• NataliePortland@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile BYD is absolutely exploding in popularity. The problem isn’t “EV pessimism” it’s that some governments are fighting it so hard that it’s difficult out for citizens (USA) to make it work. Didn’t Biden promise a network of EV chargers across the nation?

    And instead he made it illegal to import affordable Chinese cars. I’m sick of seeing articles phrased like this

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      8 months ago

      Did Biden forget which about the magic wands, which you obviously know all about, that cause charge stations to spontaneously appear?
      I mean, the first of the ones funded went into operation in December of 2023, which was the earliest it could as that is when funding was available and enough time had passed to get it permitted and installed, but wave the damned wand!!! demands internet padme. /s

      In case anyone wants to know what is really going on with the EV charge stations;
      https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/first-ev-charging-station-funded-by-bidens-infrastructure-law-goes-online-2023-12-11/
      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biden-pours-623-million-into-ev-charging-void/

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        8 months ago

        Okay. He still handcuffed the EV market itself. To which the American companies have suddenly decided they can spend a few more years dumping their last ICE engines here.

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          8 months ago

          Nope, not even close. Reality is that doing things with oversight takes time. Writing grant guidelines and requirements takes time. Reviewing bids, or whatever mechanism is chosen to allocate the very finite pool of money takes time. Adherence to financial regulations, as any Gov. program must, takes time. Permitting takes time. Construction contracting takes time. Construction takes time. And, oh look a year later and the charge stations are appearing.
          Meeting the “instant gratification” crowd’s expectations is how you lose most of the funding to waste and fraud.

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            8 months ago

            It’s not about the charging stations. That’s what the other commenter was talking about. He made foreign EVs prohibitively expensive and domestic companies are shitting the bed. So your choice is a domestic EV that has quality control problems and is still the cost of a high trim ICE car, or pay luxury car price just to get a competent EV.

            Or you can buy a very reliable ICE car for half the price.

            Thus he handcuffed the EV market by artificially subjecting it to monopoly forces. Now everyone is suddenly wondering what went wrong like we’re all blind.