Hey Scotty I love your vids always waitin on ya to upload everyday! What’s your thoughts on the world moving towards electric cars in the future do you think electric cars are as reliable as gasoline cars or do you think we should be moving towards a different source of energy and if so what energy would that be? Also thoughts on Mercedes creating the Mercedes vision avtr. I’m a car guy and love all types of weird looking cars but I think we’re getting way ahead of ourselves in terms of technology.
Do a search of the board, this has already been discussed here several times.
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Scotty has pointed this out many times, and I agree, that EVs still have a long ways to go to compete with ICE (a big one being infrastructure, charging times, big drop in range if you are towing heavy like in a pickup truck); also, it’s not clear which technology will win out in the end (BEV, plug in hybrid, solid-state, hydrogen fuel cell, some other newer technology), and governments forcing the industry to gravitate towards EV (and offering incentives) is not the way to do it: let the market (consumers) have choices and decide with their wallet. You will see many ICE still on the road even 10 years from now. And if you want to do DIY work, I am afraid it’s going to be much, much harder with these newer propulsion technologies being offered now (Tesla won’t even share any service information with independent mechanics) - it’s already very hard on just the modern ICE alone.
Regarding that Mercedes AVT (for those not familiar: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/mercedes-benz-concept-cars/vision-avtr.amp.html), it’s just a concept car pipe dream, means nothing - let’s see them actually bring it to production. Mercedes are endless money pits out of warranty as it is; wait till something breaks on that AVTR.
IMHO, electrification is in the future. The problem is mass producing these components of the electric motor and battery at a profit.
Tesla barely makes a profit on their cars. Their profits come from credits to other car makers fit making a clean vehicle when others car fleets can’t meet government standards.
It’s hard to set up the supply chain to build these things at scale.
ICE car makers have to transition their assembly lines and suppliers to support EV’s. And it doesn’t happen overnight, especially when they have invested so much in the previous decades.
This is especially true for companies like Toyota and Honda who are especially tight with their suppliers, they don’t want to send them out of business. Heck, they may own a portion of their suppliers business.
But Toyota, and to a certain extent Honda, are playing it smart. They are building hybrids with electric motors. Slowly understanding how these technologies work and to build them at scale.
The RAV4 hybrid has electric AWD. Not mechanical. ELECTRIC!!! The rear wheels are run by an electric motor.
The CRV hybrid basically runs like an EV, but gets its electricity from the ICE engine.
They are building the electric motors and batteries and slowly scaling to incorporate them to pure EV’s after this hybrid phase. Pretty clever if you ask me. They don’t have the luxury of starting like scratch like Tesla. And at the same time, how many EV companies that started from scratch already failed?! And a ton more will fail. And that’s okay. That’s how the market figures everything out.
