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

  1. The F-150 goes less than 100 miles pulling a midsize 5th Wheel. The thing is plain stupid and people who buy them are stupid.

    Then there is the new GM Electric Hummer. Someone hits your tail lights ever so slightly and breaks them without any other car damage and you are out over $6000 !! For taillights?
    It weighs 9,000 lbs. and has a real range of about 175 miles. That is also a stupid vehicle bought by stupid people aka Democrats.

    1. Plus it goes from 0 to 60 in just 3 seconds, but getting that 9.000lb beast stopped is another story. Yeah real stupid GM. Build a fast truck but forgot how to stop it.

    2. It’s one level of stupid if these were going for $50k.

      They list new for $140k.

      That’s a SPECIAL kind of stupid. Unme and Allah level STUPID. A fool and his money are soon parted!

      1. WOW!!!!! The Ford F150 Electric made it only about 96 miles before needing recharging but the Hummer totally CRUSHED it!!!

        It went 127 miles – of course they had to disconnect the trailer to get to the 350 Kwh charger. That took 30 minutes. Usual cost $31.00. So 100 miles @ $31.00 is not cheap. The big Ram truck was $50 for 100 miles a 10 mpg.

        Cost $114,000 for the Hummer and you get to go 100 miles and then what? I live in Montana – good luck charging your overpriced TANK. I couldn’t even make Missoula from where I live in Whitefish.

        Coal consumption – 200 lbs. of coal needs to be burned to produce the electricity to charge this stupid Hummer. Here’s the math. 1 ton of coal produces 2,460 Kwh. The Hummer charge is 246 Kwh.

        Lastly the Hummer is $50,000 more than the Dodge RAM.. That’s 10,000 gallons of diesel at $5.00 gallon or 130,000 miles when not towing. Pretty much about 10 years of driving at 13,000 miles a year.

  2. Making Toyota president Akio Toyoda look like a genius. He’s taken a lot of heat lately by stating the world simply isn’t ready for EVs and why his company is focusing on Hydrogen and E/gas hybrids.
    He also talked about auto industry insiders or the “silent majority”, as he calls them who know the truth but are reluctant to state the obvious.

    2. why his company is focusing on Hydrogen and E/gas hybrids

      I don’t think “going insane, just slightly more slowly” is much of a flex. Hydrogen is a terrible fuel and is incredibly challenging to handle – not because of the safety, that’s overblown, but because it’s corrosive and leaks constantly.

      The insanity is that there’s something wrong with fossil fuels. There isn’t. Beyond the general problems of incomplete combustion products, they’re the safest, most effective fuels we know.

    1. I agree that hybrids make more sense than straight electric but be aware that their gasoline engines often suffer short lives. This is because they are constantly being shut off while driving. This is bad news for an engine in cold temperatures. Excess condensation can build up in the engine oil and dilute it. It also causes increased sludge build-up inside the engine as well. During my 44 year career as an automotive service advisor I was with Nissan for almost 27 years and dealt with the Altima hybrid often.

      1. Ken
        Some retooling would fix much of those problems. Dry sump with oil extraction filters, or keep the thing idling to keep motor warm. Trouble is there is too much engineering by bean counters in the industry.
        GM’s 3.8 was a good engine when first introduced, but after more than 20 years, it was long in tooth.

    1. Garry
      Edsel was a good car, mostly poor timing on it’s introduction. Most people are poorly informed about the automotive industry.

      2. Actually, the biggest root problem with the Edsel was it’s assembly was on the same factory line as the full size Fords and Mercurys of that time. Edsel had been planned to be built on its own line in an old unused Continental assembly building. However, Continental had plans to build the new Mark II there in 1956 and forced Edsel to use the Ford/Merc line instead. I believe it was the massive Rouge plant assembly line. The assembly guys hated the Edsel because it ruined their rhythm. The Edsel also used many different parts than the Fords and Mercurys. Remember, this was the fifties. The cars were largely assembled by men on the lines with power tools and boxes of parts. The Fords and Mercs were high volume and the Edsels were not. So an Edsel only came down the line intermittently and caused the guys to break their ‘stride’. They slapped them together to get them out of the way. Fact. Read the book “Ford – The Men and the Machine”. Great book.

  6. You would think? that they would make energy as cheap as possible to sell the damned things.. Nope..

  7. So what could be wrong with the battery? I got a chuckle out of a EV promo on Facebook where one commenter pointed out that the EVs don’t travel very far in cold weather. Some EV fan said that they were using heat pumps to extend the battery duration in cold weather. To which the original poster asked “Well what powers the heat pump”. There was no answer given.

  9. Interesting. For Ford shares to crater like that … the entire investment community must BELIEVE that EV’s are FORD’s only future. We are being herded into this EV “transition” by the likes of Vanguard and Blackrock and every other ESG muthafkcuah Corporate PIG.

  10. Technically speaking, there’s now two Ford business units- Ford Model E and Ford Blue. Ford Blue is behind the good vehicles- F-series, Broncos, Mustangs, etc. Ford Model E is gonna be a problem…

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