Have We Reached Peak EV? (Part 1)
Electric vehicles are dominating the industry conversation, so we had a chat with someone who is a bit of an EV evangelist...as well as with a journalist who noted that his outlet elected seven electrified vehicles to its latest Top 10 list.
We chat with the CEO and founder of Electrify Expo, BJ Birtwell, about what EE does and where the EV market is headed.
After a brief interlude in which I regale you with my somewhat limited track experience, we then talk about socket sets with Matthew Guy and bring Consumer Reports' Alex Knizek on to discuss why seven vehicles on CR's top 10 list for 2024 are electrified.
Not fully electric, necessarily, but electrified. Meaning hybrids and plug-in hybrids are in the mix.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Toyoda said, he does not see EVs go anywhere beyond 30% of market
I’m near Benson
Probably the stupidest headline in TTAC history, but it got 270 comments, so good for you Tim.
I don't have anything against someone wanted to pay for a drive an EV. Other than the taxpayer funded rebates.
As far as refineries, TX just opened a HUGE refinery a year or two ago. There may be less operating in the US, however they are way more efficient than they were decades ago, so this would be expected. I would assume the wells are more efficient also.
I am not in the oil business, I am in the car business. Doing a simple search online shows the US producing over 13M barrels a day against a demand of almost 20M barrels a day. Where is the decline in demand?
As far as " pressure for cleaner alternatives from the public", I think this needs to be defined. The public to me is the market, and the market is speaking on EVs. Especially with pre-owned.