05-12-2025, 11:11 AM
(05-12-2025, 10:20 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(05-12-2025, 12:06 AM)ac3r Wrote: Until the technology is further progressed, there's really no reason to be attempting to make these en masse because it's a waste of resources and money to design, create, use and then dispose of. Some EVs do make sense depending on their context and should be promoted, but it's stupid and reckless to just push them upon people over an ideology or to meet some stupid abstract goal set by some small circle of elites.
Surprisingly, even Waterloo Region had the sense to scrap its stupid EV bus pilot because...yeah...EVs are awful.
Ultimately "pushing" does not and will not increase EV adoption. The people that are buying EVs are buying them by choice, because they feel EVs are the best choice for them, just like the people who buy F-150 Super Duty trucks as daily drivers.
The bus use case is very different from a private vehicle, as the bus is on the road more or less continuously, with little opportunity for charging during that time. Conflating this use case with private cars doesn't really make sense.
Define “pushing” Tom? The vast vast majority of people buying Ford F150 pickups are doing so because some advertising executives at ford and dodge have successfully convinced them an unnecessarily large vehicle matches their self identity. It has nothing to do with rational choice, and it absolutely is being “pushed”. The same is true for EVs except that in most cases the choice is less irrational than buying an oversized pickup truck.