So short GM stock is what I’m getting...
How many of the components come from China?
the greenies will get a charge out of this news...
If they want everyone in an electric vehicle by 2035 then they better improve the batteries to close to 400 miles per charge. The replacement batteries are extremely expensive. And the car price overall needs to come down 10 grand. Gas stations need to be equipped with charging stations that take 10 minutes to charge. A lot of work to do before 2035.
Except that most of the power plants that make the electricity are not zero-emission, but Government Motors won't tell you that.
GM had a lot of trouble naming the first EV. They initially wanted to call it "Santana," but that name was dropped when it was found that a French car company had used it for one of its models. Then they named it the "Impact," a horrific name for an automobile. What idiot would have dreamed that up and what idiot exec approved it? GM later said that "Impact" was used only for the concept car, not the production model and they've done everything to bury how "Impact" was the original name. Most web resources regurgitate the company line that "Impact" was for the concept car and it was introduced as "EV1."
As long a nuclear energy or an efficient alternative to oil, wood, or coal does the work, I have no problem with this. We are overdue for an improvement over gas powered box on wheels.
When will my fuel-run car be criminalized?
Hitler declared many things in the Third Reich.
Democrats declare many things in the Green revolution.
Mother Nature.
I’ll take odds on who wins.
I’ll take the laws of physics and Thermodynamics
over politics any day.
From the article: âThe transition of battery packs from wired to wireless connectivity enables automotive manufacturers to scale their electric vehicle platforms across multiple vehicle models to meet growing consumer demand,â Patrick Morgan, VP of Automotive at Analog Devices, said.”
That’s a joke. By all reports there is no ‘growing consumer demand’. Other articles in WSJ indicate that dealers are having a tough go selling EV to consumers.
More from the article: “With this flexibility, GM can pack in anywhere from 50 kWh to 200 kWh of energy capacity (double what the current largest Tesla battery, the P100D, can hold), translating into 350 - 400 miles of estimated range and a 0 - 60 in as low as 3 seconds.”
So how long to recharge these batteries? On a long trip, I can refuel my gas car in five minutes or less. I really don’t want to wait for an hour or two to recharge.
I didnât see any tow ratings for the new 1000hp Hummer.
EV's ca.1900 were getting 100 miles per charge. And now 300 miles per charge is considered great. What a quantum leap!!!!
Batteries are very bulky and heavy
My experience has been recently with these electric bikes that are out there
Those bikes weigh 60 pounds mine weighs 30
So therefore youâre just going to be restricted on a bike that has a battery on it
Same is true with electric vehicles
Case in point: range
To get 400 miles out of an electric vehicle youâre gonna need a lot of batteries and itâs gonna be very bulky
You simply cannot run a battery car in the very cold weather
Batteries take a long time to recharge
Electricity is also expensive unless you make it yourself for solar panels
The killer for me as well if you run out of juice and youâre nowhere near anything
Itâs an electric bike youâre gonna have to push that thing up the mountain
your car youâre just kind of screwed
I get it I get Tesla. Theyâre FAST AS HELL. ELECTTIC MOTORS ARE VERY EFFICRNT
but just give me my gas powered vehicle any day
I am fine with EV vehicles, provided there is ZERO subsidies or tax credits of any kind for them.
Also, I think EV sales should be halted, until the states and federal representatives legislate taxes for EVs that derive an average equivalent level of taxation as the fuel taxes - without taxing “miles driven” - with all the data collection THAT will require.
Lastly, the battery industry either has to self-clean-up the pollution pilling up in the mountains of used car batteries, or have a tax applied to batteries to pay for public efforts to do it. Batteries should not be permitted in landfills and should be sent to outfits that break them up and break them down, recycling what can be recycled.
It is hypocritical to refer to the EV industries as “green” and not polluting when the massive increase in battery use already here, and set to be massively growing, is just changing one pollution issue for another, and so far its largely being ignored.
I will say one thing for GM it is the only corp. to be forcefully split four times by the government.
They had better find a good source for rare earth minerals that is not China. If they do ramp up production in the US, then the “zero emissions” will be shot to hell in the mining, recovery, processing of the minerals by a magnitude exceeding the minimal emissions savings.
“...theyâll be among the first models in GMâs new electrified lineup..”
What’s plan B when nobody buys this shit?
“...When the Hummer EV SUT (sport utility truck) ...”
SUT...Sport Utility Tyco.
What energy creates the electric that charges the cars?
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