Electric vehicles are still more expensive and less reliable
Zachary Faria
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The rapid push by climate zealots to force people into electric vehicles has run into a small problem: most electric vehicles are worse cars and more expensive than the gas-powered vehicles people are being told to abandon.
A new report from Consumer Reports found that electric vehicles have 80% more problems than gas-powered cars and are more unreliable. Plug-in hybrid EVs were even worse, with 150% more problems than gas-powered cars. Ordinary hybrids were the only ones that scored better than the cars that climate zealots are obsessed with taking off the road.
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The problems are not just related to charging systems or EV batteries, either. People reported problems in how body panels and interior parts fit together. Plug-in hybrids experience problems in all 20 areas on which Consumer Reports rates vehicles. Combine that with how expensive electric vehicles are, and with the fact that purchasers will also need to spend money on other things such as at-home charging ports, and you get vehicles that are more expensive and less reliable than the cars most people have been using just fine for years.
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When you also consider that China emits more carbon than the rest of the developed world combined and that the country is going to blow past its promise of peaking its carbon emissions in 2030, you realize that all of this financial pain and inconvenience is unnecessary. American drivers are being asked to spend more money to buy less reliable cars that are ill-suited for longer trips just for China to pump more greenhouse gases into the air than EVs can cancel out.
Trying to force people out of their perfectly fine, functional cars and into unreliable, expensive EVs (as California is planning to do) is not going to save the environment or make people’s lives better. It is simply going to cost them more money to make their lives worse, all so climate zealots can feel better about themselves and the ridiculous doomsday climate predictions of which they live in constant fear.