Me, like many people are dreading the day the electric vehicles may take over internal combustion. Without the government push however the electric vehicle wouldnt stand a chance. This is a push from progressives around the world fueled with politicians placing bans on internal combustion vehicles such as Europe, China and supposedly a few other countries. And theres California of course.
The fact people are not livid as of yet kind of worries me, even in California as there are still plenty of people who are not ready to give up on internal combustion or is unable to use an electric vehicle.
There are just too many limitations on electric vehicles, the charging time for one. 30+ minutes and yes it can take up to 10 hours at a public charging station. Not everyone can charge at home either so the idea that electric vehicles can replace gasoline in 10 or well 14 years is preposterous. In fact its insane. Rushing this also leads to massive problems, one of them being fires coming from the batteries shorting out. This should be the number one reason why EVs shouldn’t replace gasoline. With internal combustion usually fires start with older vehicles that haven’t been maintained very well. The new Ford Mach E has an issue where the 12v battery ( yes unfortunately there is more than one in these EVs) dies and the entire car is bricked, or killed. Imagine the 12v battery dying in your gas vehicle and you wont be able to jump, charge the battery or replace it with a new one and still cant start it because the battery did something to prevent it from running.
Despite these problems people are still trying to push this forward. I continue to hope and pray that this is a bad dream and soon wake up from this nightmare.
Despite EV sales overall is a measly 2% in America it’s only 1.7% while Australia is less than 0.7% (they only sold under 1,000 EVs in the 1st quarter!) Its still slowly creeping upwards. The fact is the extreme push towards EVs is unnatural and the biggest reason is greed. It hardly has much to do with the environment because there are far worse pollutants out there, worse than any oil spill which is preventable. There is at least half a century worth of oil left which is plenty. More is being discovered and as mentioned in the past, there is synthetic fuels being pushed to the market but not fast enough to really save the internal combustion from being banned in certain places.
Again like my previous posts this is not a good thing because people need to get around. Sometimes especially if one doesn’t know their way around vehicles buying new is necessary. More than that in order for people to buy used someone has to buy new. So if they ban the sale of new internal combustion its going to create a ton of problems especially when electric vehicle batteries start to go, most of them will be replaced after 5-10 years it’s not going to make much sense to replace them the second time around so people will be lucky to get 9-15 years out of an EV.
Modern internal combustion can get up to 30 years or even more if maintained well. So this is going to be a problem for many who buy used and rely on the vehicle lasting a long period of time.
So while this is nerve wracking I keep praying EVs will not replace the internal combustion vehicles. Especially GM, which has been lacking with good internal combustion vehicles as well.
People need to get around and despite the leftists and the progressives we still need the internal combustion engine vehicles and a large portion of people want to stick with them! Government needs to stop pushing people into these electric vehicles and if they want to help with the environment then they need to get on board with synthetic fuels, because people will drive internal combustion until they deem them unessecary, not the government, environmentalists or the progressive left.
I also forgot to mention that Biden had talked about another Cash for Clunkers with electric vehicles which the previous one destroyed usable vehicles (purposely destroyed the engines) people could have had but it wasnt good and the used auto market suffered from it.
If Biden is going to do this again i highly recommend not doing this. If you want to save on gas buy a hybrid. These programs and government spending wouldn’t keep happening if people just stopped participating in them. But sadly many unaware people may end up participating in this program anyway. I pray people however don’t participate in this mess again if it becomes available. Really, its past time people do not follow the government and instead think for themselves.
You’d also be trading an internal combustion vehicle with greater value than an electric vehicle with terrible resale value. As they age the low value will cause EVs to be extremely difficult to sell. So you are better off sticking with internal combustion, despite what the EV fantasy fantastics say, I wouldnt listen to them or bother talking to them. Yes a ban in 2035, it doesnt stop anyone from buying them to that point and you can store up more vehicles so you at least have one reliable vehicle while you fix up the rest. Find a good mechanic or do your own. Also keep up on maintenance and talk to your autobody shop guy on how to keep your car rust free even in snowy salty weather.