Worlds largest going Electric Vehicle, page-2

Lol, you should really make some effort to understand the articles you quote:

"And high risk. VW is “slicing pieces off a very small pie,” said Jessica Caldwell, director of industry analysis at Edmunds.com."

"Despite the emergence of electric cars over the last few years -- with Tesla, BMW, Chevy and Nissan releasing their own models -- electric cars, plug-ins and hybrids account for only 2.45% of the market, according to Edmunds.com.
The market has been declining since it peaked at 3.7% in 2013, according to the same site, in part because of falling gasoline prices."

"Yet, while 17.5 million cars and light trucks were sold in the U.S in 2015 -- a record high -- only 115,000 of them were plug-in electric vehicles. And that figure was 5,000 lower than in 2014."

Irrespective of projected mkt size VW would have to be ULTRA competitive to chew off anything like that mkt share, and with Honda/Daido now raising the bar to Dy FREE only the totally naive would not expect all other majors to continue their Dy deletion programs, with urgency.

Won't bother detailing all the LaCe, NdPr going into ICE vehicles light weighting/cost & fuel efficiencies, except to mention the potential of Ce doped aluminium in engine blocks/body panels:

https://www.ornl.gov/news/new-alloy...ion-while-improving-energy-efficiency-engines

And of course the big one, the actual net gains in CO2 reduction from HEV/EV given the source of electricity generation in most countries. Would point to John Peterson's articles on the subject II but appears he's fallen foul of Tracy's agenda and been completely sanitised for myth busting. Shame 'bout that.