Jeez this guy shouldn't be on YouTube. Freaky eyes and weird delivery.
It's pretty selective reading of the sales figures.
Germany is way down to last year, yes. But August last year saw an absolutely giant jump in sales due to the expiring subsidy and the subsequent rush to conclude sales before the subsidy expired. Overall it's just fairly flat (only 1.5% down if adjusting). And plug in hybrid sales plummeted, not increasing there. Then you have to look at overall vehicle sales down 28% due to macro economic factors and you can see the picture isn't really anti EV.
Then take California in his example. Yes EV sales are trending slightly down in the state, but it's not maybe what it seems. Tesla is waaay down and almost every other manufacturer's EV sales are up. Polling in California shows Musk has managed to massively kill Tesla's brand appeal. Considering Tesla is responsible for way more than half of EV sales, that seems to be an issue more than people not wanting EVs. Overall EV sales in the US increased again this year.
In Canada, EV sales have increased yet again to a 13% market share. There's no sign of slowing here. In Alberta it's below 5% (2.5% was the only number I could find but may be a bit old) so perhaps people aren't seeing it there.
China is seeing massive growth, but I don't see that being contained to China forever. They're now over 50% of new sales having a plug and full battery electric sales are growing faster than phevs. They'll sell those cheap EVs elsewhere.
As for brands, Hyundai is seeing massive growth in it's EV sales, Ford is seeing a drop in overall vehicle sales but high double digit increases in EV sales. GM is about to see sales of it's EV fleet increase as well with two new trucks and the Equinox/Blazer now being EV.
There's certainly a decrease in growth, but it's still very much growing almost everywhere. As prices continue to come down and familiarity grows, that trend will only increase. We're still early on in this.
Seriously we see this, then declare EV sales may be dead??? That's hilariously click baity
Last edited by Street Pharmacist; 09-21-2024 at 11:07 AM.
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Had a couple hours to waste before I had to be at the airport, so I stopped by the Rivian dealer in Burnaby, and took a R1T for a test drive. Sat in an R1S.
Nice vehicles. If only they weren’t so far out of my price range.
