RE:RE:The Trolls that circle jerk this board love Mr ChenActually I agree with the article. nellybb hit the nail on the head with that post. I just purchased and ICE with delivery in January 2023. I will never purchase a sh!thole EV because it is nothing but hype. Copy of part of the article:
A year ago there was clear global vision for a rapid transition towards self-driving electric cars.
In light of last week's brutal Bloomberg takedown of self-driving cars, the vision is becoming undone. Elon Musk's promise of robotaxis may have saved Tesla but his growing reputation as a huckster is exposing many of the fantasies.
Another reality check this month came from Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, who warned there will be 'tremendous shortages' of lithium and battery-grade nickel.
“Just like the fully autonomous cars that we are all supposed to be driving by now, EVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than media would like us to believe,” Toyoda said in a recording of the remarks to dealers shown to reporters. “In the meantime, you have many options for customers.”
In addition, questions are growing about the overall impact of electric cars on emissions. There was a long-running fanciful vision of the near-future where everyone would switch to electric cars and that would be the end of oil. The energy crisis has laid bare the reality: EVs only displace a small part of fossil fuels and only if they're charged with green energy. Moverover, energy everywhere is in short supply with grids already underbuilt. Intermittency problems plague solar and windmills.