here's the problem with that, it ain't happening:
Posted on 08/02/2018 3:55:26 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON - California helped birth the nation’s electric vehicle industry. It used its laws and market size to prompt automakers to make and sell electric vehicles. It encouraged Tesla and other innovators to build manufacturing plants.
Over the years, California spawned an entire industry devoted to EV batteries, charging stations and utility collaborations, with billions of dollars invested.
Now, all of that is at risk. On Thursday, the Trump administration proposed freezing Obama-era rules that require automakers to build cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars, including hybrids and electric vehicles. The proposal would also challenge California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas restrictions on cars, including a mandate that automakers sell a certain number of electric cars in California.
If the administration prevails, it could upend numerous California enterprises devoted to clean cars, some of whom are already reeling from market uncertainty.
On Thursday, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV charging network blasted the Trump administration decision, saying it will “turn back the clock” both on pollution reduction and U.S. competitiveness in electric vehicles.
“California is the global leader in the mobility revolution, due in no small part to the state’s commitment to emissions reductions,” said Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, headquartered in Campbell, Calif. “It simply makes no sense to revoke this waiver at a time when California leads the nation’s efforts to compete in the global marketplace.”
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'Bout time.
Do not confuse electric propulsion with Smart Cars. You can have a really smart car that runs on regular. Many do today.
China can have this market.
LOL
How would it do that?
Are Tesla Owners secretly pining for a F-250 4 X 4 Dually?
Support or no supporter, as battery technology and efficiency improves, electric powered vehicles will continue to evolve and be designed and produced.
And by the way, I support Trumps position here.
Tesla is a loser. They will never make a profit. They are losing almost a billion a year.
Good. I’m surprised this wasn’t scrapped already. Oh well, now’s as good a time as any. Just more wasteful Gaia Worshiping - get rid of it.
Let the markets set the demand and prices though, not the government.
On Thursday, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV charging network blasted the Trump administration decision, saying it will “turn back the clock” both on pollution reduction and U.S. competitiveness in electric vehicles.
He's just worried about his bank account and job.
Smart Cars are dumb. The gas mileage is not that great and you can get a much bigger nicer car that does just as well.
That's too bad. It means the taxpayer has picked up the tab for advancements in technology that are nearly, but perhaps not quite, ready to compete. Naturally having picked up that tab, the state's consumers are going to be offered a discount on purchase. Stop laughing.
BS spin. He is proposing a freeze. A freeze get it? Lying SOB’s He is not rolling back a damn thing. At the end Obongo imposed almost impossible standards on hi s way out the door. Either we suspend the laws of physics or we drive golf carts.
Isn’t a substantial percentage of the world’s cobalt (upwards of 20% I heard) used for the electric car batteries? Talk about non-renewable resources. We are still in first generation development.
And what sort of toxic material is left over from production and after it’s life of recharging is used up?
Not to mention the environmental impact making electricity for the grid to charge those cars.
Has Obama bought the Chevy Volt he said he would?
“Smart Cars are dumb. “
Every vehicle produced in the world since 2015 is a “smart car”.
Just thinking about all those windmill farms that are going to stand around blotting the horizon for a hundred years doing nothing because nobody can afford dismantling them.
Caliornia Tesla buyers get $17,000 in taxpayer subsidies. You and me and the rest of us suckers chip in and pay for the first $17,000 of every Tesla purchase so those rich liberals can drive them. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never gotten $17,000 off MSRP on any vehicle I’ve ever bought? Have you?
Without those state and federal taxpayer subsidies, Tesla wouldn’t sell half the cars they sell.
here's the problem with that, it ain't happening:
“Just thinking about all those windmill farms”
Minus the sunk capital costs, they are profitable.
They’ll be swept up by some investor and make him very, very rich.
Of course until the EPA sues him for killing all those birds. Or Audubon...somebody.
Get up there, you taxpayers! No back talk now. Stay in line....
just about everything California does regarding energy and automobiles is in Direct Violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause
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