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THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 03 Jan 2026, 03:40:36

How these EVidiots tolerate the Shit they have to put up with is just mind boggling to me. I jump in my car, turn the keyless key socket (you can use a key if you want and the electronic security is down) and the car starts and everything works as it should. Nothing has EVER not worked as it should, in the 5 years I've owned it. Except once when I left an interior light on for a week and totally flattened the battery. But then I simply jump started it off a spare battery and was on my way.

Lucid. The premier battcar out there. Unbelievable petty woes.
Did you know half the panels on these new cars are glued on? Unbelievable...
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Sat 03 Jan 2026, 11:38:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'H')ow these EVidiots tolerate the Shit they have to put up with is just mind boggling to me. I jump in my car, turn the keyless key socket (you can use a key if you want and the electronic security is down) and the car starts and everything works as it should.


Sounds about the same as all of my EVs and hybrid-EVs. For more than a quarter million miles now. Plus there is like next to no maintenance. Never had one in the shop either. Well, I think one of the high mileage ones needed rear shocks? And mine don't use keys at all, you just press a button. What is a keyless key socket? Why do you need a socket for a key if it is keyless? Because Australians really are as dumb as their vegemite launching scientists that can't?
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 03 Jan 2026, 17:06:52

$500 Billion dedicated to EV and a supercharger build-out. From sea to shining sea.

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Sat 03 Jan 2026, 18:07:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '$')500 Billion dedicated to EV and a supercharger build-out. From sea to shining sea.


Sounds expensive. My Level 2 charger was installed in the house by the utility. For free. I pay about $12/month to rent it, which comes with the advantage of the software and app to also be able to control it from anywhere, change all the charging levels at will, change charging times for off peak charging electricity rates, etc etc.

Well worth the fee for the convenience and control. Of course, this comes from personal experience rather than some chucklehead pretending that all us EV owners certainly don't mind the charging build out, regardless of who paid for it. The wife had free charging at the bank, I used to have it at the office, local department stores have free charging locations which I use on occasion, etc etc. it is quite a boon for those who have near maintenance free, cheap to run compared to ICE monsters cages. We all feel sorry for the suckers coughing up megabucks for oil changes and fuel and air filters and oil filters and spark plugs and whatnot.

I've rotated my tires twice now in 13000 miles on my new EV. I might have put some window washing fluid in as well. I expect this routine to continue until about 60,000 miles. Maybe 100,000 miles.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sun 04 Jan 2026, 13:48:45

Love at first sight

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Sun 04 Jan 2026, 14:33:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]Love at first sight


Indeed. Australia and her neoNazis! Did you seek them out, being a scymbag by nature, or just tired of serving a King on your knees perhaps? I mean, plenty of Nazi's were gay as well, you just can't be as obvious about liking it when you service your King. Plus being uneducated you would just naturally fit right in.

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Mon 05 Jan 2026, 15:29:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')YD sold 2.26m battery electric cars during the year, easily outstripping the 1.63m deliveries reported on Friday by Tesla for the same period.

One Chinese car manufacturer, and they are really eating elon's lunch :P
Not that a few million battcars mean much on a planet of 90 million car sales. The transition is definitely OVER! Aborted and off down the CHASM


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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 05 Jan 2026, 15:55:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')YD sold 2.26m battery electric cars during the year, easily outstripping the 1.63m deliveries reported on Friday by Tesla for the same period.

One Chinese car manufacturer, and they are really eating elon's lunch :P


How many of their cars have they sent to the Mars?

The answer? As many as Australia has managed to launch vegemite 200' off the ground. None.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 07:19:13

December 17, 2025

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')V battery swapping provider Ample files for bankruptcy... The San Francisco-based EV parts and services provider filed its petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Dec. 16, listing $10 million to $50 million in assets and $50 million to $100 million in liabilities.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')V maker shuts down operations. Electric truck manufacturer Bollinger Motors shut down operations on Nov. 21, 2025, six months after emerging from receivership. The Brea, Calif., company, which was founded in 2015, released its B1 SUV prototype for consumers in 2017 before later launching its commercial electric truck manufacturing in Oak Park, Mich.... The commercial electric truck maker’s financial issues led to it missing two payroll periods in November and ceasing operations.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Trinity Auto in New Jersey offers a range of new and used Cadillac models, including popular SUVs like the XT4 and XT6, luxury sedans like the Escalade IQ (electric), and newer EVs like the Lyriq and Optiq, alongside other brands like BMW in their used inventory, focusing on modern luxury and electric vehicles.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.-based Trinity Auto filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 2 due to a lack of funding, rising costs and reduced consumer demand. The dealership has estimated assets between $1 million and $10 million, liabilities between $10 million and $50 million


By themselves these little bankruptcies mean nothing, but they are just the latest dominoes to fall, and they keep falling. There is no recovery for the EV Fiasco, just one big cleanup and write-off.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 10:04:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'D')ecember 17, 2025

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')V battery swapping provider Ample files for bankruptcy...

By themselves these little bankruptcies mean nothing, but they are just the latest dominoes to fall, and they keep falling.


Could be. But based on their reliability, efficiency, minscule operating costs, maybe I should go get a second one as a spare? That way when I wear the wheels off the first one I can keep right on EVing until I'm dead?

It isn't like I care that folks like YOU enjoy spending megabucks on operating costs and fuels, after all you are both uneducated and Australian...you probably don't even know any better. :-D
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 19:26:06

Your Hero :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 19:29:04

Put up or shut up troll, put up or shut up.

Girly-boy car :oops:

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 19:47:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')our Hero :lol: :lol: :lol:
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What hero? Just another dementia addled geriatric President.

Gutless Australians can't even throw off a King a quarter millenium after the US showed everyone how.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 20:33:53

fucking up and buying one old Leaf I could excuse, but TWO. Take a real cockhead to make the same mistake twice.

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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 21:55:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'f')ucking up and buying one old Leaf I could excuse, but TWO.


Leaf #1 was a good cage. You probably pay more in fuel for whatever it is you drive than I did in buying the car. And I spent next to nothing in running costs. A single oil change on an ICE machine, which neither of my Leafs ever required, buys 1400 miles of fuel for my Leaf. An air filter for the ICE engine? 360 miles. 100 miles of fuel for some gas guzzling clunker in Australia paying $1.60 AUS per liter, 3.78 liters per US gallon, so 3.78 X $1.60 AUS = $6.05 AUS for a gallon. $1AUS = $0.67US, so $6.05 AUS for a gallon = $4.05US/AUS gallon.

So for starters you morons need to go find some oil, the daughter paid $1.99US/gallon the other day.

So, for Leaf #2, the $4.05US you pay for a gallon of fuel to go 18 miles gets me 73 miles in Leaf II.

So it makes perfect sense, Leaf I and Leaf II.

Both of them make idiots driving a truck in Australia look like value vaporizing mindless monkeys.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Mon 19 Jan 2026, 16:10:58

US natural gas prices rises 20% today to $3.70 amid Arctic ...

So a double whammy! Solar panel output will be low or nonexistent as electricity prices rise, and the Battcar efficiency goes out the window as 1/3 or the power is used to keep the batteries and cabin warm. Using electricity to heat spaces is actually quite inefficient, thankfully in a real car the heat from the engine's cooling system is employed to do it for free. It's like a Winter bonus.

The much touted "Free driving" claims put forward in the beginning of the bubble back on the 2010's has proved to be anything but! Many battcar drivers are now reporting costs higher than Gas powered cars, and that's just the recharging, not the insurance and tire wear etc etc. Suckers. One born every minute.

What happened to EVs being cheaper on fuel than gas vehicles?!?!?
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicl ... fuel_than/
EV charging rates are worse than gas prices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicl ... ces_makes/

The respondents all say the same thing. Charge at home. But that was never in the original "White paper" on Rechargeable Battery Cars was it. No it was all "freedom" and cheap superchargers nation-wide. Beta Testers for a failed product. Meanwhile oil prices continue to fall making gasoline cheaper and cheaper.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Mon 19 Jan 2026, 16:22:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '-')-In a lot of places the cost benefit of EVs are no longer in place. Many drivers, including me, just prefer driving EVs as long as cost is in parity.
--Yeah it's just a better overall ownership experience, fun to drive, almost no maintenance, don't have to stop at a gas station (for most people)


Fun to drive? There is no fundamental difference in the "fun factor" between them, you put your foot down, and you go, end of story :roll:
Don't have to stop at a gas station? How many people have a compressor at home... They are stopping there all the time to air their tires, and more so for battcars in general because -->

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')yreSafe Electric Vehicles
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Jan 9, 2026 — We recommend checking tyre pressures at least every two weeks—more often in winter, when temperatures drop and pressure can fall by 1–2 psi ...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'r')otate them every 5,000-7,500 miles (or per manufacturer) due to heavier weight/torque, and get alignments every six months or after hitting impacts, as EVs wear tires faster and require diligent care for range and safety

I can fill-up faster than I can check all my tires, I can pay at the pump if I want. Brainless Evidiots have told themselves so many Lies and twisted themselves into pretzels over this technology, all in an effort to mirror the experience they have seen on their TV sets. It's no wonder they are always on edge now when discussing such matters. Like kids whistling past graveyards.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 19 Jan 2026, 22:55:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]Adam begins a lifelong education program


Indeed.

Peak oil...solved. Didn't require an entire life though, 14 years would be my best estimate.
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 00:29:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')i all, I own a 2021 Nissan Leaf. It's recently had a full ...
To make matters worse, Nissan has indicated that since the car now has 190,000 km, it's normal for the battery to have issues and that it needs to be replaced.

Bend over Beta tester, bend over :lol:
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Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 16

Unread postby AgentR11 » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 13:28:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'I') can fill-up faster than I can check all my tires, I can pay at the pump if I want.


You don't have that on your multifunction display, I press two button taps while sitting at the wheel and it displays the pressure of all four tires. And mine's not a fancy EV. Just a plain ole Corolla Cross ICE vehicle. Surely the EV's with all their computerized sensor outputs and tire pressure readouts.
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