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Audi puts big EV push on the back burner

by dataking on 12/24/23, 10:13 PM with 10 comments

• by thiago_fm on 12/25/23, 10:07 AM

  This doesn't change much. If you want to buy an EV from Audi, you can do it.

  Electric cars are so dumbed down, it's really simple. If people would read the article to know why: taking pressure off supplies, and likely dropping demand.

  There has been a big crash in electric car demand this year, you can see this everywhere, from lithium prices to Tesla having to drop it's prices multiple times.

  It hurts my eyes to see people in HN saying that it's really important to invest in R&D, those companies have been always investing in R&D. But creating a new electric car model is literally day-to-day business.

• by porompompero on 12/25/23, 7:08 AM

  What does this mean for the economy of Europe in the long term?

• by newZWhoDis on 12/25/23, 2:03 AM

  I watched the recent Munro inspection of the Taycan’t and it was just embarrassing how poor it was from an Engineering perspective. Legacy auto is going to get their lunch eaten soon.

  I even saw a snarky Reddit comment last week about how Tesla is doomed as they “only do like 1.5M a year vs Ford’s 4.2M year”. It’s like these people were born yesterday, they have no historical understanding or sense of progression. They live in a perpetual present, unable to see the bolder coming until it hits them.

  So many shorts have already be wrecked, and now a whole new generation is about to get to the “find out” stage.