She says "tech lovers" were early adopters. Actually, it was professional managerial class "liberals" who have more money than tech knowledge who have bought them. That market is now saturated.
And a whole lot of media hype. For whatever reason, the media is sick of carrying Elon's water on this. You can only break so many promises and I think the media is sick of taking the brunt of the grief on this, since they were all-in 6 years ago and overlooking a lot of things to tell us how great EVs are. The groupies complain that the media turned on EVs this last December when it got cold across the midwest and the reports of Teslas that wouldn't charge filling parking lots over MLK weekend started hitting. That was kind of a tipping point but there's been a growing rumble for a couple of years now. There's no shortage of consumer problems and lack of support (or rather, the "support" has been "Buy another Tesla!"). One guy took his Tesla out to a quarry and blew it up (literally) because he refused to spring for a $22,000 battery that Tesla should've replaced on warranty, that's a bad look for a car company that claims to have all this figured out and takes care of their customers. Tesla's stock price has fallen 60% since the end of 2021, that's the elephant in the room that just can't be ignored anymore.
I think government is doing the right thing. Global warming due to CO2 is a real thing. And you must not be paying attention because it’s already been shown that the best EV technology can be sold profitably at a price point equal to ICE cars while significantly reducing total emissions.
Cadillac will be all electric ass well, they did not care about sales. I’m so confused on the obsession with people praying for EV downfall, literally would’ve been all fine if government weirdos weren’t scared of the mandates hiding in their closet
Stupid comment. Jaguar, Volvo, Cadillac and a few others have announced they will be 100% EV in a few years. The light bulb won't go off - but electricity to gasoline pumps will.
@@dzerres Seems unlikely that any of those manufacturers will be 100% EV in a few years, depending upon your definition of “a few”. Smart car makers will adjust as the market demands.
We got here because politicians are some of the dumbest people you’ll ever meet and auto executives are some of the best sycophants. Everyone thought this would be like forcing us to not use aerosol cans or incandescent light bulbs. It’s not complicated.
Meanwhile everyone is filling their tanks with gas, and massive lines. Not sure if that is a relevant argument. Perhaps a hybrid? BYD just launched a 2000km hybrid, New York to Florida non-stop.
I live in Houston, gasoline is one of the first things that run out. After Harvey hit Houston, all of the gas stations in my area were closed for a week. We had power so we relied on my Leaf to buy groceries and supplies where there were any.
6/4/24...#1) WHO CAN AFFORD A NEW CAR IN THIS ECONOMY? ESP AN EXPENSIVE EV??? I AM RETIRED + LIVING ON SOC SEC + TRYING TO BUY FOOD.... #2) HOW CAN PPL CHARGE THEIR EV??? FEW CHARGING STATIONS + DON'T KNOW COST TO CHARGE... #3) TIRES COST MORE. PARKING LOTS CAN'T SUPPORT WEIGHT OF EVs ON MULTIPLE LEVEL PARKING LOTS....
@@eileeneclark9011, here in Houston there is plenty of public charging available. This is true throughout most of the country. Charging costs vary from no cost at all to the EV owner for regular level 2 chargers, to ten cents a minute on DC fast chargers. The chargers will inform the EV driver what the per minute charge rate is on the charge station’s OLED screen when you pay to charge. Tesla chargers don’t have a screen display on their superchargers but Tesla owners are informed of the per minute charges through various apps available for your phone. The weight of an electric vehicle, while heavier that an equivalent has car, will not cause a parking garage to collapse.
Most multi residential housing does not have charging access. The professional managerial governmental class do not want the working class to have private transportation.
Can’t understand how all these car companies didn’t see this coming. Tesla did well when they were pretty much the only game in town but you can’t spread the limited demand across all car companies coming out with multiple ev’s. There’s just not enough demand and everyone should have seen that. I did, and have been predicting this for several years when I saw how many new offerings were coming in the next few years (now).
2 out of 3 correct. They are way too expensive. And the batteries are still too expensive to replace, although that is changing pretty quickly. The grid is fine to handle EVs in most jurisdictions. If you can run AC, or a dryer, or a hot tub, you can handle an EV.
@@dguy321 My electric company puts out a magazine each month and the CEO writes a column occasionally. He said the past 2 years they were forced to remove 4 percent of power generation and you can no longer expect the lights to stay on during heat and cold snaps. Increasing consumption while removing generation does not make sense.
GM and Chrysler almost went out of business selling a product no one wanted 16 years ago only then they were pushing large SUVs. When GM got bailed out even the Chinese passed on their Hummer division when GzM tried to sell it.
LOL, YUP! They are a death trap self igniting expolsive at 1480 Celcius temps melt concrete and produce 14 Letha gasses from the impossible to put out FIRE.
No. You should be shamed for having an EV. You support a country that uses slave labour and deleted young African children to make you wasteful battery.
@@14lou and how about you? You are welcome to… what? I mean, what do we have to do with such opinions, favorable or unfavorable to EVs? Who is he, or anyone, to dare to say he likes it or not, this or that? Let us have our own. Got it?
So much ignorance on this comment section I don’t know where to start. You all talk about fanboys and bad governance and ignore the real problems of the world.
@@CarCoachReports I work at a tire store in California and in the land of fruits and nuts we have a lot of EVs. $1600.00 - $1800.00 to buy a set of EV tires is pretty normal, but wait, it gets worse. Because of the weight of the vehicle and torque of the electric motors the life expectancy of those tires is about 18,000 to 20,000 miles. But wait there's more! The tires are not repairable which means if they pick up a nail the tire has to be replaced. No tire shop (who wants to stay out of court) will touch an EV tire repair. But, I try to maintain a positive attitude to the customer and I like to remind them of how much they're saving on gas ...they usually shoot me a look like they want to strangle me.
dondenis1500.... Tesla needs new tires every 20,000 to 25,000 miles due to the torque and breaking. NOT GOOD. I pass.... My wife's prius. She gets 45 miles a gallon, and able to get 65,000 miles use on the tires. I drive a ford maverick hybrid. I am getting 45 miles a gallon and 600 plus mile range on a full tank of gas. My neighbor is done with electric vehicles. he is tired of waiting to charge the Tesla. His next car is a hybrid.
When will car manufacturers (and the Administration!) realize that electric cars are a gimmick? Just like the Cabbage Patch dolls, everybody wanted one until the fad passed. I'll never buy an electric car.
Who is going to rent a car that will only go a hundred miles and you can't use the radio air conditioner or heater because then you can't go anywhere there's such a joke
People that have no choice unfortunately. Most renters don't even give you the option to specify gas anymore. Whatever you reserve - 'or similar' - can be an EV. And if that's all they have left, that's what you'll get. I hate flying, but my biggest fear now is getting stuck with an electric car when I get there.
@@SteveLomas-k6k I know some people don't have a choice I surely would never rent an electric car where I live at 70 me to the New Mexico State line and that's about as far as an electric car wouldn't make it in one day because when it's 100° you got to run the air there goes your battery
@@jayfizzle7931 Last year I rented from Hertz and checked a box for gas driven car. When I got there we walked past dozens of EVs, there were only a few cars with engines left. This year the checkbox was gone, and they told me they couldn't guarantee the car would have an engine in it. Alamo was the only one I found that could.
.. but not a gas tank. Ford was sued because the passengers in the 1970s era Pinto exploded when the gas tank punctured in a rear end collision. An 11 dollar plastic honeycomb insert between the bumper and the gas tank would have saved lives like in their Canadian made Pintos but it would have raised the cost of the car and Ford’s bean counters calculated that paying the injury claims was cheaper than making the car safe.
@@14lou the National Highway Traffic Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that gasoline cars had 1530 fires per 100,000 and BEVs had 25 per 100,000.
@@radiotec76 ICE cars don't spontaneously explode in flames while you are sleeping and burn your house down. ICE fires are not difficult to control while BEV fires are uncontrollable.
@@Iconoclasher, the battery can be charged too and depending on how much internal battery resistance has reduced the battery pack’s state of charge it should come back to life. I would be more concerned about the condition of the tires and brakes in both.
No one wants those electric golf kart. Hybrid, PHEV and fuel efficient engines are the future. That's why Toyota, Mazda and Subaru are heading in the right direction. While laughing all the way to the bank with all those pre ordered great products.
Hybrids are not as simple as ICE cars, because of their extra complexity they are more expensive than ICE vehicles. They are not greener than ICE vehicles nor are they emission free. They have all the same problems as EVs and are not as environmentally as friendly as ICE vehicles. Twenty year old ICE vehicles can be repaired and run as long as parts and fuel exist. A new Hybrid and BEV has a larger carbon footprint than a ICE vehicle. When the battery expires the vehicle is dumped in a landfill. Green policies are a threat to our freedom to travel.
Only 16 years ago all of the accusations against EV’s, limited range, the batteries are toxic, the batteries were costly to replace, the carbon life cycle was greater than a Hummer and they’re expensive to maintain were all leveled against the Toyota Prius by a guy named Art Spinelli. Now no one remembers the false claims and no one knows who Art Spinelli is. If scare mongering against EVs gets people in hybrids that’s OK. The buying public will grow to love electric propulsion.
@@martentrudeau6948 Wrong. Toyota's hybrid drive chain technology is now 20 years in development and has proven to be extremely reliable while delivering great efficiency over ICE-only vehicles. Their batteries use a different chemistry and are a fraction of the size of that in BEVs and due to the conservative nature of charge and discharge rates and levels, they last hundreds of thousands of miles when air filters are properly maintained.
@@14lou ~ Prius Batteries are warrantied for 10 years or 100,000 miles, a replacement battery cost plus labor is more than the car is worth. ICE cars typically can be driven for 200,000 and last 20 years. The ICE car is greener.
The untold story, which has been shelved by other influencers. I am assuming carmakers delayed EVs, because of the reasons highlighted. Tesla forced car makers to change their business models, but to soon realize they have been duped again.
They delayed them because USA EV designs are years behind. And dealers hate EVs, they make their money on service. Also, the compliance cars they quickly came up with suck, compared to the EVs available in the rest of the world. The Chinese have many years' head start on us and they will blow the Big 3 out of existence if they don't get their act together quick. All this anti-EV propaganda, mostly put out by the oil industry, is an attempt to slow adoption down vs. the rest of the world. It will only work for so long.
Tesla does not have any dealers, they sell direct. Tesla usually has about 18 days inventory world wide, much of that is sitting on ships going from China to Europe or Australia or Canada. Tesla showrooms only have a few of each model to offer test drives What you see on Detroit 3 dealer lots are mainly ICE cars, some have more than 6 months worth of sales sitting on dealer lots.
Or in NYC. That old EV technology worked in the early 1900s there, but it's been eclipsed by superior ICE technology since then and even NYC residents don't want it.
I live in Northern Quebec where it gets to -50 - -60 degress celcius so yeah not gonna happen here we have bears and moose around here too we prefer big trucks.
@@bobby5678-ck2tcthe rovers on mars are EVs. I think they can handle Quebec. Most cars sold in Norway, also very northern, are EVs. EVs are available as a choice pretty much everywhere.
I don't have a need for an EV. I work from home and I don't want to deal with charging when I'm traveling, nor insalling a charger at my house. However, it would be a different story if I still commuted to work every day.. Several of my friends lease Leafs and use them daily to commute. U.S. auto companies missed an opportunity. They should have been building more inexpensive commuters like the Chevy Bolt and less of their current offerings.
You’re right. The market needed an EV sedan that was reasonable in size and cost. Hyundai may just be the car company to do it. They have announced they’re releasing the Kona for $26,500.00. It gets 280 miles range.
For some reason the EV idiots hate Hybrids. Its all about money. I would buy a Hybrid but love my gas guzzler so I'm happy and good to go on Gasoline -:)
So EVs are not moving but we have to slap a 100 percent tax on Chinese EVs because,… nobody’s buying them? Sounds more like the 1970s during the Arab oil embargo when Japan cleaned Detroit’s clock out with cheap reliable high fuel mileage economy cars while Detroit’s offerings, the constantly under repair Chevy Vega and the exploding Ford Pinto, weren’t even serious competition to Toyota and Honda. Now BYD is about to repeat Toyota and Honda’s experience.
When they build their Mexico plant and invade here, the USA better be ready with decent small EVs or they're screwed. That's when mainstream adoption will hit them hard.,
Now that customers are rejecting EVs, it now comes down to how hard the Democrats want to double down on their Orwellian EV dream. Do they increase fines on automakers who sell ICE vehicles? Do they slap exorbitant taxes on people who buy ICE vehicles? People need to understand that it was government that mandated these EVs and the mess we are in now, not the automakers.
Mandates are what got the EV market to where it's at today. Let the market not mandates determine the success or fate of the EV. You said it well: "You pick what is best for you!" Obviously, the market has spoken.
for a long time I was interested in EVs.. but the crazy government mandates and many manufacturers treating this like a gold rush but the undisclosed disastrous cost of EV ownership has turned me off completely.
The snap that happened to crash the market was news stations actually reporting the cost of EV's. You can look at it as Before Hyundai and After Hyundai. The EV crash started around the time of the Canadian man needing to pay $50k for a small fender bender.
I am tech savvy. I am a software engineer, but I also understand physics. So I didn't go EV because they are not impressed or cool. They are a horrible idea.
EVs aren't "fun" and are generally too heavy for enthusiast type drivers. The only way to bring EV weight down is to bring the battery size down. Take the battery size down and you lose range. Nobody wants to carve up mountain roads out in BFE here in WNC in an overweight car and questionable charging. Another thing is drivers that own cars for the sole purpose of "driving" want a car "they" control and interact with. My God, there are already plenty of drivers that go borderline apoplectic over the thinning herd of manual transmissions, those folk aren't going to be easy to shove into nearly one pedal driving. They COULD make an interactive EV, but it would be heavier than even a standard EV by employing things like a manual transmission. However, if they do things like that it would completely ruin the EVs "efficiency". Which is the whole point of EVs to begin with. There isn't going to be an Electric car that will fit in the Lotus Elise/Mazda Miata category anytime soon.
My question is what happens to the electric car long term if left in a storage field once the wildlife starts chewing at them ... is this going to be a big environment problem.
@@caldodge No, charging stations piles are splitted (one charging station could have multiple charging piles which total capacity is splitted to all charging piles).
It depends on the chargers. The newer Tesla superchargers give you the full wattage. The older ones drop in half when a 2nd car plugs in. The level 2 "Charge Points" drop in half as well.
I had someone ask me why I didn't get rid of my 1999 Silverado. "Simple when I take my truck in for an oil change I walk the lot. There are no trucks for under $70,000 that does what it can." This channel recently pointed out California was going to force auto makers to add a beeper for when you exceed the speed limit on all new cars. So that means the cars computer has to be connected to the GPS to find out where you are. For one of my other trucks a few years ago the Ford dealership wanted over $200.00 to update the GPS software. So now to make sure you have the right maps you are going to have to pay for the update or have to listen to the beep which will be tied into your sound system.
FACT.... the state of California will be imposing a tax of up to .30 cents a mile for Electric vehicles. If one drives 10,000 miles a year, they must pay a tax of $3,000 a year. I think the hybrid and perhaps, the plug in EV are the best options . IMO.
The reason all cars are not selling as well is inflation and high borrowing costs. Non electric vehicles are also struggling, most often more so than Tesla.
The Big 3 had a chance to launch a compact EV truck for about $40k but instead their all choosing to bring out $60-100k EV full-size trucks. Jeeps first EV in the US is gonna be the $72k Wagoneer S, meanwhile the European market got the Jeep Avenger EV crossover a year ago and it's reasonably priced in the $30's. Americans are struggling with housing costs 🏡 so a big car payment couldn't come at a worse time
The big 3 see the writing on the wall. They want to repeat Tesla’s success after investing in plug in Hybrids which GM abandoned when it discontinued the Chevy Volt, not to be confused with the full battery electric Bolt, but now are playing catch-up by over compensating with the flawed decision to electrify their largest and most profitable cars. The market is looking for a reasonably priced EV sedan and not these ridiculously huge overweight trucks and SUVs.
Tesla sales are down 7% year over year. This is terrible for Tesla. It happened because they haven't made many improvements in their car in the past 3 years and they're finally meeting demand. This article is inaccurate though because Ford and GM and rivian sales are up quite a bit year over year, more than Tesla's shrinkage
Yeah but it's the Carbon Credits that the automakers are having to buy from Tesla that caused them to go full EV. There is a 6.66 miles per gallon equivalency multiplier applied to EVs. This is why they all went straight to EVs. If you drop the multiplier (which the DOE said was not based on physics - in other words, it is arbitrary) the automakers would not be making the EVs... if anything they would have made hybrids instead (which don't have the arbitrary multiplier). The multiplier single handedly caused all this mess in the auto industry because it affects Carbon Credits.
Yes, EV’s cost more, may have a charging problem for some people who can’t charge at home, are often expensive to repair, and Tesla sales have slowed. However, EV sales are growing overall due to pricing, more EV offerings and improved cars. I drive a Tesla Model Y, and range anxiety is not an issue for me after several trips around the U.S. However, insurance does cost more than comparable ice cars, charging on the road can be expensive and trips take longer with an EV. Overall, we really like driving the Model Y vs a gas car.
EVs are objectively worse than ICE in every meaningful way for the soncumer. Drastically more expensive, less user friendly and depreciate far worse. Rubbish reliability too.
The high end EV market does not work .There is no second hand market for high end EV's , and there are horror story's of deprecation of 50% in the first year . No one will take a trade of an upmarket EV . It can costs more to replace batteries than the car is worth . And new Ev's just keep getting cheaper and better . So what we are learning is that EV's are being treated as a disposable itim, much like a laptop computer , when the battery runs out , it is better to buy the latest model than change the battery in the old model . This means that there is only a market for new cheap EV's that you drive until they stop running . EV's are disposable cars .
*The early adopters were rich and had too much money as well as being gullible to MSM/WEF/GAVI/DAVOS hype. The fact remains most people dont have 40000 to 60000 plus 600 insurance first year and 2000 to 5000 thousand second year...plus the risk of the thing catching fire and needing a 20 meter empty space as well as as 17000 to 34000 for a replacement battery after a fender bender..plus range anxiety. plus time waste on charging plus poor charging infrastructure. Sales have plateaued and now declining sharply*
Car coach must be on the take from the fossil fuel companies. She pull up every debunked trope against EVs. If you are thinking about an EV, talk to an actual EV owner/user. This lady's lies are clever. She does include a bit of truth mixed with lies and distortions. I'd suggest anyone thinking about an EV avoid this fast talker.
i was going to purchase a 2024 chevy blazer ev rwd the dealer said we couldnt get the 7500 tax credit so we ordered a hybrid from hyundai. the chev site says it gets it. seems gm cant get it together. ty
EVs are not for everyone. I do like the concept of EVs and would love to buy one, but the problem is that it has a weak infrastructure that’s designed for homeowners. Mechanics in my area are practically a scam if it’s not through the certified dealership and I don’t do road trips so I would like to call myself an ideal EV owner. Car companies are better off collaborating with electric and EV charging companies to have better availability to charge.
There is only 1 issue. Lack of public chargers. I gave up my Leaf and now drive a PHEV because of the very few chargers in my area and increasing number of EVs. These few chargers are almost always occupied. I would literally be stranded for hours waiting for a charger, and then slow charging because the nearest Superchargers are 50 miles away.
I used to travel a bit for business and rent cars on location. Just with ICE cars alone, every different brand and model operated slightly differently and figuring out how to even get the car moving could be a challenge. Now throw in EVs with fewer or no dials and knobs, and you now have a disaster. I am surprised that there hasn't been more accidents than publicized.
Clearly, you don't understand how the hybrid drive chain works and how refined and reliable it has become over the past 20 years of development. There's a good reason why Toyota can guarantee their hybrid drive chains for 10 years.
@@14lou clearly you don't even know what you are talking about. Its "drivetrain" and the problem lies with 2 systems combined into 1. If one drive system fails the whole system is failed. One cannot operate without the other in working operation. If you had a water heater refrigerator you would lose both systems if one failed. Not very complicated logic. If you care to keep responding to an active professional mechanic that has worked on more vehicles including hybrids than you will ever drive in 40 lifetimes I will consider it to be baseless sperging out about your feelings.
@@14lou a refrigerator that has a pilot light is for recreational vehicles it has no place inside a home. If you had a clue how that works you would understand its not doubling as a furnace. A heat pump takes existing device (AC) and runs the process in reverse. Its not two entirely different systems producing the same outcome.
She did not mention the elephant in the room: those things can spontaneously combust - with you inside!!! It does not need to be charging or in an accident for this [fire] to happen. They burn chemically and/or electrically, so the fires are difficult to extinguish. The batteries can not be disposed in a conventional manner, and they can not be recycled. They involve rare earth materials which involve increased reliance on foreign nations, and the mining and extraction of these toxic materials involve child labor amongst other human rights violations. They also depress the grid (mostly coal-burning plants) where average usage is the heaviest, leading to higher average utility rates in those regions. So much for saving the planet.
The average salary in the city I work in is $28,000, for the county the average for a household is $ 65,000, you can see many can not afford any type of new car let alone an electric one.
How are EV sales increasing when the inventory continues to increase? Another reason they are not selling very well is the depreciation on these vehicles. You can be upside down very quickly.
Lady, you best look at the "PRICE" of these vehicles and then take a peek at what our economy is doing. Then take a look at the Convenience, Build Quality, Insurance Costs, Weather Issues, Fire Hazzard, Depreciation, and Driving Range. Finally look at the unrealistic government mandates. Is it little wonder that our government is incapable of making money, they have no product to sell, they have to rely on the good ole American Taxpayer for their cash.
One extremely big issue is that all car makers including the ICE ones, refuse to make cars that are affordable to the majority. I would buy an ICE car that has no AC, a simple slider control heater and roll up windows immediately if I needed a car. Instead I continue to drive my base model 2009 Honda Civic which has been a bulletproof 100% reliable car.
In the US, all car sales are down. Through May 2024 year to date, all U.S. car sales are down 1 million cars! Gas car sales in the U.S. are down about 3 Million cars from peak sales in 2018 to 2023. This trend is continuing in 2024.
It’s not just EVs that are sitting unsold at dealers, go to your local dealers and take a look. Cars are not shifting across the board, high interest rates make big ticket items harder to sell. Luxury cars at $70k plus will suffer the most, gas or electric.
Let's also not forget some car companies are charging stupid amounts of money for a full battery replacement. 1/2 or almost the full value of the car replacement cost is not unusual. One example is the Hyundai Ionic 5 in Canada, the sub total cost with labour is $56,000 canadian dollars plus you gotta add the 13% tax. Enjoy that bill!
Once again there's that term " Gas Guzzler ". I'm waiting on the delivery of a car that gets 41 miles per gallon. It doesn't " Guzzle ", it sips. Ice cars are a lot more efficient than they used to be.
Americans should embrace the consumer sentiment for ICE cars. Instead of Biden's 100% tariff on Chinese EV cars, the consumers are banning them without government intervention. Sometimes it would be better for the consumers as well as the market itself to decide what is best, and it would certainly push the manufacturers to develop more affordable cars, EV or ICE. The whole thing reads like a Nokia-Microsoft deal from the early 2000s when they wanted to push Microsoft Windows on every mobile device coming from Nokia instead of ancient Symbian which was clunky but worked. People were against it, the same way they were against Microsoft Cloud, which was heavily pushed at the time. People need time to change; give them good options and products that work as well or even better than the original, and they will move. Any other way of pushing the consumer, as if you are punishing them, will result in a revolt.
Sub-par experiences with dealerships???? That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Dealerships are toxic. Stay away. Were you born yesterday? Actually, you're trapped. But there are shops that do warrantee work. Private shops. That should be factored into the equation when you're pondering a purchase. Throw some money at a shop and see what happens. Finding a good shop might be more important than finding a good car. I had to pick up an extra set of keys for a Cadillac we had. I drove into the lot and a hand was wagging out the door with the keys. That's the way to go. No bullshit.
Electric cars are so rich people....most of us, can't afford it. And we always are in a hurry, a five minutes stop at the gas station vs. at least 30 minutes charge time wait if you are lucky to find a workable electric station
Gasoline powered cars are costing more to build every year while EV costs are declining... Eventually everyone will be riding in an EV like it or not. On top of that eventually the EV will be automated and will have no steering wheel.
I make the 130km trip from Vancouver to SE Alberta in c. 16 hours in one day in my Honda Civic. I stop to recharge (pour cheaper American or Alberta gas into my tank from a Gerry can) for about 5 minutes. To do that trip in a BEV it would take me 3 freaking days! No thanks.
How did we get here? The same way we always get ourselves into trouble: Government mandates.
She says "tech lovers" were early adopters. Actually, it was professional managerial class "liberals" who have more money than tech knowledge who have bought them. That market is now saturated.
And a whole lot of media hype. For whatever reason, the media is sick of carrying Elon's water on this. You can only break so many promises and I think the media is sick of taking the brunt of the grief on this, since they were all-in 6 years ago and overlooking a lot of things to tell us how great EVs are. The groupies complain that the media turned on EVs this last December when it got cold across the midwest and the reports of Teslas that wouldn't charge filling parking lots over MLK weekend started hitting. That was kind of a tipping point but there's been a growing rumble for a couple of years now. There's no shortage of consumer problems and lack of support (or rather, the "support" has been "Buy another Tesla!"). One guy took his Tesla out to a quarry and blew it up (literally) because he refused to spring for a $22,000 battery that Tesla should've replaced on warranty, that's a bad look for a car company that claims to have all this figured out and takes care of their customers. Tesla's stock price has fallen 60% since the end of 2021, that's the elephant in the room that just can't be ignored anymore.
I think government is doing the right thing. Global warming due to CO2 is a real thing. And you must not be paying attention because it’s already been shown that the best EV technology can be sold profitably at a price point equal to ICE cars while significantly reducing total emissions.
Pope mandates
Good comment ...
Government's never ask the people what they need but only tell them what they want 😮
Jaguar will be all electric by 2025! The only thing in their showrooms will be light bulbs! Till they are finally turned off.
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Cadillac will be all electric ass well, they did not care about sales. I’m so confused on the obsession with people praying for EV downfall, literally would’ve been all fine if government weirdos weren’t scared of the mandates hiding in their closet
Stupid comment. Jaguar, Volvo, Cadillac and a few others have announced they will be 100% EV in a few years. The light bulb won't go off - but electricity to gasoline pumps will.
@@dzerres Seems unlikely that any of those manufacturers will be 100% EV in a few years, depending upon your definition of “a few”. Smart car makers will adjust as the market demands.
@@garykauffman8618 Correct. And GM offering EV or ICE is ridiculous. Such a stupid company. How do they stay in business?
We got here because politicians are some of the dumbest people you’ll ever meet and auto executives are some of the best sycophants. Everyone thought this would be like forcing us to not use aerosol cans or incandescent light bulbs. It’s not complicated.
Yes, all politicians are totally clueless and dumb. And they think the American people are dumber than them. Vote Trump 2024.
Who misses incandescent bulbs?
And we still have spray cans, just with less harmful propellants.
@@dguy321and just like that - you miss the entire point. Keep believing.
@@dguy321 The new "green" bulbs are far more toxic. It's not about the environment.
My stupid congressman, Thomas Massie, is a Tesla driving "bullish" on EV technology MIT graduate EVidiot.
Living in Florida with a hurricane approaching and 100 miles of stop and go on the interstate will bring range anxiety home.
I was in SW FL during the hurricane, not hte time to own an EV
Meanwhile everyone is filling their tanks with gas, and massive lines. Not sure if that is a relevant argument. Perhaps a hybrid? BYD just launched a 2000km hybrid, New York to Florida non-stop.
I live in Houston, gasoline is one of the first things that run out. After Harvey hit Houston, all of the gas stations in my area were closed for a week. We had power so we relied on my Leaf to buy groceries and supplies where there were any.
6/4/24...#1) WHO CAN AFFORD A NEW CAR IN THIS ECONOMY?
ESP AN EXPENSIVE EV???
I AM RETIRED + LIVING ON SOC SEC
+ TRYING TO BUY FOOD....
#2) HOW CAN PPL CHARGE THEIR EV??? FEW CHARGING STATIONS + DON'T KNOW COST TO CHARGE...
#3) TIRES COST MORE. PARKING LOTS CAN'T SUPPORT WEIGHT OF EVs ON MULTIPLE LEVEL PARKING LOTS....
@@eileeneclark9011, here in Houston there is plenty of public charging available. This is true throughout most of the country.
Charging costs vary from no cost at all to the EV owner for regular level 2 chargers, to ten cents a minute on DC fast chargers. The chargers will inform the EV driver what the per minute charge rate is on the charge station’s OLED screen when you pay to charge. Tesla chargers don’t have a screen display on their superchargers but Tesla owners are informed of the per minute charges through various apps available for your phone.
The weight of an electric vehicle, while heavier that an equivalent has car, will not cause a parking garage to collapse.
How many vehicles in a politicians motorcade are electric? Shouldn't they be leading by example?
More and more police departments are going electric. Do keep up if you're going to comment.
To expensive to buy ,, battery to much to replace , the electric grid won't handle it
Most multi residential housing does not have charging access. The professional managerial governmental class do not want the working class to have private transportation.
Can’t understand how all these car companies didn’t see this coming. Tesla did well when they were pretty much the only game in town but you can’t spread the limited demand across all car companies coming out with multiple ev’s. There’s just not enough demand and everyone should have seen that. I did, and have been predicting this for several years when I saw how many new offerings were coming in the next few years (now).
2 out of 3 correct. They are way too expensive. And the batteries are still too expensive to replace, although that is changing pretty quickly. The grid is fine to handle EVs in most jurisdictions. If you can run AC, or a dryer, or a hot tub, you can handle an EV.
@@dguy321 My electric company puts out a magazine each month and the CEO writes a column occasionally. He said the past 2 years they were forced to remove 4 percent of power generation and you can no longer expect the lights to stay on during heat and cold snaps. Increasing consumption while removing generation does not make sense.
All which you just said. Is false.
When you sell a product that people do not want you deserve to lose money and go out of business.
GM and Chrysler almost went out of business selling a product no one wanted 16 years ago only then they were pushing large SUVs. When GM got bailed out even the Chinese passed on their Hummer division when GzM tried to sell it.
@@orionbetelgeuse1937 The market eventually decides, no matter government mandates.
@@orionbetelgeuse1937 Totalitarianism in any form is temporary.
@@orionbetelgeuse1937 No one lives forever on this earth. The two cited don't have long.
EV sales keep increasing. It's going to get ugly when they are cheaper than ICE and people wise up.
I would never put a giant lithium battery in my garage, and burn down my house.
Gas cars spontaneously combust much more frequently than EVs.
LOL, YUP! They are a death trap self igniting expolsive at 1480 Celcius temps melt concrete and produce 14 Letha gasses from the impossible to put out FIRE.
So is it fair to say you don’t own a laptop or smartphone? They use lithium batteries too.
Like petrol is safe!
@@ankjohnson1 Petrol fires don't spontaneously ignite in the middle of the night and burn your house down while you sleep.
3 Fs on EVs….Fanboys, FleetSales and Freebies ( government subsidies).
The individual car buyers are not buying EVs,
MGUY is correct.
& fires
?
The government has been subsidizing Big Oil since forever.
I have no desire ever to buy an EV ever
EV hatters… I’m sick of this. If you hate EVs, don’t buy anyone - period! But for God sake let us have our own. Peace!
@@Kheyphosyall got your own spaces. We're trying to keep you outta our spaces. And all y'all sh** sitting on these dealer lots rotting
No. You should be shamed for having an EV. You support a country that uses slave labour and deleted young African children to make you wasteful battery.
@@Kheyphos That's what he said! You are welcome to your EVs.
@@14lou and how about you? You are welcome to… what? I mean, what do we have to do with such opinions, favorable or unfavorable to EVs? Who is he, or anyone, to dare to say he likes it or not, this or that? Let us have our own. Got it?
Mguy has a good channel discussing ev lies.
That is virtually ALL he talks about. I may not like electric vehicles myself, but I can only take so much until it sounds like axe grinding.
So much ignorance on this comment section I don’t know where to start. You all talk about fanboys and bad governance and ignore the real problems of the world.
The guy tried to sell off a tank leak on an electric fire truck as an ev failure
@@Globalscanningeyes battery on fire doesn’t matter what started it. It will burn to the ground.
@@nordlandak6853 you are aware that the "tank" I'm talking about is the water tank and battery is sealed and armoured.
The best EV for me is the one I haven't got. 😂🤣
Electric vehicles are not ready for mass users. So many problems. The list of issues goes on and on.
Battery technology still sucks.
I was at Discount Tires and a guy in front of me was quoted $1,600 dollars for a new set of tires for his Tesla Model 3.
WOW!
A set of major brand tires for a Model 3 runs about $1000 at Sam's Club
@@CarCoachReports I work at a tire store in California and in the land of fruits and nuts we have a lot of EVs. $1600.00 - $1800.00 to buy a set of EV tires is pretty normal, but wait, it gets worse. Because of the weight of the vehicle and torque of the electric motors the life expectancy of those tires is about 18,000 to 20,000 miles. But wait there's more! The tires are not repairable which means if they pick up a nail the tire has to be replaced. No tire shop (who wants to stay out of court) will touch an EV tire repair. But, I try to maintain a positive attitude to the customer and I like to remind them of how much they're saving on gas ...they usually shoot me a look like they want to strangle me.
dondenis1500.... Tesla needs new tires every 20,000 to 25,000 miles due to the torque and breaking. NOT GOOD. I pass.... My wife's prius. She gets 45 miles a gallon, and able to get 65,000 miles use on the tires. I drive a ford maverick hybrid. I am getting 45 miles a gallon and 600 plus mile range on a full tank of gas.
My neighbor is done with electric vehicles. he is tired of waiting to charge the Tesla. His next car is a hybrid.
That's because they can. If you get a similar size tire (same or close diameter) you can get them for less than $70 each.
When will car manufacturers (and the Administration!) realize that electric cars are a gimmick? Just like the Cabbage Patch dolls, everybody wanted one until the fad passed. I'll never buy an electric car.
Thry know..its all about kickbacks
Why?
Who is going to rent a car that will only go a hundred miles and you can't use the radio air conditioner or heater because then you can't go anywhere there's such a joke
People that have no choice unfortunately. Most renters don't even give you the option to specify gas anymore. Whatever you reserve - 'or similar' - can be an EV. And if that's all they have left, that's what you'll get. I hate flying, but my biggest fear now is getting stuck with an electric car when I get there.
@@SteveLomas-k6k I know some people don't have a choice I surely would never rent an electric car where I live at 70 me to the New Mexico State line and that's about as far as an electric car wouldn't make it in one day because when it's 100° you got to run the air there goes your battery
Why don't people have a choice when Hertz got rid of their electric cars??? Of course there's a choice..
@@jayfizzle7931 Last year I rented from Hertz and checked a box for gas driven car.
When I got there we walked past dozens of EVs, there were only a few cars with engines left. This year the checkbox was gone, and they told me they couldn't guarantee the car would have an engine in it. Alamo was the only one I found that could.
And bring it back charged!
I'd worry about sitting my children inches above a 1,000 pound lithium battery emanating a magnetic pulse.
.. but not a gas tank. Ford was sued because the passengers in the 1970s era Pinto exploded when the gas tank punctured in a rear end collision. An 11 dollar plastic honeycomb insert between the bumper and the gas tank would have saved lives like in their Canadian made Pintos but it would have raised the cost of the car and Ford’s bean counters calculated that paying the injury claims was cheaper than making the car safe.
@@radiotec76 Learn, you cannot take an exception and apply it generally. Petrol is proving much safer than a BEV battery to date.
Yes, some electric vehicles emit EMF fields that are just as dangerous as microwaves to the human body (non-ionizing radiation, not thermal effects).
@@14lou the National Highway Traffic Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that gasoline cars had 1530 fires per 100,000 and BEVs had 25 per 100,000.
@@radiotec76 ICE cars don't spontaneously explode in flames while you are sleeping and burn your house down.
ICE fires are not difficult to control while BEV fires are uncontrollable.
I wonder if the batteries are being compromised by sitting for 200 days. 🤔
You could ask the same question about gasoline in your gas tank that you then use to run your engine.
@@radiotec76 That's true. But gasoline that turns sour can be changed out for a hundred bucks.
@@Iconoclasher, the battery can be charged too and depending on how much internal battery resistance has reduced the battery pack’s state of charge it should come back to life. I would be more concerned about the condition of the tires and brakes in both.
@@radiotec76 No such dependence applies to non-BEVs.
No one wants those electric golf kart. Hybrid, PHEV and fuel efficient engines are the future. That's why Toyota, Mazda and Subaru are heading in the right direction. While laughing all the way to the bank with all those pre ordered great products.
Well said!
Hybrids are not as simple as ICE cars, because of their extra complexity they are more expensive than ICE vehicles. They are not greener than ICE vehicles nor are they emission free. They have all the same problems as EVs and are not as environmentally as friendly as ICE vehicles. Twenty year old ICE vehicles can be repaired and run as long as parts and fuel exist. A new Hybrid and BEV has a larger carbon footprint than a ICE vehicle. When the battery expires the vehicle is dumped in a landfill. Green policies are a threat to our freedom to travel.
Only 16 years ago all of the accusations against EV’s, limited range, the batteries are toxic, the batteries were costly to replace, the carbon life cycle was greater than a Hummer and they’re expensive to maintain were all leveled against the Toyota Prius by a guy named Art Spinelli. Now no one remembers the false claims and no one knows who Art Spinelli is. If scare mongering against EVs gets people in hybrids that’s OK. The buying public will grow to love electric propulsion.
@@martentrudeau6948 Wrong. Toyota's hybrid drive chain technology is now 20 years in development and has proven to be extremely reliable while delivering great efficiency over ICE-only vehicles. Their batteries use a different chemistry and are a fraction of the size of that in BEVs and due to the conservative nature of charge and discharge rates and levels, they last hundreds of thousands of miles when air filters are properly maintained.
@@14lou ~ Prius Batteries are warrantied for 10 years or 100,000 miles, a replacement battery cost plus labor is more than the car is worth. ICE cars typically can be driven for 200,000 and last 20 years. The ICE car is greener.
The untold story, which has been shelved by other influencers. I am assuming carmakers delayed EVs, because of the reasons highlighted. Tesla forced car makers to change their business models, but to soon realize they have been duped again.
They delayed them because USA EV designs are years behind. And dealers hate EVs, they make their money on service. Also, the compliance cars they quickly came up with suck, compared to the EVs available in the rest of the world. The Chinese have many years' head start on us and they will blow the Big 3 out of existence if they don't get their act together quick. All this anti-EV propaganda, mostly put out by the oil industry, is an attempt to slow adoption down vs. the rest of the world. It will only work for so long.
Tesla does not have any dealers, they sell direct. Tesla usually has about 18 days inventory world wide, much of that is sitting on ships going from China to Europe or Australia or Canada. Tesla showrooms only have a few of each model to offer test drives
What you see on Detroit 3 dealer lots are mainly ICE cars, some have more than 6 months worth of sales sitting on dealer lots.
Gasoline and diesel to the end for myself
No one wants them especially here in Western New York 😉
Or in NYC. That old EV technology worked in the early 1900s there, but it's been eclipsed by superior ICE technology since then and even NYC residents don't want it.
I live in Northern Quebec where it gets to -50 - -60 degress celcius so yeah not gonna happen here we have bears and moose around here too we prefer big trucks.
Odd, there was a 44% increase in EV sales in new York state from 2022-2022. Sales are still increasing. There must be a reason.
@@bobby5678-ck2tcthe rovers on mars are EVs. I think they can handle Quebec. Most cars sold in Norway, also very northern, are EVs.
EVs are available as a choice pretty much everywhere.
@@dguy321 No they don't work here during the winter the closet city is five hours away
Problem is manufacturers spent a Lot of money on tooling and process for EV’s. It may well be the downfall of all of them except Toyota…
Unless EVs win, then the Japanese car industry will be down the toilet.
I don't have a need for an EV. I work from home and I don't want to deal with charging when I'm traveling, nor insalling a charger at my house. However, it would be a different story if I still commuted to work every day.. Several of my friends lease Leafs and use them daily to commute. U.S. auto companies missed an opportunity. They should have been building more inexpensive commuters like the Chevy Bolt and less of their current offerings.
You’re right. The market needed an EV sedan that was reasonable in size and cost. Hyundai may just be the car company to do it. They have announced they’re releasing the Kona for $26,500.00. It gets 280 miles range.
Waste of resources. Batteries should be used for electronics, where there are no alternatives. Cars are already solved successfully.
Great info.l would buy a hybrid, but not a plug-in. Thank you.
For some reason the EV idiots hate Hybrids. Its all about money. I would buy a Hybrid but love my gas guzzler so I'm happy and good to go on Gasoline -:)
@@danklein8587 Hybrids are the worst of both worlds. Expensive and complicated, and still need servicing.
There’s no transition and there’s no need for one.
Keep your horse.
My generation of men find you attractive for your intelligence and your fine looks!
So EVs are not moving but we have to slap a 100 percent tax on Chinese EVs because,… nobody’s buying them? Sounds more like the 1970s during the Arab oil embargo when Japan cleaned Detroit’s clock out with cheap reliable high fuel mileage economy cars while Detroit’s offerings, the constantly under repair Chevy Vega and the exploding Ford Pinto, weren’t even serious competition to Toyota and Honda. Now BYD is about to repeat Toyota and Honda’s experience.
When they build their Mexico plant and invade here, the USA better be ready with decent small EVs or they're screwed. That's when mainstream adoption will hit them hard.,
Now that customers are rejecting EVs, it now comes down to how hard the Democrats want to double down on their Orwellian EV dream. Do they increase fines on automakers who sell ICE vehicles? Do they slap exorbitant taxes on people who buy ICE vehicles? People need to understand that it was government that mandated these EVs and the mess we are in now, not the automakers.
Mandates are what got the EV market to where it's at today. Let the market not mandates determine the success or fate of the EV. You said it well: "You pick what is best for you!" Obviously, the market has spoken.
One advantage of a Tesla, I avoid stealerships altogether.
for a long time I was interested in EVs.. but the crazy government mandates and many manufacturers treating this like a gold rush but the undisclosed disastrous cost of EV ownership has turned me off completely.
The snap that happened to crash the market was news stations actually reporting the cost of EV's.
You can look at it as Before Hyundai and After Hyundai. The EV crash started around the time of the Canadian man needing to pay $50k for a small fender bender.
I am tech savvy. I am a software engineer, but I also understand physics. So I didn't go EV because they are not impressed or cool. They are a horrible idea.
They need to fire Volvo's CEO for putting the cart in front of the horse and ruining the brand.
I will stick to my 1961 Mercury Comet , and 1958 Chevy truck.
BEVs suck.
🤡Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Ever owned or driven one
Why?
@@opencarry3860 Some do, just like gas cars. Teslas don’t.
EVs aren't "fun" and are generally too heavy for enthusiast type drivers. The only way to bring EV weight down is to bring the battery size down. Take the battery size down and you lose range. Nobody wants to carve up mountain roads out in BFE here in WNC in an overweight car and questionable charging.
Another thing is drivers that own cars for the sole purpose of "driving" want a car "they" control and interact with. My God, there are already plenty of drivers that go borderline apoplectic over the thinning herd of manual transmissions, those folk aren't going to be easy to shove into nearly one pedal driving.
They COULD make an interactive EV, but it would be heavier than even a standard EV by employing things like a manual transmission. However, if they do things like that it would completely ruin the EVs "efficiency". Which is the whole point of EVs to begin with. There isn't going to be an Electric car that will fit in the Lotus Elise/Mazda Miata category anytime soon.
My question is what happens to the electric car long term if left in a storage field once the wildlife starts chewing at them ... is this going to be a big environment problem.
When charging at a charging station are all the vehicles being charged are at full speed or is the wattage split between the vehicles being charged
I'm pretty sure there's enough power to run all chargers at full speed.
@@caldodge No, charging stations piles are splitted (one charging station could have multiple charging piles which total capacity is splitted to all charging piles).
It depends on the chargers. The newer Tesla superchargers give you the full wattage. The older ones drop in half when a 2nd car plugs in. The level 2 "Charge Points" drop in half as well.
And let’s remember the creepy stories about the cobalt mines.
Let's buy LFP batteries with no cobalt.
How can anyone be so wrong and still have any self respect.
With the high level of depreciation on EVs, many Americans have found themselves in a situation where their EV is worth less than their loan amount.
Toyota is the only car company not making EV's, smart very smart
Great video Lauren! Basically a summery of everything we're hearing around the horn and though the grapevine. EV's were over hyped to hell and back.
I had someone ask me why I didn't get rid of my 1999 Silverado. "Simple when I take my truck in for an oil change I walk the lot. There are no trucks for under $70,000 that does what it can." This channel recently pointed out California was going to force auto makers to add a beeper for when you exceed the speed limit on all new cars. So that means the cars computer has to be connected to the GPS to find out where you are. For one of my other trucks a few years ago the Ford dealership wanted over $200.00 to update the GPS software. So now to make sure you have the right maps you are going to have to pay for the update or have to listen to the beep which will be tied into your sound system.
FACT.... the state of California will be imposing a tax of up to .30 cents a mile for Electric vehicles. If one drives 10,000 miles a year, they must pay a tax of $3,000 a year. I think the hybrid and perhaps, the plug in EV are the best options . IMO.
YIKES!
No, the proposed tax would typically work out to around *_3 cents_* per mile. That would be $300 per 10,000 miles.
The reason all cars are not selling as well is inflation and high borrowing costs. Non electric vehicles are also struggling, most often more so than Tesla.
I had to wait 18 months for my RAV4 hybrid, such is the demand vs supply.
The Big 3 had a chance to launch a compact EV truck for about $40k but instead their all choosing to bring out $60-100k EV full-size trucks. Jeeps first EV in the US is gonna be the $72k Wagoneer S, meanwhile the European market got the Jeep Avenger EV crossover a year ago and it's reasonably priced in the $30's. Americans are struggling with housing costs 🏡 so a big car payment couldn't come at a worse time
The big 3 see the writing on the wall. They want to repeat Tesla’s success after investing in plug in Hybrids which GM abandoned when it discontinued the Chevy Volt, not to be confused with the full battery electric Bolt, but now are playing catch-up by over compensating with the flawed decision to electrify their largest and most profitable cars. The market is looking for a reasonably priced EV sedan and not these ridiculously huge overweight trucks and SUVs.
EVs should be an option - not a mandate in order to buy a vehicle. Nothing is a bigger turnoff than the government telling you what to buy.
Could be why I'm voting Trump 2024.
Tesla sales are down 7% year over year. This is terrible for Tesla. It happened because they haven't made many improvements in their car in the past 3 years and they're finally meeting demand. This article is inaccurate though because Ford and GM and rivian sales are up quite a bit year over year, more than Tesla's shrinkage
Yeah but it's the Carbon Credits that the automakers are having to buy from Tesla that caused them to go full EV.
There is a 6.66 miles per gallon equivalency multiplier applied to EVs. This is why they all went straight to EVs. If you drop the multiplier (which the DOE said was not based on physics - in other words, it is arbitrary) the automakers would not be making the EVs... if anything they would have made hybrids instead (which don't have the arbitrary multiplier). The multiplier single handedly caused all this mess in the auto industry because it affects Carbon Credits.
That is correct. I have covered that in the past.
Yes, EV’s cost more, may have a charging problem for some people who can’t charge at home, are often expensive to repair, and Tesla sales have slowed. However, EV sales are growing overall due to pricing, more EV offerings and improved cars. I drive a Tesla Model Y, and range anxiety is not an issue for me after several trips around the U.S. However, insurance does cost more than comparable ice cars, charging on the road can be expensive and trips take longer with an EV. Overall, we really like driving the Model Y vs a gas car.
EVs are objectively worse than ICE in every meaningful way for the soncumer. Drastically more expensive, less user friendly and depreciate far worse. Rubbish reliability too.
@@teamfamza9821 Good story, bro. I guess your mind is made up, no use bothering you with facts.
@jamesvandamme7786 What is wrong about that statement?
The substandard stainless body panels on the Cyber truck are rusting! Talk about an ugly looking mess.
I own an EV and I don’t like that Damnation Ally Vehicle.
It is not rust, but rust particles stuck on it. U get that with any cars too, just u are not looking for it
The high end EV market does not work .There is no second hand market for high end EV's , and there are horror story's of deprecation of 50% in the first year . No one will take a trade of an upmarket EV .
It can costs more to replace batteries than the car is worth . And new Ev's just keep getting cheaper and better .
So what we are learning is that EV's are being treated as a disposable itim, much like a laptop computer , when the battery runs out , it is better to buy the latest model than change the battery in the old model .
This means that there is only a market for new cheap EV's that you drive until they stop running . EV's are disposable cars .
*The early adopters were rich and had too much money as well as being gullible to MSM/WEF/GAVI/DAVOS hype. The fact remains most people dont have 40000 to 60000 plus 600 insurance first year and 2000 to 5000 thousand second year...plus the risk of the thing catching fire and needing a 20 meter empty space as well as as 17000 to 34000 for a replacement battery after a fender bender..plus range anxiety. plus time waste on charging plus poor charging infrastructure. Sales have plateaued and now declining sharply*
Car coach must be on the take from the fossil fuel companies. She pull up every debunked trope against EVs. If you are thinking about an EV, talk to an actual EV owner/user. This lady's lies are clever. She does include a bit of truth mixed with lies and distortions. I'd suggest anyone thinking about an EV avoid this fast talker.
i was going to purchase a 2024 chevy blazer ev rwd the dealer said we couldnt get the 7500 tax credit so we ordered a hybrid from hyundai. the chev site says it gets it. seems gm cant get it together. ty
What utter nonsense! Norway has 90% EV sales. Sure its a small country, but Sweden next door with a population of 15 million has 50% EV sales.
"In December 2023, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) made up 38.9% of new car sales in Sweden, while plugin hybrids (PHEVs) made up 24.2%." (Google AI)
Do you have any videos about the best SUVs, crossovers and cars regarding fuel economy that are hybrids?
I cover every vehicle - we do individual reviews. There is some really nice vehicles available, Be sure to check insurance rates before deciding.
@@CarCoachReports ok thanks
Excellent Straight no nonsense talk!
Also what about people who live on city with no garages or driveways and have to park on the street? How do they charge while it’s parked?
EVs are not for everyone. I do like the concept of EVs and would love to buy one, but the problem is that it has a weak infrastructure that’s designed for homeowners.
Mechanics in my area are practically a scam if it’s not through the certified dealership and I don’t do road trips so I would like to call myself an ideal EV owner.
Car companies are better off collaborating with electric and EV charging companies to have better availability to charge.
High insurance. Too much for repair. Many mechanics don't have any idea on them
Government still has the authority to force EVs on everyone.
There is only 1 issue. Lack of public chargers. I gave up my Leaf and now drive a PHEV because of the very few chargers in my area and increasing number of EVs. These few chargers are almost always occupied. I would literally be stranded for hours waiting for a charger, and then slow charging because the nearest Superchargers are 50 miles away.
I used to travel a bit for business and rent cars on location. Just with ICE cars alone, every different brand and model operated slightly differently and figuring out how to even get the car moving could be a challenge. Now throw in EVs with fewer or no dials and knobs, and you now have a disaster. I am surprised that there hasn't been more accidents than publicized.
Hybrid proves all the problems of electric, gas and the combination of both.
Imagine your hot water heater being paired with your refrigerator.
Clearly, you don't understand how the hybrid drive chain works and how refined and reliable it has become over the past 20 years of development. There's a good reason why Toyota can guarantee their hybrid drive chains for 10 years.
@@webreakforsquirrel4201 You mean like the off-grid kerosine fridge of old or the modern heat pump?
@@14lou clearly you don't even know what you are talking about. Its "drivetrain" and the problem lies with 2 systems combined into 1. If one drive system fails the whole system is failed. One cannot operate without the other in working operation. If you had a water heater refrigerator you would lose both systems if one failed. Not very complicated logic. If you care to keep responding to an active professional mechanic that has worked on more vehicles including hybrids than you will ever drive in 40 lifetimes I will consider it to be baseless sperging out about your feelings.
@@14lou a refrigerator that has a pilot light is for recreational vehicles it has no place inside a home. If you had a clue how that works you would understand its not doubling as a furnace. A heat pump takes existing device (AC) and runs the process in reverse. Its not two entirely different systems producing the same outcome.
She did not mention the elephant in the room: those things can spontaneously combust - with you inside!!! It does not need to be charging or in an accident for this [fire] to happen. They burn chemically and/or electrically, so the fires are difficult to extinguish. The batteries can not be disposed in a conventional manner, and they can not be recycled. They involve rare earth materials which involve increased reliance on foreign nations, and the mining and extraction of these toxic materials involve child labor amongst other human rights violations. They also depress the grid (mostly coal-burning plants) where average usage is the heaviest, leading to higher average utility rates in those regions. So much for saving the planet.
The average salary in the city I work in is $28,000, for the county the average for a household is $ 65,000, you can see many can not afford any type of new car let alone an electric one.
I'd rather show up late with an Audi E-Tron GT on a flat bed than show up early driving a Tesla. They're ugly.
In New Jersey Tesla is alive and well . plus a lot of mis information
About electric cars. 😢
If EVs where a good investment people would buy them. Preaching from EV fanatics won't alter the facts
How are EV sales increasing when the inventory continues to increase? Another reason they are not selling very well is the depreciation on these vehicles. You can be upside down very quickly.
Lady, you best look at the "PRICE" of these vehicles and then take a peek at what our economy is doing. Then take a look at the Convenience, Build Quality, Insurance Costs, Weather Issues, Fire Hazzard, Depreciation, and Driving Range. Finally look at the unrealistic government mandates. Is it little wonder that our government is incapable of making money, they have no product to sell, they have to rely on the good ole American Taxpayer for their cash.
One extremely big issue is that all car makers including the ICE ones, refuse to make cars that are affordable to the majority. I would buy an ICE car that has no AC, a simple slider control heater and roll up windows immediately if I needed a car. Instead I continue to drive my base model 2009 Honda Civic which has been a bulletproof 100% reliable car.
I rented a Model Y from Hertz to drive in Texas and loved it !
We have one at home and it will be our second car as well.
In the US, all car sales are down.
Through May 2024 year to date, all U.S. car sales are down 1 million cars!
Gas car sales in the U.S. are down about 3 Million cars from peak sales in 2018 to 2023.
This trend is continuing in 2024.
It’s not just EVs that are sitting unsold at dealers, go to your local dealers and take a look. Cars are not shifting across the board, high interest rates make big ticket items harder to sell. Luxury cars at $70k plus will suffer the most, gas or electric.
Let's also not forget some car companies are charging stupid amounts of money for a full battery replacement. 1/2 or almost the full value of the car replacement cost is not unusual.
One example is the Hyundai Ionic 5 in Canada, the sub total cost with labour is $56,000 canadian dollars plus you gotta add the 13% tax.
Enjoy that bill!
Thank you. 🙏
Hell, yeah you’re 100% right rock on!
"China will be the dominant global player in the transportation sectors of the future." ~Bloomberg Technology
About as much appeal as an electric Jet ski
And yet… People keep buying them, sales climbing upward and continuing to set new records. I wonder why that is?
@@Zobeid $50k per unit in government subsidies.
@@aliendroneservices6621 And they are starting to run out of other people's money.
EVs are an integral part of the up and coming control grid.
Now that's nearer to the truth!
I can see EVs being good as a second car for going to and from work and to run errands on weekends around town but not much more than that.
Fact: 3M public chargers in China, 180K in US. Both similar physical size.
Same EV selling half the price in China vs US.
But, what will happen to the EV's if they continue to sit on lots? Who will blink first, the manufacturers or buyers?
Once again there's that term " Gas Guzzler ". I'm waiting on the delivery of a car that gets 41 miles per gallon. It doesn't " Guzzle ", it sips. Ice cars are a lot more efficient than they used to be.
My RAV4 hybrid gets 40 mpg on a bad day and up to 50 MPG.
ICE cars last 30 years. EVs last only 5 years. So EVs are 10 times more expensive.
My fuel cars fit all my needs. Short range to long range and anything in between.
Absolutely no need for the added expense of an EV.
Americans should embrace the consumer sentiment for ICE cars. Instead of Biden's 100% tariff on Chinese EV cars, the consumers are banning them without government intervention. Sometimes it would be better for the consumers as well as the market itself to decide what is best, and it would certainly push the manufacturers to develop more affordable cars, EV or ICE. The whole thing reads like a Nokia-Microsoft deal from the early 2000s when they wanted to push Microsoft Windows on every mobile device coming from Nokia instead of ancient Symbian which was clunky but worked. People were against it, the same way they were against Microsoft Cloud, which was heavily pushed at the time. People need time to change; give them good options and products that work as well or even better than the original, and they will move. Any other way of pushing the consumer, as if you are punishing them, will result in a revolt.
Sub-par experiences with dealerships???? That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Dealerships are toxic. Stay away. Were you born yesterday? Actually, you're trapped. But there are shops that do warrantee work. Private shops. That should be factored into the equation when you're pondering a purchase. Throw some money at a shop and see what happens. Finding a good shop might be more important than finding a good car.
I had to pick up an extra set of keys for a Cadillac we had. I drove into the lot and a hand was wagging out the door with the keys. That's the way to go. No bullshit.
Electric cars are so rich people....most of us, can't afford it. And we always are in a hurry, a five minutes stop at the gas station vs. at least 30 minutes charge time wait if you are lucky to find a workable electric station
Lauren, you are the BEST! I know I don't say it enough but you are a national treasure! So knowledgeable and you NEVER back down!❤
Thank you so much ! 😊
@@CarCoachReports You're SO welcome!
Gasoline powered cars are costing more to build every year while EV costs are declining... Eventually everyone will be riding in an EV like it or not. On top of that eventually the EV will be automated and will have no steering wheel.
I make the 130km trip from Vancouver to SE Alberta in c. 16 hours in one day in my Honda Civic. I stop to recharge (pour cheaper American or Alberta gas into my tank from a Gerry can) for about 5 minutes. To do that trip in a BEV it would take me 3 freaking days! No thanks.