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August 28, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It is no secret that EV makers have been struggling. The vehicles are expensive and unreliable—did we mention that they are expensive? Tesla has managed to maintain its edge and market share, but given all the space required for solar, there is only so much room in the world for these lawn ornaments. Saturation was … Read more

Ford Backs Away From EVs … Just a Little Bit.

August 25, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Electric vehicles aren’t going away just yet, but the industry has been having a rough year. Multiple manufacturers have scaled back production and retooled EV facilities for gas-powered vehicles or, like Ford, are shifting some capacity from EV-only to Gas Hybrid. The company said it won’t build fully electric three-row SUVs due to battery costs. … 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

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.”

Auto collission accident headlight Photo by Clark Van Der Beken on Unsplash

EVs, ICEVs, Repairability, and Outrage

July 1, 2024 Skip

The old TreeHugger site, that batch of green on the outside but red on the inside Eco-Socialists, is gone forever. All of the DISQUS comments have been wiped out, and most of the more fun (e.g., combative) posts have also been deleted, including those by Lloyd Alter, who, I thought, was always on a Greenie track (with a socialist kicker of “Eat the Rich”).

EVs Will Never Be Anything More Than a Niche For the Guilty Rich (and a Smattering of Ideological Zombies)

June 27, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Did you know that the people funding the Keep It in the Ground Corps are a handful of obscenely wealthy individuals who probably haven’t a clue what it is like to live in the real world? They push electrification and (of course) electric vehicles.

solar panel solar farm Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash

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.

Is EV Manufacturing Exceeding Demand?

June 20, 2024 John Klar

Car manufacturers make little, if any, money on EV sales. A dearth of charging stations discourages new buyers, who are also put off by high sticker prices. Sales of new electric vehicles have dropped off, as have used resale values.

School Bus Photo by Austin Pacheco on Unsplash

Everyone Loves The Yellow School Bus

June 5, 2024 Ray Cardello

Vice President Kamala Harris has given us dozens of videos and sound bites worthy of SNL skits but not of the second-highest-ranking member of the Executive Branch. From giggle sessions to sitting with young professional actors posing as interested students as the VP talked about the marvels and mysteries of outer space, these sessions gave fodder to comedians and talking heads.

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

Lessons From the Eclipse – Electrifying Everything is Dangerously Asinine.

April 12, 2024 Rob Roper

The total solar eclipse this week was totally cool, for sure. How lucky we Vermonters were that we could just walk outside, take in this once in a generation natural phenomenon, then pop back into our houses to resume whatever it was we were doing twenty minutes earlier. Not so for the estimated 160,000 tourists … Read more

Daily Mail Report Looks Like a “List” of US States You Should Get the Hell Out Of …

April 9, 2024April 7, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Perhaps without intending to, a recent article in the UK Daily Mail reported on a list of states that Real™ Americans need to either take back now or make plans to exit soon!

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.

No iCar In Your Future – Apple Cuts Plug-In Cord After Wasting Billions on Titan EV Project

March 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Members of the Apple cult who were hoping to one day drive their iteration of an Electric Vehicle will be disappointed. After dropping billions into an effort to one day compete with Tesla Motors, The Tech Giant has cut the plug-in cord.