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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That is not a golf cart.
Used as an indicator of impending thermsl runaway.
I have seen these in neighborhoods and RV parks. What are they?
That applies to ICE cars also, if you're making that argument. Lots of ICE cars parked in garages and at the curb, not being used. They just rot away. Half my neighbors have an old car in their garage or in the driveway, not driven at all for many years. I'm guilty of that too. I have two sports cars in the garage, haven't used them in a few years. Also a sports car in the driveway. They run. Why do I have them? Because I like the ride when I do use them, and go to car events (some are 300 miles away). The truck doesn't get used much at all, but is useful for hauling stuff. So, there is benefit to vehicles that you don't drive much.
As a matter of fact, I drive my EV more than any of the other vehicles, and it is a fun car to drive. So your argument is useless. Girls say they just want to get from point A to B, and what does it matter what you drive. Guys want to enjoy the ride.
Tax benefits, rebates, other inducements, etc., will force the prols to buy Party-approved vehicles. There will never be enough charging stations.
Inner Party members of course will blast around in special armoured SUVs and jets just like they do now.
Life will be miserable. Just ask the Texans martyred on the Green altar.
No one in Washington DC sheds a tear for dead prols.
If EVs were so great, they wouldn’t need government subsidies or mandated charging stations.
EVs exist to give warm fuzzies to wannabe totalitarians.
NEV. Neighborhood EV
Anyone with common sense knows this. They also know batteries don’t do so well in the cold among other things. They also don’t know how much oil and gas and rare metals it takes to make these things and also how much more gas is needed to boost the grid. Also, the ampacity of the actual cabling the grid is running from will need upgrading. The costs are high, I wonder who’s paying for all that?
“They also don’t know how much oil and gas and rare metals it takes to make these things and also how much more gas is needed to boost the grid.”
You need to inform! Some facts. please.
You are correct.
Those who think it is a good thing are those in the cities where they have to drive no more than 50 miles to work. That is fine for them.
But wait..till they get stuck in traffic for hours with no air/heat and run out of juice. What the hell they gonna do? Have a charge vehicle running up n down the freeway charging them for a hell of a fee? Using a gas generator to do it?
I think I just found a new business to get into.
Someone explain to me how this works in a place where they have brown outs all the time. We all know what happens to refrigs when the power goes off and on all the time. Well that might happen to the charging systems on those EVs.
Lol!
As another posted put it. Start building those 760,000 nuke plants.
Ampacities and infrastructure obviously you don’t understand.
You are not interested in facts. You are a propaganda mouthpiece. Once your grid is down and civil unrest is in full swing, my horse will blow the doors off your stationary car.
You never did address how easy it would be to limit mobility too. You’re not interested in any of it, you’re in league. Each to their own.
“You are not interested in facts. You are a propaganda mouthpiece. Once your grid is down and civil unrest is in full swing, my horse will blow the doors off your stationary car.”
Till then I will enjoy my 750 horses!
The wheel-holders often cannot drive about the parking area without running over another rig. Add charging stations into the mix and it will look like the Burning Man marshmallow roast.
If nothing else, we should instinctively run away from any industry controlled by DC.
Given what DC government has done to housing, healthcare, college tuition, K-12 curricula, we’re supposed to happily jump on the EV/green/climate change agenda?
Barf. Stay away.
“You are not interested in facts. You are a propaganda mouthpiece.”
Au contraire! I have posted many facts. Apparently you can’t deal with facts and resort to Alinsky tactics.
No you won’t, roads will be impassable, and no power for pumps.
Enjoy your dream world, I’m headed off back to reality.
huh?
You might try reducing the flair and post logically.
“Enjoy your dream world, I’m headed off back to reality.”
You really need to get back to reality!
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