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Tag: Electric Vehicles
Will Soaring Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?
As automakers continue to lose money on EVs and consumers worldwide continue to prefer the vehicles they have learned to trust over decades, will EV mandates fall by the wayside – or…
The Green Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think — Or Not
It’s the usual touching faith that central planning really is going to work this time, because it will be done more intelligently.
Climate Change Weekly #478: Backlash, Polls Confirm Climate Change Is Low-Priority Issue
Around the world, nations are choosing to prioritize economic growth and national interest over climate policy.
China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars – Letting them Rot!
Hundreds of Thousands of EVs just being left to rot in fields….
Biden’s New Emissions Control Standards Prove EVs are a Tough Sell
Team Biden seems done with the carrot approach and is using a regulatory stick to force its all-EV future on Americans.
Cars soon unaffordable for 50% of Germans, expert warns
… warns half of Germans “will no longer be able to afford a car.
Heavier EV’s not funding California Roadways
Newsom’s silence on how California will finance the billions of dollars for the roads being used by those heavier EV’s is an indication that he will just pass that problem…
Great Car Reset: Biden’s EPA to release strict new fed emissions standard to ‘move U.S. car market decisively toward electric vehicles’ – ‘Up to 2/3’ of cars sold mandated to be EV by 2032
…the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have…
Germany Rebels Against EU Ban on Petrol Cars
A growing backlash over climate-friendly policies is now hitting the German Greens, putting wobbles into the country’s three-party ruling coalition.
Are Electric Vehicles About To Sweep The Country?
I’ll place a solid bet that market penetration of EVs will stall out at a low level well before 2035.
Sydney Mayor: “…We Must Help Motorists Make the Shift” to EVs
City based greens, like the Lord Mayor of Sydney, think Australia is electric vehicle ready, that all people need is a little help to make the transition. The reality is…
Germany Wary Of Europe’s Ban of Fossil Fuel Cars By 2035… Too Pricey, Technically Unfeasible
…it appears the folly of the idea is just beginning to dawn on those who had been expected to take a more critical stand much earlier.
Eco Numpties Unhappy with Charging Costs
Rapid charge points used by motorists topping up on long drives are now nearly £10 more expensive than filling up a car with petrol, analysis by motoring body the RAC…
Charging Electric Cars Like “Spilling Liters of Petrol”…(Hidden) Losses During Charging Are Huge
Massive energy losses from generation, to transmission, to charging and during battery storage are turning electric mobility into a cost nightmare.
Biden’s Transportation Department targets CO2 emissions of cars on highways to push EVs
the Biden Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed a rule targeting CO2 emissions from highway vehicles, for which DOT also has no legal authority.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Has her EV, so Gasoline Prices Don’t Matter
“… after waiting for a long time to … get my electric vehicle, I got it and drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every…
Claim: How a Cognitive Bias is Blocking the Rise of Electric Cars
“Until now, initiatives related to the energy transition generally focused on the technological and financial barriers to their realization. Psychological factors have been given very little consideration.
More than half of all new UK cars to be electric by 2028 in bid to ditch petrol and diesel
If this is not an admission that for most drivers EVs are absolutely useless, I don’t know what is!
The Potential Looming Auto Industry Fiasco
But sanity is forbidden in the west. It is EV or nothing. Infrastructure be damned. Investment be damned. Popular demand be damned.