Posted on 09/26/2025 10:28:39 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
Electric cars are great! Until you actually get one.
I don't know if the EPA will require Volkswagen to keep the EA chargers up to date now that Volkswagen is getting away from EV's.
I believe about a year ago there was another article about VW ending several EV models. I read the article, and eventually the truth was revealed. The government subsidies had ended.
Once again, there is no “market” for these golf carts.
In the USA, I have heard and seen advertisements “Get your (Ev, Solar, Etc) before September 30th!) The Federal subsidies end, thanks to President Trump.
If you desire an EV, no worries.
If you desire your neighbors to fund part of your purchase, well, no thank you.
I don’t live that far from it.
I would like to see the facility built and operational.
The only people wanted EVs were insane Governments
Porsche owners tried to tell them this 5 years ago.
No one wants a 6000lb EV Porsche 911
We are dealing with this in our subdivision in NW Las Vegas. It was mandatory to have solar panels at the time we built here (18 months ago), and about 95% of the homes appear to have the minimal panel set. A few buyers purchased additional panels and Tesla batteries, in a combination that could add $80k to the home’s cost. Now, the solar panel supplier (Sunnova) is in Chapter 11, and some of the most recently constructed homes have the brackets, fittings, and electrical stub-outs for solar panels, but no panels. It’s as if they recently dropped the requirement. It shows you how screwed up markets are when they only exist to respond to government subsidies.
Me too. Though I don't live near it. I want to see manufacturing jobs galore in the U.S. But like FReeper RM3 posted in comment #4, it shouldn't be subsidized by taxpayers.
And even the times it is subsidized by the govt, it doesn't help the consumer anyway because the suppliers/sellers jack up the price artificially. "Don't bother paying extra for your EV/solar. You'll get some of it back when you file your taxes."
I saw an ID.Buzz in the wild the other day. Kind of retro looking. I wonder if they offer one with a camper top.
Manufacturers should keep experimenting on their products, just not with tax payer dollars. Maybe in 5-10 years they will have a product and infrastructure solutions, but I don’t see one out there right now.
Production line retooling for ICE drive vehicles, solves the problem.
Demand? I demand they stop the nonsense.
Until the battery problems are solved, electric vehicles will continue to be a niche market. The principle of using an electric motor for traction is actually very good, but there has to be some kind of on-board electrical generation, as the battery technology simply cannot support long-distance travel or quick recharges.
Hybrid vehicles that do have the on-board power generation capability already exist, and have been fairly reliable and overcome many of the objections of a battery-only power supply to electric drive lines. Yet somehow this rather elegant engineering solution has been dismissed or overlooked entirely.
And don’t forget the Volkswagen diesel fraud scandal from the crooks, not sure why anyone would by from them.
Well, remember that Hitler was happy for people to buy VWs, but he personally rode around in a Mercedes.
Maybe there would be a market for fake panels. Or used panels that don’t work. Got to keep up appearances.
Electric vehicles are a loser. Few want them. Leave it to the greedy corrupt losers running government to try to mandate and peddle these loser vehicles.
In Chicago or Wisconsin where I live, there are lots of EVs. But mostly in the cities. And only owned by people who have a garage and at least one other car, often two. The EVs are good for roaming around the city and the suburbs.
They waste energy in the winter. Using more than gas cars. As the temps fall below freezing and certainly when they get near zero, the cars loose their charge. So a heated garage is best. This loss of energy is not recorded anywhere. You can park your car in your driveway, the next morning you lost a third of your charge.
Then there is the problem of the range anxiety. Its a real thing. Because you never get the miles suggested when you first fill up your car. Your car is constantly using up electricity in ways other than miles.
My children like the hybrids that don’t plug in. They live in city Apartments and park on the street. They don’t need a garage and they get better mileage in stop and go city driving.
The guy who came up with the lithium ion cycle himself said that they would be terrible in cars. They are ticking bombs.
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