Electric Cars not fit for the market say Car Industry bosses

Motor Industry bosses have said this week that the Electric car market is carnage and that EVs are not fit for primetime sales.

We’ve made no secret of our views on electric cars: they’re simply not fit for the market. And now it seems motor industry bosses are finally standing up and saying much the same.

We’ve had both Hyundai and Toyota come out in recent weeks to announce they will not be pursuing electric cars in the foreseeable future, and now a industry bosses have spoken out on the failure of electric cars at a motor industry meeting in New York.

Rodney O’Neal – CEO of Delphi, a leading global supplier of electronics and technologies for automotive industry – describes the electric car market as ‘Carnage’, and Borg Warner’s CEO Tim Manganello said the EV ‘is not fit for primetime’. O’Neal also stated he was ‘…not hopeful battery technology will get better’.

Even car makers’ representatives on the panel were pessimistic. Martin Jager from Daimler stated that EVs were only viable if governments wanted then to be and were prepared to bribe buyers with tax breaks and incentives, and VW’s head of US operations said that customer acceptance was slow and that although EVs have a place, it’s a small one.

And electric cars do have a place – in cities as a second or third car for running around town for short distances; as taxis in polluted cities (but better not go south of the river in case you don’t make it back) and as delivery vehicles in confined areas. Apart from that, they’re an expensive waste of space.

At this rate, it’ll be Nissan selling the LEAF at a big loss and nothing else purporting to be an alternative to the ICE car on the market in a few years time.

Especially once Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars start to make their mark.

Source: Car & Driver

By Cars UK