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What Will You Do When Your Favorite Carmaker Goes All-Electric?
The EU has instituted onerous fuel-economy and carbon-emissions rules, causing many European automakers to declare that soon they will be building only electric cars. The EU determined that cars propelled by batteries emit no carbon that could be destroying Planet Earth; so they are prompting carmakers to quit making gasoline and diesel-powered cars. These changes are imminent, with Volvo (now owned by a Communist Chinese company) having announced last year that by 2030 they will only be producing electric cars. Just last week, Daimler, which makes Mercedes Benz cars, also announced that it will go all-electric by the end of the decade. Jaguar has announced that it will be all-electric by 2025.
So, what if you have aspired to own a Jaguar or Mercedes. Will you buy that electric car and risk being on foot if the power goes out? What if you will never be able to trade in that gas-powered Volvo for the newest model? Are you looking forward to the government essentially owning your car? Most electricity is provided by government-sanctioned utilities, so you will have few options for fueling up if all you are allowed to own and drive will be some kind of electric car. General Motors and Ford have also announced that they will be moving to building mostly electric cars. California and Washington have already passed laws against gasoline-powered cars.
Note, however, one of the big holdouts. Toyota has announced that they will not be building an all-electric fleet.
Nearly every week, I read a new article describing how this or that automaker has declared that they will be only building electric cars in the future. Not one of those articles has yet addressed what I think of as the most important question. What if the people don’t want electric cars? What if all those buyers and drivers out there are not one bit interested in driving a car which they have to constantly worry about running out of charge?
What will you do?
Published in Economics
There is also “demand” metering, which costs you more per KW/hr when you’re “demanding” more at once, such as for running heavy loads such as air conditioning, it can also increase rates at “peak hours” etc. But even if everyone in the People’s Republic of California only charged their electric cars at night, they still don’t have the total capacity and distribution capacity.
The new “infrastructure” bill has electricity subsidies for folks and per-mile vehicle tax.
And that can be remotely turned off from DC, or Beijing…
Yup, they want to subsidize it now. My question is, once they have killed off the internal combustion engine, then what will happen with electricity costs.
Honestly, I’m interested in getting a plug-in hybrid, and if I do get one I’d want a way to measure the electricity for it so I can keep track of the cost of using the vehicle, just like I currently track gasoline expenses.