Category Archives: EVs

All of China and Half of Silicon Valley Risk Fatal Hemorrhage from Terminal Hype Malinvestment

Posted on 10 October, 2025 by alfin2101

Both China and Silicon Valley are making huge $trillion dollar bets on large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI). They are betting the farm in the belief that LLMs are the pot of gold at the end of the magic … Continue reading →

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Chinese EVs: Death Comes Riding

Posted on 27 July, 2025 by alfin2101

Chinese EVs have a bad habit of going off the rails and crashing into people and parked vehicles. Entire cargo ships burn and sink carrying the things. They also tend to explode and burn occupants to death at frightening frequency. … Continue reading →

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US EV Sales Rose from 7.8% to 8.1% — And That Was Before the EV Mandate Was Jettisoned: Outlook Dismal

Posted on 6 February, 2025 by alfin2101

The Biden/Harris regime tried to mandate a rapid adoption of EVs in the US, using strong-arm tactics. The chart below shows the exponential rate of adoption of EVs which would have been required to meet the Biden/Harris EPA dictates. But … Continue reading →

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China is Desperate and May Do Something Rash

Posted on 17 January, 2025 by alfin2101

China is not going green. China is going rogue. But the CCP needs the rest of the world to go fully green so that it can go fully rogue. The CCP Was Counting on a Pushover President Harris in 2025 … Continue reading →

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Take Your EV on a Long “No Worries” Road Trip

Posted on 22 November, 2024 by alfin2101

Tow your EV behind your combustion-powered motor home for worry-free long range road trips. Be sure to install an extra-large fuel tank on your motor home, for ultra-range enjoyment. The EV provides comfortable short-range mobility for intermediate stops along the … Continue reading →

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A Remarkably Fair and Objective Assessment of the Ongoing Electric Vehicle Sales Slump: Future of EVs?

Posted on 21 September, 2024 by alfin2101

The governments of the world tried to cram EVs down the throats of their citizens in true dictatorial fashion. The end result of that huge boondoggle may be economic recessions all around. And all for what? The NetZero Delusion Mind … Continue reading →

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$440 Trillion Will Buy a NetZero Energy Transition

Posted on 28 August, 2024 by alfin2101

 …the US current GDP is about $25 trillion, and getting to net zero will cost 20 per cent of our GDP, meaning the US would have to begin spending about $5 trillion per year on decarbonisation efforts. Citing a McKinsey study that … Continue reading →

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EV Disaster Plays Out Like a Train Full of Rocket Fuel Derailing at 3AM on a Sunday Morning in Midtown

Posted on 26 April, 2024 by alfin2101

When governments try to steer consumer and business choices from the top down, catastrophe ensues. The USSR learned it the hard way. NetZero imbeciles must likewise do. EVs Are Piling Up Unsold, Despite Huge Discounts The government is killing the … Continue reading →

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The Great Green Energy Crash and Burn

Posted on 9 February, 2024 by alfin2101

The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun: There is a lesson in the humiliating climbdown. State-led industrial strategies never work. Indeed, the failure of the drive into EV is a textbook example of everything that goes wrong. First, it … Continue reading →

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Inferno on Lithium Street; A Video Primer On Good Intentions that Can Kill You Faster Than You Think

Posted on 3 February, 2024 by alfin2101

A Primer on Lithium Batteries and the Utterly Unpredictable Lithium batteries are inherently unstable. That is what gives them such a high energy density. Most of the time the inherent instability can be contained, but not always. It is a coin toss, and … Continue reading →

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Battery Electric Cars: The Real Story

Posted on 4 January, 2024 by alfin2101

Something happened on the road to Electric Vehicle dominance. Despite generous government subsidies and handouts to support EV sales, ordinary consumers are beginning to sense that something is rotten here. And the rotten stench is coming from too many directions simultaneously to … Continue reading →

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EV Sales Collapse Despite $50,000 per EV Subsidies

Posted on 29 November, 2023 by alfin2101

This is what happens when governments try to micromanage markets like the USSR did — right into the ground! EVs are wasteful money pits and chances are your government is trying to snare you in the trap. Governments around the … Continue reading →

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NBC News 1983: In the 1990s We Will All Die From Climate Change… Count On It!

Posted on 2 November, 2023 by alfin2101

Note that the female news anchor above, Jessica Savitch, died later in 1983 when her automobile landed upside down at the bottom of a canal, causing her to drown. If such an accident were to happen to a prominent news … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Have to be an Imbecile to Buy an EV… But it Helps!

Posted on 20 October, 2023 by alfin2101

Nearly half of those non-Tesla EV households that have acquired a new electric vehicle still purchase an internal combustion vehicle the next time around. EV Loyalty Problem Auto graveyards in China and the US are filling up with unsold EVs. … Continue reading →

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Why Electric Airplanes Can’t Get Off the Ground

Posted on 11 March, 2020 by alfin2101

Because the Batteries Alone Would Weigh 2X Allowable Takeoff/Landing Weight After accounting for battery weight, there is no weight left over for the pilot, passengers, luggage, or even for the airplane itself! People can fantasize about flying an electric airplane … Continue reading →

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