Electric vehicle mandate in California
California has a mandate for electric vehicles in the future. Just read with the extreme heat PG&E will have rolling blackouts because of power shortage. Noticed this in previous years as well. Do...
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ShinerBock wrote:time2roll wrote:
OK and I don't read any stories about EV owners going back to ICE after a storm due to emergency evacuation issues. I would think all the Tesla haters would have jumped all over this by now. I call FUD on the whole issue.
It is a not issue right now because almost all Tesla or BEV owners have a secondary ICE vehicle and it has only recently been mandated forcing people to buy or vehicle makes to sell them. There is a huge difference between having the wealthy or upper middle class(who are the ones who are mostly buying right now) who can afford seconder vehicles buy them and forcing the middle class and below who can't afford seconder vehicles. Even in Europe, most BEV owners have secondary ICE vehicles.
I’m not up on the stats for that but will take your word for it. Around here though the numbers play out a little different an in an unexpected way. Many start out with a Leaf or equivalent and then eventually replace their second vehicle (a gasser) with a Tesla. Many find that once there is an EV in the family it becomes the go to car and everyone wants to get rid of the gasser. The second car gets replaced with a Tesla (usually a model 3 AWD) and then they are an all electric household. This doesn’t happen if the second vehicle is a truck as there are currently none available. However, many are itching to buy an EV truck and be an all EV household ASAP.
I think the demand for 1/2 ton E trucks will be robust in some areas and turn many more households into EV only households.
JMHO.
