electric vehicles

Battery Electric Vehicles are not the answer

It’s nearly impossible for the United States to increase the capacity of its electric grid to accommodate 250 million BEVs.

By Donn Dears |2023-03-06T11:41:56-05:00March 9th, 2023|Comments Off

What’s wrong with electric vehicles? Everything.

Feel good about your EV? They are regressive, exploitative & harmful to the planet

By Peter Murphy |2023-02-19T18:47:24-05:00February 15th, 2023|Comments Off

EVs are designed for ChatGPT – Not “carbon units”

Carbon-based life forms have declared war on carbon.

By Duggan Flanakin |2023-02-13T13:26:53-05:00February 13th, 2023|Comments Off

Are electric vehicle charging stations really worth taxpayer money?”

A gas pump serves five times as many customers for one-fifth of the capital cost of a high-speed charger.

By Steve Goreham |2023-02-06T17:34:53-05:00February 9th, 2023|Comments Off

Washington Governor Jay Inslee mandates an all-electric state

Breezes and sunshine to charge Inslee’s EV’s

By Ronald Stein |2023-02-06T17:23:13-05:00February 7th, 2023|Comments Off

Electric Cars: Square peg, round hole

“What is clear is that electrification is a technology chosen by politicians, not by industry.”

By Duggan Flanakin |2023-01-25T00:32:37-05:00January 25th, 2023|Comments Off

To protect ‘the children,’ add warning labels on EVs

Evidence exists that the scarier the label, the more effective it is in changing behavior. So maybe any cobalt warning labels on EVs should include photos of mutilated Congolese children.

By Duggan Flanakin |2022-11-12T22:44:14-05:00November 13th, 2022|Comments Off

Automobile industry mandated toward a death spiral

Zero emissions at ANY COST seems to be the direction being mandated by governments and the Environmental, Social and Governance movements around the world, to divest in fossil fuels.

By Ronald Stein |2022-09-12T09:16:55-04:00September 10th, 2022|Comments Off

Green Raw Deal: NC unleashes eminent domain on homes and businesses to make way for EV factory

NC will use eminent domain to buy and destroy 27 homes, five businesses, and will move a Baptist church to clear a path for a Vietnamese EV startup, VinFast.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2022-09-06T11:25:09-04:00September 5th, 2022|Comments Off

CA plan to ban gas vehicles drives dependence on China

If about a dozen other uber-liberal states follow their lead, California’s restrictions would apply to about a third of all vehicles sold in 2035.

By Larry Bell |2022-09-02T14:43:35-04:00September 2nd, 2022|Comments Off

“Inflation Reduction” Act will hinder EV growth

Dependance on lithium mining in America to qualify for subsidies, will further negatively impact the lithium supply chain for batteries and stagnate the mandated transition to EVs.

By Ronald Stein |2022-08-25T13:40:55-04:00August 24th, 2022|Comments Off

Electric vehicles a tool ripe for abuse

Electric grid operators are warning of electricity shortages at a time when the government wants to vastly increase the number of electric vehicles to numbers that would break the electric grid.

By Duggan Flanakin |2022-07-11T07:11:38-04:00July 10th, 2022|Comments Off

On the road with Sen. Debbie Stabenow and her taxpayer-subsidized EV

Her message: Rubes still driving conventionally-powered vehicles shouldn’t sweat having to dig deeper and deeper to pay for gasoline or diesel, all they have to do is purchase a snazzy EV.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2022-06-15T10:39:00-04:00June 15th, 2022|Comments Off

Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV?

With most of the exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries being mined in developing countries, is it ethical to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in developing countries?

By Ronald Stein |2022-06-15T14:33:26-04:00June 7th, 2022|Comments Off

The electric vehicle bad dream

While some are certain of the inevitability of the impending demise of the internal combustion engine (ICE), others are far less certain.

By Duggan Flanakin |2022-06-02T10:43:45-04:00June 1st, 2022|Comments Off