Off-Topic The Car Thread

[SpikeUM]

As EV sales grow, battle over U.S. road weight limits heats up

Car haulers are pushing the Biden administration and lawmakers to increase truck weight limits on U.S. highways so they can transport more heavy electric vehicles, a move fiercely opposed by the rail industry and safety advocates who say the heavier loads are significantly more dangerous.

www.reuters.com

 

[GojiraCane]

Article today from Reuters, quoting an Experian survey.

- EV buyers are mostly affluent and mostly Gen Xers and Millennials. Experian identifies some of the main demographic groups buying EVs as “American Royalty,” “Couples with Clout,” “Philanthropic Sophisticates” and “Cosmopolitan Achievers.”

It sounds like a giant base of people to market to.

 

[Brains]

I will never stop driving an internal combustion engine.

 

[GojiraCane]

I will never stop driving an internal combustion engine.

You will if gasoline production is shuttered in favor of a full EV transition in a few decades.

 

[Tony4Canes]

Not sure about Jedd but I'm old and will not be around to see this cluster**** of our future

 

[Brains]

Not sure about Jedd but I'm old and will not be around to see this cluster**** of our future

I'm 35

 

[Brains]

You will if gasoline production is shuttered in favor of a full EV transition in a few decades.

That would be an exceptionally stupid maneuver, but I suppose I should not underestimate the capacity for self-destruction.

 

[Brains]

It sounds like a giant base of people to market to.

"Couples with Clout." Who writes this stuff?

 

[JD08]

That would be an exceptionally stupid maneuver, but I suppose I should not underestimate the capacity for self-destruction.

Too many small engines, historic vehicles, and other gas engines around for it to go away completely in our lifetimes.

 

[SpikeUM]

I will never stop driving an internal combustion engine.

 

[SpikeUM]

That would be an exceptionally stupid maneuver, but I suppose I should not underestimate the capacity for self-destruction.

Dont move to looneyfornia

 

[Brains]

Dont move to looneyfornia

There's next to zero chance of that ever happening.

 

[SpikeUM]

There's next to zero chance of that ever happening.

In a related note, I have two dear friends that retired (separately) to Portland years ago; they loved it until the last few years, with the lefty loonies/antifa made life uncomfortable. One is moving out, they like colder weather, so they are looking at Wyoming, ND etc. The other told me they are now too old to move, they just wish they hadnt moved there.

 

[Brains]

In a related note, I have two dear friends that retired (separately) to Portland years ago; they loved it until the last few years, with the lefty loonies/antifa made life uncomfortable. One is moving out, they like colder weather, so they are looking at Wyoming, ND etc. The other told me they are now too old to move, they just wish they hadnt moved there.

That sucks. Important to do a lot of on-the-ground research before moving anywhere.

 

[PanteraCanes]

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That vehicle probably has to haul equipment. So it needs the power of internet combustion engine or it wouldn’t move.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

You will if gasoline production is shuttered in favor of a full EV transition in a few decades.

No he won’t. We and billions of others will be dead shortly after that happens.

 

[GojiraCane]

That vehicle probably has to haul equipment. So it needs the power of internet combustion engine or it wouldn’t move.

I suspect that the future (20 - 30 years) will see large hauling vehicles transitioned to synthetic oil (as produced by Germany in WW2), while leased personal vehicles (likely the vast majority) and owned personal vehicles are mandated to be EV.

 

[PanteraCanes]

I suspect that the future (20 - 30 years) will see large hauling vehicles transitioned to synthetic oil (as produced by Germany in WW2), while leased personal vehicles (likely the vast majority) and owned personal vehicles are mandated to be EV.

I am hoping people realize this stuff doesn’t work and is just making things more expensive and this grift is forced to be abandoned.

 

[SpikeUM]

That sucks. Important to do a lot of on-the-ground research before moving anywhere.

It was left of center but not looney when they moved there.

 

[SpikeUM]

That vehicle probably has to haul equipment. So it needs the power of internet combustion engine or it wouldn’t move.

The range on a heavy vehicle is small, and their job is to go from appt to appt, cant stop for an hour to recharge.