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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You’re not dealing with an intelligent person, I’d let it go.
So even though our grid is outdated and we lack new electrical generating facilities, charging 40 million electric vehicles is no problem as long as it’s done at night?
Oh, thanks for the tip.
“I need 4 wheel drive and the ability to haul 1000 pounds while pulling 14,000 pounds”
The new electric F-150 would be. just right for you.
The only reason why someone would own a Tesla is to impress their liberal friends.
How to sell?
How to charge...and create sufficient generation and distribution is the real issue.
No nukes is bad news.
Imagine what could have been IF General Public Utilties and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had been honest about Three Mile Island.
” The electric vehicle argument was finally settled in the early 20’s “
Do you still use oil lamps?
At least there aren’t any more “mean Tweets”.
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Present fast charging stations are 62.5 kw. The standards are written to allow up to 900 kw in the future.
At 900 kw an average EV would charge in seven minutes.
Not enough range?
Most of them can easily do 36 holes.
[[and, even worse, there is NO PROOF whatsoever that we should be reducing CO2 emissions.]]
There is proof however, that man’s CO2 doesn’t amount to a peehole in the snow as the old saying goes- at just 0.00136% of the atmosphere, it’s nothing- it’s incapable of causing even slight warming- there just isn’t enough CO2 to prevent heat from escaping- there is just no ‘thick layer of CO2 blanket the world, preventing heat from escaping”
[[FOR WHAT? To tell Gaia we love her?]]
No- to keep mankind feeling guilty for being alive while trying to enjoy life on ‘muvver erf”
You’re welcome, I just didn’t want to see a decent person get dragged into kindergarten level arguments with a clearly paid off and morally unsound and intellectually inferior person.
That being said, grid trouble aside, I’m all for this lol. We’ll be making big bucks.
No thanks!
” Trying to imagine a family of 5 taking the electric powered motor-home on a 4,000 mile vacation up into the mountains etc....”
Even ICE RV’s don’t have a 4000 mile range!
“But for rest of us, we go to work and then when we come home, we plug in the EV to the power grid so it will be fully charged in the morning.”
The electrical generating and transmission capacity does not exist to supply conversion of 90% of American transportation needs to electric vehicles, nor will it in the near future. To meet the 2030 timetable advocated by climate activists for ending sale of fossil fuel cars and trucks we need to be on a crash electrical infrastructure upgrade program now.
Instead here in NC Duke Energy wants to build more natural gas fired power plants and the climate change lobby is opposing the plan demanding only solar and wind renewable energy plants be constructed to meet future power needs. As a result in 2030, as the sun sets each night and millions plug their electric vehicles in overnight, the new solar panel farms will be producing nothing for the power grid. As for wind generation, wind tends to decline at night so on most nights there will be less wind generated power produced than during the day. So how will all of those electric vehicles be recharged overnight, particularly on the cold winter nights when the electric heat pumps and strip heaters, that replaced the undesirable gas and oil fired furnaces, are running at peak load?
Cray-cray never ends with these idiots. Electric vehicles require power generated from fossil fuel and the spent battery side of this product is not even in the vicinty of AOC Green Street dreams.
Does everyone here put down everyone else who doesn’t agree with them a ‘liberal’ or a ‘traitor’?
It seems to be a trend.
[[I’m unhappy that you can’t still buy a decent car with roll-up windows and actual keys.]]
You and me both- Cot me $80 dollars to have a spare key made for our toyata corolla, and was told that would be all we could order, because apparently, there is only a certain number of spares that can be made for a single cars electronic contraption for the ‘chipped key’. Evidently, if i want another key, i will have to have the whole chip system replaced, and start all over with the limited number of spare keys again-
I used to walk into any hardware store- have a key made for around $2.00 or so, and it would both open the door AND start the vehicle= I can still get keys made to open the door on our toyata, and it’s abotu $9.00 now- BUT I can not get a key mde to start the vehicle UNLESS i am willing to shell out however much it will cost to replace the chopped key system in the car-
“The electrical generating and transmission capacity does not exist to supply conversion of 90% of American transportation needs to electric vehicles, “
There were no service stations when Henry rolled out the Model-T.
Imagine if thought like you!
LOL! You are joking! Try sitting in your Tesla for 58 minutes waiting for it to charge, behind some Godforsaken Jack in the Box in the desert. You seriously, obviously, have never owned an EV.
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