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2023-07-08 Economy

It can take a decade to break even on an EV

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-08 08:50|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Average automobile ownership in the US is said to be about 8 years. So before you "break even" you're back in the hole again. Is this by design ?

What am I missing ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-08 08:57|| 2023-07-08 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe Tesla cut prices at least twice this year in an attempt to boost sales. I guess it worked--for now.

It could have been fake news, but I thought I had read where after the "Biden" Administration announced federal tax credits for EV's, Ford raised prices by the amount of the tax credit.

And if you love to be under constant surveillance, then enjoy your EV and your part-time hustle to defray the maintenance costs.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-08 09:05|| 2023-07-08 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 The bigger picture is this clearcut layman's translation of the Laws of Thermodynamics:

You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't get out of the game...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-08 09:07|| 2023-07-08 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Hahahahaha.... too true.

Can't find the Burg comment to save myself, but someone recently quoted his father who said (paraphrasing here).

"Don't play the other man's game."

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-08 09:24|| 2023-07-08 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 What is the math if there is no EV subsidy?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-08 09:44|| 2023-07-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 It will never break even on the total carbon usage...

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-07-08 10:01|| 2023-07-08 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I await one juicy volcanic eruption to blow the carbon numbers into the stratosphere. EV's won't matter much when crops fail and London has snow in July.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-08 10:03|| 2023-07-08 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 4,700 earthquakes in 72 hours could signal impending eruption of Icelandic volcano

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-08 10:23|| 2023-07-08 10:23|| Front Page Top

#9 The Dutch government has fallen. Turns out bug pate does not appeal to all Europeans.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-08 10:46|| 2023-07-08 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 What is the math if there is no EV subsidy?

Ugly enough to make a blind man flinch...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-08 13:07|| 2023-07-08 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 That Dutch PM is about as big as a water boy for Klaus Schwab as one can be.

That a government can just take farms away willy-nilly that have been in families for generations is just sickening.

And these Eurocrat/Davos scum are baffled as to why parties like the AfD in Germany are on the rise and label them as "extreme".

Speakin' of which: AfD party reaches another record polling high, achieves first place in 4 out of 5 eastern German states

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-08 13:45|| 2023-07-08 13:45|| Front Page Top

#12 The Dutch and Ukraine were supposed to be the forerunners of WEF policy in Europe the way that California, Oregon and Washington were in the US. It did not work out. Macron may fall next.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-08 14:29|| 2023-07-08 14:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Some discussion that these "riots" in France are part of another neocon "color revolution" and a way to take out Macron, who, in their minds, is not going by the "script".

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-08 14:33|| 2023-07-08 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Neocons are dumb. LePenn or her student is not going to play their games.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-08 15:38|| 2023-07-08 15:38|| Front Page Top

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