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Rivian to build $5B electric truck plant in Georgia
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Pros - Clean airRivian confirms plans for $5B Georgia electric truck plant | Fox Business | Fox Business
Electric vehicle maker Rivian formally announced plans Thursday to build a $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia.www.foxbusiness.com
rich people will buy them to look cool & but never will use as a truck
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Insurance rates are high cause they catch on fire & take months to repair sometimes
Countries sitting on oil could care less about clean air
1st electric car was made in 1832, the oil lobbyists made sure the average person wouldn’t ever be able to afford one.
Rivian wants to make their own batteries
Tesla scraped that idea after already building a plant - can you say cost overrun.
$74,165-$98k for a maxed out one.
Dead-battery disposal - huge problem
Most people can’t afford a Tesla especially when they break. (ingenious - need specialized tools to work on)
Batteries are $5k- ($22k for Tesla) see owner that blew up his instead of getting robbed.
80% of the interiors are made from petroleum.
The turbines that run our homes electricity are run from guess what - mostly natural gas (40%) & we have the largest deposits in the world here under the U.S. 19% is from coal which Brandon’s handlers will destroy in the next three year’s.
Europe is already putting limits on electricity usage & cost are going way up.
Windmills - what if there’s no wind like in Texas during the last ice freeze.
Had two friends that had accidents in one cause the person at fault said they didn’t hear them.
& the biggest con- heels up Harris just appointed herself as the future charging station poster child & last week couldn’t figure out how to charge a car.
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The definition of fascism is when Industry and Government get together to financially sodomize the public, especially the taxpayers.
thing is…you’ll never hear them coming.
You can tell they’re coming when they start breathing hard.
Lot more drag racing will be going on too!
At the current time (+/-) 54% of all electricity produced in the US is from coal. Suppose that if every time you charge up your Tesla, you also got a 5lb bag of toxic coal ash to dispose of as well.
I don't know that newer EV drivers are all that concerned with the 'green' part of driving an EV. It's pretty well known that's been debunked, or at least is a pretty weak argument.
I think more people are interested in the economics of EV ownership. In a daily commute situation they can be a lot cheaper to run than a gas car, especially if you can take advantage of cheap home charging and/or have cheap or free charging at your destination.
I think more people are interested in the economics of EV ownership. In a daily commute situation they can be a lot cheaper to run than a gas car, especially if you can take advantage of cheap home charging and/or have cheap or free charging at your destination.
I'm not about to go out and buy an electric car or truck, mostly because I drive old as crap cars and trucks that I can buy cheap and drive them until I can't buy the bolts to put the wheels back on.
But - I have to recognize that an electric anything would fit the bill for about 99.9% of all driving that I *EVER* do. The remaining 0.1% (really long trip) could probably also be done with some careful planning.
One also needs to recognize that some of these new electric vehicles have pretty awesome performance specifications, and are in the same price range as the internal combustion vehicles they're competing against. The Rivian has 14.9 inches of ground clearance, can ford 3 ft deep, can tow 11,000 lbs, and 0-60 in 3 seconds. 800 horsepower. 900 lb ft of torque, at 0 rpm. You have to admit that those specs are awesome. Most of their users will never use it, but it's cool, nonetheless.
Plus a bunch of features that are super cool that can only be achieved in an electric vehicle. Extra outlets all over, "tank mode" where it can spin around in it's own body length, the pass through holder for really long items, etc.
I don't think an honest man should totally discount electric vehicles as a possibility. They have limitations, but so do IC engines. You have to admit how much the technology has advanced in just a few years. For the first time I'm considering that one day I may own an electric. Not because I'm anti IC engines, but just because it fills my needs. Not today because of the cheap as heck thing, but maybe one day.
But - I have to recognize that an electric anything would fit the bill for about 99.9% of all driving that I *EVER* do. The remaining 0.1% (really long trip) could probably also be done with some careful planning.
One also needs to recognize that some of these new electric vehicles have pretty awesome performance specifications, and are in the same price range as the internal combustion vehicles they're competing against. The Rivian has 14.9 inches of ground clearance, can ford 3 ft deep, can tow 11,000 lbs, and 0-60 in 3 seconds. 800 horsepower. 900 lb ft of torque, at 0 rpm. You have to admit that those specs are awesome. Most of their users will never use it, but it's cool, nonetheless.
Plus a bunch of features that are super cool that can only be achieved in an electric vehicle. Extra outlets all over, "tank mode" where it can spin around in it's own body length, the pass through holder for really long items, etc.
I don't think an honest man should totally discount electric vehicles as a possibility. They have limitations, but so do IC engines. You have to admit how much the technology has advanced in just a few years. For the first time I'm considering that one day I may own an electric. Not because I'm anti IC engines, but just because it fills my needs. Not today because of the cheap as heck thing, but maybe one day.
