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Mercedes-Benz Delays Its EV Plans, Will Keep Making Combustion Engines
Inside EVs ^ | Feb 22, 2024 at 6:28pm ET | By: Suvrat Kothari

Posted on 02/23/2024 7:25:53 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/23/2024 7:25:53 AM PST by Red Badger
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“EVs will make up 50% of its sales by the end of the decade”

Yeah, we’ll see about that.


2 posted on 02/23/2024 7:36:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Reality is a real problem for the left.

It is jaw dropping to know a company like MB is run by leftists. Toyota is the only car maker that stood firm against the madness.


3 posted on 02/23/2024 7:36:34 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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TeslaGator has the sads 😢


4 posted on 02/23/2024 7:38:11 AM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Those who said back on announcement day, never ever going to happen, perhaps all turboDs if the regulators are insane, should be smug today. I love a fully featured turboD powertrain without the garbage electronics. Just started a 1980 era monster CAT that had not moved 6 months, and has only about 120 hours on it since Y2K. It took 30 minutes of the battery boiler and 25 seconds of cranking sitting in the afternoon sun. The kids wanted use the spraycan... I said no. I hear it humming from across the yard, it will be making money next week pushing mud with zero problems. Poor kid who drives it will not have a bluetooth sound system unless he brings it.


5 posted on 02/23/2024 7:45:57 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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I wonder if Volvo went all ev like they said they were gonna do?

It’s like our nation is on the brink of destruction, and the sane folks are desperately trying to save the nation, but the left, those who hold all the power, are hell bent on destroying it. Seems like sanity is holding on by the skin of its teeth these days- a liberal cheated into office in 2024 may very well spell disaster for the nation- not irreparable, but more so than in past times, as the lefts agenda has morphed into them taking the nation by force now- imprisoning those who object.


6 posted on 02/23/2024 7:46:35 AM PST by Bob434
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Mercedes Benz seems to be on the right track. So far the ever-increasing list of problems occurring with EVs would seem to indicate that every manufacturer should concentrate on ICEs or continue building stuff they can’t sell. The only other alternative I see would be to build just a very small number of EVs & then hope they can sell them, but there likely will be no profit in that.


7 posted on 02/23/2024 7:47:52 AM PST by oldtech
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Will they go out and force people to buy their expensive EV’s? That would make for an interesting marketing strategy.


8 posted on 02/23/2024 7:54:56 AM PST by packagingguy
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Yep, we’ll see about that. I predict maybe 5%-10% will be EVs.....industry wide.


9 posted on 02/23/2024 8:00:01 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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“Will they go out and force people to buy their expensive EV’s”

This is the plan if the ommunists take back control of the Congress and the WH.


10 posted on 02/23/2024 8:02:43 AM PST by Signalman
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QUICK! Someone get Greta Thunderpants on the phone!


11 posted on 02/23/2024 8:02:48 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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It has halved its EV goals, and pure electric models and
hybrids will account for up to 50% of its sales by 2030.
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That is a little less than seven years out. Not going to happen, imo.
12 posted on 02/23/2024 8:02:54 AM PST by deport
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Notice “hybrid” is the weasel word in this announcement. Pure EVs aren’t even 50% in their lefty-mollifying plans.


13 posted on 02/23/2024 8:08:29 AM PST by Rinnwald
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You should get a kick outta this....happened where I am. Enjoy!

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/07/20/homeowner-questions-ev-safety-after-fire-destroys-her-nocatee-home/


14 posted on 02/23/2024 8:11:51 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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a set-up where the engine works as a generator to charge the EV’s battery and functions independently from the electric motors that actually drive the wheels.


Sounds like a hybrid to me. Except can’t say hybrid. They’ve been around a long time and are, and have been, a solid alternative to pure electric. So, gotta call them something else.
Only problem is, if I remember correctly, the auto companies, Toyota in particular since I worked with them for years, is they lost money on all they made.


15 posted on 02/23/2024 8:18:37 AM PST by saleman
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MB decides to stay in business.


16 posted on 02/23/2024 8:19:31 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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👍😎..............................


17 posted on 02/23/2024 8:20:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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‘PHEV’ is the new buzzword..................


18 posted on 02/23/2024 8:22:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Janis Joplin is relieved.


19 posted on 02/23/2024 8:22:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rinnwald
EVs are good for those with minimum daily driving distances.
But for wear & tare they have a long ways to go yet. The
industry has a lot history with EVs in local use such as
warehouse use, golf course, local use of short distances.
With battery development this will change.
20 posted on 02/23/2024 8:23:21 AM PST by deport
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