Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by nosrednehnai on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:38PM
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I don't think your tinfoil hat theory is so far-fetched. Like every other car company before Tesla, they've optimized for ICE cars. From their perspective, the ideal scenario would be that the electric car trend dies out as a fad, leaving their core business (ICE cars) unaffected.
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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:42PM
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It's pretty far fetched. There's money in service but not for VW or any other OEM. The dealers make money on service. The OEM makes money on cars and financing. It wouldn't surprise me if subtracting warranty from parts sales resulted in a net negative for many models. I'm painting with a broad brush here but that's the gist of it. Going all EVs would simplify a heck of a lot of things for the OEMs.