So Deep State can continue to export record amounts of it....?
Drill, baby, drill has a different meaning for Deep State.
EVs will replace ICEs!.
Wine Coolers will replace Beer!
Useful idiots all used up.
Sales of EV cars has Plateaued.
Ha ..push them all off the plateau Into the fjord....a good dose of salt water will cool their jets.
The next eco-wacko move will be to make gas stations “disappear”, prompting mild panic among us ICE owners, and trying to push us into converting to EVs.
Surprised they sold 100,000, but they could be and probably are lying.
They can cut that price in half and I wouldn’t buy one.
Buying the car is just the start of the expense of owning an electric car.
Then you will have to upgrade your home’s electric service and buy a charging station. All to the tune of as much as $10,000 if you don’t already have 340V service in your garage.
Speaking of garages, if you are smart you will build yourself a detached garage for your electric car so that your new treasure doesn’t burn down your house while it is on the charger.
Nope I don’t want an electric car at any price. They are not ready for prime time and I don’t want to be stuck with one when the music stops.
Whole Foods (owned by AMAZON) store in Alpharetta GA just removed electric car chargers from it’s parking lot.
From my thermodynamics class in 1978 I knew from day one that electric cars could never be viable. You know all the reasons. We all knew all the reasons. The signal that they would fail is the huge government subsidies required to make people buy them. So, we had taxpayers who could not afford and did not want electric cars subsidizing those who could afford them to buy a product that was below the standards of ICE cars. Now had there been some financial advantage not provided by taxpayers then they’d have taken off. If the range had been superior, along with charging times equal to filling your tank with gas, they had a chance. Even then it would be a difficult sale because the great unwashed masses who ultimately define success or failure are concerned with the infrastructure. It’s fine to have something with limited range if you’re in a nine to five job and only commute thirty miles to a university where you can plug it in for free. But the rest of us may arrive at a work site and find the materials haven’t arrived and we’re sent to another site fifty miles away. Right from the beginning people with calculators were saying, hey, when everybody has them, how will we charge the batteries? That would require many times the power and infrastructure we have now.
Apparently every idiot that can afford an EV now has one. The market is saturated. Now what?
Both can be true. Most people shop on payment so the higher the price (EVs are significantly more) at a higher interest rate makes for even higher payments.
“Some analysts have suggested wealthy ‘early adopters’ keen to get in on the electric car revolution have now all bought theirs - with regular drivers on modest incomes far more hesitant to do so. “
Income is partially responsible for the slowdown. Wealthier households bought EVs as a second or third car to travel locally. But the lack of infrastructure, read charging stations, also inhibited sales. And the elephant in the room is we don’t have the grid to support widespread use of EVs.
The people that needed electric cars to hold their noses up to their friends, neighbors, and in a few cases, other FReepers, now have their EVs.
The rest of country has made up its mind based on a cold, hard, comparison of both types of vehicles.
This proves that US consumers are far more intelligent than government bureaucrats.
Biden just needs to outlaw the sale of gasoline. That will fix the problem! /s
Saw a news item today that said charging an electric vehicle cost as much as if it were a $17/gallon gas fill.
Governments and EVs the 2 disasters
EV vehicles, most expensive paper weights ever.
Sales of gas cars might soon increase rapidly as folks fear being pushed into an electric car world. Sellers will perhaps increase the prices knowing that folks are panic buying. Perhaps not, but it seems to be the writing on the wall for now.
We have had THREE new gas stations built in our area in the last two years. Population of 18,347. Another is being built in our local town. Population 3,790 None have electric chargers. Nearest electric charging station is thirty miles away.
That tells me gasoline will be around for quite a while.
Interesting that sixty years ago when our population was 400, we had eight (8) full service gas stations.