Electric cars are an interesting novelty, but they’re not a serious replacement for real cars. They are not actually cars, but throwaway electronics, like phones and laptops. Everything is grotesque plastic, and cheap.
The ownership experience is not good. Things break all the time and none of it can be fixed by anyone except the makers of the cars. No one was begging for these machines, they were forced on people through mass-marketing campaigns.
Never mind persuading the public to buy electric vehicles, an emerging challenge for the green energy reset in Germany is getting them to keep them, with a soaring number of EV owners switching back to internal combustion.
One in three electric vehicle owners switched back to gasoline or diesel cars this year, data from Germany’s largest car insurer states, a growing trend suggesting even those who took the leap aren’t finding the new technology as suitable for their lifestyles as hoped. As stated, the abolition of the electric car subsidy encouraging new purchases with a hefty €4,500 to €6,000 ($4,900, $6,500) taxpayer-funded discount continues to be felt.
Germany plans to abolish the sale of almost all new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, but has a long way to go in the next decade to square this with the public, a report on new data in Die Welt finds. While a survey that 29 per cent of Germans would only ever consider an electric car if forced by law and only 18 per cent say they would consider an electric for their next car purchase, actual observed behaviour is more instructive.
Just 3.6 per cent of ICE drivers made the switch to electric in Germany this year, it is stated, with electric vehicles accounting for 2.9 per cent of vehicles on the country’s roads. Yet at the same time, 34 per cent of electric car owners switched back to ICE so far this year.
This is a figure that has risen year-on-year all this decade, with the switch-back rate to gasoline now double the 14 per cent observed in 2021. As observed in the German press: “Apparently, electric cars cannot convince many owners to stick with this form of propulsion in the long term.”
Earlier data reported on earlier this year stated demand for electric vehicles was falling across the continent, with demand in Germany falling nearly 29 per cent.
It might feel really great to imagine you’re going to change the weather, to solve the swamp ass crisis by turning the earth into a solid sheet of ice.
But a year with one of these cars will turn you into a global warming denier.
China is making some good ones, and they are getting better, but China has a very different society, where things just tend to work better. China is primarily introducing EVs based on price point: they are significantly cheaper than normal cars, so people who might not even own a car otherwise can afford them.
It’s a much different strategy than bullying the population with global warming gibberish.