Mercedes Benz, a not inconsequential name in the automotive world, is dramatically scaling back its plan to make EVs. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
What do you do when you make a mistake? The first thing you do – assuming you’re not stupid – is to recognize you’ve made one.
Mercedes-Benz has done at least that much, with regard to the mistake it made committing itself – publicly – to be in the business of selling nothing other than electric vehicles by 2030. As it became clear this would result in the end of Mercedes-Benz, as a business, the German prestige-brand automaker publicly reneged on that commitment. It now says that perhaps half of the vehicles it manufactures will be battery-powered devices by 2030.
This is, as the saying goes, something.
Which is exactly what Mercedes had to do – right now – because even though 2030 sounds as though it’s still more than five years from now, it’s really much closer than that for vehicle manufacturers. It takes time – years – to develop a new engine, for instance. Not just to design it but to prove it. To make sure the design is a good one, as by testing it in real-word use (which is impossible to simulate using a computer; there are too many variables that cannot be programmed in because these must be imagined exactly and that is not yet something that can be perfectly simulated by a computer program).
There is also tooling to take into account – and regulatory rigmarole, too. A new engine must be certified before it can be legally sold. That is to say, an auto manufacturer must obtain approval and permission before it is allowed to sell a new engine.
A corp. has stood up to the WOKE Long March and it is from the land that produced the Frankfurters! (rimshot)
Just who the hell do these apparatchiks and mediocrities think they are anyway?
I’ll own nothing and probably like it, if that is what I choose.
No personal mobility of any kind is what the control freaks want, just say NO!
O/T-Thought I had a real find of C-Note ($100) on scavenge but knew not to get too excited or try and spend it at Haji’s Pump-U-Full 7/11…it said copy in the left corner when looking in the light but we’re almost there where they will be blowing around near the storm drain?
Did find some ribs and lunchmeat for the Rockettes!
[Thank You God!]