Posted on 10/23/2023 7:52:24 AM PDT by rktman
Farley, whose company is set to lose $4.5 billion on its EV production this year, remains confident in their longer-term profitability. He embarked on a Route 66 road trip in August in Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, noting that “there are things you can’t learn in an office or from a PowerPoint,” in a LinkedIn post announcing the trip.
While on the road, Farley encountered inconsistencies in available charging. Some of the EV chargers he used were effective and provided a painless experience, while in another case, he had to use a low-speed charger that juiced up his truck’s battery to 40% in 40 minutes because there were no high-speed chargers available, he said on X, formerly Twitter. “It was a really good reality check,” Farley said of his experiences with EV charging, which he also described as “pretty challenging.”
The Biden administration, recognizing the up-front costs for both EV producers and consumers, has spent billions of dollars and aggressively regulated markets to facilitate its EV push. President Joe Biden is aiming for 50% of all new vehicle sales to be EVs by 2030, according to the White House.
The administration has committed $12 billion to allow manufacturers to retrofit their plants for EV production and $7.5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law to develop a national charging network, while the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains $12.5 billion worth of tax credits to entice consumers into switching to an EV, according to UtilityDive.
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Well obviously WE know how to do 5 year plans better. Hey, wait a minute.........😁👍
🙏🇮🇱👍
The whole point is to do away with personal transportation.
They will probably succeed in that endeavor. Between high insurance rates, taxes and generally making owning a car more hassle than it’s worth.
You know taht feeling when your car is on 1/4 tank and you think maybe a fill-up is needed soon. That is how you feel in an EV - ALL THE TIME.
Step 1: Close down power plants.
Step 2: Refuse to build new power plants.
Step 3: Require everyone to drive an electric vehicle.
This sounds like a winning strategy to me.
If you don’t want anyone to have a car, that is.
“I just laugh that they don’t understand this.”
Don’t think for even one second that they don’t understand it. They know exactly what they’re doing. And more importantly they understand why they’re doing it.
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Yep-
To those EV manufacturers and Joey Biden 🖕, quit pushing this CRAP on us.
This is YOUR dream, not ours and you can do whatever you want but like a typical democrat, you want us to live the way YOU want us to while you reap the benefit$ from your ‘pal$’.
And stop lying about oil being a fossil fuel - it is a never-ending planet renewable resource and you want to trap us in your concentration camps.
Great song from the Polish Band “Republika” written when Poland was still behind The Iron Curtain:
The Plan
If everything develops well
As it is in the plan
We’ll know exactly what to do and feel
In five or seven years
Well calculated wars and treaties
A perforated world
At last everything will happen
According to a plan
To a plan
To a plan
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years-years
We’ll dance together cha-cha-cha-cha
If it is in the plan
We’ll laugh and suffer pray and murder
According to the plan
And maybe one day I will kiss you
If it is in the plan
If it’s included in the schedule
Of what I can’t and can
Can’t and can
Can’t and can
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
We’ll build a ministry of planning
And plan the world ahead
We’ll calculate the past and future
Of all the universe
We’ll fix a plan for all the planets
A plan for all the stars
Computers finally will work out
A plan for all of us
All of us
All of us
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
For fifty years
For a hundred years
A thousand years
A million years
A billion years
A trillion years
A trillion years
Fascism at work.
What?? You don’t trust your betters to make the best decisions for you? Hillary will take care of you at her special Reprogramming Camp.
“Charging stations in dem-o-rat run crapholes will become robbery/car jacking stations.”
Anyone remember in the USSR how the elite had their own driving lanes and stores?
That Biden employee who stole the spot from the American family who PAYS her salary showed you exactly what they have planned - they get first dibs and we get their leftovers if there are any left.
Poland had "Pewex" stores, with Western goods, but you had to pay for them in dollars.
Kevin at Engineering Explained has pointed out that, while EVs are ideal as commuter vehicles and grocery-getters, it’s better to rent an ICE vehicle for vacations by road. It’s not just because he lives in Idaho, either.
How Miserable Is A Tesla Road Trip?
24:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC95WACQhCY
How Miserable Is A Winter Tesla Road Trip? -18°C & Broken Superchargers
23:13
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1,399,025 views
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskzfQJt2Bc
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained/search?query=cross-country
Living With A Tesla Model 3 For A Year - The Best Daily Driver
17:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkRcuwoIm4
Living With An Electric Car Changed My Mind
21:05
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2,090,172 views
December 2, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo4byxhI6kY
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained/search?query=tesla
Our town just opened three new gas stations. Obviously they believe gasoline will be around for quite a while. According to a map, the nearest EV station in 30 miles from here.
Absolutely right. You’d think this fella would have taken this fact finding trip in another Ev before committing suicide with his company
“Gelles rented an EV from Hertz over the summer to make the 154-mile drive from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a farm near the state's border with South Dakota to gather information for a story about agriculture. He documented his experiences on the open road in a Thursday piece for the Times, observing that his trip was, in theory, emblematic of “the kind of long drive through sparsely populated farmland that is a hallmark of American car culture.” “The nation's EV infrastructure is not ready for prime time,” Gelles wrote. “I recently found this out the hard way.””
“Gelles described having to charge his vehicle while en route, gaining just 2% of the battery life back after 30 minutes of charging. Upon reaching his destination, he plugged in his EV to charge overnight with the cable kept in the vehicle to ensure that he would have sufficient power to make it back to Minneapolis the next day.”
“The next morning, the EV he had rented did not have enough power to make it back to Minneapolis, so he had to call the rental company to arrange for a tow truck to provide a ride for himself and for his otherwise-stranded EV. He made it back in time to catch his flight out, but the rental company billed him more than $700 for the services rendered.”
I know it’s not cool on FR to like EVs, but I absolutely love my Tesla Model 3 LR. I’ve had a lot of really cool ICE cars over the years, but this EV is my all-time favorite car. Yes, I still have an ICE car, just in case, but charging has never been an issue here in Florida.
“Copper cables vanish in the night?”
Or fried thieves if they hit alive one.
Reality check: there isn’t enough lithium.
I think it is very telling that no one posts how long it takes to charge the battery. I get that sometimes it is a long time and sometimes it is short time, but what is a long and short time. minutes? Hours?
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