The Right Can't Meme

A model T didn't beat those numbers by much, and in 1910 you had to start them with a crank which gave a nice element of danger to the whole thing.

Would have been cool to see 100+ years of improvements in electric cars instead of gas cars.

Electric vehicles aren't the problem, the fact that they are really expensive large computers with wheels that phone home constantly and track your every move, can be disabled remotely by the manufacturer, require mobile apps that track you and phone home constantly is the problem.

And they need OS updates to patch potentially fatal bugs.

I've seen one of these at a private museum in Arizona. It was pretty small but for it's day I could see it being useful in relation to what was avaliable then.

There's the more recent example of GM's late 1900s EV1 with the last gen model having a range of 160 miles from NiMH batteries.

There's various reasons why GM recalled all of the leased units and crushed most of them despite protests by customers that wanted to keep theirs. Some point to big oil, others to costs of the units and a lack of parts sales parts and service not needed for the units. I suspect dealers and oil would not be happy with the product.

The cars for their time are revolutionary due to being a non retrofit built from the ground up. They were among the first to use aluminum and plastics. They didn't really dent.

One famous movie director hid his EV1 from GM and eventually they allowed him to keep his leased unit. The remaining ones that were not crushed had their drive trains disabled or removed before being donated to museums or technical institutions.

So we have been struggling with this lesson more than once. Unfortunately it's not a matter with only one concern involved.

More recently the emotions of many have been stoked against electric cars with social media. I don't think I'll own an electric anytime soon due to my type of driving but I'm not out to get them either in my daily life like some are.

You have to think those that roll coal, park in electric charging spots with their lifted ICE trucks, and vandalize electric cars, don't have much going for them in their lives for this to be a focus. It's hard being a mouth breather I gather...

Is this a negative comment by that guy? I take it as, "don't half-execute ideas". But it appears everyone agrees he's saying electric cars sucked then and will now.

I just find that hard for even dummies to fall for, we all know how much technology moves in a decade, nevermind a century.

Are these still for sale? Just install some hazards and stay off the highway!

You have to be awfully enamored with your personal narrative to take that as the moral.

Ah yes electric cars weren’t good in the 1920s therefore can’t be good in the era of “stop using fossil fuels or go extinct”