The Stat That Says What 96 Percent Won’t Admit

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Do you know what percentage of EV owners own only an EV?

About 4 percent.

The rest – about 96 percent – own another vehicle that isn’t a battery powered device. What does this say about battery powered devices?

It arguably says it all.

It could be said that battery powered devices work for only 4 percent of the people who bought them – the remaining 96 percent having bought an EV for essentially the same reason that people buy antique cars or boats; i.e., because they wanted a toy. Any vehicle that requires you to own another one is that, by definition. I own an old Pontiac Trans-Am muscle car from the ’70s. It does not get driven much because it is impractical to drive it much. I don’t keep it for transportation; I keep it because I like it and because I consider it fun to drive – when I don’t need to drive.

EVs are a lot like that – with a critical difference. I am well-aware that my ’76 Trans-Am is a toy; many people who own battery powered devices like to pretend theirs aren’t. Of course, they know perfectly well that they are; if they actually believed otherwise, then 96 percent of them would not have another (non-electric) vehicle to allow them to pretend their electric vehicle isn’t a toy.

It all begs a question: Why do they pretend?

People who own vintage cars don’t. People who own boats don’t. Most will tell you very frankly that they know their old car or their new boat is as practical as a bikini in Antarctica, but they don’t care because they love the thing. It makes them happy, even if it costs them money it wasn’t necessary (or even wise) to spend. They wanted to indulge and – usually – are happy to confess that they did.

This is perfectly sane.

But what is the applicable diagnosis for a delusion that the afflicted is aware he suffers from – as evidenced by his actions – yet pretends to be unaware he suffers from?

The 96 percenter knows he cannot rely on his battery powered device for spur-of-the-moment, unplanned transportation. It might not be charged up. He might not have time to wait for it to charge up. He is nagged by the knowledge that it might not make it to his intended destination and not just solely on account of its state-of-charge but also because the “fast” charger he planned on using might not be working – or he might be stuck waiting in line for others to finish charging. He knows he cannot rely on the vehicle to accurately give him the remaining range available because the weather – being variable – might alter the range available.

He knows that if he needs to drive outside of his usual orbit, into an unfamiliar area – such as another state – he cannot depend on being able to stop for a charge pretty much whenever he might need one (as one can with a vehicle that burns gas rather than electricity) and that makes him uneasy.

His uneasiness is entirely rational. It is sane. It is based on lucid evaluation of objective reality. Battery-powered devices can be fun; many are almost surreally quick and driving them is an experience entirely different from driving a car with an engine (and a transmission, something most EVs don’t have). Everyone has heard about the immediacy and escalator-like continuity of the acceleration. Some of the higher-end EVs (such as those made by Mercedes, for instance) generate UFO-like sounds to provide an other-than-silent auditory experience.

But they are fun in the way that an old muscle car or boat is fun. As in the kind of fun that isn’t especially practical.

The 96 percenter’s decision to keep a vehicle that works on stand-by is thus rational and sane.

And so would he be – if he were to admit he needs one, because his EV isn’t practical. If he were to smile and say: I just like the thing; I know it’s a little silly – but what the Hell, right? It makes me happy and that’s what’s important.

Of course, certainly. And no one would fault him for so saying. It’s what the 96 percenter won’t admit that makes him pathological.

And the same is true of the media that adamantly refuses to do the same as regards these devices. Ward’s Auto, for instance, says: “Does that mean people can’t rely on EVs exclusively to serve all their mobility needs?”

Yes. It means precisely that.

If it didn’t then 96 percent of EV owners would not be relying on cars that work to “serve their mobility needs.”

When, by the way, did driving needs become mobility needs?

Perhaps around the same time drugs that don’t immunize became “vaccines.”

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  3. What baffles me is why someone would spend such sums of money on an extra car that is an EV, when they could use that same amount of money to buy a nice restored classic to serve the same purpose; a fun-to-drive cool looking car for nice weather days. What a difference a generation makes!

  4. Your penultimate sentence is quite astute: When, by the way, did driving needs become mobility needs?

    Just as the recent automobile show in Japan was renamed the Mobility Show – and such cretins as Governess/Fuehrerin Whitmer now prefers to utilize the phrase Our Future Mobility as opposed to the original Fixing the Damn Roads – it wasn’t long ago that the word referred to the handicapped getting around on scooters and electric wheelchairs and such. I don’t believe the choice of verbiage is incidental or accidental. Theses people actually think of us as handicapped or, worse yet, social retards.

    • Thanks, Jay –

      I began to notice the way the Left uses language to wheedle forward its agenda many years ago; I’ve now developed a radar for it. The Left’s mind-fuckery depends greatly on people accepting the terms (and definitions) used by the Left. For example, the use of the word vaccines to gull people into taking drugs that were neither safe nor effective. These people are greasy, mewling, inspid but dangerous tricksters.

  9. If/when there is an internet outage….does the Tesla still run?…it is connected 24/7 like a lot of new cars…now tracking devices like a cell phone….

    everything is being weaponized against you….becoming a surveillance/tracking device….cars, phones, computers, everything on the internet, your bank account, credit cards, appliances, millions of cameras everywhere, the slave owners must be worried…have to watch the slaves 24/7 for signs of revolt…..

  10. The EV as a 4th or 5th car…..

    An EV makes a Super 7 look almost practical…..it can travel long distances, it refuels in 3 minutes at millions of gas stations everywhere, it runs well in very low or high temperatures, it is 100% reliable, ready to go 24/7 with no planning required….and people thought a Super 7 was impractical……it is also a good 3rd or 4th car….some people drive Super 7’s year round…..but probably a low percentage like EV’s…..

    A VW GTI is a practical car…it carries 5 passengers, has lots of cargo space, it is easy to park, it gets great fuel economy, is well engineered, is very long lived and reliable, it can be used as a daily driver or as a sports car or track car, it is fun to drive…….

  11. Looking at that pic of the Tesla towing the generator, I have a question. Would a Tesla (or other electric) allow itself to move (and charge) when plugged in to a generator? Or would it lock it out, like an open trunk or door and refuse to move?

    • You absolutely cannot charge a Tesla while moving. The minute the charge port door opens the car is a brick basically. Saaaafety and all that. It is a comical photo but literally you’d have to hack the car’s software to even remotely be able to do something like that. Likewise, I’m skeptical even that big industrial generator would not be able to keep the car moving forward in real time at any reasonable speed. The thing sucks an absurd amount of energy.

          • Nope fake picture and not even a good photoshop. Most EV owners have no problem with range since the average person drive 40 miles a day in the US and a car like that has a 300+ mile range.

            • Hi Bob,

              You write:

              “Most EV owners have no problem with range …”

              If so, then why do 96 percent own another car that isn’t electric?

              It’s not the range that’s the issue as much as the absurdity of needing to plan your drive – and your life – around charging these things. It is absurd to suggest – to pretend – that waiting even 20 minutes to do what can be done in less than 5 is “fast,” leaving aside the hassle of finding a “fast” charger and hoping it works.

              The EV offers nothing objectively equal to a non-EV, let alone better, except more rapid acceleration. EVs are much more expensive, much more wasteful of resources/energy, massively heavier and limited by the tag team of short range and long recharge times. They depreciate faster than non-EVs (because an EV’s battery ages faster than the EV, itself) and they have to be subsidized and pushed onto the market for just these reasons.

              You’re new here, so I thought I’d take a moment to point out these facts to you. Also, to be clear, I (and most here) don’t have any problem with you driving an EV, if that is your choice. We object to us being pushed into them. We object to being made to subsidize them. And we object to the lies about “climate change” being used to justify this.

    • No that is a fake. Looks more like an air compressor than a generator, plus the smoke is going the wrong direction it would be trailing behind the car not in front of it. And it’s not even on the road it’s up over the curb.

      • Bob,

        Of course the image is fake. It was used to make the point. And – by the way – it’s also real in that at least one EV manufacturer (Ram) is apparently going to offer an EV with a “range extender,” that being a carry-it-along gas-powered generator.

  12. Not surprised by the 4% number. It would be extremely annoying to only have an electric. Most Tesla owners have a BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Audi etc as their primary car. I would argue that most electric cars aren’t even their second vehicles either. Most likely their third or fourth. It’s a toy for the rich (or those that think they are).

    As the fourth vehicle I bet the mileage on the Tesla is the lowest of their “fleet”. That may be an interesting study as well.

  13. EVs are obviously (now and for the foreseeable future) niche vehicles. Like sports cars and motorcycles. Very few people have those as their only vehicle.
    Imagine the government mandating the latter two types of vehicle (along with future bans on ordinary cars and trucks). Of course there are plenty of people who enjoy sports cars and motorcycles, but they aren’t practical for every day use due to various draw backs.

    I’ve always said that one product will totally replace another when these three things happen:
    #1 – it performs as good or better than what it is replacing
    #2 – it costs the same*, or less, than what it is replacing
    #3 – it is as reliable, durable and easy to use (or better) than what it is replacing

    If you’re talking acceleration speed, the EV only makes #1. Of course, #2 can include products that cost a little more than their predecessors IF #1 and #3 are much better than what came before them. All one needs do is look back at the history of invention and consumer products and you can see this in action.

    For example, color TVs gradually replaced B&W TVs. Initially they were more expensive, but, they worked the same way as B&W sets, they took up no more room and clearly people preferred seeing their favorite movies and shows in color. And then we had flat screens….also more expensive in the beginning but they offered a much better picture and they didn’t weigh a ton like the old CRT screens.

    Clearly, acceleration speed isn’t enough to counter all of the disadvantages of #1 and #3. There’s also a phrase for that kind of thing: a “one trick pony”.

    • Color TV is a good analogy. CBS tried for years to implement a mechanical color system that was semi-compatible with existing B&W recievers. It was large, hard to use and prone to colorbanding on movement because of the color wheel. The FCC’s “freeze” in the late 1940s gave RCA time to develop their all electronic solution that was still compatible and far superior.

      The important thing is that the new transmitters maintained compatibility with the B&W sets and right up until ATSC any 525 line TV was compatible. When digital ATSC was being developed, RCA and Zenith had a mostly compatible HDTV system but it had some major problems in fringe reception areas due to the hybrid digital/analog design. When it was decided to scrap NTSC basically everyone had to buy a new TV, although there were subisdized converters available, and by this time most households were using cable or DBS satellite anyway. And for a time there were simulcast transmitters in place.

      The plug in hybrid seems like the closest thing to comparable technology. Of course none of them will have long to continue if gasoline were eliminated, but if any automaker wanted to come up with a bridge vehicle they’d design it so that the ICE drivetrain could be removed at some point in the near future and battery packs easily installed. Instead we have this all-or-nothing or milquetoast “not quite either” approach that is going to keep people sitting on the sidelines until they can no longer gets parts for whatever they’re driving now.

  14. I spent the week in and around Madison, Wisconsin, hotbed of Progressive thought. In the urban areas, I saw very few chargers, and out near the “UNESCO world heritage site”, Taliesin, the home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, the subject of a Lib/environmentalists favorite PBS documentary, I saw zero facilities for EVs.

    Driving out for a weekend getaway in Spring Green, the nearest town with tourist accomodations, from Milwaukee or Chicago would not be possible in an EV.

    • I live in northwest WI, just a hop skip and jump from the Twin Cities. You would think, being this close to Minneapolis, you would actually run into a few EV’s, you really don’t, though. Yes, there are a few Teslas, but it is just a few. There are an enormous amount of trucks, diesels, V8 Challengers and Chargers, a few Mustangs even. And speaking of Madison, I drove through this last Spring to pick up a Zastava M77 and consciously counted the EV’s as I got close to our State’s little kingdom. I believe for the entire trip traveling on I 94, I saw 4. The entire drive one-way is something like 4 hours, driving through Eau Claire, Wisconsin Dells, Madison, and finally Milwaukee. 4…FOUR! Lots of real work trucks and semi’s though.

      • Hi Logan,

        I live about 25 miles from Roanoke, in SW Virginia. I regularly see Teslas downtown/around that area. I rarely see them “up the mountain,” where I live. Probably because (a) it’s up the mountain – and driving from about 1,000 feet to about 3,000 feet above sea level does wonders for an EV’s range and (b) there are no “fast” chargers up the mountain and (c) few people were I live can afford to spend $50k-plus on a totally impractical vehicle.

      • My daughter and I, before she started driving, used to play the “slug bug” game where every time you see a VW Beetle on the road you slug each other, except we substituted Teslas for VWs. Around here, they were sparse enough to not be annoying (or bruising).

        I’m seeing more and more of them now.

  15. Its not even a good toy!
    While quick, I find them bland and uninteresting. The back seat facts are a short term amusement for children that wears off quickly.
    No, a real toy is FUN! Like a ’68 Lotus, a ’72 MG, Fiat Spyder, and old bug, maybe a restored B210 or my Racing Yellow 718T with a manual, your TA. A toy is something that makes you smile. That maybe turns a few heads, gets comments in parking lots.
    I’m sorry buy the best EVs are glorified golf carts. They are ugly, bland and homogeneous, an appliance with very limited utility.
    I think the 4% is exaggerated. There are quite a few in my neighborhood but none are the only car. At 4% I’d expect at least one household to be exclusive.
    There is sn outlet mall in St Augustine that has a charging station with 6-8 bays. When they put in a few years ago I’d see a Tesla or two hooked up, but the last few times I went i saw no cars at the station. It could be the mall is just too damn far from the big city for most EV owners to trek to and the locals don’t shop there. Who knows.
    I drive to Tallahassee on occasion. Its 180 miles on I-10. I never see EVs on the road. Its just too damn far to get from Jacksonville.

    It will be amusing during the next hurricane evacuation to see all those South Florida liberals haul ass north then 5000 EVs all trying to get a charge in Titusville or Melbourne. Assuming a full charge when they left. The good part is those idiots certainly won’t make it to Jacksonville!!

    • What I see happening with evacuations in Hurricane Alley once EVs take over is that evacuations will be done by the authorities driving (non-electric) buses going door to door and herding folks onto them to evacuate them to evacuation centers. No more driving yourself to a destination of your choice in a safe zone.

      Don’t laugh, it already happened with Hurricane Katrina and the Superdome.

      • If that turns out to be the case, all those EV’s left to be immersed in salt water are going to be insanely dangerous fire and pollution hazards. So they’ll probably pass a law requiring them to be parked above the level of a 1000 year flood. After all, you can always fix things by passing a law…

    • ‘Its not even a good toy!’ — Alex Thrace

      The ultimate useless toy, the US fedgov, shuts down a week from today … unless a legislative kludge can be fashioned. Details of arcane disputes inside the legislative sausage factory are too byzantine for outsiders to comprehend:

      https://news.yahoo.com/speaker-mike-johnson-no-plan-113000995.html

      Here’s to the imminent train wreck! Among other things, it would mean two of our most importunate beggars — the Ukraine and Israel — would get hung out to dry. 🙂

      • No they won’t. There’s a reserve fund for “essential activity”, which is THEY before the American people. Think that one over when you fill out your 1040 Form next year.

  16. And another thing:

    Cars like your Pontiac and my Oldsmobile are actually MORE practical as forms of transportation than EVs.

    They may eat gas and be able to pass everything on the road but the gas station, but gas stations are everywhere, and you can filled up and back on the road in minutes. (if the gas mileage bothers you, there are cars like Ford Falcons, Dodge Darts, Chevy Novas, and VW Beetles, plus you can add on EFI systems and overdrive transmissions if you want to.)

    They may have problems and glitches, but they are easily fixable and can be fixable by you with basic knowledge and hand tools.

    They can be had for a lot less money than many EVs.

    If you choose to drive them on hot or cold days, their range won’t be too badly affected.

    If you don’t drive like some kind of Clover or maniac, and understand and respect their limits, they’re fairly safe.

    They may have a fire from a fuel leak, but that can be avoided with proper maintenance and a good extinguisher.

    Barring serious accident or rust damage, they can run just about forever—which is far more “green” than constantly buying and disposing of cars.

    And they are ready to go at a moment’s notice, and no one but you can shut them off!

    • I was going to make this point. My entire collection of antiques from the 40’s to the 80’s could all be used as daily transportation and driven cross country. The only reason I don’t is I still have a highly demanding job and road salt, because when you have to travel at least 100 miles per day a cheap car from the 90’s or 2000’s is comfortable, reliable, and already depreciated.

  17. Eric, here’s another stat they never talk about – most people who have an EV will not get another EV ! I know a few people here with EVs, and they all tell me that despite all the incentives to get them, the inconvenience means that they will not get another EV when the lease expires!! And this is in and around London, which is probably one of the most suited places for an EV in terms of charging points everywhere and mostly short distances driven. Infact one of them has already gone back to an ICE ( he works for a car company and for him there isnt even a cost element). I wonder how they will force EVs when nobody wants them anymore!

    • Hi Nasir!

      Yes, thank you for bringing this up. The people I know personally who own EVs all have other non-EVs and make excuses for their EVs. A few are honest and just say they like them, for various reasons – and that’s perfectly reasonable. I love my TA, too. But I have to have a vehicle I can drive in the rain, that can haul stuff as well as me. Hence my truck!

    • Last Thanksgiving my Tesla-tard neighbor decided he was going to take the Model X on vacation to Gatlinburg.
      That worked as well as you might expect. It was trailers home. Battery shot, bill estimate to replace was $28,000, warranty voided for “battery abuse too many deep cycles and fast charges.
      He really likes his new Mercedes GLE

      • He told me going up the mountain the range display lost for 4-5 miles for every one driven, Yeah climbing up the mountain will do that.
        My Cayenne Diesel easily went there on less than a tank, I drove around for 3 days before filling up, drove that tank home with a stop in Atlanta to see my daughter.

    • I won’t be putting another one in my garage, I can tell you that with nearly 100% certainty. The novelty wore off -very- quickly, as you can imagine.

      I wanted a fast toy to replace my other fast toys that had some very advanced self-driving capability. (BMW M3, Supra, Corvette) and its succeeded there, but in hindsight I don’t think the juice was worth the squeeze as the old saying goes.

      I drove it cross country just to see if it -could- be done. It -can-, but you must do so carefully. You get out in corn country and you must plan –very– carefully your route or you will indeed be stranded.

      Daily driver / around town / fast Sunday driver? Fine. But more than that, nope.

      Another major issue and I will get screwed on this. Their resale value is abysmal. Tesla cut their prices like 20% not soon after I bought this car too, so I will be in the red when I finally dump it. There is little I can do about this. But even if they hadn’t they lose value insanely fast.

      My BMW M3, Supra, and Vette Z06, while quite expensive had phenomenal resale value. This Performance Tesla I’ll eat at least 10K in loss when I sell it. Hence why I said, will not be buying again.

  18. EVs make nice commuter cars, town cars (not in the sense of the old Lincoln, I mean cars used exclusively around town, not cross country travel) and tax deductions. Second (or third, fourth, fifth) cars. Rich people’s cars. If you can only afford one vehicle you’re not going EV, at least not in their current status.

    One thing that could make and EV a viable alternative is living close to a big hub airport. Then you could rent vehicles at your destination. But then you get to deal with all the fun of navigating the commerical air system, and depending on the length of your trip, a dead battery when you get home.

    Mid-distance trips, like going to the mountains on a 3 day weekend might be tough. That’s when the EV gets relegated to second vehicle tier.

  19. ‘pretend their electric vehicle isn’t a toy’ — eric

    Just wait till they get the ultimate battery-powered toy, Elon’s Cyyyyybertruck:

    ‘Basking in the SoCal sun, this Cybertruck looked frankly horrible. I’ve never seen an automaker proudly present something of this poor quality, especially not this late in development.

    ‘While it fixes the stainless steel’s reflection and fingerprint issues, the matte black wrap makes build quality problems even more noticeable. Some of the gaps between panels were big enough to stick a finger through, with no visible seals or trim pieces even for the frunk. The lower sections of the front doors were particularly bad, with big gaps both in terms of width and depth.

    ‘All four angular fender flares were misaligned and ill-fitting, but each one in different ways or amounts, honestly an impressive feat. The tailgate had maybe the worst fitment of all and was uneven to boot, which is even more noticeable when the taillights are illuminated.

    ‘The seam where the A-pillar meets the nose looks terrible, with visible overlap of the panels.

    ‘Three weeks out from the delivery event we still don’t know any concrete specs or details about the Cybertruck. Final pricing hasn’t been announced either, but we know the original $40,000 base price is no more. This close to customer deliveries starting, I couldn’t help but feel something akin to second-hand embarrassment when looking at it.’

    https://insideevs.com/news/694929/tesla-cybertruck-matte-black-impressions/

    Clearly, it’s not a work truck. So it’s a costly splurge for well-heeled vulgarians. And for Tesla …

  20. Those who control language control ideas. This is why we get endless euphemisms and repetitive new phrases. So the new terms become incorporated into our language and we begin to accept the new meanings. Like holidays. Thanksgiving is now being revised as November holidays in the schools. They stripped our monuments, deleted our history, took away our religious holidays, renamed our sports teams. Our culture is being systematically destroyed.

  21. Yeah, I don’t have “mobility needs”. I have “needs” that include personally owned vehicles that I operate in order to transport myself quickly to remote locations on my own schedule or without any schedule whatsoever. I need to *drive* my vehicles how and when I want.

    I am ambulatory. I don’t need to be shuttled about like a paraplegic.

  22. ‘It all begs a question: Why do they pretend?’ — eric

    ‘They’ are not only EeeVee owners; ‘they’ also are the worthless, lying shills of the Lamestream Media, who cheer on EeeVees the same way they cheer on ESG, DEI, BLM and Antifa.

    Today at Lew Rockwell’s site, the venerable James Bovard brings up the long, post-stroke twilight of Woody Wilson, which most of us know about. Then he adds a disconcerting fact which many don’t know:

    ‘In 1920, New York World reporter Louis Seibold scored the first interview with Wilson after his illness. As historian Thomas Fleming wrote:

    “Delighted by a chance to get on the front page, Seibold collaborated shamelessly with the scam. The reporter told how delighted he was to find the president almost his old self. He joshed with him about running a footrace in a month or two; he would give the president a modest handicap because of his ‘slight limp.’ (In fact, Wilson’s whole left side remained paralyzed.)”

    ‘Seibold claimed he saw Wilson “transact the most important functions of his office with his old-time decisiveness, method, and keenness of intellectual appraisement.” Brazenly lying about Wilson’s competence won Seibold the 1921 Pulitzer Prize — a sham that has been almost completely forgotten by today’s media poohbahs.’

    Eric ends his essay lamenting how ‘drugs that don’t immunize became “vaccines.” And guess what happened then? Two scientists who invented the lethal mRNA technology won the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year. Same shit; different century.

  24. Going to be a rude awakening when the armed goons show up at the door of that 96% and confiscate their reliable, dependable vehicles. They will get a full dose of range anxiety, and I’m sure they won’t like it much.

  25. Currently, it’s estimated that around under 1 percent of the 250 million cars, SUVs, and light-duty trucks on American roads are electric…about 2.5 million….that took over thirteen years of forced, subsidized by government sales…..a huge failure….

    Of the 2.5 million EV’s…… only 4 percent are used as exclusive transportation…one vehicle only transportation…..about 100,000….. or 0.00004 of all cars, SUVs, and light-duty trucks on American roads…….

    0.00004 of drivers use an EV as exclusive transportation…one vehicle only transportation…..

    That means the other 99.9996 % of the drivers in a few short years will be forced into driving an EV only…

    That means when the other 247.5 million vehicles are outlawed…most will be scrapped… if each is worth $30,000 that is about $7.5 trillion worth of vehicles scrapped….the biggest waste in history….247.5 million vehicles….that is just in the U.S……worldwide it is way worse….multiply that by five….

    it is a lot worse then that….remember net zero……they want to make heavy duty trucks electric also…..and all industrial and farm equipment….and all small engines…lawn mowers…outboard motors, etc.. also…..then ships probably….they are clearly insane….

    That means the other 99.9996 % of the drivers in a few short years will be forced into driving an EV only…this is impossible….there is another agenda obviously….forcing everyone into 15 min city/prisons….where they walk only…… where they can be watched and dealt with……

    If you want to know how many cars…just cars…. are there on Earth here you go: There are about 1.474 billion vehicles on Earth in 2023. About 19% of those vehicles are in the United States.

    They are going after the ice motorcycles too…..

    There are 600 million motorcycles in the world, the USA has 8.7 million, the UK has 2.4 million, 8.3 million in Malaysia, Germany has 7.4 million, Japan has 13.4 million, France has 310,500, and Canada has 886,216 motorcycles….

    Getting rid of all ice powered anything means going back to the stone age……

    • That means the other 99.9996 % of the drivers in a few short years will be forced into driving an EV only…

      When will the slaves revolt?….There needs to be a slave revolt…..

      This seems to tie in with the 90% depopulation agenda…..

      • That means the other 99.9996 % of the drivers in a few short years will be forced into driving an EV only…

        there is about 3000 slave owners…the rulers at the top and 8 billion slaves….

        that the slave owner/rulers can promote and ram this through proves this…..
        and…..using the slave’s money…lol…

        but…the slave owner/rulers control all the enforcers……so the slaves are screwed….

      • To revolt would be “un-American” and an “affront to democracy”.

        We collectively will do nothing but take it, because that is more comfortable than being placed on a list and facing persecution.

        Progressives are very good at protesting and making noise. The rest of us, not so much.

    • These leftist/marxists that dream up this craziness should be locked up permanently in an insane asylum….not running the planet…..they endanger the other 8 billion sane, hard workers…the slaves….

    • LMAO, the energy to recycle the steel and aluminum then haul it off will require disel in large volumes. These morons just cannot think.

  26. From Tesla: “Once the optional “Auxiliary Power Unit” is attached your Tesla is capable of nearly infinite range under any weather condition. Thanks Eric for showing us this new optional device that will make EV’s practical for the driving public.

    Funny thing is that while 96% of people know EVs won’t be suitable as their only means of transportation they insist on electing people who do. Idiocracy?

    • These things work because fools believe that THEY won’t be the subjects. Leftists/academics believe they are smarter than their fellow man and have a right to rule. Rightists believe that their standards must be enforced on those others, until it is their property seized or child molested by a cop. Some of us learned harsh lessons in reality early so avoid and oppose all of it. Those smart enough to learn from others mistakes are by definition a minority. The only rules necessary for a functioning society were tabulated by the Hebrews thousands of years ago, allegedly by God himself, given to Moses on stone tablets.

      “I give you these 15 (crash and shattering sounds) SHIT these 10 commandments”

      • The problem is the slave owners are using maritime law…corporate law…. to run the planet…so the slaves have zero rights….

        There has to be a revolt and go back to common law….where everybody has rights…and the government is below the people….just servants….ordered to fix potholes in the road, etc……..

        common law…basically do no harm….honor your contracts and don’t steal….

    • Universal suffrage allows endless corporate control of elections by preying on the soft minds of females and um, other people. They had it right originally in the Constitution. At least only net taxpayers should have any say whatsoever. Giving any ghetto rat with a ballot harvested vote the same say as folks like us is clearly insane.

      • Hi Mark,

        Ideally, of course, no one’s rights (or money) would be up for a vote. But that’s ideally. As a matter of practical politics, it is unavoidably necessary to have bulwarks in place to limit the damage that can be done by voting. By voters. One such is a qualified franchise based on such things as having paid taxes or owning property. That might serve to hold back the demagogues who offer “free” things paid for by others who are forced to pay for them. If the people voting were the ones paying, they might be less likely to vote to make themselves pay.

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