We’ve reported on the impossibility of Net Zero, how EVs are not green or efficient, the offshoring of emissions, the tremendous cost and lack of return on those investments, and the general fraud that is EVs, but this guy’s story brings that home.
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On one trip, he and his family experienced many of the problems about which we’ve been warning consumers.
The frustrating incident unfolded earlier this year after Winnipeg resident Dalbir Bala spent $115,000 Canadian dollars ($77,495 USD) on a Ford F150 Lightning electric truck, which required him to install two charging panels, one at home and one at work, at roughly $5,000 a pop.
He also needed to upgrade his home electric panel for $6,000, resulting in a total expenditure of over $130,000 on the EV vehicle.
The EV truck owner thought it was bizarre that Ford didn’t respond to his inquiries after a minor fender bender took over 6 months to repair, but he shrugged it off and went on to use the vehicle for a 1,400 family road trip to the Windy City.
We covered minor damage disasters in more detail here, but let’s not get too far from the story. Newswars adds that he could not find a working charging station and, by the end of his tale, had to rent a gas-powered truck to finish his journey.
The disappointed dad had his EV towed to the Ford dealership in Elk River. Meanwhile, he rented a gas-powered vehicle to tackle the rest of the 400-miles left on his drive to Chicago. The family picked the truck up on their way back to Canada. …
“It was in [the] shop for 6 months. I can’t take it to my lake cabin. I cannot take it for off-grid camping. I cannot take for even a road trip,” he said. “I can only drive in city – biggest scam of modern times.”
“People have to make the right choices. I want to tell everybody to read my story,” Bala told Fox Business. “Do your research before even thinking about it and make a wiser choice.”
“The actual thing they promised is not even close. Not even 50%. And once you buy it, you’re stuck with it and you have to carry huge losses to get rid of that. And nobody is there to help you.”
EV range was always an issue, but that flaw multiplies when talking trucks. They suffer from the added problem of doing truck things, like hauling and pulling trailers. Range will also suffer from outside temperature, and – as if that were not bad enough because they need bigger batteries – you will lose more money charging them from more electrical waste on top of all the added costs noted above for proper charging panels.
We could blame auto-makers who are just trying to find a way to stay in business ahead of the regulations coming out of DC. But, while Dalbir Bala’s problems are real and not limited to him or his family, the issue isn’t just Ford; it is Democrats who will never take responsibility for the corner they’ve put the auto industry in or impose lemon laws on EVs because while dealers will do anything to move inventory, what they don’t tell you would get them fined if it were a used car.
It means that much like COIVD vaccines, EV vehicle consumer protection is out the window because the regulator’s “bosses” are more interested in the perception of EV sales than protecting consumers.
