The EV Transition: How Bad Will the Bloodbath Be? – Autoline After Hours 647

These journalists have been bribed by Ice makes so long they got blind.
GM will loose all China sales within 3 years after retreating Europe and RHD markets and become a sole US/Mexico car maker best case outside the top 5.
Charging infrastructure will rise so fast as that market is exploding and just see Scandinavia or the US entrepreneurs are too stupid!! Open your eyes

I was one of those 4 car households for 2 drivers. Sold the 2015 Audi A3 to Car Max for $10,500. Repair costs and insurance were too high. My next vehicle to go will be the 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4WD with 8' bed. 285,000 mi. Sits around for occasional utility use. For annual cost of insurance and repairs, I can rent a truck when I actually need a truck. My 2014 Cadillac Escalade with 98,000 miles is my wife's errand car and we will keep it. My 2021 Tesla Model Y is the family workhorse. I drive it 40,000 miles per per year. Only costs so far is one set of tires and one replace flat tire and damaged rim. Almost 70,000 miles now. The FSD Beta is working like a champ with recent updates, and the safety factor is unsurpassed. I was considering a Cybertruck but will probably wait until Tesla has an SUV to replace the Cadillac Escalade.

And the Ford Lightning pickup only gets 150 miles with a load on at a full charge

The car makers are making one huge mistake. Tesla has the mass market, and there's no catching up. What they need to do is focus on one car model and one truck model period. Take Chevy, if only they went with an electric camaro same iconic design they would have beenflying off the lot! Specifically market!!

Gary needs to stop. For over a decade everyone in the auto manufactures industry, the oil industry, the dealerships, the financial industry, the holy Ad. companies etc…., should I speak of SpaceX and the CEO have been putting pressure on Tesla. This is the main reason for Tesla's vertical integration. The bloodbath is because we have allowed the continued corruption of True FREE capitalism. NO INTEGRITY—- They don't want to compete, rather they want to control. Thank God there were activists that put their money where their lungs were.

The consumers don't want it so stop trying to push it on them. I don't care how much you make them and push them on people that can't afford them. They don't like them electric grid cannot take it so why would you keep forcing it doesn't even make sense? It's just a government money grab that's all it is

The rare minerals needed to build rare earth magnets and batteries will a sure the failure of the electric cars.
Storing all our energy in batteries is childish, do the math!!

The transition to EVs is happening wayyyyy faster than people realize. Look at the actual data and you'll see it's on an exponential curve.

I have 1 car and it is an EV I am thinking of getting a second and it will also be an EV

12:06 lol, what is he talking about? ICE cars catch fire alllll the time. WAY more frequently than EV's do. Do the research David. I was just on a long road trip and saw flames coming out of the bottom of a new looking Subaru as it cruised at 70mph down the highway. And how many brands have had to recall brand new cars due to fire concerns (looking at you Hyundai/Kia)?

I did my first camping trip in my F-150 Lightning last week, in very rural northern Wisconsin. I did it based on where I wanted to go, not on chargers. Then I planned the chargers, of which there was plenty of brand new 50 kw fast chargers, in Chevy and C-store parking lots, and municipal lots. 50 is a little slow for a fast charger, but plenty fine for recreational use, 60-75 minutes instead of the usual 20-30 mins at a freeway or city fast charger. So changing is getting there.