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The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun
Yahoo News ^
| 2/2/24
| Matthew Lynn
Posted on 02/03/2024 11:05:04 AM PST by CFW
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Government motto: "Subsidize failure with tax-payer dollars!"
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:05:04 AM PST
by
CFW
To: CFW
“There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves.”
I stopped reading after that.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:10:13 AM PST
by
devere
To: CFW
They work well on the golf course.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:10:36 AM PST
by
gitmo
To: CFW
“There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves“
Ahem… where to begin.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:10:42 AM PST
by
gibsonguy
To: CFW
“France’s President Macron had a plan to make millions of electric vehicles a year. Chancellor Scholz planned to put 15 million on Germany’s roads by 2030.”
Tesla: 2+ million a year.
To: CFW
There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves. They misspelled "battery cars".
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:14:01 AM PST
by
newfreep
("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
To: CFW
EVs are useful if you live in a nation where oil is scarce and you don't want to depend on imports from Saudi Arabia or Russia.
That's not the case for us. We have so much oil that we can be self-sufficient.
To: CFW
Humiliating? More like “$mooth move assclowns!”. Sadly, someone raked in a 💩 ton of our tax dollar$.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:16:20 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: CFW
There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves.Other than the blazing inferno in the garage, they're fine.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:18:21 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: CFW
“We need to relearn all the lessons...’’
Don’t you just love how when the liberals favorite pipe dream blows up in their faces suddenly it’s everybody’s fault?
Liberals and their eighth grade girl schemes to ‘’save the Earth!’’.
For God’s sake when are these idiots ever going to learn?
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:18:53 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
To: jmacusa
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:22:01 AM PST
by
CFW
(I will not comply!)
To: CFW
Obviously, no effort at all was exerted in market research or any study of the necessary infrastructure that MUST be in place before the technology can stay abreast of the potential demand.
Battery-powered EVs are a technological dead end. If only somebody could come up with a design in which the electric traction motors could be powered with an on-board electric generation system, say an internal combustion engine driving a DC electric generator, which in turn provides the electricity that powers the drive wheels. It works just fine on rail lines that use Diesel-electric locomotives.
Of course, that is not “carbon neutral” but the present design using batteries that are made of exotic materials that are mined from the earth, at great cost and use of carbon-based fuels for the extraction, refining, fabrication and transportation of the batteries to end point of consumption, to be recharged from time to time with electricity that is generated by, you guessed it, carbon-based fuels that are FAR from “carbon-neutral”. Face it, the industrial base of the world shall rely on carbon-based fuels, in some manner, for most industrial processes for decades if not centuries to come.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:25:56 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
To: CFW
Yeah, right? Ethiopia here I come!
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:31:10 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
To: CFW
It was fun while it lasted.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:32:53 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: alloysteel
If only somebody could come up with a design in which the electric traction motors could be powered with an on-board electric generation system, say an internal combustion engine driving a DC electric generator, which in turn provides the electricity that powers the drive wheelsGreat idea! They could call it a "Prius".
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:34:14 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Great idea! They could call it a "Prius".Sir, you are uncommonly perceptive. I had not realized that so much development had already been put into the marketplace.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:39:01 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
To: CFW
You do know that the single most popular vehicle in the WORLD last year, was an electric Tesla.
Right?
Model Y.
At least according to one source.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:39:32 AM PST
by
cba123
(Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
To: CFW
More like subsidize political donors and if they start getting rogue billionaires like Elon Musk, send the government/courts after them and try and ruin their reputation.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:39:38 AM PST
by
MTBobcat
(The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
To: CFW

Reagan was absolutely right. The EV industry could barely move on its own.
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:40:24 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: gibsonguy
You could begin here...
- Not enough electricity generated to charge all EVs
- Grid can't handle the power delivery to chargers
- Parking garages not strong enough for EVs
- Wear out tires in 10,000 miles
- Lots more toxic tire dust across the land
- AM radios don't work
- Don't pay fuel taxes
- Can't put car fires out
- Fire Departments must buy expensive special gear to control EV fires and let them burn themselves out
- Huge toxic emissions from car and bus fires
- Spontaneously ignite
- Guardrails are too weak
- $30,000 battery change-out at 125k miles
- No used car market because of battery replacement cost
- A scratch on your battery TOTALS your car
- Thieves stealing copper cables from chargers
- Most public chargers are always broken
- 30% less range when cold outside
- 30% less range when hot outside
- Won't charge at all when it gets really cold outside
- AND, Jennifer Granholm will steal your spot at the charger
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posted on
02/03/2024 11:43:22 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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