“Never mind a million EVs by 2015.”
…the DOE backpedals furiously from a goal set out in a 2011 State of the Union speech, where President Barack Obama announced what he called “Apollo projects of our times.” One of them was the goal for the United States to be “the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.”
“Whether we meet that goal in 2015 or 2016, that’s less important than that we’re on the right path to get many millions of these vehicles on the road,” an unnamed Energy Department official told Reuters.
Reuters notes that “demand for hybrids and electric vehicles has been weaker than expected. Government money was poured into black holes.
Think of the billions that could be saved if governments were to run their ideas by Saskatchewan blogs prior to implementation. For one thing, the advice would be free. (h/t)
I love my E-bike, but it doesn’t work too well in the winter. I have to pull the Ford F250 out of mothballs 5 months of the year. Any social engineer who is pushing the electric car agenda has never scraped ice off a windshield or plugged in a block heater. Aside from the technology not being ready for prime time reliability, designers have a far stretch to go to address e-car driving demands north of the 49th.
But I don’t think practical solutions to mass mobility are the imperative of those at the top of the public policy pyramid. Objective deciphering of the sustainability agenda, reveals the long term plan is to remove the freedom of personal mobility (the private car) so populations become reliant on mass transit and become more concentrated in sustainable (i.e. globalist regulated) metropolitan centers. The evidence of this being an active political agenda is everywhere – primarily the cost, taxing and regulating of private vehicular travel is driving many people out of owning a private vehicle.
Green/sustainability taxes and levies on fuel, gas vehicle manufacturers and private owners will advance this decline in personal vehicle ownership. That falls right into place as an Agenda 21 directive.
Occam, all these ecotards appear to live in warm places where it never snows and nothing bad ever happens. Like there’s never been a power failure, ferinstance. Obviously a circus act put on for the rubes.
You know what I wonder when I see them blowing smoke like this? I wonder what’s going on under the table while they’re putting on this big show.
The collision between the rainbow world of political ideologues in power and the real world is seldom pretty and too often costly.
Well said,Occam.Two days ago when it was -47C here in Edmonchuk,even the birds stayed wherever it was warm.Didn’t see one lousy coal-powered EV “car”. Funny that.Anywho,happy Groundhog Day tommorow.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=Students_create_wind-powered_golf_cart_01_02_2013?ref=ccbox_news_topstories
“This has the potential to save around $2 a day, which turns out to be about $1,000 a year,” says Gorman.
Once the EPA mandates E85 and the fuel systems of our cars corrode, the target can be met. If not, subsidies.
There’s nothing the government can’t do with enough of my money.
I’d like to see some leadership, like the presidential motorcade using EVs, and an all electric Air Force one.
Yep, 500 days in a year, 57 States in the U.S.and I can’t wait to drive my ecologically correct golf cart across the Prairies in Winter.
Makes me sick to think about all the money Obama has thrown away on ‘Green Projects.’ Then the sob has the gall to say he doesn’t have a spending problem.
ratt…if I was stealing your money,I would not have a spending problem either! Get with the pogr….er….program. And stay warm down there in Louisanna. Hope the crocs ain’t out yet!
The Volt and economics are not compatible. Over $40 000, depreciating to nothing in 10 years only tells the world you either have more money than brains, or that you are a granola crunching, tree hugging Democrat who worships Obama and don’t understand that a million more Volts on the road would have to be recharged by something other than inefficient windmills or solar panels. Coal still supplies 52% of US electricity. If they want millions of Volts on the road, they better start building more Nuclear and Coal fired plants now. Right now. Like what time is it now ? Idiots.
EV with 205 KM capacity…at 40 below…diminished to 125 KM…..turn on the heater to warm cab and defrost windows….farmer gets to end of driveway and has to walk back to get the extenssion cord to recharge. One has to wonder what the “engineers” working on these junkbuckets are thinking????
NME666 on February 1, 2013 4:01 PM
“One has to wonder what the “engineers” working on these junkbuckets are thinking????”
First establish that they really engage in thinking.
Remember “hideaway windshield wipers”…….
sasquatch, in the past I’v worked with a lot of engineers, and was not impressed by many of them, tho I must say the ones with PHD infront of their name were usually the more competent, and open to suggestion, then the college grads types!!!
Anyone see the episode of Top Gear when the boys took a couple of EVs from London to Oxford. Well they were trying to go farther than that but ran out of juice. They spent the 13 hours it to recharge the batteries having a meal getting drunk getting a tattoo etc etc etc. EVs are simply not ready for prime time. I rather doubt they ever will as they represent melding the wrong concept with the wrong power source. I would really love to see the actual use of energy taking into consideration of all the energy demands of the EV.
Who would’ve thunk that .5% of market share was something that:
1) Should be celebrated
2) Was unachievable
Awaiting “new battery technology” aka “failure mode electric bomb”.
all these ecotards appear to live in warm places where it never snows
..and for places like Phoenix, San Diego, and LA with abysmal air quality, electric cars would provide an excellent solution to pollution and transportation problems.
Most electric cars in the US sun-belt could be cheaply charged with abundant solar energy.
Scientists and engineers don’t abandon a technology just because it doesn’t work everywhere, that would be silly and foolish. The smart people use different technologies appropriately where they work the best. For most of Canada, a diesel [plug-in]hybrid is one of the most appropriate solutions for small efficient cars.
What frustrates me most about these sparky cars is this-
Who has seen the Nissan Leaf commercial? It says you could (in the future) power your home from your car – yeah, if you don’t want to be able to drive it! Also, you can charge your car on your lunch break… let’s think about that…
If a city has 1 million people and 1% buy electric cars. Let’s say it costs $10 to charge (purely hypothetical numbers here). That would be $100,000 per day in power. Over a year, that would be (estimating actual days worked as 200 / yr) $20 million / yr. Over 1 million populace that would be $20 per person. An average household is 4, so $80 per household per year.
The actual number isn’t important, the point is – why should I have to pay a cent so you can feel smug and self righteous? The ones who will pay for this stupidity are the ones who can’t afford the electrics in the first place! Revers Robin Hood thinking in action!
Long time lurker, virgin commenter, but this makes my blood boil.
Now why would politicians or eco-freaks want to let science or reality interfere with their absolutely true preconceived view of the world!!
I wonder what all these eco-tards would say, when a guy comes to them, and says we are building a nuke or coal plant in your back yard.Its to power all those electric cars. Because that solar panel you have, wont even power up my watch.You can chose between nuke or coal if you want.
that solar panel you have, wont even power up my watch
Yes, some people never do figure out how to make new technology work for them. Connecting wires correctly can be a real challenge to them. It’s obviously not for everyone.
Many people successfully use solar power all across the US sunbelt.
Houses in Alberta with solar panels run at zero net energy. Some people can make it work, others will never have enough smarts.