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On the last question, regardless of your stance on evs, the only reason they exist is legislation. No company on the planet would of put forward the amount of R&D needed to develop evs if legislation wasnt forcing their hand. Legislation is objectively going to ban combustion engines in the future unless theres major political changes on a global level, every first world country seems to be dead set on making combustion engines history for whatever reason, good or bad. And numbers are showing how consumers are responding to evs, outside of California, southern NY, and major cities in states like Texas and AZ, evs are non existent, dealers wont even order them and if you ask theyll simply say no. I'm in NY and it took me 7 hyundai dealers to find one that would even order my ioniq in 2020, and I had to be practically in the city. EVs also have the highest return rate in history of any car, especially since most dealers have to offer a 7 day x mile money back guarantee to even get an ev sale out the door, and many dealers have a problem of the cars coming back. Also QC and reliability is a major concern as ev manufacturers are cutting corners everywhere they can, recalls are ramped and theyre usually not small/cheap fixes. My Hyundai needed the onboard 12v inverter replaced because it kept killing the 12v aux battery, that was a 2200 dollar job per the warranty reciept (they paid for of course, but out of warranty that would of hurt). Ford having to drop the whole battery pack to replace the starter relay because it was grossly undersized for the current is another prime example. And I owned an ev, this isnt some redneck from kentucky who wont drive anything but a 98 dodge cummins. I had a 2020 ioniq ev, which i adored. I got into a minor accdient where someone drove into my door. The insurance company didnt even look at the car, they just totalled it same day and cut a check for top value, citing they refuse to put their name to an ev thats in an accident for fear of lithium fires. This is anecdotal of course, but its what actually happened. Notice not a single thought about range, charging, cold weather, or any of the other fear mongering stuff that usually goes around. These are all actual issues and legitimatly good reasons to not want an ev, and personally I went with a lexus hybrid as a replacement. I bought it used with 115k miles and ive put another 8k on it so far and it drives like new, and it gets 40mpg which cost only like 15% more in gas vs my ioniq costed in electric.
The BEV push is the first major push to change auto propulsion in a century and doing it all at once is less expensive than lingering it out where manufacturers have to produce multiple forms of propulsion instead of just a single one. Also China is almost a decade ahead of everyone and will close all auto manufacturing where they go under cutting them in cost. If Lexus offered a plug-in hybrid like my 2018 CT6 2.0E plug-in that gets over 100 mpg average over 60k miles and got a fed tax credit.
It's a shame Alex Doesn't know that Elon said Tesla is investing 500 million in growing the supercharger network this year. Gotta keep up on the news, or maybe not comment on it !
On the last question, regardless of your stance on evs, the only reason they exist is legislation. No company on the planet would of put forward the amount of R&D needed to develop evs if legislation wasnt forcing their hand. Legislation is objectively going to ban combustion engines in the future unless theres major political changes on a global level, every first world country seems to be dead set on making combustion engines history for whatever reason, good or bad.
And numbers are showing how consumers are responding to evs, outside of California, southern NY, and major cities in states like Texas and AZ, evs are non existent, dealers wont even order them and if you ask theyll simply say no. I'm in NY and it took me 7 hyundai dealers to find one that would even order my ioniq in 2020, and I had to be practically in the city. EVs also have the highest return rate in history of any car, especially since most dealers have to offer a 7 day x mile money back guarantee to even get an ev sale out the door, and many dealers have a problem of the cars coming back.
Also QC and reliability is a major concern as ev manufacturers are cutting corners everywhere they can, recalls are ramped and theyre usually not small/cheap fixes. My Hyundai needed the onboard 12v inverter replaced because it kept killing the 12v aux battery, that was a 2200 dollar job per the warranty reciept (they paid for of course, but out of warranty that would of hurt). Ford having to drop the whole battery pack to replace the starter relay because it was grossly undersized for the current is another prime example.
And I owned an ev, this isnt some redneck from kentucky who wont drive anything but a 98 dodge cummins. I had a 2020 ioniq ev, which i adored. I got into a minor accdient where someone drove into my door. The insurance company didnt even look at the car, they just totalled it same day and cut a check for top value, citing they refuse to put their name to an ev thats in an accident for fear of lithium fires. This is anecdotal of course, but its what actually happened.
Notice not a single thought about range, charging, cold weather, or any of the other fear mongering stuff that usually goes around. These are all actual issues and legitimatly good reasons to not want an ev, and personally I went with a lexus hybrid as a replacement. I bought it used with 115k miles and ive put another 8k on it so far and it drives like new, and it gets 40mpg which cost only like 15% more in gas vs my ioniq costed in electric.
The BEV push is the first major push to change auto propulsion in a century and doing it all at once is less expensive than lingering it out where manufacturers have to produce multiple forms of propulsion instead of just a single one. Also China is almost a decade ahead of everyone and will close all auto manufacturing where they go under cutting them in cost.
If Lexus offered a plug-in hybrid like my 2018 CT6 2.0E plug-in that gets over 100 mpg average over 60k miles and got a fed tax credit.
It's a shame Alex Doesn't know that Elon said Tesla is investing 500 million in growing the supercharger network this year. Gotta keep up on the news, or maybe not comment on it !