“EV’s – Electric Vehicles”

‘Literally Impossible’: Trucking Companies Brace for California’s Electric Mandate

Logistics companies are scrambling to meet California’s upcoming 2024 mandate that all trucks servicing ports, railyards, and distribution centers in the state be zero-emission vehicles, with experts questioning limited access to charging stations and the viability of switching from diesel to electric fleets.

Availability of electric semi-trucks is a concern, as is the price of the vehicles, the number of miles they can go on a charge, and the cost of maintenance and replacement parts, all of which currently remain unknown variables, according to industry experts.

Insanity, it’s as if California’s government lives in some kind of altered reality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", California, Green-Scam

Rowan Atkinson: I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped

Electric motoring is, in theory, a subject about which I should know something. My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems. Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway with a lifelong passion for the motorcar, and you can see why I was drawn into an early adoption of electric vehicles. I bought my first electric hybrid 18 years ago and my first pure electric car nine years ago and (notwithstanding our poor electric charging infrastructure) have enjoyed my time with both very much. Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But increasingly, I feel a little duped. When you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Green-Scam

Silly woman sincerely believes her electric car is saving the environment, develops priggish attitude toward poor people and those who don’t buy into her fantasy

Not again. All the electric vehicle charging stations were taken, and I knew I was in for at least a 30- to 40-minute wait. And yet, the app on my phone showed two chargers had been available five minutes ago. I had driven in this pouring rain for nothing, but what choice did I have? My EV needed charging for the next day’s commute, and this was the closest station to my home.

When my old Hyundai Elantra received a death sentence at the repair shop in 2019, I decided that my new vehicle was going to be electric. Up until then, I had cared for the Earth by doing small things, such as using reusable grocery bags and recycling plastic and paper products. I wanted to do more. The demise of my gas-powered vehicle presented a perfect opportunity. I looked forward to driving a car that did not emit pollution or run on fossil fuel.

A callous prig in the making: Pay for my luxury poor people, I’m saving the world! She is unaware of what she has revealed about herself in this very CBC screed. The comments indicate people are waking up to THE BIG EV LIE.

Lo and Behold …

I received a survey from the Condo board today. They wanted to know our thoughts on installing EV Charging stations.

Unfortunately our building cannot accomodate a charger for every parking spot.

Their proposed solution is to convert some visitor parking to Pay as you go EV charging spots.

Oh fab, I get to pay so someone else has a charger handy.

An ROI wasn’t even mentioned. I doubt this limited conversion would boost resale value by an amount that could justify the investment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Job creation tied to Windsor, Ont., Stellantis EV battery plant compared to ‘musical chairs’: prof

A Carleton University business professor is casting doubt on the number of jobs that will be added to Windsor’s economy by an electric vehicle battery factory.

Ian Lee says the country’s unemployment level is the lowest it’s been since the 1960s and calls the idea that Ontario is desperate to create new jobs as “nonsense,” adding the province is already seeing a critical shortage of workers.

Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will draw many of their employees from other plants that are already operating in the region, he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Are electric vehicles really the future?

When it comes to cars, tomorrow can take its good old time in charging ahead

It’s a cloudless spring day, made for a country drive. Chartreuse trees explode with pollen and glow to near neon. I wind past pastures and stone and brick farmhouses and amiable old barns that could set the scene of a Beatrix Potter story, elatedly adding to the hum of provincial enterprise by perfecting my rev-matching skills over the rolling hills and 8mph switchbacks that mark PA-74.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Chinese cars are about to wreck the German market

Government subsidies for electric vehicles are hurting domestic suppliers

Will China be the car manufacturer of the future? If one reads some of the more recent headlines in German media, it certainly seems like it. The leading tabloid paper Bild was in full panic mode, worrying that Chinese cars “will overrun Germany” and that they have “tripled their market share”. A closer look at the data, however, reveals that this 300% increase took place exclusively in the electric vehicle (EV) market, and even there Chinese cars are not the most popular. Starting from very low historic sales numbers, the market share for newly registered passenger cars between January and April 2023 was a meagre 0.8%, compared to the almost 60% share of German car manufacturers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

The ugly downsides of Canada’s costly obsession with electric vehicles

Canada’s government is enchanted – obsessed even – with the idea of building batteries for electric vehicles on home soil. Already, Volkswagen is soaking up about $14-billion in public subsidies to build a battery factory in Southwestern Ontario, and Stellantis, owner of Jeep and Fiat, and LG Energy Solution are demanding equal treatment for their joint venture.

The mission to make Canada (well, Ontario) part of the global EV supply chain was inevitable and, from a purely industrial point of view, makes some sense, even though the per-employee job creation bill may emerge as the most expensive in Canadian history.

A good piece, you can’t come away without being convinced that EV’s are a ludicrous “green solution.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Do the feds or the province even know how much Stellantis is really worth?

It’s hard to say why the federal and Ontario governments are haggling over who should pay what to keep automaker Stellantis NV STLA-N from moving its partly-constructed battery plant elsewhere. Neither government has spent too much time thinking about how much money such plants are really worth to their constituents. Why start now?

But Premier Doug Ford is, as he told us on Wednesday, disappointed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Doug Ford will extort tax payers to bribe Stellantis

The Ontario government will pay more to ensure that an electric vehicle battery plant is built in Windsor, Ont., Premier Doug Ford said on May 19.

The project was thrown in doubt earlier this week when European automaker Stellantis NV halted construction of the facility, saying the federal government had failed to provide it with the money that it had promised.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Green-Scam, WTF?

Not enough resources for EVs to be only cleaner car option, Toyota says

TOKYO (Reuters) – A lack of resources means battery electric vehicles (BEV) cannot be the auto sector’s only answer to climate change, Toyota Motor Corp’s top scientist said Thursday, warning that focusing on BEVs could lead some drivers to hold onto polluting vehicles.

Some investors and environmental groups have long criticised Toyota for being slow to embrace BEVs, saying it has lagged Tesla Inc and others amid growing global demand.

The world’s top automaker by sales has countered that BEVs are just one option and that gasoline-electric hybrids, such as its pioneering Prius, are a more realistic choice for some markets and drivers.

Not the first time Toyota has pointed out EV’s are not the Wunderwaffe they are portrayed to be.

Toyota is working on their own ‘solid state’ battery powered EV’s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Green-Scam

Jeep maker Stellantis demands billions to keep battery plant in Canada

Jeep maker Stellantis has threatened to shift a planned battery plant from Canada to the US unless it receives billions more in state subsidies offered to a rival, in the latest manoeuvre by a big manufacturer in the international battle over green incentives.

It comes as the world’s fourth biggest carmaker, which also produces Vauxhall/Opel, Fiat, Citroën, Peugeot, DS, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Abarth vehicles, leads a campaign in Europe for the UK and EU to renegotiate tariff rules in the Brexit deal.

A pox on both their houses.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Doug Ford, Chrystia Freeland spar over whose stash of tax payer cash should be used to rescue Stellantis corporate welfare scheme

OTTAWA – Queen’s Park and Ottawa are at a standoff over funding for a multi-billion battery plant in Windsor, Ont., with the 2,500 jobs hanging in the balance as the company threatens to walk away if a deal can’t be reached.

Stellantis and its partner LG announced the battery plant in January 2022, pledging to create 2,500 new jobs in the community with the $5-billion plant. Details were kept secret at the time, but the company appears to have received $1 billion, split between the federal and provincial governments, to build the plant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Canada is getting played by Stellantis, but we asked for it

Ottawa and Queen’s Park are getting played by Stellantis but you can’t say they didn’t ask for it. By deciding to engage in a subsidy war with the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford ensured they would be held for ransom.

Politically, they have no choice now but to pay up. Mr. Ford and Mr. Trudeau have boasted so much about attracting electric-vehicle investments, they would both lose face if Stellantis packed up its marbles. They may argue in public over who should pay most of the ransom to prevent Stellantis from cancelling plans to build a $5-billion electric-vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont. But none of that will matter in the end.

Neither Ford nor Junior will lose any sleep over this heinous waste of tax payer money.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

GUNTER: Electric vehicles leave taxpayers on the hook

I’ve always believed the difference between the cost of a government subsidy and the value of the project it is subsidizing is nothing more than a political premium – the price the government of the day is willing to pay to bring an uneconomical project to a riding or region the ruling party feels is important to its re-election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam