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Well this should kill the Mustang off.
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Until they can get these electric cars go 750 miles between charges, running on average of 70mph and get the ability to tow a little weight without draining the batts..... America will never give up on the gas and diesel engines. These things will not charge fast enough.
Especially with cost of $2/gal. Nobody is interested in giving up the gas engines. They might get an electric to drive around town in but you bet your arse there is a Suburban or Expedition in the driveway too.
If they were really down dog serious about this crap they would develop the hydrogen fuel cells.
Especially with cost of $2/gal. Nobody is interested in giving up the gas engines. They might get an electric to drive around town in but you bet your arse there is a Suburban or Expedition in the driveway too.
If they were really down dog serious about this crap they would develop the hydrogen fuel cells.
You're absolutely right about them not marketing to my demographic. I can definitely tell that's the case every time I get on the road. Damn near everything has to be a crossover now. And what is a crossover really good for? Not much aside from stretching milenials out for 72 months. When me and the wife worked at the port of Brunswick we got to drive lots of new makes and models. Very few of those had any appeal to me. I liked the Foresters especially the base model steel wheel 5 speed manual package. It had almost enough room for an average SUV. Meanwhile the Crosstrek sucked ass.No real leg room or cargo room . Same thing with the Hyundai and Kia models. The Santa Re was nice but a helluva lot of money for a Hyundai. The Kona is like a bad joke. I think they were ripping off the Crosstrek design. Maybe I'm just getting old but the only thing I really liked from Hyundai and Kia was the mini van.
Point is... pick your brand or model and they all look the same. Whatever Ford was going for with this thing they could've and should've named it something else.
"They" might change their minds about EVs when the price of electricity skyrockets -
All them volts have to come from somewhere --
All them volts have to come from somewhere --
It’s all that clean electricity produced by coal fired power plants.
And has anyone told us the levels of pollution involved in making all those lithium ion batteries?
Yeah..but my speeder was 78 Kaw LTD 1000...145 if you got down on the tank good....
I remember reading that the carbon footprint of producing an EV is 10-15% percent more than a gas powered vehicle. This is not the same article, but it supports the claim.
https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/tech/environmental-footprint-electric-cars/
Yes, new car buyers are in the 20-40 age demographic. Young people are idealistic. They want to be environmentally responsible. They like things such as the Green New Deal, ride sharing, and deciding what gender they want to be. They also believe most climate change is due to human activity and not a cyclical force of nature. EVs are marketed to them as a cure-all, a panacea if you will of environmental action, but it's to sell "units," kind of like jet skis are "units."
I get it. The only constant is change. But right now, EVs and hybrids are political theater. They would hardly be selling at all were it not for the government subsidies. Plenty of problems still being worked out, and overall they are an extremely poor value. Know anyone who tried to sell a Prius with the red triangle of death illuminated? The cost of paying a shop to replace the battery pack costs about what the car is worth, around $4000. That's a terrible value for 100,000-150,000 miles. Tesla is upwards of $7000, but they do claim 300,000+ miles.
Give me a traditional Corolla, Accord, Charger, or F-150, and save for stopping 5 minutes every 400 miles at the ubiquitous QuikTrip or similar, be able to drive it almost anywhere and enjoy the drive without worrying about where there's a plug-in. As for having all that thrilling torque? Speed limits are posted. GSP will be happy to show you how important your torque is.
The hardest accelerating street machine I’ve ever ridden in is a friend’s dual motor Tesla model 3. The G force pinned my head to the seat back and I thought I would pass out.
But I still wouldn’t buy one.
But I still wouldn’t buy one.
