And another one gone…
Car makers from Mercedes-Benz to Ford are delaying or scrapping further electric vehicles (EVs) as demand slows in Britain and abroad, MailOnline can reveal today.
Manufacturers are grappling with weaker demand for EVs than expected with buyers put off by fears over insufficient charging infrastructure and expensive price tags.
Just this week, Apple cancelled work on its electric car project dubbed Titan and Aston Martin delayed the launch of its first battery electric vehicle (BEV) until 2026.
Mercedes-Benz delayed its electrification goal last week, while Ford has said it is rethinking its EV strategies and Volkswagen delayed launching a forthcoming EV. And in recent months, Audi and General Motors have also reviewed their EV rollouts.
Are we now seeing a snowball effect going on? If so, how long before the industry as a whole tells the government to stick their laws where the sun don’t shine and follow it with the rough end of a pineapple?
Surely if you want to minimise emissions the intelligent route is to harness the highly advanced nature of current ic technology and promote (true) hybrids. To go the electric only route seems to me, at best, completely naive and with a good dose of insanity thrown in.
The only rational explanation l can think of is that governments are deliberately trying to abolish personal transport. Or maybe it’s just yet another example of why you have to be very careful when seeking advice from ‘experts’ (see also trans/race advice in schools and the benefits of large scale uncontrolled immigration).
This. Occasionally a politician will openly state their desired aim.
That pint-sized tyrant London mayor Khan does not hide his goals. He is chairman of C40 Cities. Their aim is zero car ownership in cities by 2030.
So when the morons in London (I live there) re-elect Khan in a few months, they will be unable to complain in several years about being forced out of their cars thanks to Khan’s taxes and road pricing charges. Khan’s aims to rid London of cars are no secret.
LMFAO
As anyone with a brain (so not politicians) could foresee, legislating new technology into existence doesn’t work. I think the idea came from the same fuckwits who thought “Nudge Units” were a good idea.
It’s just a different way of government picking winners in business (which they are also crap at).
John Deacon must have earned a fair bit of pocket money from that song. It’s even been spoofed by Wierd Al.
Meanwhile, you know something has to be a bit rubbish if it is reliant on shedloads of government money being thrown at it to sell at all. How many EVs would you see around if they had been made to compete with petrol and diesel cars on a level playing field? Meanwhile flat screen TVs have completely replaced CRT TVs just by being better.
They’re all shuffling to line up behind Toyota, who reckon that EV ‘milk-floats’ will only ever reach 30% of the market at most. Smart company.
Smart indeed.
They’ve pretty well perfected hybrid technology, which works as every taxi driver will tell you from the driving seat of their totally reliable 300,000 mile Toyota hybrid.
Just waiting now for their Hino arm to harness the power losses via some sort of (light enough to be viable) hybrid drive for heavy trucks, that will be a worldwide game changer in heavy and public transport where all deceleration and downhill forces are presently a complete loss, no reason why the same percentage savings in fuel consumption with good hybrids won’t be the same case with heavy trucks.