Posted on 04/25/2021 8:33:38 AM PDT by rktman
During a town hall on CNN on Friday, White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy said that electric vehicles will become cheaper “when more are sold” and that we have to help consumers with either direct rebates or tax incentives.
McCarthy said, “The American Jobs Plan and the work that we’re doing to address our greenhouse gas emissions are really going to speak to this very issue. Because it’s not about sacrifice. It is about working with our manufacturing sector to revise it — to revive it. It’s about actually building batteries in the U.S. so the cost goes down. It’s us taking back the supply chains that we’ve lost to other countries. And it is about putting people back to work in good union jobs. There is a legitimate issue of electric vehicles that they’re not accessible to everybody. That will change over time.”
Moderator Dana Bash then cut in to ask, “When will that happen?”
McCarthy responded, “One of the ways in which we’re looking at this is to work with the car manufacturers. We didn’t choose electric vehicles. They came to us, and said, you know what, electric vehicles are the future. But they’re producing them in China, not here. And so, we need to reinvigorate our manufacturing sector. We have two battery manufacturing companies that are starting up, one to serve GM and one to serve Ford, right in the United States. We’re actually proposing to do a lot of consumer rebates, we’re proposing to look at tax rebates, things to lower the cost.”
Bash then cut in to ask, “When are they going to be cheaper?”
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Nope. She majored in Commie like all the rest.
Uh, Mariana Trench. That’s why it’s there right? :-}
Also, rebates and credits incentivize manufacturers to charge more because they know Uncle Sugar is picking up some of the tab.
Roger that.
Gina “I Have Massive Brain Damage” McCarthy
Do. Not. Want.
Better dump some fuel stabilizer in it or they get stale and start to smell bad.
McCarthy “electric vehicles will become cheaper when more are sold”.
Economist “when electric vehicles are cheaper more will be sold”.
Economics of scale will help reduce prices. Larger demand for charging stations will spur investment in charging stations. Any increase in demand for scarce components will raise the price of those components. Advances in materials and processes will increase vehicle utility.
It’s all going to be a complicated transition. Government mandates will not lead to an optimal transition.
It isn’t cheaper if the people have to be taxed for it.
Stupid people who think IF electric vehicle were all that great they wouldn’t be taxpayer paid.
Just give one to everyone you cheap witch. You could just give them to us instead of spending money on illegals or pocketing billions you have robbed from us in your private off shore accounts. Anger. I am so sick of these monsters :(
Yeah, the Chevy Volt was such a rip-roaring success. /sarc
Just axe congressman Hank Johnson (Dumb-Georgia).
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They'll put them on a slow boat to China and
torpedo it some where along the way.
Gina was always a Moron
Electric vehicles will be easier to track, restrict and control.
“batteries that can’t be recycled”
At maybe $1,000 for the lithium, a car’s dead batteries will get recycled.
New batteries $10,000, $9,000 with trade-in of old packs
“electric vehicles will become cheaper ‘when more are sold’”
Tesla has high volume now.
To lower the price substantially will take new technology (and time).
... or drive it in the winter.
I’ll play. If Biden will give me a trillion dollar stimulus check, I’ll buy an electric car too.
“And when the power goes out due to a storm, you won’t even be able to drive away.”
Having 80% to 99% of a full charge in the batteries will be the everyday norm, about enough for a week’s commuting for most drivers or about a 200-mile drive.
If speaking of hurricanes, the sky goes grey about a day in advance, reducing air conditioning loads and enabling more car recharging.
Florida homes have been built to withstand category 5 storms for over 26 years. We have lots of them and many more are being built by our illegal amigos.
Natural gas power plants will remain available for power generation unless Dummy #1 pledges otherwise.
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