Where are all of these cars going to plug in to recharge? Is this country going to snap it’s fingers and create an electrical grid that can handle this in less than 10 years? I get why manufacturers are pushing the EV crap but does reality ever enter into their plans for the future?
Well, I hope the Camaro isn't cancelled again. Your response makes me think it's inevitable or likely. Hopefully they can figure out a way to get into the 7th gen.Sooooo not true. FWIW, I worked a couple decades in GM Product Portfolio Planning, mostly on powertrain related stuff and was in the room when the decisions were made to mothball the Camaro after 2002. Sales was probably 4th or 5th on the reasons list. For 6th gen Camaro, sales will be at best 3rd on the list. Since I’m no longer at GM I can say what’s on the list without getting fired
- Camaro shares platform and plant with Cadillac CT4 and CT5. Both of those vehicles will be battery electric by 2025.
- Partially because of #1, partially just because they can, GM will introduce a battery electric sports car.
- Maybe sales. Maybe.
At the end of the day, this is all that matters. What makes you happy and what are you willing to pay for it. GT350, GT500, Mach I, Camaro SS, 1LE, ZL1, and C8 all make me happy. I’d be willing to pay sticker price for any of them except Mach I (I’d buy a used GT350 instead) and CFTP (Base + Handling please).I agree the Mach 1 is a sweet car, I love mineWe’ll have to agree to disagree on it being a great performance deal. There is no other car in this space (performance/cost) that meets my needs and expectations. I thought it was a good deal and many others do too. That seems to be the common theme with sales between the mustang and camaro lineups as a whole. And I don’t mean that as a dig at the camaro. I think they offer an insane amount of performance for the dollar and if the interior layout appealed to me more and I could see out of them better I would have strongly considered a zl1.
I did and was told it's sold.
We are on our second Chevrolet Volt. We’ve had one in our household since 2012. The amount of times we needed to plug in somewhere other than at home might exceed a number I can count on my hands. Then again it might not. New BEVs that have 300+ mile range will wake up on Monday with more driving range than most people will need for the entire week. But then they’ll get plugged in at home on Monday night and wake up Tuesday with the same amount of range. Rinse and repeat 365 times. For long trips, most new BEVs have logic built into their nav systems to offer to direct you to an available Fast Charge station on your route.
The most populated state can’t keep the electricity on every week night as is……and that problem is only going to get worse before adding in millions of EV’s. Fast charging stations aren’t going to do much good for someone that can’t charge their car up the night before to get to one. Unless you expect the average EV owner to plan their life around scheduling visits to charging stations, which also may or may not have been turned off to conserve power. I have my doubts that is a reasonable expectation.
remains to be seen how these outfits dropping chargers in various locations can actually make profit at it. You can burn investor cash in an unprofitable venture for only so long. IMO this is why EV is bust for anything that isn't home-charged and for trips over 2/3 of max range. Sure for the mindless task of commuting to/from the day job where round-trip mileage can be replenished on a 220/240V overnight it's perfectly viable. But now people have to live within their EV means or rent/buy a 2nd car for outlier activities. Or skip the whole virtue-signaling nonsense and buy an ICE or hybrid.
yes. That said the efficiency of Joule extraction is considerably better at the power plant (MW) scale even with the multiple conversions (line to batt, batt to motor) than it is in dinky 350HP 4-cycle engines.
I’d much rather have the nuke disposal problem than the millions of EV batteries to dispose of problem
As soon as we find charging stations, we will recharge and be back don’t worryWe are now so far off topic, I’m not sure we’ll ever make it back.
