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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

They nuked the federal credit. They killed grants and incentives for companies investing in producing new EVs and EV factories. Manufacturers mainly focused on meeting Tesla at the luxury end and can’t beat their price to feature ratio so they’re losing money trying to match on each sale. If they sell, because dealers will lead you to gassers for more profit. States are now charging more to register EVs than gassers to compensate for the gas tax.

GM went from saying they were all in to cancelling the Bolt after bringing it back nearly immediately after the federal credit was nixed. If they’re willing to shitcan a brand new model that fast, and eat a few billion or hundreds of millions to mitigate anticipated future losses now, smaller companies like Honda will read the writing on the wall. And they did, most are shifting strategy.

tldr: Companies are not going to invest or develop EVs with all the newly introduced risk by the current wildly unpredictable clown show of an administration.

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago

Teslas are American EVs. The best selling EVs in the country. The big 3 are giving the future to Elon Fucking Musk. Canada and Mexico will likely be driving BYDs. What blew me away was learning that Honda was giving up. Didn't they build a robot as an engineering exercise just because? They aren't trying to stay competitive in the automobile industry in the future, but they built a fucking robot. Not impressive for a revered engineering company. RIP.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I recently bought an EV and I quickly learned why people like them so much. I don't want another gas car. I guess the big three just want to fail. (or get bailed out)

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

This seems like such a doomer article. I don't follow the auto industry super close but, I am a big Cadillac fan. Cadillac, last I checked, is still in the procces of going full electric which started in 2022 with the LYRIQ which was a huge success. In 2025 Cadillac had a 12 year sales high with almost half of those being EV and it shows, I see them all over the place.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Nono. Change or get a big ass bailout!

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

UAW would never let that happen

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

UAW isnt responsible for this nonsense, its management as usual get your head on straight.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

They are already obsolete, this is just doubling down

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Maybe they know something we don’t? AI data centers making electricity scarce/more expensive?

[–] Hairyfishnuts@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Fucking around and finding out. Business as usual.