Don James and Poulsbo RV weep.
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TurdBomber
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Pronouns, Meh. Another run-of-the-mill try-hard generational Shart.
No different than the prior generations overuse of "boomer" to insult people way stronger, smarter and more successful than them.
Party is over terrorists
The new Tesla model S ($80k the way I'd order it) goes 130mph and 0-60 in 3 seconds. Plaid model ($96K for same config) does 200 mph and 0-60 in under 2 seconds. The model S has a 400 mile battery whereas the Plaid is 350. You get an 80% charge in 15 minutes. I'm not tree hugger and absolutely love driving fast. When they offer a deal to trade in my 10 year old model S and I get free charging for life extended to the new S, I'm taking that deal. I could have last year but thought they might come out with an even larger battery. I think I've seen some competition claiming 600 miles now. It an absolute blast to drive. It does better on snow and ice that any car I've ever owned. I can drive to Tahoe (all uphill) and back on a single charge or charge at the resort of choice or any number of chargers there. This notion of going uphill takes more energy is defeated by going downhill when you actually gain miles due to regenerative braking. I drive everywhere on the freeways going between 75 and 80 mph and have only lost 23% of the original 300 mile battery. This is after driving almost 300,000 miles in 10 years. I'm on the original brakes and have had no major repairs other than the assholes who have rear ended me twice at 50-60 mph when I was at a full stop and being side swiped on the freeway. You would never know driving my car. Sorry, the model S Tesla is the best car I've ever owned and that includes BMW, Audi, Acura, Jeep, Infiniti and Honda.Follow the SCIENCE. So Cali and states like Washington and Oregon who have tied there emission rules to the Cali standard are going to ban RV sales and registrations. No internal combustion engines allowed, just electric RVs which don't exist except for some small RV Camper Van prototypes which as seen below aren't functional. Since Oregon doesn't have a sales tax and a relatively low vehicle registration tax it is currently a mecca for RV sales. Kiss that good bye. Good thing leftards care so much about the working man in the US RV industry.https://instapundit.com/
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cars-trucks/review-winnebago-erv2/
The Winnebago eRV2 is a promising new camper van slated for launch in early 2024. We took it for a five-day test drive to find out how practical it was for weekend trips and longer jaunts.
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Minutes after Winnebago introduced their https://winnebago.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/winnebago-industries-reveals-e-rv-all-electric-motorhome-concept, I began hounding the company to let me take it for a spin. Thankfully, after unveiling their https://www.winnebago.com/all-electric, called the eRV2, earlier this year, they finally relented and agreed to let me borrow it for a five-day test drive in California.
The state has the most charging stations of any other in the country, so I chose to test the eRV2—which will likely be available to consumers early next year—north of the Bay Area, believing it would likely have the best ratio of chargers to gorgeous scenery. I wanted to test the range of the vehicle, the amenities, and the overall comfort to see if it was a practical vehicle for both weekend road trips and extended jaunts. Here’s what I found out.
Let’s address the massive elephant in the room right off the bat. Built on Ford’s eTransit platform, the eRV2 that I drove had a claimed range of about 108 miles. That distance quickly shrinks if you speed, accelerate too quickly, or travel uphill for long distances. If you keep the cruise control to 55 MPH, you might be able to stretch it … a little. Because charging https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-basics/charging-speed to a virtual crawl after you reach 80-85 percent, you’re left with an effective range of between 80 and 90 miles (at best) during the bulk of your driving day. Think about it like this: for every 90 minutes you drive, you need to spend around 45 minutes at a fast charger before you can get going again.
I've no problem with the free market. But the average Joe isn't buying an $80k auto. To pretend otherwise and make Joe by an EV is just pretending you care (not you -but the green leftards). Pretending that you can buy a full size EV RV is just that. Pretending.
Drill, Baby, Drill.
Well frack
None of that has anything to do with RV's. Your Tesla also depreciates by 50% in 2 years.The new Tesla model S ($80k the way I'd order it) goes 130mph and 0-60 in 3 seconds. Plaid model ($96K for same config) does 200 mph and 0-60 in under 2 seconds. The model S has a 400 mile battery whereas the Plaid is 350. You get an 80% charge in 15 minutes. I'm not tree hugger and absolutely love driving fast. When they offer a deal to trade in my 10 year old model S and I get free charging for life extended to the new S, I'm taking that deal. I could have last year but thought they might come out with an even larger battery. I think I've seen some competition claiming 600 miles now. It an absolute blast to drive. It does better on snow and ice that any car I've ever owned. I can drive to Tahoe (all uphill) and back on a single charge or charge at the resort of choice or any number of chargers there. This notion of going uphill takes more energy is defeated by going downhill when you actually gain miles due to regenerative braking. I drive everywhere on the freeways going between 75 and 80 mph and have only lost 23% of the original 300 mile battery. This is after driving almost 300,000 miles in 10 years. I'm on the original brakes and have had no major repairs other than the assholes who have rear ended me twice at 50-60 mph when I was at a full stop and being side swiped on the freeway. You would never know driving my car. Sorry, the model S Tesla is the best car I've ever owned and that includes BMW, Audi, Acura, Jeep, Infiniti and Honda.Follow the SCIENCE. So Cali and states like Washington and Oregon who have tied there emission rules to the Cali standard are going to ban RV sales and registrations. No internal combustion engines allowed, just electric RVs which don't exist except for some small RV Camper Van prototypes which as seen below aren't functional. Since Oregon doesn't have a sales tax and a relatively low vehicle registration tax it is currently a mecca for RV sales. Kiss that good bye. Good thing leftards care so much about the working man in the US RV industry.https://instapundit.com/
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cars-trucks/review-winnebago-erv2/
The Winnebago eRV2 is a promising new camper van slated for launch in early 2024. We took it for a five-day test drive to find out how practical it was for weekend trips and longer jaunts.
https://www.outsideonline.com/byline/robert-annis/Follow
Minutes after Winnebago introduced their https://winnebago.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/winnebago-industries-reveals-e-rv-all-electric-motorhome-concept, I began hounding the company to let me take it for a spin. Thankfully, after unveiling their https://www.winnebago.com/all-electric, called the eRV2, earlier this year, they finally relented and agreed to let me borrow it for a five-day test drive in California.
The state has the most charging stations of any other in the country, so I chose to test the eRV2—which will likely be available to consumers early next year—north of the Bay Area, believing it would likely have the best ratio of chargers to gorgeous scenery. I wanted to test the range of the vehicle, the amenities, and the overall comfort to see if it was a practical vehicle for both weekend road trips and extended jaunts. Here’s what I found out.
Let’s address the massive elephant in the room right off the bat. Built on Ford’s eTransit platform, the eRV2 that I drove had a claimed range of about 108 miles. That distance quickly shrinks if you speed, accelerate too quickly, or travel uphill for long distances. If you keep the cruise control to 55 MPH, you might be able to stretch it … a little. Because charging https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-basics/charging-speed to a virtual crawl after you reach 80-85 percent, you’re left with an effective range of between 80 and 90 miles (at best) during the bulk of your driving day. Think about it like this: for every 90 minutes you drive, you need to spend around 45 minutes at a fast charger before you can get going again.
Yes, please.
CallMeBigErn
New Fish
I haven't been in the car market for some time now but aren't most decent cars in the $60K range now? If I was younger again and trying to work my way up in the world, I wouldn't buy new. I'd buy a used car buy one that had a lot of useful life left.
Well, a two fer - no more tax dollars we don't have to subsidize well off people's purchase of an EV and exit the Paris Climate Agreement that has hammered both the US and Euro economies and energy prices paid by the working middle class while leaving India and the chicoms off the hook. Just remember the dem's green energy policy was meant to make the US look like our moral superiors in Europe.
https://ace.mu.nu/
THE MORNING RANT: Trump Plans to Kill EV Tax Credit AND Exit the Paris Climate Agreement
—Buck Throckmorton
While all the usual suspects, including NeverTrump faux-conservatives, have been distracted and losing their minds over President-elect Trump’s appointments this past week, Trump and his team have simultaneously been laying the groundwork to dismantle Biden’s climate apparatus.
As we savor these headlines below, just remember that the “principled conservatives” at outlets such as National Review and The Dispatch fervently fought to keep Trump out of the White House and keep Kamala/Obama/Biden in power, which would have had the effect of making permanent the agenda of climate communism. Had Conservative, Inc. had its way, there would be no off ramp from the government mandated “EV transition,” and the United States would still be professing obedience to the Paris Communism Climate Agreement.
Through all these years of writing EV roundups and condemning EV subsidies, this is a headline I always hoped to see:
“Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit” [Reuters – 11/14/2024]
But what about Tesla? Elon Musk has been enjoying the subsidies, but his company doesn’t need them to profitably sell Teslas. Killing off the $7,500 tax credit will deal a death blow to the electric products from his competitors such as Ford, General Motors, VW, and Rivian.
If this weren’t enough good news, Donald Trump is also planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which forces countries to accept a de-civilizational, de-carbonization agenda. Actually, Trump will be having the US re-withdraw, because after he withdrew from the climate agreement in his first term, Joe Biden re-subjugated the US to the global climate communists when he took office in 2021.
THE MORNING RANT: Trump Plans to Kill EV Tax Credit AND Exit the Paris Climate Agreement
—Buck Throckmorton
While all the usual suspects, including NeverTrump faux-conservatives, have been distracted and losing their minds over President-elect Trump’s appointments this past week, Trump and his team have simultaneously been laying the groundwork to dismantle Biden’s climate apparatus.
As we savor these headlines below, just remember that the “principled conservatives” at outlets such as National Review and The Dispatch fervently fought to keep Trump out of the White House and keep Kamala/Obama/Biden in power, which would have had the effect of making permanent the agenda of climate communism. Had Conservative, Inc. had its way, there would be no off ramp from the government mandated “EV transition,” and the United States would still be professing obedience to the Paris Communism Climate Agreement.
Through all these years of writing EV roundups and condemning EV subsidies, this is a headline I always hoped to see:
“Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit” [Reuters – 11/14/2024]
Except for Tesla, the business plan for all the companies manufacturing electric vehicles in the United States has been government mandating that customers buy EVs, and then the government also providing huge incentives to customers and manufacturers to make the sale of the unwanted EVs feasible.
But what about Tesla? Elon Musk has been enjoying the subsidies, but his company doesn’t need them to profitably sell Teslas. Killing off the $7,500 tax credit will deal a death blow to the electric products from his competitors such as Ford, General Motors, VW, and Rivian.
Ford and GM may just have to give up on the EV fairy-tale and go back to profitably manufacturing gasoline-powered cars for that huge mass market, while Tesla profitably corners the EV niche.
If this weren’t enough good news, Donald Trump is also planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which forces countries to accept a de-civilizational, de-carbonization agenda. Actually, Trump will be having the US re-withdraw, because after he withdrew from the climate agreement in his first term, Joe Biden re-subjugated the US to the global climate communists when he took office in 2021.
Uh oh. Another Dem is trying to get off the plantation.