Why EU And US Lawmakers DO NOT Driving Electric Vehicles
Subash I don’t know if you you follow this or not but I’m I’m a big fan of current news you know global news uh very often nearly every day except of course you know on Sunday uh because Sunday is day of rest every day in the morning early morning because I wake up really early 6:00 I switch on the news global news plus I also do it in the evening and the reason why I do This I want to explain is because there’s a lot of things happening globally in the automotive scene that is shared in the news because it’s newsworthy you know uh when car companies uh move into new generation powertrains uh when their factory closes when there are new generation batteries coming out when there new generation um uh how you call um I don’t know you know infotainment systems whatever you know also when there are recalls when there are recalls very important they bring up the news. So I I followed this news and you know since co I noticed actually it happened before co you’ll you’ll see world leaders you know the European Union all the leaders in the European Union they’ll have meetings and gatherings and big discussions um not about anything but climate change and when they talk about climate change they always talk about you know clean air reducing carbon emissions uh you know the automotive segment needs to rethink their powertrain the move for electric cars and then of course which you know they started doing this strict guidelines for car companies to go all electric by a certain date. Yes. Which a lot of them followed and here’s the funny thing. I don’t see any of these world leaders or these EU leaders driving an electric car. They they they arrive in a big gas guzzling car or a hybrid. Yes. at the best is a it’s a it’s a luxury hybrid which is which is nothing compared to what they say but most of the time is a big cc gas guzzling car. Now what’s what’s what’s wrong with these people? They don’t they don’t want to lead by example. Exactly. It’s so silly because if you think about it these people they have their trips especially during these big summits all the trips are planned in advance. You know the schedule like okay we’re going from the hotel to the convention center to this to that. So actually in in practical ways of thinking that’s the perfect scenario for electric car with limited range because you know exactly how much range you need to get to that destination. Exactly. But because these people are very important they think oh in an emergency I must be able to travel 300 400 km away to run away from something to run away from something. I think that’s why they think you know what I can’t do an EV. Yeah but electric cars can go 4 500 kilometers. So, it’s just pure hypocrisy at that point. Uh, yeah. And it’s not like there are no luxury electric vehicles. There’s an i7 now. Exactly. There’s a EQS. Yes. I mean, the car companies will be happy Exactly. to let them use their electric cars, but they they, you know, they fly the flag of having electric cars because they want clean air in their country. They want clean manufacturing. They don’t want mining in their country. They force, you know, South America, the African nations, China to push and push and push for battery production, lithium ion mining, all kinds of mining, and then China builds his electric cars, and then now they put tariffs on all these cars. Yeah. It’s pure hypocrisy. Yes. If the objective is to convert new car buyers to electric, then it doesn’t matter where the electric vehicles are coming from. Exactly. Just let the Chinese do the electric vehicles better than them, right? and sell them for cheap. That’s the objective is to replace EVs uh for all the new car buyers. That’s what that’s what they say their objective is. Yes. But now that the Chinese have caught up and exceeded the Europeans in certain aspects, they are very defensive and they’re like, “Oh, we must protect our whole market 50% tariff.” Right. I find it very silly and it’s going to damage their own car brands reputation. Yeah. And also some of these car brands are producing in China and getting hit with tariffs. Correct. Mini is one example. Yes. So I think Mini saw this this whole wave of okay the EU is saying by a certain year all the cars must be electric uh in a certain country or certain market. So BMW group must have looked at it and say okay we can experiment with Mini. Let’s move production to China where EVs are the best in the world and the cheapest. They did that everything was set up. The new generation electric minis are all made in China. Suddenly the EU turns around and says, “Oh, wait, sorry. If you’re bringing in from China, you’re going to be hit by massive tariffs.” So BMW group is left with, you know, with all this investment in China with this whole strategy now completely backfired because there’s a sudden U-turn in policy. Right. The same thing with also in a small way Tesla because they are producing in China. They thought about it earlier and then now they are also being hit with tariffs in their own home country. Yes. And the other hypocrisy is when you look at these tariffs, you know, Tesla compared to BYD, compared to other brands, they all being hit with different levels of tariffs, different amounts. Yeah. Which I mean, aren’t there isn’t that supposed to be a very like egalitarian approach to all this where everybody gets hit with a very same amount of tariffs no matter what brand you are? I don’t really understand the calculation whether they they they’ve got some weird metric happening behind the scene, but I think this whole U-turn is just uh it’s just very hypocritical. And then you see car manufacturers, big car manufacturers, the group like Volkswagen Group, yeah, now suddenly saying they’re going to close down some factories, some historical factories. That’s number one. Number two, they are now going to invest six billion US dollars into new generation ice engines. New generation petrol powered engines. Why? Because it just makes sense to have better better uh how you say uh uh consuming petrol engines than to go all electric or maybe even just uh hybrids like what the Japanese have been doing successfully for so many years. Yes, actually the Japanese got it right. That compromise was so correct so long ago. You know, you if you sell an EV as a car company, your margins are so much thinner because the batteries are expensive. Your customers don’t have to come in for servicing correct very often. It’s only maybe brakes, tires, that kind of thing, fluids. And so you’re losing a lot of revenue and you’re getting a customer once in 8 years, which is a terrible downgrade from your ice way of doing things. Correct. So the Japanese said okay we can have a bit of electricity to reduce fuel consumption but we still retain that icing which customers also want because they want that headache-free range. Correct. So the Japanese got it right many many years ago and now you see even Volvo I remember two years ago going to Gottenberg meeting with the head of Volvo Jim Roan and he was he was you know shouting you know waving the the the the electric car flag very proudly and and and at that time I said okay good but can I ask you a question? What if you have customers who want a Volvo but do not want an electric Volvo? He said, “No, I will tell you in a in a year or so, everybody will want an electric Volvo.” I said, “Not in our part of the world. In Asia, it’s different. Not everybody wants an electric car.” I mean, not everybody wants to be in an electric car all the time as their main vehicle. Maybe as a second vehicle or a third vehicle, yes. But he said, “No, everybody’s going to come because we’re going to have the whole range. We’re going to have from, you know, a lowc cost electric car right up to a high-end luxury car. Now, he launches a brand new XC90 Yeah. plug-in hybrid. And he says, “We’re going to keep making plug-in hybrids because our customers want it.” Now, he didn’t listen to me. Or did he? I think I think you were the that factor, you know, a little bit of waiting. Should we renew the XC9? Yes. We’ll wait for DSF to come and say something. I think so. Yeah. So I mean the other thing I’ve noticed is in China which you know they’re pretty good at advancing the EV initiative because they have so much control over purchasing uh decisions of their customers. A thing that they’ve started to do uh quite recently I think is that they group in electric vehicles with plug-in hybrid vehicles. Correct. Electrified. Yes. They they call it Ne new vehicles. Yes. Correct. It’s a term that China made up about five six years ago and it encompasses electrified vehicles and this is how they say they are beating the Europeans in the electric vehicle race in terms of numbers. Yes. But if you actually break down the numbers the EV salesh they’re good they’re better than anywhere else in the world but they have to fudge the numbers a little bit to get that number correct that that big NEV number. So in in in the future you’re going to have a very efficient petrol powered car. Yes. You’re going to have a hybrid car. You’re going to have a plug-in hybrid car. Yes. And you’re going to have electric car in nearly every car showroom. And that’s the way it’s going to be. So, Toyota was right. Toyota was the latest to the to the game when it comes to EVs. But they always said their approach is that multipathway solution. Give customers the choice and then you see it happening and then you can start to play with the trends a little bit. You know, maybe in the next 10 years hydrogen is going to get better. Correct. Maybe plug-in hybrid is going to get better. So you can actually play around slowly instead of saying 2035 hard stop no more ICE that doesn’t make any sense that is some political mumbo jumbo that you will you turn on in 5 years so I’m I’m hoping that enough people watch this video and tell the people at EU start arriving and leaving conferences and meetings in an electric car to prove your point correct if not shut up I’ll say that shut up don’t make all these statements turns when you are not doing what you’re asking other people to do. Correct. EQS, i7, you have options. Audi also has a few. Correct. Go with it.
European leaders (EU and US) do not use electric vehicles, although sometimes less prominent models are used for public example-setting. While there is a push for widespread EV adoption for climate goals, reasons for the perceived hypocrisy can include the need for range in emergency situations, the availability of luxury EVs for official transport, and the complex transition period where leaders’ choices are scrutinised but not necessarily indicative of broader policy
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