If you buy one of these EV pieces of crap you may be stuck with it forever. The wrecking yards won’t take them.
Speaking of EV’s, I haven’t seen TeslaGator for quite some time.
The reality of simple economics hits the used electric car market.
I bought new cars for two of my kids this year for college. Both are regular gas engines.
“...dirty combustion engines”
Prejudicial right out of the gate. You want “dirty”? Look at the end-of-life of an EV. What do you do with the hundreds of millions of spent batteries? You want “dirty”? Look at the hundreds of millions of tons of materials needed to make EVs. You want “dirty”? Look at the burned cars and houses, fires that cannot be extinguished.
The original owner drives the EV. Then, as the EV battery gets close to it life expectancy, the seller tries to unload it because he/she does not want the expense of the new battery. The car resale value drops fast because nobody else wants to buy a ca that needs a new expensive battery soon.
This is the real reason for the drop in values for EV’s.
There is no way I would buy a used EV,
Even if this technology were perfected for safety, charging times, last of charges, prices, maintenance...there remains a practical problem: What if you have a long term power outage? Imagine after a major winter storm knocking out your power for several days, or even a couple of weeks as sometimes occurs...even with the roads improved enough to allow for travel, you still cannot get anywhere to get anywhere for provisions. This would put even more pressure on public services having to rescue and come to the aid of even more people who would not have needed aid, and those would have needed aid may have to go without it.
I think someone will come up with an insurance-like system where the battery replacement risk is spread across a wide range of models, years, mileage, and use cases in order to limit the financial risk of used EVs.
Let’s face it. Joe Pedeaux’s EVs are crap.
I don’t think the admission for a worn-out EV to get into a junk yard is going to be cheap.
Solyndra on wheels.
I guess they’ll need to get buried wherever all the useless old wind turbine and solar panels are sent to die.
cause whoever will buys one secondhand, is STUCK WI IT...
because nobody, and i mean NOBODY will a third owner stuck wi an unsalable lump of dead/dying batteries...
This should be applied to 2nd and longer term Democrats as well. Once they prove their incompetence/malevolence, set them free to pursue an alternative existence!
Honestly, I don’t want a used car newer than 2011. It seems that most cars after 2011 started replacing simple circuits with computer modules. And they’re very expensive to diagnose and replace. I also don’t want a newer used car that has integrated LED bulbs/fixtures. Maybe a replaceable LED bulb, but if they’re manufactured into the fixture? No way.
There is no ‘second hand’ market for electrical vehicles... Period!
GM to investors: “Buy our stock...Just because”
Regardless of what is being written and said here, the reason EVs are flopping is that Americans have looked at them and said NO! The reasons vary a bit but we know EVs are just another way to try to restrict our freedoms.
I like they way they start out with the “dirty combustion engines” lie. No bias there.