Electric Vehicles here to stay, for good or bad?

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AS LONG AS THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS PUSHIN FOR A CARBON-FREE FOOTPRINT BY 2050 THE MANUFACTERSARE GOING TO WORK WITH ALTERNATEENERGY SOURCES!

Thanks to Biden:
The final rule, which begins in earnest in 2027, demands that automakers quickly amp up production of electric vehicles. By 2032, the emissions standards dictate that roughly 70% of new vehicle sales be battery-powered electric or hybrids.

 

[kbaxter60]

(Reuters) – Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.

The automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.

The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”

Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition

Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker.

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Stick a fork in it.
Pretty much the only hope for going mainstream.

 

[benenglish]

By 2032, the emissions standards dictate that roughly 70% of new vehicle sales be battery-powered electric or hybrids.

Deadlines can be pushed. I predict this one will be.

 

[tedwitt]

No, not zero emissions. Where does the electricity come from to charge them? It ain't all wind power.

As I understand it, creates more smog and pollution building the car than a gas car would make going half the miles the electric car.
NOW, when you spend your $20,000.00 to replace your necessary batteries, where are they going to put your used batteries?

 

[no2gates]

As I understand it, creates more smog and pollution building the car than a gas car would make going half the miles the electric car.
NOW, when you spend your $20,000.00 to replace your necessary batteries, where are they going to put your used batteries?

Probably send it to China.

 

[tedwitt]

Probably send it to China.

I wouldn't doubt it. Hell, drop them on Cuba.

 

[Tnhawk]

As I understand it, creates more smog and pollution building the car than a gas car would make going half the miles the electric car.
NOW, when you spend your $20,000.00 to replace your necessary batteries, where are they going to put your used batteries?

I can suggest a few places. FJB!

 

[Cool 'Horn Luke]

Up FJB's ass?

 

[TheDan]

Cybertruck Turns Into Large Metal Brick After Going Through Car Wash

As one recent Tesla Cybertruck owner found out, even a car wash was able to defeat the 6,600-pound pickup.

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[TheDan]

 

[leVieux]

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We just got back from Europe, where the EV market has already crashed.

Does anyone else here recall that the entire “Human-caused Global Warming” concept arose from a soon-exposed British data error, then was adopted as a policy-driver SCAM by the WEF when the old Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990’s ?

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[Tnhawk]

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I thought they wore pink crocs.

 

[Eastexasrick]

Tesla's first quarter net profit was just reported. It skidded -55%. Hell of a skid mark in Elon's shorts.

"CEO Elon Musk announced, in a conference call with analysts, they will increase production of the affordable models on new generation underpinnings to start the second quarter of next year".

 

[tedwitt]

If I'm not mistaken, electric cars have their batteries under the belly of the car.
I follow a guy on youtube called Michael Pfeffer, he has a mechanics shop in Michigan. You would not believe the rusted out frames and bodies of some of the cars that come in his shop, I'm talking 5 and 6 year old cars with rusted out unibodies.
Imagine what those cars with batteries under them will look like after one winter running around in all that snow and salt.

 

[Axxe55]

If I'm not mistaken, electric cars have their batteries under the belly of the car.
I follow a guy on youtube called Michael Pfeffer, he has a mechanics shop in Michigan. You would not believe the rusted out frames and bodies of some of the cars that come in his shop, I'm talking 5 and 6 year old cars with rusted out unibodies.
Imagine what those cars with batteries under them will look like after one winter running around in all that snow and salt.

from my understanding the battery packs are underneath car and they weigh quite a bit!

 

[no2gates]

from my understanding the battery packs are underneath car and they weigh quite a bit!

They are INSANELY heavy. If memory serves me correctly, a Tesla will outweigh an F350

 

[no2gates]

HAHA!!! https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html

They LOST $132000 per EV made? How they hell is that even possible?

 

[Tnhawk]

HAHA!!! https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html

They LOST $132000 per EV made? How they hell is that even possible?

Research and development costs are a major part of the $$$ lost per EV.

 

[Eastexasrick]

HAHA!!! https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html

They LOST $132000 per EV made? How the hell is that even possible?

Let me get my abacus out. Nope can't figure it. Maybe if the retail price is $50,000. and it costs $182,000 to make them, after federal supplements.

 

[Havok1]

Ford said last year that they expect their EV’s to be profitable by 2026. Not sure how realistic that may or may not be, but if it’s even somewhat close, they will be far ahead of Tesla in that sense. I still won’t buy one, but time will tell if this is really a problem for ford.