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Old 01-20-2024, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by huge-pigeons View Post
How about California where you are mandated to buy an EV starting in 2035 but they were told not to charge their EVs last year at many different times because they didn’t have the grid capacity to charge them.

How about the EV owners in Texas a couple years ago where the grid was down because of the cold weather. Now your stuck in a cold house in frigid temperatures unless you have a gas car.
If you look at the Texas news today, EV owners are having problems in the Texas cold (which is a lot warmer than Chicago), Austin, Houston, etc.

“Hertz dumping 20,000 of its electric vehicles, Of note: Hertz is writing down a $245 million loss with the move. The company declined to comment beyond the SEC filing.”
Just a moment....

Here another “more trusted” news source for some EV market going cold for how long? Probably till free printed money arrives?

Ford, GM, and even Tesla are warning about EV market