The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications. The line has since become a metaphor for expensive efforts, such as vehicle electrification, that offer a false sense of security.
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"I'm concerned about the increased risk of severe injury and death for all road users from heavier curb weights and increasing size, power, and performance of vehicles on our roads, including electric vehicles."
"We have to be careful that we aren't also creating unintended consequences: More death on our roads. Safety, especially when it comes to new transportation policies and new technologies, cannot be overlooked."
~Jennifer Homendy, head of the National Transportation Safety Board
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https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148483758/ntsb-heavy-electric-vehicles-safety-risks
Concerns like this will be overlooked because the accepted remedies to combat 'climate change' have become a religious crusade. Once EVs take up a more significant part of the market, we will be lectured on their dangers. By then, people will learn about unsustainable insurance & energy costs, hours at charging stations in unsafe neighborhoods and stories about the elderly stranded in remote locations.
How much does a non-EV Hummer weigh?
Are you suggesting banning vehicles that weigh more than 4000 pounds for safety?
Did you know that a Hummer EV weighs over 9,000 pounds?
What do you think happens to a car during a collision with a Hummer EV?
The less mass a car has, the easier it is to handle. A car that weighs over 9,000 pounds needs drastically more stopping distance. When you see a Hummer EV on the road, it’s in your best interest to stay far away from it!
I find it absurd that leather-in-chief lectures about safety while promoting automobiles like this.
PS the electric Chevy Blazer weighs 5,337 pounds. That’s almost 3 tons!
They should also stop taxpayer funded farm subsidies.
Let farmers buy crop insurance on the open market from a private insurance company instead of the government, pay market rates for water, and sell their products at market prices.
Let the free market operate at every step and keep the government out of farming.
Farmers will make more money with capitalism instead of socialism.
RE: BEVs are a solution looking for a problem.
The executives hire all these id--ts from goolge, tesla and microsoft thinking they will have the next cell phone and will all be billionaires with their stock options when they cash in.
Might happen with 16 - 20 year old kids with disposable income from mom and pop on a cell phone, but not gonna happen with a $50K+ automobile consumer.
We already see all the issues with our current EV lineup and safety notices of not keeping this garbage in the garage or parked near other vehicles.
Big brother needs to stop this nonsense and let the free market determine what the consumer wants. If t someone wants to put $30K of solar on their roof or to purchase an EV, let them, but not subsidize then with our tax dollars.
Going to be 2008 all over again with these auto companies when the Chinese come in two years and dominate the market with their EV's. Heck, they already manufacture 100% of their own components. - is this going to be a great example of leap-frogging or what for those MBA's . . .
The promise (from governments, industry and environmentalists) of the electric car is cheap, sustainable energy. They are not cheap or sustainable.
BEVs are a solution looking for a problem.
For the consumer, there's no problem with ICE cars.
The idea that they consumers need to be forced to buy them with laws like California's 2035 ban on internal combustion engines should tell us everything we need to know.
Do you think consumer's won't resent EV's being forced on them?
More like they screwed up the solution to a problem.