There is a good reason why the auto industry gave up on electric cars over 100 years ago.
There is a good reason why the auto industry gave up on electric cars over 100 years ago.
She said "Why, this building, right here!😃👉
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The reporter, then, asked a tech. He said "Michigan Electric. It's 98% coal generated."😬
It costs $5,000 to dispose of an old battery. $15-$20 thousand to buy a new one.
Soon they’ll be hat in hand, begging for a taxpayer bailout.
And they’ll get it!
No. Their multi-billion dollar suck-off-the-government teat strategy is at risk if they can't con people into buying these virtue-signaling toys.
The people that I know that (bit) bought into the ev jamboree are leisure users and were previously predisposed to lean hard to the coercions applied to their blind trusts.
Just saying, if it was so good everybody would already be all over it.
When the dubious check is fought so hard it will not fool everybody no matter what the grease applied.
Good, because the mandates and the lack of electrical resources to support all of those EVs will bring about disaster. I am on the expressays of Chicago a couple of times a week and I rarely see them, and when I do they are overwhelmingly Teslas. Maybe the dogs just don’t like the dog food, and for a lot of good reasons.
But electric cars still make up just 1% of cars on our roads.
46% of Americans remain unlikely to consider an electric car for their next vehicle."
https://sensiblemotive.com/electric-car-statistics/
EVs:CFLs::Hydrogen Cells:LEDs
A few weeks ago there was a story about two German automakers ceasing production of several EV lines. If you bothered to read the details, you learned that the German government just ended the subsidies. There is no ‘market’ for these products. It is like one large Solyndra. Wherever the government pays to make the product with taxpayer dollars, the company will make the product until it runs out of taxpayer dollars. Then they will continue to make products the private sector will purchase.
Our (my family’s) biggest problem with EV’s is that there was no evidence of a plan to upgrade transmission lines or add additional generation. No trust in the government to do this. So we bought a hybrid and are pretty happy with it.
Well, duh!
GM’s Mary Barra is a total idiot.
a little glitch in the plan to destroy gas cars
and force everyone onto public transportation
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the law?
The law can be changed!!
The big selling points, to me, for EV are acceleration power, improving range potential, home charging, and full self driving. With the range or FSD, there’s little point.
EVs are, at best, an acceptable third or fourth car for rich elites. The average working family will NEVER want one to rely on for work, vacations, school, or even their driving age kids.
They self immolate, can’t be heated in the winter, nor air conditioned in the summer, take hours, not minutes to refuel, become worthless when the ever-failing batteries fail, need expensive chargers added to the house, can’t be stored in attached garages, can’t be charged in apartments, and more. Other than that, they’re very expensive.
The UK is in the same mess we are.
But they don't have a Trump.
The problem with nonselling Big Three Electrified is Tesla selling electric cars.
Why even consider a GM EV when there is a Tesla?