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"In our parts of the country there are plenty of fast chargers"

Fast charging damages the battery, and shortens the lifetime of the battery. I have not read about the connection between fast charging and battery fires, so I cannot state that there is a connection. Some European ferries have banned EVs from their services due to the EV fires. Several NY buildings have also banned e-bikes and scooters due to fires.

Ford, Rivian, and others just received another massive influx of taxpayer dollars.

The Chicoms boast about all the EVs they are making. Recently a video was smuggled out of China, a video of thousands and thousands of EVs decaying in huge fields. Reminds me of the USSR and the farm tractor factories. Inside, EVERYBODY has a job. Outside, there were hundreds of new tractors rusting away.

“Some European ferries have banned EVs from their services due to the EV fires. “

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ONE SHIPPING company has banned EV’s.

To be specific, fast charging is to be used only sparingly (i.e. only on long trips). If only a small portion of your charging is with 150kw charging you don't degrade the battery life. So talking about fast chargers in regards to whether or not an EV is good for the trips you'd take within driving distance of your region is fine. But talking about fast charging if you live in an apartment and can't charge at home for your regular use, the your point is valid about fast charging shortening the life of the battery.

For the record, the few of us FReepers who own EV's are 100% with you on hating govt stimulus or other influence on car markets. We just happen to like EV's for our particular needs and wants (our use cases). It's nice to have options.

For me, the main thing having both an EV car and an ICE pickup bring to the table is that it gives our family some diversification on energy dependence. Basically, the Dims have to make both power and gasoline hard to come by or too expensive to use to mess up our transportation. If they mess up just power or just gas, we have a car that uses the other energy source. And in our case since we live in an area that's good for decentralized solar, we can drive the EV for local driving even if the Dims mess up both gas and the grid.