On 3 Dec 2018 at 22:47, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > For other companies like Volvo, Volkswagen, and Toyota that are far from the > 200,000 car limit, ending the subsidies could seriously hurt their ambitious > goals to produce more " if not switch entirely to " electric vehicles in > the next few years.
Maybe a minor hit, but from what I've read, most EU and Asian automakers are now focusing more on -- duh -- the EU and Asia. With the way politics has gone here in the US, I'm sure it didn't take a crystal ball for them to predict what was going to happen to the US EV market. There's certainly some difference in environmental attitudes between the different sides of the aisle in other nations, but usually it's much less dramatic and polarized than it is here in the states. So I expect that regardless of the how politics develops in the EU and Asia, they, not the US, will become the primary EV growth areas in the future. In fact, some countries have already announced a "drop dead" year for ICEVs, though some of them are pretty far off (such as 2040). Interesting times, indeed. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
