All posts tagged: Electric vehicles

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The real reasons people are dumping ‘soulless’ EVs

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Private electric vehicle sales are falling dramatically around the world. In fact, private sales have fallen 25% in Britain in January 2024, compared to the same month last year. The only thing pumping up the numbers are government purchases. Even rental car companies are staring to dump their EVs, because no one wants to rent them. While environmental fanatics like to blame Mr. Bean, yes Mr. Bean, for the decline, the owners of EVs say there are multiple reasons why they are not replacing their EVs with a second electrical vehicle, the Daily Mail reports. First is the dramatic drop in the used value of the vehicles, which is not based on the condition of the vehicle or the number of miles you have driven, but rather the age of the batteries. One owner said he bought his EV brand new two years for £38,000 and having only driven it for 14,000 miles (ca. 22,531 km) and two years, it is now worth only £18,000. Others state that the insurance for their EV has doubled. …

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Why is Hertz selling off nearly a third of its electric cars?

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Hertz, one of America’s largest car rental companies, announced that it is selling off nearly 20,000 electric vehicles (EVs) and replacing them with gas-powered ones, Breitbart reports. At the same time, Hertz stated it may also delay the future purchase of EVs from GM and Polestar. This amounts to a dramatic change when Hertz announced with much fanfare that it was purchasing 100,000 EVs in 2021. One of the reasons for the sell-off of nearly a third of its EV fleet was due to declining interest in renting electric vehicles. As well, Hertz also cited the dramatic costs associated with repairing EVs after minor accidents, which it said are double that of gas vehicles. In recent years, there have been several reports of problems associated with EV battery packs as a result of minor accidents that can result in a higher repair bill than it cost to purchase the vehicle. A Canadian man from British Columbia was recently told that the price to replace the damaged battery pack in his Hyundai was $46,000US ($61,000Cdn). He …

Electric vehicles cause twice as much damage to roads than their gas equivalents

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While gas-powered vehicles still have to pay gas taxes to maintain a country’s road system, electric vehicles (EVs) continue to be exempt from paying these taxes. However, a new study found that because of their significantly heavier weight due to the batteries, EVs are causing twice as much damage to roads than their gas vehicle equivalent, Breitbart reports. The study conducted by Britain’s University of Leeds found that EVs cause 2.24 times more damage to roads than petrol-powered vehicles and that could reach 2.32 times for larger EVs. Electric vehicles also cause 1.98 times more damage than diesel. The study determined that an EVs’ heavier weight causes significantly more stress cracks in the pavement resulting in a faster deterioration of the roads. READ: Study: Heavy Electric Vehicles Cause TWICE the Road Damage than Their Petrol Equivalents

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It costs more to charge an EV, than fill a gas-powered vehicle in Britain

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People promoting electric vehicles told us that they were cheaper to operate than gas powered vehicles. Well, that green dream may soon be coming to an end. A British study says it is now cheaper to fill up a gas-powered car in England than an electric one as the price of electricity in that country has soared, The Telegraph reports. According to a report by AA, electric vehicles cost more per mile to operate than gas-powered vehicle, a difference of 16.18 pence per mile for an EV compared to 14.45 pence per mile for gas. This is the equivalent of £10 more per fill. And with the British government considering a ban on the sale of petrol vehicles over the next few years, the demand for and cost of electricity will only continue to rise. READ: Nolte: Brits Pay More to Charge Electric Car than to Gas Up AND New peak rates mean charging electric cars more expensive than petrol Toppling windmills On a related note, the unreliability and ultimately the cost of green energy …

Will we all soon be needing a horse and cart?

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If I understand the global warming cult correctly, we need to go electric in order to save the planet. If we do that, then according to their propaganda, the world will start cooling off. This is why woke, left-wing governments, with not a lick of commonsense, are legislating an end to gas-powered vehicles. READ: U.S. government to end gas-powered vehicle purchases by 2035 under Biden order AND Goodbye gasoline cars? EU lawmakers vote to ban new sales from 2035 But here is the problem, electric-powered vehicles of every type hate cold weather, so that means these problems will only get worse if the world starts cooling. Apparently, a city’s electric LRT system was completely taken out by an ice storm. READ: Update: LRT service won’t be fully restored until at least Tuesday Another man complained that his Tesla wouldn’t charge because the weather was too cold, causing him to miss a Christmas celebration. READ: Tesla owner says he had to cancel Christmas plans because car would not charge in freezing weather And we shouldn’t forget …

Toyota CEO says car manufacturers are not sold on electric vehicles

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With politicians being driven by a green agenda, there seems to be a complete lack of common sense in what is taking place. Several governments are already legislating an end to the sale of gas-powered vehicles in their jurisdictions over the next decade or so. Meanwhile, car manufacturers, the ones who actually know what they are doing, are suggesting it is a bad idea. While on a visit to Thailand, Akio Toyoda, the head of Toyota, recently commented that he remains skeptical of the push towards only producing electric vehicles, the Daily Wire reports. He said that most working in the car industry agree with him but are too scared to speak out. “People involved in the auto industry are largely a silent majority,” Toyoda said. “That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK to have as a single option. But they think it’s the trend so they can’t speak out loudly.” He added that the infrastructure, technology, and economics are not in place for such a radical shift. Elon Musk, the CEO …

The problem with electric vehicles

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Many woke governments have dived headlong into electric vehicles (EV), often providing subsidies to companies that manufacture them and to anyone who would purchase one. Of course, it is being done in the name of saving the world from man-made global warming. But they have failed to perform one of the most basic checks when diving into an unknown pool: How deep is the water? Not very, according to an article in the Financial Post: The Achilles’ heel of vehicle electrification is the lithium-ion battery, an inefficient, costly and vulnerable energy-storage system plagued by issues of weight, energy density, low performance in cold weather and grid adequacy — and now also by skyrocketing prices of the key minerals it requires: lithium, cobalt and nickel. The electric mobility paradigm needs to be recognized for what it has been: a technical and fiscal flop. It should be shelved before it precipitates a serious meltdown of the automotive industry. READ: Opinion: Do electric cars ever emerge from policy intensive care?: The electric mobility paradigm needs to be recognized …