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An unlimited EV arms race, yes, that's what the OEMs want for NASCAR, to raise the budgets F1-sky high and then potentially get outclassed by their competition anyway in a series that is only meant to serve as rolling billboards and automaker silouttes. I don't think you guys understand how...

OEMs and NASCAR are pushing an electric CUV bodied stockcar for one reason only and that is marketing relevance. NASCAR is a traveling circus that holds it's competitors to a rulebook. They literally define the sandbox. When you play in a sandbox, you naturally stifle open innovation. The...

What's in it for the sanctioning body, the team owners, or the OEMs to innovate in the field of EVs through racing? NASCAR itself isn't an engineering firm. The teams aren't made up of battery chemists, and racing teams (even in F1 believe it or not) notoriously don't pay very well for talent...

The days of tech advancements trickling down to road cars is long gone. Racing for OEMs is 100% marketing and exposure. Racing series are making their vehicles more like what we have on the street to please the marketing side of things, not the other way around.

Consider the entire environmental impact: https://earth.org/environmental-impact-of-battery-production/#:~:text=The%20additional%20environmental%20cost%20of,only'%20account%20for%2026%25. EVs largely just push the impact "out of sight, out of mind".

They aren't going to invest for the infrastructure improvements to them see said improvements go to waste if the masses don't then adopt EVs. It's a chicken-egg scenario. Your point of view is "if you build it they will come", but, what if they don't? The Hoover Dam didn't rely on every average...

Respectfully, Charlotte, Atlanta and Houston don't generally influence what the rest of the country does. Like you said, it seems that we've established that this is definitely a thing in the Southeast, but the Southeast is it's own thing maybe more than local residents even realize. To me...

People all this time later still love to ride horses for recreation and pay a lot of money for the privilege. It's sad these people can't just drive an EZ-GO golf cart in their free time instead and move on with the times already.

I know you're smart enough to understand that a rise in fuel prices correlates to a rise in grocery prices.

Ok, so again, you live surrounded by morons. "Carolina squat" was made fun of by truck owners in my area when that started gaining national notoriety. That is/was a very regional specific movement. Regarding political ads featuring trucks and fuel prices: politicians are trying to appeal to as...

"Big cities" where, in North Carolina? The largest cities in the United States are absolutely not being swept by big truck culture now.

I didn't even read all that. Wherever you live is not indicative of the entire country and it sounds like you just happen to know a bunch of idiots.

How is this a hurdle against EVs when we have the Ford Lightning, Rivian, Hummer, and soon the Silverado EV and RAM Rev? Why can't big truck culture and EVs coexist in your view?

New car sales are generally strong and rising: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/03/business/us-new-car-sales/index.html

They don't have a few years. Public interest has already hit a screeching halt and consumers have spoken with their wallets.

Aren't far off from what, recharging to full range in two minutes? The Ford Lightning can gain 65% charge in 36 minutes. People don't always have a half-hour to wait around, especially when traveling longer distances. Versus tapping your card at the gas pump and being on your way in a tenth of...

Yes, and there are full-size EV pickup trucks now, so what does that have to do with buyers purchasing EVs or not?

I don't think the fossil fuel industry needed to do much here, though. The free market seems to have decided that EVs aren't in high demand, due to range anxiety for the most part. I still see hardly any charging stations in public places, and it's been what, eleven years since the gen-1 Leaf...

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