Two things about this report showing Rivian is planning layoffs for its workforce.
First, the larger ‘layoff‘ issue is going to be more prevalent as the economy contracts and consumer demand declines. There is almost no expanded investment going into any Main Street business that sells non-essential goods.
The economic contraction, the drop in consumer demand that indicates a recession, is very real and now very easy to spot.
Second, Rivian is backed by the financing of Ford and Amazon and operates in California, Michigan and Illinois (three deep blue states). Rivian is also the supplier for Amazon electric delivery vehicles having previously announced (in 2019) a deal to purchase 100,000 vehicles from Rivian. Additionally, Rivian has lost 69% of its market value this year.
LA TIMES – Rivian Automotive Inc. is planning hundreds of layoffs to trim its workforce in areas where the electric-vehicle maker has grown too quickly, according to people familiar with the matter. […] The Irvine company, which has more than 14,000 employees, could target an overall reduction of around 5%, the people said. The layoffs are still in the planning stage, and nothing has been decided.
[…] The manufacturer is poised to join companies across corporate America pruning their operations amid growing worries about an economic downturn. Tesla is cutting 10% of its salaried workforce, while protecting manufacturing jobs, after Chief Executive Elon Musk said he sees a recession as inevitable. (read more)
The MENSA Masters in Washington will take this as a sign that we aren’t creating demand for the electric vehicles fast enough and will accelerate their plans to force citizens into buying electric vehicles they don’t want.
These Greentards are pushing electric vehicles during a national electricity crisis..
If you have the orders and the assembly plant – the reason you are laying off is you cannot get the parts.
Get used to it. Green energy is going to come to a screeching halt because most of their inputs come from Russia or China.
Hard sell in Texas when they’re telling us to turn our thermostats up with record heat. Not to mention having to stay outside while our cars charge for hours.
What fools they are.
Greg Abbott is behind these policies. Fox News-watching conservatives voted for him over Allen West.
A *National Electricity Crisis* that THEY ARE CAUSING !
Don’t want, can’t afford, and can’t recharge due to a collapsing grid.
Be quiet, Comrade!
You WILL buy an electric vehicle and you WILL buy a solar array for your house or business.
It doesn’t matter that it will cost you tens of thousands of dollar MORE than a normal car, that it won’t be nearly as reliable or travel as far, that it can’t tow anything, that it’s not “green” by any stretch of the imagination, or that you may not be able to afford or have the credit to spend $50,000 on a car and $25,000 on solar panels you don’t want.
Shut up, pretend to be happy, and vote for our candidate (actually we do that part FOR you).
When will these idiots realize millions of us live in APARTMENTS? I have no hookup in my garage. It’s use gas or ride a bike.
MOST “housing tracts” do not have the grid wiring, either.
To put charging stations to each house, they would have to tear up the streets, and rewire each house with 200 amp service, instrad of the 100 amp it currently has.
Comrade! PG&E’s continuous rate increases … and ever more punishing tiers and time of use charges are FORCING customers to install solar. Their PUNISHING energy charges are making solar “pencil out” … well … only if you buy the cheapest possible ChiCom manufactured solar panels …
its all going according to their plan. And if you are too poor to afford them? Then the $rich$ will be made to pay for them
Actually, I DO have an electric vehicle.
Its a 1970’s era golf cart, that I bought for $200, refurbished with new brakes, replaced 12volt lighting, rejuvenates batteries, replaced roof with one with 2 solar panels (I already had), put new windshield on,…
We use it for short runs, to $ store and branch library “around the corner” which saves me firing up one of my diesel trucks,..
The panels keep it charged, and its easy for us to get in/out of,…
All in, under $1000,…
I have said for 15 years now that we need a pod system. The perfect mix of public and private transportation. The system is public, either electric or through magnetism. Each of us has a personal pod that we can sit in and tell a Siri like entity in the pod where we wish to go. It automatically gets us there, faster, safer, and cheaply with only the system needing maintenance and repairs. No more driving accidents, auto insurance, gasoline. A storage system designed to hold them while we shop and a retinal scan or thumbprint to call it back when we are done. Buy your own, as elegant as you desire. Done.
THIS is how to end travel with a huge machine all to go buy groceries or get to work.
Get going, AMERICA. We built the highways we can build a new, better system.
Nah.
I don’t see it
Yeahhh that would never happen in Ashburn Virginia (Loudoun County).
That does sound fun, but not for the wealthiest county in the country. Plenty of teslas and other higher end electrics, mostly hybrids.
I have one too. Have owned several since we have a small house in a lake community. The roads there are all private, so we don’t have to license for the road. My latest one qualifies though with brake lights, turn signals, etc. Eventually there will be a much greater use for EVs…10,15 or 20 years from now, but apparently the green fascists want it NOW and will wreck the country to get it.
A few months after they try to force everyone to buy electric vehicles, they will suddenly discover that a collapsing grid doesn’t go too well with electric cars. Then they will say, “nobody could have foreseen this!” and go on to something else.
Solar flare? EMP??
And they will say its our fault for going along with it when we should have known it was a bad idea.
Force citizens to riding a bike or a bus.
During 40 below weather with babies? In an area that has no public transit let alone sidewalks?
I’d have to get a couple of mules and a wagon. 30 miles from town, no bus gets within 30 miles and way too many tall hills for a bike. Plus an elec car would have to be charged up in town before I could head home. I’ll keep my gas powered machine.
And cannot afford.
Dust in the wind. You can buy nothing if you have little or no money. Let them fail.
Michigan has had a GOP(e) legislature for over 25 years. We are not deep blue, and we will be solid red in November.
I can’t believe Michigan whitmer chewts to remove most / all of her competition and Michigan voters just yawn. It’s disturbing as hell to think she is going to be re-elected, she’s a pure bred commie and wants to be president, plus she’s really dumb. It’s a perfect storm and no one seems to be in her way.
Its WHY the “Whitmer kidnapping plot” was SOooo unbelievable, right from the first headline.
Anyone who read it immediately thought “Who would EVER want to pay, to get her BACK?”
Bad messaging, that one!
The Bible warns us that we will be ruled by women and children.
We now are and have been for a while.
Michigan is like most states; conservative everywhere except metropolitan areas. In rural America people are naturally self reliant and understand how life works.
Amen Mrs. Jones; I live in down state Illinois. Deep red. “Pritker Sucks” signs are ubiquitous. We are as red as our neighbors KY, MO, and IN. Chi-Congo runs the state with its machine since JFK cheated his way into the White House in 1960.
Amen, MrsJones and Bitter Clinger, I am upstate, just outside of Crook County, in a “Chicago Mini-Me” town, as crocked as the day is long. I wish people would wise up here.
BTW, the best tank of gas I ever got, 100+ miles more than normal, was south of Effingham….
Those signs are more and more visible in my ‘union ‘hood’, now.
Of concern was an article I read this morning…:
https://www.wifr.com/2022/07/11/illinois-libertarians-file-statewide-candidate-petitions-push-better-ballot-access-laws/
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/illinois-libertarians-file-slate-statewide-candidates-november
Vote splitting at its finest attempts.
Are the metro areas REALLY blue, or is it that the cities are where they can most easily have a “political machine” that takes over, and manipulates the outcome?
Much easier to generate 10-20,000 fake ballots, in a large city, in all sorts of ways,…
IS NYS, for example REALLY a ‘reliably blue’ State despite ALL its rural areas being RED, or are the ballot totals in metro areas tinkered with,…just enough to assure a win?
Yes. For decades now.
It all comes down to actual numbers. I was born and raised in Western New York, and it has been common knowledge since I was old enough to know (a VERY long time ago) that ANY state wide election can be won by simply carrying a basic majority of the five boroughs in NYC. Your opponent can get every other vote in the entire state, and still lose! They don’t even have to cheat, just get a simple majority in NYC to win the entire state for any state wide seat!
This is a real problem in Michigan where more than two thirds of the population live in the southeastern corner of the state; in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb County.
Massing huge numbers of the same demographic population in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia,Pennsylvania makes voting fraud so much easier to accomplish.
Please, don’t forget COLO’s front range where the blue predominates with Domi ion US headquarters in Downtown Denver. And we’re mail-in ballot only, playing with ranked choice for next legislative session.
Then there’s the R SecState primary winner: former D, still working for Zuck’s civics grant money dispensed to local precincts to help with registration and votes to ballot boxes! I’m to believe she’s at all R?
You have had a RINO legislature for over 25 years.
Michigan is the Romney clan home state.
The Michigan GOP is the Romney GOP.
Whatever Republicans are in office, they got there through an organization loyal to the Romney legacy.
Solid red like in commie or red like from embarrassment from non performing. It one or the other. Perhaps both.
Notice the careful wording of the article: the layoffs are not because “The Green New Deal” is an unsustainable scam but bcause “the electric-vehicle maker has grown too quickly”. It almost makes it sounds positive, doesn’t it?
Or because their vehicles are too expensive for 90% of USFamilies. I believe their pickup truck base model starts at $87,000. Yep that’s affordable 🙄
If you look at their website, they also were hiring in several locations. That is if you had documented proof you had the jab.
… and they will soon become too expensive for Amazon too … when the consumer stops clicking altogether.
Start at $67,500. If you give them $1000 now you get on a list for one that might be available next year. I do not believe either promise.
Saw my first Rivian pickup yesterday in Boise, ID. Never heard of it before. Now, thanks to the Treehouse, I’m in the know.
Thanks, Sundance!
Lies they tell themselves…
Propaganda for public consumption…
The two are NOT mutually exclusive, as in;
Lies for Propoganda, for public consumption, and for internal consumption.
Remember, with them its all about BELIEF, and FEELINGS,..so the BELIEVE their own lies, including that everybody else is believing their lies.
Its something that happens to every addict,…believing your own lies, and that others believe them,…
A properly-managed company NEVER grows too quickly. The laws of supply and demand have not changed. Basic economics have not changed. But the quality of education has changed drastically and not for better. People are making decisions amnd assumptions based on misunderstanding of what was taught or from being mal-educated about economics and business management.
Did we not see the same thing occur in the solar power industry right after Barack “Choom Gang” Ozero was installed? Yes we did. History repeats itself. Because too many are too dumb to learn from it.
I wonder how much of the “too fast growth” was prompted by the government’s promise to force consumers to abandon combustion engines in favor of electric?
If any Rivian company executives did use that policy statement as a basis for the sudden growth, then they’re even more at fault for failing to understand the foolishness of that policy plus the historically proven disingenuousness and foolishness of the people declaring it.
But I think it was probably a combination of over-optimism due to early expressed interest in their product by a host of “early adopters”, combined with much of the early interest being subsequently dampened or completely eliminated once the true ridiculous prices of the vehicles were realized.
Here is what too quickly means…They have employees but no available product. This impacts revenue in a negative way.
I personally think there will be more layoffs in other industries. Right now, they can hide behind the supply chain and left over covid BS. Blame it on supply chain takes the heat off of the boiled potato in the WH.
IMHO, business says they are hiring, but have seen not much activity where I am at.
Of course, there is no honesty in corrupt politicians; there is only feel-good propaganda to distract from their skulduggery.
And Yellen is denying s recession is coming!
Electric vehicles are a Fad. At best they will be second vehicles for families who don’t live far from town. Even with that, the electrical infrastructure can’t support it. Watch “The Long Way Up” on Apple TV. Two guys ride electric Harleys from the bottom of SA to LA. They are accompanied by two Rivian pick ups. They have tremendous problems finding charging for their vehicles. Rivian and Harley even set up charging stations for them but they couldn’t make the distance between them. In one episode it was revealed that they had a large diesel generator on a flat bed truck. Beautiful scenery in 4K though.
Private, noncommercial EVs in most cases are not a fad, but a fancy toy for the Sneering Set to be seen in.
The “sneering set.” I love that — so apt.
And if everybody owned one, there’s be no joy for the “sneering set” to have one.
Who, after all, wants to be indistinguishable from the proles?
Yes they are the latest “thing” to have.
The charging stations for these electric vehicles are very few and far between. I have yet to see any of the new gas stations installing charging stations for them.
As was mentioned in these comments, it is screwy to promote millions of people to drive electric cars when the grid is in such peril..
There you go, purchase the electric car, grid goes down, you stay put in your stacked living unit and you will be happy,happy, happy.
How long does it take to recharge one these things? I’m surprised no one is promoting a pooling scheme where you pull into the recharging station, plug it in, and take one that is fully recharged. Would that mean buying two vehicles instead of one?
Wait until the thugs realize they have a captive audiance at the recharge station for muggings and (kind of a) car jacking.
There is no infrastructure in place to “transition” to an electric vehicle system, assuming there was additional and reliable electricity being generated to dedicate for transportation. The wind/solar sourcing being forced to transition to by government fiat cannot remotely keep up with current demand. Just as Europe planned full dependency on Russian gas and then started a war with their primary energy supplier. If “climate change” were real, we are screwed as leadership is incapable of maintaining what actually works, let alone innovate into something “better”.
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Just saw a ‘news report’ that millions of ‘federal dollars’ were going into ‘researching’ where to put publicly available electric car charging systems along the major freeways in AZ.
Ostensibly, these would be ‘solar powered’, right?
Right . . .?
I would like to apply for one of the “researcher” positions. So I17, I10, and I40. That’s all we have here. Does it take millions to do that? (I17 is the bridge north south between (I10 and I40). And I40 parallels the famous Route 66 through Norther AZ. And probably not solar powered. And don’t forget the bed and breakfast establishments for ones pleasure while waiting for the charging.
Not bloody likely, no.
Grid power from Palo Verde Nuclear Powerplant, 30 miles outside Phoenix, I would think.
“…along the major freeways in AZ.” Just imagine the exit lines of these freeways backed up onto the freeway. Insane! “Stupid is as stupid does.”
You have three choices available to you:
1. Become energy independent in your own residence, including on-site electrical generation (solar), storage (powerwall/battery systems), and utilize electric vehicles that you fuel entirely yourself,
2. Utilize nooses and high-velocity projectiles to the necks and faces of the ruling class,
3. Have no electricity, no gasoline, and starve. Eat the bug, live in the pod, own nothing.
You can combine choices, but these are all that there are. If you aren’t willing to do #2, then it is either #1 or #3. There simply isn’t another way.
The important part of Number 1 is the battery systems. The coral array must meet ones basic needs and the batteries must store enough for the rest of each day. Then there is also passive heating and cooling, which is great if one has the money to build those homes (earth wall etcetera). And you may still need access to the grid in case of your home system failure, which means a meter AND a monthly charge even if you do not use any grid power at all. How about combining number 3 with the ruling class? Let them eat bugs, live in pods, and have no utilities. Sounds like a plan!
solar (do I have spell check or spell change?)
#1 requires making lifestyle changes, because of the realistic limitations of off grid solar.
Need to look at different options, for basically anything you are currently using electricity for, where you are heating something up, or cooling it down.
Batteries don’t like “dead shorts” and anythinh that uses resistance to create heat (space heater, water heater, toaster oven or toaster, convection oven, standard range and oven, even electric coffee maker, will be ‘hard’ on your batteries.
Similarly, anything that uses a compressor (A/C, refrigerator or freezer) unless it is the new, dual inverter types, will strain the battery, every time that compressor kicks on.
So, “passive solar” for heat, with wood as a backup?
AND for cooking, as well?
As for A/C and food preservation, there again LIFESTYLE Changes; doing what you do differently, are not insignificant.
I personally prefer some version of #2, and as Forest said,.
“sometimes, there just aren’t enough rocks,..!”
When do we storm the castle, before or after we can’t drive anywhere / feed ourselves?
Build Back Better
code for
Destroy America Faster
Does the general public ever stop to think about what these altruistic slogans actually mean, or do they just settle back contently and feel good about being taken care of by a “benevolent” government?
Like “Hope” and “Change”..
I’d be a different definition for general public. General being the operative word.
If you had made the code “Destroy America Faster Traitors” you’d at least have an appropriate acronym for the concept.
I don’t see the problem. Can’t everyone afford a $70,000 to $100,000 electric pickup truck??? And the electricity to charge it up every day or two? Gee whiz!
Judging by their sales falling off significantly, I guess not. Who knew?
Those electric vehicle prices are “shocking”.
This topic gets everybody “charged up”.
Or depleted of energy in a short time.
Wait until you receive your “shocking” electric bill.
2022 Rivian Pricing (Kelly Blue Book)
https://www.kbb.com/rivian/r1t/
Scroll down the article to see the ratings. Not too impressive.
The idiots who rated the vehicle find style and comfort higher than performance and reliability.
I endure a little discomfort in my 11 year old Ford because it is reliable and performs well.
Yes, but this vehicle offers “vegan leather” seats, don’t ya know!
What is vegan leather? Vinyl? Mashed and pressed garbage? Will it smell bad if temp over 80? Will it crack when temp below 30?
I’m a bit envious as my newest Ford is 36 years old and oldest Ford is 58 years old. The ‘new’ one is the daily driver/hauler.
I’ll never own an electric vehicle and I will take care of business if and when .gov comes after my fuel or old vehicles. Count on it.
I wonder how much Rivian pays Kelly Blue Book for that review. It reads like Consumer Reports writes about Amazon. Consumer Reports gets a cut of what subscribers buy from Amazon based on their articles. Just like Motor Trend reviews Dodge Ram pick-ups the best of class 485 years in a row. How good is that?
Yeah I didn’t read the reviews. Just went there for prices.
A pickup that can tow a trailer 85 miles?!
Yes, for only $70,000+ !!!
Or you, can order the upgraded model that’ll pull it maybe 150 miles for only $95,000!!
Doesn’t that make you want to run right out and order one?
The people who jump at these electric trucks must have an entirely different concept of what constitutes “practical” than I do.
More to come,
In every industry.
The FED’s self inflicted wounds of stimulus money and essentially negative borrowing costs for such a long period of time have put the economy dire straits.
Add to that WEF policies adopted and implemented by POTUS as well as the “intellectuals”managing deep state we are in a world of hurt.
Debt will begin defaulting at massive rates in the coming months as interest rates increase.
The theory is that interest rates must be at the rate of inflation +2%. That would be approximately 10-12%.
Remember one of Obamas first scandals? Solyndra
About two years after the Obama administration co-signed $535 million loans to Solyndra, the company filed for bankruptcy
Obama is still the defacto President. They are just on steroids now.
No security was requested on this loan to Solyndra. Therefore, the taxpayers could not recoup any of the loss.
Look up the details of the Solyndra loan. If there was any value from equipment or land, we lost out.
Where did the money go?
If you’re going to launder money, you need to do so in a socially conscious way.
That way the TRUE rubes ( the social justice set) will defend your behaviour at every turn.
Just move out of CA, there’s your 5%.
Most of us will be too poor to afford a vehicle, unless that vehicle is named Schwinn.
And the Left has always hated the private automobile. Older people here will remember the images from Mao’s China of peasants, by the thousands, riding their bicycles through the streets of Peking, with the occasional limo carrying a government official slowly meandering through. Leftists found all this just too beautiful.
The electric car has always been a huge head fake.
Global warming was just the latest gimmick to put us all on the bike or the bus.
Every idea or project Stinkin’ liberals have come up with is,as PDJT has said, will turn to shit. Every one of them a wet dream.
Worthless, useless people.
Leftists have a fantasy of happy workers riding the bus to the widget factory, singing as they go.
They had this vision a century ago, they have it now.
Now the bus will be electric. That’s all they have changed.
Green energy, cow flatulence, battery storage, transfer efficiency, cost benefit ratios, rate of return, and many more topics can be presented to take one’s mind off the ball. What is the ball you ask?
The fight that is reaching a serious decision (final round?) between men and women: For the gals, it is “we have all the teats we need to feed everyone!” where for the guys, it is “there is no such thing as a free lunch!”
I note this: In all this abortion squabble (an old, really old problem) I found very few, if any, women who have come forward and claimed that the girls need to take more responsibility to avoid getting pregnant from the get go. Take the pressure off abortion, take some responsibility.
Not sure, ask Nick Cannon how easy it is for him to engage with various women in sex without a condom…
As food starvation comes into play and we ask how did this happen, as we discover monies never earned for Covid never went for Covid, why did those things take place? Ask Nancy Pelosi about that Obamacare bill where we needed to pass it to learn what was in it…free medical care is how far away from teats?
(PS: if my thought is too far out there, I apologize…but there is the Webb telescope now operating, perhaps you might get a view from there of what I am presenting, a primary, natural conflict and how it is being resolved or not. Keep in mind the new Supreme Court Justice, a person who looks like a woman, refused to define what constitutes a woman…let that sink in as those cows keep producing flatulence along with milk which reside ready to be distributed via…you know what!)
When speaking of abortion “rights”, what is actually desired is the ability to eschew morality and obtain social permission for two people to behave badly; it takes two to tangle. Then, when the risk/reward ratio goes negative, to demand a mulligan. The problems with the “my body” arguement are that there are actually now three bodies involved, the new third one doesn’t get a choice, and it’s impossible kill off only one half of that third body and allow the other half to live.
Exactly. It has NOTHING to do with the woman’s anything. It’s about the death of the child she created.
To just go along with the line of thought…. When are we going to realize that women just provide milk and offspring while being eaters and flatulence waste creators.
…and that men don’t create much that is useful
Meanwhile, California continues pouring Flavor-Aid into the oil drums:
“Since Petaluma’s decision, four other cities in the Bay Area have followed suit, and now, leaders in California’s most car-centric metropolis are hoping to bring the climate-conscious policy to Southern California.
It opens a new front in California’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and already is generating opposition from the fuel industry, which argues consumers would suffer.
“It’s really up to cities to turn around climate change,” said Andy Shrader, director of environmental affairs for Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, who proposed L.A. work toward its own ban on new gas stations. While the motion hasn’t gained traction, Shrader and other council leaders expect a hearing on the matter this summer.
“L.A.’s enormous and damaging ecological footprint really helped set us on this path,” Shrader said at a recent conference about gas station prohibitions across California. “If you have lung cancer, you stop smoking; if your planet’s on fire, you stop pouring gasoline on it.”
The contraction in “green” industries suggests a “new economy” which cannot sustain itself within the “old economy” cannot replace the “old economy.” The outcome is “no economy.”
But let us double down by pursing policies which result in fewer new cars, less available old cars, and no new filling stations for either.
YouTubers Claim Experiment with Electric Truck Ends After Mere 85 Miles – BREITBART
“Yes, you can absolutely tow with an electric truck, but at least in the case of the Rivian R1T, expect to lose half your driving range as you approach its maximum towing capability, much as you would in a gas- or diesel-powered truck. If you need to tow more than 150 miles, plan to hit a public charger along the way and give yourself ample time (1 HOUR) to fill up.” -MOTORTREND
One thing I noticed about my diesels is they do pretty much the same whether empty or hauling/towing. 14-16 is the normal range, down to 12 if hauling the camper and towing a trailer behind. The newer ones are likely better. Mine’s 36 years old and a bit over 1/4 million on the clock. Just getting broken in.
It’s not rocket science that current battery technology cannot match diesel or gasoline in the realm of energy density per unit of volume. Perhaps someday.
Again, how much does it cost to write that review? And one hour for a charge? It seems that number might be a bit low.
One hour? Well sure when you have 25 to 50 vehicles ahead of you. Best to take a mattress with you.
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Saw a diesel-powered mid-size truck towing an emergency electric vehicle charger while driving past a windmill farm — where no blades were turning — amongst a freeway full of vehicles whose drivers seemed to not be bothered to have to stop for $7.59/gallon gas, a couple of days ago.
Just people getting out congregating, communing, and living life to its fullest with no regard to SLO-Joe’s edicts to grovel for government help.
FJB and the horse he rode in on . . .
What a great place for a billboard to inform the lemmings
The irony of the truck towing its own charger is epic. And how much does the extra energy used to pull the charger, add to its so-called carbon footprint?
My coworker bought one of these. Took 3 years before it was delivered.
Some homebuilder comments courtesy of Rick Palacios Jr., Director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting
via CalculatedRisk:
Tesla is laying off management overhead but adding more production line personnel – a net GAIN of the right type of employees.
Rivian is a joke of a product and a company. The Ford F-150 Lightening EV truck can only haul a trailer 85 miles. Every single Ford EV loses money for Ford.
The media never shares the truth about Tesla, it’s technology and it’s success and what’s to come. There is massive demand for Tesla regardless of subsidies etc and as a shareholder since 2017 I am happy with my long term investment and smile at the fretting analysts and struggling Big 3 competition.
Musk has all of Tesla’s IP available for anyone to download and copy – he has always had this open source culture since he started Tesla.
We will always need oil, gas and petroleum. Always. Even Musk knows this. I predict he will develop Tesla nuclear power plants to support and supplement the grid demand for electricity, not replacing coal or gas fired plants but supplementing them.
Tesla is a hell of a strong long term investment.
Also, Tsla announced that all other EV makers will be able to use TSLA charging stations to charge their vehicles by year end. (For a fee TBD). O. On another note WMT ordered 4500 EV minivans from a company called Canoo. Said mainly for last mile deliveries. Canoo also recently moved their headquarters to ……. you guesses it. Bentonville,AR. Pray and pray more.
And also he is exploring a different type of battery not reliant on Lithium, and supposedly more powerful while being safer.
Don’t forget that Soro’s investment fund has @ 1/4 of it’s assets in Rivian and forced Kemp (Gov of state of GA) to bend over to give Rivian a BIG expense and tax cut to put plants there. That’s where the Soros/Kemp connection comes from.
Just in case any of you were wondering, I don’t want an electric vehicle!!!
Recent test with a GMC gas powered pickup vs. a Ford 150 electric each towing a 26 ft camper
The Ford Truck went 85 miles. That’s all. 85 miles before needing a recharge. What a joke.
https://insideevs.com/news/594871/ford-f150-lightning-vs-gas-truck-towing-range-single-charge/
Maybe should tow a trailer mounted diesel generator.
👏🏼👏🏼🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼😂😂
Solyndra 2.0
Did you read about the couple driving a new Rivian pickup truck from the mid-west to California towing a trailer having to stop every 100 miles to recharge?
Did you hear about the couple driving an EV pickup from NY to Cali in February 22… they’re still not there.
Solyndra.
Rivian is so freaking WOKE it’s like it was created in Berkeley. Just read their website, it’s nauseating.
You know why 6uild 6ack 6etter even slightly resonates with the masses? Envy. At the root of all this “tear it all down ma’aaaan” idiocy is … “envy”. Envy that SOME in our FREE society do BETTER than others. So what 6etter way to get back at em … than to TEAR DOWN their world. It’s communism/Socialism 1a … “Eat the Rich” … and make them eat sh*t!
at the root of 6uild 6ack 6etter is … HATE. Pure, unbridled HATE for everything Western Capitalism represents
“Capitalism” is a Marxist word. Use Free Market, please.
Get these useless vehicles off the grid.
Those kilowatts are better used on electric chairs for those promoting this green catastrophe.
Electric car = science project marketed to nitwits who don’t know where the electric socket gets its energy from.
apparently the planet only has a 30 year supply of lithium.
I don’t know what forecast numbers that is based on, but it’s easy to imagine there’s a lot less of mineral deposits as compared to hydrocarbons, whether derived from fossilized vegetation or for sure abiotics.
I may not live another 30 years, but realistically if you know 30 years is it, then you need to start planning for “batteries included”s demise in about 15 years.
It’s not that demand is insufficient to support the current workforce. It’s that they have “grown too quickly”. Got it.
It’s all well and good to get mad, blame politicians, blog, make threats, etc. but this may be better. ILLUSTRATE TO YOUR CHILDREN WHAT IS GOING ON WITH GREEN, FOOD, JOBS AND POLITICIANS. If they are in public school, I can guarantee you they have gotten indoctrination EVERY year how the USA is the WORST POLLUTER, MOST WASTEFUL and MOST SPOILED; therefore the kids must “change the world”. Explain and follow-thru with 1 hour of electricity per evening. 1 hour of internet. Thermostat MUST be turned up to 80. NO SNACKING! Water only; no soda. Operate 1 week with no spending money, very little gas, frugal meals, reduced consumption of electricity, gas, etc. Do them a favor and put feelings behind the WORDS and INDOCTRINATION they are hearing at school. If you have very intelligent and engaged kids; tie in Open Borders, War, Inflation, Layoffs and Critical Thinking.
They are laying off the indirect labor – the staff that supported design, engineering, purchasing, etc. They must not be expecting to develop a next-gen model anytime soon.
So, everybody is following the instructions of Brandonite Grinholm, to “buy ELECTRIC vehicles, then you won’t need gas at $7/gallon!”
sarc,…
The market is NOT co-operating, at being so managed.
People ARE ‘hunkering down’ for a long, cold winter,..USED mostly carbon fueled vehicles are at a PREMIUM as electric and new car sales plummet.
Who’da thunk, you simply can NOT manipulate the market, to the point of getting people to buy New Coke, when it tastes like crap.
Perfect analogy of the Globalists, who keep trying new ad campaigns, for the same worthless (ideology) product, refusing to recognise the problem IS the product, and not the packaging or marketing campaign.
Its the PRODUCT, stupid!
My Heart Bleeds.
If you ever want to go down a deep Biden family corruption, see what Biden did with Fischer Automotive (the largest VC loss in US history), with Joe as VP pulling the strings.
I’d buy an electric vehicle if they made a simple one with no computers, no tracking devices, no recording equipment…….
Chuck, Studebaker has had just what you want for more than 100 years! See at time 1:36 in video at link here > Electric Vehicle Problem Solved!
Build, Back, Better
really means
Bust, Bankrupt and Bullshit
Not many can afford a $75k play pickup. Way too much hype – Rivian got over the front of their ski’s expecting taxpayer subsidies. Sound familiar? Like Tesla. I believe Rivian are putting a plant in GA, so I would expect the Illinois or CA plant to eventually close. None of the EV stuff (be it Ford, GM, Rivian, or Tesla) works w/o massive direct and indirect taxpayer subsidies.
If we all went to EV’s tomorrow or even ten years from now, society would soon resemble the late 19th century with its very limited individual mobility. Large cities would become larger and extraordinarily dangerous. Mini-cities within larger cities would be the norm and become territorial redoubts with restrictive ordnances and city gates.
Given the breakdown of common sense into insouciant mental illness as evidenced by the woke (see the latest example testifying to Josh Hawley today) the distinctive realities of daily life will be dystopian, uncertain and violent. An inevitable mass depopulation by 2050, and now well underway, will mark an extraordinary turn toward ghost areas in many cities and agro-rural life as the only possible relief. The elite, the gentry class, will own and control the countryside, this is already underway.
In fact the rapidity of breakdown will be the most surprising part of this. The depletion of population in the Far West in the next decade could be startling if water resources fail as they now appear to be doing and that no political fiat will change. Most of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and well into Texas will see a mass exodus. The dislocation that will bring could easily reverse the current border situation into a virtual stampede toward Mexico.
Competition for rural land will become like the range wars of the 19th century also. Roaming bands of the dispossessed on horseback or by migratory caravans, bandit gangs and tribal like communities fighting and feuding, marauding and stealing will not be uncommon but limited by the Pinkertons of the future, employed by the ruling gentry.
The US will be unrecognizable to a time traveler from today, certainly by the end of this century, most likely not much further out than 2070. Earlier if enough Joe Bidens are re-appointed. The only bright spot will be the return to 19th century frontier justice. But a 100 years of darkness is casting a shadow now.
“and nothing has been decided.”
The Biden playbook.
Historians: Do you remember when the whole planet decided to use batteries to run everything? We call it the Dark Ages….
I saw my first one last week in NJ.
The auto industry reflects much of our economy.
If they ain’t doing well…..and govt can’t turn on the spicket to help them in their mutual cause, it’s saying a lot about where this economy is going.
I spotted my first two Rivians over the weekend. One was moving. The other was on a tow truck. I hope they don’t have a 50% failure rate!