re: Ford CEO: Stopping the $7500 tax incentive will cut the EV industry in half

Good. Taxpayers shouldn't be funding this crap. Yes gm buyout was ghey also

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so, people really don't want EVs?

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Unless our tax dollars pay them to buy them.

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it’s also “going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought.

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Who is “we”?

If that is the case, it wasn't real to begin with.

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If only. Can we stop the oil subsidies as well?

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No, we only want to end consumer facing subsidies.

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While he still sees EVs being a “vibrant industry” going forward

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And he would be dead wrong. In the last 3-4 years, Opel, Volvo, Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, to name a few, have all slashed they future EV budgets (if they didn’t cancel them altogether) and some have even significantly reduced their Hybrid lines.

The industry was promised solid state batteries for a long time but have yet to see them.

Nevermind the battery industry is no different than the old “blood diamond” industry. And guess what?? Those toxic chemicals are taken from the same places those diamonds were. Some things never change.

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Until rapid charging has reached a point where it can be done in the same time as it takes to fill up at the tank, AND chargers are as ubiquitous as gas stations, EV’s have pretty much hit their ceiling on market share.

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Maybe. But Tesla is incredibly impressive in all of this. They make a product that stands on its own. The government subsidies will ultimately make them a force for the foreseeable future, as they will essentially have a EV “gas station” monopoly. People also don’t seem to fully accept they can get fuel basically anywhere you stop.

I just got a used one and have been very impressed. A daily 100 mile round trip commute would be no problem at all if plugged into any outlet overnight. Super fun to drive, and for $100/ month it will manage traffic jams for you.

We still have two gas burners though. My driving is very variable, I wouldn’t be able to deal with not having at least one gas burner, mostly just for assurance purposes. They aren’t for everyone, but as far as EVs go Tesla has it going on.

I don't have a problem with this

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And he would be dead wrong. In the last 3-4 years, Opel, Volvo, Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, to name a few, have all slashed they future EV budgets (if they didn’t cancel them altogether) and some have even significantly reduced their Hybrid lines.

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The market is still OK in Europe but the Euro manufacturers are ceding the market to the Chinese which now have a significant part of the market and growing quickly. Europe makes up 60% of the Chinese export market.

Long term the Chinese are going to do with EVs what Japan did with the small displacement small car in the 70s. "We" hated those small cars then but thats how we ended up with the juggernaut that is Toyota. Even so you can't just look at the domestic market you have to think international and bringing revenue here from foreign markets. SC and Spartanburg County gave lots of incentives to BMW no ~30 years later BMW is the largest (by value) exporter of cars in the US.