The road to an all electric future is full of potholes. As you can guess, we’re not all that sad about that.
Tech Radar (9/7/24) reports: "It's easy to lose count of the number of times a global car giant has waxed lyrical about its plans to strip its line-up of the combustion engine. Nissan’s president and CEO, Makoto Uchida, said his company would only sell EVs in Europe by 2030 at the launch of its fittingly-titled Concept 20-30 model last year, while Kia said it planned to sell 1.6 million pure-electric vehicles by that date...But what a difference a year makes. Not only have some of the world’s most influential political parties flip-flopped and backtracked on imposed deadlines for banning sales of all new internal combustion engine passenger cars, but global automakers have been similarly noncommittal...Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Citroen, Dodge, Peugeot, Jeep and many more widely recognized automotive brands, said it was investing more than €50 billion in electrification over the next decade to meet EV sales targets, but those too have been tempered...North American automotive powerhouse, Ford, had ambitious EV plans and targets just a couple of years ago, stating (like so many others) that its European sales would be all-electric by 2030. But a slowdown in demand for its Mustang Mach-E and Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up in the US has meant the company has been forced to pull a U-turn."
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"Despite Governor Newsom’s and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s support for the 'Green New Deal' and 'Net Zero' policies in California, it’s time to stimulate conversations about the generation of continuously generated electricity to meet the demands of America’s end users."
– Ronald Stein, P.E.,
Heartland Institute
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