You don’t want to be making a car that shows up the government’s favorite mode of transport, the EV. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Toyota will probably be the next target. The first was VW.
VW was targeted because it was selling too many vehicles that made electric vehicles look ridiculous at the very critical moment when EVs were just beginning to be pushed seriously.
You may remember the so-called “cheating” – on federal emissions certification tests – imbroglio that resulted in VW pulling off the market its very successful (because very popular) TDI diesel engines, which had been available in practically every model vehicle VW sold until about 2015, right around the time the EV push really began in earnest.
VW’s TDI engines not only delivered 50-plus MPG – and 600-plus miles of driving range – they They were also available in low-cost vehicles such as the Jetta sedan, Golf hatchback and New Beetle, which were all cars almost anyone could afford to buy.
And that could not stand.
Who, after all, would want to buy a $50,000 electric vehicle with a putative (not actual) driving range of maybe 250 or so miles that effectively forced the person who bought it to plan their life around recharging it – assuming they could afford it – when they could buy a $23k diesel-powered Jetta or Golf that could be driven more than twice as far before it was necessary to stop for less than five minutes to refuel it?
The answer is – very few people.
The Terminator came in through the portal phonebooth!
Read earlier about the Elon truck being too heavy for any kind of off roading, even sand, as it will sink and need to be towed by a much smaller Jeep with fat tires.
It was never about gas mileage, saving the environment, it is always power and control.
We’re not gonna make it are we and no fate but what we make are my favorites from the Terminator and of course the ultimate woman, Linda Hamilton in her prime.
The end is only a beginning and there is one who holds the keys to hell and death, HE makes the reaper run for the hills when HIS hand is near.
Eye am the rouge S-900 model Caleb 1862 with the recon vision.
Come with me if you want to live.
I knew it was going to be a wild wondrous ride when I saw HIS hand behind the mad neurologist with goggles.
Thank You God.
No Hiding Place from HIM