WRC future

[denkimi]

There is grain of thruth there. BUT - governments are fucking up different goods markets all the time, companies adapt and use this. Many things that we today consider normal public services could be outsourced as paid servises from public sector (use of roads for example - there is no reason why all roads couldnt be privat toll-roads, but we are used to have governments fucking up that market). So, governements are pushing out ICs by supporting EVs. And manufacturers use this. Which means - their marketing strategies follow this. BTW, this is not just EU thing. Globally biggest EV market is China, they yearly sales of "new energy vehicles" (EVs biggest subgroup there) exceeded 1 million units mark last year. In US EV sales dramatically increased last year and are estimated to be close to 0,5 M this year. India is somewhat lagging behind, but has just announces their goal to reach 30% level in 10 years through also fucking up market.
So - even though currently maybe small percentage of cars are electric, companies are adapting to market opportunities and currently it seems that opportunities lie in the direction where EVs share will continuously and rapidly increase. And thus this is where their long-term strategy is pointing, including marketing strategy

https://amp.businessinsider.com/glob...history-2019-9
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/busin...ies/index.html

China has slashed its subsidies and the market has plummeted.
It everywhere the same. As long as the price difference is payed with someone elses tax money people buy electric cars. As soon as the real prices have to be payed they don't want them anymore.

And roads are not private because they are on government ground.
If you want to make a comparison, that would be like paying people to use a small slow roads, and taxing them if they use the faster highway.