EV's

[IV Hunt]

How will all the materials needed for the new underground power lines be manufactured?

Gonna have to crack some PVC. Darn oil.

 

[tripper]

Haha.… hurricanes are so sneaky you never see them coming. (Insert eye roll here). Also congressional hearings are some of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Maybe you could charge up your car days before you leave and if you are in stop and go your ev uses very little electricity. Good news is if you stayed in place and the hurricane didn’t impact you you can use it to power your house for like a week or more.
Not to worried about hurricanes in WA state.

So since you don't have any issues with hurricanes, it's OK to force EVs and the Green crap on people who do. Typical liberal view and so wrong and elitist. That's the core problem with this whole electric car agenda, it's being forced on those who don't want it.

 

[Clark]

How much to burn down ALL of California??

We can start a GoFundMe?

 

[WidgeonmanGH]

So since you don't have any issues with hurricanes, it's OK to force EVs and the Green crap on people who do.

I didn’t bring up hurricanes they were brought up as a reason why EVs won’t work which is silly. I didn’t realize that NC had an EV mandate. Pretty sure no one has been forced to buy one yet. There are some states that are phasing out ice vehicles by 2035 but I think that is largely all symbolic since people will have already made that transition anyway.

 

[SRW]

There are some states that are phasing out ice vehicles by 2035 but I think that is largely all symbolic since people will have already made that transition anyway.

If anyone believed that there would be no mandates or subsidies.

 

[WidgeonmanGH]

If anyone believed that there would be no mandates or subsidies.

That is political bread and butter. Pass a law that will have no actual impact on 99% of the people but it feeds the rabid base.

Pass a law that prohibits trans male basketball players in the WNBA in a red state. The fact that there are no Trans WNBA players doesn't matter and the red state cheers. Although if Lebron retired and identified as a female for a couple of years he could hold all the records.

Pass a law that in a decade you can't sell new ICE vehicles, when in fact the trend in a particular state is completely going that way and the tech and infrastructure will be largely in place anyway. They all look at each other and say yeah look what we did. Fact is, it would have went there anyway. I did not by an EV because of a mandate but because it was what I as a consumer wanted and the market provided that at a price I was willing to pay.

We have beat subsitides to death. All for no subsidies if it is an even hand. (which it is not Oil gets way more money than EVs) so if you are against all then great, we agree. If not it is just hypocritical noise.

 

[grahler]

Pass a law that in a decade you can't sell new ICE vehicles, when in fact the trend in a particular state is completely going that way and the tech and infrastructure will be largely in place anyway. They all look at each other and say yeah look what we did. Fact is, it would have went there anyway.

 

[WidgeonmanGH]

Nationally, EVs accounted for 7% of new vehicle registrations in January, up from 4.1% in January 2022.

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/20/electric-vehicles-seattle-registrations

There will be a tipping point, reached in some states (like CA) before others, where the transition will dramatically accelerate. The number of models offered and as the tech continues to improve. It is interesting to see the sheer number of EVs I see on the road every single trip on the highway I take. Anecdotal for sure but it is supported by the statistics. I think 2023 will be a big year for EVs with all the new models.

 

[tcc]

That is political bread and butter. Pass a law that will have no actual impact on 99% of the people but it feeds the rabid base.

Pass a law that prohibits trans male basketball players in the WNBA in a red state. The fact that there are no Trans WNBA players doesn't matter and the red state cheers. Although if Lebron retired and identified as a female for a couple of years he could hold all the records.

Pass a law that in a decade you can't sell new ICE vehicles, when in fact the trend in a particular state is completely going that way and the tech and infrastructure will be largely in place anyway. They all look at each other and say yeah look what we did. Fact is, it would have went there anyway. I did not by an EV because of a mandate but because it was what I as a consumer wanted and the market provided that at a price I was willing to pay.

We have beat subsitides to death. All for no subsidies if it is an even hand. (which it is not Oil gets way more money than EVs) so if you are against all then great, we agree. If not it is just hypocritical noise.

While you may think those laws/mandates carry no real weight, the fact is they absolutely influence the manufacturers and thus the product offerings they provide.

 

[grahler]

While you may think those laws/mandates carry no real weight, the fact is they absolutely influence the manufacturers and thus the product offerings they provide.

It’s way more than just influence!
Our government of useless bureacrats and safety agencies and EPA etc etc etc MANDATE so much crud no one wants it complicates vehicles and causes them to be too expensive and also unrepairable.
It’s not influence it’s government overreach that results in worse outcome for the consumer.
The end goal is to pack people in apartments in big cities with no personal transportation where all they are stuck doing is working to pay rent and internet to get the propoganda brainwashing thsts obviously thoroughly entrenched many Americans!
Our government has stepped so far towards outright fascism I doubt it will ever come back!
It’s simply not the governments job to dictate what kind of cars people can buy!
I cannot believe ANYONE argues and cheerleads the curtailing of Americas freedom via these government “regulations”

It’s for your safety, after all!

SMH