I have no doubt that the destruction of these types of business is the feature, not the bug, when it comes to the commies in this state.
Bad decisions have consequences... every decision California makes is a bad one.
Those Californians can feel so virtuous and so superior to the rest of us as they pay those higher prices.
I have no doubt that the destruction of these types of business is the feature, not the bug, when it comes to the commies in this state.
Where is all this friggin’ electricity coming from?? A key and a kite??
This whole EV thing isn’t going to end well, as it did from 1894-1915. ICE will remain king.
California's government leaders are absolutely retarded. It's comparable to giving a kindergartener a driver's license and expecting him to drive to school every day.
Long Beach thinks they'll get cleaner air, but the increased particulates from tires and brake pads from heavier trucks might negate whatever gains they get from cleaner tailpipes.
California provides great support for the premise that a one-party state, unhindered by organized opposition, will quckly spin out of control. And that dedicating resources to a spurious principle will soon yield absurdity.
bttt
Say it ain’t so. Nobody saw that one coming.
how long to charge one of those suckers???
Stage coaches pulled by teams of unicorns would make almost as much sense.
If you don’t like the answers/results you’re getting check your premise. Unfortunately, some folks can never admit their premise is WRONG.
They’ll carry less cargo because of their extra weight so they’ll have to make more trips ? D’oh
A few years ago I built an electric bicycle. It had approximately 30 miles of range and could average about 30 mph on the flat. It cost very little to charge it up and had obvious applications... it kind of made sense. I still ended up selling it because it didn't actually fit my needs. It cost only a few hundred dollars to put together and was a fun project. Would I build another one? No.
These days people are spending massive amounts of money on electric cars which have payments that are far more than most people spend on gasoline. They cost even more when you figure in what they spend to insure, charge and maintain them, not to mention the very rapid depreciation in value.
If you remove Tesla from the equation only about 50% of electric car buyers say that they would purchase another electric car.
Electric trucks from pickups to any large commercial vehicle are mostly an unmitigated disaster.
California is about to crash and burn with this type of nonsense.
I just skimmed article. I’ve been hearing people are worried about the extra weight of EVs on roads and bridges.
This is a good article because FINALLY people are waking up to the overall SYSTEMS problem including global mining of rare earths, the labor to do that (often child labor), the fossil fuels expended in the mines, the point that tailpipe particulate emissions are nil and tire wear particulates will increase a huge amount with heavier vehicles, electricity supply, rebuilding the electricity T&D system, charging times, power requirements for huge recharge stations, and lots more.
The systems analysis should be expanded to factor in the additional costs to the entire supply chain of every product and how that will cause prices of EVERYTHING to soar.
It should also include the huge subsidies paid by FedGov that are bankrupting the nation.
The reported analysis doesn’t even factor in the folly of unreliable, weather-dependent, intermittent electricity supply that would gobble up hundreds of millions of acres of valuable land and permanently despoil the beautiful USA landscape.
And for WHAT, you might ask? If you electrified all transportation globally, you would reduce global CO2 emissions by maybe 5% which would POSSIBLY reduce global temperature by 0.1 degree 100 years from now.
What a disaster.
For adopting a stupid plan like this one, I think several gov’t. officials need to be taken out & beaten with a large tree branch until senseless or nearly so. This can’t do anything but make more problems than we already have. Look at the trouble they are already having with electric buses. Biden & some others will be out of office by the time this takes effect, but maybe they also will be drastically effected by it. It can absolutely accomplish nothing good. If the object of these rules is what it seems to be..of destroying our nation; then they are certainly working.
Because so much import/export business goes through CA ports, not to mention all the ag and other products originating in CA but marketed in other states, the Feds need to override CA limits on diesel trucks on grounds of Federal Control of interstate commerce. Lots of lefty junk has been done under that rubric, but this really belongs under it and CA can’t be allowed to interdict the rest of the states with its looney green policies.