Posted on 11/09/2021 7:15:35 PM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
Cadillac has largely completed a restructuring of its U.S. dealer network and expects to have 560 dealers by the end of this year, compared with about 920 three years ago, said Rory Harvey, head of the global Cadillac brand.
GM (GM.N) has booked a total of $274 million in costs during 2020 and 2021 related to the effort to buy out Cadillac dealers who were not prepared to invest $200,000 to $500,000 per store in the equipment and training to support the brand's shift to an all-electric vehicle lineup, planned by 2030.
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I guess you could use some gas powered generators to recharge...
EVs are not unaffordable. A bit on the upper end of normal prices, yes, but not crazy priced. $45k for a vehicle which will pay for itself in gas savings is not that expensive.
Yes, electricity largely comes from coal. Where burned, more efficient pollution control can be implemented than a few cubic inches on an ICE car - if you actually care that much about environmental concerns, which most drivers don’t.
I swore off GM many years ago.
Those are two questions of more than passing interest.
When first introduced, the Federal government made “incentive” tax deductions for the purchase of an electric-fossil fuel hybrid vehicle, but it only applied to certain models, and if a particular model (like Toyota Prius) exceeded a certain number, these were no longer eligible for the deduction against your income taxes. It really only made sense if you had a particularly large tax liability, and it all had to be used for the year in which the vehicle was first purchased. No carry-over was permitted.
As for where the electricity is supposed to be coming from, well, another vast project is being put in place with half-vast preparation. This has not been well thought out.
As a matter of stark reality, the world shall have to depend on “fossil fuels” for powering personal transportation and most public transportation, for perhaps many decades or even more than a century to come. Unless there is a way of generating on-board electricity for the propulsion of the ground vehicle, even the most efficient battery array that can be engineered shall be a dead end. And it would be hopeless for any kind of air transportation.
There is a campaign against any kind of cheap, reliable electric power generation. Both wind and solar designs are unreliable and unable to deliver anything like the power claimed for them, and are intolerably expensive to set up and operate, even though the “fuel” is supposedly virtually “free”. There are a lot of collateral costs that are not included in the phony “cost/benefit” ratios that are so glowingly promoted.
Dropping half their dealerships? Definitely not trying to grow their business.
I had a Leaf for 2 years. Loved it. 100 miles was a bit short for range, but most EVs have extended well beyond that by now. Great as a commuter runabout. Looking forward to getting a Cybertruck for long-haul family trips.
Prediction: Cadillac is dead as a brand in 3 to 5 years. I know that I will never buy another Chevrolet product.
Which is why smart dealers will prefer to cash out now, rather than ride the marque into bankruptcy.
Won’t need a breathalyzer so much for a self-driving car. Yes they’re getting good (not quite there yet, but amazingly close given that it literally involves teaching an artificial intelligence to drive a car).
“Over-priced fire traps.”
Unlike, say, most cars which have 10-30 gallons of highly flammable liquid fuel in a tank.
“Carbeque” is such a common ‘joke’ on the morning commuter report that it got boring to the point of ignored.
Liberals think you get electricity by plugging something into the wall outlet. They don’t understand that electricity has to he generated somewhere, to be available in your wall outlet.
Yup. Been keeping my eye on the used Leaf market for a while as fallback. Nice peppy little runabout for my purposes, they run about $10,000 (hard to find _anything_ in good shape about that price).
Long charge time is mostly irrelevant. You sleep, it charges. You wake, it’s topped off. Only relevant time is long trips, and the “rapid charge” range gets you 1-200 miles in about 15 minutes, something most people rarely need.
Replacement (battery or car) is becoming irrelevant. By the time the battery goes, the car will have paid for itself in gas savings and you’ll be wanting a replacement vehicle anyway.
Most people have no problem frequenting gas stations _every_ time they need to “recharge”.
EVs mostly recharge at home overnight. Having to “wait at a charging station” is rare in practice.
The problem is that a car that only covers 80% of your needs isn’t good enough. So one then needs another car. I don’t take a lot of vacations, but when I do, I drive 600+ miles in a day. Sometimes towing something. Electric might make a good “Go to work” car. But there is a reason I have a pickup with a big V8.
And a Cadillac that can’t do 500+ miles a day on vacation is a waste of time.
And where DOES all the electrical capacity come from? Solar and wind? I don’t think so!
vs burning to death by liquid gasoline fire, common enough nobody tracks it as clickbait.
20K?? Tell me, what EV that costs about 20k can transport my family of 6 for any round trip of more than 100 miles? How about a refill from near empty to full in under 3 minutes? How about our multi-state road trips? We live in Florida and often drive to San Diego to visit family and enjoy the drive along the way. They often do the same. We also like to drive up to Maine for a few weeks in the Dog Days of the Florida summer. How much longer would these round trips take in any EV with a vehicle that can accommodate 6 people and our travel necessities given the lack of charging stations AND the MANY MANY hours it takes to charge those vehicles? Not to mention the many Americans that are recreational Boaters and Fishermen. What about them?
Electric vehicles are a plan to take Americans out of the convenience of private transportation:
> EVs will be the ultimate inconvenience because of the Achilles Heel of the battery.
> The high cost of charging station set-up.
> Fires because of charging station electrical malfunction.
> The high cost of electricity to recharge the battery.
> The high cost of the vehicle.
> The short life of the battery and the high cost of replacement.
> The dwindling availability of raw materials for the battery and the resulting hike in cost.
> The short distance per charge and the inconvenient time it takes to recharge the battery will force people to plan their transportation needs around the charge of the battery.
> The practice of charging an electric vehicle every night can shorten the lifespan of the car’s battery pack.
> The towing costs when a battery has no more charge, unexpectedly, and you are stranded on the ALCAN Highway in sub-zero weather. EV batteries have shorter range in colder weather.
> Deaths as a result of being stranded and criminals taking advantage of ones vulnerability. The cost of a gun for protection.
> The illusion that wind and solar will meet the demand for the recharging.
> The ability to sell the EV with a used battery.
> The cost of disposing used EV batteries.
“where DOES all the electrical capacity come from”
Squirrels in cages.
EV’s (yeah, I own one) are great commuter cars. Period. Mine will make my other vehicles last longer, as short trips are hard on gasoline engines. If I’m putting around town the EV is cheap and a blast to drive. Acceleration out the ying yang. AWD Mustang Mach e is affordable and I recharge while I’m awake.
Towing my trailer or going over 150 miles? Yeah..I’ll take my 8 cylinder hemi Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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