Insurers are saying that car manufacturers have to find a way to make them lighter, cheaper, and extend their range
Electric vehicle TIRES produce 20% more pollution than gas equivalents
While switching to an electric car no doubt helps lower how much carbon you generate, it actually exacerbates the problem of tire emissions.www.dailymail.co.uk
- Experts warn tires release chemicals and microplastics into the environment
- The typical electric car weighs around 1000 pounds more than gas models.
'The thing about electric motors is they have the ability to accelerate very fast. If you put together that and how heavy the vehicle is, that is what creates the additional wear on the tire.' Nick Molden, founder and CEO of Emissions Analytics.
Only 5% of next car purchasers expect to buy all electric cars-Road and Track.
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And if they can't?
the better question is what happens if we can't overcome consumer culture?
We can't.
Yah, that's solving the housing crisis.
EV market share growth might fall short of projections taking long to reach the numbers but the industry is firmly committed to EV's.
Commercial Inside Release
Well-Known Member
The manufacturers are firmly committed to ripping everyone off with EVs... We'll see about that other part.
its a market "solution"
Living in your car is a choice, an option, when you run out of other options.
The car manufacturers have too much money tied up in the venture to turn around and abandon it now.
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
It’s all government money.
ALL government money you say? Show us the numbers.
Other than Tesla and a few much smaller companies, which automakers are primarily making EV's now? Which are making 50% of their cars EV's? Which are even making 10% all electric? They could walk away tomorrow if they wanted to. Except the government is mandating it so they have no choice. Big difference between being forced to go along and doing it because the marketplace dictates it.
oldngray
nowhere special
The government has no money. It's your money.
They took the money knowing that there were performance stipulations that went along with it and are now being challenged to fulfill the terms by which the money was granted.
Yes, there are some diehards on here unwilling to give up there gas hogs but in the end if an EV is the only form of wheeled transportation on the market the customer will have 4 choices....drive an EV, use public transportation, a bicycle....or walk.
They haven't been able to bring prices down to a reasonable level so there will be a whole lot of walking going on.
By the way do you consider a 50 mpg hybrid a gas hog? I'm perfectly fine with hybrid technology. Of course there are diehards on here who must eliminate fossil fuels at all costs.
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
I meant it’s not the car company’s money. The government is throwing my money away with this green BS.
Did you read the report that came out last night regarding the AMOC? I'm not an alarmist but this report combined with the South and Southwest becoming unlivable due to the heat you have to afford reports such as this one the respect it's due.
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