Posted on 04/08/2022 7:58:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ve been a car enthusiast for a long time. In my early teens, I would take a bus from my town in the mountains, down to the city. I walked to the avenue where most of the car dealers were. To their chagrin, I would end up with a large collection of their glossy (and for them pricey) auto brochures. I would pore over these with great interest.
In those days, a fast car would run the quarter-mile in roughly 13 to 14 seconds and do 0 to 60 between six and eight seconds. Such a vehicle would need a large 6 to 7l V-8 and with essentially no power accessories or air conditioning.
Today I drive a small German wagon. It has full luxury appointments and accessories that we could not even conceive of in the 1960s. It has all-wheel drive which makes it extremely capable in the snow. With the climate control engaged and Mozart on the multi-speaker sound system, it will run 0 to 60 in the low five-second range with a 2 liter, 4 cylinder engine. I routinely drive it on long trips around 80 miles an hour and get 30+miles per gallon. This is not to brag. Routinely automobiles made today are capable of this kind of performance and comfort and with scant emissions.
So why are they trying to convince me to buy an electric car?
Based on their advertising, it seems that every automotive manufacturer has decided that I need to drive a battery-powered vehicle. This is at a time when internal combustion engines have become much more efficient and refined, with pollution almost eliminated. I grant you we are going through a time of expensive fuel. There is, however, plenty of supply and eventually, prices will come down.
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Because of Tesla’s P/E ratio, something that the majors want to get in on as much as possible.
When I decide to get my first covid shot I’ll run out and buy one to drive it there.
Make the big guy happy? Heard chrysler is allegedly going all EV by 2026 or some crap. Seriously? In some situations that may be fine but there are other situations that they just are NOT a viable alternative. At least not currently. So to speak.
The manufacturers are buckling to pressure from the government to force us all into EVs.
Goebbels Warming, you know.
Forget being able to afford them.
Important questions: what source energy is currently being used to charge the EVs? And how will the EVs be charged in the future when everyone is driving them as Biden wants?
“So why are they trying to convince me to buy an electric car?”
Because the GD GOVERNMENT told them to.
Putting my tinfoil hat on. I suspect that forcing the whole country to go with electric vehicles and electric heat makes it easier to “discipline” us when we say and do inconvenient things.
There are many scenarios in my mind where a battery car is not practical......most are emergency related.
Just like covid shots....it’s all about control and compliance.
Because the gummit is paying them to make them to get rid of the greatest invention by mankind.
That is the question no Democrat wants anyone to ask. In Nashville our electricity is coal powered, so an electric car is dirtier than a standard Hyundai.
The U.S. is heading down the road for a giant disaster once EVERYONE has an EV. There isn’t enough electricity in the world to keep them all running. Windmills and solar panels aren’t going to cut it. The cost of electricity is going to be a biatch.
Also it seems that too many decision-makers are living in places like Europe and the West Coast of the U.S. where electric vehicles and heating systems are appealing.
Keeping people closer to home serves the cabal’s interests better.
Why are the car makers pushing EV?
Biden raised the fuel economy standards. These are average across the fleet. Every EV sold allows the auto makers to sell more gas powered vehicles.
Electric cars have been “around” for a while. America loves and embraces innovation that works and improve society.
If electric cars were going to be a thing, they would have been a thing already. Niche market toy only. Sorry.
And the brain dead public happily comply.
will keep my gasoline cars and trucks and it gasoline gets too expensive will convert them to propane.
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