Posted on 11/17/2023 12:09:19 PM PST by CedarDave
The state of new mexico is going to mandate consumers to buy electric vehicles?
That seems vaguely unconstitutional.
There ain’t no EV chargers in Indian Country, nor even electricity in some areas
God luck with that. Here is current NM EV stats. NM hasn’t even sold 8K EV’s as of 2022 with a population of 2M+
https://afdc.energy.gov/transatlas/#/?view=percent&fuel=ELEC&state=NM
Interesting juxtaposition with the earlier article where GM is halting EV production across the board. It seems that GMs domestic inventory is just under 100,000 EVs on dealer lots and they are not moving out the door.
The most cited reason is that the virtue signalers who can afford an EV now have one and don’t want another. Also trade-in values for an EV is pennies on the dollar which is not helping.
This reminds me of when that pos Florio was governor of New Jersey several years. He got the ash holes that ran the Assembly and Senate to put a huge tax on heavy trucks sold in New Jersey.
In the last full year before this insane tax the state saw about 1000 heavy trucks sold. That number fell to 20 in the next year.
Imagine you’re an urban dwelling, on-the-road salesperson or manufacturer’s rep. You live in a city apartment. Sometimes you get to park right in front of your apt building, sometimes you have to park a block or two away.
When you go to work, you don’t drive to an office, you drive to a customers location. If like California and Connecticut your state has mandated that only EV may be sold as new after 2035, how do you charge your car?
You can’t plug it in at home, you live on the fourth floor. You have no charging station at work. You’re always at a customer location or driving between. I don’t think these brain dead democrats have thought this through.
When will this “Climate change” insanity end?
It is madness to blame the internal combustion engine, push electric vehicles and think that, “we have solved it!” A problem that doesn’t exist?
The only EV I will drive is a golf cart on a golf course.
The problem is the radical progressives.
Yes Benito florio.
Traveled to Albuquerque recently, and survived!). At AP told rental agent wanted only ICE car. He laughed and said that is all we have. Only a dummy would opt for an EV there as there is no physical support for them outside the cities he said.
(New Mexico will require that 43% of vehicles sold by 2026 be electric)
They can declare it but what if the Public says NO! Car dealers in Amarillo, Lubbock and El Paso will be glad to fill the bill for those wanting non electric vehicles.
Ridiculous rule. Meddling in the free market, forcing dealers to unload EV cars at losses and higher prices (pushing demand forward) for gasoline powered cars - and ultimately winds up with no cars for people to buy.
I go to Playas NM every September for an Airsoft event.
Getting there requires long drives through so pretty desolate landscape, with VERY few places to stop for fuel, and 0 EV charging stations.
No F’n way anyone could do that in a EV.
If I had the space, I would buy some used cars...
People are not interested in EV’s unless they have a million+ dollars in the bank. If the battery goes bad then it costs almost the entire cost of the EV to replace it. Joe six pack is not going to pay $70k to get an EV when a used car goes for $20k.
Buy EV's, ride a horse or walk; that's the same result. Actually I can see NM becoming somwhat like Cuba with old cars continually repaired as new gasoline cars are not available and the population can't afford EV's so pay to keep the old ones going.
Forcing people to abandon ICE vehicles and only able to purchase EV’s.
We'll see how many morons in New Mexico continue to vote for the arrogant asshats running their government. I'm betting enough to keep the commies in power perpetually.
The other part of the rule says gasoline cars sold must have California type emissions controls to be registered in New Mexico. That leads to no sales or an attempt to keep it registered in TX and not be caught avoiding NM registration. Not too much of a problem here in SE as many work vehicles have TX plates right now and are registered with companies headquartered in TX.
Seems unconstitutional to tell a company what they can sell and what we must buy.
BTW, there is a way, for a hefty price, for newer diesel P/Us out of Warranty to go across the state line into Texas and have the current emissions control system (the one that requires adding Blue DEF every several hundred miles) removed and replaced with an older system that improves operation and mileage.
Won’t happen.
[See Chevrolet]
Same with MLG's unconstitutional gun rules that makes it illegal to carry weapons, even with a concealed carry permit, in cities with high crime rates. That has been temporarily derailed but a judge reinstated it for city and urban parks in ABQ and Bernalillo County. And the far-left mayor in Santa Fe has said his legislative representatives will introduce a bill to nullify the New Mexico state constitutional provisions that prevent cities from having gun laws more restrictive than state law. If passed in the legislature it would go on the 2024 November ballot.
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