Posted on 02/23/2024 7:25:53 AM PST by Red Badger
“EVs will make up 50% of its sales by the end of the decade”
Yeah, we’ll see about that.
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.
TeslaGator has the sads 😢
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.
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.
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.
Will they go out and force people to buy their expensive EV’s? That would make for an interesting marketing strategy.
Yep, we’ll see about that. I predict maybe 5%-10% will be EVs.....industry wide.
“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.
QUICK! Someone get Greta Thunderpants on the phone!
Notice “hybrid” is the weasel word in this announcement. Pure EVs aren’t even 50% in their lefty-mollifying plans.
You should get a kick outta this....happened where I am. Enjoy!
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.
MB decides to stay in business.
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‘PHEV’ is the new buzzword..................
Janis Joplin is relieved.
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