The old saying “if you can’t beat them, join them” is out. The new paradigm is “ if you can’t beat them, sanction them”.

Is the writer of this segment bad at math or deliberately spreading misinformation? There is NO DECLINE in EV sales. More EVs were sold in Q1 2024 vs 2023. It is the growth that has declined, not the sales

Well your first mistake is showing an ICE Corvette in the video preview.

the slowdown should usher in the era of practical EVs. i don't want these ridiculous cybertrucks

Hybrid. Then to electric. Hybrid is the key to the transportation link.

Depends what the media decides each week after week. Seems to change every week.

Few yrs ago when west dominate the market, they kept talking about green energy. Today when a new competitor enters the market, west starts to talk down EV, green energy & development, overcapacity, market maturing. 😂😂😂

Yes. It’s going from point A to point B.

Cars are required for poor city designs.

Nothing hard to predict, hard to accept, hard to cope, hard to stop, but not hard to predict.

I need a old reliable car that is EMP proof.

I love how Xaomi has their car coming out of a flourescent light tunnel just like in Tesla's Giga Berlin factory when their Model 3 started production there. Leave it to Chinese companies to copy each and every detail of a successful business :)

Good to hear guests who actually know what they are talking about 👍

1 Quarter of lower sales, 1 QUARTER!!! ALL vehicle sales slowed last quarter, while overall, EV sales increased so let's not get panicked. EV's are the obvious future and will continue to grow until we hit 100%.

The cost of electric cars is the problem. If people could pay the same price as the Chinese pay. There would be a boom in the sales of evs. But, governments are slapping trade barriers to imports from China.

Sales in ICE vehicles are down, the rate of increase in sale of EVs has slowed but sales are still up! This is a reflection of the economy and pressures on spending. EVs are better hands down and will go on to improve. ICE vehicles aren't even 30% efficient after 100years of development where as evs have just begun!!!! Wake up nay sayers

My Bolt euv has been flawless, and evs are getting exponentially better; 2024 might be a year of slower growth, but evs are still selling, even though the new car market as a whole isn't doing well.

The governments are using too much carrot and too little stick in trying to get the transition done. And we are running out of time 🤬🤬🤬

I want an E.V. with the minimum electronics needed to run it.

Top conversation. Clarity in spades.

regardless of slowdown.. Ev will continue to grow.. most ev car owners will order again for the next ev car. people need to try and see the difference of performance

Just go watch the Beijing and Shanghai Auto show for the future of EVs.

HYBRID is the FUTURE

The sales tactics were wrong - ‘create huge luxurious fast cars then the poorer people will eventually want the slightly cheaper ones’. If they built decent infrastructure and reliable small, cheap to run cars, people would buy them.

10:17 However one also has to look EV sales it on a per capita basis to ascertain market penetration relative to ICE vehicles relative to population. China has a population of 1.4 billion, the EU around 450 million and the US around 333 million. On a per capita basis in terms of EV purchases in 2023, China had ( 1 in 274 persons ) purchasing an EV. The EU had1 in 225 people purchasing an EV and the US 1 in 277 people. US being a similar market penetration to China. Looking at the data this way suggests that the culture and appetite for EVs in 2023 in the USA was almost just as strong as in China. The EU per capita appetite for EVs was clearly the highest.

How Xiaomi SU7 is doing? Their brakes are burning out. Do your research before you buy!

I've already bought my last car, I don't know how long I will be allowed to drive, the UK government change the rules way to often people like myself have had enough. Cars have a limited future as manufacturers run the risk of going bust, as their EVs fail to capture enough interest from the private sector.

So the main obstacle are cost of vehicles and charging infrastructure. Luckily there is a 5-step plan for this: 1. Reduce government incentives 2. Plan electricity price increases 3. Plan a few chargers, but no major increase in electric power plants 4. ????? 5. Profit

batery production and 'recycling', also electricity to charge your dumb car comes from somewhere

He only needed to say that it’s not a problem but an opportunity- and he would win Bingo

Nowhere since its costs outrun its benefits.

A medium size country like Germany has actually controlled the market due to their high quality IC E technology. But their profits came from the huge Chinese market and the cars were constructed in factories in China. EU can take any measures to block Chinese imports but the really important market is China.

Be realistic. How many battery swap cars are out on the road right now, in a year, and two years.

Look up consumerism and get back to that.

The constant stress and anxiety of charging, puts many buyers away from BEV. Unless technology advances sufficiently, EV market will saturate at a certain quote and no further.

And what if China imposes 15% tax on all European cars? How would that effect the European car companies like VW? Also Chinese car companies could just assemble their cars in a country like Czech Republic and get around the 15% taxes.

Eva’s are only good if you have you’re own driveway to charge them, otherwise they will need to be fast charged all the time at a charging point

It's actually very easy to predict - if the government forces people and adds a little bit of a financial incentive the electric car market does well. If the government doesn't force people or significantly reduces the bribe it does poorly. There you go, I'll take my seven figure consulting fee now.

It is teSla, not teZla The company was named after Nikola Tesla born in Croatia.

Have you look at gas prices recently? Travelling the same distance electricity prices is much much cheaper. People now buys an EV for short distances travelling and a petrol and diesel for the odd times. What resonates people is the among to cost of living.

Wow! Love it! Let’s stay in touch!

Including hybrid cars in predicting future electric car ownership is a bit of a cheat, I think. I have a hybrid and to me it’s an enhanced ICE car. I love it but I wouldn’t claim that it’s an electric car. It’s fine to count that as long as you’re aware that it means some, maybe a lot, of that 20% have gasoline engines. Even today, more hybrids are sold in China than EVs.

Sand batteries, improve the grid, improve the infrastructure, new high capacity chargers all over Europe!

There is always something or someone to blame for their failure in the EV race

Check the Electric Viking. He gives a clearer picture. The answer is not "hard to predict".

Let's always do alot of good ❤️

BEV is underdeveloped tech and these manufacturer sold to us just to rake profit without any after sales service, so if your bateries pack is bust you must buy brand new one not only the bateries. Keep your ICE as long as you can until BEV industries can presenting fully developed BEV technology that won't give us range anxiety, blown or burned while park and batery pack 20 years waranty or much more

Nowhere. Here in Canada their manufacture is being massively subsidized by the taxpayers. Because of that I will never touch one. Never had any desire to own an electric car, now I refuse to consider one. Note to car companies: stand on your own two feet!

I can buy used 2013 corolla for $7k. I would buy used Tesla Model 3 for that price but the EV costs around $18K used... until decent used EVs are around 7-10k price I will have to choose gas vehicles. Also batteries need to last many charges... BYD and Tesla 25k cars can change this used EV market

DW, charging stations are the key factor, if your “expert” has a single brain cell left.

EV sales are off the charts

Didn't both governments and 'experts' tell us some eight years ago that MOST of us would be buying and driving electric cars by now? That MOST Cars on the road would be electric? If electric cars were meant to be the solution and they would substitute petrol and diesel cars, they have had a RESOUNDING FAILURE!

Tesla and Chinese automakers are going to DOMINATE in Europe! VW Is done! Deal with that legacy German auto!

They need to introduce less expensive evs

EV's are going to be 20% or more expensive than a comparable ICE vehicle so once your get beyond the tech types who tend to have money and similar classes of people with money the working class is more-or-less not able to afford an EV particularly if it is an additional vehicle. Owning a car is a requirement for most people and the working class may have one car per family or maybe two cars, but one at least needs to be ICE powered to do the thing they can do that EV's struggle at (off road, rural). It doesn't help the industry that the leading company in the field, Tesla, is being run by someone busy insulting his customers. But yeah, it's not Elon's problem it's the 40 member marketing teams fault.

straight to the dump

Driving my Kubota tractor requires more skills and more engaging than driving an EV. EV is about as exciting but practical as my zero-turn mower.

Huawei Harmonyspace ( car )

Because most people can't imagine a better world.

Just because you're blindfolded doesn't mean things won't happen. Being proactive is what ensures that you don't fall behind.

There’s nothing about predicting EV sales that’s difficult. All cars will eventually be electric, it’s just better in every way.

Honestly, is the European EV makers subsidized? I got subsidy from the US govnt when bought EV.

If you replace a car worth five thousand dollars with a car worth fifty thousand dollars, the cost of your insurance will increase. That doesn't mean EVs cost more to insure. It is another part of the fear, uncertainty and doubt campaign the car and oil companies are waging against EVs.

The growth of EV’s get conflated with autonomous driving. The EV problem is largely resolved and now technology will tune progress. Major leap would be a substantially better battery technology around range and charge rates. Autonomous driving still has a ways to go, technology, infrastructure and legislative/legal framework is a key issue. The key challenge is how to manage the mix of self driving and human drivers in the transition. Once self driving is ubiquitous the challenges go down and key benefits are unlocked, traffic lights, speed restrictions, following distance and many others become technology issues not legal road rules issues.

I don't think its hard to predict, the concept is flawed in many ways and the marketing department doesnt' tell you this

I'll take a 64 Chevy anytime.

According to who is hard to predict? If you hear Tony Seba you'll know what's going to happen with the car electric market.

EV revolution provided a solution but create a problem or more. Due to shortage of parts and skill EV labor, they are quite expensive to repair.

Key for EV, is Battery, the range overall, range in the cold, Price when they can make a battery with long range and many charge cycles to a cheaper price then the EV will kick ICE cars

If EU really love green, please let Chinese vendors to solve it. Protection will delay the green process.

The Chinese way is to have the full spectrum of cars from economy to luxury but Tesla think 500hp is fine for people who can’t handle 100hp. A Nissan note with more range is by far enough for the majority but western brands are trying to push overpriced overpowered EV’s that most can’t buy so stick to ICE

Just BATTERY, how to make it cheaper and more reliable. SWAP Stations

Lots of good news about the imminent slowdown of EVs.

It is incoherent to speak of EV sales without speaking simultaneously about clean electricity generation: just take France with close to CO2 zero electricity (nuclear, hydro, wind) vs Germany with no nuclear and large amounts of coal fire! Driving an EV in Germany is not green.

Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 🏆🥇🎉✅

Because of cybersecurity reasons, Europe needs European manufactured EVs with European developed software running on them, which servers are based in Europe! No third party risk! GDPR should be extended and EVs should be included into this!

The Russians do not want Chinese electric cars because they cannot provide sufficient heating for passengers, the Gabonese do not want Chinese electric cars because they do not provide sufficient air conditioning to drive in Libreville etc. etc. yes for golf but for the rest...

Only DW can state that this years sales are well below last years sales, but the market is continuing to grow. I wonder if they know the definition of grow vs shrink.

"Cars" (automobiles) are going nowhere. It's been known for 50 years. The automobile's propulsion system doesn't make a meaningful difference. They mostly sit around uselessly on valuable property that could be used for all the things people really need. _A bowl is most useful when it's empty_ . Make space, give room, enjoy nature.

Hilarious... Second hand prices have cratered below ICE vehicles. Millions are upside down in their financing. Bought for $65000 Still owes $40000 Worth $20000. Who wants to buy an EV that loses value faster than it accelerates?

If its North American , China and EU then maybe it might grow as for the rest of the southern part of the world ' i.e 3/4 of the world population evs are not even considered ' geographically '

ICE car sales are not doing good either…

This DW anchor is ridiculous. Accusing China of IP thrieve ... when the problem is Germany's competitiveness.

EV is the future, we just dont have the money for anything atm😂

Wow,game over for Tesla!

Jai Hind. Due to overcapacity, every EV companies are eyeing our elephantine Indian market.

Nowhere without fossil fuels!

They're not the future, that's for sure! They're fun, especially the Teslas, but gasoline is still more reliable!

DW should just continue to lie, like they usually do, and assert the inexorable transition to a GREENER, BETTER FUTURE.

What BS is this. EV sales have plummeted everywhere. More lies from the media.

The answer is *the Aptera SEV*

Because half of it is run by a Bond villian

The technology just isn’t there……… yet.

To The Scrapyard. Throw Away Toys. EXPENSIVE Repairs n POOR RELIABILITY

EVs need to be mini and town speed (75 KMPH)(45MPH) and lower powered for actual transition.

EV is more favor in chinas economic

Until lots of things change electric cars will be seen mainly on Golf Coarse.

Surving tecnic is the chinese cars with German logo stamped is the only way.otherwise no chance.

Fortunately, I am old enough to never have to suffer the disgrace of driving an electric car (other than my golf cart, of course).... 20 years from now, there will not be any electric cars....

I looked at things holding back EV in my country and created a short list: Charging stations availability - a bad joke-needs investment - to be solved by private companies if the business model proves profitable... so maybe Charging time - 30 minutes+ - needs to be faster - It's probably fixable by solid state batteries, so maybe 5 years away... so it promising Electricity demand - A problem with supply and distribution - Given that in my country, we are building aingle highway for 30 years, and it's still not completed. I'm not sure if I see a new nuclear power plant and reworked nationwide electricity distribution in my lifetime, and I'm in my twenties now... so pipedream territory... In summary, the optimistic scenario here in Slovakia is about 15-20 years into considerable ev adoption... In my case, I would most likely do another 200000km on my diesel skoda and then look at something that will be able to bring me from point A to point B as problem free as possible...