Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[RoyJackson]

This guy will put ALL vehicle manufacturers out of business. All of them.View attachment 723489

Who is this guy?

 

[Doughknob]

Wage stagnation while the 1% rake in all the profits of increased productivity is a political issue - not a natural consequence of progress.

What does this mean?

 

[Doughknob]

Who is this guy?

Really? U dont know the richest man on the planet?

 

[RoyJackson]

Who is this guy?

Guess it didn't look like Elon Musk to me...

I don't expect he'll put anybody out of business...except maybe NASA

 

[Roric]

The broader background is that our (Western, for the most part) "leaders" decided to eradicate manufacturing decades ago.

Detroit has never really been interested in building low-end affordable vehicles. Aside from Tesla, what makes the news here now ? F150E, MachE - that's about it.

I can't afford a toy (meaning - Just Fun) car, and a full-size truck that I can't drive non-stop across the continent doesn't make sense to me. But, that's Just Me....

Mandated EVs will accelerate this trend of declining manufacturing. People who can't or won't spend @ or near what a Tesla will cost will probably have to look off-shore.

I really don't want to have to pick from what PRC will be allowed/wants to send here for EVs, so I'll likely be shopping Korean if/when I do.

I'll be watching closely (nothing new there) what comes out of Japan, but as I'm old enough to find the CAD price of a modern Civic eye-watering (and, I generally liked the older Hondas), I'm not holding my breathe for a Japanese EV offering that hits my budget. I'm more interested in what happens there with Hydrogen.

May you Live In Interesting Times.....

Rgds, D.

Check out the Mitsubishi Outlander OHEV. We own a 2021 (usually for short trips, but will do long
ones too) Well engineered, well-mannered partial EV. One tank was 110mpg.
best to ya

 

[Roric]

Meant PHEV, All Thumbs in the way

 

[California]

Volvo ad. You can ignore the middle (crash tests). The point they want to make about EV's is in the last 10%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/r8mysk

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Volvo ad. You can ignore the middle (crash tests). The point they want to make about EV's is in the last 10%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/r8mysk

I wish people wouldn't mix climate change in with EVS cuz there's not a connection there per Elon musk. He states there is no scientific evidence proving that humans are causing global warming. His point is we need to save our petroleum products of all the many many things that we require for our human life today from medicine fertilizers and everything else but the main reason for EVS is just they are cost less money to operate and own.

 

[not2old]

$6 gas?
Where do you come up with this BS?

Current price at the corner store is $1.48 litre. x4.5= more than $6.00 per gallon. Canadian dollar and Imperial gallon. Convert to U.S. gallon and $US and it's still over that. I still need my pick-up even at 9 miles per gallon but did just 800KM last year.(500 miles) My dirt bike uses 94 octane at $1.69 litre. Unaffordable gas is closer to you than Europe.

 

[California]

Wage stagnation while the 1% rake in all the profits of increased productivity is a political issue - not a natural consequence of progress.

What does this mean?

Response when someone posted that wages aren't keeping up with inflation. (a couple of pages back).

Best examples are where the employees of Musk and Bezos (Amazon), richest people in the world at the moment, aren't living any better than someone in a traditional industry. The Boomer '50s when one good union job would support a family, are long gone.

Henry Ford raised wages above the industry standard so his employees could buy his cars. Musk? I doubt someone assembling his cars can afford one.