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Woke and broke. Much like soy meat substitutes were supposed to be the huge new thing until it turned out most people were perfectly happy eating meat. A combination of government bribes and pressure, ESG and elite echo chambers led a lot of automakers to start making electric cars that people couldn’t afford and didn’t want.
The nationwide supply of EVs in stock has swelled nearly 350% this year, to more than 92,000 units.
That’s a 92-day supply — roughly three months’ worth of EVs, and nearly twice the industry average.
For comparison, dealers have a relatively low 54 days’ worth of gasoline-powered vehicles in inventory as they rebound from pandemic-related supply chain interruptions. In normal times, there’s usually a 70-day supply.
That’s a little bit of a problem. Remember, the official 5-year-plan is to begin wiping out actual cars by 2030.
Ford expects to sell 2 million electric cars in 2025. That’s up from 61,575 last year. How do you go from selling tens of thousands of cars to millions? The carmaker didn’t even sell 2 million cars in 2023. How does it expect to sell 2 million of a type of vehicle that few want or can afford?
The Ford/Soros investment in Rivian fared poorly with the trendy electric pickup truck manufacturer spending $220,000 to make vehicles it sold for $81,000.
Ford is gonna lose a lot of money.
Ford reported that it’s going to lose $3 billion on electric cars in 2023.
Unlike most automakers, Ford reports its electric vehicle numbers separately, but experts estimate that most car companies are losing similar amounts on the dead end business.
GM plans to sell 1 million electric cars by 2025. It sold less than 40,000 in 2022.
But we’re already getting a preview of the party’s messaging which will blame car dealers for failing to sell consumers the cars they don’t want while selling them the cars that they do want.
There is a significant gap in readiness between consumers and dealers in terms of embracing electric vehicles. According to the survey, 53% of consumers feel EVs are the future and will largely replace gas engines over time, compared to only 31% of dealers. Nearly half (45%) of dealers surveyed feel that EVs still need to prove themselves in the marketplace.
Even though electric cars are piling up in dealer lots, it’s the fault of the dealers that people aren’t buying them.
“China is throwing away fields of electric cars – Letting them rot”
And what if those EVs catch fire?
Remember 9 out 10 battery powered cars are still on the road – the rest made it to the destinations
Like Fords. Can you imagine how hard their EVs suck? My TV remote control probably drives better and is damned sure more reliable….and it Sucks!
I’ll be a Toyota man till the day I die. A lot of them are made in America, unlike Ford, which has it’s largest factory in shithole Mexico.
Jeffery, Jeffery, Jeffery, you seem to have failed to educate your self….Mexico is more America then the US. It was established over 100 years as a country before the U.S. please don’t think that the US is the only country on this side of the pond that can claim the name America…..
Toyota has Massive plants in Mexico. One in particular that I have personally visited is in GuanajuatoIf by shithole you mean a country where lawlessness rules the day. Are you describing what this administration has made of this great country, you want to see a shithole? Look towards San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle. Chicago, NY.. do you need more?
Wow. Incredible. Thanks.
Thanks Daniel! One of my favorite topics.
Lack of macro-thinking ability amongst the masses.
It would be nice if there was no air pollution, but there are 8 billion humans, all using machines, all machines needing energy to work.
They want us to rub sticks together (as if that would make less pollution), to cook our bugs as we huddle in our dirt floored huts.
Cooked bugs ? Nope, we gonna have to eat them raw while our Master’s will never ever eat a bug.. Shrimp and Lobster (cooked) for sure….but no bugs….never.
And use our poop as fuel.
As the British soldiers during the Boer War used to say: Having to drink tea brewed over dung fires excuses any crime.
Our pioneer men and women used to do that with buffalo shit.
I think I’d rather eat cold food. Why not? I do it when I go camping. Canned Chef BoYardee and chili. I eat it right out of the cans and then smash them with rocks and bury them. No waste but plenty of taste.
It’s surprising how clean the planet is. actually. Outside of China and India, anyway. The Chinese are filthy (I’ve been to China) and the Ganges is an open sewer. I’ve seen people on video drinking from it! It’s shit (literally) brown! And they bathe in it daily because they think it’s holy, like cows.
Did you know cows are so dumb that they’d die without human stewardship?
Not the big bulls, though. I’ve seen free range or just plain feral bulls in the Mojave Desert that were half the size of elephants and feared nothing. They were all lean muscle and horns. One of them tore up the car of some dumb old broad I knew. It was standing in the road so she stopped to give it time to wander off but he wasn’t having any of that. He rammed her car and really tore up the front end. She had to have it towed! That’s what the dumb bitch got for buying a PT Cruiser. Quite possibly the shittiest car ever made.
I big steel tuna boat from the sixties or early seventies would probably weathered a bull attack.
I’ll tell you, when I was out hiking and I saw those brutes, I would climb onto large boulders and wait for them to leave. They would scope me out, so I knew they would’ve killed me if they got he chance. Those things are mean.
The wild donkey herds were dangerous, too.You could hear them coming though, because they’re loud and unafraid.They’ll kick you and stomp you to death if they get the chance. Even armed, it’s better to avoid them because they live in herds. Those things weren’t afraid of anything except the bulls. Everything was afraid of them, including the mountain lions and black bears.
”Did you know cows are so dumb that they’d die without human stewardship?”
Humans bred the smarts out of their heads, it was more important than quality of beef or milk.
Same was done to sheep, wild (still smartish) ones dont herd really tight. Cant control a field of sheep that dont stay together.
Our masters use the school system to make us dumb enough to herd. Ghettos help also.
All true. It’s tragic that many people are easy to herd but they are. And you’re right. Sheep are dumb.
Goats are quite clever, though. Always hungry, too.
goat taste better.
I’ll keep my V6, but thanks anyway.
They won’t let you. They’ll stop selling you gas. They will make your employment conditional on getting rid of that car. They will figure out something else to make you abandon it. The Dems are a dictatorial party, and – as opposed to Republicans – they know how to achieve their goals by hook or by crook.
They won’t stop selling gas; they will make the price so prohibitive that people will not be able to afford it. Period. It’s all part of the monstrous plan. We might see communal sharing of automobiles in the future. Good Gawd.
Market economies work. Command economies don’t.
Biden has replaced the invisible hand with the middle digit.
He had to as a servant of our democracy: he holds an eighty-one million vote mandate.
You remember this as a key campaign issue, of course.
It was a key plank in the Democrat platform of 2020, as Biden barnstormed the country, pulling in crowds measured in tens, if not hundreds of thousands of voters demanding the shredding of everything.
He is keeping his promises and doing it right.
He’s doing it for America, just like Ferdinand does it for Elsie.
Barnstormed? Biden barely existed during the 2020 campaign. Likewise for his meager crowds. His handlers couldn’t let him act out his feebleness in public.
He’s being sarcastic.
Well said Sid. Thanks!
That’s not a car, that’s a miniature golf cart. Where’s ralph nader when you need him? Oh yea, he’s all for THESE things.
We need an electric Corvair.
Oh man, those were ugly cars. People used to make fun of Edsels but the Corvair wins the booby prize for all time ugliest car. Those things made Pintos look good.
I still like them, looks too. You can mount a V6 in one and it screams. Compare the steel in them to one of those compact beer cans they’re peddling now. It’s no contest.
That’s what I said! A moped would be a better buy. Do you remember those things? And scooters. Scooters are popular in foreign countries. Dumbass foregners.
I saw an autopsy once. the guy had been riding a scooter. One of my students had her “poppa” killed on a scooter, too. They’re even more dangerous on roads than bicycles.
You need to think like a nefarious, lying, communist aka democrat. The democrats running the auto plants fully expect democrats to steal the 2024 election and then cancel gas and diesel vehicles. The auto makers are setting up in preparation for the full blown communism they know is coming. Republicans plan for the here and now while democrats plan for the future. Inch by bloody pedophile inch democrats continually gain ground. Democrats know that any bi-partition compromise means republicans gave away half of what they wanted while democrats get everything they actually wanted.
Don’t suppose China’s new restrictions on the export of cobalt and lithium (which will drive up the cost of electric cars even above their current high prices) will have any effect on electricity car sales.
If they decide to make only EV’s the Automakers will soon go bust and its all over a totally fake crisis. Biden needs to be moved back to the Basement with Life Sentence for Treason and Abuse of Power
One person with a pillow could make the world a much better place.
So you believe in free markets and free enterprise. All the major carmakers are turning to EVs. American, European, Japanese, all of them. That’s because they know the market is shifting in that direction. Sure, they will lose money in the short term (at least most of them), and some of them will not survive. That’s how markets work. But EVs are coming.
When you refer to gas-powered cars as “actual cars” that’s just your pathetic, microscopic attempt to pretend the market is not going where it’s going. Within the next few decades, as infrastructure is put in place and the technology continues to improve, car fleets around the world will turn electric. This is happening. Toyota, Ford, and Volkswagen are not charitable organizations, nor are they woke communist Islamist pedophiles trying to take away your freedom.
As always, you’re completely full of shit. No wonder your teeth are brown.
“So you believe in free markets and free enterprise. All the major carmakers are turning to EVs. American, European, Japanese, all of them. That’s because they know the market is shifting in that direction”
It’s because the US and EU are moving to outlaw cars by the 2030s and they’ve been led to believe that the only way they can sell cars is to make and push EVs
This is the opposite of the free market.
There are three hundred million vehicles on U.S. roads. It’s impossible to replace them with magical EVs. There isn’t even enough raw materials to make that many batteries. And there is no infrastructure to support them and it would be impossible to build.
You have shit for brains, as all left-wing fantasists do. The only mass produced electric cars were slot cars in the 60s.
Cretin.
No, the market is not shifting…..governments are coercing the market into a product that is not ready and will likely never be ready to fit the use of everyone. The sad thing is the government is requiring the auto makers into bankruptcy because there will be almost none of them left after this whole thing implodes on itself. The auto makers on their own would never have put such a short time frame on stopping an efficient clean technology like the IC engine and putting into place a sub par replacement like batteries without the government telling them to…the market sure did not demand it.
keep in mind that car dealers, like beer distributors, are typically much more conservative in ownership. That is why the corporate behemoths are attacking them. We saw this with bud light.
You know, I didn’t drink Bud Light before Dylan Mulvaney pranced along to annoy us all, and I never will, but they had some funny commercials in the past. Rodney Dangerfield, a bunch of famous athletes and celebrities. and Joe Piscopo, who’s underrated.
This Whole Thing is”Back-to-Front”!!!The”Manufacturers”Don’t Decide”The Market”!!!The PEOPLE DO!!!!!!!!!!!
Here are a lot of facts you may find interesting to say the least. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUe4xbDX1j0
Tyranny it may be but remember “socialism/communism” does not work. Eventually, even in 1990 Russia, it fails. Americans are even more dedicated to Liberty. If you think TX is going to stop selling gasoline, you have another thing coming. I still have my gas powered vehicles; (all trucks and SUVs). I just switched to a gas stove. Most importantly, there are 400 million guns in the USA; What do you thinks gonna happen?
Gas stoves are good. Even if your electricity goes out you can light a range with a match or lighter. And you can cook hot dogs campfire style, which is the best.
That’s a car in the photo? I’ve seen golf carts that are bigger.
There are some really cool ones that the oldsters drive like cars in the Palm Springs area. Some of them look like 4 bys with big raised wheels. They may be four wheel drive for all I know. They like their golf carts in those communities. People drive them like cars in Sun City CA, too. It’s basically a retirement community. I’ll give those people credit. They probably don’t feel up to driving cars anymore and they choose safety over selfishness.
Another irritating point about soy meat substitutes. If someone is a vegetarian anyway, why would they want a meat substitute, if they can’t stand meat in the first place?
That does seem odd.
But having written that, there’s an Asian vegetarian restaurant near my apartment that has really tasty meat substitutes. They don’t taste like meat so a vegetarian could eat them without puking. I don’t really know what they taste like except good. Not like any meat. And the restaurant has more than one kind. The ones I ate weren’t soy. I don’t know what they were composed of. It tasted very good so I assume it wasn’t composed of something disgusting, like swamp slime. Better not to know, maybe?
It’s said women decide which car models to buy 70% of the time. You’d be hard pressed to get most women to agree to an EV and its charging and driving limits and needs. Especially when driving alone — or with kids in tow.
You have a better chance of being killed in an EV than an ICE car.
“ICE” car. I had to look that up. “Internal combustion engine.” I should’ve intuited that.
Always stick with the classics, I say. An ICE car is like a good book. Not likely to let you down anytime soon.
Batteries suck.
A fascist government dictating corporate policy, like Mussolini. Ordering a company to make products that won’t sell may be the quickest way for a fascist government to cause the collapse of a capitalist system.
“Beloved, be quick to repent of your pride and relinquish the need to be in control.
Why make Me wait and delay My Divine Deliverance and wonder-working Power to perform Miracles in the midst of you, because you have chosen to rather explore and exhaust all other man-made ideas and quick fix solutions?”
“When will you let go of human intellect and understanding, and Look to Me alone?”
I’m one of the elitist BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) owners…a Tesla. I love driving the thing. Smooth, quite, fast, less maintenance by an order of magnitude, wake up every morning and it is full of charge ready to go 250 miles w/o ever going into a cold & rainy filling station, cheap home electricity. Did I say “fast?” Yeah…really fast…instantly. Do not drive one unless you are ready to say goodbye to your old ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles. You may be eating a lot of crow, as I had to do.
They are not for everyone. Expensive initially, need to charge at home, smallish, poor resale when battery ages out, scarce and dirty resources to manufacture, expensive to repair, hassle to charge in long distance driving, most are ugly… yeah, you probably are not meant for one of these things.
You’re a lying sack of shit. EVs don’t perform at those levels. Far from it. They suck crusty Taliban ass.
Like I said, if you are invested as a BV hater, do not drive one because you will most likely be eating a lot of crow.
You just can’t stop lying, can you? The deficits of EVs are well documented. Crusty. Taliban. Ass.
Obviously you have never been in one, much less driven one. Don’t. You won’t believe how much better they are to drive.
The Flintstones had it right… no bottom to the car and your feet do the propulsion… zero emissions success.
Interesting study by Finish engineers delving into the greeny stated goal of a carbon neutral (Net Zero) society by 2050 calculated against the physical requirements of what it would take to produce just the materials to fulfill that goal by what we know of today’s technology. A list of the minerals to build such a power grid is provided and how much of each would be needed measured against presently known reserves of those minerals plus current production rates. As a for instance, take lithium as an example. According to this study of that presently critical substance there will be a need for 944,000,000 tons by the 2050 first generation of neutral carbon infrastructure buildout and presently known reserves stands at 22,000,000 tons, which means we currently know of but 2.3% of what will be needed. At current rates of production of lithium it will take 9920 years to produce what is theoretically needed by 2050, 27 years away. Incredible shortfall, and this is but one of the materials falling far short of foreseeable production capacity.
Certainly there will be technological advances and changes in the future to energy production, storage & use. We have been promised viable fusion energy (holy grail of energy production) for at least since my youth in the 50’s. Advances are not part of the “plan” nor should they be. Is the colossally expensive Net Zero goal and “plan” a viable goal or even worthwhile at this point? This study more than suggests “no, with receipts.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/new_geological_study_proves_that_the_green_energy_movement_is_impossible_to_achieve.html
Video of podcast with the chief author, Simon Michaux —
All lies. And ridiculous ones at that.
@Jeff Bargholz You denigrate EV’s and the net zero goal, right? You might want to actually read my post above and the article it covers. Had you read it with any comprehension other than knee-jerk repudiation, you will find it your best evidence why net zero will be a huge dud.
The Finns are retarded dunkards. and that “study” is as reliable as the Alzheimer Joe administration.
You blow leperous camels and goats.
Golf courses are going to be overrun with Teslas. Got a foursome? No problem. Take the first four Teslas on the right near the 1st tee.
The lightest Tesla weighs near 4000 lbs. A tad too heavy for golf turf.
And they have the tendency to spontaneously burst into flames, especially in floods, for some odd reason..
As if gasoline cars do not explode from time to time much more often…