No.
Get wrecked.
Signed,
Texas.
Quick answer: NO!
Indiana can feel like a tough place to own an electric car.
The elephant in the EV room is the current (heh heh) state of batteries. Taking a half-hour to ‘fill-er-up’ doesn’t work for most people. The batteries themselves occasionally have a penchant for catching on fires that are very difficult to put out.
Perhaps even a bigger elephant is where does the electricity to charge the batteries come from? The only sources of energy that has the blessings of the enlightened California environmentalists are solar and wind. Even geo-thermal is bad because it endangers toads and hydroelectric is bad because of Indians and salmon.
Electric Cars are a “wet dream” for California considering that they cannot even keep their power grid up and running. That means that someone ‘might’ beable to use their electric car for an hour a day (by sacrificing their refrigerator, air conditioning, etc.)
ca is leading the way in committing economic suicide and implementing tyranny
why arent the red states following?
“Hatred”?
IF there is not a climate emergency
EVs do not make sense
there is no climate emergency
I saw a list the other day on the internet. Around 30 EV assembly line factories, battery plants, battery tech centers, battery recyling centers, chip plants for ev’s are currently being built or planning to be built. Hundreds of billions of investment.
Nearly all in red states.
Conservatives will love ev’s when many of their family members are employed in high wage jobs by EV companies in one way or another
Guess What California Is Using to Survive Its Latest Energy Crisis? Yes, Natural Gas (9.7.22)
Also, the EV industry sales pitch of faster charging EVs actually puts more stress on power grid while still being slower than filling a gas tank in my non-expert opinion.
At this time, EVs are little more than a form of blind leading the blind, totalitarian leftist escapism imo.
In the meanwhile, we've found out where a part of California electric bills are allegedly going.
2022 04PG&E CEO earned more than $50 million in 2021 (4.11.22)
Embrace electric cars?
But don’t plug them in until after 9:00pm due to power shortage.
It’s California Jake
Consider that those of us great unwashed who live in flyover country especially in the northern plains endure freezing winters where EVs will struggle with the cold. Our travel for jobs and routine errands as well as well earned vacations is at the limits of the range of EVs and chargers are few and far between. We also know that during winter our vehicles might be our refuge if we become stranded and a tank of gas and the survival kits we carry could keep us from freezing to death for days not an hour or two. We have real jobs where our work trucks actually haul things like sacks of feed, heavy tools and spare parts and we have little time in our day to read a book or listen to pod casts while we wait for our EV truck to charge for an hour or more. The idle rich in California can afford $60,000 EVs which they can smugly drive from home to their office where the charging is free and keep a big SUV in the garage to drive when they actually need to go someplace to hang out with other idle rich.
I don’t hate California.
I hate Liberal Californians.
A better question: Can electric cars compete against fuel powered vehicles in terms of power, range, cost, safety? I have no problems with automotive companies offering EVs. I do have a problem when the government distorts the market by offering incentives for one over the other. The government is not in the business of deciding which option is better and choosing “winners”.
electric cars are a waste of energy
“Can red states overcome their hatred of California and embrace electric cars?”
Typical media BS. If Californians ‘embraced’ electric cars, there would be no need to REQUIRE them in the future (and to essentially shutdown gasoline car production, by blaming it on ‘chip shortages’).
“Yet change is coming. Bulldozers are clearing Kokomo’s cornfields to build a $2.5-billion government-subsidized electric vehicle battery factory, with the aim of retaining jobs tied to auto production”
It’ll go out of business in a short time. It will lose jobs. Not retain them.
Sure we can. We just can't repeal the First Law of Thermodynamics.
I will buy one when it is economically priced and has the range of my Ram 1500, 500 miles. Provided the electric grid can handle all the recharging every night. I suspect that will not happen.
I can hate California without one thought about Electric Cars.
Ditto hating Electric Cars without a single thought of CA.
I don’t hate California.
I hate Liberal Californians.