A reality check on electric cars: Arithmetic required
Electric vehicle makers are pushing to extend their vehicles range but can't get around the problem of weight.
Electric vehicle makers are pushing to extend their vehicles range but can't get around the problem of weight.
Senator Schumer of New York proposed a $462 billion spending package to get Americans to replace their gasoline vehicles with electric cars.
California officials have plowed more than half a billion taxpayer dollars into various campaigns designed to help citizens afford electric vehicles while others must wrestle with the state’s gas prices.
“Wealthy consumers who have purchased Teslas and Chevy Bolts primarily to signal their green bona fides for their friends and neighbors, and who have socialized many of the costs of their purchases to those who are less well-off, might wish to take a closer look at the numbers."
CFACT jumped in a complimentary electric car at the UN climate conference to move between the official negotiating zone and the NGO zone. Our driver told us he hates the electric car,because its limited range makes it next to useless for a professional taxi driver.
What if wind, solar and electric vehicles operated in a fair market?
Just about the ONLY people in America who like electric cars are government regulators (who likely do not own them) and companies like Tesla, whose only real (sic) profits come from energy credits that add to consumer costs for other vehicles. The bugbear is the ridiculous 54.5 mpg fuel standard created by the Obama Administration with little regard for the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. It could get worse -- the government may one day disallow the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Batteries for electric cars can be very expensive, but according to the University of California Riverside there is a way to make electric car batteries more efficient.