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2024-01-21 Science & Technology

Electric Vehicles Enter the 'Total Failure' Phase of Their Existence

[Red State] Is it time to start asking whether electric vehicles have any redeeming value in 2024? Given the recent spate of bad news surrounding them, the answer to that question is becoming clearer.

As RedState reported, Ford has cut the production of its "Lightning" electric pickup truck in half. Why? Mainly because no one wants to buy them. Why do they not want to buy them? Because they are overpriced, unreliable, and impractical.

Who could have guessed that paying $55,000 (and that's with EV subsidies) for a stripped-down, base-level truck that overheats when you tow things and can't drive over 300 miles on a single charge wouldn't appeal to the average F-150 buyer? Certainly, people who use their trucks for work have found little to no use for such a pointless monstrosity.

It's not just the Lightning, though. The entire EV industry is getting hit by reality right now.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-21 00:59|| || Front Page|| [27 views ] Top

#1 Thought experiment: IF someone magically came up with a device say the size of Dr. Emmett Brown's Fusion-o-Matic™ that ran on a handful of whatever was lying around, how fast do you think the gummint and "green activists" would rush to shut it down and outlaw it to protect their beloved oversized, overpriced golf carts?

Pretty damn quick, you bet. And there's a story in that somewhere.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-21 06:41|| 2024-01-21 06:41|| Front Page Top

#2 there's a story in that somewhere

Cold fusion is making a scientific comeback

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-21 08:35|| 2024-01-21 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Well, yeah. Since what COVID did to science, I'm sure it is.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-21 08:47|| 2024-01-21 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Pinkerton: Republican #Resistance Comes to Electric Vehicles at the D.C. Auto Show

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-21 09:11|| 2024-01-21 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Cold fusion is the power source of the future and always will be. It was announced with great fanfare in the late 1980s that a breakthrough had been achieved. Of course it turned out to be a fake story.

Nothing has changed since.

Posted by EMSArtifact 2024-01-21 10:53|| 2024-01-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Real fusion was only 30 years away 60 years ago.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-21 10:54|| 2024-01-21 10:54|| Front Page Top

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