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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Honestly all of the major OEMs, with the exception of Toyota, are going to be in a world of hurt. They paid more attention to politics than their customers and went all in on EVs, forgetting that the governments of the world don’t buy their products. Now they are all desperately trying to walk back their overly optimistic EV sales predictions while trying to cobble together ICE and hybrid products that people will actually buy. For instance Porsche has already said there will likely be a ICE Macan after previously introducing their newest model as EV only. Meanwhile Toyota, who has said all along that hybrids and ICE are the answer, keeps plugging away.
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Bingo! To think, it all began with a book by a little known Lawyer named Ralph...then politicians got into designing cars.
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