Posted on 10/22/2023 3:44:12 PM PDT by Libloather
I posit there was no revolution. There was the usual spate of early adopters and virtue signalers. People with the right specific uses are happy with their EVs and most of them still own an ICE car anyway. Many urban livers can easily get by with just an EV and rent ICE vehicles for long trips if they have range anxiety.
And we don’t have the infrastructure to support EVs. The grid needs to be expanded along with more charging stations.
And what happens to the used EV market and replacement batteries? The marketplace should determine the fate of EVs, not the USG.
“I was wondering if that included married couples who have an EV and an ICE car.”
I can’t tell you where, but I read some time back that 78% of EV owners also own an ICE vehicle.
Let it be true.
GOP committing political malpractice by not pointing out things like this and gas stoves, etc. that cross economic, racial, and ethnic lines. This crap has to be tied to the larger Democrat party. Time is wasting.
“ Bring back cheap gas for $2.00 or less.”
Bring back leaded gas. Then we can move back to global cooling.
That’s my wife and me. We own an EV crossover and drive most of our miles 26K per year) in it. We also have an ICE pickup. If we didn’t need 2 cars anyway we wouldn’t have gotten an EV because there are some trips an EV won’t do. Having one car as an EV is practical for us because we can charge it at home and also drive it enough for the gas savings to be worth it (even if gas prices go back down to Trump levels). Yet with all the driving we do in the EV, the next car we buy will almost certainly be replacing the old ICE pickup with another ICE pickup.
And there’s that.
“In 2022, they (pickup trucks) accounted for about 79 percent of vehicles sold in the country, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association.”
Does anyone else consider that number - 79% - unbelievable?
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Ford took the best swelling pickup in the nation for years and made it electric. Totally non-sensical. There needs to be a management clean out there.
Ditto. Once people found out range is cut in half when towing anything substantial, sales cratered.
How much damage can Biden do to the country?
VW has admitted they have put their company in danger by “embracing” EV
This means its impacting Audi and Porsche too.
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