DetroitNews.com - Stellantis pulls back on EVs / Hybrids - no dealer can order a MY26 EV or PHEV

[WXman]

To me all this talk of "shifting market" is funny. To say that the market is "shifting" insinuates that the masses wanted EVs but now suddenly they don't again. That is simply not the case. The market never shifted. The administration/agenda shifted.

The only difference now is that OE's can feel relaxed selling what people want to buy again, just as they did prior to 2020. It's back to business as usual. And that's good.

There should be OPTIONS for U.S. consumers. Let people buy what they want. Don't try to force feed them.

 

[patfromigh]

To me all this talk of "shifting market" is funny. To say that the market is "shifting" insinuates that the masses wanted EVs but now suddenly they don't again. That is simply not the case. The market never shifted. The administration/agenda shifted.

Yes but, the market truly did shift and the demand plateaued during the "dead robots" fiasco of the previous winter. Battery electric vehicles were sold with heavy portions of propaganda. There was a back drop of Chicken Little hysteria pushed by a more than cooperative main stream media just to sell a narrative. The battery fires were way underplayed and battery electric drive was offered as a magic panacea.

What that polar ice storm did in Chicago that one winter day was pull back the curtain on the sad reality of the limitations with electric battery power. The public was fooled into accepting the limited range, but when coupled to the sketchy charging infrastructure the scales quickly turned back towards IC engines.