I haven’t watched the linked clip but the EV future must be a worry for car manufacturers. They’ve been put in an impossible position by government rulings of no ICE cars after 2035, but the public uptake of the EV hasn’t taken off as much as they’d hoped. Car manufacturers now have all of their eggs in one basket and that’s not a good place to be if sales don’t pick up.
Serious issues with EV’s, whether hyped up by the press or genuine issues, have done nothing to help sales either. We’ve had battery fires by self igniting cars and now we have software brake failure and vehicles getting stuck at speed and unable to stop. Not a great selling point is it.
I personally have zero interest in EV’s and it appears that most EV sales are fleet/company vehicles, but I do have genuine empathy for the car manufacturers being put in this position.
To simplify it, if you ran a shop and a certain item wasn’t selling as well as expected, you’d no longer stock that item. In the vehicle manufacturers situation, the item that isn’t selling well is now their only item. Not a good place to be.
