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Not trying to talk politics and proffering no opinion about candidates but given the new America PAC will be largely funded by someone who made billions from basically inventing the mainstream EV industry will this change?
But not HIS EVs….
100% correct - governments just do the easy part, and that is basically taxing people heavily in traditional cars (SUV taxes, fuel taxes, 1st year road fund licence, ULEZ changes) and throwing taxpayers money to subsidise EVs through corporate schemes and tax breaks. The difficult part, which is the massive infratructure to ensure everyone can charge their vehicles nationwide, the ramping costs of battery and electronics production, and maybe helping people dependent on petrol and diesel... that bit they don't do. So we now have thousands of EVs waiting for buyers that can't currently use them because of the limitations. Short term easy answers don't fix long term complex problems. But polticians have short term thinking and simple minds.
Something is wrong with your numbers. Maybe you had a vehicle with an issue. My Tesla charged to 290 miles and I drove every one of them. Just like ALL the others out there except for the Model S which goes well over 300 miles. And, road trips are very nice in an EV. There are so many charging stations and hundreds more being installed every month. EV's are certainly where they need to be to fit into the average US drivers needs. There are hundreds or more in my town all doing very well. I see them in remote areas like Death Valley and on all interstate hiways. Cancel your membership in the haters club and get with what's real.
How can you not know how long Toyota has been producing Prius's (as an example) and how many are out there in use everyday? What limitations are you talking about? I don't know of, or have ever even heard of, any EV owners that can't use them. This is just more made up bullshit. You need to get your facts from another channel.100% correct - governments just do the easy part, and that is basically taxing people heavily in traditional cars (SUV taxes, fuel taxes, 1st year road fund licence, ULEZ changes) and throwing taxpayers money to subsidise EVs through corporate schemes and tax breaks. The difficult part, which is the massive infratructure to ensure everyone can charge their vehicles nationwide, the ramping costs of battery and electronics production, and maybe helping people dependent on petrol and diesel... that bit they don't do. So we now have thousands of EVs waiting for buyers that can't currently use them because of the limitations. Short term easy answers don't fix long term complex problems. But polticians have short term thinking and simple minds.
EVs will undoubtedly have their place longer term, but the transition needs to happen at the pace people can take and afford. Hybrids have been completely overlooked as a highly valuable transition vehicle.
My numbers are my numbers. Never drove an EV just hybrids. The 45 minute wait on the charge is flat out ludicrous especially when it takes about 5 minutes to fill up w/gas. There are enough YouTubers who have documented their “misadventures” on a roadtrip in an EV.
My business car is a BMW iX . I drove 395 km in it and could theoretically have driven another 20 km. I then charged it at a power station. In 21 minutes to 80%. I have no complaints about the charging infrastructure so far. I was never a friend of EVs in the past. But now I've even signed up for a test drive with the new electric G. Off-road with a 3.5 tonne trailer, of course. The G-Turn alone will thrill my cattle.
OK, you have your mind made up. I won't confuse you with the facts.
Precisely my point. Hybrids are much more common as they meet the needs of drivers that EVs don't. Also consider the commercial sector - our local taxi firm will not move to EVs because there is no vehicle available that can do an 8-12hr shift with all the starting and stopping that's involved and stay charged. The decrease in fuel consumption delivered by the hybrid Prius has already massively reduced their cost base without compromising utilisation factors or disrupting driver shift patterns. That will remain the case for some time yet.
I just came back from a three-day weekend trip from San Diego to Utah. On the way back, stopped at a gas station near Yermo on I-15.
