$5 billion government grant for 1000 jobs. Bet this boondoggle will implode before 2028. Are taxpayers going to get our money back? Ontario is critically low on electricity as it is. I can't wait for all the plant shutdowns the next 6 months do to grid overload. We'll be eating crickets soon.
VW still have two EVs waiting in the wings with a late summer and winter date. Ford has two EVs and GM combining their companies has three EVs with two or three more coming out this year. Kia and Hyundai has two EVs and Genesis has three EVs. I'm saying this because how slow some of these companies are making their EVs and all plan to have their whole fleet into EVs by 2030, though VW had that big scandal that made them want to make that change and ID Buzz was being develope for years.
No, what they said was, consumers need "choice" - at the time when they weren't making any EVs. So, not much choice there. Still kind of waiting for all those choices Toyota is gonna give us.
@@brunoheggli2888 Yeah I agree. I've been driving an EV for 10 years. EVs are fine now and will only get better. Toyota has just been completely missing on the EV front up to now and they have recently said they are slow rolling EV's. Or are they now? :)
That is up until recently EVs were very unprofitable and still are for many makes. Being late to the game means they bypassed billions in losses and can hit the ground running when they come out with their first serious attempt at an EV. All toyotas past EVs were just compliance cars
British car industry failed due to British Leyland not being able to make the brands commit to an identity and produce quality vehicles off of that. Unions were a small part of the money losing problem, and it would've been offset if British Leyland could actually sell cars. Also Detroit lost its ability as a manufacturing dominant place because, even without unions involved, automakers still outsourced and developed horizontal integration for cost effectiveness. It's still possible to manufacture a car here in the U.S., though, considering that Japanese companies have been doing it for a while and have some unionization efforts in their workplaces.
Why are the front ends on most EVS so big and blunt? With no engine, radiator or other components up there it seems they could be more streamlined. Who can answer this for me?
All vehicles need a crush zone for front impact. It might be more of a challenge to have an adequate one if the front end of an EV was more triangular. Here's looking at you, CyberTruck.
@thx1138guy Cybertruck has that sorted. It absorbs the energy with the short front by having components break off. Which has the same effect as crumpling.
All those generals are fighting the last (previous) war. If you want to know what is the right shape for an EV, you'll have to wait about 50 years. That's when the current crop of engineering students will be retired and most of the old ICE mindset will be flushed out of the system.
Boy i remember watching autoline on the weekends growing up on tv, then on RU-vid, i even reminded john slowly easing in sean into the show, now that man has gray in his beard, i feel old!
Which is still nothing when compared to the billions in taxable investments, 1000+ well paying jobs, initial construction and the annual projected 240K vehicles of value to the tax payer
1000 new jobs for $5 BILLIONS in aid for Honda, if Tesla got that amount the TROLLS would be out in droves, and year 2028? Takes that long to build a new facility? Maybe they should ask help from China!😂
Considering how far behind the Japanese auto industry is in producing BEVs, it's a shame that they didn't think to band together to create some common BEV components that they could all use to get their foot in the proverbial door. (I know that Toyota and Subaru did create a common platform for the BZ4X and the Solterra, but it doesn't seem to be too well received so far).
Saw my First Honda Prologue today, it is officially overpriced vs a comparable Tesla Model Y. The Sticker I saw was $54,600 but the local dealer is tacking on a cool $9,999 to the price. LOL - morons! The car is already more expensive than a Tesla and not sure if it will get the $7500 kiss from the Feds.
I don't know about the Prologue but the Acura ZDX looks like a hearse from the side. Check out Alex's auto buyer's guide video from yesterday and it's undeniable that accent near the C pillar makes it look like a hearse. I'm guessing Honda/Acura didn't do polling research before settling on that design. The GM variant looks much better. I know styling is very subjective but that should have been caught by some designer. Back to the days of the Chevy "NoVa" and "e-tron".
@@KBergs Stationary? Batteries are great when they don't have weight and size constriction. FCV could be functional for vehicles that run longer duty cycles and can't afford downtime like buses and freight trucks. I don't believe anything short of emergency portable generators are trying to use FCs.
So NHTSA is investigating Tesla FSD recall because it has concerns, but I would say those concerns seem odd considering FSD free trial this month did not spawn dozens of crashes even though the number of users jumped dramatically. I have used FSD 12 for most of the month, and it is a massive improvement. Not perfect, still needs refinement, but getting close to being truly full self driving the way many assumed it would be when first presented many years ago.
Adrian intentionally limiting telematic data! Only 18% of crash data is collected by BingeCo for accidents that are reported to police! babysmurf9000 still hasn't even filled out the permit for driverless testing in California!
Southern governors in bed with big business. Of course, no one mentions that VW is primarily owned by their workers in Germany. So VW is NOT anti union. They (VW) want happy workers hence their outstanding build quality.
Is NHTSA examining all automakers ADAS systems with a microscope too? Tesla’s driver monitoring is more strict than any other. I guess it pays to say that it’s impossible to monitor your vehicles because then NHTSA can’t tell if accidents were in ADAS or not.
It's not exactly anything concerning when you read past the headline, might even be a positive if you think about it. Look at it this way: Tesla's solution is the most successful in the market, so it gets more scrutiny naturally, down to silly things like font sizes etc. The other competing solutions are hobby projects with big limitations, and barely utilized by comparison. In short, Tesla basically doesn't have real competition in this space within the US market. So naturally they get the most attention by extension. And media loves to spin every tiny detail because Tesla is so popular as a brand today.
Not to mention FSD! No legacy will catch Tesla and thus will have to license FSD from Tesla. They don’t even talk about their FSD plans which indicates to me they don’t have a plan.
The RAM RHO starts at 70k and does 0-60 in 4.6 seconds with a puny 3.0L v-6 with twin turbo forced induction sure to kill that small engine in no time. However, Tesla has a STAINLESS truck for $76390 after incentive that will do 0-60 in 4.1 seconds with zero maintenance. RAM should have kept the HEMI = fools
The Ford Ecoboost is only 500cc bigger and also twin turbo and has been around over a decade. Tesla's build quality is so bad they are one of the most expensive vehicles to own.
i laugh when legacy says 2028 then there will be delays then they have to ramp up so it wont even do anything before 2030 and by them most of the cars will be EV and this is why legacy auto is lost they are so slow to react or do anything.
@@brunoheggli2888 why dont you look at their finances they are one of the strongest companies on the planet. i assume the streamer is short tesla is why he posts all this stuff.
I'm excited for workers at Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes, Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, Tesla, Volvo, Nissan, and BMW workers in the US. They'll get the pay and benefits they deserve, and it'll be a massive benefit to the entire US economy, just like before Reagan.
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Look around. Wherever you are right now you will absolutely see a product that's only possible because of petroleum. Using oil as a method of propulsion is wasteful at best, insane at worst.
@@JD-yx7be I seriously doubt this venture will make a dent in battery supply chain cost effectiveness, which for the last 5 years have been driven by almost exclusively by CATL and BYD and their innovation in cost efficiency. Even the Koreans can't be cost effective against them.
Tesla Headline News: New axiom! NHTSA says when in doubt, assume Adrian's Supervised Driving Scheme is weak and is at fault! Baglino doesn't believe Enron M. will solve autonomy and is dumping shares!
