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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Demand for EV’s collapse unexpectedly and died recently.
Doctors are baffled!
Oh wait!
It depends on the neighborhood where I live. I’m right on the border between a lower-middle class section and a strip of nice houses from a prior era. No EVs in either and I’ve never seen a single one pass by on the street in front of my house.
But two miles away in what formerly would have been called “yuppie land” they are thick like flies on dung. Teslas and Rivians and others I can’t identify crowding out C8s, Porsches, occasional Maseratis and Ferraris, with plenty of low and high end BMWs as well.
Agreed. Few of my fellow EV owners I meet at the chargers during trips can tell me how much their EV charging adds to their power bill. IMHO it's unwise to spend so much money on something like that without doing some basic research.
Back when my wife and I bought our EV two years ago, the costs vs savings ratio of EV's compared to gas cars came out to about 12K miles per year you have to drive with home charged miles for the gas and oil change savings to be worth the extra costs of having an EV. This is with power rates and gas prices in Alabama (and the $200 annual EV fee you pay in Alabama to compensate for not paying gas taxes, plus the one-time cost for hiring an electrician to add a charging circuit at home, plus the additional costs on tires if your EV is 10% heavier than the comparable gas car like mine, minus the savings on most brake wear because of EV's doing most braking by regen, etc.).
And that also assumes you're in the market for a car anyway (one of your cars needs replacing anyway), and you don't have a lot of solar producing most of your power like we do.
There are other factors that would make EV's a bad choice for a lot of people, like if you live up north and lose a lot of miles/kWh throughput from the cold, or you can't set up charging at home, or you need only one car because you're not married (I'm not comfortable being 100% dependent on EV), or most of the road trips you like to take don't have good fast chargers, etc. When people see my wife and me getting out of our EV we're sometimes asked if we like it. The answer is Yes, but I throw out that it's because we're in an ideal situation for one, that people should research the pro's and con's to make sure their situation is good for an EV before buying one.
EVs have lost the interest of Americans because enough EVs are on the road now for us to learn what they are really like to own and drive from the people who have bought them. They are expensive, polluting and limited use vehicles.
Most of the country is very cold or frozen during the winter.
Batteries hate cold.
Those things were hideous. At least Tezlas are somewhat stylish.
Thank you for this. I see so many Teslas and other EVs on the road today, here. I know what it costs to run a little 5000 btu A/C here at the Lake, I can’t imagine the cost for an EV in NY or NEPA..
Who did not see that coming.
When leftist are in charge everything goes bankrupt
and we get the bill while the start-ups/ leftist get rich.
Yeah, or you could have read his tagline as his post suggested.
Climate change has gotten worse with the increase of EVs along with the increase of battery mining/manufacturing worldwide.
That car put the “UGH!” in ugly.
Oh noes!
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois hardest hit....
Thousands, eh?
Curiously I never saw one, but maybe they were all in urban cesspools , which I never visit.
I think of them as commie cars. Other manufacturers have different shapes, sizes, and colors. Granted they have been around a lot longer and probably have bigger budgets.
As Nathan told David, “Thou art the man!”
Yes, you are.
They can read, too.
Nevada is expanding their new car sales force.
Thanks...I guess???
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