Posted by oldtanker on July 29, 2019 at 12:34:39 from (66.228.255.203):
In Reply to: Ford F-150 guys. posted by Jeffcat on July 28, 2019 at 20:20:52:
OK to start with this whole thing is going to be seen from time to time. Anyone ever hear of the fleet average rules? So they have to offer and make electric vehicles. It's why they kept making cars that they were losing money on. Just to keep the EPA off thier backs. I wouldn't worry. They didn't say they were going to stop making gas powered F150s. And look at the numbers. Over 17 million new vehicles are sold in the US each year on average. Of that about 250,000 last year were electric. So electric vehicles make up about 1.5% of the market. But Ford, GM and FIAT all have to meet fleet averages. And last time I looked the make that average by averaging each vehicle then adding the averages together to get a fleet average. It sin't averaged that type times the number of each model sold.
Now strip mining? Dirty nasty business. But we need copper, aluminum, iron, lead, zinc, lithium and a lot of other things that have to be mined. For the companies? Strip mining is the cheapest way to get the raw material. Many places on earth don't have laws forcing the companies to restore the land either. And anyone here who thinks that the companies in China or in South America strip mining anything care about pollution, damage to the environment or anything besides profit? Think again.
And folks are right. Lot of false info out there. Like the claim of "renewable". They claim that almost 17.1% of electricity comes from renewable sources. That doesn't mean that 17.1% is from wind and solar. That means that hydro electric and methane collected from landfills is counted as renewable. At best if they can achieve 100% output wind and solar makes up about 7.2% of all electric in the US. How much they produce on a still night they ain't telling us. And those figures are from the federal government as of 2018. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
And it's true. The electric grid won't support massive numbers of vehicles plugged in. So that has to be addressed.
Now I'm not saying that electric vehicles are not the future. I do know that the IC engine will eventually be replaced. No, not in the near future. But eventually it will go away. Will it be replaced by electric? Who knows? I personally doubt it. But something will come along and replace the IC engine. I'd bet on 50-100 years or less.
AS far as an electric pickup? They will sell sell some. Just not a lot.
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