Volvo has confirmed it has backtracked on its promise to sell only fully electric cars by 2030 due to a fall in demand for battery vehicles.
The Swedish company announced today it is now aiming for 90 to 100 per cent of its global sales to be either pure electric or plug-in hybrid by the end of the decade.
Expect that to change even more as we get closer to the deadline and people continue to refuse to buy the white elephants they are trying to sell. The EV bandwagon is going to come crashing to a halt at some point. The architects of this insanity will, eventually have to sit on the shore and watch as the sea comes rushing in. As it always has done, and as it always will, as a man much wiser than these cretins realised over a thousand years ago.
Me… I’m ordering in some more popcorn.
“Me… I’m ordering in some more popcorn”
Better be quick, think the price will be taking a hike soon
I still see plenty of them around. I’m assuming that most of them are company cars that people get due to massive tax incentives, I really can’t imagine many people wanting to buy one. I’ve seen a few YouTube videos by people who have suffered buyer’s remorse only to find that the dealer didn’t want it back, either offering a derisory sum as a trade in or flat out refusing to take it.
Also Ubers, bought no doubt for that specific purpose.
Is this completely separate from their Polestar meteorite?
It is similar to a run on the banks. Once potential customers realise that a ten year warranty for any EV (Evaporating Value) is worth less than than a politician’s promise they are not going to buy one.
And the longer the batteries, and the rusting cars they are in, linger in soggy fields without being kept up to full charge the less efficient they become.
Then the fact that they need to be isolated from each other by a good few feet, that they cannot be parked in your garage or under any inhabited building, that for a year’s insurance you could buy a 10 year old diesel Hyundai and insure it (I’m guessing), and the kicker, as they say, the government that convinced you to buy one is going to introduce road pricing, pay per mile, because your 2 or 3 tonne EV is wearing out the roads and requires bridges to be rebuilt.
You were not thinking of taking a sea ferry anywhere? Because.
What’s not to like.
But you can bet that the Surkier chauffeur will be driving a big, armoured deisel. Watch the thickness of the doors. And his protection squad.
Bravo Doon hammer
Somebody is going to suffer severe depreciation when they try to unload a second-hand red Kier.
It’ll take a Grenfell or two.
In South Korea, there was a horrific loss of life following an EV fire in a basement car park under an apartment block. More will follow. Building insurers will negate insurance if such car parks are used for electric vehicles, so before long, they will be banned from multi-story or basement car parks. Or within 50m of someone else’s property.
But warnings will be ignored, reality must comply with doctrine. Until we lose a ferry, or a shopping mall, or another couple of Grenfells.
Of course then the blamestorming wil begin and no politician will ever accept they enforced this stuff upon us.
The Grenfell enquiry has blamed corporate greed for the fire apparently. I don’t know whether green nonsense, subsidy farming or the fact that the inflammable cladding was up to EU standards but not UK standards were mentioned as well.