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It's been getting harder for average people to afford a vehicle for a long time. The small cheap cars are gone, the used starter cars aren't cheap, and nothing is repairable. It's been getting worse and worse for a long time long before BEVs came along. In fact one of the best things to boost car ownership would be to allow import of cheap cars including cheap BEVs. So I don't see bev as part of that puzzle

Cars are more expensive for a variety of reasons, mostly because the fed.gov has mandated increasing levels of emissions controls and "safety" technology. Plus, with CAFE standards tied to vehicle volume a larger car is better (for the OEM) but also makes it more expensive. Add in decades of cheap credit and a culture of asking "how much per month" instead of "how much" and we have the current mix of new cars on the market.

None of which has bugger all to do with the EV boondoggle.

BEV cars would, if sold at similar profit margins, cost double or more what comparable ICE cars sell for.  Factor in the power issues (which I notice you conveniently haven't addressed) and the average person cannot afford to live how they otherwise do now, and own and drive a suitable vehicle. Though as cordex notes, that may be a feature rather than a bug to your statist mindset.

No capacity factors needed there.  Going all BEV would consume at least half the annual electricity production in the USA, just to charge the batteries so our economy could continue to function.

There is no rationalizing use of off-peak hours or anything else that will get around the need to massively expand our electricity generating capacity to meet that level of demand increase.

The people in power that are pushing BEVs are simultaneously restricting power plant capacity expansion.

As I said before, the goal is to make the average person unable to own a vehicle at all.  If you (zahc) can't see that you are willfully blind.

It's been getting harder for average people to afford a vehicle for a long time. The small cheap cars are gone, the used starter cars aren't cheap, and nothing is repairable. It's been getting worse and worse for a long time long before BEVs came along. In fact one of the best things to boost car ownership would be to allow import of cheap cars including cheap BEVs. So I don't see bev as part of that puzzle

If that were a glass of glycerin instead of water, there would be no reflections at the boundary.  They have the same refractive index  :)

Depends on what type of glass, refractive index of standard catalog optical glasses will run from about 1.45 to 1.9. It wouldn't be hard to find a reasonably close match to glycerine.

A "puree" marble in a glass of water... why, it's almost invisible exept for the studio lights reflecting off it!

     



Terry, 230RN

If that were a glass of glycerin instead of water, there would be no reflections at the boundary.  They have the same refractive index  :)

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