Far more mining is required. We've known this for years, but BEV fanatics have ignored evidence like this repeatedly. Reality will eventually catch up to the lies.
So, after 1st April 2025, EVs will be charged £190/year vehicle excise duty. Does that mean I can SORN my car in March and immediately retax it to get a free 12 month VED?
Chinese carmakers’ global growth “comes as major U.S. carmakers … have withdrawn from promising markets such as India, Indonesia & Thailand to focus on their North American base.”
Market share of Chinese automakers “has jumped in many markets over the last 5 years, growing from 3% to 10% in Thailand, from 1% to 9% in Australia and from nothing to 13% in Mexico … Gains in Russia have been even starker, jumping from almost nothing to more than a third.”
The Dayun Yuehu will be the cheapest practical #EV in #SouthAfrica at under R400,000.
It is claimed to have a 330 km range and a top speed of 100 km/h, making it suitable as an urban commuter.
It's going to be very interesting to see how this does in SA, as the price is nearing affordable, and it is faster than the 80 km/h that smaller EVs tend to have.
Is this still with the high EV import tax I wonder...
I try to find and follow urban design, electrification, active transit experts who aren’t white dudes mostly on instagram, and I found one in Australia who I really liked until their litmus “test” for electric cars was “does a wine bottle fit in the front cup holders” 🙃🙃 Like of all the metrics to test this is the one you focus on… because you think it’s funny? People sometimes #publictransit#climatechange#EV
China is often accused by the US and EU governments of using forced labour and using low wages as a competitive advantage for exports. That claim is not false, but this should always be seen in the context of how theses states and companies exploit there own labour and try to keep wages down while profits flow to the top.
And yes they never complained as much when it was their own companies exploiting Chinese labour, which they massively continue to do!
Lol--after 15 years I finally resurrected my 1978 Kawasaki KZ400 "Reloaded"! I put nearly 50 miles on it today but for some reason the battery wasn't charging so I had to park it and put it on charge. I wonder what's wrong with it? ;)
The unspoken fact about Chinese BEVs is that they are hyper-subsidized vehicles and are basically all sold at a (massive) loss. Even if we let them be sold in the West, China will outright run out of money before we hit the needed goals.
And we definitely won't let them be sold in the West without tariffs.
Ohio just listed the second round of EV charging stations
Funding for the EV chargers is being awarded as part of the second round of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program. Ohio was the first state in the nation to activate a NEVI charging station under this program. Round 2 funding will go towards EV chargers on I-270, I-275, I-675, I-680, I-71, I-76, I-77, SR 15, U.S. 23, U.S. 30, and U.S. 33. #Ohio#EV#NEVI#ChargingStations
Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).
Prediction: Neither Renault nor VW will have affordable BEV cars anytime soon. If anything, they will abandon this sector. Affordable BEVs basically aren’t possible without government massively subsidizing them.
Reminder that BEV fanatics are still stuck in the past. It's laughable they're still repeating the same outdated garbage from 2014. They still think batteries costs are dropping (just an illusion caused by China's subsidies), or that charging is somehow already solved (not even close).
In reality, BEVs are on their way out. It is already losing to PHEVs and hybrids now. Newer ideas like FCEVs will drive them entirely out of the market later.
As copper prices surge, copper theft is becoming very common. BEV charging stations will need 24/7 surveillance or guards. This is similar to how gas stations work (someone is watching for gas thieves nearly all the time). People have underestimated how difficult it will be to effectively building out a charging network. You are letting valuable materials sit out there in the open.