I read yesterday that Toyota’s small pick-up truck, the Hilux, is going to be marketed in the United States very soon. It has been sold for many years internationally and is supposed to be very inexpensive. (It appears Trump’s changes are making this possible.)
And now this:
President Trump likes to tout his accomplishments, and saving the gas-powered car should be high on the likes.
He is ending a lunatic government campaign against the internal combustion engine, one of the defining mechanisms of our age.
The uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach.
Those who have been paying attention understand that there is zero chance that our existing motor vehicle fleet will be converted to EVs.
I don’t think there is much doubt, as to what kind of cars our great, great grandchildren will be driving.
I did not appreciate, Fred, to what extent federal regulations paradoxically made it more difficult to manufacture smaller vehicles. They are apparently subject to stricter standards than the larger vehicles. It makes no sense.
But the entire green agenda, as you suggest, has been a fiasco. I have no problem with more vehicles being made available to consumers as hybrids; but all-electric is a terrible mistake if forced on the whole population.