No new Jags for a year

[AleNod]

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Excuse the source, but . . .

 

[t-tony]

Google can’t find that link Alex.

Tony.

 

[Duncodin]

Edited the link to remove the CDN junk and I get this

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[AleNod]

Fixed - thanks @t-tony

 

[OhioZ4]

Heres a couple more links . It seems Jaguar will be the next car company to go belly up . This crazy infatuation with electric cars is beyond me .

Jaguar: EV concept in December, then no new car sales for a year | Autocar

Brit brand sticks with plan to go all-electric and is months away from scrapping entire line-up

www.autocar.co.uk

Jaguar's Latest Plan Is To Basically Stop Selling Cars For A Year - Jalopnik

For years, Jaguar has sold some of the most beautiful cars you could buy. At least from the outside, that is. Sales haven’t been great lately, as its cars are old and struggle to compete, and back in March, the British automaker announced plans to kill off its entire gas-powered lineup and...

jalopnik.com

 

[Zephyr]

smart plan!

 

[AleNod]

Heres a couple more links . It seems Jaguar will be the next car company to go belly up . This crazy infatuation with electric cars is beyond me .

Jaguar: EV concept in December, then no new car sales for a year | Autocar

Brit brand sticks with plan to go all-electric and is months away from scrapping entire line-up

www.autocar.co.uk

Jaguar's Latest Plan Is To Basically Stop Selling Cars For A Year - Jalopnik

For years, Jaguar has sold some of the most beautiful cars you could buy. At least from the outside, that is. Sales haven’t been great lately, as its cars are old and struggle to compete, and back in March, the British automaker announced plans to kill off its entire gas-powered lineup and...

jalopnik.com

I'm with you on that. This side of the pond it's being driven by regulations. Manufacturers are starting to have to sell a certain percentage of electric vehicles which increases every year. For every ICE car they sell over the allowed percentage they get fined. And it's a lot - basically makes any surplus (to allowed percentage) ICE cars unsellable. I think its a sliding scale until 2030 when all vehicles sold are supposed to be electric. I haven't explained that very well have I ?

So manufacturers are seeing the writing on the wall. Looking at this, Jaguar has a bit of an aging line up and it seems already reducing sales. They must have done their sums and think its cheaper to shutter production now, rather than continue with even more reducing sales, penalties applied to basically ever ICE vehicle they manufacture making it even more unattractive, reducing sales even further.

Just a mad mad world to me . . .

And starting a new job shortly, I've just gone out and bought a pure petrol car, while I can. I suspect it might be the last petrol driven car I ever buy . . .

 

[Zephyr]

Too optimistic target for whoever believes 2030 will be achieved.
Gas stations, refinery industries, tanker ships, oil rigs, multibillion companies, countries, millions of people depend and live through oil.
Further to that, more millions of mechanics, repair shops, parts suppliers, after market companies and even small business owners such as exhaust shops etc will be affected.
And on top of that, what kind of charging network will support that huge fleet of electricity sucking vehicles?
Somehow I feel that we are played.
I will most likely be stardust by 2030 but I would really like to be around just to see what kind of turbulence this decision will bring to the economy.

 

[Zephyr]

View: https://youtu.be/xg8iiHhdVeg?feature=shared


a very interesting interview. Skip to 20:00 for his take on electric cars if you are not interested to watch the rest of what this legend says.