03 July 2023

What if People Don't Want Electric Cars?

I guess the politicians will have to force us to buy them. (Pay no attention to the coal powering your electric grid, the environmental devastation from lithium mining in South America, etc.) ‘Strong customer reluctance’ forces Volkswagen to slash electric vehicle production

Volkswagen is to cut electric car production at one of its biggest factories after “strong customer reluctance” led to far lower sales than expected.

The business is pausing work on electric models for six weeks at its plant in Emden, northwest Germany, and will lay off 300 of the 1,500 workers involved in making them.

Car fires. Tesla cars spying on their users. Range problems. Cost of battery replacement. OK, I will overlook that spying thing, because it is just Tesla being an invasive part of Big Tech.

I don't want one. I wouldn't park one in my garage. And I'm even considering getting a new(er) vehicle because I know that the gas/diesel choices will probably be gone soon enough.

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