Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Florida-based Ryder analyzed the potential cost of transportation if internal combustion engine trucks are converted to EVs. There is a 5 percent cost increase for light-duty EVs and a 94–114 percent increase for heavy-duty trucks, the May 8 report states. For a fleet … Read more
The City of Thunder By is all in when it comes to electrifying its municipal fleet as long as that process is heavily subsidized by other levels of government. When I say “heavily subsidized”, I mean at LEAST a 75% cost subsidy…maybe more. If our high salaried residents of City Hall had to pay … Read more
Part 1 here OK, its your decision whether to buy an EV or not. Personally, I would not even take one for free let alone pay money for one. Without billions of dollars of our tax dollars being given to giant global corporations soo they can make billions in profits does not seem right … Read more
Lets see…$100,000 each . Now what is the price of a brand new Internal Combustion Engine powered F-150 at Pinewood Ford? OK…my math skills are pretty rusty but $100,000 looks like a 100% price premium for this electric pickup truck. In other words, double the cost. And that is MSRP. I am sure that … Read more
Yes, nobody mentions the fact that this can happen. Insurance costs (home and auto) for EV owners are going to be high. Then there are the electric buses. How long before our high salaried residents of City Hall decide the time is right to get a couple of these potential crematoriums on wheels … Read more
EVs Have 80% More Problems Than Traditional Gas Vehicles, Consumer Reports Finds A new report from Consumer Reports found that electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems and are “generally less reliable” than conventional internal combustion engine cars. Good thing every major government around the world is subsidizing their use in the name of ‘climate change’, … Read more
World’s Electric Grids Incapable Of Supporting Renewable Energy Goals: Agency Electricity grid capacity available in the world isn’t keeping pace with the rapid growth of “clean energy” technologies, possibly putting governments’ climate goals at risk, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In order to achieve climate goals set by global … Read more
3 Reasons There’s Something Sinister With the Big Push for Electric Vehicles 25 refrigerators. That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs). Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have … Read more
I have posted about this subject before (here, here). With all the information I have gathered, converting every car on the planet to electric will do little to nothing to “fight climate change”. What it WILL do though is wreak havoc on the global economy and people’s lives) Example of not looking far enough ahead … Read more
Watch: Electric Bus In Paris Spontaneously Explodes Readers have heard of Teslas spontaneously exploding over the years (read: here) but never an electric bus until now. Last Friday, a video surfaced online of French public transport operator RATP’s bus bursting into flames within seconds in Paris. The fire illustrates the dangers of EVs. Luckily the bus … Read more