Trade your gas car or truck for electric?
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So the electric components and electric motor and suspension are immortal.
Man made climate change is a way for politicians to fleece taxpayers into supporting non-viable programs.
you and I are in the same page brother.
Future yes, near no. Truck owners will be some of the most reluctant to switch.
I’ll let you know. Feel free to check in from time to time. Immortal is longer than I plan on sticking around though.
I do think superior is a good word though
Good reply. It reminds me of my days as an Air Force officer working in the GPS program back in the late 1980s. I was briefing a group of foreign officers about the satellite capabilities and mentioned that the onboard atomic clock was so accurate it would only lose a tenth of a second in 10,000 years. An Australian officer asked me who would be around to check. All I could do is chuckle and say “good point.” Typical government warranty: make the time period so far in the future nobody is around to check.
LOL, drop the "per capita" and show actual numbers per country. China has twice the pollution of the U.S. and climbing. The U. S. has been steadily improving and has actually accelerated that improvement by recent reforestation on a considerable scale. India has 21 of the worst 30 cities.The US is one of the worst polluters per capita when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Way worse than anywhere in Central or South America, as far as I know.
hybrid? All electric won’t really get one to cola & back to upstate for games.
Exactly, why would anyone look at that on a per capita basics.
You can make it but it’s cutting it close. A short stop to charge can be necessary
This is just a goal to keep the climate change people off their back. They have said the same in the past. When the date gets close they will move the goal post and say the technology isnt there yet.
The first goal should be to double fuel mileage. It has been relatively flat since the 80s. Using less fuel would mean lower emissions.
What! After I night game + post game tailgate, it’d be 3 before my inebriated 🥴 head hit the pillow
Guess I could blame it on a woman 👩? Bats’ group.......be careful, very careful
So you're saying it's taken over 130 years for ev to almost catch up with fossil fuel vehicles?
Yep - anything Green deal whatsoever without nuclear is pure environmental activism. I noticed "war hero" Kerry did not say anything about all of those union jobs that would be created building nuclear power plants (of course with personnel that know what they are doing - i.e. something SCANA failed to put in place and it cost them their jobs and company)
Summer was an accident waiting to happen.........called in there, no accountability, just spending money that wasn’t theirs..
Thank god those folks down there are paying for it
To be fair, our balls weren’t in a jar being held by the Middle East for almost 100 of those 130.
"Towing the line? I thought you were some kind of genius. Look it up. It refers to stepping up to a line and standing on it with your toes touching it. Just giving you a hard time. You're clearly a very smart guy.
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Thats all well and good but most people cant afford a 50-70k dollar car to start. On top of that the recommended battery replacement window is 8 years or 100k miles. So now i have to spend another 10-15k to replace the battery every 100k miles. No thanks. They are amazing cars but the cost of ownership is just too high for the average person. Make the coat of ownership cheaper and maybe i would consider it.
I have a 91 LX 5.0/ 5 speed Mustang with 250k miles that looks as good as it did the day it was new. Only fluid changes and minor maintenance. My 2001 silverado is the same way 175k with only minor maintenance. Make EVs as dependable and affordable as regular cars and they may have a chance to go widespread.
Not sure where you got the 50-70k. I paid 35k for mine in March of 2020. Like any car you can pay that much, but there are certainly cheaper options available.
Growing up poor I realize that’s not chump change, but it’s cheap enough for a middle class family to afford.
EV’s do have to get to the point where they are the same cost or cheaper than their gas counterparts to ever be mainstream. Also the network for new EVs will have to be created. Since I have a Tesla I have supercharger options around the country. However the Tesla super chargers will not work with Ford, VW & other EV options.
I had 2 Prius and my wife has a Camry hybrid. One of the problems for the owner is there is no instrumentation to allow you to know how the battery ages (measure the reduced capacity). You could start off with a very efficient hybrid but gradually move to a low-powered internal combustion engine.
So you paid 35k for a Telsa?? I hear insurance on those is extremely high due to shop limitation and more expensive parts.
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The model 3 is the best bang for your buck. I think after taxes it ended up being about 37,000.
Insurance is high and the state rapes you over the coals but it is a great car.
The GT version makes 600 ft lbs of torque and that translates into instantaneous white knuckle performance. But it's basically a crossover with room for the family. If you think it looks like a gopher you don't remember the Mustang II. 😊
As one of those truck owners (and one who actually NEEDS a truck), I agree that we'll be among the last to switch. However . . . given how ridiculously overpriced trucks are, if Tesla or anybody else manages to produce an electric truck that does everything I need it to do _and_ saves me some money, I'll certainly give it a hard look. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, but if it happens at some point, I say bring on the competition.
I’ll start believing that global warming is man-made and critical to the worlds future, once the politicians who go on and on talking about it, start acting about it and quit flying around the world in their private jets.
Yep nothing better than using that child labor to dig out that cobalt for those electric batteries right?
The GT has 459 HP with a 0-60 under 4 seconds. The full race version makes 1400 HP.
That is not how these changes work. When a corporation announces a major change such as this, the planning stages and meetings have been taking place for some time. When it is determined how long the initiative will take, and that date is then forwarded to upper management is when the public announcement is made.
So for example if the goal for GM is to "PHASE OUT" all gas powered cars in 15 years, the operative phrase is PHASE. So there will be a phase in/phase out period for the next 15 years.
GM said they "aim" to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. "Aim" is the operative word.
Perhaps, and if the year is extended by 1, 2 or even 5, that does not mean GM will abandon the initiative.
It is going to happen, there will be too much investment in equipment, retooling, man hours, and the most important capital for it not too.
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