I get what he’s saying, but let’s be honest, given the price of his electric vehicles, they were never going to see like the hot cakes he hoped they would. The market changed and western car manufacturers failed to adapt.
Europe car builders are 10 to 15 years behind China , xpeng is starting production of flying cars .
Flying cars are a terrible idea, Chinese companies aren’t immune to vaporware. See: road-straddling busses, vac trains. If we’re lucky we might see some execs get punished for lying about the feasibility to fleece investors.
I thought that level of madness only exists in Bavaria… (There was a flying cab company, Lilium, that just went bust).
I thought it only existed in America. There’s been a dozen companies that managed to get funding from some renders or a 1-off.
Western manufacturers keep seeing electric cars and electric bikes as specialist, luxury items. They are ignoring the obvious, that electric vehicles are the future of transport for everyone and they need to have models that fit all price ranges, including budget models.
Ironic given the origins of Volkswagen, literally “people’s car”.
They are ignoring the obvious, that electric vehicles are the future of transport for everyone […]
If you mean “electric bikes”, I agree. We don’t need that many cars to function as a society. I am living in Germany, and never had a car - by choice.
Setting aside ideologies and with a focus on what customers want.
That’s the problem right there. 2035 is not about what the customer wants, it’s about regulation. Customers would prefer not to change at all, but that’s not an option.
Well, unlike the customers that wouldn’t mind testing a totally new car manufacturer nobody has heard of that has been spawned from a cut throat market with little to no guarantee the manufacturer will still be in business next year. Except those people which are totally unimportant for anyone who wants to try something new in the market…
