Here's hoping.Not sure but I have a feeling it’s definitely going to happen soon. .
If the VW ID.4 had a third row it'd be sitting in my garage right now. Bye bye Atlas.
200A service to the house, garage already prepped for a charger.
Here's hoping.Not sure but I have a feeling it’s definitely going to happen soon. .
^^This. The modern world runs on petroleum and fossil fuels. It'll never happen. The entire infrastructure would have to be extinguished and totally rebuilt as if we were returning to the stone age again and starting from scratch.Electric cars won't be taking over anything.
The beaver has expanded beyond Texas … when the time is right … he will paddle his tail and make many chargers appear. At these mega stores folks already leave vehicles at pumps to go inside …ICE vehicles are not going away any time soon.
EV charging challenges are real and there are other challenges as well; they are opportunities.
They need oil for EV transmission, oil for electric motor, fluids for thermal management etc.Curious do they still have transmissions, diffs, brakes, coolant?
^^This. The modern world runs on petroleum and fossil fuels. It'll never happen. The entire infrastructure would have to be extinguished and totally rebuilt as if we were returning to the stone age again and starting from scratch.
It may take over China and EuropeElectric cars won't be taking over anything.
Why? They still need suspension work and stuff.Same here. If electric takes over which it will eventually I have no doubt then I’m leaving this career because I hate working on electric cars. My state just joined some other states so by 2024 the amount of ICE that can be sold at a dealership will decrease and then the number will go up every year after that. So my job is in jeopardy anyway.
That maybe true but I have a feeling it won’t be the same when they convert it all over to electricity. I mean they already have brake by wire so they probably will have suspension by wire or some ridiculous stuff they come up with next. I don’t think it will be serviceable components either like grease-able tie rods or sway bar end links or anything because they want these to be 100% clean and everything else.Why? They still need suspension work and stuff.
None of those stuff have been greaseable for a long time.That maybe true but I have a feeling it won’t be the same when they convert it all over to electricity. I mean they already have brake by wire so they probably will have suspension by wire or some ridiculous stuff they come up with next. I don’t think it will be serviceable components either like grease-able tie rods or sway bar end links or anything because they want these to be 100% clean and everything else.
I grease stuff like that all the time. Especially aftermarket stuff I make it a point to get grease able ones as they are better. But either way they probably aren’t going to let us have grease so there is that too.None of those stuff have been greaseable for a long time.
Labor is expensive, parts are cheap. These days things either get swap out quick or they get shipped to 3rd world to be repaired and sold locally.
OK, there are 200 million ICE vehicles in the USA. To be at 50/50, that means there has to be 100 million EV vehicles sold in 10 years, or about 10 million per year on average, and for every year with a sales number less than that they have to accelerate sales in the latter years to make up for it. They sold around 300,000 EV's in 2019. Whoops, 10 million - 300,000 is 7,700,000 to be divvied up and added to the 10 million every year over the next 10 years. Ain't going to happen. It's just total hype. However, if someone wants to construct a time vs number of vehicles chart for EV's and show us the future let's see it so we can plot our progress. By the way, if we bring world sales into it, there are a billion ICE vehicles in the world.Eh, it’s not going to be an overnight thing anyways-it’s going to take some time to even build up enough places to charge up....gas stations had quite the start! In the next 10 years or so I still see at least a 50/50 mix of Both EV and ICE.
While there are advantages of EV, there are also many that need to be worked out.....