Locator: 48650EVS.
Are you kidding me; buying a high-end luxury vehicle to drive between home and Target once or twice a week? Link here.
Real EVs in deep, deep trouble. Americans, Europeans prefer fake EVs.
Even the rich no longer want EVs. This may have finally gotten the attention of manufacturers.
Volkswagen: European buyers want buttons -- tactile controls -- not screens. I agree wholeheartedly. I can't stand our touchscreen. Requires me to take my eyes off the road -- and at 80 mph that's not a good thing.
Waymo vs Tesla FSD: Waymo is wayahead.
Bill Ford has a warming for Congress on EV batteries: Ford wants to make affordable EVs and lithium-iron-phosphate batteries in the US but its plans are now "in peril."
Ford: actually, Ford has bigger problems than batteries. Look at the opening statement from Bill Ford regarding these LiFePh (LFP) (pronounced "life-y" or 'life-P") batteries:
- these life-y batteries:
- skip pricey and hard-to-find materials like nickel and cobalt;
- they offer reasonable energy density;
- better stability; and,
- last far longer.
And then this:
U.S. automakers want to build them here, but they can’t do it without federal subsidies and China’s help. Now, as those subsidies are under the woodchipper, Ford’s joint battery plant with Chinese battery maker CATL in Michigan is on shaky ground. That could spell trouble for its affordable EV plans.
Are you kidding me! Bill Ford says the raw materials are cheap and readily available but yet US automobile manufacturers can't build these batteries without federal subsidies and without China's help.
Hellooooo! Is anyone paying attention?
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Two Headlines From The Same Day -- May 14, 2025
The Mercedes-Benz CLA EV Can't Use Most Fast Chargers In The US (Updated)
- it's official: the CLA's 800V system doesn't work with 400V chargers. For now, at least.
- Julian Dnistran
- link here.
- link here, also.
The Mercedes CLA EV Will Work With Tesla Superchargers After All
- Mercedes-Benz backtracked on its original idea of restricting the CLA to 800V DC fast chargers
- Julian Dnistran
- link here.
But there's so much more to this story. Wow. And it will explain why Americans are not buying EVs.
