Oh contrare’….there are fewer to buy and fewer to sell them. This is the stasis that I always advocated for…free markets…I was never against EV’s… just not on my dime…sink or swim…eat what you kill economics…that’s what I like….






Celebrating the End of EVs
At least the government incentives that distort the market.
The $7,500 federal “incentive” dangled as an inducement to move the EV needle has expired. This means EV sales — if you want to use that word to describe
a transaction involving the buyer, the seller, and you, the party who is taxed to “help” facilitate it — are likely to slide even farther below the waterline than they already were. This tends to happen when people are obliged to pay full price for a thing that is only tempting to them when it is heavily discounted — like those half-off dented cans of soup you sometimes see on sale at the supermarket.
…the government never does that. It only “incentivizes” that which is unwanted by most of us — who are also the ones “helping” to pay for the “incentives” awarded to the few who do.
With the “incentive” to buy electric vehicles gone, the incentive to try selling them is, too. Dodge just
announced it won’t be trying to sell the highest-performance iteration of its “electrified” Charger, the Banshee, leaving just one iteration of this electric high-performance car —
Dodge’s attempt to sell a Tesla — available, with total cancellation inevitable as the thing has been a sales disaster for Dodge.
“Stellantis continues to reassess its product strategy to align with consumer demand. Our plan ensures we offer customers a range of vehicles with flexible powertrain options that best meet their needs. With the great news announced in July that Stellantis is bringing back its iconic SRT performance division (Street and Racing Technology), it follows that we are also reviewing the plan for future SRT vehicles.”
Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, publicly admitted the other day that the ending of the “incentives” is going to cut EV sales in half.
Farley on Tuesday said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if sales of EVs fell from a market share of around 10-12 percent this month, which is expected to be a record, to 5 percent after the incentive program ends.
“I think it’s going to be a vibrant industry, but it’s going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought, especially with the policy change in the tailpipe emissions, plus the $7,500 consumer incentive going away.”
Just before the inevitable plunge. It was sad to watch that happen in the movie; all those people clinging to life for a little while longer.
But it’s wonderfully enjoyable to watch the EV ship go down. Not out of contempt for EVs but contempt for the way they’ve been pushed on us in a manner not unlike the drugs of Pfizer, et al were pushed on people. EVs, as such, are just another alternative, and there’s nothing objectionable about presenting alternatives to people, who are free to buy them or not.
The objectionable thing is the way alternatives to EVs were being pushed off the market via nonsense such as “tailpipe emissions” (sic) regulations that were designed to mislead people and to shove people into EVs, leaving no alternative to them.
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