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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It will always boil down to style and preference. As you say the minivan is the best vehicle ever made for families as they offer easy ingress/egress, the most cargo room and interior volume, and are generally fuel efficient. Unfortunately minivan market share is dwindling due to the public's thirst for SUV's. This is why I simply don't buy into any of this doom and gloom talk as if anything we are seeing unprecedented demand for large trucks and SUV's with 4WD/AWD while the traditional family sedan which has ruled for decades is now starting to lose ground. Subaru for example has had year over year sales increased going back almost a decade (really amazing actually) and they offer only one hybrid and it doesn't sell at all. A 2WD EV makes for an okay city commuter but people want large AWD vehicles for travelling and there's no indication that's changing for a few generations.
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If you want to talk about unprecedented demand I would think about the Model 3 pre-orders.
Also, the incremental changes in preference for body configurations (SUV vs Van vs Wagon) are orders of magnitude smaller than the changes in the EV powertrain and economics. Let alone the potential changes in the business model of vehicle ownership (Taas).
And there may be IC SUV's for a while, but the composition of the global vehicle fleet will change. And frankly, that is the issue that Albertans need to wrap their heads around.
The global market for our oil will change and it MAY happen sooner than we think...why not be on top of that possibility?
The ostrich strategy doesn't make sense to me...and to suggest that everything will be A-OK because lots of people drive big-ass trucks is 'interesting'.