November 27, 20232 yr Interesting. Not sure this law doesn't violate the Interstate Commerce Clause. Car Companies will probably be there first, anyway.
November 27, 20232 yr I guess they'll just convert full service gas stations to full service charging stations. Can't trust the people to plug their own cars in!
November 29, 20232 yr There’s always a work around solution. AUTO INDUSTRY Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial Board A new electric truck will come with its own gas generator to improve reliability. That may sound like a headline from The Onion. But it’s no joke. Stellantis makes Ram pickups. Recently, the company announced a new electric version called the Ramcharger. It has an electric battery — and a 27-gallon gas tank. That gas is used to recharge the battery, giving the pickup a range of 690 miles. Of that, only 145 miles comes from the charged electric battery. The rest comes from gasoline recharging the electric battery. Rarely do you get such a perfect visual of the shortcomings of the current electric vehicle market. EVs are dependable — as long as your gas tank is full. Buy an EV to lower emissions and make sure to stop by the gas station. Even more absurd, Stellantis is simply responding to government mandates. The federal government has been telling automakers how many miles per gallon their vehicle fleet must average by imposing Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. By 2026, the industry fleet average must reach around 49 mpg. In July, bureaucrats proposed by model year 2032, cars and light trucks must have a fleet-wide average of 58 mpg. Suddenly, an electric truck powered by a gas generator makes more sense. Stellantis has come up with a creative way to abide by the letter of the regulations while still giving its customers the dependability of fossil fuels. The Ramcharger will increase the fuel efficiency of its fleet, allowing it to sell the product most of its customers want — gasoline-powered trucks. Too bad such creative thinking isn’t spent designing products people want, rather than jumping through hoops set by government bureaucrats. These mandates drive up prices for all vehicles. That’s the inevitable result when companies have to build products consumers don’t want in order to sell products they do desire. This absurdity also exposes the problems that have come from the Supreme Court allowing Congress to ignore constitutional limits on its authority and then delegate its power to bureaucrats. The EV revolution has always been primarily powered by fossil fuels. The new Ramcharger just cuts out the middleman.
November 29, 20232 yr Good. I don’t need to move to Arizona/Cali border to open my gas only dealership. I can just move to Yardley.
November 29, 20232 yr America is wild. You can wake up in Jersey, walk down the street and buy weed, then walk into a store and grab a bottle of whiskey and a six pack, but god forbid you try to buy a gas vehicle or a single hollow point. Yet, walk across the right bridge and all of a sudden that weed you bought is illegal, you have to go to 2 different store to buy the whiskey and six pack (one of them being a government run store), but you want a gas car and a box of hollow points? You got it!
November 29, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Talkingbirds said: There’s always a work around solution. AUTO INDUSTRY Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial Board A new electric truck will come with its own gas generator to improve reliability. That may sound like a headline from The Onion. But it’s no joke. Stellantis makes Ram pickups. Recently, the company announced a new electric version called the Ramcharger. It has an electric battery — and a 27-gallon gas tank. That gas is used to recharge the battery, giving the pickup a range of 690 miles. Of that, only 145 miles comes from the charged electric battery. The rest comes from gasoline recharging the electric battery. Rarely do you get such a perfect visual of the shortcomings of the current electric vehicle market. EVs are dependable — as long as your gas tank is full. Buy an EV to lower emissions and make sure to stop by the gas station. Even more absurd, Stellantis is simply responding to government mandates. The federal government has been telling automakers how many miles per gallon their vehicle fleet must average by imposing Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. By 2026, the industry fleet average must reach around 49 mpg. In July, bureaucrats proposed by model year 2032, cars and light trucks must have a fleet-wide average of 58 mpg. Suddenly, an electric truck powered by a gas generator makes more sense. Stellantis has come up with a creative way to abide by the letter of the regulations while still giving its customers the dependability of fossil fuels. The Ramcharger will increase the fuel efficiency of its fleet, allowing it to sell the product most of its customers want — gasoline-powered trucks. Too bad such creative thinking isn’t spent designing products people want, rather than jumping through hoops set by government bureaucrats. These mandates drive up prices for all vehicles. That’s the inevitable result when companies have to build products consumers don’t want in order to sell products they do desire. This absurdity also exposes the problems that have come from the Supreme Court allowing Congress to ignore constitutional limits on its authority and then delegate its power to bureaucrats. The EV revolution has always been primarily powered by fossil fuels. The new Ramcharger just cuts out the middleman. again, why isn't the kinetic energy being produced by the spinning tires being used to charge the batteries indefinitely ?
November 29, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: again, why isn't the kinetic energy being produced by the spinning tires being used to charge the batteries indefinitely ? Well la de dah. Someone wants a perpetual motion machine.
November 29, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, paco said: Well la de dah. Someone wants a perpetual motion machine. i was inspired by mr garrison's "IT"
November 29, 20232 yr 48 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: i was inspired by mr garrison's "IT" If only such a wonderful means of transportation existed. It could get you to CVS AND prepped.
November 29, 20232 yr If only I needed another reason to not to go to Jersey. A place so great people are willing to pay to leave.
November 29, 20232 yr Be nice if they outlawed vape pens, but those people with oil coated lungs will die off soon enough, I reckon.
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