Ooooh-I’m a fan of purple-favorite color actually but WOW! Not sure if this would grown on me or not! Rivians are like jellybeans-lots of colors of the rainbow. Maybe in person it would grow on me
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Amid affordability crisis, White House plans to raise your fuel costs by $23B — Electrek
The White House will formally announce its planned hike in US fuel costs by $23 billion tomorrow, according to Reuters.
This is ridiculous. Why would we want our cars to be less efficient. I’m
Amid affordability crisis, White House plans to raise your fuel costs by $23B — Electrek
The White House will formally announce its planned hike in US fuel costs by $23 billion tomorrow, according to Reuters.apple.news
Lucky to get 14 mph in my Wrangler since so much of my driving is around town. I couldn’t imagine if it was worse.
Exactly how I feel about this color, I'd like to see it on other cars as it's pretty unique and interesting looking, but I wouldn't get it for myself.
What a prejudiced article. If you want a fuel efficient vehicle you can buy one. They're not going anywhere. The author should be embarrassed.
Okay but here’s my question. I always have a question. I saw another article that stated the idea behind this is it will make cars cheaper. How? And even if it did, wouldn’t you be spending more on gas?
I don't see how it makes cars cheaper unless they're implying that automakers wouldn't be spending as much money on technology to develop more fuel efficient engines. It certainly does require large investment to meet future emissions and fuel economy standards. But I don't see those savings as being passed along to the consumers. Pick your poison. The Toyota 5.7 V8 got terrible fuel economy but were pretty reliable. The 3.4 turbo V6 that replaced it have more power and are more fuel efficient but have so far proven to be unreliable.
I just don’t understand getting rid of it because it’s not going to make cars any cheaper. And that’s the push behind this is saying cars will be more affordable. No they won’t.
For the moment, yes, but my personal decision does basically nothing to improve my air quality or slow down climate change or reduce subsidies to fossil fuel combustion . Good policy at the state and federal level does. There are a lot of things that affect my quality of life that are completely beyond my individual influence, that’s why we have society, and laws, and policy, and in good years, leadership.
As far as saving money at the pump, market forces have never been enough to push the kind of efficiency gains we’ve seen over the last few decades, and individual choices can’t overcome the inertia of the auto industry. As a society, we have saved lots of money on fuel because of government policy. We’ve all benefited , even folks driving 14mpg vehicles, but most people don’t make the mental connection that they’re saving money because of government regulations.
I thought they folded years ago. They had some promising features.Bollinger Motors shuts down amid financial woes
Bollinger Motors shuts down amid financial woes
Michigan EV truck maker ceases operations, leaving parent company Bollinger Innovations' future uncertainwww.freightwaves.com
They pivoted from the cool off-roader to an EV Truck.
The number one thing the government can do to encourage fuel efficiency is to raise the taxes on fuel. But no one has the guts to do that because it affects everyone and will result in massive backlash. Any time there's a gas crisis or a huge spike in the price of fuel, fuel efficient cars go up in sales and gas guzzlers sales go down. I hate taxes, but it's the best way to get money to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. And it will encourage more fuel efficient cars and drive more people to EVS.
I think more people would swap to a plugin hybrid or EV if they knew more about them, there’s a lot of misinformation out there and people unwilling to research and learn. I few years ago I would have called you insane if you told me I’d be driving an EV, but somewhere in there I started looking into them and learning and when my 2001 F-150 went down I got a 21 charger, but while going from $80 a week to $40 was nice, when my bolt came up near by I jumped at it, an entry level EV to test the waters, fits my daily miles, and now I don’t have to go out of my way to find fuel after work. The best part from $40-80 a week in fuel to $50 a month
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Auto Start Stop systems would be likely removed. As much as they tell you it’s good for the environment, it’s worse. A car burns the most gas at start up due to needing a rich fuel source. Now repeat that every time you’re at a stop light. And besides that it’s also more wear on your starter motor. Car companies only made the start stop to meet economy “requirements” to get credits to “lower their model years that didn’t meet requirements to lower, so they don’t get fined, making them push those fines to the consumer purchasing the vehicle, dropping the regulations would make it be that they aren’t getting the offset anymore, making them need to drop their prices, and have to figure out their emissions. That’s how it was explained to us today by our tech foreman’s that we are being trained by.
And EVAP regulations dropping would only contain to the gas pumps, because car EVAP system are so advanced, the pumps don’t really need their own.
And side note, the manufacturers can still make fuel efficient and emissions efficient cars. It's not like they were banned in anyway. So there is virtually no harm or foul with the deregulation. They aren't mandating that we go back to the 60s and 70s muscle car era. All it was about was giving manufacturers freedom to build engines, that aren't limited to meeting a non meet able standard. The only company that was able to meet the standards was Tesla for sure and maybe Rivian.
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As on what Uncle Scotty says, "Jelly Bean off roader"
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