Around the time the Big 3 scale back earlier promises/claims (you did it, Mary 😀) they, and Toyota discover they can’t make an EV profitably. It’s almost like… a pre-planned narrative that started when the legacy automakers figured out they would actually not be able to compete…

  • the UAW strike impedes future cost efficiencies
  • articles li,e these come out . Softening demand, EV’S are really not better. Ice will be competitive for decades…
  1. https://www.dailywire.com/news/cost-of-driving-electric-vehicle-equal-to-paying-17-33-per-gallon-of-gasoline-study-finds
  2. https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/former-ford-ceo-has-a-blunt-warning-for-the-electric-vehicle-industry
  3. https://electrek.co/2021/06/16/toyota-delusionally-claims-hybrids-and-fuel-cells-will-stay-competitive-electric-cars/
  • chfpB
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    1 year ago

    What legacy auto doesn’t realize is they’re digging their own grave. Or if they do realize it, they’re like a drug addict who can’t go sober.

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    Rapid EV acceleration or we freely let BYD enter. No reason we should tariff one of the only companies doing it right when our “darlings” are fighting progress tooth and nail. If so, let them lose

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    Yeah there’s definitely an uptick in negative and poorly researched articles. I think some are just ignorant, glossing over the fact that car sales are slowing in general while others are truly just biased.

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    Car buyers are no longer running out and paying above list price for any electric car they can get their hands on. We’ve reached the phase where competition is starting to bite, and the best EVs are selling well, but the second-rate EVs are not. For producers of second-rate EVs that must look like a disaster, and they are crying over it.

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    1 year ago

    every day on the wall st journal. they keep quoting master toyoda

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    EV market growth stats like in this article, and the likelihood of over a million EVs sold in the US this year, have some people spooked. Those articles are like saying “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for”. But consumers who’ve tried and liked EVs aren’t listening.

    https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q3-2023-ev-sales/

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    First there was months of anti EV posts on all social media.

    Then this.

    Big oil hates Mother Earth.