GERMANY - 70,000 workers downed tools at VW factories today, as the EV crisis spreads.
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“EV” is modern day gaslighting.
They were called battery vehicles in the 1980’s
It’s not something remarkably new.
Electric vehicles go back to the 1800s!
I believe that ,when there was an upcoming choice between electric vehicles and ones with internal combustion engines, John D Rockefeller intervened. His oil was used for heating and lighting but he saw an opportunity in motor vehicles.
So, he leaned on the legislators to force electric vehicles to require a safety certificate of some sort. Electricity is dangerous! Consequently, the extra bureaucracy put up the price of electric vehicles and they never took off. John D laughed all the way to the bank, again.
Nevermind the fact that gas and diesel is actually a better medium for storing and transporting energy than batteries. Case in point - I can fill up my tank in just a few minutes. How long does it take to charge at a super charger? And what do you do when the power goes out? Oh yeah…start a gas or diesel fired generator…
I am not promoting electric cars but think back to the late 1800s, for instance. Where would you fill up with gasoline? A small number of people might have had electricity at home but where were the gas stations?
According to Brave Search, the first gas station was in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1905. That is a long way to travel for most people just to fill up your car - even if you could wait for 25 years!
The first engines ran on steam, coal gas, liquefied petroleum, and diesel. Thomas Mead and Robert Street each patented their own versions of internal combustion gas engines in 1794. Rudolf Diesel patented the Diesel engine in 1892 and originally experimented with running it on coal dust and vegetable oil.
Although the prevalence of gas stations was rare, most people with cars had access to the various fuels of the day, and cars were owned by wealthy and forward-thinking people.
But cars didn’t really become commonplace until mass production brought the cost down enough to make them accessible to more people. 1901 to 1929 saw rapid development and adoption of cars for transportation by the American public.