The German daily “Die Welt” reported in its Tuesday edition Siemens was giving up on its production of public charging points for e-cars. […]
Despite a government plan to see one million registered electric cars on German roads by 2020, consumers haven’t particularly been mad about such vehicles. Last year for instance, only 4,157 e-cars were newly registered in Germany, bringing the total to 7,112.
h/t Maz2
#CSSfail – everything below this post is in italics!
No, it isn’t
Why quit now? They’re roughly 7/1000ths of the way there!
Well it wasn’t in the preview. 🙁
Kate…your related seems to have disappered.Went the way of the electrics??
I’m electrically shocked….shocked I tell ya.
How many new civil wars could we have interfered with, using the money that was wasted on all this enviro-wacko crap?
Check out Norway , electric cars are chagring ahead there.
Why is Tesla stock doing so well, they are selling lots of electric cars. Mind you they are only electric whereas the other car companies have their gasoline juggernauts to sell.
And thats out of a total of 3.6 million auto sales in Germany last year, or 0.2 per cent of the total new car market. And that’s with cash incentives for scrapping old cars.
Frank, we the consumers aren’t wasting money on these things; it’s only a handful of rich Green fruitloops. Lamentably it’s our governments wasting money on this, however, as at least some of the sales will be government fleet purchases along with the subsidies being provided.
“How many new civil wars could we have interfered with, using the money that was wasted on all this enviro-wacko crap?”
Frank Q….that has to be the QOTD,if not QOTW.
Good thing the public is not falling for depreciating toxic waste on wheels. If they sold as many as government wanted, the windmill powered grid would have crashed long ago and they’d all be living in the dark.
Norway was smart and invested in Hydro. No shortage of cheap electricity.
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/oed/Subject/energy-in-norway/Electricity-generation.html?id=440487
Also, the Tesla is a rich persons toy. If I had more money than brains I would love to have one, but logic tells me I can buy 5 regular cars for the price of one Tesla.
Because the Volt was such a success for GM,(/s)
they designed and built a turbo diesel Cruze getting 46 MPG.
Pricing will start at $25,695 including a $810 destination fee with a long list of standard equipment including 18-inch wheels, leather seating, Chevy’s MyLink infotainment system as well as a 100,000-mile limited powertrain warranty and two years of free maintenance.
Fire extinguisher not required.
I don’t know, but I think Frank Q gets a really big bingo for that one.
cgh, I think you have that right.
Electric cars and global warming.
Two frauds that green people will
look back on in ten years and say
“God we were so stupid and such
conceited know it alls. Gullible
fools of the worst kind.”
Global warming is a fraud. I think electric cars will come on much faster than people think. My next second car will be electric.
Global warming is real; blaming humans for causing it is the fraud.
Sgt, The greens have no shame, they will never look back and say what a crime. They haven’t for DDT, millions dead. They haven’t for the ozone hole, costs in billions changing freon to something else where no problem existed. It’s curious though that there are stories that Dupont’s patent on freon was about to expire – may be a fairy tale, but it’s out there.
What really amazes me is how the supporters of this stuff never think it through. Lets take the example of Germany, and solar power.
Germany heavily subsidized solar, so predictably, they got a lot of it.
Regulations require that all solar power produced be bought at a high price.
Solar is good at producing during the peak times of day. Base load coal and other started losing money.
The coal plants could no longer operate at a profit, so they started shutting them down.
Germany realized it actually still needed that power, so they started paying the coal guys to keep their plants open.
So Germany ended up paying both kinds of producers! Reality always wins in the end.