Posted on 06/16/2024 9:40:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Were one to listen to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, one might come away with the impression that electric vehicles (EVs) are so popular, the government’s intention of mostly replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with EVs by 2030 was a foregone conclusion.
After all, the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) tells us they’ll build a half million fast chargers across America by then to handle the load, and they’ve allocated $7.5 billion we don’t have to that noble endeavor.
Confronting Secretary Pete with the fact that in two years his bureaucracy has managed to build only seven or so—one billion plus per charger!—produces much sputtering and stammering and no answers. As the meme goes, he’s so bad at his job, Americans actually know who the Transportation Secretary is, but more on that later.
Hertz unloading its EV fleet has been much in the news. Americans have a nasty tendency not to buy, or even rent, vehicles they don’t trust and don’t want. And now, even General Motors is beginning to bow to reality:
General Motors is trimming its expected sales and production of all-electric vehicles this year, as U.S. adoption of EVs occurs slower than expected.
GM Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said the company now expects production of its all-electric vehicles to range from 200,000 to 250,000 this year, down from a previously announced range of 200,000 to 300,000. The company has recently said it will produce volume to match demand, which is growing more slowly than had been forecast.
Jacobson thinks EVs make up about 8% of the market, which is less than EV cheerleaders have been claiming, and about the historic average. Don’t trust those numbers. Trust demand:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Think Tesla
We see all these EV scooters abandoned everywhere and rounding them up is a separate business. Will the abdoned EV rental cars also become a clean up problem littering our roadways.
Tesla has a PE ratio of 70! If it weren’t for tax subsidies, carbon credits, etc. it would have folded long ago. Or, like Musk’s solar panel business, folded into whatever his current scam was. He will probably go down in history as one of the greatest con artists of all time.
There’s one more reason EV’s aren’t selling; the economy is so bad, nothing much but basics like food and shelter are selling. The dems should try that defense for poor EV sales.
We bought an RV last year with a 400 watt panel. What a joke. It could not keep up with normal power use during the daylight. The batteries were unusable around 10 PM so we could not use the furnace.
We do a lot of backwoods camping where there are no electrical hookups. So this year we added two more 400 watt panels and another battery. With this setup we expect to have a system capable of meeting all daylight demands as well as night time.
We have twin Honda generators as backup, but listening to them grind away is really annoying, which is why we went with the extra solar panels.
A point I’d like to make is about that VW car with the 400 watt panel. Based on our experience, that car had very little range and the panel could not keep up with energy use. It was pretty much a joke.
Sayeth the industry shill.
Conservation of energy is a thing.
So is energy density.
So are transmission losses.
So is lack of generating capacity and copper wire in the quantities needed to feed this fantasy.
EVs are the future, and always will be.
Remember the Citicar of 1975? I saw plenty on the car lots but never on the street.
It's called "virtue signaling" which is liberal fagspeak for "attention whores."
“The fad has worn off.”
They must be looking for a workaround for achieving their ultimate goal of government owned and operated mass public transportation. “All aboard...or else!”
Sounds like the power industry was suffering from premature capitulation.
Toyota, the smartest person in the room, didn’t fall for the all in on EVs mindset, and understood they were always going to be a boutique item because of limitations of range and the charging issues. City folk living in condos and apartments don’t have garages to charge them and cold weather states are not EV friendly. Toyota, understanding that and the fact that the West was going to drive up fossil fuel prices doubled down on hybrids and waited for the fuel conscious consumer market to come to them. They are now literally and virtually in the driver’s seat as hybrid demand has far overtaken dwindling EV demand and their stock is soaring.
Thanks for the history. Interesting thread BUMP
Exactly. The “if only there were more charging stations” narrative is just another tool for more spending. The lack of stations is not the main problem it barely makes the top 5.
Absolutely!
Its not the government’s job...
Two different Scottish inventors independently built their own battery-powered electric automobiles in the 1830s. Eighteen-thirties.
So battery-only EVS are near as makes no difference 200 years old, and still are less utilitarian than a Model A ford.
Still, the electricity in substantial quantity has to come from somewhere. I looked at the possibility / practicality / technical feasibility of converting farm tractors of up to 100 hp to electric and using a solar array perched on top of the barn and swappable battry packs. For what I do it passes all hurdles but it would be very expensive.
Aside from cost, my greatest reservation is fire and damage. The charging / battery storage station would need to be remote and separate from the other buildings. Parking of tractors would need to be without the battery. The field life of a tractor with no suspension is rough and I can see the many connections in the battery packs and components being damaged from the jolts of the field. Even with a cab and air ride seat my guts and back take a beating in a day's work.
No surprise here. Everybody’s a crook and everybody’d a liar and everything is a scam.
Regulation of infrastructure and natural monopoly does fall within the purview of government though.
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