YOU WILL buy them and YOU WILL be glad you did.
Never forget, Drumpf was a dictator.
Posted on 03/07/2021 8:08:35 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Car dealer Brad Sowers is spending money to prepare for the coming wave of new electric models from General Motors Co. He is installing charging stations, upgrading service bays and retraining staff at his St. Louis-area dealership to handle the technology-packed vehicles.
But when he considers how many plug-in Chevy Bolts he sold last year—nine, out of the nearly 4,000 Chevrolets sold at his Missouri dealerships—it gives him pause.
“The consumer in the middle of America just isn’t there yet,” when it comes to switching to electric vehicles, he said, citing the long distances many of his customers drive daily and a lack of charging infrastructure outside major cities.
As auto executives and investors buzz about the coming age of the electric car, many dealers say they are struggling to square that enthusiasm with the reality today on new-car sales lots, where last year battery-powered vehicles made up fewer than 2% of U.S. auto sales.
Most consumers who come to showrooms aren’t shopping for electric cars, and with gasoline prices relatively low, even hybrid models can be a tough sell, dealers and industry analysts say.
Auto makers are moving aggressively to expand their electric-vehicle offerings with dozens of new models set to arrive in coming years. Some like GM are setting firm targets for when they plan to phase out gas-powered cars entirely.
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It’s not just that the consumer isn’t there, the logistics aren’t there. Not enough range for much of the country, takes too long to re-charge vs. 5 minutes to fill a gas tank, not enough places to re-charge because you can’t get in and out like a gas station so you end up with long lines. More EV propaganda.
I hear they are a big thing in those retirement golf course communities.
if anyone remembers the first led flashlights and then led light bulbs, they were not great either, but now that they are if I have a choice between led and incandescent, mostly I will use led.
exceptions for Lava lamps and ez-bake ovens
and sometimes the florescent tube ones are good also, like for motion sensitive outside lights so they start dim in the morning when you go outside.
I guess what I am saying is when electric cars get better and cheaper many people will choose them, but there will be use cases for gas and diesel powered vehicles
Until you can get an EV to recharge the battery in 5 minutes or less, I fail to see how this is a "superior technology" over the internal combustion engine.
Eloithink - clashing with reality since 1960.
Why the hell would u limit your travel that way?
8 hrs to fully charge, 100 mile add @ 35min with a rapid charger. IF you can find a charger.
Gas fill up available virtually every where, 10 minutes, including taking a leak.
Honestly, 90% of Americans will be fine on EVs. You only need to use gas and diesel powered vehicle if you're transporting something cross country. But for rest of us, we go to work and then when we come home, we plug in the EV to the power grid so it will be fully charged in the morning.
This too-early EV push will be a disaster. Not enough generating capacity (build nukes!), not enough transmission and distribution infrastructure. And they’re not suitable for a cold winter storm in the upper Midwest / Dakotas / Idaho / etc.
“we plug in the EV to the power grid so it will be fully charged in the morning.”
How big of a electric bill you willing to pay?
It will cost one hell of a lot more than filling up with gas.
And Texas.
You must live pretty close to an urban area - when I was in Southern California, it’s not unheard of to travel several hundred miles at a time given the distance between cities and the need to jump in the car to go different places.
Yeah, that won't be fun.
Electric vehicles are a joke.
Plugging in an EV worked great in Texas when the power was out.
Much of the move to electric vehicles will be forced by governments.
YOU WILL buy them and YOU WILL be glad you did.
Never forget, Drumpf was a dictator.
Can't drill for oil, though. It's a dirty fossil fuel...
And for some reason EV supporters believe that when tons of rare earth metals and lithium are needed for the EV boom batteries the price of those raw materials will be similar to what it is now. Get real.
That's what the stock market is telling us. And the investments made by our automobile companies into manufacturing EVs. Everyone knows that the government is going to force us to drive EVs with the possible exception of truckers using gas/diesel for their transportation needs.
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