma and tundra that fold in half because of frame rust?
What was that one recall because the spare tire including the mount would fall off the truck?
Made in japan LOL. EVERYTHING be it toyota, nissan, mazda, etc sold here in the U.S. is built here in the U.S. or mexico.
Neither America’s power generation nor her power delivery infrastructure will support such a large transition away from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles to electrical vehicles that get their energy from fossil-fueled power stations 20 miles away. Elon Musk already has mentioned this himself.
If the government raised taxes and cut every program in existence down to the bone, they might have enough funding to implement the changes to the grid ... over the next 30 years.
2035? Not a snowflake’s chance in hell.
In 2036, GM will be broke...or building cars in China.
Thanks, Joe!
We have too many children running things in this country. Until they’re willing to talk about nuclear power for the grid, they aren’t serious.
True that! Behind the plan probably
My electricity is nearly free. I pay 3 cents per Kwh and use as much as my heart desires. Its 80F in my house and 30F outside my dual zone heat pumps are working to keep it so I can lay about in my boxers shirtless mid winter time. During the summers my spouse yells at me for setting the lpwer zone where my mancave is at 66. I have 15kw panels up on my roof that output a 120 or more kWh per day on a sunny day. North Texas has 220 sun days per year according to the NOAA.gov 30 years climate history for the DFW airport. Even during the summer running 66 low zone and 70 in the upper we habe never used more than 80kwh in a 24 hrs period. Those panels cost me zero dollars I didn’t pay for them the solar power company leasing 3500 sq ft of roof real estate did and they pay me via a power contract. All I can use at 3 cents per Kwh paid at the end of the month. They sell the surplus to ERCOT at peaker rates and turn a tiddy profit I’m sure. My next vehicle will be a model 3 LR from Tesla. 330 mile range 250kw super charge plug and 4 miles to the kWh in gross power consumption plug to wheels.
I’ll do the math for the challenged
3 cents per kilowatt divided by four miles driven for that amount. Is 0.75 CENTS per mile.
My Volvo S60 T5 currently gets 30 mpg on 93 RON which is currenly 2.18 per gallon
$2.18/30 = that’s 7.266 cents per gallon or ten times more.
Put another way driving a Tesla 3 at my power costs is equal to getting 93 octane gasoline for 21.8 CENTS per gallon. Plus never having to change oil ever again for a Volvo thays $120 every 7500 miles full synthetic. Never having to change spark plugs at 65000 mile intervals for $950 Volvo puts the plugs under the valves and intact its three hours of shop time to get at them. And never having to change a timing belt $1200 @ 105,000 miles.
Tesla has a 8 year unlimited mileage warranty on their battery packs. Firstly I have never owned a vehicle longer than 5 years before a trade in because I put 36,000 miles a year driving from BigD to Midland, Houston and Holma La every two to three weeks. There are super charger stations along I20 , I45, and I49 closer together than my bladder makes it. 330 miles is 6 hours in the seat 2 hours longer than I ever go. With super charging you can get to 80% in 20 minutes. I look at the Big D to Holma run as my longest leave bigD full charge stop for lunch in Lafayette home of crawfish town and few super charger stations eat charge and then direct to destination skow charge while I’m off shore for three weeks and have enough to get to Shreveport on the way home and Herby K best shrimp po boy in NW La. Super charge in Shreveport and be back home to my panels. The average american has a 40 mile or less per day round trip work commute with a 300 mile range EV thats a full charge once per week no different that going to the gas pump once a week if the gas pump was in your garage. Tesla knows what they are doing the next gen will have 800 volt plugs with 500 and then 1 megawatt rates thats a full charge in 5 minutes or less. Tesla packs are liquid cooled the charge rate heat is irrelevant with liquid to copper heat exchangers.
The headline twists what GM said.
They said zero tailpipe emissions. That could also mean hydrogen cell of even at a stretch hybrid
Wish you were here to see this
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