The carney government is firmly in the hands of the capitalist class, they’re cutting public services and basically giving corpos billions to build shit in hopes that it will foster wider economic gains, when in reality it’ll just be building unprofitable oil pipelines with public funds. Canada at this point will lay down and take the punishment if the govt thinks it’ll earn them brownie points with Trump.
Nah. Canada's national security is decided by Washington.
Volkswagen is trying and doing fairly well, so not all of them have given up on EVs, far from it. Battle.is never won until the end. So we shouldn't call off the game before seeing the end.
VW is relying on Xpeng while Stellantis is relying on Leap Motor. The EV game has been evolving way faster than the rest of the world. In age-old large-scale global business like auto, once OEMs are falling behind the technological curves, history is never kind for them catching up. From technological point of view, the game is already over. Just look at the BBA sales in China month by month this year. It it so clear that time has changed because the consumer minds have already shifted. It is a secular trend rather than one-off hiccup.
wait, there is no chery group? I thought Chery will be at least in the top 15. Surprised they don't even figure. Is this graph accurate?Flexible coating for solid-state battery:
Gotion will build a 20 GWh (enough for 200,000 - 400,000 EVs every year depending on battery size) battery factory in Slovakian for the European market.
Geely is catching up fast.
BYD Racco has something other electric Japanese K-cars don't have: LFP blade battery.
Yes, it is still early, but Porsche already announced its intention to return to ICE focused lineup. The halo of the group.
Chery is primarily selling ICE cars.
Well, Chery is still among the biggest car group in China, and they have also dived into EV platforms and have decent brands like Jetour, Omoda, Exeed. I agree they are not the most competitive aong other Chinese EV brands, but at least i thought they will still be up there among the top 15 at least. Surprised they dont even figure when legacy brands (who people say have missed the EV transition) like Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, stellantis, etc etc are still among the top EV brands. So i expected Chery to do better. At this rate their long term survival this coming decade itself might be in jeopardy then.
European legacy automakers are surviving because Chinese EV makers don’t want to upset the European elites. If Chinese automakers set their prices to only 1.5x of their domestic prices, you think there will be much markets for the legacy automakers? The legacy automakers have to drop their prices below cost to compete since their European operations are running at much higher costs.
Well, take it from me then, VW does not offer a compelling contemporary driving experience. "not that bad" as you put it, is an apt description. They are still in the game, mostly I would say due to familiarity, serviceability, and other non-technical factors. Things are definitely only getting started, but this is the state of things as they are now. The Audi Q4/VW ID4 platform mates are basically economy cars in China.