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Yes, it's only right.
Hertz car rental is dropping 20,000 EV cars for gas powered.
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bertsmobile1
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We tried to tax EV's to compensate for the lack of fuel excise but it got overturned in the high ( your Supreme ) court .
It all goes back to one E Musk , the reincarnation of P T Barnham who pretended to be on a save the planet crusade when like most excessively wealthy he was only in t for the money honey .
Then he tapped into the conspiracy theory nutters and for some reason the bulk of the population will swallow a conspiracy theory hook , line, sinker, rod , reel & boat .
Where a few seconds of actual though would have revealed the truth.
The only conspiracy between auto makers & the fuel engine is the continued "upgrading" of models by fitted a bigger engine, which is also done by mower companies .
Just about every auto maker had spent a small fortune on R & D into EV's and rejected the models , for good reason.
And like I have said from the start, if Musk really wanted to combat air pollution then his first model would have been a taxi cab, followed by a 1 ton delivery van then a 2 ton delivery van rather than a 200 mph penis extension .
When we were trying to clean up Sydneys air there was a subsidy for converting taxis to LPG and within 2 years almost the entire 7,000 cabs were running on LPG
Then there was a business subsidy to convert new van to LPG and again 2/3 of the 16,000 1 ton delivery vans were LPG powered because business owners can do maths.The fact that there has been no interest in E-vans speaks buckets about the truth of the Electric Messiah's promises .
Give him his due respect, the new Tesla motors are excellent & a work of pure engineering porn so if a reliable battery ev emerges then the drive train is there ready to go
However I can not see any business buying anE_V with a Lithium battery after the Luton air port fire as the total physical damage bill is now over £ 200,000,000 and still rising as the airlines are yet to make claims .
Now all insurance policies have a claim payment limit ( read your fine print ) and none of them extend to £ 200,000,000 ( or the US $ equivalent ) so that leaves the vehicle owner holding the bag .
Now imagine if that happened t a Fed-ex van under a multistory building which due to the damage the extreme heat generated had to be demolished in say New York ?
It all goes back to one E Musk , the reincarnation of P T Barnham who pretended to be on a save the planet crusade when like most excessively wealthy he was only in t for the money honey .
Then he tapped into the conspiracy theory nutters and for some reason the bulk of the population will swallow a conspiracy theory hook , line, sinker, rod , reel & boat .
Where a few seconds of actual though would have revealed the truth.
The only conspiracy between auto makers & the fuel engine is the continued "upgrading" of models by fitted a bigger engine, which is also done by mower companies .
Just about every auto maker had spent a small fortune on R & D into EV's and rejected the models , for good reason.
And like I have said from the start, if Musk really wanted to combat air pollution then his first model would have been a taxi cab, followed by a 1 ton delivery van then a 2 ton delivery van rather than a 200 mph penis extension .
When we were trying to clean up Sydneys air there was a subsidy for converting taxis to LPG and within 2 years almost the entire 7,000 cabs were running on LPG
Then there was a business subsidy to convert new van to LPG and again 2/3 of the 16,000 1 ton delivery vans were LPG powered because business owners can do maths.The fact that there has been no interest in E-vans speaks buckets about the truth of the Electric Messiah's promises .
Give him his due respect, the new Tesla motors are excellent & a work of pure engineering porn so if a reliable battery ev emerges then the drive train is there ready to go
However I can not see any business buying anE_V with a Lithium battery after the Luton air port fire as the total physical damage bill is now over £ 200,000,000 and still rising as the airlines are yet to make claims .
Now all insurance policies have a claim payment limit ( read your fine print ) and none of them extend to £ 200,000,000 ( or the US $ equivalent ) so that leaves the vehicle owner holding the bag .
Now imagine if that happened t a Fed-ex van under a multistory building which due to the damage the extreme heat generated had to be demolished in say New York ?
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I look at it as just another way to collect revenue. They have been doing without that tax since Arkansas was established. They could do without it from now on.
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Personally, I don't get all the objections to EV's. I like new technology. With new technology, comes new technology to make it great.
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I have no problem with people driving EVs but if I have to pay road use taxes so do they.
Yes that was a problem in the early days for the auto industry but the thing about it was you could carry cans of fuel with you. Trouble with EVs is you can't carry spare batteries with you. There aren't enough charging stations around and the infra structrue is not able to support the addition of charge stations to support the EV industry. Another problem is it takes too long to charge the batteries. That tied to the range of some of the EVs. I drive a Geo Metro that gets in the 40s. Was at Walmart one day and a family pulled in next to me and guy ask what kind of milage I got. I told him his wife poped in and said we don't get gas milage we have an EV. I ask what the range on it was he said about 150 miles and how long it took to charge it. He said 8 hours. It was a Nissan Leaf. I ask him how long it would take him to get to California. Hope he would not be in a hurry to get there. LOL
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Agreed, but don't force folks into them.. Like the mandated shots. See how well that went.
And I don't think that we have seen the full effect of those yet.
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My main with EVs is two fold. one is the range and the other is charging times. And now comes the cost of repairs too. Only the rich can afford these EV right now and even they are complaining about costs to maintain them.
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