It's embarrassing to see the EV infrastructure in the US compare to China. China currently has 10.2 millions EV chargers installed. The US has 161,562 EV charger installed. This is why EV sales in the US are plummet. On top of this, half of the charging stations in the US are not working or broken. WTF.
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friday night fights at the charger ports:
https://www.theautopian.com/tesla-owners-are-being-a-little-hypocritical-when-it-comes-to-charger-access/
You mean increased dependence and accelerated depletion of existing alternate fossil fuels. That is not independence 5hge.
We need energy independence. You have a better chance of making your own EV fuel than your own gas or diesel. Sorry, that's the plain truth. Why do we have 40k troops in the middle east? Build the charging infrastructure and bring the home!
Where to start. China EV fires are a plenty. Densely populated cities are a bad choice for EV fires to happen. Coal - anyone who's ever been to China knows the air quality is abysmal on a good day. China is building dozens of coal and gas fired power plants to keep up with demand and are experiencing power outages every where. Not unusual to roll up to a charging station and find it's out of service as power is diverted to keep the lights on somewhere else. They have created - incredibly - an unsustainable dead end while exhausting feedstocks of energy and raw materials. Look; simply transferring energy demand away from gas to coal, nuke or nat gas simply exhausts those finite resources quicker, it solves no problem. It solves no problem. It solves no problem. The whole thing might work with a fraction of light duty Twizy's on the road but that's about it. Geeze why does this keep rotating around? D-mb idea, waste of time, resources and money. Yes we need a renewable mobility fuel, coal fired electricity charging resource heavy battery packs that tend to ignite isn't it.
EVs su-k no matter what!
China = disaster. When we pull our business from them and send it to Mexico, they will enter a world of pain.
“ EVs are a solid choice for densely populated cities in China.”
If most of the electricity in china is made using coal and natural gas why is ev better than gasoline
2 new coal plants every month
EV charging stations aren't a priority because Americans, real Americans not Soy Boys, don't want an EV. Get it through your thick skull.
China doesn’t have fossil fuel propaganda pushed in their face from the news and politicians. Here any little bit of public good that hurts some companies is lobbied away. EVs are a solid choice for densely populated cities in China.
Maybe you should move to China? Sounds like you’d fit in well as a loyal subject.
If the US don't get their act together a d build the infrastructure, we will no longer be the #1 economy in the world.
Chinese people do as they are told, or else. Americans have a choice.
The auto companies put the cart in front of the horse. The plan was to have the taxpayers to pay for all the EV chargers. Look at how that is working out. A couple years ago I read that Walmart was putting chargers at all their stores. I have no idea the progress on that.
The same for autonomous vehicles. I no longer hear much about those. They were expecting local governments to create/fix the infrastructure for those and then the auto companies would reap all the profits.
Why is that embarrassing? America isn't China. We don't live like they do there. I think it's embarrassing that you're embarrassed.
Most Americans listens to rumors and unknown facts.
Tell me why I need to worry about a country that produces 57% of electricity with coal 40% with natural gas and 3% with renewables to charge an ev and somehow that’s supposed to be better than gasoline
This doesn’t take into account energy to make batteries
The EV ruse!!!
China EVs burning up and being bad is US propoganda run by the government and the american auto industry. The deal is that the China EVs are leagues ahead of US both on performance and price, and it scares the government. Its why they are pushing hard to spread false information, empose tarrifs, and trying to stop BYD plant productions in mexico (which is hilarious btw)
Right, I only take product safety advice from economists.
Same reason why trucks are #1 here. EVs and non trucks are not favored in this market. It's that simple. Trying to force ev on us isn't going to change people's minds either.
It’s wonderful to see the lack of charging stations in the US! Maybe there are still enough level headed people in the US to realize that EVs are just a scam and stop the destruction of our auto industry before it gets any worse. Down with EVs!!!
According to some leading economists, China is so corrupt now nothing they produce is safe so if you find yourself owning a Chinese EV don't park it in your home garage unless you're trying to burn your home up!