New EV Scout being developed after VW acquires Navistar (International Harvester)

[Ace-Garageguy]

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
― Thomas Sowell

Now, lest this go down some "political rant" rabbit hole, I'm specifically NOT referencing politicians or govt. policies here.

Consider Mary Barra, for instance, CEO of GM.

Who really thinks somebody who's been paid in excess of 20 MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY for quite some time cares about the possible future negative economic impact of EVs on the populace and the company she's supposed to "run"?

Barra's goal for GM is to get out of the ICE business by 2035...but if that turns out to wreck the company as well as wreak havoc on the grid's inability to handle the increased load, will it affect HER in any meaningful way?

Nope.

Edited May 28, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[TarheelRick]

Not a real fan of EV or alternative energy sources.  I live in a very rural area and have a fairly large solar farm in my backyard, and it seems every country road I drive down there is another one popping up.  One thought I have is this.  I get home after a long day at work, plug in my all-new EV to my home charger, eat supper, watch a bit of TV and go to bed.  Shortly after I get into bed and get into a deep sleep a major electrical storm blows through and knocks out power.  When I wake up the next morning, power is still off in my neighborhood.  I need to get to work but my new Whiz-bang 3000 is not charged, there is no bus service in my area, and Uber is extremely overloaded.  Guess I'll have to drag out my Schwinn and get to pedaling.

[Ace-Garageguy]

51 minutes ago, TarheelRick said:

...I live in a very rural area...Guess I'll have to drag out my Schwinn and get to pedaling.

You don't understand.

If you don't live in a major urban area, and if you can't "work" from home, you're just not relevant to the baloney we're being force-fed.

You don't count, and the decision makers don't give a rat's rump about you.

Nor could most of them successfully run a kid's lemonade stand or lawn-mowing service, but that's another story entirely

Edited May 28, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[TarheelRick]

When they built the solar farm behind my house, they had to replace all the utility poles going down the road to the site with larger, more substantial poles which required more and larger guy wires.  These guy wires are of course placed in my yard, which I have to mow around (with my gas-powered mower and weedeater).  At a rezoning meeting prior to construction, we were all promised our electric bills would decrease because the power generated would be sold to the local power company - haven't noticed any decreases.  As a matter of fact, the local power company has petitioned the state for a rate increase.  I guess the price of sunlight has gone up.

[stitchdup]

2 minutes ago, TarheelRick said:

When they built the solar farm behind my house, they had to replace all the utility poles going down the road to the site with larger, more substantial poles which required more and larger guy wires.  These guy wires are of course placed in my yard, which I have to mow around (with my gas-powered mower and weedeater).  At a rezoning meeting prior to construction, we were all promised our electric bills would decrease because the power generated would be sold to the local power company - haven't noticed any decreases.  As a matter of fact, the local power company has petitioned the state for a rate increase.  I guess the price of sunlight has gone up.

Its the same where I live. We generate every bit of our power from renewables (180% of our local needs from wind,wave and solar) and my bills have doubled in the last year, and they're going up again in october.

[Tabbysdaddy]

1 hour ago, TarheelRick said:

Not a real fan of EV or alternative energy sources.  I live in a very rural area and have a fairly large solar farm in my backyard, and it seems every country road I drive down there is another one popping up.  One thought I have is this.  I get home after a long day at work, plug in my all-new EV to my home charger, eat supper, watch a bit of TV and go to bed.  Shortly after I get into bed and get into a deep sleep a major electrical storm blows through and knocks out power.  When I wake up the next morning, power is still off in my neighborhood.  I need to get to work but my new Whiz-bang 3000 is not charged, there is no bus service in my area, and Uber is extremely overloaded.  Guess I'll have to drag out my Schwinn and get to pedaling.

You forgot the possibility of a lightning strike frying your car that was plugged into the grid. 

[Smoke Wagon]

5 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

If you don't live in a major urban area, and if you can't "work" from home, you're just not relevant to the baloney we're being force-fed.

You don't count, and the decision makers don't give a rat's rump about you.

Well if that ain’t my state in a nutshell.