See, it’s not the exorbitant cost
Here’s the biggest hurdle facing America’s EV revolution
The Biden administration just unveiled some of the most aggressive auto climate rules in the world – the latest step for an administration that has gone all-in on EVs. But America’s EV transition could soon stumble: not because of high car costs or a lack of automaker support, but thanks to the country’s broken and dysfunctional public charging system.
How can it be broken and dysfunctional when it really hasn’t been built out yet?
Most electric vehicle drivers charge their vehicles at home. But as Americans buy EVs – to the tune of 7 percent of all new vehicle registrations in January – more and more people are finding that the public charging system is unreliable, inconvenient and simply confusing.
Surprise? These things take time. And someone has to pay for them. Seriously, with so many living in apartments and homes with no garages, there would need to be a lot more. Oh, look, there are gas stations everywhere.
The Working Class Isn’t Down with the Green Transition
Nothing defines the Democratic economic strategy more than a single-minded focus on fighting climate change—an “existential crisis” as Biden, other top Democrats and a galaxy of Democratic-leaning pundits have termed it. In practice this has meant restructuring the economy around “green” industries and a rapid transition to an energy system based around wind and solar. Democratic elites and activists are very, very committed to this approach and are willing to pay high costs to make it happen. In the end, they assert, not only will the existential crisis be averted, but everyone will be happy and prosperous. In the meantime—well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs!
But did anyone ask the working class whether they wanted to sign up in the climate change army? Public opinion data have repeatedly indicated that the climate change issue does not have high salience for these voters and they are not terribly interested in making sacrifices for the cause. Recent data underscore these voters’ lack of commitment.
- In a new Monmouth poll, just one percent of working-class (noncollege) voters in an open-ended question identify climate change as the biggest concern facing their family. On the other hand, half of working-class voters say actions of the federal government in the last six months have actually hurt their family’s main concern; only 9 percent say federal action has helped. And 55 percent of working-class voters believe that “middle-class families” have not been helped at all by Biden’s policies. Hmm…
- The Biden administration is putting on the full court press for electric vehicles. But the working class is not too interested. In a new Gallup poll, just 2 percent of working-class respondents say they currently own an electric vehicle and a mere 9 percent say they are “seriously considering” purchasing one.
There are several more points, here’s one I really want to note
Critically, in terms of costs Americans would be willing to absorb to fight climate change, the survey finds that just 38 percent of Americans would be willing to pay even $1 extra on their monthly household energy expenses to combat climate change. That’s the lowest figure since AP-NORC started asking this question in 2016. It’s down 14 points since 2021 and an amazing 19 points since its high point in 2018.
It dips to just 31% are willing to pay $10, and down and down as the cost goes up. The rest of the article makes clear that this will all bone the working class hard. There’s something else in that poll. While 8 in 10 cite the dearth of charging stations as a reason not to buy an EV
Across income levels, about 8 in 10 Americans cite the cost of new electric vehicles as a reason why they would not buy one.
Seven in 10 say they would not purchase one because they take too long to charge and the battery technology isn’t ready.
So, the Washington Post had one part correct, but, it is way more than that.
As you posted yesterday demand for EVs is still higher than supply with many EVs going over sticker price.
But supply is ramping up with more factories being built.
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Anheuser Busch stock up again in premarket transactions.
Only 20% of Bud Light drinkers are old people (55+) like you Teach. Beveragedynamics.com
That’s because teh beer drinkers are drinking other AB products, but not Queer Beer. Bud light as it used to be called before they put a skinny transvestite in the can has dropped 80%. Luckily for AB they own a dozen other brands that can help pick up the slack.
I don’t know what business you’re in but in any normal business a loss of 20% of customers signals bankruptcy. But I fail to see what the age demo has to do with not wanting to associate with perverts..
Demand for EV’s (after 5 years of unrelenting propaganda, brainwashing and not so subtle government force and coercion, not to mention billions, perhaps trillions in subsidies) is up proving FORCE works for you tyrants. Sadly. Why is it so hard for you guys to allow the customers dictate the the market?
It amazes us that you commies believe youve succeeded after years of government force, threats, propaganda and bribery caused demand to skyrocket to 7%. LOL
Demand for ALL cars is high, with people paying over sticker, not just EVs. Been looking on cars.com and prices even for used are high.
Dear H:
Things are going so good the CEO is apologizing:
“After a weeklong $6.6 billion loss in share value, executives at AB InBev, parent company of Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light brand, have decided to shelve its “partnership” with Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender “influencer” whose appearance on a can triggered a nationwide backlash.
Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth issued a statement that effectively repudiated the Mulvaney deal, although it did not reference the personality by name.
“I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew,” Mr. Whitworth wrote. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.
News of the walkback surfaced Thursday when Rogan O’Handley, who publishes an online newsletter called DC Draino, tweeted that marketing for Bud Light had been “put on hold.” A week earlier, Mr. O’Handley asserted that sources at the company told him corporate executives were angry about the release of the Bud Light can with the influencer’s image.
He wrote: “It wasn’t posted on any [Anheuser-Busch/Bud Light] social medias [sic] & the leading theory is that a Leftist manager secretly did it on their own to push trans agenda. New PR statement expected. Possible lawsuit ”
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The Washington Post said:
Who could expect investors to build public charging stations before there were many electric vehicles on the road?
I still laugh about the Wawa at the junction of PA 61 and I-78: six Tesla charging stations, one blocked because someone had parked an older, gasoline-engine vehicle in front of it, and the other five unused, while the 12 double-pump gasoline lines, 24 fuel pumps, were full, with cars waiting their turn.
EV boy-why are EVs needed? “Demand for EVs higher…” . Higher due to mandates isn’t really saying anything, is it? Why the mandates?
How does paying an extra dollar on each of your energy bills, “combat climate change”? No, it only makes the energy company richer and you poorer for being that stupid.
There is no disastrous climate change. There are no dangerous rising seas. There are no ramping up storm systems.
I”m more worried about solar flares and nuclear winter than I am about a 0.02 rise in temps over the next 50 years due to coming out of our last glaciation.
Scientists claim that we’ve had 2-100 glaciations. Trust the science.
Yet, what started the glaciation? What ended them? We weren’t driving our cars and operating businesses around those times, so, it wasn’t us. Scientists can’t fully understand what leads to and ends glaciations, and therefore are incapable of understanding climate change.
Hey, don’t fret captainfish, leftists believe they can actually change the climate as well as change sexes. They are all anti science.
Just got home from a driving trip to southern Kali to visit the kids, there are some stretches of I-10/I-8 that make you keep an eye on your fuel gauge and range calculation. An EV could be an unnerving drive as chargers aren’t real common in some of the more ‘rural’ areas. Careful planning would be required.
The problem, as I see it, is that EV demand, while existent, isn’t enough to drive the market. The build-out of a charging network will be necessary to increase demand. Currently, Tesla is building a network and there are some smaller companies getting into the charging business. While the government is proposing building charging stations, I can’t think of a more inept way to do this, overpriced, poorly located, badly managed, and poorly maintained are some adjectives (adverbs?) that come to mind describing a government charging network.
Besides, no one has mentioned the 1,000 lb. gorilla sitting just off stage, inadequate electrical grid to support a true nationwide charging system.
I’m not buying one just yet.
EV’s have no character. They make no varoom and creep along silently. Driving an EV is like fuking a dead woman. So if you’re into necrophilia an EV might just be for you.
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