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Americans Aren’t Buying EVs: Electric Vehicle Adoption Continues to Stall Out
Breitbart ^ | 07/07/2024 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 07/07/2024 9:05:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The electric vehicle revolution is encountering significant hurdles as consumers grapple with high costs, infrastructure challenges, and geopolitical tensions, potentially slowing the transition from traditional gas-powered cars, according to a report by Fast Company.

Fast Company reports the automotive industry has undergone a significant transformation with the push towards electric vehicles in recent years. However, the road to widespread EV adoption is proving to be bumpy, with several obstacles threatening to stall progress.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adoption; americans; automotive; electric; evs; market; ntsa; stall; teslassell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Never plan a massive change in expensive consumer products during or just before an economic downturn. Not likely to be successful.


21 posted on 07/07/2024 9:32:30 AM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: Mean Daddy

I don’t need to read his tagline, if he’s going to be that subtle he deserves what he gets. Now I know he is not an lefty #NeverTrump which is good but I don’t need to play along with tagline games. People not regulars of this forum will think that’s what he’s actually saying.


22 posted on 07/07/2024 9:33:32 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They still haven't worked out the problem of EVs randomly bursting into flame.

And furthermore, we don't have the infrastructure to power everybody having one, even as the government is deliberately sabotaging the grid.

23 posted on 07/07/2024 9:34:57 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If it were not for the government interference in the automobile industry, with demands on the automakers and subsidies to purchasers and mandates...

the 6-7% marketshare that EVs supposedly hold in the auto market, might be around 1% or less. Forcing people to purchase anything is counterproductive and hurtful to the free-market system and to consumers and to the economy.


24 posted on 07/07/2024 9:35:21 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: cgbg

Ever wonder how many ev’s, wind farms, solar panels, etc. ther would be without federal subsidies? Not very many. It’s all just another scam to increase transfer payments to the rich and “connected”.


25 posted on 07/07/2024 9:37:12 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Macoozie

A daily driver around town works in the cities or here in teh burbs.

Not so much out West or other remote locations.

I’m afraid TPTB have not every been out of densely populated urban bubbles and just can’t imagine how wrong they are.


26 posted on 07/07/2024 9:42:05 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...EV adoption is proving to be bumpy, with several obstacles threatening to stall progress.”


The bumpy bit is that people aren’t buying them.


27 posted on 07/07/2024 9:45:44 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

With the reversal of the Chevron Doctrine, the auto/truck manufacturers will stop making EVs.


28 posted on 07/07/2024 9:47:21 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We are having a hella heatwave in Arizona right now (115-118), and last night I heard the weatherman griping that his EV batteries died…from the heat. Great advertising! 😂🤣


29 posted on 07/07/2024 9:47:44 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: ponygirl

The Sonoran Desert will eat batteries.


30 posted on 07/07/2024 10:06:38 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“I mean this with all due respect, GFY.”

LOL! - I did point to my tag line in that post. I’m hoping to get through to some people here (assuming they’re not trolls).


31 posted on 07/07/2024 10:08:14 AM PDT by BobL (Yes, it's sarcasm, but use your brain when you vote, not your emotions)
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To: xoxox

“top-level driving experience”

Electric propulsion is superior to ICE but all of today’s cars are already to drive.


32 posted on 07/07/2024 10:17:47 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m shocked.


33 posted on 07/07/2024 10:17:47 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They seem to be increasing where I live. All of them seem to be the same model and color.


34 posted on 07/07/2024 10:23:12 AM PDT by moviefan8
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The clock is ticking. In 2035, California and about 10 other states are planning to ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles.

With all the issues with electric cars and electric generating capacity, it seems foolish to force feed electric cars on us.

I’ve heard that Biden’s EPA regulations are designed to encourage the sales of more electric cars for the rest of this decade , and into the decade of the 2030s.

Force feeding electric car seems to be unsustainable but that appears to be where various governments are going with this.


35 posted on 07/07/2024 10:34:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If electric cars are so great why did not the Citicar of 1975 take off like a rocket? I saw many on car lots back in 1975. Never saw one on the streets.

“Sold by the thousands.” What a joke!
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-american-built-citicar-was-an-ev-that-sold-by-the-thousands-in-the-1970s-169045.html


36 posted on 07/07/2024 10:34:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Buy an EV. Get a wheel chair carrier for the back of it. Place a gas operated generator on the back for when you run out of “juice”. Chain it well or someone will steal the generator and leave the EV behind.


37 posted on 07/07/2024 10:37:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: moviefan8

With Tesla every color besides white costs between 1000-2000 extra.
I believe that they recently switched the “free” color to gray.
I would feel like I was part of the Borg collective having to drive one..


38 posted on 07/07/2024 10:38:39 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: ponygirl
We are having a hella heatwave in Arizona right now (115-118), and last night I heard the weatherman griping that his EV batteries died…from the heat. Great advertising!

Fun fact: the Level 3 (fast DC) charging stations each have a battery bank that is charged up between uses (basically an EV battery directly dumping into another EV battery). That makes the charging stations vulnerable to summer heat, too.

Last week, I took a look at newly installed Level 3 chargers at a truck stop on I-35 near Waco - four double chargers, two of which had "Battery Bank Recharging - Currently Unavailable" messages, one other had "High Temperature Warning - Charger Unavailable". All three had audible cooling fan noises, so I'd say the heat plays hell with these things. Only one of the four appeared to be serviceable, and I'll bet the status doesn't show correctly on any EV charging map application.

39 posted on 07/07/2024 10:40:28 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Bidens EPA Regulators have been shown the door, they can’t force crap without a court agreeing.


40 posted on 07/07/2024 10:45:07 AM PDT by chuck allen
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