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To: Kaslin
"within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs"

Everyone needs to be reminded (again), that we've been through all of this before. In the 90s, California, in all their wisdom, passed a law requiring that ten percent of all the cars sold in California starting in the year 2000 had to be electric. GM, in all their wisdom, poured $2 billion into the GM EV. The problem was that when the year 2000 arrived, no one would buy them. All the problems with EVs have today, few charging stations, short range, small size, high cost, etc., were even more true then. GM even tried leasing them, at unbelievably low lease prices, but few even tired that.

So California quietly rescinded the law, and shortly thereafter GM went bankrupt. I'm quite sure that had GM been able to keep the lost $2 billion on the EV, they could have avoided the bankruptcy.

The same will be true again. There is simply not enough electrical generation capacity to charge an all electric US fleet, nor is there adequate transmission line capacity to get the power to the cars. Even the Democrat party can't spend enough trillions of dollars to put that online, even with natural gas and nuclear generating plants, much less with wind mills and solar panels.

It is a pipe dream of ignorant children, not a viable economic plan of adults.

5 posted on 03/06/2021 5:37:34 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I’ve been saying for a while that anyone pushing for all EVs that isn’t also advocating for a crash plan to develop and deploy massive numbers of nextgen nuclear power plants, probably using thorium, is smoking too much hopium. You can’t power anything anything like the economy we expect on wind and solar.


8 posted on 03/06/2021 5:53:00 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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