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Electric Vehicle Sales Slump to Just a Quarter of New Purchases
Breitbart ^ | 01/07/2024 | Simon Kent

Posted on 01/07/2024 8:45:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are defying the combined urging of green lobbyists and government diktat with just a quarter making up new purchases for 2023, UK data reveals.

The consumer rejection of EVs is a challenge to the electric car market and government goals to move towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ecars; electricvehicle; purchases; sales; slump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Butt, butt, butt.....jenny granholm says they are awesome. 🖕


21 posted on 01/07/2024 10:11:02 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: hanamizu

But, 100,000+ ODs/year.....meh!


22 posted on 01/07/2024 10:13:00 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: mewzilla
"Nobody can afford it."

I wouldn't buy the EV dreck no matter how rich I was.

23 posted on 01/07/2024 10:16:39 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder how this study defines “electric vehicle.”

Do they mean battery only EVs or also hybrids?


24 posted on 01/07/2024 10:27:31 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Who wants a car that can spontaneously combust at any moment ?


25 posted on 01/07/2024 10:38:48 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Leaning Right
The forcing part would actually be pretty easy. Just get the EPA to issue more and more stringent gas station regulations. Slowly but surely. Make it very expensive to follow those regulations. Poof! Eventually few or no gas stations. Gotta go electric, pal.

Already happening in California. Now it's $5.00 per gallon (previously $7.00).

26 posted on 01/07/2024 10:40:15 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: EandH Dad

“The government is subsidizing a stupid policy.”

And the sun (for now) rises in the east.


27 posted on 01/07/2024 10:41:07 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Googling “diktat”.


28 posted on 01/07/2024 10:43:59 AM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m surprised they’re selling THAT many. But remove all the financial incentives and see what happens.


29 posted on 01/07/2024 11:10:19 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait till the EV owners have to replace the batts.


30 posted on 01/07/2024 11:27:16 AM PST by chopperk
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To: MinorityRepublican

Now it’s $5.00 per gallon (previously $7.00).


See! Bidenomics is working! He’s dropped gas prices by nearly 30%!
/s


31 posted on 01/07/2024 12:13:34 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Toyota is focusing on hybrids. Toyota says they can build 37 hybrids using the lithium and other battery resources that a single EV would use. There are some pretty impressive hybrids out there, and I think Toyota is going to do very well in the future selling hybrids vs EVs.


32 posted on 01/07/2024 12:55:47 PM PST by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: Roadrunner383

That’s what makes sense


33 posted on 01/07/2024 2:01:28 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Mr. Mojo
A quarter is a lot higher than I thought it would be. But then again that’s in the UK. I’m guessing the percentage of new EV sales is a lot lower on this side of pond.

I've read reports that California EV sales have been around 25% of new car sales in the state last year. In flyover country with winters, the sales volume is more like 2% if that..

34 posted on 01/07/2024 2:21:30 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That many? 25% ? Really?


35 posted on 01/07/2024 2:31:39 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: mewzilla

25%???

Wooda thunk it would have EVER been this great to begin with??


36 posted on 01/07/2024 4:02:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mr. Mojo
I would hope!

Around my neck of the woods it's Jeeps© everywhere!

37 posted on 01/07/2024 4:03:40 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Saw an ad for an E-Jeep.

What FOOL would do actually buy one of those and take it out in the boonies?


38 posted on 01/07/2024 4:04:39 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Leaning Right
Poof! Eventually few or no gas stations.

WRONG!!!

Higher gas prices at the pump.

39 posted on 01/07/2024 4:05:36 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EandH Dad
The government is subsidizing a stupid policy.

Actually; taxpayers are allowing the gummint to run wild.

40 posted on 01/07/2024 4:06:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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