16 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

  2. OMG

    Those cars are catching up quick, why, in 300 years they will equate the number of ICE vehicles on the road.

  4. the ever ready wabbit is checking this out, as ever ready has threatened to close their D cell battery factory because of slow sales

  5. Yea and that minuscule number is only because of subsidies, which there should be none of. People or companies can pay the price for vehicles like everyone else. None of this subsidy welfare garbage.

    1. Here’s the real facts. DESPITE the heavy subsidies by Morontariowe and B.C. governments, these cars are failing to catch for three reasons at least:
      1 Fugliness
      2 Range Factor
      3 High cost of the vehicle, even with the subsidy.
      The danger here is that a far left government could diktat severe rules to force its Deplorables out of ICE cars. Look what the Eurotrash has done, to that extent. It’s citizens are true sheep, between the Muslim Hordes and green theocracy, their people are sheep being led to the slaughter.

  6. Hybrids will have to get down to within a few hundred bucks of a comparable non-hybrid in order to be genuinely viable. The real world says 5-7 mpg improvement overall on something like a Fusion or Escape. If it already averages 35 mpg, then 40 mpg isn’t even a tank of gas a month saved. If the payment is $25/mo more, but only saves $30/mo in gas, it’s not going to sell. That becomes especially true when you factor in that used hybrids do not pull a premium.
    Then there’s the see/touch/feel factor. Back when I sold cars, you could sell a loaded Grand Voyager with the $650 sterero easier than you could sell an identically priced one that had $650 anti-lock brakes instead of the stereo.
    The only people stepping up to the hybrid cost are the true believers. The rest are opting for luxury/style options over the hybrid for the same money. Problem is, the true believers are just a really tiny bunch. Worse, most of them are posers. Most of the market for hybrids are people who haven’t bought a new car since Reagan. They just think the rest of us should be driving them. While they drive 1987 Subarus and Nissans.

  7. Sure alternate vehicle sales are flat but never underestimate the power of a small cult. Think of Jim Jones, or the three green MLAs in BC who are holding a gun to the head of a whole country. A flea on the tail is wagging the dog.
    If women ran the world – you would have the first socialist, unwed woman prime minister going on mat leave. OK, not a big deal but seems to be a big headline today. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/this-countrys-leader-is-unmarried-pregnant-and-going-on-maternity-leave/ar-AAw0CQG?li=AAggFp5
    What could possibly go wrong? She’s the same woman who banned offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/12/new-zealand-bans-all-new-offshore-oil-exploration-as-part-of-carbon-neutral-future
    There you have it, electric vehicles will be the top selling car in the US through legislation enacted by a president with prego brain.

  8. I’m surprised that electric and hybrid cars sales are so low.

    Evidently, there are fewer Social Justice Warriors out there then we’ve been led to believe.

    It takes about 4.5 watts of electricity to run the human brain. So how many S.J.W.s connected up would be enough to run an electric car… since they’re not using more than .5 watts. Lights on, no one home.

    Okay, too difficult, how about to run a blender?

  10. There have been several economic studies done, and I trust the one done by Lomborg, showing that the extra emissions required to build an all electric won’t be recouped until up to 80,000 miles of use. Given the lack of range it’s likely the original purchaser will never see that amount, and given battery deterioration, the car may never see that amount. At the very least you would need to reset the counter for the emissions created by the manufacture of the new batteries.
    Any study that shows better performance is assuming all renewable energy to charge which happens exactly nowhere.
    An article about the Lomborg analysis is here.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324128504578346913994914472

    1. As someone who KEEPS and maintains his toys and doesn’t “believe” in a disposable society … you know … a conservative, who believes in conservation … I keep my automobiles well past 250k miles. I have no hesitation doing that with today’s sophisticated ICE engines that aren’t even “broken-in” till 100k mi. … however … I KNOW that I will be swapping-out my battery pack (in Tesla’s case, the entire undercarriage of my automobile) at 100k Miles. Sorry. But THAT is NOT a conservation lifestyle. Apple has actually PROGRAMMED obsolescence into my iPhone! There’s no way I will purchase a Tesla at 30-100x the cost of my iPhone … just for the pleasure of replacing it every 2-3 years. I will leave that to my fellow coastal elites who compete with one another to always purchase the … latest thing.

      1. Yea, I’m with you on that Kenji….still driving my 06 D’Max. 313k on the clock – gets a respectable 21mpg hiway (even an Envoy can’t do that.!). I continue to maintain it and replace what needs to whenever it needs doing. Far Far cheaper than buying a new issue plagued “connected” truck.

        Who would want a Tesla or any EV for that matter..?? They are an expensive unreliable joke for those who would pontificate (and do), about how they are saving the world.

        Good – you go soyboy/girl. I’ll stick with my “zero emissions crap” tuned 06 truck. And enjoy passing him/her going uphill on a 6% grade with my 5th Wheel at 70mph…adios muchacho..

      2. Kenji, we have a Hyundai with 182 on it. 12 years old and runs and looks like new. maintenance is all.

  11. I kind of liken the electric vehicle utopians to the people who were trying to build perpetual motion machines or to alchemists.

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