That's higher than I expected, given that depending on EV transportation is still fairly new, combined with IMHO EV's are good for only some use cases.
“High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, “
Elephant is in the room, if you have 500 million charging stations it still takes 2 hours to charge. Funny the AP doesn’t know that, where have they been? Maybe I should call them and tell them.
The Green New Deal is the same old fleece the taxpayers deal like Obama’s shovel ready jobs crap. Fund a bunch of Liberal pet projects like 7.5 billion for electric charging stations. Results: 7 charging stations, its a damn slush fund for the DNC.
EV?
It is a stupid idea. Period.
Now, if you use a big alternator run by a gasoline or diesel power plant and use electric drive directly to the wheels?
That would work.
They have used it for many years by ore haulers in pit mines. They get work done.
It could even work for Trucks.
The Li-ion batteries are a fire hazard both in cars and in homes. One cell fails? If it has no detector, it is up in smoke and it is next to impossible to put the fire out. I do suspect carbon dioxide extinguishers would work if caught soon enough.
Not shying away….
sheeesh.
laughing away.
They are garbage except for local golf cart duty.
Communists are really good at solving fake problems. Unfortunately people die from their solutions.
Report from a car dealer friend:
“We can’t even give them away.”........................
In before all the posts slamming electric cars.
They are kind of neat. The engineering that it took to turn a golf cart into an attractive transportation option FOR SOME PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME was brilliant.
Of course, conversion of the ICE fleet into electrics is never going to happen, a) because the grid buildout to support it is impossible; and b) because they are a very limited-use product with a very high total cost of ownership.
If I were retired, living in the Villages, and needed to go to Publix twice a week and an occasional Trump rally I would seriously look at one.
Americans are pinching pennies and watching their market basket purchases with the same dollars get smaller weekly, but the administration morons want those same Americans to buy cars that cost a year’s pay. That does not include the higher insurance and maintaining the follies.
Talk about clueless...or is it with the intention to crash the system?
Shying away? Uh, hard pass. EVs are like the CFL light bulbs. They suck and you need a hazmat team to dispose of them. Totally not worth it.
Despite? I’m staying away because of Biden’s push.
MANY? Our band played ‘Mustang Sally’ the other night at a bar and when we ended I mentioned we weren’t singing about some ‘E type Mustang’ either. I got a few fist bumps and high fives at that. Hello! (Then they probably went out and climbed into their Teslas.)
The elites who promote this nonsense have no understanding of the laws of physics, human nature or reality in general.
Just like only 4% of people are up to date on the latest booster.
Before I buy a vehicle I visit the local nursing home and ask the folks in the dementia wing what they recommend.
;-)
and just 9% own or lease an electric vehicle
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I am wondering how many of those own and rely on just EV only?!
I would bet that most of those who own EV have spare gasoline vehicle.
Yeah, I sort of tend to shy away from being burned alive by an EV battery catching fire.
This crap is going to be such a colossal boondoggle, it'll make California's bullet train to nowhere project look like in exercise in financial restraint.
It'll be billions over budget. Only "minority and women owned" companies will get contracts to build charging stations. There will be immeasurable graft and corruption. Few will get built. And the tiny few that do won't work.
They left off the random, for no reason at all unquenchable inferno bit.