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Brent Briggs's avatar

ELECTRONIC VEHICLES: I visited a car museum in Allentown, PA. They have an amazing array of automobiles throughout history. I was surprised when I came across one of the earliest Electric Cars.

Electric street cars in cities were visionary models for the electric automobile, and several showed up even before the 1900s. Throughout the decades, one experiment after the other was tried and found to be entirely impractical for the general public. For a host of reasons, they were only attractive to the wealthy city-dweller who could benefit from a car that had batteries crammed into all the storage spaces, and which needed to be recharged for HOURS after only a small amount of driving. The benefits were obvious; quiet and clean running.

Trouble was, they were impractical. In every age of automobile history, the electric car has been tried and shown to be a very poor investment for auto manufacturers. As backwoods redneck bible-thumping tobaccy-spittin' gun toters in flyover country, we've known the senseless waste that is the EV from the beginning. We've watched this trend develop unabated before our eyes.

Auto manufacturers ONLY build them because of radical industry-killing legislation and heavy infusions of our tax money into their businesses. As mainstream as the government is making them, they continue to be grossly unattractive to everyone except the most dedicated liberal, or the wealthy, who can afford to play around with them.

I find this amazingly ironic: Every auto manufacturer KNOWS that the #1 selling feature of EVERY vehicle - from heavy hauling trucks to daily grocery-getters - is power. The Ford F150 pickup I bought in 2000 had 240 hp. Today, it approaches 400 hp. Yearly boosts in power sells new vehicles.

Note that the SAME goes for EVs. Every generation of every EV offers greater power to stimulate sales. Even snowflake commie libs like a fast car!

When I encounter an EV owner, I ask how they enjoy my car. They know I helped them buy it, but aren't very impressed with ME.

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Horatio Bunce's avatar

The ev article scaremongering about vehicle weights (other coal-powered car concerns aside) is silly. We had Suburbans that weighed 5800lbs empty and had 42-gal fuel tanks. They aren't collapsing parking garages. Semi-trucks are allowed 80,000 lb total weights loaded. This guy is worried about guard rails for a 6000lb car? Roads and parking structures are designed for the heaviest vehicles (plus some safety factor). The coal-powered cars are on the low end of the scale for roads and high end on garages. I think lithium fires are a greater threat in an accident.

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