On 8/21/23 6:06 AM, bruce bowser wrote:

"Americans bought a record 295,255 battery-electric vehicles during the period, according to Cox Automotive's second-quarter electric-vehicle summary. That marks a roughly 14% increase from the 2023 first quarter.
Year over year, U.S. EV sales jumped about 50% from 196,788 units in the 2022 second quarter."

U.S. EV Sales Hit a Record and Tesla's Market Share Slips
Barron's Magazine - Jul 14, 2023
-- https://www.barrons.com/articles/us-ev-record-sales-tesla-ford-gm-581e4d7b#

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/broken-machines-long-waits-reality-charging-electric-vehicle/story?id=97389275

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/ev-drivers-struggle-declining-reliability-charging-network

https://www.businessinsider.com/ev-charging-getting-worse-thanks-to-inflation-energy-costs-2023-3

In the long run all this will work better than it does now, but the
question is: will it ever work anywhere near as well as IC
infrastructure? Will people 30 years from now be talking fondly about
taking a cross-country trip in their old IC car?

All current signs indicate that there's going to be an awful lot of disappointed, pissed off people in the next 20 years.

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Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r

On 8/21/23 6:06 AM, bruce bowser wrote:> "Americans bought a record 295,255 battery-electric vehicles during the period, according to Cox Automotive's second-quarter electric-vehicle summary. That marks a roughly 14% increase from the 2023 first

quarter.> Year over year, U.S. EV sales jumped about 50% from 196,788 units in the 2022 second quarter.">> U.S. EV Sales Hit a Record and Tesla's Market Share Slips> Barron's Magazine - Jul 14, 2023> -- https://www.barrons.com/articles/us-ev-record-sales-
tesla-ford-gm-581e4d7b#https://abcnews.go.com/Business/broken-machines-long-waits-reality-charging-electric-vehicle/story?id=97389275https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/ev-drivers-struggle-declining-reliability-charging-networkhttps://www.
businessinsider.com/ev-charging-getting-worse-thanks-to-inflation-energy-costs-2023-3In the long run all this will work better than it does now, but the question is: will it ever work anywhere near as well as IC infrastructure? Will people 30 years from
now be talking fondly about taking a cross-country trip in their old IC car?All current signs indicate that there's going to be an awful lot of disappointed, pissed off people in the next 20 years.-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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There are no published rules stating that cost of electricity will be cheaper than its gas energy equivalent, so definitely I am not surprised.

As I said before, electricity isn't offered as a raw source of energy like gas. It's offered as a luxurious item with a luxury surcharge.

Add to this the extra 30k dollars paid in advance for the luxurious batteries.

Not sure, when people will wake up.
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bruce bowser kirjoitti 21.8.2023 klo 16.06:

"Americans bought a record 295,255 battery-electric vehicles during the period, according to Cox Automotive's second-quarter electric-vehicle summary. That marks a roughly 14% increase from the 2023 first quarter.
Year over year, U.S. EV sales jumped about 50% from 196,788 units in the 2022 second quarter."

U.S. EV Sales Hit a Record and Tesla's Market Share Slips
Barron's Magazine - Jul 14, 2023
-- https://www.barrons.com/articles/us-ev-record-sales-tesla-ford-gm-581e4d7b#

Yeah, green cars are the best.

I'm big on hydrogen cars, put all my money on hyzon... it's now down 89%
but the upside now is enormous! There's incredible potential on green
hydrogen market, as long as government subsidizes all costs.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HYZN:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD4KfYj-6AAxU9GxAIHeJ6Bx0Q3ecFegQILxAX&window=MAX

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