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My, thats a lot of words to say 'Yes, EV cars are a grift, we have to bullshit numbers, and nobody actually wants them"

submitted by i_scream_trucks to Australia 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 03:25:49 ago (+6/-0)     (archive.is)

https://archive.is/Ciyv5

Chinas record 'EV sales' as well as everywhere else - is 'Plug in Hybrids - aka petrol powered cars' - the same 'we make lecold sales on electlic car' mob are now saying 'zelo percent glowth on electlic car nex year' - the manufacturers are expecting no extra customers. which means theyre going to be up shit creek very quickly unless they sell something quick. like petrol powered cars. and they will.

The survey in the middle doesnt come up - simple question - 'Would you buy an electric vehicle?'
And the survey saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays.... BOW BOW


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[ - ] DukeofRaul 0 points 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 03:28:30 ago (+0/-0)

Who' buy them then?

[ - ] i_scream_trucks [op] 1 point 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 03:36:10 ago (+1/-0)*

people who are forced to.

the smallest new car i can think of say... 15 years ago might have been a yaris piece of shit at i think they were around $18,000 AUD at 15 years ago prices. Same pos now would be pushing 25-30k even a civic is now 50k.

so how are MG (chinese pos cars using an old british label, saic, great wall, ssangyong) selling full sized petrol SUVs, brand new, with 7 year warranties, straight off the lot, for $20,000, NOW. i rented one of them for about 4 months, and they are solid. ish. think back when toyota started pushing shitty cars, then actually came good with really well put together stuff, and are now complete plastic shit again. SAIC/MG right now, is that shitty japanese stage. diff being, Japan was actually trying to do shit properly and came good, China has zero intention of making high quality safe cars with 'wafer thin' profit margins, its not what they do, and the money 'their own government' is pumping into them to keep them liquid *isnt chinese money, its international investments, and a great deal of that directly by the australian taxpayers, and anyone who has a pension account in the country - thats where our 'retirement money' is. FUCKING. GONE. SUNK INTO TOFU CONSTRUCTION, FAKE HIGH SPEED TRAINS, GHOST CITIES, AND THE EV SCAM.

one of two things (probably both) are happening - either MG can literally produce those things for next to nothing (could, because slave labour but you know we are pretending china doesnt do that) whereas australia couldnt compete (because actual non slave wages) AND/OR - SAIC which is Chinese government owned... is bleeding money hand over fist just to flood the fuck out of the market long enough to put literally everyone else out of business entirely.

[ - ] JustALover 0 points 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 07:56:23 ago (+0/-0)

Lots of them electric cars, especially Teslas, are leased by the company the people work at.

[ - ] DukeofRaul 0 points 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 08:25:39 ago (+0/-0)

Just get an f 150

[ - ] DukeofRaul 0 points 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 03:31:26 ago (+0/-0)

In fast and the furious 5 they can control cars

[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 04:56:55 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah plug in hybrids are actually fantastic except for one thing and that is there's so many complicated systems within them that it's highly unlikely that they're going to last more than about 7 years before they start breaking down and are too expensive to repair if parts are even available for that specific model. In fact it's getting very difficult to find even gasoline cars that don't have so many specific models specific computers that when they break down in 7 years they will be impossible to fix. That's because the specific computers won't even be available. And while the metal in the car and the engine might last the little transistors and diodes in the computers burn out from too hot a summer and being too close to the engine bay or from too cold to Winter or from some spurious electronic signal that fired up into the old circuit it wasn't potted correctly and then the computer died and now none of the metal will work anymore because the signal to the fuel injector is no more.

Meanwhile a Ford model A from more than a hundred years ago will still happily run down the road because the engine and ignition system is simplicity itself and all metal with no electronics except for a coil.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 10:42:52 ago (+2/-0)

Many luxury cars like Maseratis are now inoperable because when a certain relay fails, it CANNOT be found for sale anywhere on Earth. Nobody makes them. They are designed to work with THAT specific computer, and all the other proprietary sensors. Many of these components are sealed in RESIN, making them impossible to repair, for example swapping out a resistor. It's unbelievable how the auto industry has unnecessarily complicated cars, for no good reason (yes, emission and gas standards set by the gov are partly to blame). I will continue to drive and repair my 20 year-old van.

[ - ] Rawrination 1 point 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 07:57:13 ago (+1/-0)

The kikes and their puppets think that letting the rest of us have access to transportation they don't control is bad. That's the real reason behind all the push for electric.

[ - ] SundayMatinee 1 point 3 monthsJan 23, 2025 12:52:32 ago (+1/-0)

I would buy something that's gas electric, except they're every bit as over priced and anti consumer as a battery ev. Yes I want a commuter car with good mileage, but of it isn't saving me any money, there's no point. What should have been a focus on gas electric cars fell by the wayside for battery evs, so the production costs never came down. Coupled with anticonsumer planned obsolescence mentioned elsewhere here, it's obvious that mfrs thought they could build a captive market with the help of illegal regiems like Sleepy Joe's. Fuck them and fuck their battey cars. Let em rot.