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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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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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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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Translation: Mercedes Benz will stay in business.
21 posted on 02/23/2024 8:24:07 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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“Further supply chain disruptions and in particular, availability bottlenecks for critical components, remain a significant risk factor,”

Is electricity to charge batteries a “critical component”?


22 posted on 02/23/2024 8:25:36 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Ah, the euphemisms we see today: recalibrating, pivoting, headwinds, issue (meaning problem), tactically flexible, ...


24 posted on 02/23/2024 8:26:22 AM PST by cymbeline
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Russia and muslim markets for German vehicles


28 posted on 02/23/2024 8:41:57 AM PST by linMcHlp
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They made EVs but no one came to buy them ,LOL


30 posted on 02/23/2024 8:54:06 AM PST by butlerweave
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The Starbuck mom niche is filled.


31 posted on 02/23/2024 9:14:23 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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easy northern climate where it snows why would you ever buy an EV.


43 posted on 02/23/2024 10:56:24 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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“slower-than-expected demand for EVs”

Retards still have to get their talking points in.


45 posted on 02/23/2024 11:34:35 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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