Ford CEO Admits 'Reality Check' When He Took Electric F-150 Truck on Road Trip

I love my 2015 Prius hybrid I bought new . . .

FROM Dust - TO Dust
The Cycle Of Life - And Rust.

LMBO -- An Electric Potato Harvester.
1 Row - And Recharge --

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - I have no idea where you get the idea that the "manner of charging" is going to get better (I presume you mean "not based on burning carbon fuels") and less expensive. Do you see what direction electricity prices are going? IF the cost of charging one of those things EVER comes down, it won't be in my children's lifetime. Trying to make electric cars work while also trying to eliminate fossil fuels in general while also increasing future energy demand by several orders of magnitude due to AI and Big Data is like believing in the tooth fairy. For many decades to come, we're going to need to burn more oil, not less, there's absolutely no way around it. Burning carbon fuels to charge an electric car is less energy efficient and more harmful to the environment than just fueling the car with gasoline.

LTC Matthew Schlosser -
I've Never Known A Good Product To Not Improve; From Kitty Hawk To Pluto And Beyond
It May Not Be Accomplished Tomorrow, But It Will Be Done. Perhaps Not In Your Children's Lifetime, Nor Even Their Children's; But During This Period There Also A Chance Something Better Will Come Along As A Result Of Working On Something Different,
Like A Glue A 3-M Scientist Was Working On Which Didn't Work At All, It Was A Complete Failure - Now We have "Post-It Notes", And That Failure Has Made Billions Of Dollars World Wide. Never Underestimate Failure, Many Have Changed The World And Made it Better. -- But What Would I Know ? -- I Never Completed The 9th Grade. --

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - What causes you to call them a good product? "Different" isn't the same as "good." An axe with a steel handle and a wooden bit isn't ever going to improve. I'm not saying that's what we have here, it's just an illustration that it's not inevitable that something will get better in time.

We tried electric cars 100 years ago. We abandoned them when something better came along. They were recently re-introduced by climate grifters as a means of giving their cultists a way to pretend that they were "reducing their carbon footprint," not because they were suddenly technically superior cars.

That's not to say that nothing good came of the scam. It's my understanding that some hybrid vehicles achieve some energy efficiency through "regenerative braking," where they charge their (much smaller than on full electric) batteries through braking. As long as they're not sacrificing braking distance to do it, that would be a good thing. Electric motors also have high torque. That could have useful applications.

But overall, electricity demand is spiking due to AI and related technologies. We don't have the generation capacity to meet that demand or the infrastructure to deliver the juice. Both supply an demand and the need to invest in that infrastructure are jacking up the electric bills of every American. We simply don't need the burden of a fleet of electric cars piled on top of that.

LTC Matthew Schlosser -
"An axe with a steel handle and a wooden bit isn't ever going to improve".
-Power Driven Saws-?
Please Allow Me To Tell You Of An Event Which Occurred While I Was Employed By A Company Which Produced, Among Other Farm Implements, Potato Harvesters. Engineering Had Been Working For Years On Finding A Better Steel Which Would Last Longer & Do A Better Job At Digging Up The Potatoes While Not Doing As Much Harm By Dulling The Blades, So As A Last Ditch Attempt They Sent Out Mailers To Every Farmer Whom Had Purchased Their Potato Harvester, Asking For Suggestions -- Low And Behold One Wrote Back "I've Been Attaching Carborundum To The Blades Of My Potato Harvester for Years And Have Never Had To Re-order New Blades" -- Problem Solved - Production Was Immediately Changed. -- You Be The Judge.-- Improvements Are Made Every Day -- In Fact, Helping It Happen Was Part Of What My Job As The Purchasing Department Director- Purchasing The Best Possible Products For The Least Of Overall Cost While Improving The Quality Of The Product. -- And I Can't Begin to Tell You How Much FUN That Was, And I Got PAID For it!! --- So I Ask Of You, "Are The EV's Of Today Any Better Than They Were 100 Years Ago"? -- I'm GUESSING "Yes".