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Originally Posted by R N M
I think the ONLY reason car companies are going to EV is politics.
If governments weren't threatening car companies with these ridiculous emission laws nobody would care wtf Tesla is doing. But government pressure is making this happen. EVs dont make a regular person's life any easier, better or cheaper.
The environmental benefits are minor at best as most new cars are very low emission vehicles already.
As the case with everything that comes from the government - be careful what u wish for. Personally I have not seen even ONE Tesla station in all of NYC and only see Teslas in multimillion dollar neighborhoods. Even if every person wanted to buy EV tomorrow there is no infrastructure that exists to support that and Tesla has nowhere close to the capacity to build all those cars.
The fact that BMW, MB, audi, Porsche are Germany based companies means they are on a lot of pressure as most of Europe is onboard that EVs are the greatest thing ever.
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That and subsidies making hypebrids and EV's closer to being competitive.....
Remove the subsidies and incentives and they have a very hard time being competitive