The Answer To Our Problems, EV's

All three of the semis I own have 300 gallon fuel capacity. Two 150 gallon tanks.

Sometimes it’s more important to fill up so there is less downtime stopping for fuel and sometimes it’s more important to cut a bit of weight and fuel more often.

But the option to have a 2100 mile range without fueling is vital. Whether you always run full or not. That’s the problem with EV semis. You don’t have many options.

 

Posted any QUACKERY lately?

 

Keep up the good work.

 

The EV tumble continues.
The German E-Vehicle Nightmare, 2024 Q1 Sales Plummet 14%… “Graveyard” For Unsold Cars
By P Gosselin on 7. May 2024

Der Spiegel reports: Germany e-car industry is a crisis headed for a catastrophe. New Tesla unsold cars now being parked in an old airfield.

Germany’s 2030 e-car target now a lunatic fantasy
Sales of e-cars in Germany are plummeting, signaling more trouble for the country’s move to a green society. Overall, for Q1 2024, EV sales declined by around 14.1% compared to Q1 of 2023. For Tesla, the picture is much uglier.



AI generated image of an e-car.

Just days ago, leftist online news magazine Der Spiegel published a video report looking at Tesla sales in Germany: “Friedhof der E-Autos – Die Mobilität der Zukunft steckt in der Krise” (Graveyard of e-cars – the mobility of the future is stuck in crisis).

Though the country would like to blame something else other than its terrible policies, this misery is not due to the Ukraine War.

As Spiegel reports, The cars are just too expensive and impractical, and the government has stopped subsidizing sales.

35% drop in Tesla new registrations

Der Spiegel focusses on Tesla’s Gigafactory located in Grünheide, roughly 30 kilometers southeast of central Berlin. The once electrifying future for the e-car maker has since turned into a huge nightmare. Though the Grünheide plant continues to churn out e-cars, Der Spiegel looks at where the 100s of truckloads of e-cars are in fact being being shipped. Unfortunately for Tesla, many are not going to buying customers. In Q1 of 2023, 20,000 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. But this year in Q1, only 13,000 were registered – a whopping 35% drop!

Storage at an old airfield

Der Spiegel reporters followed the Tesla transport trucks and discovered that many are being shipped to an old airfield for storage. In the report, a Tesla security officer, however, arrives (in an internal combustion engine car) and refuses Spiegel to make photos of the embarrassing situation (4:24 mark). Tesla management refuse to comment on the mass electric car storage.

Overall in Germany, e-cars of just about every type have lost their attractiveness, and buyers are shunning them.

Green fantasy

As the popularity of electric cars in Germany tanks, the governments 2030 target of getting 15 million e-vehicles on the road now looks like a lunatic fantasy.

 

Ouch.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/compan...igh-costs-of-running-electric-trucks-fed0ce6e

 

The red ink continues. Tesla in California laid off 3300. Unfortunately our son was one of them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/electr...lead_pos4#:~:text=Bad news from,Advertisement

 

Multiple posts referencing real world data completely destroy that claim.

 

Not to mention that Hertz lost millions on their EV fleet which no one wanted to rent.

 

Having been there, I'm always sorry to hear that my friend.

 

And so it begins. From Europe no less. Remember, you heard it here first.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/electric-car-carnage-only-just-160726555.html

 

This quote from the article above says it all:

 

More torque with EVs. A Tesla can pull a semi truck.

 

So can a top fuel dragster. For a couple of feet anyways.

So what?

 

The Tesla can pull it much further than a couple feet. EVs have more torque for towing - a simple fact…

 

http://www.politicalforum.com/index...sells-312-000-evs-phevs-in-april-2024.618463/

BYD - outsold all ICE manufacturers for a monthly record!

 

The Titanic was sinking but the band played on.

 

Heck, the Tesla semi can't even pull a semi very far comparatively.

EVs always operate at full torque. Not real impressive if you're looking for usefulness and not cheap thrills.

 

Results aren’t “cheap thrills”. That torque gets me places much quicker than the days that I drove an ICE. I get up to the speed limit quickly, which often allows me to make the next green light, while those behind me do not.

 

Wow! How many minutes does that save per day?

 

Here is a very specific answer - “Several”. In the course of a year, it could be an entire day!

 

Wow. You must get so much accomplished in that extra time.

 

EV's endanger first responders.
Concerns Mount Over Exploding Electric Vehicles
BY CHRIS MORRISON

Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to mount with Australian fire and rescue services in New South Wales stating they might have to make a “tactical disengagement” of a trapped car accident victim if the battery is likely to explode. Australian journalist Jo Nova covered the story, which was first mentioned in the EV blog The Driven, and commented: “They say the first responders need more training as if this can be solved with a certificate, but the dark truth is they’re talking about training the firemen and the truck drivers to recognise when they have to abandon the rescue.”

The Driven, a widely-read blog that seems highly sympathetic to a rollout of EVs, was reporting on recent testimony given to the NSW Government’s Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Batteries Inquiry. The writer suggested that first responders did not have adequate training to deal with electric vehicle collisions, and in the most serious cases, crews could be forced to abandon rescues. One particular area of concern seemed to revolve around the need to extract a trapped casualty quickly after a crash by dragging the person out in a “very undesirable manner”. Fires are a grave risk in any vehicle accident, but they can be quickly brought under control in an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle.

Worries about the potential dangers inherent in EVs is likely to grow as numbers on the roads continue to rise. EV battery explosions can occur very quickly, triggering the release of highly toxic gases. When they roar into thermal overdrive, they create very high temperatures and are very difficult to extinguish. The explosion can occur after almost any collision, or be due to a fault in the initial manufacture. The fire often takes hours to control and it can reignited days after it was thought to be out. With Net Zero fanatics desperate to drive ICE cars off the road in short order, EVs are the only mass private transport solution offered. Many of the issues, including safety, that make them an inferior product compared to petrol-powered combustion cars are often ignored. . . .

 

The ballyhoo for EV's is mostly sleight-of-hand.
EVs: The Reckoning Begins
Roger Caiazza
They wanted combustion engine cars out but forgot that these cars bring in billions in tax income. They wanted a fully electrified transport but forgot it wouldn’t bring in money…

Irina Slav on energy Substack is described as “All things energy. Challenging the dominant narrative because facts matter”. Her latest article “Post Ridiculous” describes the possible last straw for EV adoption.

Slav introduces her post with an extraordinary quote admitting that all is not right for EVs:

“We can’t push EVs into the market against demand.” Thus spoke the head of Ford’s European operations this week, commenting on the company’s plans to start diverting ICE car deliveries from the UK to the continent. Why? Because the UK has EV sales goals and if carmakers don’t align their business with these goals, they face substantial penalties.

“We are not going to sell EVs at huge losses just to buy compliance. The only alternative is to take our shipments of [engine] vehicles to the UK down and sell these vehicles somewhere else,” the brave man, by the name of Martin Sander, said, speaking at the FT’s Future of the Car conference in London.

https://www.ft.com/content/ff0f3966-0565-434b-81a7-9b2bb3c20e21

 

I guess Volvo bucked the trend! Maybe not quite the disaster you’re making it out to be.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/volvo-cars-april-sales-rise-27-year-on-year/ar-BB1lSE0d

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Volvo Cars' sales rose 27% in April from a year earlier to 65,838 cars, boosted by demand for electric vehicles, the Sweden-based group said on Monday.

 

That chip on your shoulder is turning into a plank.