Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company should go electric now

Re:Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company sh... by Barrin92 on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:28PM (#36636247)

these companies have global supply chains across dozens of countries, multi year contracts with suppliers, many existing locations and tens, if not hundreds of thousands of employees. It's not a videogame, you can't just open a dropdown menu and declare you're now a different company.

Also of course the customers aren't there. EV sales in Japan is 2% of the market, 7% in the US, 15% in Europe and China. Makes no sense to drop everything and ignore 90% of your consumers.

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Re:Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company sh... by toomuchtodo on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:30PM (#36636284)

That’s true, which is why countries are enacting new fossil fuel vehicle sales by future deadlines. It gives industry time to reconfigure but also doesn’t let them off the hook to deliver.

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Re:Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company sh... by anigbrowl on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:20PM (#36645858)

Nobody is saying to drop everything. I'm talking about the internal organization of the company.

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