Posted on 03/07/2021 8:08:35 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Car dealer Brad Sowers is spending money to prepare for the coming wave of new electric models from General Motors Co. He is installing charging stations, upgrading service bays and retraining staff at his St. Louis-area dealership to handle the technology-packed vehicles.
But when he considers how many plug-in Chevy Bolts he sold last year—nine, out of the nearly 4,000 Chevrolets sold at his Missouri dealerships—it gives him pause.
“The consumer in the middle of America just isn’t there yet,” when it comes to switching to electric vehicles, he said, citing the long distances many of his customers drive daily and a lack of charging infrastructure outside major cities.
As auto executives and investors buzz about the coming age of the electric car, many dealers say they are struggling to square that enthusiasm with the reality today on new-car sales lots, where last year battery-powered vehicles made up fewer than 2% of U.S. auto sales.
Most consumers who come to showrooms aren’t shopping for electric cars, and with gasoline prices relatively low, even hybrid models can be a tough sell, dealers and industry analysts say.
Auto makers are moving aggressively to expand their electric-vehicle offerings with dozens of new models set to arrive in coming years. Some like GM are setting firm targets for when they plan to phase out gas-powered cars entirely.
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“Honestly, 90% of Americans will be fine with EV’s.”That’s a pretty presumptuous statement on your part.What gives you the right to speak for 90% of Americans?You sound like a good little comrade when you speak of going to work then plugging your government designed EV into your charging station. No thanks. I’ll keep my F-350 Tremor with a 6.7 Powerstoke Diesel .
Even the clueless should have seen the light in the wake of the winter storm and arctic temperatures in Texas. Sadly, our media is all about pushing an agenda, and not facilitating societal debate.
The Left wants people dead. The Left want people dead especially before their born. It’d for the children.
EVs are designed for Asian countries where people are packed into cities and don’t travel long distances by car. The auto industry is designing cars for these customers because there are a lot more there than there are in America.
At 900 kw an average EV would charge in seven minutes.
Allowing is one thing, happening is quite another. The phrases "up to" and "as much as" are among the most dishonest in the English language, and favorites of advertisers seeking to fool customers.
How is the grid going to power clusters of these mythical 900 kw charging stations?
Sounds like you either bought a GM or a German car.
My Toyota is 20 years old and the power windows are both all original and work just fine with 240K on the clock.
They might have a market in urban areas where the average trip is less than 5 miles.
A little less useful on the Great Plains or the mountain West.
I was watching some stupid show where the Tesla gets stuck on a muddy road in the mountains of Montana. It had California license plates.
I thought “Boy - this is a stupid show!”
Later in the same episode it introduced the transgender character... I changed the channel.
Like much of their pipe dreams it will turn into solyndra
Selling them is easy.
It's what happens when they are 20% of the fleet, never mind 80%, and they all plug in at 6 pm or at 8 am that's hard, very hard, SO HARD in fact that this is never, ever going to happen.
You are going to be forcibly relocated.
2 Points: the effective range can be much less than 500 miles and you better be sure there is a plug at the other end of the trip.
why you DO NOT do Central Planning of an economy or major parts of it.
LOL...yes.
It did wonders with our healthcare system...
Oh come on, 30 to 60 minutes waiting for a Super Charger to full charge your electric car is great. Of course that is only if you have the correct connection or adapter.......... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The point of the whole scam actually...another Soyndra or 2 or 3 is what all the Biden hangers-on are looking for
Did you vote correctly? Oh too bad no electricity for your car..... Maybe next time....... maybe
PC make believe seems to be dictating a market. This is true insanity.
So was the metric system....LOL
While auto makers and dealers rush to expand the EV grid, environmentalists are pushing to shrink the electrical grid’s power generation by pushing solar and wind, while killing coal and gas plants.
Until you can get an EV to recharge the battery in 5 minutes or less, I fail to see how this is a “superior technology” over the internal combustion engine.
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With a shrinking power generation grid, you can’t charge anything during a brown or black out due to lack of electrical generation; so your 5 minute charge can last hours or days until the grid comes back.
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