Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
The bigger question is who's buying them, and are we likely to be seeing these at all at the end of this decade.
Quote Originally Posted by saco0o View Post
another thought I had reading the dirt fish article with msport about the non hybrid car. he said that evs went on a high (sells? perception?) and now are declining and hybrids are going up. at the same time is super normal to find daily articles on how much evs are growing (in sells and perception) passing hybrids for new cars. u'know? we can find both arguments nowadays. its such a mess. we probably can find data showing how both evs and hybrids are outselling each other on the same journal. everything is so weird and contradictory nowadays, all the time.
Manufacturers as well as public try to extrapolate what people will buy and manus will make in 10 years based on a few months of sales differences.

That can bring totally crazy results both ways. Some people (often outside of automotive) predicted that everyone will only buy EVs in 5-10 years. Similarly some people (often those that have 0 EV experience) predict that there won't be any EVs in 5-10 years.

The result will be somewhere in between. If regulations stay about the same I expect something like 50/50 for BEV vs others (incl Hybrids) in Europe in 10 years. Here in Norway it's 80/20 for quite some time now and I don't see it changing more than 5-10 percent either way.

What is mentioned in the Dirtfish article is that right now (last 3 months) EV sales globally have slowed down, so some manus found out that they might not have anything (new) to offer outside of EVs in the very near future and are re-routing some money to other drivetrains. Whether that is temporary fix or permanent is close to impossible to predict at the moment.