GM, Ford, and Chrysler are going to build EVs. I guarantee it. You just won't see many of them here. They have to build them, because while the US government doesn't care, the rest of the world does.
China REALLY needs to clean up its air, and it looks as if EVs are going to be a substantial part of their solution. France and the UK plan to do away with ICEV sales by 2040. IIRC France wants Paris 100% EV by 2030. Germany and Netherlands want zero ICEVs on sale by 2030. Germany is pushing for this to be an EU-wide policy. Norway's aiming for 2025, though they want to do it with incentives rather than an outright ban. The biggest plan is from a little place - El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands. They make 100% of their electricity from wind, and they want all of their vehicles to be electric ASAP. In fact they were hoping to make that happen this year, but I don't know what the status of the effort is. EVs are already mainstream in the EU. In January, Renault's second best selling vehicle was an EV. Renault didn't use any tricks or games. They just delivered them to the dealers, and the dealers sold them like any other vehicle (including offering discounts). The reason they can't screw around is that EU emissions legislation is getting MUCH stricter, and they are calculating corporate average emissions. The automakers HAVE to sell EVs in Europe. They can't let their dealers reject and neglect EVs the way US dealers do. But don't expect that here, and don't expect anybody but Tesla to volunteer. US automakers have proven again and again that they don't change anything until they're forced to. Detroit didn't add even the most rudimentary emission controls to their ICEVs until laws forced them to. Detroit didn't add passive restraint systems to their vehicles until laws forced them to. Detroit didn't even put seat belts in their vehicles until laws forced them to. If the US government ever decides that we need EVs in the US, we will have EVs because they will pass laws requiring them. Until then, there's no reason for the automakers to do anything differently when they're already making ample profit selling Americans the same old crude, bloated, overpowered ICE SUVs and trucks that they sold last decade, and the decade before that, and the decade before that. 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 ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
