Jeep is apparently about to bring forth a battery-powered iteration of the Compass, which is the brand’s smallest and least expensive vehicle. That latter being in relative terms, as the least expensive iteration of the 2025 Compass starts at $26,900. But it does come standard with an engine and you don’t have to plan your week around recharge waits.
The battery-powered iteration of the 2026 Compass isn’t available with either. However, it will offer a 375 horsepower electric drivetrain and probably a base price close to twice as high as the base price of the 2025 Compass.
But it will be quick! . . .
If you don’t count how long it takes it charge.
It’s a signpost along the road to nowhere. Assuming, that is, you are a believer in what’s styled “climate change.” Because it’s oddly incongruent to believe – on the one hand – that we face an extinction level event on account of slight – a fractional – increase in the percentage of carbon dioxide added to the 0.04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere that is already carbon dioxide via engines that burn gas and to also believe that the way to stave off that event is to build as many “quick” battery powered devices as possible and never mind that most people can’t afford to buy them.
Would it not make more sense to focus on making as many affordable battery powered vehicles as possible and never mind about how quick they are?
Of course, the problem – the catch 22, really – is getting people interested in buying these soulless appliances (and buying into the planning of one’s life around recharge waits) and quickness is the attribute that peddlers of battery powered devices use to get people to forget about having to plan their lives around recharge waits. It’s not unlike the way a lady of the evening uses her other attributes to get her customers to forget about the STDs they are likely to bring home to the wife.
But what about the predicted – and imminent – extinction level event? The “changing” of the “climate” – whatever that means? (What it means, of course, being exactly nothing specifically – and that is the charm of the thing to people who wish to instill fear of the unknown; of the unknowable. It is why the fear-peddlers stopped predicting “global warming,” which was specific and so subject to fact-checking and thereby to discrediting when the globe failed to warm as they predicted.)
Well, if one takes the believers at their word, then it is urgent that sensible measures be taken to stave off this “changing” of the “climate.” Put another way, you’d think the believers – and above all the pushers, assuming they also believe – would want to get as many battery powered devices into service as quickly as possible and there is a well-known method that will further that goal.
Lower the cost so that more people can afford them. 
Of course, that means forgetting all about how quick they are. Henry Ford’s Model T was the antithesis of quick. Its top speed was about 60 MPH – downhill, maybe. Never mind how long it took to get to 60. But it had the virtue – from the standpoint of Ford, who wanted to put “the great multitude” behind the wheel – of being affordable. The workers who assembled the Model T could afford to buy a Model T. Not many of the workers involved in the manufacturing of battery powered devices can afford to buy one. They are devices for the affluent buyer – and there are proportionately fewer of them. Which by default means fewer people driving battery powered devices.
Which means the pushing of battery powered devices cannot be a measure to stave off “climate change.” Not unless the people pushing battery powered devices are imbeciles – and that is a possibility. For only imbeciles could believe that pushing $50,000-plus battery powered devices the great multitude cannot afford to buy will prevent the “climate” from “changing.”
Unless the whole point of the thing is to render driving unaffordable for the great multitude, using “climate change” as the pretext. In that case, it makes perfect sense to push devices the great multitude cannot afford. And how better to accomplish that than by touting how quick these devices are? Let the great multitude see what they can’t afford. Let those who can afford see that the great multitude cannot afford – thereby restoring the vehicular caste system that existed before Henry Ford put the great multitude behind the wheel. It is very likely true that many of the people pushing for this do not really believe the “climate” is “changing.”
They want the social order to change.
They want a dial-back to the time when owning a private motorcar was not something the great multitude was in a position to do. This endowed motorcar ownership with a prestige that disappeared in the wake of the introduction of the Model T and for the next 100 years thereafter. It came to be common for the great multitude to own even V8-powered large vehicles, such as big sedans, trucks and SUVs. It takes the glint off a Master of the Universe’s Cadillac when a Chevy that is very similar – but half or less the cost – pulls up beside him at a red light.
And that is why the “climate” began to “change.” Not actually – but politically. And that is why the haltingly ridiculous pushing of battery powered devices that are very “quick” but also very obviously unaffordable.
It’s the whole point of the thing, you see.
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Just too many ice cars out there, gotta get rid of ’em.
At BaT, you can buy a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker from 18,000 to 39,000 dollars. Prices increase from there. Go all disc brakes, maybe a new engine, I dunno.
Make America a great place to live, doesn’t have to be great. Nobody cares anymore.
Making America Great has done nothing except make more war.
What a waste.
Chrysler should re-introduce 1950’s era models again.
Make America Like Cuba!
“Make America a great place to live, doesn’t have to be great.”
That begs the question; What exactly is America?
One thing for sure, it ain’t the same place that I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Itz looking more and more like Brazil. Our controllers want to make sure we keep shopping and if there aren’t enough of us they will make sure to send in a few million each year just to keep the shopping center going. They don’t care where they come from as long as they buy stuff and keep the government going. Itz a huge Ponzi scheme.
In the classic Star Trek The Original Series episode “The Cloud Minders,” the wealthy ruling class literally lives in the clouds in a floating city. The rest of the population lives in harsh conditions mining necessary ores to keep the Stratos dwellers’ society functioning and are only allowed there for work and other servile purposes. The Stratos dwellers see these Troglodytes as inferior beings only good for menial labor and a life of servitude.
Our plutocrats view us with the same level of contempt. They frame things in moral terms and think the regular people to be vulgar and degenerate, when in fact, all of the degeneracy in society (feminism, abortion, men wearing dresses and other vulgarities) originate from them and their control of the cultural means of production (media, movies, etc).
We don’t need them. They need us far more than we need them.
They need a reminder that without the food trucked in by common truckers and grown by farmers, they’d starve. Their cities would be hellscapes without electricity provided by those icky power plants they detest. They don’t care about crime as long as it doesn’t venture into their gated communities with private, armed security.
They live lives of luxury while the rest of us can barely eke out a living. It’s disgusting and galling.
Floating cities were a Buckminster Fuller idea that would have been a geodesic structure that would float in the sky, the difference in air pressures would keep the geodesic structure up in the air.
The idea anyhow.
All there is for a floating city is private jets for the high flyers.
Have to land to get more go juice.
Gonna be 95 degrees F tomorrow, better than 30 below.
The sun is the primary source for all energy sources, coal, oil, uranium, raw ores like iron, you get you copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium.
Can’t forget that.
Always a risk or two in this world no matter what you do.
Didn’t Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane get blown out of the sky a long time ago?
That’s another suspicious death.
When you are Secretary-General of the United Nations, it is risky business.
Always a particle of risk in this life.
The same envy attributed to the unwashed, only in reverse. Instead of being envious of what others have, they are envious of what others could have. It’s a direct physical assault on the unwashed. To take away there options.
‘It’s a signpost along the road to nowhere.’ — eric
Or, a signpost along the road to serfdom, if you will.
Consumer Reports published a survey of the most reliable used cars. It focused only on cars from the 2015 to 2020 model years, with a sample size of over 150,000 vehicles.
The top five slots in reliability are all Japanese. Conversely, 7 of the bottom 10 are US brands — with Jeep next to last, and Chrysler dead last. Viz.:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/2025-05-05_10-19-59.jpg?itok=gpHpoE9k
Jeep is number one on my list of auto brands that need to die. Somebody should put a plastic bag over Jeep’s head, tape it shut, and kick it into the ditch.
If Jeep could stick a knife in its heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your geezer lust
Would it help to ease the pain?
Ease your brain?
— Rolling Stones, It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll (but I Like It)
HA HA, NO. I need Carlos Tavares’s head on a stick in muh front yard.
Agree 100%. Jeep has been awful for a long time.
I wonder what methodology they used for that table?
In Europe, Tesla (Model 3 & Y) have been the least reliable vehicles for the past 2 years.
In fact, Germany reported that a full quarter of Teslas could not even pass their first 2-year compulsory technical inspection.
I’ll go out on a limb here and predict the EV Compass won’t sell very well. My other prediction is that the sun will rise tomorrow.
The people who bleat the loudest about CLIMATE CHANGE tend to be the biggest phonies ever. Examples include all these billionaires who own yachts & fly in private jets to those yearly meetings in Davos to lecture the masses how THEY need to eat bugs and frankenfood, drive EVs, and live in an itty bitty shack.
As for people who’ve bought into the “man-made climate change” BS, prior to 2025, many of them LOVED Elon Musk and Tesla but after he got involved with DOGE, these same people effectively turned on a dime and preached HATRED of Musk & Tesla, even going so far as to vandalize Teslas. It’s as if they didn’t really believe the climate change BS and were just virtue signaling to billionaire sociopaths and propagandized $#!+ libs, and yet, many of them and many authoritarian governments are STILL trying to foist EVs on the masses.
There is a billionaire in Australia, the CEO of Atlassian, which is listed on NASDAQ, who lives in a $100 million (USD) house in Sydney and is locally ‘affectionately’ called ‘the Green Jesus’. He has other nicknames among the plebs, too. 😉
He got asked recently whether he may be a little hypocritical telling others to reduce their ‘carbon footprint’, while traveling thousands of miles each year in his private jet and living in a mansion with more power consumption than some Sydney suburbs.
His response was that he ‘feels very guilty and bad about it, so he makes sure he supports various green projects to offset those emissions’…
Of course he forgot to mention that many of those ‘green projects’ are actually his.
Needless to say, he’s also keen to emulate Elon Musk and is attracted to government subsidies like a fly to a fresh turd.
All in all, a charming fella…and one of many such.
Hi John,
Yup. He feels “guilty.” But wont diminish his luxurious life in any meaningful way at all. Those sacrifices are for us to make.
Another thing to remember is that Jeep is owned by the Europeans. Since Europe, UK, Australia and Canada all have elected or reelected left wing governments that want to ban gasoline powered cars it doesn’t matter if they don’t sell that well when the rest of the planet can be forced to buy them.
Of course since those countries are all poorer I wonder if they can afford to buy them either.
The Model T was also demonstrably better than what it replaced: The horse and buggy. And in a race it could blow the shoes off any horse on the road.
The EV isn’t enough of an improvement to matter to 99% of the buying public. In fact it is a major step backward. Going backward might be OK if you’re switching from a laptop to a tablet for the benefit of portability, but for basic transportation that’s not going to fly. The tech bros can’t seem to figure this out. I think EVs are the iPad of automobiles. They have their uses but any serious work needs to be done on a laptop, unless in a pinch. Every year Apple tries to convince us that a high end iPad (that costs more than a laptop) is a serious replacement for a desktop. Every year people just keep the old one because it’s still good enough for what they use an iPad for, reading, Wordle and doom scrolling.
‘I think EVs are the iPad of automobiles. They have their uses but any serious work needs to be done on a laptop.’ — ReadyKilowatt
EXCELLENT analogy!
Alexa, read me my favorite doom scrolling sites. Then find me a charging station.
The EV assembly line workers can afford EVs, but they most likely own big Dodge/Ford/GM pickups to use to haul around their six figure pricetag boats on the five figure cost trailers.
At one point in the 90s, Michigan had more boats registered in the state than Florida.
Roscoe,
“At one point in the 90s, Michigan had more boats registered in the state than Florida.”
And then the *real product* of America crashed in 2008: Credit Default Swaps. I understand every home in Michigan on the front lawns had Harleys, snowmobiles, Corvettes, and boats for fire sale prices.
Go back 25 years and neither Harleys nor Corvettes were sold to be maintained by collectors as garage queens. Ownership was still within reach of the middle class.
Big R…. Just a quick one ,
I believe it!
MI is surrounded by water (the “mitten “)
Is actually a Peninsula similar to FL…
Plus the added bonus of the “U.P.” along Lake Superior then from a strict geographic standpoint .there is enough water around to make a plausible argument…
Surf “North Shore” Indiana !😂
“Nice car. What’s your other car? A bike? … Ha ha, it *is* a bike!”
https://vimeo.com/36876238
@Eric – IIRC, “Downton Abbey” killed off at least one character with a car crash when the actor asked for more money.
All I know about the program is what I pick up through osmosis when my wife watches while I am in the room.
And the parody ad. Maggie Smith. Lawrence Olivier’s Desdomona. The Chicken Lady.