President Snow Will Drive an EV

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It’s not so much that the future is “electric.” It is that in the future they have planned for us, only the affluent will drive electric cars.

Everyone else will not be able to drive.

If that sounds extravagant, consider two facts. The first is that – aside from a very few, very small models like the Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf – the entry price point of the typical electric car is about $50,000. Most “transact” – that is, sell – for considerably more than that. Leaving aside the fact that we are talking about electric cars, that price point defines luxury cars – which are cars that by definition are bought by affluent people only.

And there are only so many of those.

The price of these electric luxury vehicles is going up, too. Not down – as the electric car propagandists have insisted they would, when they were selling the gullible public on EVs.

They are not going up because of the devaluation of the buying power of money – what is glibly styled “inflation” by those who either do not understand or wish to hide the fact that the buying power of money is being devalued; i.e., that it is the result of deliberate policy.

It is because of natural market forces.

EVs, themselves, are the result of unnatural market forces – having been mandated, subsidized or otherwise artificially pushed onto the market. But the reason for the increase in the price of a new EV has to do with the upticking market prices of the materials needed to make electric vehicle batteries, without which an EV is the functional equivalent of a static display of an airplane that doesn’t fly.

Government can mandate EVs to be produced. It can mandate that only EVs may be sold. It cannot mandate the cost of the materials needed to make them be lowered. Price controls would only assure fewer would be made as it is economically impossible to maintain the building and selling of anything at a price lower than it costs to make whatever it is.

Interestingly, one of the essential materials used to make electric vehicle batteries is lithium, which is a non-renewable material that is also neither abundant nor inexpensive. Obtaining usable quantities of it entails a process not unlike that involved in obtaining a usable amount of enriched uranium. Immense quantities of raw materials must be extracted and then processed – in vast leaching fields, for lithium. It requires processing around 25,000 pounds of brine to obtain the roughly 25 lbs. of lithium used in a typical electric vehicle battery pack.

Unlike hydrocarbon fuels – which are massively abundant and economical to extract and refine – limited supplies of lithium are insufficient to keep up with the artificially induced demand for electric vehicles – and the cost involved in getting it and refining what lithium there is assures that the price of electric vehicles will continue to go up as demand for it increases.

Unless of course, a new type of battery that does not require lithium replaces the lithium-based batteries that store the power to propel almost all modern electric cars.

The same EV advocates who insisted that EV costs would go down now insist that such batteries are “coming.”

It is of a piece with “two weeks to flatten the curve,” based on the track record of EV promises so far unfulfilled. The fact remains that almost all EVs in production depend on lithium-based batteries.

Electric vehicle batteries also require large quantities of graphite, nickel and cobalt, the costs of which are also increasing. There is in addition to that the cost of the electricity, itself – certain to increase as demand for it increases as capacity to produce it remains . . . flat.

Part of the reason for all of this increase has to do with the fact that almost all electric vehicles are luxury vehicles. They have huge batteries, which are necessary to deliver the power/performance that people who spend $50,000-plus on a car – electric or not – expect. Just as people who spend $100 on dinner at a nice restaurant expect china and linen rather than paper plates and napkins.

There is very little to no effort being made to make electric vehicles affordable – which would entail making them less powerful, less luxurious. A 1,000 pound battery pack is the EV equivalent of a large V8 engine. Many EVs have even larger battery packs that are the equivalent of V12 engines. These require – and use – vastly more energy than is necessary for just getting around. They require – and use up – vastly more raw materials than would be necessary to build a battery sufficient to provide economical performance.

If – as the people propagandizing for “electrification” insist – the future is one in which everyone will drive an electric car, why is it that electric luxury cars seem to be the only future?

Why is it that there seems to be no future for cars average people can afford?

There is also the tangential fact that electric vehicles impose time costs on people that can least afford to pay them. The limited range and lengthy amount of time it takes to recharge and re-instill range in an EV all-but-forces the EV owner to drive less – and less far. In order for many people to be able to drive an EV every day, they would need to own two EVs.

One to drive while the other recharges.

Very affluent people can, of course, afford that. They can also afford to have more than one 240 volt “Level II” charger circuit wired into their garages – and have their home electrical panels upgraded to support that. It is merely a few thousand dollars more – in additional costs.

Average people cannot afford that.

What is happening – the outlines of the future are now visible – is a world in which a personally owned vehicle will be what it was at the beginning of the automobile age some 120 years ago. Which is to say, it will be what was depicted in the dystopian movies based on the Hunger Games books.

President Snow and his entourage – their real-world equivalents – will drive luxury-performance EVs.

The rest of us will drive very little, if we drive at all.

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James
James

Oh,I WILL be driving!

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Just Thinking
Just Thinking

Classic! love it.

Do I spy 3/4 ton axles?

James
James

Why yes you do,though new to me for most part(Usually a Dana guy)tis a 14 bolt Corporate rear and 10 bolt Corporate front(10 bolt) with 3.73 gears/larger tires probably a 4.11 ect gear ratio.

Mr. Guest
Mr. Guest

4 x 4 Rape-O-Matic.
Love it.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

Wake up every morning and imagine you’re dead, it’s easier to handle the day after that. The PTB want us dead, don’t comply with their wish. Be a fly in the ointment, get in their faces about the absurdities. The situation will implode, schadenfreude is a wondrous occurrence!

Anonymous
Anonymous

” It is that in the future they have planned for us, only the affluent will drive electric cars”

Been that way in europe for 40+ yrs. On purpose, by design.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

One big point that’s missed mention here: the prices of all of these EVs jumped by $7.5K – $8K literally overnight a couple of months ago when our government extended the IRS subsidy … 

The author is right, though … when you look at other parts of the agenda to destroy the 1st World like the 15-minute cities and such … we are NOT meant to have any freedom of mobility … nor, ultimately, any individual freedoms and liberties.

Vigilant
Vigilant

U.S. Postal Service Intends To Deploy Over 66,000 Electric Vehicles by 2028, Making One of the Largest Electric Vehicle Fleets in the Nation

From the USPS website, interesting number of vehicles, and interesting how they use the military term deploy to describe their actions

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Where is the electricity to charge these vehicles going to come from and how will it be distributed?

Got a text from TVA today asking me to turn down the thermostat, put on more layers, turn off the lights and not use CHRISTmas lights due to the cold weather. Just imagine how much electricity 66,000 additional electric cars would require.

Stucky

If every vehicle sold in America next year was electric;

— mining companies would need to increase production by 1,000 percent

— need an additional 400 nuclear reactors

Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.

BL
BL

TN- It is my understanding that at some point individual property owners will be generating their own electricity per household using a hydrogen fuel cell run on either natural gas line or line from a propane tank. I’ve posted that many times and each time the naysayers have a hissy. Time will tell.

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)

Or-solar panels splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
http://hopewellproject.org/
Costs about 100 G’s to set the whole thing up.
Saw their hydrogen powered car driving around town the other day.

80% Fraud
80% Fraud

Back in 1992 the manager of the engineering dept.(Madison Professor) said all those fired tube boilers we were building that burn 100 gallons of oil an hour, would be replaced by fuel cells within 10 years, here we are 30 years later and the boilers are still being made, and no fuel cells can replace them.

Cricket
Cricket

The point is us little people will have no personal transportation beyond walking. Mandating electric vehicles is a way of ensuring no one can travel more than a couple hundred KMs beyond any major city. TPTB want to eliminate your freedom of movement.

49%mfer
49%mfer

Exactly.

The whole point of EVs is to make sure only the privileged few can travel when, and where they want.

For some reason, the fact that you can hop in your car/truck at anytime and go wherever you want, really pisses them off.

fujigm
fujigm

But a simple puncture with a 7.62 tracer round is sufficient to start the immolation of these batteries along with their occupants.

Rumor from associates….

Anonymous
Anonymous

What do these people think powers these EV’s? How is electricity made? Well there are very small amounts of wind and solar, a bit more hydro, but most still comes from burning fossils. The main being natural gas and coal. So are they saving the environment? Not on bit. Just a bit of virtue signaling and feeling SOOOO superior. They are not, they are the useful idiots.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Every single person that writes about this omits one HUGE and glaring problem and it’s the biggest problem. Not everyone lives in a single family dwelling. Nearly one third of Americans live in multi unit complexes. That’s roughly 100 Million Americans! I live in a small 252 unit condo complex. It would cost millions in engineering, materials, and construction to power up this complex for EV’s. And that’s only the beginning. New sub-stations would have to be built to handle that load. That’s another 10+ million dollars and …wait for it …that’s just for my one complex. Are you getting the picture here? The word impossible simply doesn’t cover it. Who is going to pay for all the material for charging stations and new electric sub-stations for the single family and multi unit complexes in just 10 years!!? Where is it even going to come from? Talk about raping the natural environment! The enormity of all this is beyond anything my brain can comprehend. Forget all what you read in this story. It’s small potatoes compared to this. There can only be one outcome to such a policy: You ain’t going nowhere in 10 years!

General
General

The people at the top are trying to recreate a neofeudal environment with them permanently on the top with virtually all the assets owned by them. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.

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