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For Most Americans, The Idea Of Buying An Electric Car Is A Joke

by Levi Russell
August 18, 2022, 2:33 PM
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electric car fireElectric vehicle industry promoters are absolutely crowing about recent data showing record sales for non-hybrid electric vehicles.

In the first half of 2022, these electric vehicles made up 5.46% of all new car sales, while sales of hybrids declined. For comparison, electric vehicles made up just 2.7% of all car sales in the second quarter of 2021. [bold, links added]

Since the beginning of the pandemic, overall car sales have fallen drastically. Over 17 million new cars were sold each year from 2015 to 2019.

The year 2020 saw sales fall to 14.7 million and a mere 12.28 million were sold in 2021. Currently, we are on track to roughly match the 2021 sales number. 

The motivation for this increase in purchases of EVs is nothing less than the largest, most coordinated effort on the part of the federal government to shift consumer behavior via market manipulation in the history of the automotive industry.

The Biden administration has, via policy, intentionally driven up the price of diesel and gasoline in an attempt to obliterate demand for these products. 

If this is difficult to believe, simply listen to the Transportation Secretary tell you that: “The more pain that we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.”

As I wrote on this site earlier this year, the federal government cannot reduce the actual cost of electric vehicles, it can only make their competition more expensive.

That means more pain for the average American and the Biden administration knows it. Secretary Buttigieg has characterized Americans as bitter clingers to our supposedly evil gasoline-powered vehicles.

There are roadblocks to the supposed green utopia of the electric vehicle in the form of real costs.

For instance, input prices are skyrocketing for EVs, leading manufacturers to continuously increase the prices of these already-expensive toys.

Ford recently announced $7,000 and $8,500 increases in the prices of their least expensive F-150 Lightning model pickup trucks, citing these higher input costs.

In June, Ford announced that their Mach E model Mustang is “no longer profitable” and Nissan plans to stop production of their tiny Leaf EV in the next few years.

Nissan will likely replace the low-priced Leaf with something much larger and more luxurious.

To offset the higher input costs and attenuate the potentially reduced sales due to persistent price increases, Ford is laying off 8,000 employees to finance the production of EVs.

Perhaps this could be spun as a part of the transition from internal combustion to EV production, but the same tactic is being employed at major EV-only manufacturers.

Rivian, the maker of an EV pickup that famously had to stop every 100 miles to charge for hours at a time while towing a race car, recently announced a “major” cost-cutting effort that will include layoffs. In May, Tesla announced its largest layoff in the company’s history.

It’s no wonder that working-class Americans are increasingly fed up with the Biden administration and the rest of his party.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently schooled Biden’s transportation secretary on the real-world cost of charging an EV.

If EVs made up half the US car fleet by 2030, an absurd goal on its face, Rep. Massie notes that the average household would use double the amount of energy it uses for air conditioning in a year to charge one EV for a year.

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in economics to understand what that kind of increased load would do to our grid and to the cost of energy, especially if it came from unreliables like solar and wind.

For working-class Americans, the notion of owning an EV is a joke. One family discovered a serious practical problem with owning a used, low-priced EV: lack of manufacturer support.

The family’s 2014 Ford Focus EV needed a new battery. They discovered that the replacement battery the car needed would cost $14,000; more than the price they paid for the car.

To add insult to injury, they then found that Ford couldn’t even provide them with a replacement.

Lack of manufacturer support for basic components for an 8-year-old vehicle is unheard of for internal combustion-powered cars.

Though the Biden administration continues to mislead the public, other policymakers and influential NGOs are beginning to shift the narrative.

The World Economic Forum recently admitted to the many and varied environmental and human rights issues associated with EV production from the use of child slaves to mine cobalt in the Congo to the increased road and tire wear from heavy electric cars.

Their solution to the problem is simply this: don’t own a vehicle. As I’ve said before on this site, the ultimate goal of the so-called “transition” to EVs is to eliminate our freedom of movement.

If every move we make involves a transaction, it can all be traced. Our freedom and privacy would be curtailed even more than it already has been by the Biden administration.

The question for Americans is “how much ideological tyranny will we put up with before we use the ballot box to end it?”

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Comments 7

  1. Brian James says:
    3 years ago

    These two videos are an eye opener for anyone curious about these vehicles.

    Jun 28, 2022 How Far Can a Gas Truck & an Electric Ford Lightning Go Towing the Same Camper On ONE Fill-up?

    https://youtu.be/-e55Vued028

    May 21, 2022 Tesla Owner Breaks Window to Escape Before Vehicle Catches Fire in Vancouver

    Tesla Owner Breaks Window to Escape Before Vehicle Catches Fire in Vancouver.

    https://youtu.be/IgZf-auOZxI

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  2. Randy Verret says:
    3 years ago

    I’m beginning to think the whole idea here (with Progressives) is to completely PRICE OUT middle & lower income Americans from private vehicle ownership. Looking at materials & supply chains, I think it is dubious the American (domestic) EV car production can be ramped up to ever meet widespread consumer demand. So, “economies of scale” may not bring EV costs down into a competitive range. The thing I find most objectionable is rather than allowing market forces to dictate trends & allocation of resources, our government has arbitrarily decided that EV’s will dominate the landscape. I think EV’s have a place in the market, but a “One size Fits All” approach (to me) seems short sighted & detached from reality. I guess I trust consumer choice & free markets to make better decisions than Washington bureaucrats…

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  3. David Lewis says:
    3 years ago

    Currently there are not enough electric vehicles being made to satisfy market demand. I’m sure this has given starry eyed elites the idea that once manufacturing capacity has caught up, the road ways will be dominated by electric vehicles. The reality is the average American family can not afford to buy a brand new vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. The more pricy electric vehicles are impossible. The average car on the road in the US is 12.5 years old. Our family spends $5,000 or less on a used car that we drive for 100,000 miles. Making gasoline and diesel more expensive does nothing to enable the average family to afford an electric vehicle. In fact, high energy prices adds to inflation which makes the average family less able to afford expensive items.

    The high cost of replacement batteries, and the real risk they won’t be available, is why electric vehicles can not follow the economic model of used cars that exists with conventional vehicles. If nothing would change the current regulations we would enter the “Cuba Syndrome” where older vehicles are kept running forever. However, as the regulations imposed by Biden and some states against conventional vehicles start to have an impact, we can expect changes at the ballot box.

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  4. Sonnyhill says:
    3 years ago

    If you insist on driving a vehicle with batteries, hybrids have been around for awhile. Plug – in hybrids would save you even more money on gasoline. The risk of them dying before your destination is almost nil, as there’s gas stations everywhere. Plug it in when you have the time. Why the government would push us into EV’s, with their obvious shortcomings, is suspicious. The big auto manufacturers are going out on a limb. The taxpayer subsidized safety net might get yanked.

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