is starting to crumble,
Cars.com
photo illustration by Paul Dolan, it seems that common sense is starting to come to light for some motor manufactures, leaving aside the horrific child abuse that is entailed in making EV batteries,
it appears that countries now are agreeing with car manufactures that the ban is not really on, from
the article:
“Italy and Germany are mustering support from
other EU members for a call to relax EU targets for reducing car CO2 emissions
and reconsider a 2035 ban on the sale of petrol and diesel models, Italian
Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said in Brussels Wednesday evening, echoing
recent warnings from manufacturers, Urso said Europe’s car industry had
“collapsed” and predicted “tens of thousands” of redundancies in the sector
unless the EU changed course”.
also
from the article:
“Urso's statements came three months after Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni dismissed the 2035 ban as “ideological madness,” and just days
after an appeal from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA),
which reacted to a dip in e-car sales last week by going public with a call to
postpone the application of more stringent emissions limits. The influential
Brussels-based group – whose members include BMW, Ford, Renault, Volkswagen and
Volvo – warned on 19 August that new car registrations fell below 644,000 in
August, a more than 18% drop compared to the same month in 2023. Sales of
electric cars saw the largest proportional drop, with market share falling by
almost a third from the 21% recorded last year”.
photograph The Sun, naturally there are groups that continue to turn a blind eye to child slavery:
"Industrial sectors, from generators to battery manufacturers
that stand to gain from accelerated electrification of Europe’s energy system
are lobbying hard for the EU to stick to its current targets".
hopefully common senses and compassion will win through, the full article is here.
Dear Stanley and Diana
ReplyDeleteThe vote is in and the majority of the driving public won’t buy EVs.
Auto companies continue to take a financial bath on EVs they have produced, only selling with government subsidies and big price discounts. Idealists want EVs but practical folks can’t afford them, and buying an EV doesn’t do anything to help the environment given China and India are the world polluters with building more and more high sulfur coal burning energy plants.
Meanwhile Ford has lost an average of $40,000 per EV sold in 2023, so the business model does not work-prompting USA automakers to curtail EV production and plant changeovers. Another idealist, political dream hits reality!
Best
John and Alley
Dear John and Alley,
ReplyDeleteeverything you have said above is absolutely true, I would like to see the books of any manufacture that publicly says they have never sold a EV at a lose, due to tax incentives businesses over here have been falling over themselves to buy EVs, but for my next door neighbour who has a company EV, it seems that staff dissatisfaction with them means it looks like in the next round of company vehicles sanity will return, as there is already talk of going back anything but a EV! best regards, Stan and Diana.