The future is EV??

[TripleT]

Guess what, for battery electric vehicles to have a future, new battery chemistries are needed. For new battery chemistries to be possible, there needs to be real world testing. The best way to provide real world testing is with hybrid power trains. This is because hybrids offer more charging and discharging cycles in a given time period.

Hybrid vehicles have smaller battery packs which are more easily serviceable and replaceable. This is another reason engineers want to use hybrids first for the next generation of batteries. ICE bans will burn a bridge to the future before we cross the chasm. Will consumers prefer a pure EV if a plug-in hybrid with a 200 kilometer range is available? Without any government interference, we will probably see 200 kilometer PHEVs on the market before a practical nationwide high speed charging network actually becomes a reality in America. How many municipalities will cheap out and offer level 2 charging stations, as many already have?

The rapid timeline to "zero emissions" being forced by politicians does not match up with the realities of science and engineering. The battery electric panacea is a fantasy. Don't get me wrong on this. Small electric urban vehicles make a great deal of sense. Battery electric commercial vehicles are highly anticipated because they offer a practical efficient solution for many businesses. I highly doubt battery electric 18 wheelers will become popular in a free market, not when CNG and LNG offer a practical near zero alternative to diesel at lower cost.

NY state just banned Natural gas heating for NY you know including upstate .... people wont be able to heat a new home reasonably.

 

[James.A]

My friend managed to procure a Wrangler 4xe while on a trip this week. He's an old school muscle car/Jeep guy who grimaces and grunts at the mention of doing away with Hemi's and going to smaller turbo or electric anything. That being said, he loves the 4xe. Says it hauls and gets great MPG so far. Wants to trade in his 2020 GC for it but the price tag is a bit too steep. Gotta say something like that in Charger/ Chally might not be bad if the price is right... Imagine an I6 version?... But they'd better not make us wiait until 2025. I'm hoping the production cars debut this summer and order banks open so I can get my R/T order in. I wish I could get a 5.7 but I'll take a S.O. hurricane 6 ASAP.

 

[VANISHING POINT #1]

NY state just banned Natural gas heating for NY you know including upstate .... people wont be able to heat a new home reasonably.

Go to Wyoming. They want to enact a law to ban the sales of EV's by 2035.

Saw a Go Mango SP on showroom floor which was a regular body (Non WB) with adaptive suspension, Dynamic Package, brass gold monkey wheels?-UGLYsunroof-I don't want this option as it is just something else to go wrong, carbon fiber interior-YES!, best of all it had the "shaker option" but it had the Alpine stereo system not the JBL with 18 speakers.
Anyway Asking was $72,000+ I wanted it even though it had a broken door handle on driver side. (They said that part is on order) The lowest I could get them down was to on this SP shaker car was $67,000
No more cars can be ordered direct from factory. The few allocations they have left coming in from factory are not to my liking or even close to this car on the floor which has been there for quite some time as it was covered in dust inside and out.
I don't know why they don't keep this beautiful car CLEAN n polished since it is inside showroom.

 

[TripleT]

Go to Wyoming. They want to enact a law to ban the sales of EV's by 2035.

Saw a Go Mango SP on showroom floor which was a regular body (Non WB) with adaptive suspension, Dynamic Package, brass gold monkey wheels?-UGLYsunroof-I don't want this option as it is just something else to go wrong, carbon fiber interior-YES!, best of all it had the "shaker option" but it had the Alpine stereo system not the JBL with 18 speakers.
Anyway Asking was $72,000+ I wanted it even though it had a broken door handle on driver side. (They said that part is on order) The lowest I could get them down was to on this SP shaker car was $67,000
No more cars can be ordered direct from factory. The few allocations they have left coming in from factory are not to my liking or even close to this car on the floor which has been there for quite some time as it was covered in dust inside and out.
I don't know why they don't keep this beautiful car CLEAN n polished since it is inside showroom.

You can't call oneself a free state and then Ban things either way.... Just as much BS that Wyoming would bad stuff. Leave it to the consumer.

 

[patfromigh]

One of the most conservative areas in the USA (based on voting preferences) is the Villages in Florida. They arguably have the highest concentration of neighborhood electric vehicles in the country. One would be surprised how many ex-California compliance EVs ended up in places line Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas when the snowbirds discovered they make a great dingy behind the RV.

Politicians make lousy engineers. They should not be the ones deciding which technologies should be advancing over others.

 

[TripleT]

One of the most conservative areas in the USA (based on voting preferences) is the Villages in Florida. They arguably have the highest concentration of neighborhood electric vehicles in the country. One would be surprised how many ex-California compliance EVs ended up in places line Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas when the snowbirds discovered they make a great dingy behind the RV.

Politicians make lousy engineers. They should not be the ones deciding which technologies should be advancing over others.

They also make lousy politicians

 

[patfromigh]

More clean energy news. I hope this isn't too political.

 

[TripleT]

Nuclear is the only option.