You obviously haven't been to The Villages in Florida. What people don't want is unelected bureaucrats with totalitarian impulses pushing battery electric power trains as the only acceptable solution. To make things even worse, they push batteries with certain chemistries from our global adversaries as an essential ingredient. Harsh regulatory timelines are then implemented to hinder alternatives.People don't want them!
It's over. The foreseeable future is ICE or hybrids. The EV experiment has failed. People don't want them!
Infrastructure is not up to snuff and policies can and according to recent reports will be changed.EPA is about to announce a major crack down on ICE in the coming days. Just sayin
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said the rules would harm the American economy, threaten jobs and raise prices while undermining the U.S. electricity grid. Coleman also said there is very little consumer interest in electric vehicles in his state.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey called the rules "legally flawed and unrealistic, to say the least."
Other states that joined the suit included: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. Of course, the EPA declined to comment.
Ionna (the 7 automaker network Stellantis is apart of) could use the workers..The big news from this past week is that Tesla laid off most of the staff overseeing their charging network. Nearly five hundred people were let go. The company also said they will be cutting back on expansion plans to concentrate on improving existing facilities. One of the people who was pink slipped was the liaison working with other automakers who were going to share the network. Now no one is answering the phone.
The logic for battery electric vehicles has always been when the charging network is in place, people will then buy an EV. The business case for a public charging company is to invest when there are sufficient EV owners for a potential return on investment.
...we crown a new #1 who isn't exclusively BEV but is nonetheless a juggernaut in the space with constant new model releases.And when the #1 EV maker on the planet realizes it’s a dead end…….