Electric Cars

[Dracos]

No problem, the power comes from the socket....

And my cats know for a fact that fish comes from cans!

 

[Buttoni]

Looks like Toyota isn't immune from the disaster of the rollout of electric cars: Toyota Offering to Buy Back Electric Vehicles After Issuing Startling Warning to Stop Driving SUV Immediately

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

My state is already over 85% controlled by government. If they only want 30%, then we'll get 55% of our land back. Sounds good to me.

....I don't think that it is being calculated on a State by State basis, LOL.

 

[DrHenley]

Looks like Toyota isn't immune from the disaster of the rollout of electric cars: Toyota Offering to Buy Back Electric Vehicles After Issuing Startling Warning to Stop Driving SUV Immediately

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/cars/toyota-bz4x-tundra-recall/index.html"Toyota has issued recalls for its first mainstream electric car and one of its full-sized pickup trucks for problems in which nuts or bolts could loosen and wheels or axles can become disconnected."

If you are a startup company that hasn't been manufacturing automobiles for over 80 years, I might can understand how you could make a car on which the wheels fall off and you are at a loss to understand why.

But seriously?? Toyota can't figure out how to make the lug nuts stay tight??
Makes me wonder whether sabotage was involved.

 

[DrHenley]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/dodge-...ce=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicatedThe automaker has announced that production of the current Challenger and Charger will end in December 2023 before they are replaced by a new electric vehicle platform.

 

[Proud Prepper]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/dodge-...ce=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicatedThe automaker has announced that production of the current Challenger and Charger will end in December 2023 before they are replaced by a new electric vehicle platform.

Oh wait! That was Fox, not Babylon Bee

 

[EastenerWesterner]

Oh wait! That was Fox, not Babylon Bee

Well I have seen videos of Hellcat Challengers getting their doors blown off by Tesla‘s. Chryslet just lucked out many years by using the Charger name.

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

I still don't trust them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ncoming-traffic-leaving-one-dead-Germany.html
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-...d the brakes,... 6 Tesla Model X, March 2018

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I still don't trust them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ncoming-traffic-leaving-one-dead-Germany.html
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-...d the brakes,... 6 Tesla Model X, March 2018

I agree with you. Even the driver assist systems aren’t where they need to be.
In a rental GAS Camry on Sunday, we were getting erroneous beeps going down the freeway because it didn’t like old lane painted over markers.
It’s not a developed technology. Not inclusive to Electric.

 

[DrHenley]

I still don't trust them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ncoming-traffic-leaving-one-dead-Germany.html

One person has died and nine were seriously injured after an electric and partly-automated BMW test car veered into oncoming traffic in Germany, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles.

The electric BMW iX, which had five people on board including an 18-month-old toddler, swerved out of its lane at a bend in the road in the southwestern town of Reutlingen on Monday, brushing an oncoming Citroen.

They must have done something to piss off the car!

 

[Mountain trapper]

Too bad Chrysler wants to commit suicide.

 

[DrHenley]

Chrysler lost their bearings a long time ago.

 

[joel]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/dodge-...ce=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicatedThe automaker has announced that production of the current Challenger and Charger will end in December 2023 before they are replaced by a new electric vehicle platform.

Maybe they mean it this time, but they(the big three) have been say that for sixty years & Elon Musk has made fools of them.

 

[Oddcaliber]

We had a Tesla in the shop yesterday.

 

[TexPrep]

Limited speed?
A Tesla is extremely fast and will beat most muscle cars on the drag strip.
They'll do the 1/4 mile in 9 seconds. Some people are buying them and stripping out everything that isnt needed and getting even faster times.
Thats faster than a Mclaron Senna a Buggati Chiron and a host of other so called super cars.

https://blog.dupontregistry.com/features/top-10-fastest-quarter-mile-times-production-cars/

 

[Mountain trapper]

Maybe so, but they'll never sound like a big block V-8.

 

[TexPrep]

Maybe so, but they'll never sound like a big block V-8.

Oh I wouldnt own one either.
Just correcting the OP.
They recently did a tow test with the electric Ford pulling a camper and they didnt get 100 miles before needing a recharge.

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

We had a Tesla in the shop yesterday.

I thought it had no mocinparts?

Oh I wouldnt own one either.
Just correcting the OP.
They recently did a tow test with the electric Ford pulling a camper and they didnt get 100 miles before needing a recharge.

Camper, easy squeezy, lemon peasy. Try a camper loaded with 6000 pounds of livestock and 1000 lbs of gear and feed.. Won't make it 50! Bearly makes it out of town. The same people advocating for these vehicles are the ones that use their little smart cars to cut off semis and hauling vehicles. Too bad the Darwin effect is no longer in play.

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

My son owns a Tesla. Loves it. Uses it to get from the burbs to work, pick up the kids from daycare, go out to dinner…been trying to sell me on the electric trucks. Here is what I told him.

Until an electric truck can pull a live 14,000 lb load for 300 miles before needing a “refueling” I’m not even going to consider it an option. Never mind that the initial cost is 5x what I can pay to get a petroleum vehicle that can do that. IT CAN’T GET THE JOB DONE!!!

Like most tools, electric cars have their place and purpose...it just isn't in my driveway.

 

[Oddcaliber]

I thought it had no mocinparts?


Camper, easy squeezy, lemon peasy. Try a camper loaded with 6000 pounds of livestock and 1000 lbs of gear and feed.. Won't make it 50! Bearly makes it out of town. The same people advocating for these vehicles are the ones that use their little smart cars to cut off semis and hauling vehicles. Too bad the Darwin effect is no longer in play.

It still has tires on it. Came in for a flat repair. Still don't like them.

 

[Oddcaliber]

I thought it had no mocinparts?


Camper, easy squeezy, lemon peasy. Try a camper loaded with 6000 pounds of livestock and 1000 lbs of gear and feed.. Won't make it 50! Bearly makes it out of town. The same people advocating for these vehicles are the ones that use their little smart cars to cut off semis and hauling vehicles. Too bad the Darwin effect is no longer in play

 

[Mountain trapper]

Heard where California plans to ban all gasoline powered cars by 2035. Also Biden is supporting mining in Canada for the necessary minerals for this commie wet dream, while shutting down mining in the US.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Heard where California plans to ban all gasoline powered cars by 2035. Also Biden is supporting mining in Canada for the necessary minerals for this commie wet dream, while shutting down mining in the US.

We do have this for Europe as well. Just wonder how they're going to handle it with the electric power. Everywhere they shut down nuclear plants, chacoral or gas plants to save the universe. The "Green Energy" dosn't work really.
Half of Europe is in an high crisis mode for the coming winter because the restrictions against Russia hurts Europe more than the Russians. Nobody knows at the moment if there will be enough electricity to survive the winter season an those days the politicans start to panic. But still forcing electric cars and other rolling toasters.
Guess i'm not clever enough to understand this logic.

 

[ChickenLittle14]

I had a Toyota hybrid for about 6 months and HATED it. It is by no means quiet. When the car is on, it had this terrible high pitched whining sound. I took it to the dealer thinking something was amiss. Nope. I was told that Toyota hybrid and electric cars are now equipped to do that so people can hear it coming since the motor is quiet. The Toyota tech said all EV are supposed to have a similar feature eventually implemented. Now I’m trying to wrap my head around how California mandating EV is fair. I know Biden is going to “bless” the mandate. I HAVE A QUESTION: If a Republican president is elected in 2024, will he have the power to override that California EV mandate somehow?

 

[Dave2001]

I had a Toyota hybrid for about 6 months and HATED it. It is by no means quiet. When the car is on, it had this terrible high pitched whining sound. I took it to the dealer thinking something was amiss. Nope. I was told that Toyota hybrid and electric cars are now equipped to do that so people can hear it coming since the motor is quiet. The Toyota tech said all EV are supposed to have a similar feature eventually implemented. Now I’m trying to wrap my head around how California mandating EV is fair. I know Biden is going to “bless” the mandate. I HAVE A QUESTION: If a Republican president is elected in 2024, will he have the power to override that California EV mandate somehow?

ONLY elec car that i want is my GOLF CART!!!!!

 

[EastenerWesterner]

A Highlander Hybrid really didn’t help my wife in a 90 mile one way commute unless she was in Bumper to Bumper.
In her 12 one way mile commute now, her Tesla performs well. It is versatile enough to do a 500 mile one way trip where there are a plethora of chargers.
Infrastructure is key for this Technology.
Gas stations didn’t appear at every Interstate exit overnight.

 

[Dave2001]

A Highlander Hybrid really didn’t help my wife in a 90 mile one way commute unless she was in Bumper to Bumper.
In her 12 one way mile commute now, her Tesla performs well. It is versatile enough to do a 500 mile one way trip where there are a plethora of chargers.
Infrastructure is key for this Technology.
Gas stations didn’t appear at every Interstate exit overnight.

Be really careful of Tesla, we have been to 2 car fires that exploded while driving and one that was parked in garage and started on fire!

 

[Oddcaliber]

Just another reason why I don't like them in my shop.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I was a VF for 20 years. Tesla’s have a better record of not catching on fire than gas. If they do, it is harder to get out than an explosion of gas Vehicles.
Its amazing how MSM twists the perception by showing a company that does not advertise with them With exploding batteries. But Leafs, Bolts are ok and have a worse record Because Nissan and Chevy advertise.

 

[joel]

Be really careful of Tesla, we have been to 2 car fires that exploded while driving and one that was parked in garage and started on fire!

When other car companies get off their fat assetes, they will have the same problems, Tesla has the largest production of it kind in USA, Europe & Asia.
No, I do not own one, but I listened to the big three promise to have a EV for over fifty year, they started that lie before most of us were born.