Tag: Electric Vehicles

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It Isn’t Easy Going Green

August 22, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Kristin Walker at the (American Consumer Institute) has published research analyzing the carbon cost of so-called green technology. She breaks down the details for the big three – Wind, Solar, and EV Batteries – and details the emissions cost of the so-called magic that makes these things possible. Often left out of the discussion is … Read more

NH Gets 31 Million to Buy ‘Green’ School Buses

August 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Debt Machine, is all handshakes and smiles after milking future taxpayers for another 31 million dollars. Shaheen, who ran in 2008 opposing more debt, has added 25 trillion more during her tenure in the US Senate. What’s another 31 million at this point, eh? The rebates will help selectees purchase 110 … Read more

EV Fees Should Go to Road Maintenance and Repair

August 8, 2024 Rob Roper

The recent—and unfortunately more regular—flooding Vermont has experienced since last summer has damaged a lot of infrastructure, but the impact on our roads due to washouts is a big one—and an expensive one for the state and local municipalities. This raises a critical question of where the money is going to come from to fix … Read more

District Spends Millions on E-Buses, to Spend Millions More on Diesel Buses That Work

August 6, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Montgomery County is a very woke DC suburb in Maryland that has long suffered the consequences of its proximity to that poised well. The resulting brain damage causes hallucinations, a sense of false intellectual supremacy, and a driving desire to be in positions of authority where access to nearly endless sums of other people’s money … Read more

Is The Pivot From EVs Underway?

July 22, 2024 Steve MacDonald

I was never likely to buy a Hybrid vehicle – too expensive -but if you put that idea in the perspective of an energy transition, that would have been the only way to begin. Transition suggests a phasing in or out. What we got instead was an all-electric Vehicle vanguard. Push combustion engine vehicles off … Read more

Dissatisfied EV Owners Spell Doom for Electric Car Manufacturing

July 19, 2024 John Klar

A recent consumer survey revealed that 46% of US electric car owners wish to switch back to a gas-powered car. In an industry already facing hurdles with charging stations, cost, and public skepticism, consumer distaste over performance and a hefty price tag threatens to eviscerate future EV sales. Despite subsidies and claims of world-saving environmental … Read more

Night Cap: Ruh-Roh – Lithium Vehicle Batteries Leak “Forever Chemicals” Into The Environment

July 10, 2024July 9, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The past few years have been plagued by all manner of professional fearmongering, not the least of which is the overuse of the term forever chemicals. It got popular with the media and “activists” at the same time the enviro-radicals were looking for a way to reduce water consumption.

EVs, ICEVs, Repairability, and Outrage – Part 2

October 10, 2024July 8, 2024 Skip

Lloyd Alter at Carbon Upfront (heh! The “new” Treehugger”) is NOT a fan of the “Gigacasting” method that is overtaking the auto industry led by Tesla. That manufacturing technique involves high-pressure form/mold pressing of larger and larger parts for Teslas instead of press stamping lots of little pieces and then having to weld, rivet, or screw them all together.

Harvard Study Finds EV Charging Infrastructure is Unreliable – Including Home Chargers

July 3, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Harvard Business School (HBS) researchers, yes, THAT Harvard, have found that “Electric vehicle (EV) chargers have a high malfunction rate” and that “EV drivers can expect non-residential charging systems to not work approximately 20% of the time.”

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Night Cap: Another Bad Week for Big Green as Inconvenient Truths Come Callin’

June 22, 2024June 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Not everyone has been able to take advantage of the gobs of taxpayer money pouring between the seams to encourage the adoption of so-called green technologies. And it’s not because they aren’t truly green. Joe’s Build Back Better has beaten back business.

EVs Worse for the Environment Episode Number (…I’ve Lost Count)

October 7, 2024May 29, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Electric Vehicle owners continue to find themselves the victims of a massive global bait-and-switch. They bought the car thinking it would save the planet (jokes on you, fool) only to discover hidden costs, from insurance to longer and more expensive repair times, for a car that’s not really green, that isn’t running on green energy, and now this.

Progressive EV Mandates and Economic Reality

May 14, 2024 John Klar

President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat. The latest example is displayed in the administration’s emissions mandates for … Read more

As If You Needed Another Reason to Stay The Hell Away From Electric Vehicles

May 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If you search the site for EVs or Electric Vehicles, you’ll find every reason not to buy one, and thankfully, we’re not the only ones pointing it out. EV sales are lousy in the US, which has to be why Democrat states are looking to ban gas-powered cars.

Trump Was Right — The EV ‘Bloodbath’ Is Already Here

April 30, 2024 Op-Ed

Ever since March 16, when presidential candidate Donald Trump created a controversy by predicting President Joe Biden’s efforts to force Americans to convert their lives to electric-vehicle (EV) lifestyles would end in a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry, the industry’s own disastrous results have consistently proven him accurate.

Progressive EV Mandates and Economic Reality

April 20, 2024 John Klar

Fleets of EV Trucks Are an Impossible Dream

March 31, 2024 John Klar

California has led the nation in a climate-saving push for EV tractor-trailer trucks to replace diesel power. Fiction eventually runs aground on reality, in this case, the economic, environmental, and scientific facts that the California Legislature ignored when it implemented impossible mandates for gleaming fleets of EV trucks.

It Hertz! – Rental Car CEO ‘Resigns’ After EV Fleet Fail

March 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Hertz Rental Cars jumped the shark on EVs, going all in on fleet expansion, complete with ads featuring Tom Brady to promote the product. Not long after, Hertz discovered – you’d think they’d have done due diligence in advance – that EVs cost more, more to maintain, and are … unreliable. We knew this.

We Should Call EV Owner Anxiety Electric Vehicle Dysfunction (EVD)

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The acronym E.D., which I have long referred to as Electile Dysfunction – the inability to overcome any number of voting-related irregularities needed to elect good candidates, is more commonly associated with erectile dysfunction, and to be honest, that almost seems like the same problem.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (3/14/24)?

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Judy Aron

We learned that the House needed a lesson on microphone etiquette. The General Court Technical Services (GCTS) Team came to work on the microphones prior to the House session and shared some tips and techniques with our House Clerk, Paul Smith.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (3/7/24)?

March 8, 2024 Judy Aron

We learned that we had a full day with 52 House bills on the agenda but didn’t get through all of them. As the hour got late, we saved 10 for next week. We also learned that when Republicans show up, they stop bad bills from advancing and move good bills forward. Read more below.