Posts by Big-D

Gas-guzzling Americans continue to shun electric vehicles as sales fail to bother US car market

Re: A little education is needed

https://www.c2es.org/document/us-state-clean-vehicle-policies-and-incentives/

Re: A little education is needed

But there are 11 states which follow the CARB rules, thus my 39 states comment (yes I know there are 50 states).

Re: A little education is needed

Really? Then please provide why I cannot buy any cars in my state. Talk to any dealer in my state (or any Non-CARB state) and the dealer say "We would love to have them but until they meed the CARB quota system, we cannot sell them. I must drive over 1000 miles to the nearest state (Georgia of all places) to get a Niro EV or Ioniq, etc.

Re: A little education is needed

The bolt is no longer being built .. you can buy overstock but it is only stock left. The Ioniq, Kona, Niro are not available in my state, since it is not a CARB state. Soul has not been released yet but won't be available until the meet the California quota. I don't consider the I3 electric as is has a gas motor.

A little education is needed

I really don't know what this article is saying. Even with the usual register cheek, I cannot figure out the message of the article. So almost 50% of Americans prefer SUV (which are a mixture of CUV and SUV, big differences, as CUV are no where as gas guzzling). So in my state, I can only purchase 4 electric cars. Nissan Leaf, and 3 Tesla cars. That is it. Thanks to California Air Reserve Board (CARB) regulations, it is forbidden that any car manufacturer can sell cars in states which do not follow the CARB rules for air quality. So that means in 39 other states in the union which do no follow CARB cannot get any other other cars. Tesla's cost so much that they are more than the average person's salalry. That leaves the leaf. Okay as a 6'5" fellow I don't fit in it.

I am begging for a electric vehicle, but until California can get it's self important ass out of the way of the manufacturers, and the manufacturers realize they need to make CUV, which 50% of the people want, you never are going to have widespread adoption of electric cars.