“EV’s – Electric Vehicles”

While both Ottawa and Washington are aiming to eventually eliminate new gas-powered cars from being sold, consumer demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is currently languishing and the true cost to the consumer of an EV is a subject of debate.  

“EVs have consistently failed to compete with combustion vehicles on performance and cost, and failed to win broad consumer support despite oceans of government subsidies for manufacturers and buyers alike,” said an Oct. 11 Fraser Institute op-ed. 

Even with strikes plaguing the industry, “the bigger story in autos is the EV slowdown,” RBC Capital Markets global auto analyst Tom Narayan told CNBC on Oct. 30.

Our federal and provincial governments know that subsidizing electric vehicle sales is a notoriously expensive and inefficient way of reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, so why do they keep doing them?

A new report by the fiscally-conservative Fraser Institute released Tuesday says the $5,000 federal government subsidy to consumers who buy eligible EV vehicles results in a cost to all Canadians of $355 to lower one tonne of emissions.

A comprehensive new study of electric vehicles shows that the cost of running them is far more expensive than has been commonly thought.

Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac issued their report for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, pointing out that advocates for electric vehicles claim the vehicles require lower maintenance and lower fueling costs than traditional vehicles, and future reductions in battery prices will make EVs less expensive.

h/t Mauser

Toyota has said it is close to being able to mass manufacture potentially revolutionary solid-state batteries that could offer double the range of existing electric cars.

According to Toyota, cars powered by solid-state batteries could have a range of 745 miles, a charging time of 10 minutes and hit the market in 2027 or 2028.

They have been presented by experts as a revolutionary technology that could bring EVs into the mainstream.

We’ll see. But those are game changing numbers.

One need only take a very quick and superficial look at the “green” movement to rightly deduce the “greenies” are a bunch of morons—they’re either incapacitated with their hands glued to the road, protesting something by throwing soup all over a Vincent Van Gogh painting, or, demanding a forced transition to battery-powered vehicles, wind turbines, and solar farms… while also demanding no mining take place for the minerals needed to power such initiatives.

Canada’s electric vehicle market keeps getting bigger, but that’s not necessarily good news for consumers – or the environment.

Manufacturers are leaning heavily on electrified SUVs, trucks and large cars that mean high prices and profits for the auto makers.

The trend has helped push the average price for an EV to almost $73,000, according to Canadian Black Book, making it well out of reach for most households. That’s true even with signs of downward pressure from Tesla price drops.

EV’s are impractical for a number of reasons, pretending a price drop is all that’s needed to make them ubiquitous is a lie.

As the automotive industry is transitioning toward greener energy, electric vehicles incentives and rebates have swept the nation. However, drivers are reporting concerns about trading in their gas-powered vehicles for a more sustainable alternative.

According to a recent poll from Ipsos and Yahoo Finance, 57% of respondents said they would not likely purchase an EV as their next car, citing high costs, limited driving range, and few charging stations as their top reasons.

Electric cars risk becoming uninsurable

Grab your popcorn, because there’s a full-speed, head-on collision between the left’s competing interests coming, and it’s fixing to be gory. From an item that appeared in The Wall Street Journal at the end of September…

A couple said they are “in shock” after claiming Tesla handed them a £17,000 bill to fix their battery after it was “damaged by driving in the rain”.

Johnny Bacigalupo and Rob Hussey took their £60,000 electric car to Tesla when it stopped working following bad weather.

After “frustrating” back and forth with the company, the pair said the bill came out to £17,374 despite claiming no fault on their part.

h/t TB

Underneath the foreseeable fiasco is a scandal that views like a Solyndra rerun, and a grotesquely wasteful government—and as if Solyndra-esque plotlines and a federal government taking our hard earned money to prop up both parties on either end of a business deal from which a vast majority of the country does not benefit weren’t realities obscene and condemning enough, the latest act in the unfolding rechargeable vehicle drama of Jackson’s START system now can add a 100% failure rate of the product to the list. Cowboy State Daily’s Kevin Killough penned an article last week covering the news

The UAW should be going on strike against Biden, not Ford and GM.

Biden spent 12 minutes on the UAW picket line. “You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and before,” he told the striking automotive workers.

“Wall Street didn’t build the country. The middle class built the country.”

h/t Kiki9