EV/Plug-in/Other vehicles

What type of alternative fuel car are you buying in the near future?

  • All electric (EV) car, luxury over $50k like Tesla

    Votes: 27 54.0%

  • EV car but lower priced less than $40k like Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Hyundai Ioniq

    Votes: 12 24.0%

  • Plug-in Hybrid (Chevy Volt, Kia Niro, Honda Clarity)

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • Hydrogen

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 14.0%
  • Total voters
    50
And it just keeps growing:

EV market share in Southeast doubles as industry brings almost $33 billion to the region
https://electrek.co/2022/09/19/ev-market-share-doubled-in-the-southeast-this-year/

To illustrate, here are the top five EV manufacturing investments coming to the region ranked by number of jobs created:

1. Hyundai signed an agreement in May 2022 to invest $6.54 billion in a new EV and battery manufacturing plant in Georgia, creating around 8,100 jobs.
2. Rivian announced in December 2021 that it would build a $5 billion EV plant outside Atlanta, Georgia, establishing around 7,500 new positions.
3. VinFast revealed plans for a $2 billion EV manufacturing plant in North Carolina, creating 7,000 jobs.
4. Ford and SK Innovation created around 6,000 new jobs with its $5.6 billion Blue Oval City mega campus, where the next generation of electric F-series trucks and batteries will be built.
5. SK Innovation spent $2.61 billion in 2020 to build its second US factory, creating 2,600 additional jobs.

These investments are bringing significant money into the area as electric vehicle sales continue picking up across the Southeast.
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Throw that Nokia away morekaos!
 
LiveWire (formed by Harley Davidson) becomes the first electric motorcycle company to go public:
https://electrek.co/2022/09/27/livewire-lists-on-nyse-electric-motorcycle/

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Go go go electric!!

 
Total disaster?like socialism?looks good on paper but just doesn?t work in real life?my Bronco tows more than an old truck all day any day?drill baby drill!! ;D ;D >:D

?Complete And Total Disaster?: YouTuber Drives Electric Ford Truck, Recounts Disastrous Results

Yet another electric vehicle disaster is making the rounds on the internet, this time as a YouTuber with over 1.4 million followers tried towing an ancient 1930s Ford Model A truck with a contemporary Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup. Despite setting the bar ridiculously low ? he just wanted to tow it just over 100 miles round trip ? the entire experiment failed in a spectacularly ?complete and total disaster.?

Youtuber Tyler Hoover says in the video, seen below, that ?f a truck towing 3,500 pounds can?t even go 100 miles ? that is ridiculously stupid. He then highlights the basic argument against EVs. ?This truck can?t do normal truck things. You would be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.?

Unsurprisingly, the trip got off to a worse-than-expected start. Hoover had fully charged the vehicle in preparation, only to watch the battery life drain out faster than a gas leak. As he was ?pulling out my neighborhood,? the EV had already lost three miles of range despite traveling less than a mile. Then, after arriving driving for just 32 miles the vehicle had already lost an estimated 68 miles of range.

It only got worse from there, as a warning was soon triggered for low batter. ?Are you kidding me?? Hoover can be heard reacting. ?That?s almost 90 miles of range in 30 miles. Are you serious? That?s nuts. What a joke.?

https://youtu.be/3nS0Fdayj8Y
 
Posting YouTube as his new reliable source and then making fun of the car brand which he owns.  L o L
 
My gas powered ford truck doesn?t have a piece junk mode?only their recent virtue signaling offering does. ;D ;D >:D
 
morekaos said:
My gas powered ford truck doesn?t have a piece junk mode?only their recent virtue signaling offering does. ;D ;D >:D
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And what do you call purple font mode? Ignorance signaling?

Stick. Mud.
 
HMart said:
I haven't been to an auto show for years. How is it?
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Smaller this year.

Missing many of the luxury brands but I think they will be at the LA Auto Show.

Bang for the buck goes to the Bolt EUV... surprisingly roomy.

The Korean EVs win the interior efficiency space award. Both the Kia EV6 and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 were so spacious. The EV platform allowing them to move the wheels farther apart and less ICE components really opens up the interior. I was looking for a GV60 but I think I missed it.
 
Pixie dust indeed?. ;D ;D >:D

Running America on Imaginary Technology

Current technology extrapolated into a nation of more than 250 million registered vehicles on the road will result in EV chaos.
The current electric grid will need to be strengthened by the development of hundreds of new nuclear power plants.  There is no political will in this country to do that, especially among those promoting EVs the hardest.  Hundreds of new windmill and solar farms aren?t going to cut it and will negatively impact the environment and wildlife much more than nuclear.
Electric cable will need to be buried across perhaps hundreds of thousands of miles throughout the nation to support at least 145,000 charging stations needed to replace existing gas stations.  They will be required at frequencies of at least every 100 miles of road, even across the Great Salt Lake and Mojave deserts and vast mountain ranges.  The logistics behind this are staggering.

Billions of giant batteries will need to be built.  When do we reach peak lithium or cobalt?  How much of the world will be devastated by strip mining using slave labor?  Where do we store the billions of batteries when they die?  The potential costs to humanity and the environment are incalculable.

This is tantamount to throwing everyone off a high cliff and expecting someone to develop a parachute on the way down.  You cannot force technology advancements by political edict.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/running_america_on_imaginary_technology.html
 
It would be nice if morekaos would have an educated discussion on EVs rather than regurgitating rhetoric from his inbox.

How would @someguy respond to these type of posts?
 
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