Around 80% of the batteries go to EVs. So if EVs tax subsidy goes away, it is difficult to see how any battery manufacturing plant will survive. EVs might go away from the USA, but they will not go away in the rest of the world. The big threes can not survive with just the US market, so if EVs go away we are just condemning them to a slow and painful death.
With regard to pulling the rug out. GA also has Bluebird- that manufactures EV School Buses (but not the chargers) and we are having a dickens of a time convincing school districts to convert fleet primarily because of uncertainty of funding.
It was said that current EV drivers would not go back to an ICE. Not so sure. Cold weather affect exposes the novelty of the Electric vehicle promise. 1.8 to 2.0 m/kw and $0.50 or $0.60 per kw level 3 charging rates, along with 40 kwh charging speeds show the cost and inconvenience of an EV, and makes an ICE hard to leave behind with their less expensive cost per mile when on the road and much more convenience in their time-wise fueling. We need to develop a zero emissions liquid fuel that will work in current (or slightly modified) ICE’s.
Seems like most of your pods give some guest background, so it’s kind of odd not to at least note your guest’s relationship to a very famous someone with a similar name — I’m sure he wants to be his own person and not trade on his family connections, but skipping over it seemed very strange, more like underlining it than mentioning it would have.
Around 80% of the batteries go to EVs. So if EVs tax subsidy goes away, it is difficult to see how any battery manufacturing plant will survive. EVs might go away from the USA, but they will not go away in the rest of the world. The big threes can not survive with just the US market, so if EVs go away we are just condemning them to a slow and painful death.
Would you let us know why you picked the Ionic 5 over other EV’s? I am in the market and thinking the 5, or ID-4. Did you look at the 4?
With regard to pulling the rug out. GA also has Bluebird- that manufactures EV School Buses (but not the chargers) and we are having a dickens of a time convincing school districts to convert fleet primarily because of uncertainty of funding.
It was said that current EV drivers would not go back to an ICE. Not so sure. Cold weather affect exposes the novelty of the Electric vehicle promise. 1.8 to 2.0 m/kw and $0.50 or $0.60 per kw level 3 charging rates, along with 40 kwh charging speeds show the cost and inconvenience of an EV, and makes an ICE hard to leave behind with their less expensive cost per mile when on the road and much more convenience in their time-wise fueling. We need to develop a zero emissions liquid fuel that will work in current (or slightly modified) ICE’s.
Seems like most of your pods give some guest background, so it’s kind of odd not to at least note your guest’s relationship to a very famous someone with a similar name — I’m sure he wants to be his own person and not trade on his family connections, but skipping over it seemed very strange, more like underlining it than mentioning it would have.