Last night, with tongue firmly in cheek, I wondered what if a “thought leader” proposed outlawing EVs tonight.
Tonight, a “thought leader” said this:
“On day one I will terminate (some guy’s) electric vehicle mandate,”
Why would that actually happen? The oil industry doesn’t want EVs. The big three, who are narrowing their product lines to only the largest, most expensive, models, which are irrelevant in the world outside of North America, can charge just as much for a gas powered car, without spending all the money and effort to reinvent what they build, don’t want EVs. The autoworkers, who are convinced EVs mean the loss of thousands of “jobs” don’t want EVs. Seems the only people who want EVs are the ones with a decision horizon more than ten years out.
It should be noted (and I just read your excerpt) that he didn’t plead with ‘union members’ as his speech was at a non-union company. A very bad and misleading intro sentence for the Great and Respected New York Post!
Or, as suggested, how long a person’s decision horizon is. The “thought leader” has been taking an anti-EV stance for some time, because EVs are requiring management to invest and change how they build vehicles, and hurting oil industry prospects. As has been happening in the UK, if you focus on the short term, putting a fork in any sort of “green” initiative will be popular.
I see Mr Market seems to be shrugging off last night’s comments wrt Tesla.
