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Recent BRP Email for 2023 model pre-orders

I work with a power company, the infrastructure ( GRID) can not support it if everyone in the USA had an electric vehicle . Look what happened in Texas and California . The California grid is very fragile, houses were sold depending on what part of the grid you were in. And they were telling electric car owners not to charge their cars during the day.
 
Another consideration for dealers to keep their inventory low is the rising interest rates for floor planning.
Personally, I will never buy a car/bike without a test ride. More than 1 dealer has lost my business for that reason alone.
 
Most Mfg's will give 30 days of free flooring. Don't know about Can Am, but most Mfg's/Distributors will give extended flooring for issues, again, don't have a clue about Can Am.
 
tntnj said:
When no one buys their electric cars and bikes and companies start to go in the red, Watch how fast the value of used gas powered vehicles go up , they will change back to gas powered cars and bikes fast.

Just my 2 cents
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And the truth about lithium mines effecting the environment as they learn more.
On a side note, many of the motorcycle manufacturers gave up on two strokes, not all but many. Now 20 years of high performance 4 stroke off road race bikes, the two strokes which supposedly were dead, have been refined are making a huge comeback with consumers. Not only do consumers want the simpler design and less weight, but the performance is incredible.

That said, electric cars may be around for a while, but it seems any money saved by owners, best be saved for replacement batteries.
 
For the last couple of years, dealers in and around Austin have had only one or maybe two Spyders on the showroom floor at any given time, usually one RTL, or one F3L, sometimes both. Have not seen a Ryker.
 
RE: EV battery issues.

Yesterday from ABC news.

EV's that got flooded from Hurricane Ian, have been experiencing fires. it seems that the lithium batteries do not like salt water. Fire dept puts them out, and they re-start on fire again on their own. They require 10K gallons of water to put them out, compared to 1K gallons of water for gas engine fires. Also, mere exposure to salt air/water can make them susceptible to fires.

Not something that I want to have to worry about.

:bbq:
 
ARtraveler said:
RE: EV battery issues.

Yesterday from ABC news.

EV's that got flooded from Hurricane Ian, have been experiencing fires. it seems that the lithium batteries do not like salt water. Fire dept puts them out, and they re-start on fire again on their own. They require 10K gallons of water to put them out, compared to 1K gallons of water for gas engine fires. Also, mere exposure to salt air/water can make them susceptible to fires. Plus, they generate oxygen as they burn.

Not something that I want to have to worry about.

:bbq:
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Apparently there is a cargo ship with Porsches and BMWs or something like that. It caught fire in the Atlantic. Try as they might, the fire could not be put out. The ship sank, and similar to what you mentioned, they are not convinced the fire is out, even at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Salt Water is very conductive, and no doubt creates excellent direct shorts for each battery cell. Lithium batteries have incredible discharge ability, so they dump a lot of amps very quickly, generating incredible heat.

https://theloadstar.com/lithium-bat...rent-firefighting-techniques-says-safety-oem/
 
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