An eCVT is a single planetary gear set with an electric motor, no clutches, no valving, no shifting. It replaces the need for a reduction gear box on a typical EV setup. The transmission nets a 10-15% increase in fuel economy, avoiding conversion losses. Same complexity at the end of the day.

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What percent of America that can afford a $60k+ EV rents?

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They were banking on gov subsidies, instead of us leading the way in EV, Battery, and AI were just bubblefucking around like morons now. Basically every huge advancement we’ve lead in has been sponsored by gov subsidies to corral companies into doing something good instead of maximizing profit. But our genius is too smart for what obvious works.

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Just keep driving it until the battery craps out...... I have an EV with 120k miles on it and the only maintenance it has had is the standard stuff like tires, wiper blades, fluids etc. There has been no significant maintenance done it at all (battery, engine etc.), just to show how reliable EVs are.

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It’s entirely due to a lack of federal government EV credits. That’s what happened. The Chinese government pays a massive load of cash for their EV industry to get up and running. We cannot compete with that shit. It would go against half of the country’s philosophical beliefs if the US government were to try to fund the EV industry by a significant margin. It sucks. EV battery tech is clearly still too expensive for the mass market to swallow the costs and for manufacturers to sacrifice a large percentage of profit margin just to sell more EVs.

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I love my Sierra EV, for what it’s worth.

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FUCK ME BRO. Yeah I bought some of Ford on the basis of the lightning being a fucking success. I am struggling to comprehend why people didn’t want it. Apparently it was just the price that was the problem??? I guess those federal EV credits were more necessary than I thought. Means that the EV battery tech is still too expensive to adopt unless a national government covers some of the cost. Fucking sucks for me. On a tangent, it’s also a big explanation of why Chinese EVs are so pervasive now in Asia: the Chinese government funds the cost of those things. I don’t this the US government could ever compete with that unless we essentially abandon free market capitalism and go for a Euro model of heavy regulation.

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I’m honestly taking all this news to mean that battery tech is *still* too expensive to sell broadly to the general public *without any* governmental assistance in adoption. That’s honestly heartbreaking for any future-focused or environmental-focused people out there. I’m guessing R&D costs along with resource mining (Lithium) is still too high to start discounting EVs like normal ICE cars. It’s a bit frustrating… nearly the entire automotive industry bet the farm on EVs completely replacing ICEs within a decade. Even Volkswagen is taking something of a beating on going full-EV, too. Congrats to Toyota for taking things slow… apparently their slow-to-adopt-new-tech strategy has fucking paid off massively. -signed, An F and GM bag holder

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Hummer and Sierra EV are next.

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* To Hell with the current administration, which gutted grid investment, gutted charger investment, gutted renewable energy, gutted EV subsidies and rolled back fuel efficiency mandates * China is going to end the US auto industry the moment we open the door and we're going to deserve it * That said, a focus on PHEV and HV technology makes sense in the US. Hybrids are well known designs now and simply make sense, as well as being powerful.

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