More Gas Cars and Trucks, Fewer E.V.s as Automakers Change Plans
More Gas Cars and Trucks, Fewer E.V.s as Automakers Change Plans
Ford, General Motors and other automakers are slowing investments in electric vehicles and doubling down on more profitable gasoline cars and trucks.
They’re simply too expensive across the board. Build me a subcompact, bare-bones street-legal EV for $10,000 and you won’t be able to make them quick enough to keep up with demand for a decade.
But they won’t do this because they rather all compete for a small pool of luxury buyers and lobby to hold the line.
Hell, I’ll even take crank windows, manual locks and no key fob, just to get the cost down. AM/FM radio only, no fancy computers, just an electric drivetrain with A/C, heat and can get me too and from the store and work.
If you can make trucks for 20k and sell them for 100k, why would you make cars for 8k to sell at 10k? It's bad economics.
I'm not saying it right. Just saying that's what they are clearly insensitived to do.
China has done it, and they’ll be here soon.
American Auto Manufacturers - it’s hard to even conceive how you’ve thrown away the biggest car market in the history of the world, but. You have. Multiple times.
I would buy one too, sounds amazing!
Fuckers. Idiots.
I don't dislike EVs, but I can't see myself ever buying one, at least for the next few decades. Electric motors are fantastic; just look at locomotives, commuter trains, etc. Batteries, not so much.
A battery-powered vehicle just isn't practical. A gas engine produces the same level of power up until the tank is empty. A battery slowly produces less and less current until the BMS shuts it off. A gas engine takes 5 minutes to pump 20 gallons into the tank. A battery takes hours to reach full charge. I can fill up one of my gas-powered vehicles anywhere. For an EV, I'd have to either find a charger somewhere likely inconvenient and/or upgrade my home electrical system and have a charger installed, which borders on the cost of a used car.
The fact is, except in rare cases, a battery-powered vehicle will never be a viable alternative until we have a major breakthrough in battery technology. I agree with auto manufacturers not producing EVs. Until battery manufacturers find a way to make batteries on-par with fossil fuels, building EVs is a waste.