50 years of the US outsourcing everything they can to cheap labor countries and now they wake up and realize that this was a problem. You don’t fix 50 years of stupidity quickly.

This is the way 👍

Welcome to NJ.

I just paid $2.99 cents per gallon which makes switching to an EV a tougher sell for many of us in the USA. Eventually I will own an EV but at these low gas prices there is no big rush to trade in my mid-size SUV with 55,000 miles for an EV when I only drive 13,000 miles per year.

I’d be surprised if Ford & GM are still around in the next 20 years. They’ll either go bust or get bought out for their pieces and dismantled.

Buy a Tesla

Well at least it creates a lower point of entry for people like me that prefer to buy slightly used vehicles.

The Toyota bZ5X has physical buttons all over but unfortunately you have to be a fighter jet pilot to figure out what they all do.

The Ioniq 6 is a beautiful car but unfortunately after the frustration of dealing with my local Hyundai dealership over minor issues on my last two Hyundais I am ready to try another brand.

The big three auto makers are stuck in an endless loop of short term, profits versus long-term survival.

US Protectionism of our auto industry. Tesla was the only US automaker willing to take an all or nothing approach to electric vehicles and now we have to protect the other automakers from going bankrupt as they slowly transition from ICE vehicles over to EVs.

Beginning in 2035 many states have already said that gas vehicles sales will no longer be permitted. That is less than 12 years away. It’s gonna happen.

The transition to EVs will take much longer that the transition from flip phones to smartphones.

Unmanned public chargers is such a bad idea in so many places.

I limited my last car purchase to “must have CarPlay”. Offer everything and let the consumer decide what they want.

Exxon finding new and interesting ways to get rich by raping and pillaging the environment.

Software control and completely owning your supply chains will be key to winning the long term EV battle.

An ICE vehicle would need to get 70MPG to match the CO2 emissions of a EV. But an EV requires more CO2 to produce than an ICE vehicle so thats brings us down to maybe 60MPG for an ICE. Seems like the 60MPG is a a reachable target and wouldn’t require turning the planet upside down to convert us to a technology that we’re not even sure will be more sustainable in the log run.

During the apocalypse when there’s nothing but cloudy skys what’s your backup plan?

Gas goes bad fairly fast

Pretty simple to stockpile gasoline for at least a year by adding a simple additive to it.