OAK BROOK, Ill. – Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures.
Public charging stations have turned into car graveyards over the past couple of days.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
It’s nearly 2024 and there’s a two-month-plus supply of cars – many of them 2023 models – waiting to be sold before they become last year’s models. Most of these waiting-to-be-sold models are electric cars that aren’t selling because (drum roll, please) buyers don’t want them.
Never before in the history of the car business has the cart been put before the horse – as it has when it comes to electric cars.
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Stephen Moore, senior economist at FreedomWorks and once a senior economic adviser to former President Donald Trump, has issued a grim prediction about America’s electric vehicle (EV) market, saying EVs are poised to be automakers’ “next big flop.”
Mr. Moore’s grim prediction for the EV market came in an interview on Fox News’s “Varney & Co.” program on Oct. 30 and an op-ed in The Daily Caller on Oct. 29, in which the economist compared the current EV push to the failed rollout of the Ford Edsel.
“One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s,” he wrote in the op-ed.
Guest Post by Nick Giambruno
25 refrigerators.
That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs).
Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have 50% of cars sold in the US be electric by 2030.
The current and future grid in most places will not be able to support each home running 25 refrigerators—not even close. Just look at California, where the grid is already buckling under the existing load.
Massie claims, correctly, in my view, that the notion of widespread adoption of electric vehicles anytime soon is a dangerous fantasy based on political science, not sound engineering.
Continue reading “3 Reasons There’s Something Sinister With the Big Push for Electric Vehicles”
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Want to know for sure – and be able to prove – there’s no “climate crisis”? Just point to the EV – the supposed cure for it.
Specifically, point out the problem. Not the range. Nor the time it takes to recharge one of these battery powered devices. Those are limitations – and hassles – bought into by the people who own an EV.
The thing that gives the lie – to the idea that we must all drive an EV because of the supposedly looming “crisis” – is the fact that EVs are excessive.
None of them are designed to minimize the use of electrical energy or resources.
Think on that a moment.
If there is a crisis pending – an emergency! – then everything must be done to address it as aggressively as possible. If a ship is threatened with sinking, you do everything possible right now to prevent it from taking on more water. You don’t have the deckhands polish the brass.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
When you can walk, it’s easy to take for granted being able to. But when you no longer can, even walking the handful of yards down to the mailbox and back might as well be a transcontinental trek.
We have taken much for granted with regard to driving – including the ease of being able to do it again and whenever we like.
Whenever we need to. Even if we did not plan for it ahead of time.
This was brought home to me the other day when I realized I’d forgotten to gas up the ’23 Dodge Challenger Black Ghost before I parked it for the night the evening prior. There was not enough gas left in its tank to make it very far, particularly given the appetite of the 807 horsepower supercharged V8 engine under the hood.
But, no problem – as I had gas in the shed.
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Guest Post by Eric Peters
Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs? It says something about EVs – and about those who are pushing them, does it not?
For instance, if there really is a “climate crisis” – in italics to emphasis what the word is generally taken to mean, that being an imminent disaster – then why is it that high-performance and luxurious EVs are being pushed? Can we afford to indulge such . . . luxuries, if there is a “crisis”?
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Going really fast is very illegal.
In fact, so is going even a little faster than whatever the speed limit is.
EV people ought to think about this a little.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Back in the ’70s, it got hard to afford gas – which got expensive because of a combination punch of artificial shortages and artificially-induced devaluation of money – what is referred to as “inflation.” The result was lots of people could no longer afford to drive “gas hogs” – big American cars with big V8 engines.
History is about to repeat itself.
Energy hog electric cars will become too expensive to drive – in addition to being too expensive for most people to afford to buy – as the cost of electricity goes through the roof. Which it will as a result of shortages – and the artificially induced devaluation of the money people have available to pay for it.
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeting gas vehicles in an attempt to reduce emissions. Their goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 10 billion tons before 2055 to “protect public health.” In turn, 67% of new personal vehicles will be electric by 2032. The average price of an electric vehicle (EV) is $64,338 and completely out of reach for the average American consumer. The war on the working class rages on.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Electric vehicles are like incandescent light bulbs. No, that’s not quite right. EVs are like the government-mandated replacement for incandescent light bulbs.
You may remember incandescent bulbs. They have been around since the time of Edison, which is a long time. This was so because they worked. Their government-mandated replacements – LED bulbs – also work. Just not as well and a lot more expensively.
Trouble in paradise? Looks like the EV scam is collapsing without the Fed’s easy money.
DETROIT – General Motors will offer voluntary buyouts to a “majority” of its 58,000 U.S. white-collar employees, as it aims to cut $2 billion in structural costs over the next two years, according to a letter sent to workers Thursday from CEO Mary Barra.
The “Voluntary Separation Program,” or VSP, will be offered to all U.S. salaried employees who have spent five or more years at the company as of June 30. Outside of the U.S., the automaker will offer buyouts to executives with at least two years of time at the company.
Continue reading “GOVERNMENT MOTORS OFFERS TO BUYOUT MAJORITY OF U.S. SALARIED WORKERS”
Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience.com,
There are now an estimated 1.7 million electric vehicles (EVs) on U.S. roads, compared to roughly 400,000 in spring 2018. That means that a lot more Americans are experiencing the joys and pitfalls of EV ownership, from silent, swift acceleration and emission-free driving on the positive side to slower fueling times and shorter driving ranges on the negative side.
More Americans are also learning that frigid temperatures affect EVs differently than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, chiefly by cutting into their driving range to a greater extent. While a typical ICE vehicle might have its range reduced by 15% to 25% in below-freezing temperatures, an EV’s range will be slashed 20% to 50% depending upon driving speed, temperature, and interior climate preferences. Combustion reactions occur more inefficiently at colder temperatures, accounting for the range decline in ICE vehicles. But cold slows the physical and chemical reactions in EV batteries to a larger degree, limiting the energy and power the battery can deliver to the motors. Moreover, while ICE vehicles utilize otherwise wasted heat from the engine to warm car interiors in winter, EVs use electric heaters to perform much of the climate control, further draining the already hamstrung battery.
Continue reading “How Did EVs Handle America’s Arctic Blast?”
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Have you ever wondered why soldiers and cops don’t carry revolvers anymore? It’s because semi-auto pistols work better. Both shoot bullets, but a revolver generally holds only 5-6 of them and reloading it when you’re in a hurry takes precious time you may not have. A semi-auto pistol can hold twice as many bullets and reloading it is as easy – and as fast – as dropping the empty magazine and shoving a new one, loaded with bullets, into the gun.
Electric cars are like revolvers.
They only hold so much – and it takes a long time to reload them.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
An attempt to visit my mom for Christmas gives a window into what life can be like when you drive an EV.
The EV I attempted to use to visit my mom with is a brand-new Mercedes EQS, which is a top-of-the-line EV. It is basically an electric version of the Mercedes S-Class sedan and its base price is $102,300 for the EQS 450. The one I am test driving is the EQS 580, which has a more powerful battery, 340 miles of putative range and an MSRP of $125,900.
When it was dropped off a couple of days ago, it only had about 170 miles of putative range remaining, as contrasted with the fully fueled vehicles that are usually left for me to test drive. I use the adjective, putative, with reason – which will be explained shortly.
