China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball

[Richard]

Back on topic...

EV or ICE, Americas biggest problem is it's love of oversized vehicles!!! Ignoring the fact that the behemoths the Big 3 have told us we all need to be "safe" on the road kill pedestrians, cyclists, and anyone else not piloting an even larger vehicle, it will NEVER be efficient to use 5,000 pounds of steel to take a single person to their office job and back again.

Closing the light truck loophole is the best thing anyone can do for the future of the American auto industry and our planet. Force them to get back into producing small, efficient, cars that are completive globally and [[whether EV or ICE) are a lot less wasteful than the tanks they build now.

The article is absolutely right that globally, the big 3 aren't completive, but that's not because they're being on EV tech. It's because most other countries don't allow the kind of vehicles they push on us here.

https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-lo...ars-in-america

a lot of it is safety standards that we have where as other countries do not,I have a friend in the UK,he has a Toyota cargo van that gets over 60 miles to the gallon.

When a European or Foreign vehicle gets to a certain age they lift the import restrictions and requirements,so buying those imports are becoming more popular.

I saw a Honda version the other day,it was a van like a dodge caravan style,at the red light parked next to a Sprinter,you could put 2 of those Hondas inside of that Sprinter,they have like 10” tires,you have to figure they are going to be 60 - 70 mpgs.

In the 80s VW had a pickup that was 50 mpgs ,I had a 89 Honda CRX HF that was hitting almost 60 mpg on the highway,horrible on long trips if you waited to use the restroom when you stopped for gas.

Its possible for us to have efficient ICE vehicles,but compared to the rest of the world for the most part our gas is cheap so we drive what we want.

I think what it will boil down to with EVs is because the technology becomes obsolete so fast,like a cell phone,people will tend to buy the cheapest one they can find and just throw it away when it breaks,just like everything else,and nobody can build cheap crap cheaper then China.

We are a disposable society,the vehicles we drive are about the last thing in the list that is not for the most part.

Going Green is expensive and most countries that jumped on the band wagon are experiencing how expensive it really is and are scaling back on their dreams,not only the expense but in that whole global green pact,the countries that can afford it are expected to come up with the cash for the countries that cannot.

I think it will be decades before it is all phased in outside of the commercial aspect where companies will get heavy subsidies and tax write offs,but every time the world goes into an economic downturn,it will kick it all that much further up the road.

[Henry Whalley]

Going Green

tldr

[Richard]

tldr

Yea in the amount of time it took you to read it,you could of made 25 other one liner posts based on disrespecting the deceased and their decedents

and other posters because they did not follow your warped path.

What do you see when you look in the mirror?