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Just obey? Uncle Tony has more to say, this is just the beginning of the fight back.
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EV Owners Waking Up to the Nightmare of Massive Repair Bills December 03, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reports that a San Francisco resident got in a minor accident with his electric truck. He thought that repairs would be "a couple-thousand-dollar bill from the repair shop and to be without his truck for a couple of weeks." Instead, the first-time EV owner was shocked to get a $22,000 bill for repairs that took 2 1/2 months. When these vehicles do get into a crash, repairs can be more complex for many reasons. The bodies can be more complicated to disassemble, and the repairs tend to require more steps and precautions, Fredman said. Vehicles containing lithium-ion batteries also require special storage consideration because of the risk of fire when they are damaged, said Scott Benavidez, chairman of the trade group Automotive Service Association and owner of a collision repair business in New Mexico. Those precautions add both time and cost to the repair process, he added. EV market leader Tesla has company-owned collision repair centers, as well as a network of privately owned body shops. Those additions helped half the cost of repairs on Teslas over the past decade as more shops became equipped to work on the vehicles, said Xander Walker, a former Tesla employee who worked on refurbishing leased vehicles and trade-ins. |
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Agreed, central Wisconsin needs to get on board with more areas to EV charge. Found myself in a shituation in that only two charge stations per charging spots in Eau claire minimizing EV slots. As I approached a facility they had 2-EV slots, there was already two cars plugged in. One of the cars had a couple that was charging their car had left the car plugged in for three hours. (Per the facility staff woman who witnessed the couple pull up and left their car charge). Loitering charges should apply. Thankfully the other person charging her car didn't need a full charge. There was a three car wait for a slot to charge. This was my first experience using public charge areas. Wow did I get educated.
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I think a lot of the opposition to EV's is conservative BS that can easily be overcome or has been overblown to serve a political purpose. But the charging situation, the charging, absolute nightmare i cannot for the life of me see a solution to.
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12-04-2023, 04:47 AM | #5066 |
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12-04-2023, 05:00 AM | #5067 |
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Another quick vid of a cement firm that was patting itself on the back on being the first firm to make a cement delivery with an EV cement truck until this happened,,
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400 Ford Dealerships Pump the Brakes on Stocking EVs
Will it cost dealerships a bit extra to prepare to sell EVs? Absolutely. Getting to the highest “Model e Certified” level could set you back over $1 million. Interesting candid discussion of the realities of selling EV's |
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12-05-2023, 05:18 AM | #5074 |
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I've driven the previous model of this in Poland over normal roads and rough stuff, it's capable and far easier to service and repair than the modern complex ones which is what you want.
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Time to pull the plug on EV's mister.
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Let's hope , Sleepy Bernie wakes up on time !
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Why are there so many youtube videos posted in this thread? Is that really where ya'll are getting your news these days? Biased dudes behind a camera who spin every little piece of information into clickbait?
EV's are fine. Chances are good the mandates will be pushed back or modified in some way, just like so many things in government. They set their sights high, and will end up settling for something less. Par for the course. I'd like to see something like 25% EV, 50% plug in, 25% ICE production targets for manufacturers, with exceptions or ways around it for certain manufacturers. I have an EV and 2 ICE vehicles, and love our EV. As a commuter to sit in stop and go traffic, it's absolutely spectacular, and it's not even a good car at the end of the day, it's just that the drivetrain is so perfectly suited for stop and go traffic. I charge at home or at work (for free). If I'm going somewhere more than 200 miles where I might need to recharge, I just take the ICE instead. Do I want all cars to be EV? Nah. But the anti-EV sentiment turns it into a black and white issue, and it's definitely not. Would be a whole lot more productive if we could all work together to determine where EV makes sense, and where it doesn't. |
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I literally did in my reply that you quoted. Most of those dealers are still selling EV's, he says they are not.
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