Are you actually ready to buy an Electric Vehicle?

20% of the EV market goes back to Gasoline fueled cars. 1.9% bother to own one.

I did a survey on this forum and so far only 40% claim that in their future they see an EV in it. However only a slim number claim to already own one. I believe around 8.7 percent own one a bit more than the published figures of owners.

Well just look at the top of this thread to get the numbers.

 

We shall see.

 

We did get rid of Gray Davis as Governor when I lived in Ca.

 

No two cases are alike.

 

"The odds suggest Gavin Newsom will be recalled later this year," said Betfair spokesperson Sam Rosbottom.

"The California governor is currently odds-on at 1/3 to be removed from office a year before his first term is scheduled to end."
https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-recall-odds-slashed-majority-bet-governor-lose-race-1587124

 

I would love to have an EV but only as a second car and for around town. Other than that, I loves my fossil fueled vehicles.

 

With my set up, I am chauffeured by my son. My car has remained parked for around 2 years now.

 

Some think I am anti electric cars. Actually when in college in 1957 I clearly was then predicting the future was the EV. I still believe that to be true. PS I am an old hot rodder who made a living off of hot rodding until drafted into the army to serve Kennedy.

 

Sooooo lucky. LOL, I have 4 cars, 2 motorcycles, and an airplane but hey, capitalism sucks right?

 

What make is the airplane? I presume you are a pilot as I am.

 

I remember the first electric car I saw while I was in the military in the 70's. No sound, little boxy thing but very cool. I love the instant torque of the electric car, just not the limitations at this time.

 

What shocks me a lot about Democrats is how they endorse some of the fastest autos on earth. The EV. They never think they are dangerous due to super high speeds. Tesla will run 155 mph and one of them hits about 200 mph.

 

This is about posturing and virtue signaling. Not about the people or safety.

 

Tesla Slammed Over “Full Self-Driving Capability” Claims
Eric Worrall
California regulators are officially reviewing Tesla’s claim to have a “full self-driving capability”.

 

Biden’s EV tax credits redistribute wealth … upward

• By George F. Will

". . . There are tax credits of up to $7,500 for EV purchasers, until a manufacturer sells 200,000. GM and Tesla have reached this cap. GM wants the tax credit restored and made permanent. Internal Revenue Service data for 2014 showed that the biggest beneficiaries were households with adjusted gross income of at least $100,000. One percent went to households earning less than $50,000. States, too, have joined the market manipulation. In California, where about 47 percent of EVs are sold, buyers can gain up to $15,000. That such subsidies “work” is shown by what happens when they end: In 2015, when Georgia ended its $5,000 state tax credit, EV sales plummeted 89 percent in two months.

Biden’s policy to use less affluent Americans’ money to entice more affluent Americans to buy EVs is only one of the contemplated regressive policies by which his administration would transfer wealth upward. Another such policy would cancel student debts for some of the fortunate minority of Americans who, having college degrees, will likely enjoy lifetime earnings significantly higher than those of the less fortunate majority. And if Democrats repeal the $10,000 cap on deductions of state and local taxes by individuals filing their federal income taxes, this would almost entirely benefit very wealthy taxpayers. . . ."

 

Ah.
If people don't see things they way you do, they're dumb.
Thank you for making it clear I need waste no more time on you.

 

It isn't. It is a solvent that can carry pollutants.

 

EV activists = Criminals
Grand Theft: Greenpeace Activists “Steal” Keys From 1000 New ICE Cars Awaiting Shipment In Port
By P Gosselin on 29. May 2021

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200,000 euros damage?

For some, like Greenpeace activists, VW is moving much too slowly stopping the sales of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. And so they think they are justified trespassing and removing the keys of cars waiting to be loaded for export.



Greenpeace activists overcame a fence using ladders and removed the keys from 1000 new cars waiting to be loaded onto a vessel for export at a port in Emden, Germany. Image: Greenpeace.

According to the police in northern city of Leer, some 40 activists used ladders to make their way into the fenced-in premises of a port terminal in Emden and, according to the activists themselves, they withdrew more than 1,000 car keys from new cars awaiting to be loaded on a cargo vessel for export.

“Today we are taking hundreds of combustion engines out of circulation for the time being,” a spokesperson for Greenpeace told the NDR public broadcasting. . . .

 

Hopefully they will be caught and prosecuted. By the way, it would be interesting know if any of them own and drive electric cars.

 

"But it’s not always that way. About 1 out of 5 drivers who go electric do shift back to gasoline. And that rate of “discontinuance,” in the language of a paper published this week by two UC Davis researchers in the journal Nature Energy—just over 20% for plug-in hybrid owners and about 18% for battery electric owners—is even higher for women than for men.


Those results come from five questionnaire surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019. Researchers Scott Hardman and Gil Tal found that owners might be happy with the low ownership costs but opt to discontinue their EV ownership due to issues with range or charging—particularly the lack of Level 2 home charging. "
https://www.greencarreports.com/new...-to-gasoline-and-home-charging-is-a-big-issue

How high or low that will go in the future...............

 

To the MAX.

 

What's the trend?

 

Did the federal government fund a national gas station system? I was downtown a few weeks ago on a Saturday and had dropped my brother who cannot walk very far at the place we were going. Then I tried to find a parking and circled block after block trying to find one passing up several empty charging spots marked for EV ONLY on EVERY block, I didn't see one of them occupied. And here were all the ICE vehicles having to drive around burning gas to find a place to park.

 

We added a level 2 charger to our garage and it definitely helped. Some of the new homes in our area are coming prewired for a charging system which will make a difference.

If Biden is successful with his push for a federal EV fleet new charging stations will not be an issue.

 

Being environmentally friendly is more expensive than the status quo. What can I say? If it were easy to go green the market would have made the switch already.

Sorry you can't find a place to park, but that's a consequence of your local government jury-rigging the space, trying to fit an electric car charging infrastructure into a space that wasn't planned out for it.

Really, the only way for things to be convenient would be to flatten out America and rebuild from scratch. Something not likely to happen.