The electric vehicle honeymoon is over. Don’t expect the marriage itself to last much longer either.
The mass conversion from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs) to electric vehicles was never more than a Democrat/environmentalist hallucination anyway. [emphasis, links added]
It was the most ill-conceived government policy objective in modern history.
The transition should have been a nonstarter. It’s riddled with numerous deal killers. It’s like having a dozen fatal diseases all at the same time.
Any goal as massive as a total conversion from ICE vehicles to EVs requires careful planning and infrastructure preparation.
It would necessitate a rapid doubling of electricity generation and grid expansion. In today’s world that’s impossible.
EV promoters could never deliver on their promises. Their grandiose assurances were nothing more than wishful thinking.
There was no market research. Hmm — I wonder why. There were no feasibility studies. Hmm — I wonder why.
Did they truly believe everyone would tolerate spending hours to charge their vehicles rather than the minutes they were accustomed to?
Car dealers are resisting further deliveries of EVs because of swelling inventories. Avis and Hertz can’t even get people to rent EVs!
Yet, manufacturers are ramping up production just as consumers are balking. Something will have to give, and soon. EV makers and their shareholders will tire of pouring money down a rathole.
We are spending trillions of dollars on a fabricated dream, all for imaginary payoffs decades in the future.
When the EV house of cards collapses what will the reaction be? Ordinarily, for normal persons, it should be a time for regret, rethinking, and humility.
It would be good if the Democrat/environmentalist true believers learned something from the EV debacle.
However, the same utopian blindness that caused this fiasco will prevent any lesson-learning on their part. We are more likely to see them doubling down instead.
Top photo of an EV catching fire and spreading to the home via the NTSB by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office
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The analogy that the goal of massive transformation to electric vehicles said it was like having dozen fatal diseases all at the same time. This is very true. However, we need to remember that only one fatal disease will cause death before the others can run their full course. Lack of market research is what will hit first. Most families can not afford an EV and many of those that can don’t want to deal with the charging issues. So, the lack of infrastructure preparation won’t be an issue because there will not be enough EV’s sold to be a problem. Full conversion to EV’s would hit the obstacle of not enough rare earth minerals, but again, not enough will be sold for this problem to be a total obstacle. It will be interesting to see how this will work out especially with all of the mandates causing more cars to be manufactured than can be sold.
What a great way to bankrupt the capitalists in Detroit. Toyota is smart, hang back and see what happens.
I just watched the CEO for Ford who still thinks that EVs are going to go somewhere (besides down the toilet). Apparently he was introducing a new F150. One of them had a battery big enough to power your home and another that is a Hybrid. He bragged that the EV F150 was the best selling EV pickup truck–not sure how many EV pickups are even on the market? But anyone who actually needs to work for a living and buys an F150 it will NEVER be one running on a battery.