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Posted on 02/13/2022 7:48:47 AM PST by rktman
It’s a certainty that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake,” when she heard about France’s peasants starving for lack of bread. However, it’s the absolute truth that, even as 82% of Americans are paying above sticker price for cars, while the last year has seen them struggle with rising fuel prices, Biden chose to announce that he’s going to buy a whole new fleet of cars for federal workers—600,000 cars, to be precise—all of them electric.
The past year has been a tough one for Americans. Inflation has rocketed, with three primary causes: the government’s non-stop money-printing presses; rising fuel prices that boost the price of everything and hugely increase the cost of driving; and the supply chain shortages, including chips and other car parts from China. It’s no surprise, then, that Edmunds, the market research firm, says that 82% of Americans who bought a car from a dealership in the past 12 months paid above the sticker price. This is 276 times more than in 2020:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“They will be surplused within 3 years at a fraction of the cost to buy.”
Isn’t that the same for ICE cars?
600,000 EVs = how many windmills and acres of solar?
Like him or not, after Biden and the democrats, Trump is a shoe-in!
“Fossil-fuel” plants are being taken out of operation, and wind and/or solar power generation means are being substituted for all the “retired” generation systems, including some of the older nuclear plants, now nearing or at their maximum sustainable lifetime, while continuing to have problems with storage with the “spent” uranium fuel rods, still highly radioactive. And for every kilowatt of power generation from ether wind or solar sources, an equal amount of kilowatts of generation power from natural-gas power generators has to also be constructed, because of the inherent unreliability of BOTH wind and solar, and the relatively short lifetimes of both systems. Also, California has been destroying hydroelectric generation plants, even while that state continues to have deficits in power generation and rolling brownouts or blackouts.
You need sources? Get your head out of the clouds, and just look around here on earth. Overregulation and total lack of planning shall only continue to compound to confound the looming crisis.
We should be building thorium-fueled molten salt reactors, and putting them on line within two years, at the rate of a new plant every few weeks. Vastly safer than the older uranium-fueled light-water reactors, they also use up the “spent” uranium fuel rods, a small amount of which is necessary to initiate fission in a thorium-fueled reactor.
But, if all you ever do is local urban, it doesn’t matter in the least what you drive. Get an old Impala and fill the tank once a month. It’s not worth the super premium.
Many downtowns don’t have specific parking so there’s no way to charge at home. And if you could, local vermin will steal the cord.
I hear the Super Bowl is going to be full of EV car ads.
It could be that they couldn’t get the mileage and/or charging off out into the places in public they weren’t actually supposed to be going or using the vehicles for.
can you imagine the fbi, in electric cars, caught in a “Miami - style” gunfight?
how fast would it take for the car to shortout?
“You need sources?”
Yes.
“We should be building thorium-fueled molten salt reactors, and putting them on line within two years, at the rate of a new plant every few weeks. Vastly safer than the older uranium-fueled light-water reactors, they also use up the “spent” uranium fuel rods, a small amount of which is necessary to initiate fission in a thorium-fueled reactor.”
Thorium molten salt reactors are not ready for prime time.
“We had electric cars back in the very early 1900s, and they were a fad back then, and are a fad now.”
Japan sold electric cars right after WWII, due to shortages of gasoline. Once gasoline became widely available, the electric cars went away. The Tama was the forerunner of the Nissan Leaf sold now.
https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/tama_electric.html
We had electric cars around 1900; here’s the history:
AWD Premium, standard battery.
I can assure you it’s faster from the starting gate than your 750 hp rear wheel Pony car; it’s a function of all 4 wheels starting with immediate torque from the electric motors with no tranny or drive shaft slowing things down.
IIRC the Mach e’s have a governor to keep them from going over 140, so your ‘Stang would win if it was a long enough race. Or if it’s a really long race I’d run out of juice before you’d run out of gas.
But the launch is unreal and it’s so smooth I had it at 90+ and didn’t even realize it. The fact that it’s super quiet is a little freaky, but I really like it.
Take one for a test drive. Every decent sized Ford dealership is supposed to have one that they can’t sell, but keep for test drives.
I charge it overnight at home and use it as a commuter car.
Getting closer... LOL
Of course, they are getting subsidies.
“I can assure you it’s faster from the starting gate than your 750 hp rear wheel Pony car; ... so your ‘Stang would win if it was a long enough race.”
After 100 feet you can read my license plate.
Check again.
Not so.
You hit that battery pack right, the whole thing is likely to discharge rather spectacularly.
“Not so.”
So.
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