Reagan was absolutely right. The EV industry could barely move on its own.
“There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves.”
I stopped reading after that.
They work well on the golf course.
“There is nothing wrong with EVs themselves“
Ahem… where to begin.
“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.
They misspelled "battery cars".
That's not the case for us. We have so much oil that we can be self-sufficient.
Humiliating? More like “$mooth move assclowns!”. Sadly, someone raked in a 💩 ton of our tax dollar$.
Other than the blazing inferno in the garage, they're fine.
“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?
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.
It was fun while it lasted.
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.
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.
Reagan was absolutely right. The EV industry could barely move on its own.
I’ve been watching videos on YouBoob by an Aussie guy calling himself “Auto Expert John Cadogan”. He has a filthy mouth, uses the word “dude” way to much, and has lengthy embedded commercials, but he’s truly entertaining.
His latest:
New Polestar 4: Another pointless, overweight EV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDbd9Jattm0
Unfortunately he is a climate change believer, but he has a lot to say about the hypocrisy of the EV “revolution”. He calls Musk the “Electric Jesus”.
Right above this story in the thread feed
This BMW in-wheel motor will change everything in EVs: a new era in the automotive industry (or not)
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Today’s electric cars are tomorrow’s Pet Rocks.
These fools always need some environmental boondoggle to sell to the masses. Each boondoggle is some Marxist fantasy presented as a way to artificially claim some moral superiority while cloaking their real intent to extract more wealth from the masses and bludgeon them with more rules and restrictions while collecting human freedom.
Electric vehicles are a shameful rape of the earth.
Ethanol has filled more landfills with damaged engines and assorted parts while ethanol itself is highly corrosive and environmentally harmful, again with absolutely no reasonable benefit whatsoever.
Paper grocery bags mandated to plastic bags (taxed) then to bacteria laden fabric bags.
The list of environmental boondoggles is almost as endless as the deceit of the Marxists themselves.
I, and all the fellow university prof EEs I know, laugh at those who actually believe that we can go all electric without major changes to our generating capacity, the grid, battery design, charging stations, and more.......