The all-Electric Vehicle utopia that Democrats have been pushing the last decade seems to be crumbling quite a bit. Some automakers like Ford, after pledging to go all-electric in the next few years, have scaled back EV production due to falling demand. Ford has cut production on its Lightning F-150 electric pickup most recently, seeing sales for EV's plummet.
Meanwhile, the incessant push to buy an electric vehicle from the Biden Administration seems to be backfiring, with hybrids seeing a 65 percent sales uptick last year. That accounted for 8 percent of all new car sales, compared to 7.6 percent of EV's. Simply put, people do not like change, certainly not when it is forced.
Fox economic expert Phil Flynn says surprisingly, it has been really hard to get even the most environmentally conscious people on board with EV's.
"They have range anxiety...problems with the fact that some live in cold climates, and that means the batteries do not work well...people are looking at these hybrids as the best of both worlds," he says.
If you add plug-in hybrids to the mix, almost one in every ten new cars is a combination of gas and electric.
However, 80 percent of the new vehicle market is still dominated by the gas-powered cars.
"Let's face it...people still love the internal combustion engine. A lot of people do not want to switch, and the government cannot force them to switch...we have seen that backfire," he says.
The Biden Administration has pushed and pushed, adding incentives for buying EV's. Some states like California and Colorado are even banning new gas stations as a way to force people into buying electric. But still, it has not sparked an all-EV revolution like they want, which is their own fault.
"When we are force feeding the American people on cars they do not want, they then lose millions of dollars...that is not how it is supposed to work," he says. "The government should not be telling you what you want...that is a throwback to the old Soviet Union."
But hybrids do offer a way to be environmentally conscious, if that is your thing, and also have a gas-powered vehicle all the same. That means they have a place in the future, more so than EV's.
"We can get into the details of battery technology, and whether or not electric car batteries are better for the environment...the truth is, they are not," he says. "Once people realize that we can come to a common sense approach on this transition."
Unfortunately, common sense is something not so common with the current administration. With EV's comes more electricity use, which means more power reserves, which means more fossil fuels they hate.
"It is all going to take a toll on the power grid...which, if you look at the numbers, is being powered mainly by natural gas and coal," he says.
Flynn says doubling down on this all-EV dream is a lose-lose for both the economy, and the energy industry.
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