I’ve been a Patron for over 5 years and I feel your voice is Definitely Needed in the Social Media Space. I may not watch every video you create but me watching every video is not why I support Transportation Evolved. I support Transportation Evolved because it is The Right Thing To Do! Thank you.
If the world thinks that transitioning to BEV without efficiency and emissions standards (including production), they're in denial about the actual assignment.
and if you think that scrapping all the renewable tech and going back to ICE cars is the better solution, then YOU are in serious denial about the real world.
The transition will occur when BEVs are the clearly superior option, which they already are in many cases, and will soon be in most cases. The world didn't need imposed standards to convert from horse carriages to automobiles. It didn't need mandates to switch from Bronze to Iron. Technology fosters change much more effectively than mandates and this race is all but won already. Government had a role in kick-starting the move but there is now so much capital interested in improving BEVs that the transition is all but inevitable.
@BixbyConsequence This laissez faire argument is reductive at best. Industry has ignored its responsibility to decarbonize as massively as the general public. You have no evidence at all that the free market reacts to the externalities of GHGs. All evidence points to the opposite conclusion that without regulation, no one is decarbonizing in the least. I'd love to see how you support your assertion that the free market is addressing Climate Crisis anywhere in the world or in history without regulation, subsidies, and incentives. The efficiency standards I'm stating we need are on BEVs. We already have (flawed) ones for ICE.
@@karlInSanDiego I made no assertion at all about the free market addressing climate crisis. Simply that car-buyers will switch when they view BEV as superior vehicles. Millions already have. Reducing CO2 is a happy consequence.
i suspect that in Ford's case (and the other domestics) you will find that sales of ICEV are also way down, and inventory on dealers lots is climbing to the point that many dealers are struggling to find space for their inventory. Ford and others OEMs are having to restart pre 2020 dealer sales support programs, including rebates, advertising support, and special financing. but dealers seem to be reaping what they sowed, in that customers are avoiding dealing with them
Toyota says California's emissions standards are impossible, based on Beezy4X debut they probably think EVS are impossible to build too. All the automakers cried in the 70s, made California-only models briefly , then gave in and made all of their models clean and they've all got better since.
Yes, and in the 1970s was when the "impossible" specs were met by Toyota and Honda giving them a huge advantage over the big 3 that said they were impossible.
Toyota is full of it. My 07 Camry gets worse fuel efficiency than the 97 Dodge minivan I used to own. Why? Because it has a bigger capacity engine, tuned to run at higher RPM at all times, on crappy low profile tires. A vehicle with dramatically less cargo and passenger space, that just guzzles gas for the heck of it. I was honestly shocked when I started driving it. They could make more fuel efficient vehicles, they just dont want to because they know that Americans want ridiculous cars with ridiculous stats, and if Toyota doesnt sell that, they will just buy it from someone else.
While The U.S. is cutting back on EV and environmental tech. Canada will continue to push on Ev and Environmental tech. it's true Canadians does not have a population like the U.S. but per Capita, canada has 5.8 percent more, u.s. then the U.S. at 5.3 percent on EVs. I still have faith that America will still push for the lead in Ev- tech in the future, but right now they need to figure out what they want in the Society regarding the environment.Lets wait another 4 years and see America does.
If I'm right, Canada won't be going strong in environmental tech for much longer. It seems like the right side of politics is seriously against protecting our environment. Even if the right doesn't believe in climate change, don't they believe in clean air?
Musk was always opposed to the incentives and they only help his competitors - I think this will hurt Ford and the other manufacturers, pretty much all of whom are inept and don't make many cars anyway. Tesla won't stop selling cars, and electrification is inevitable. So you don't have to worry that the US customers won't buy a Tesla. Remember that 100% of people who buy new vehicles are flush with cash anyway or they'd buy second hand.
Really enjoy my Tesla, but that thumbnail is spot on. If Elon was not part of Tesla, I would enjoy them more. A single person (in his position, no less) being the most resistance to cleaner, greener is frustrating.
I am suddenly more interested in the updated Kia Niro EV after learning it has more cargo space than even the ID4. Not very fast charging, but I can live with that, probably. Also, costs surprisingly close to the EV6. Hopefully they will be selling at a discount before the EV3 is introduced.
Elimination the EV incentive will allow China to increase their lead in the technology and business space. With China being Trumps biggest concern this is weird stance. But with this administration 'weird' should be considered the word of the day. Everyday.
Dear car manufacturers: 1) Please keep the buttons for things like heating, radio etc. 2) I don't need massive screens blasting my face with light as I drive; I despise them. 3) I also despise haptic buttons. Physical buttons are great, easy to use and have been perfected. 4) I love cloth seats; please include them in the options. Cloth is much more comfortable in high heat or in the cold. I don't need or want to be sitting in a leather armchair as I drive. 5) I don't need AWD; it simply adds weight, upfront cost, maintenance costs and lowers the range. 6) I don't need massaging chairs. 7 Time of 0-60 is meaningless to me. Why would I want to go that fast? It would simply end up costing a fortune in tires and cause more accidents. Concentrate on range and affordability.
Unfortunately, manufacturers build what most people will buy, and most people want those frills. No frills jeeps and fleet trucks have been marketed (by Jeep and Ford respectively) and universally not sold, so these companies stopped making them. EVs are no different
1) Yes buttons *AND* *KNOBS* for many things, a knob is the best user interface. 2) Yes and also there is no need to duplicate what my phone does. 3) "haptic" can include real buttons on knobs. You mean "fake haptic effects" 4) Yes, cloth is a lot better on a really cold day. 5) Some people live in places where AWD is a good idea. I would leave that in the product line. 6) No massaging and manual adjusting please. Its fewer things to break. 7) What really matters is getting from about 35 to freeway speed. That is the one people use. 8) If you can't make your auto-braking so it never randomly slams on the breaks for no reason leave it out. 9) If the car is going to notify me of anything it had better be important. No nagging 10) Give me a spare tire. 11) Electric trunk/hatch doors are a bad idea really. 12) Make the hood a little lower please. 13) Where I live there are potholes I need ground clearance.
Dropping EV incentives in the USA will be net damaging to their economy and technology position. Making Tesla a monopoly for USA EVs is counterproductive because it will make them complacent since they have nothing to compete with. Heartening to see public opinion shifting more towards believing that they'll be EV drivers within a decade. That's very positive news.
Not necessarily. Many brands currently price vehicles just under the maximum level to qualify for incentives, and with incentives removed, they will be forced to produce more affordable models. In a free market, EVs will sell based on their benefits and lower operating costs without support from taxpayer funding.
@@jamespaul2587 I hope you are right. The incentives do have the possibility of letting automakers add X to MSRP since X will go back to the buyer. I think that road use fees by vehicle weight and a price on pollution should be applied. I'm curious to see how the playing field would level between ICE and EVs if ICE vehicles had to pay to pollute.
@@mikapeltokorpi7671 I suspect retaliatory tariffs will happen from EU and others. Tariffs are a dimwit solution to trade. I wish they had more competent minds and approaches applied, but I suspect their goal isn't American prosperity, but mercantile control. A smaller economic pie but considerably more concentration of what remains. Stupid and selfish approach to economics, but unsurprising since they seem to look at the Gilded Age as inspiration.
@AlainODea good point, it might also help with people's beliefs that they need to drive oversized, overweight and inefficient SUVs, both gas and EV versions. Removal of tariffs may expedite the transition to smaller and more efficient vehicles.
Hertz selling their EVS is funny they've already taken the largest depreciation, seems like it would be better to hang on to the cars longer. I think they should have given renters more EV information
@rp9674 The problem with EVs as rental vehicles is always the charging issue. Hertz got into the business without addressing key issues and that is the key problem... not the depreciation. When people are informed on how and where to charge, they love renting Teslas.
I think a lot of environmentalists lost the plot and made I more about pushing EVs than lowering emissions. It was coming at the cost of the poor making them angry and moving right on the issue
There aren't any production electric campervans yet SFAIK. There are a few converters doing conversions. But what do you mean 'most reliable'? They are all reliable: they are EVs. Van efficiency numbers are hard to come by, but generally the smallest ones are best: so Kangoo, Berlingo. I've seen tests for the Buzz, Vivaro/Expert/Dispatch, Kangoo?Townstar/Citan, env200, and E-transit, but not others. The otherwise-excellent EV-database ignores vans completely. Does someone else keep track of this stuff?
Ev sales are still growing here in Oz but hybrid and plug-in sales are going through the roof! The new BYD Shark Ute will be a big seller. Keep on evolving, looking forward to the next TEN.😊
EV sales in the UK are still going well. BEVs are the only segment which grew during October in YoY sales, according to the SMMT. Diesel fell by 20.5% and Petrol by 14.2% YoY from October 2023. 🎉 Keep up the good work Nikki and team!
I watched RJ Scaringe's video. It was very good. My husband owns an R1T. Cheer up, Nikki. We only hit a proverbial bump in the road. Pun intended. I am a Doomer, but EV content is my happy place.
It will kick ass and blow doors down. If it's like last time around it was substantially cheaper than model 3 and anything in its range class. Endless rebates only apply to Tesla
@@rp9674exactly! I bought Kona Electric as my second choice to a Bolt which was very obviously the value win. The Model 3 is not competively priced if you care only about price vs range, efficiency, and space. Having a hatch back is a major practicality advantage as well. I like the Model 3, but not enough for the added price. Tesla priorized an expensive pickup truck with very distinctive styling over the affordable, practical Model 2.
WTF have those of us around the World who are not rich and powerful decided to vote into government in many countries, in a repeat of many countries in the C20, potential despots into power who have declared that climate change isn’t happening and that fossil fuels MUST be used in preference to anything better? Right wing ‘popularism’ is proof democracy isn’t the best. If the ‘West’ chose to compete with the Far East, It could. The rich and powerful are playing politics to ensure that they, China and Russia dominate as the planet makes life on Earth increasingly ‘awkward’. How can a nation like the USA vote a potential despot into power. The EU is next, by the look of things 😢
Re: Moving production from Germany to Thailand. And Re: Ford having difficulty selling the EVs it makes in Europe. And Re: The general difficulties of German auto makers --- Richard Wolff has pretty much explained it. Germany used to have economical access to Russian energy resources. Geopolitics has forced this to stop. (now China has that access instead). Now, manufacturing costs in Europe and especially Germany are higher than they used to be.
Cutting EV incentives is inevitable. I'd say we are there now in regards to consumer cost. We were not there 3 years ago. A little early, yes. I support ending Federal EV incentives, though. Consumer shouldn't feel it. Time to pay full price which is similar to ICE.
Furthermore, put some money into charging infrastructure. Even with Biden, this is absolutely lacking. I'd rather see that money go to infrastructure or kick backs for companies putting infrastructure in.
Dear Nikki, you are so much the complete opposite of me (I'm a so boring normal), but I fully respect and share your views, keep going, you're (this includes the whole team) doing such an incredible work, in regards of sustinability as well as for (I don't know how to call it) " accepatnce of different optinions"? Go, go, go!
Vehicular efficiency is mandatory to aborting climate change, and a huge portion of the world, and the US, understand this. The demand for hyper-efficent, cleaner transportation is high, and, I think, pretty impervious to the lack of governmental support. Or derision in the case of our incoming administration. Aptera is the bell weather and thier strength has always come from thier product, which is turning into precisely the vehicle that they engineered it to be. I anticipate great success for Aprera, and they WILL be noticed and emulated. I live in the Pacific NW too, neighbors, and I am terribly concerned with the ecological effects of the coming years. (The perfect shitstorm hitting the largest wind turbine farm...) but it COULD hurry the evolution of transportation along. Love you both.
I can envisage a fair amount of pushback from USA automotive unions if Trump really does follow through with EV incentives scrapage given the likely highly negative impact on job losses, both direct and indirect ones. I can't imagine USA automotive manufacturers, with the exception of Tesla, will be all that thrilled either,
Why should Trump care what automotive unions thinks? What can the unions do? Strike? Why would that effect a President that is not looking to get re-elected?
I can remember a time when the "big 3" US car makers said that the pollution standards couldn't be met and Toyota and Honda said "We have cars that do that with no trouble". I now expect Toyota to start having a lot of trouble competing with someone. I am not sure yet who but I know that ICE cars that are even cleaner can be done and they are going to lose the ICE market as well as the EV market. The Tesla stock was already over priced before the election. This level on the stock is just silly. I expect Tesla will benefit a little from corruption but lose net sales. A trade war is not good for anyone.
When Hertz talks about completing a complete fleet changeover by the end of the first quarter of next year, does this mean that they will be completely reverting to ICE vehicles or simply that they will be choosing other EV manufacturers' offerings instead of Tesla's? Personally, I think that they may be still stuck in a slightly outdated mindset that was appropriate to the mechanical wear & tear of ICE vehicles but is not necessarily fit for the electrification of transportation, since EV's don't have an engine or associated parts, & thus a relatively quick fleet turnover is somewhat premature. The fixation on depreciation needs to change, and they really should be keeping these vehicles for at least another 3yrs. Even Octopus Energy in the UK who have an EV leasing division are re-leasing vehicles as long as they are in good enough condition, and why wouldn't they? There's less capital expenditure required for fleet renewal.
For a rental vehicle, the "wear and tear" isn't the drivetrain, it's the cosmetics: finish/paint, dings & dents, and esp. the interior. And the resale equation is a major part of the profitability of the mainstream rental business model. If certain costs can't be recovered by the resale value, that vehicle isn't profitable to the business.
That Enphase news makes me pessimistic about them actually releasing their V2G home EVSE that they announced was due (checks original press release) this year… :-/
Yes, Porsche sells expensive cars, but they are also "class leading in so many metrics" according to Kyle Connor of Out of Spec. A Porsche Taycan ($125k) recently won the Out of Spec Seattle to Boston I-90 EV race because of its superior charging (320 kw peak), 97 kwh battery, and 3 miles/kwh efficiency. The Porsche Taycan, heralded as a next generation EV, won easily over the other 8 EV contenders. The new Tesla model 3 long range rwd ($42.5k, 3.8 mi/kwh, 82 kwh battery) came in second. Surprisingly, the Lucid Air Grand Touring ($130k, 118kwh battery) came in next to last (should have been second or third) because the crew didn't charge when the car told them to and ran out of electric juice towards the end!
Just a couple of notes: great job as usual. I love the comment on Bidirectional charging around Christmas just in time for the summer heat wave. You were going along at a clip there so was not sure you were talking about Australia. On the note of Republican stupidity for elimination of subsidies we probably need to find someone with good math skills to calculate the number of child deaths and premature deaths such stupidity will bring. Since I live in the Central Valley of California population here and the number of children with Asthma is staggering.
Plastics are a fact of life in just about every facet of our modern day lives, right down to the cars we drive, the IT equipment we use, packaging and of course, solar panels, wiring coatings & harnesses, the list is virtually endless. The writing of this comment is prompted by Nikki's remarks in the ATMOS sponsorship ad about giving the fossil fuels industries the middle finger. TBC: I'm not picking on anyone for wanting to give the fossil fuels industries the middle finger, I do too, but humanity has so much of how we do things intimately tied to plastic and its various applications, it's truly hard to grasp how we will finally manage to divorce ourselves from fossil fuels in as timely a manner as is necessary to prevent anthropogenic induced runaway climate change. Virtually every eco-friendly product that springs to mind has very high percentages of plastic componentry, including, ironically, the packaging they tend to come in. Even modern medicine is highly dependent on plastics for a whole range of products ranging from disposable drip bags & tubing, disposable sterile dressing packs, medicine bottles & packaging, even medicines themselves and a gazillion other things besides, as Kate Walton-Elliott can confirm. In conclusion, the total abandonment of fossil fuels usage is a truly sticky conundrum.
Another great video! I can tell you right now that I will not be buying another BEV anytime soon. While I absolutely adore my 2022 Ford Mach-e after 40,000 miles, I drive less than 100 miles a week in my wife's 2017 VW Golf Alltrack with only 73,000 miles. As for Elon Musk, I can see that he's maybe moved on from spurring the EV revolution after buying Tesla. He's now into artificial intelligence as the next shiny object to chase.
If the EPA rescinds California's ability to set its own clean air rules, wouldn't that be considered federal government overreach? Wouldn't this be something that should be put to the California voters just like abortion is in every state? I do regard clean air and water as fundamental rights! Also, Bernie's view that healthcare should be a fundamental right seems equitable.
Is it right that I may have to buy a used EV before the point of sale credit is eliminated? Carvana seems to have great prices on used 2023 Bolts. They also mention the point of sale $4k credit.
the 7500 EV incentive was dead no matter who won the election. january 1 the mineral content for the battery gets more stringent. last year 30 vehicles qualified, this year 10 qualified, next year it looks like none will qualify.
regarding the ford explorer: it is not a bad car, but it has the shitty touch user interface from the VW MEB, that is real crap and it is about 3k€ to expensive. if they can fix that, the explorer will sell.
Most countries have dropped EV incentives (thank you Germany for leading the push of EV OEM's into the world of true competition), so why is US dropping incentive causing concern? . . it's a sign of sector maturity.
I saw my first Tesla Cyber Truck in person today. (I wouldn’t touch anything from Musk period) but it’s even uglier in person. I didn’t think it that was possible.
By the sound of you, I think you might have exported yourself from England to America!! I would certainly get the whole family to move on from the States to England or Canada. At least you will still be able to go electric!!
@@mikewallace8087 First, unless we're mistaken, you're not someone who lives in the UK. Second, your comment is terribly xenophobic. Let's get some things straight. It was the British press which has spent decades on a fear and loathing campaign against the LGBTQIA+ community, that's caused a lot of the anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric in the UK. Helped by JK Rowling - and various other wealthy anti-trans types with influence in the UK government - the UK commissioned the Cass Report, a report which wasn't written by a specialist and which set out from the start to back up some of the worst lies being spread right now about trans people. The British Government was the ones who changed the policies on trans healthcare. The British government were the ones who decided to tell doctor to stop prescribing medication to both adults and children who are trans. I can't go back to the UK because I would be forcibly removed from medication. I would be forced to wait the 5+ years to get back into a clinic to be seen by a mental health specialist to prove that yes, I am trans and yes, I should have access to to trans healthcare. 24+ years after I socially transitioned and 22+ years after I medically transitioned. So, please @MikeWallace8087 - don't spread bovine byproduct and lies and call it Nutella. Nikki.
@@transportevolved A.I. query : Is the u.k. anti gay lesbian . Result , you are significantly false . You ignore the fact I am married to a Filipina and encountered many gays and lesbians while living there . I accept your strong distain for me , stop being purposely blind to what I say.
Marlin San Diego is absolutely right!! We need to know how efficient our electric vehicles really are. The only way we can establish that is to force manufacturers to employ test drivers to take the cars out and give a REAL LIFE range rather than using a Would Like to Pretend range.
thats the ranges have always been tested, since the 70s. "real world" tests are not repeatable or comparable between vehicles, 75% useless. you just get a ball park idea of who might be better.
It's not so important that the EPA (etc.) estimated mileage (range) numbers are accurate, only that they use the same testing methodology for all test subjects, so that the numbers can be used for accurate _comparison_ with other mfgrs' offerings.
@@alsavage1 Exactly. Everyone thinks their personal habits or desires constitute the "real world". For some the "real world" consists of never dropping below 85 MPH.
If you were to not follow the EV industry and watch this as your first TEN, you'd be convinced the EV is dying, and it's time to focus instead on e-bikes. After this auto industry floundered for a for more than a decade to kick off the EV revolution, it caught its stride, and a year later it's all falling apart. Is it just late stage capitalism that is crushing the soul of the EV, obscuring our need to quickly transition, or is there more to this? Are we actually seeing the problem with large battery, high production emissions, resource & cost constrained luxury EVs, you know, the kind Elon said were the only ones people would buy, while lambasting compromised nerd cars? Car companies surely could have built and sold Bolts and Leafs, though not at a profit, and by the time we've upsized the battery to 50 kWh and way beyond and the average owner isn't actually charging with renewable energy physically while their solar is live, but via contractual shuffle of renewable energy RECs/PPAs/Net metering which defy reality because of diurnal and seasonal renewable insufficiencies, it's not an actual scalable formula but still a loose proof of concept. I'm a fan of solar + BEV, but it's not yet a sustainable formula for people who work during the day, and maybe never will be, given the emissions and energy impact of the BEVs we're selling. We've failed to rethink transportation as actually sustainable, and instead we made the same SUVs and huge pickup trucks with massive batteries. We let the profitability of the transport affect it's design and eliminated its sustainability along the way. Shame on all of us for trusting a con man like Elon, that his formula was good for the planet. Sustainability has an actual measure and that is zero CO2e emissions well to wheel, not 1/3 to 3/4 lower than ICE. The circular economy with Electric/sail cargo ships, electric mining equipment, every supplier and every material impact being actually zero has no timetable, not organizing principle. The sustainable BEV myth is all built on a false promise that we're all rowing in the same direction with the same urgency, which was never going to be true without global government mandates. So onward with e-bikes, micromobility and electric trains, the things industry and governments and people will have to fall back to as the auto industry bankrupts itself trying to prop up a false solution. People using emissions and math beyond 2050 always realized the full sized person single occupancy motor vehicle cannot last forever, be it ICE or EV. I was a life long car enthusiast and clearly still hold a special place in my heart for them. But to cling onto full sized BEV as a solution is only helping to kill the car faster by seriously accelerating emissions via the BEV industry and thus ramping up industrial emissions globally. China alone has no doubt signed its own fate going from very few cars to becoming the largest car market in the world in short time, while allowing themselves a crazy slow timeline to snuff out coal. The upside is that China is leading at micromobility and understands how to build microcars too. And they remember how to ride a bike.
I have seen many videos of Chine E bikes in elevators , hallways and inside tall apartments start on fire and cause loss of life and property. State Farm Insurance , comment?
@@mikewallace8087 Yup. Ones without a UL rating (or a counterfeit one). NYC has been catching them and fining them and still people buy 'em as fast as they can be ordered. Hence, co-ops and condos issuing blanket moratoriums on e-bikes, scooters, etc. in common areas of their properties.
@@metricstormtrooper If you can't be bothered to read a comment in full, it behooves you to refrain from interaction. It's just polite. Offering the feedback that one's post is "too long for me to invest the time to read it" isn't helping the poster; they already know how much effort has to be expended to read what they've written. You can decide to pass, but your feedback seems unhelpful.
Elon Musk is concerned about EV’s as much as Goldfinger was concerned about gold. Only the most deluded fan believes when he says he’s concerned about the future of humanity.
Ev does not need incentives anymore, many countries removed those years ago. Ev cars are affordable and good allready to be alternative for ice cars. If makers cant sell those without incentives, they simpy are not good enough value for money they cost. Also 7500 incentive is a LOT of money to lose in taxes for government that is almost broke.
The fossil fuel industry still gets massive subsidies (incentives). If the fossil fuel industry gets incentives, why can't the EV market get the same? To use your words: "If 'fossil fuels' can't sell without incentives, they simply are not good enough value for money they cost".
@@AlexCharron Exactly right! Billions every year to Big Oil so that Americans don't have to pay the real price at the pump. Remove that and have us pay the real cost and the ROI of even a 50 grand EV will be under 2 years.
All that would make sense IF oil wasn't heavily subsidized. EV incentives help to level the playing field. They should only be removed if ICE incentives are as well.
complaining about ev credits going away followed by a item about a car nobody can afford even with a credit.EV credits have outlived their use. EV's will become cheaper anyway.
Not fast enough though! Detroit wasn't paying attention that $7500 off the cost of a cheap EV would be VERY appealing. Ford and Stellantis were asleep at the wheel, and GM cancelled the Bolt just as sales started to take off.
1:30 ah but thank goodness Musk the savior of the world that many have propped up did what he did the past two months let alone the past 4 years. Sarcasm
DOGE should have been DOUCHE with those lying dirtbags Musk and Swami in charge. I might finally bend and buy a Chinese EV if helps to ditch Tesla. I no longer differentiate between the fascists but at least the Chinese were always known to be fascists . Musk just mislead everyone, aspired to be a fascist and is now confirmed as one. IMHO Subsidies must end. EV devotees should fork out their own money, Stop expecting using tax payers money to make rich fascist billionaires richer under the guise of planet saving BS. It’s just another damn car, I fine with that.
Consumer Reports list only 4 EV that are recommended and have above average reliability: Nissan Arriya, Porche Taycan, Lexus RZ, and Hyundai Ioniq 6. 2024 IIHS rated several models which attained the Top Safety Pick honor, including the Audi Q4 E-Tron and Q8 E-Tron, Genesis Electrified GV70, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Lexus RZ, Nissan Ariya, Rivian R1T and R1S, and Subaru Solterra, showcasing the safety advancements across a diverse range of EVs. It is clear that the Nissan Arriya and Lexus RZ met reliability and safety. I only wish that they were affordable.
How reliable does a car have to be to be a reasonable purchase? The early Teslas (over seven years old) are dropping like old flies, as the battery case leaks are corroding the BMBs and cell terminals. The LDU rotor seals can't be kept in service for more than a couple of years on the replacements, and the originals only made it past 50k rarely. These are *expensive* repairs. I got a friend into a used Bolt this summer (with a GM-replaced battery and a new 8-year warranty on it), not a used Tesla, because I've worked on more Teslas than I want to.
Hybrids are still the vehicles to get in the U.S. for another decade. Maybe by then we'll have charging infrastructure will people actually live, work, and run errands.
I disagree. If you can't use an EV for your life you are better off with an ICE car than a hybrid. Hybrids have too many extra things that can go wrong and you are carrying a lot of extra weight.
@@kensmith5694It depends on the brand. Toyota hybrids are the most reliable over the Big 3. I have 2009 Prius with only one brake problem early on. Now at 144K miles, it seems to be just right.
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@@transportevolved - so far there is ZERO evidence , that ANY other OEM makes Better vehicles than Tesla. Tesla , goal is ONE category killer, per vehicle. model Y is already BEST seller Globally. its outselling F150 & many others. NEW model 3 is the BENCHMARK. Cybertruck is truck BENCHMARK. (already outselling some ICE Trucks). Tesla robotaxi = Category killer.
@@transportevolved - TESLA is only OEM that actively reducing Production & supply chain COSTS . while still making the SAFEST & BEST vehicles w/o Decontent them. other OEMs have to Decontent in order to lower production & supplies COSTS. they make a less SAFE & WORSE vehicles. TESLA roofs dont FAIL & cave in. Meanwhile FORD is the WORLD Leader in RECALLS.
I’ve been a Patron for over 5 years and I feel your voice is Definitely Needed in the Social Media Space. I may not watch every video you create but me watching every video is not why I support Transportation Evolved. I support Transportation Evolved because it is The Right Thing To Do! Thank you.
If the world thinks that transitioning to BEV without efficiency and emissions standards (including production), they're in denial about the actual assignment.
and if you think that scrapping all the renewable tech and going back to ICE cars is the better solution, then YOU are in serious denial about the real world.
@@mrxmry3264 Not at all what I said. reread.
The transition will occur when BEVs are the clearly superior option, which they already are in many cases, and will soon be in most cases. The world didn't need imposed standards to convert from horse carriages to automobiles. It didn't need mandates to switch from Bronze to Iron. Technology fosters change much more effectively than mandates and this race is all but won already. Government had a role in kick-starting the move but there is now so much capital interested in improving BEVs that the transition is all but inevitable.
@BixbyConsequence This laissez faire argument is reductive at best. Industry has ignored its responsibility to decarbonize as massively as the general public. You have no evidence at all that the free market reacts to the externalities of GHGs. All evidence points to the opposite conclusion that without regulation, no one is decarbonizing in the least. I'd love to see how you support your assertion that the free market is addressing Climate Crisis anywhere in the world or in history without regulation, subsidies, and incentives.
The efficiency standards I'm stating we need are on BEVs. We already have (flawed) ones for ICE.
@@karlInSanDiego I made no assertion at all about the free market addressing climate crisis. Simply that car-buyers will switch when they view BEV as superior vehicles. Millions already have. Reducing CO2 is a happy consequence.
Thanks for the News. Keep Evolving Everyone!!!
Thanks for sending such information packed pro-green energy videos. Bravo. Go electrification, go.
i suspect that in Ford's case (and the other domestics) you will find that sales of ICEV are also way down, and inventory on dealers lots is climbing to the point that many dealers are struggling to find space for their inventory. Ford and others OEMs are having to restart pre 2020 dealer sales support programs, including rebates, advertising support, and special financing. but dealers seem to be reaping what they sowed, in that customers are avoiding dealing with them
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Thanks, Nikki. Great job by you and your team, as always.
Toyota says California's emissions standards are impossible, based on Beezy4X debut they probably think EVS are impossible to build too. All the automakers cried in the 70s, made California-only models briefly , then gave in and made all of their models clean and they've all got better since.
Yes, and in the 1970s was when the "impossible" specs were met by Toyota and Honda giving them a huge advantage over the big 3 that said they were impossible.
Don’t worry about the standards. The next administration will remove the pollution standards. It is a non-issue. Let’s move on.
@@williamquemuel7824you s e e m happy about turning our country into a sewer
@@williamquemuel7824 derpderpy
Toyota is full of it. My 07 Camry gets worse fuel efficiency than the 97 Dodge minivan I used to own. Why? Because it has a bigger capacity engine, tuned to run at higher RPM at all times, on crappy low profile tires. A vehicle with dramatically less cargo and passenger space, that just guzzles gas for the heck of it. I was honestly shocked when I started driving it. They could make more fuel efficient vehicles, they just dont want to because they know that Americans want ridiculous cars with ridiculous stats, and if Toyota doesnt sell that, they will just buy it from someone else.
While The U.S. is cutting back on EV and environmental tech. Canada will continue to push on Ev and Environmental tech. it's true Canadians does not have a population like the U.S. but per Capita, canada has 5.8 percent more, u.s. then the U.S. at 5.3 percent on EVs. I still have faith that America will still push for the lead in Ev- tech in the future, but right now they need to figure out what they want in the Society regarding the environment.Lets wait another 4 years and see America does.
If I'm right, Canada won't be going strong in environmental tech for much longer. It seems like the right side of politics is seriously against protecting our environment. Even if the right doesn't believe in climate change, don't they believe in clean air?
Yay Canada!
That will stop when Trudeau is gone and Trump-sycophant PP is in place. Canada will follow the US lead (as always).
Heres hoping we can keep the MAGA infected Cons from taking control next year, or earlier if they manage to force an election.
Musk was always opposed to the incentives and they only help his competitors - I think this will hurt Ford and the other manufacturers, pretty much all of whom are inept and don't make many cars anyway. Tesla won't stop selling cars, and electrification is inevitable. So you don't have to worry that the US customers won't buy a Tesla. Remember that 100% of people who buy new vehicles are flush with cash anyway or they'd buy second hand.
Really enjoy my Tesla, but that thumbnail is spot on.
If Elon was not part of Tesla, I would enjoy them more.
A single person (in his position, no less) being the most resistance to cleaner, greener is frustrating.
The sole reason I haven't bought a Tesla; Musk.
@@AlexCharron Better not buy a Volkswagen in that case!
I am suddenly more interested in the updated Kia Niro EV after learning it has more cargo space than even the ID4. Not very fast charging, but I can live with that, probably. Also, costs surprisingly close to the EV6. Hopefully they will be selling at a discount before the EV3 is introduced.
Huh? Directly from Kia's website: Niro 2nd row up: 22.8 cubic feet, down: 63.7 cubic feet. VW ID4 2nd row up: 30.3 cubic feet, down: 64.2 cubic feet.
e- Niro is just an ICE car w/very crappy battery.
@@tjs114 Right. Which is why I keep fixing my decade-old RAV4 EV: 73 ft³. And I use it.
Elimination the EV incentive will allow China to increase their lead in the technology and business space. With China being Trumps biggest concern this is weird stance. But with this administration 'weird' should be considered the word of the day. Everyday.
One can't assume there is any strategy. MAGA plays checkers, not chess. No offense meant for checkers players.
@@BattNW tiddlywinks you mean
@@who2u333 Tarriffs will stop China Imports. Lower Corporate Taxes for American Companies will bring Companies back to America. Win Win fir USA
The fantasy of American citizen peasants working in sweatshops and toiling in fields
Should we environmentalists be for Chinese tariffs or against. The best way is to flood the market with cheap EV's.
Dear car manufacturers:
1) Please keep the buttons for things like heating, radio etc.
2) I don't need massive screens blasting my face with light as I drive; I despise them.
3) I also despise haptic buttons. Physical buttons are great, easy to use and have been perfected.
4) I love cloth seats; please include them in the options. Cloth is much more comfortable in high heat or in the cold. I don't need or want to be sitting in a leather armchair as I drive.
5) I don't need AWD; it simply adds weight, upfront cost, maintenance costs and lowers the range.
6) I don't need massaging chairs.
7 Time of 0-60 is meaningless to me. Why would I want to go that fast? It would simply end up costing a fortune in tires and cause more accidents. Concentrate on range and affordability.
You forgot sunroofs, which I hate.
@@jamesvandamme7786 Very true. I agree.
Unfortunately, manufacturers build what most people will buy, and most people want those frills.
No frills jeeps and fleet trucks have been marketed (by Jeep and Ford respectively) and universally not sold, so these companies stopped making them. EVs are no different
I agree esp. about cloth and would add
8. 0-60 time must be below 7 Seconds
9. bigger screens
1) Yes buttons *AND* *KNOBS* for many things, a knob is the best user interface.
2) Yes and also there is no need to duplicate what my phone does.
3) "haptic" can include real buttons on knobs. You mean "fake haptic effects"
4) Yes, cloth is a lot better on a really cold day.
5) Some people live in places where AWD is a good idea. I would leave that in the product line.
6) No massaging and manual adjusting please. Its fewer things to break.
7) What really matters is getting from about 35 to freeway speed. That is the one people use.
8) If you can't make your auto-braking so it never randomly slams on the breaks for no reason leave it out.
9) If the car is going to notify me of anything it had better be important. No nagging
10) Give me a spare tire.
11) Electric trunk/hatch doors are a bad idea really.
12) Make the hood a little lower please.
13) Where I live there are potholes I need ground clearance.
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If we don't laugh, we will cry. Laughing is not the same as giving up.
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The pursuit of shareholder value has this as an end result...both the jackboots and the gadget-encrusted, enshittified, overweight luxobarges.
Hyundai/TEN: "Hyundai's bring back buttons!"
Me: "Removing them in the first place was stupid to begin with..."
Dropping EV incentives in the USA will be net damaging to their economy and technology position. Making Tesla a monopoly for USA EVs is counterproductive because it will make them complacent since they have nothing to compete with.
Heartening to see public opinion shifting more towards believing that they'll be EV drivers within a decade. That's very positive news.
Not necessarily. Many brands currently price vehicles just under the maximum level to qualify for incentives, and with incentives removed, they will be forced to produce more affordable models. In a free market, EVs will sell based on their benefits and lower operating costs without support from taxpayer funding.
The world does not need to buy a heavily subsidies Tesla. Do not think EU can not levy tariffs to Tesla, too.
@@jamespaul2587 I hope you are right. The incentives do have the possibility of letting automakers add X to MSRP since X will go back to the buyer.
I think that road use fees by vehicle weight and a price on pollution should be applied. I'm curious to see how the playing field would level between ICE and EVs if ICE vehicles had to pay to pollute.
@@mikapeltokorpi7671 I suspect retaliatory tariffs will happen from EU and others. Tariffs are a dimwit solution to trade. I wish they had more competent minds and approaches applied, but I suspect their goal isn't American prosperity, but mercantile control. A smaller economic pie but considerably more concentration of what remains. Stupid and selfish approach to economics, but unsurprising since they seem to look at the Gilded Age as inspiration.
@AlainODea good point, it might also help with people's beliefs that they need to drive oversized, overweight and inefficient SUVs, both gas and EV versions. Removal of tariffs may expedite the transition to smaller and more efficient vehicles.
Hertz selling their EVS is funny they've already taken the largest depreciation, seems like it would be better to hang on to the cars longer. I think they should have given renters more EV information
HERTZ is unwise ? Maybe it is due to DEI hiring ?
@rp9674 The problem with EVs as rental vehicles is always the charging issue. Hertz got into the business without addressing key issues and that is the key problem... not the depreciation. When people are informed on how and where to charge, they love renting Teslas.
I think a lot of environmentalists lost the plot and made I more about pushing EVs than lowering emissions. It was coming at the cost of the poor making them angry and moving right on the issue
What I need to know is which is the most efficient small van - like the Nissan eNV200, and which is the most reliable small electric campervan?
There aren't any production electric campervans yet SFAIK. There are a few converters doing conversions. But what do you mean 'most reliable'? They are all reliable: they are EVs. Van efficiency numbers are hard to come by, but generally the smallest ones are best: so Kangoo, Berlingo.
I've seen tests for the Buzz, Vivaro/Expert/Dispatch, Kangoo?Townstar/Citan, env200, and E-transit, but not others. The otherwise-excellent EV-database ignores vans completely. Does someone else keep track of this stuff?
Of the stats I could find: env200 is most efficient. then Kangoo, Buzz/Vivaro
Generally, the smaller and lighter the van, the more efficient it is (shocker). There are no obvious outliers.
e-transit: 62kWh 2022 (med height, med length), 1.4 miles/kWh (4C - full)
e-vivaro: 75kWh 2021 3.0mi/kWh 56mph (19C - dry- empty), 1.8mi/kWh 75mph (17C - dry- empty)
Buzz SWB: 82kWh 2023 3.6mi/kWh 50mph (12C - dry- empty), 3.0mi/kWh 56mph (10C -dry- empty), 2.1mio/kWh 75mph (7C - dry - empty)
Kangoo: 45kWh 2021 3.2mi/kWh 56mph (2C - dry - empty), 2.2mi/kWh 75mph (2C -d ry- empty)
env200: 40kWh 2018 3.8mi/kWh 56mph (17C - dry- empty)
Ev sales are still growing here in Oz but hybrid and plug-in sales are going through the roof! The new BYD Shark Ute will be a big seller. Keep on evolving, looking forward to the next TEN.😊
"Oz"?
@@paolopetrozzi2213 Australia.
Cybertruck is #1 EV Truck in the WORLD , outselling BYD Shark , Lightning, Rivian.
@@markplott4820That thing is shite and it's CEO is too.
@@metricstormtrooper - Tesla makes BEST vehicles on EARTH, also SAFEST.
We are near Miami Florida visiting in a Kia Niro EV. Fun little car. We've noticed a lot of EVs here. Also noticed lines at the charging stations.
No line in our garage.
EV sales in the UK are still going well. BEVs are the only segment which grew during October in YoY sales, according to the SMMT. Diesel fell by 20.5% and Petrol by 14.2% YoY from October 2023. 🎉 Keep up the good work Nikki and team!
US does not need unfair incentives anymore
I watched RJ Scaringe's video. It was very good. My husband owns an R1T. Cheer up, Nikki. We only hit a proverbial bump in the road. Pun intended. I am a Doomer, but EV content is my happy place.
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How will the new Chevy Bolt do in the Trump administration? No incentives and Elon getting a seat next Trump.
It will kick ass and blow doors down. If it's like last time around it was substantially cheaper than model 3 and anything in its range class. Endless rebates only apply to Tesla
@@rp9674exactly! I bought Kona Electric as my second choice to a Bolt which was very obviously the value win. The Model 3 is not competively priced if you care only about price vs range, efficiency, and space. Having a hatch back is a major practicality advantage as well.
I like the Model 3, but not enough for the added price. Tesla priorized an expensive pickup truck with very distinctive styling over the affordable, practical Model 2.
WTF have those of us around the World who are not rich and powerful decided to vote into government in many countries, in a repeat of many countries in the C20, potential despots into power who have declared that climate change isn’t happening and that fossil fuels MUST be used in preference to anything better?
Right wing ‘popularism’ is proof democracy isn’t the best.
If the ‘West’ chose to compete with the Far East, It could. The rich and powerful are playing politics to ensure that they, China and Russia dominate as the planet makes life on Earth increasingly ‘awkward’. How can a nation like the USA vote a potential despot into power. The EU is next, by the look of things 😢
Re: Moving production from Germany to Thailand. And Re: Ford having difficulty selling the EVs it makes in Europe. And Re: The general difficulties of German auto makers ---
Richard Wolff has pretty much explained it. Germany used to have economical access to Russian energy resources. Geopolitics has forced this to stop. (now China has that access instead).
Now, manufacturing costs in Europe and especially Germany are higher than they used to be.
Never give up never surrender
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Cutting EV incentives is inevitable. I'd say we are there now in regards to consumer cost. We were not there 3 years ago. A little early, yes. I support ending Federal EV incentives, though. Consumer shouldn't feel it. Time to pay full price which is similar to ICE.
Furthermore, put some money into charging infrastructure. Even with Biden, this is absolutely lacking. I'd rather see that money go to infrastructure or kick backs for companies putting infrastructure in.
Don't forget the biggest new feature on the 2025 Ioniq 5, it finally has a rear wiper.
Love this episode lots of information keep on keep on 👏🏽👏🏽
Musk should be sent to Russia where he can cut much worse corruption.
He’d accidentally ‘fall’ out of a window if he tried. But they’re the ones who the incoming administration supports, not our democratic allies.
Dear Nikki, you are so much the complete opposite of me (I'm a so boring normal), but I fully respect and share your views, keep going, you're (this includes the whole team) doing such an incredible work, in regards of sustinability as well as for (I don't know how to call it) " accepatnce of different optinions"? Go, go, go!
Great news and information, keep up the outstanding content and God bless your team.
TE is very Biased and WOKE news reporting.
It is up to us as consumers to push the industry to reduce emissions. Politicians look out for their electoral interests and not for the general good.
Vehicular efficiency is mandatory to aborting climate change, and a huge portion of the world, and the US, understand this. The demand for hyper-efficent, cleaner transportation is high, and, I think, pretty impervious to the lack of governmental support. Or derision in the case of our incoming administration.
Aptera is the bell weather and thier strength has always come from thier product, which is turning into precisely the vehicle that they engineered it to be. I anticipate great success for Aprera, and they WILL be noticed and emulated.
I live in the Pacific NW too, neighbors, and I am terribly concerned with the ecological effects of the coming years. (The perfect shitstorm hitting the largest wind turbine farm...) but it COULD hurry the evolution of transportation along.
Love you both.
I can envisage a fair amount of pushback from USA automotive unions if Trump really does follow through with EV incentives scrapage given the likely highly negative impact on job losses, both direct and indirect ones. I can't imagine USA automotive manufacturers, with the exception of Tesla, will be all that thrilled either,
The unions will have made their bed, they can lie in it. I mean, Trump and Musk, how much more pro-union can you get?
Why should Trump care what automotive unions thinks? What can the unions do? Strike? Why would that effect a President that is not looking to get re-elected?
I can remember a time when the "big 3" US car makers said that the pollution standards couldn't be met and Toyota and Honda said "We have cars that do that with no trouble". I now expect Toyota to start having a lot of trouble competing with someone. I am not sure yet who but I know that ICE cars that are even cleaner can be done and they are going to lose the ICE market as well as the EV market.
The Tesla stock was already over priced before the election. This level on the stock is just silly.
I expect Tesla will benefit a little from corruption but lose net sales. A trade war is not good for anyone.
Wars are between enemies and the people across the Pacific are the enemies of the U.S.A..
@@mikewallace8087Don’t worry about the standards. The next administration will remove those pollution standards. It is a non-issue. Let’s move on.
Makes zero sense to remove tax credit when it can only be taken advantage of when buying a USA built EV
Little Elon hitching a ride.
Are Sage chargers available in England? If so, how much?
When Hertz talks about completing a complete fleet changeover by the end of the first quarter of next year, does this mean that they will be completely reverting to ICE vehicles or simply that they will be choosing other EV manufacturers' offerings instead of Tesla's?
Personally, I think that they may be still stuck in a slightly outdated mindset that was appropriate to the mechanical wear & tear of ICE vehicles but is not necessarily fit for the electrification of transportation, since EV's don't have an engine or associated parts, & thus a relatively quick fleet turnover is somewhat premature. The fixation on depreciation needs to change, and they really should be keeping these vehicles for at least another 3yrs. Even Octopus Energy in the UK who have an EV leasing division are re-leasing vehicles as long as they are in good enough condition, and why wouldn't they? There's less capital expenditure required for fleet renewal.
For a rental vehicle, the "wear and tear" isn't the drivetrain, it's the cosmetics: finish/paint, dings & dents, and esp. the interior. And the resale equation is a major part of the profitability of the mainstream rental business model. If certain costs can't be recovered by the resale value, that vehicle isn't profitable to the business.
That Enphase news makes me pessimistic about them actually releasing their V2G home EVSE that they announced was due (checks original press release) this year… :-/
Yes, Porsche sells expensive cars, but they are also "class leading in so many metrics" according to Kyle Connor of Out of Spec. A Porsche Taycan ($125k) recently won the Out of Spec Seattle to Boston I-90 EV race because of its superior charging (320 kw peak), 97 kwh battery, and 3 miles/kwh efficiency. The Porsche Taycan, heralded as a next generation EV, won easily over the other 8 EV contenders. The new Tesla model 3 long range rwd ($42.5k, 3.8 mi/kwh, 82 kwh battery) came in second. Surprisingly, the Lucid Air Grand Touring ($130k, 118kwh battery) came in next to last (should have been second or third) because the crew didn't charge when the car told them to and ran out of electric juice towards the end!
Just a couple of notes: great job as usual. I love the comment on Bidirectional charging around Christmas just in time for the summer heat wave. You were going along at a clip there so was not sure you were talking about Australia.
On the note of Republican stupidity for elimination of subsidies we probably need to find someone with good math skills to calculate the number of child deaths and premature deaths such stupidity will bring. Since I live in the Central Valley of California population here and the number of children with Asthma is staggering.
they don't care. on this policy matter it's all about being oppositional. reason doesn't matter.
Plastics are a fact of life in just about every facet of our modern day lives, right down to the cars we drive, the IT equipment we use, packaging and of course, solar panels, wiring coatings & harnesses, the list is virtually endless. The writing of this comment is prompted by Nikki's remarks in the ATMOS sponsorship ad about giving the fossil fuels industries the middle finger. TBC: I'm not picking on anyone for wanting to give the fossil fuels industries the middle finger, I do too, but humanity has so much of how we do things intimately tied to plastic and its various applications, it's truly hard to grasp how we will finally manage to divorce ourselves from fossil fuels in as timely a manner as is necessary to prevent anthropogenic induced runaway climate change. Virtually every eco-friendly product that springs to mind has very high percentages of plastic componentry, including, ironically, the packaging they tend to come in.
Even modern medicine is highly dependent on plastics for a whole range of products ranging from disposable drip bags & tubing, disposable sterile dressing packs, medicine bottles & packaging, even medicines themselves and a gazillion other things besides, as Kate Walton-Elliott can confirm.
In conclusion, the total abandonment of fossil fuels usage is a truly sticky conundrum.
Remember, there is a boycott on Tesla.
Another great video! I can tell you right now that I will not be buying another BEV anytime soon. While I absolutely adore my 2022 Ford Mach-e after 40,000 miles, I drive less than 100 miles a week in my wife's 2017 VW Golf Alltrack with only 73,000 miles. As for Elon Musk, I can see that he's maybe moved on from spurring the EV revolution after buying Tesla. He's now into artificial intelligence as the next shiny object to chase.
Musk helping China and Himself, same MO
I traded my Tesla model X in for a 2022 F150 lightning pro extended range.
If the EPA rescinds California's ability to set its own clean air rules, wouldn't that be considered federal government overreach? Wouldn't this be something that should be put to the California voters just like abortion is in every state? I do regard clean air and water as fundamental rights! Also, Bernie's view that healthcare should be a fundamental right seems equitable.
The republicans do like different rules depending on whom is in “control”
Ah, the "party of state's rights" saying "no, not THOSE states!"
Is it right that I may have to buy a used EV before the point of sale credit is eliminated? Carvana seems to have great prices on used 2023 Bolts. They also mention the point of sale $4k credit.
On #COP29 several more countries signed for tripling Clean Energy from Nuclear Energy. 👌
Yes, the plan is anyone who buys an EV pays the gov $7500.00
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the 7500 EV incentive was dead no matter who won the election. january 1 the mineral content for the battery gets more stringent. last year 30 vehicles qualified, this year 10 qualified, next year it looks like none will qualify.
The current administration set it up to fail, pretending to support EVs while in reality working for the UAW.
Yes, Musk expects much more direct kickbacks than mere tax credits for the consumers... But on the news, Tesla shares fell.
regarding the ford explorer: it is not a bad car, but it has the shitty touch user interface from the VW MEB, that is real crap and it is about 3k€ to expensive. if they can fix that, the explorer will sell.
I wonder if the CCS to Tesla recalls is related to the new higher voltage offered by Tesla's super chargers
I don't mind buttons
He also said stop all incentives
The choices for the COPE's hosts are a gift... for climate action inercia.
Most countries have dropped EV incentives (thank you Germany for leading the push of EV OEM's into the world of true competition), so why is US dropping incentive causing concern? . . it's a sign of sector maturity.
I saw my first Tesla Cyber Truck in person today. (I wouldn’t touch anything from Musk period) but it’s even uglier in person. I didn’t think it that was possible.
Yes, it's like a commercial ice maker had a drunken affair with a dumpster.
It's a cool vehicle but has the stench of musk on it
@@rp9674 You never came back to my reply about 1960's NASA hiring black engineering women and men.
Don't care, it's irrelevant, I don't base my life on what would NASA do
@@rp9674 Ha Ha Ha , you called NASA racist in the 1960's , you certainly are upset .
Wouldn't it be a gass if this pushes up EV sales way way up 😂
By the sound of you, I think you might have exported yourself from England to America!! I would certainly get the whole family to move on from the States to England or Canada. At least you will still be able to go electric!!
We’re unable to go to the UK. Its anti trans policies are not good.
@@transportevolved The U.K. is not anti trans . The migrant population is.
@@mikewallace8087 First, unless we're mistaken, you're not someone who lives in the UK. Second, your comment is terribly xenophobic.
Let's get some things straight.
It was the British press which has spent decades on a fear and loathing campaign against the LGBTQIA+ community, that's caused a lot of the anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric in the UK.
Helped by JK Rowling - and various other wealthy anti-trans types with influence in the UK government - the UK commissioned the Cass Report, a report which wasn't written by a specialist and which set out from the start to back up some of the worst lies being spread right now about trans people.
The British Government was the ones who changed the policies on trans healthcare. The British government were the ones who decided to tell doctor to stop prescribing medication to both adults and children who are trans.
I can't go back to the UK because I would be forcibly removed from medication. I would be forced to wait the 5+ years to get back into a clinic to be seen by a mental health specialist to prove that yes, I am trans and yes, I should have access to to trans healthcare.
24+ years after I socially transitioned and 22+ years after I medically transitioned.
So, please @MikeWallace8087 - don't spread bovine byproduct and lies and call it Nutella.
Nikki.
@@transportevolved A.I. query : Is the u.k. anti gay lesbian . Result , you are significantly false . You ignore the fact I am married to a Filipina and encountered many gays and lesbians while living there . I accept your strong distain for me , stop being purposely blind to what I say.
Marlin San Diego is absolutely right!! We need to know how efficient our electric vehicles really are. The only way we can establish that is to force manufacturers to employ test drivers to take the cars out and give a REAL LIFE range rather than using a Would Like to Pretend range.
thats the ranges have always been tested, since the 70s. "real world" tests are not repeatable or comparable between vehicles, 75% useless. you just get a ball park idea of who might be better.
It's not so important that the EPA (etc.) estimated mileage (range) numbers are accurate, only that they use the same testing methodology for all test subjects, so that the numbers can be used for accurate _comparison_ with other mfgrs' offerings.
@@alsavage1 Exactly. Everyone thinks their personal habits or desires constitute the "real world". For some the "real world" consists of never dropping below 85 MPH.
Clearly photo shopped pic of Trump, hand is way too normal sized to be Trump's.
Can't fault him for having small hands but can for putting them in weird positions like a oddly-shaped awkward fist, or the fish is this big motion
If you were to not follow the EV industry and watch this as your first TEN, you'd be convinced the EV is dying, and it's time to focus instead on e-bikes. After this auto industry floundered for a for more than a decade to kick off the EV revolution, it caught its stride, and a year later it's all falling apart. Is it just late stage capitalism that is crushing the soul of the EV, obscuring our need to quickly transition, or is there more to this? Are we actually seeing the problem with large battery, high production emissions, resource & cost constrained luxury EVs, you know, the kind Elon said were the only ones people would buy, while lambasting compromised nerd cars? Car companies surely could have built and sold Bolts and Leafs, though not at a profit, and by the time we've upsized the battery to 50 kWh and way beyond and the average owner isn't actually charging with renewable energy physically while their solar is live, but via contractual shuffle of renewable energy RECs/PPAs/Net metering which defy reality because of diurnal and seasonal renewable insufficiencies, it's not an actual scalable formula but still a loose proof of concept. I'm a fan of solar + BEV, but it's not yet a sustainable formula for people who work during the day, and maybe never will be, given the emissions and energy impact of the BEVs we're selling. We've failed to rethink transportation as actually sustainable, and instead we made the same SUVs and huge pickup trucks with massive batteries. We let the profitability of the transport affect it's design and eliminated its sustainability along the way. Shame on all of us for trusting a con man like Elon, that his formula was good for the planet. Sustainability has an actual measure and that is zero CO2e emissions well to wheel, not 1/3 to 3/4 lower than ICE. The circular economy with Electric/sail cargo ships, electric mining equipment, every supplier and every material impact being actually zero has no timetable, not organizing principle. The sustainable BEV myth is all built on a false promise that we're all rowing in the same direction with the same urgency, which was never going to be true without global government mandates.
So onward with e-bikes, micromobility and electric trains, the things industry and governments and people will have to fall back to as the auto industry bankrupts itself trying to prop up a false solution. People using emissions and math beyond 2050 always realized the full sized person single occupancy motor vehicle cannot last forever, be it ICE or EV. I was a life long car enthusiast and clearly still hold a special place in my heart for them. But to cling onto full sized BEV as a solution is only helping to kill the car faster by seriously accelerating emissions via the BEV industry and thus ramping up industrial emissions globally. China alone has no doubt signed its own fate going from very few cars to becoming the largest car market in the world in short time, while allowing themselves a crazy slow timeline to snuff out coal. The upside is that China is leading at micromobility and understands how to build microcars too. And they remember how to ride a bike.
I have seen many videos of Chine E bikes in elevators , hallways and inside tall apartments start on fire and cause loss of life and property. State Farm Insurance , comment?
Tldr.
@@metricstormtrooper yet you took the time to comment about it
@@mikewallace8087 Yup. Ones without a UL rating (or a counterfeit one). NYC has been catching them and fining them and still people buy 'em as fast as they can be ordered. Hence, co-ops and condos issuing blanket moratoriums on e-bikes, scooters, etc. in common areas of their properties.
@@metricstormtrooper If you can't be bothered to read a comment in full, it behooves you to refrain from interaction. It's just polite. Offering the feedback that one's post is "too long for me to invest the time to read it" isn't helping the poster; they already know how much effort has to be expended to read what they've written. You can decide to pass, but your feedback seems unhelpful.
No Bluesky profile?
Elon will protect space x at this point at all costs, everything else will suffer
1:12 if the EV industry can not live without tax incentives in 2024. Then it never will.
Lovely signoff message 👌
Elon Musk is concerned about EV’s as much as Goldfinger was concerned about gold. Only the most deluded fan believes when he says he’s concerned about the future of humanity.
Elon the clown thinks raising his costs (tariffs) and reducing his profits (no incentives) will help Tesla.
Tesla will be the only game in town then. Profit!
@@jamesvandamme7786 You forgot about the Chinese.
@@MarkSpohr Our new King will protect us from the Yellow Peril and their exploding 'lectric spy cars!
Ev does not need incentives anymore, many countries removed those years ago. Ev cars are affordable and good allready to be alternative for ice cars. If makers cant sell those without incentives, they simpy are not good enough value for money they cost.
Also 7500 incentive is a LOT of money to lose in taxes for government that is almost broke.
EXACTLY!! Plus the US system has been unfair
The fossil fuel industry still gets massive subsidies (incentives). If the fossil fuel industry gets incentives, why can't the EV market get the same? To use your words: "If 'fossil fuels' can't sell without incentives, they simply are not good enough value for money they cost".
@@AlexCharron Exactly right! Billions every year to Big Oil so that Americans don't have to pay the real price at the pump. Remove that and have us pay the real cost and the ROI of even a 50 grand EV will be under 2 years.
All that would make sense IF oil wasn't heavily subsidized. EV incentives help to level the playing field. They should only be removed if ICE incentives are as well.
@@anemeth9281"unfair" as in gasoline has ALWAYS been subsidized by the US... right?
54% in Accenture survey wanting EVs is very slim majority. This mirrors a more recent Presidential election.
China Observer the best source for EV fires inside China . Live free and prosper .
complaining about ev credits going away followed by a item about a car nobody can afford even with a credit.EV credits have outlived their use. EV's will become cheaper anyway.
Not fast enough though! Detroit wasn't paying attention that $7500 off the cost of a cheap EV would be VERY appealing. Ford and Stellantis were asleep at the wheel, and GM cancelled the Bolt just as sales started to take off.
@@jamesvandamme7786 got to get it while it's hot
1:30 ah but thank goodness Musk the savior of the world that many have propped up did what he did the past two months let alone the past 4 years. Sarcasm
DOGE should have been DOUCHE with those lying dirtbags Musk and Swami in charge. I might finally bend and buy a Chinese EV if helps to ditch Tesla.
I no longer differentiate between the fascists but at least the Chinese were always known to be fascists . Musk just mislead everyone, aspired to be a fascist and is now confirmed as one. IMHO Subsidies must end. EV devotees should fork out their own money, Stop expecting using tax payers money to make rich fascist billionaires richer under the guise of planet saving BS. It’s just another damn car, I fine with that.
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Fageddaboudit
Consumer Reports list only 4 EV that are recommended and have above average reliability: Nissan Arriya, Porche Taycan, Lexus RZ, and Hyundai Ioniq 6. 2024 IIHS rated several models which attained the Top Safety Pick honor, including the Audi Q4 E-Tron and Q8 E-Tron, Genesis Electrified GV70, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Lexus RZ, Nissan Ariya, Rivian R1T and R1S, and Subaru Solterra, showcasing the safety advancements across a diverse range of EVs. It is clear that the Nissan Arriya and Lexus RZ met reliability and safety. I only wish that they were affordable.
I think your Norfolk accent escaped at 16.12 😅
Tha’s a lotta squit!
@@transportevolvedSorry, Google translate doesn’t understand that. All the best from ‘sunny’ Devon. Ooh arr.
@@keithwillis5662 Ha! Translated it means 'That's a load of rubbish"
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Transport Evolved - meanwhile - HAGGERTY (petrolhead) and Randy Probst say NEW Tesla model 3 is the BEST car in the WORLD .
Transport Evolved - BTW - Ionic 5N hoist review by MUNRO , outdated & too HEAVY.
Presidente Biden necesita "step down" hoy para "VP" Harris ser la presidente mujer primera antes de 2025.
No.
The Chevy Bolt has reliability issues per Consumer Reports. It is dicey to even consider one unless you enjoy spending time in repair shops.
How reliable does a car have to be to be a reasonable purchase? The early Teslas (over seven years old) are dropping like old flies, as the battery case leaks are corroding the BMBs and cell terminals. The LDU rotor seals can't be kept in service for more than a couple of years on the replacements, and the originals only made it past 50k rarely. These are *expensive* repairs. I got a friend into a used Bolt this summer (with a GM-replaced battery and a new 8-year warranty on it), not a used Tesla, because I've worked on more Teslas than I want to.
Hybrids are still the vehicles to get in the U.S. for another decade. Maybe by then we'll have charging infrastructure will people actually live, work, and run errands.
Hereabouts (upstate NY) there are plenty of chargers, even in the mountains, but not enough affordable EVs.
I disagree. If you can't use an EV for your life you are better off with an ICE car than a hybrid. Hybrids have too many extra things that can go wrong and you are carrying a lot of extra weight.
Weak sauce
Anyone who wants a relatively cheap EV could get a leaf, should have bought bolt while it was available, no grounds to complain about price
@@kensmith5694It depends on the brand. Toyota hybrids are the most reliable over the Big 3. I have 2009 Prius with only one brake problem early on. Now at 144K miles, it seems to be just right.
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Xaomi is a NPC , it can't even outsell BYD & Tesla ....lol😂
You should check your fanboyism at the door.
@@transportevolved - so far there is ZERO evidence , that ANY other OEM makes Better vehicles than Tesla.
Tesla , goal is ONE category killer, per vehicle.
model Y is already BEST seller Globally.
its outselling F150 & many others.
NEW model 3 is the BENCHMARK.
Cybertruck is truck BENCHMARK. (already outselling some ICE Trucks).
Tesla robotaxi = Category killer.
@@transportevolved - you should check into a clinic and be reeducated.
@@transportevolved - Meanwhile , F150 hybrid(s) catch FIRE and burn to ground.
lol.
@@transportevolved - TESLA is only OEM that actively reducing Production & supply chain COSTS .
while still making the SAFEST & BEST vehicles w/o Decontent them.
other OEMs have to Decontent in order to lower production & supplies COSTS.
they make a less SAFE & WORSE vehicles.
TESLA roofs dont FAIL & cave in.
Meanwhile FORD is the WORLD Leader in RECALLS.
Thanks!
Awess!