Posted on 05/09/2023 6:59:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Electrifying the car market may be getting more difficult, with the share of Americans who say they’re “very unlikely” to consider an EV for their next vehicle purchase growing in each of the first three months of the year, according to a new report.
In March, 21% of new-vehicle shoppers said they were “very unlikely” to consider an EV, up from 18.9% in February and 17.8% in January, consumer analytics firm JD Power said in a monthly EV report. In contrast, the percentage of car shoppers who say they are “very likely” to consider an EV was 26.9% in March, largely flat this year.
Persistent worries about charging infrastructure and vehicle pricing’s dampening enthusiasm, the report said. EV’s market share of all new-vehicle sales dropped to 7.3% in March, down from a record high of 8.5% in February but up from 2.6% in February 2020.
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Wow, peak lithium verses peak oil.
There’s a reason they are called “rare earth materials” 😏
See an occasional Tesla but otherwise very few Ford, GM or VW EVs on the road. BTW anyone know how those Tesla semis are doing with the companies that bought them? Are they reliable and productive?
The present EV market is completely forced by printed government money, government debt, government regulations and its nonstop propaganda. Thus its a fake market
There would be a market for EV’s without government promotion, but it would likely look very different from the present one.
We must be almost out of Afghanistan lithium by now.
If puppet zelensky can pull off bidens regime change in Russia that m and more natural resources and slave Lahr to mine it .. in other words democracy (at least according to progressives).
“You vill purchase zee electric vehicle, oont you vill like it!”
I haven’t seen TeslaGator around lately.
Net Zero grid batteries alone would bankrupt America: The dollar costs to achieve "Net Zero" are almost incomprehensibleMAYBE the bigger picture is finally sinking in with people (beyond the immediate practicality, life, and cost problems of EVs as well as the fact neighborhood transformers can only support charging three or four EVs at a time).
By Craig Rucker, American Thinker, May 9, 2023
The demand for Cobalt is expected to outweigh supply by 2030
Yes. It would be electric forklifts in warehouses, electric tugs at airports, electric busses in cities (hybrid preferable), urban dwellers who don't commute, and suburbanites with short commutes (who can afford a long-distance ICE car in the family as well).
I’ve seen 2 or 3 BMW EVs, and they are ugly.
Ping and I have a fuel efficient Honda that gets 32 miles city and (mostly) suburban driving. No way do I need or want an EV.
Though if someone were giving me my ideal automobile. It would be a plug in hybrid. I would plug it into the 220 volt line overnight....... With a smallish battery that can take it 75-100 miles. So no lugging around a heavy lithium monster, like the EVS have.
What is a TeslaGator?
Chile just Nationalized all Lithium. This is mostly to control production and make the refining process happen in Chile instead of China.
At least that is what Peter Zeihan said they other day.
He seemed to think it would be good for Chile. Bad for China.
Job losses for China. Australia is the other major world producer of lithium.
I would not be surprised if Ecuador and Bolivia do the same things considering they are big miners of nickel and copper.
However, all the cobalt will still be mined in the Congo by Africans wearing the best 99 cent flip flops the Chinese can provide.
EVs are a dead-end
Not sure about SEMIs but the stupid mayor of Boston Michelle Wu bought a bunch of electric school buses for the city last year. Not sure how well those will work in Boston in January.
Maybe they will look pretty parked in the bike lanes.
I work in the transportation infrastructure field. In transportation, every step of progress on human history could be measured objectively in terms of IMPROVEMENT in performance. Transportation modes became faster, more cost efficient, heavier carrying capacity (for freight transportation), lighter, safer, etc.
EVs are a giant step BACKWARDS by most of these measures.
It’s like buying a rotary phone to replace your iPhone and calling it “better.”
The rare in rare earth metals refers to difficulty of extraction, not scarcity.
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