TechCheck+ Tesla and EVs in reverse: Why automakers are scaling back their green ambitions 11/3/23
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🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Getting into electric vehicles, it may be harder than it looks. |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to be number one mid-decade in EVs in the U.S. |
| 0:09.0 | As we get further into the transformation to E, it's a bit bumpy, which is not unexpected. |
| 0:16.8 | We're going to invest whatever it takes to drive our growth initiatives on battery electric vehicles and are connected to |
| 0:23.4 | vehicles. |
| 0:24.4 | Ford announced yesterday they are delaying 12 billion dollars of planned EV spending |
| 0:30.1 | indefinitely potentially even raising the possibility of cancelling it. |
| 0:33.7 | General Motors and Honda announcing that they will be co-developing lower-priced EVs. |
| 0:39.7 | Honda is planning to haul plans with GM to develop smaller electric vehicles. |
| 0:44.8 | The report saying Honda's CEO cites changes in the business environment for that decision. |
| 0:49.6 | Even Tesla's pure play EV King, it's getting hit. Even a great ship in a storm has challenges. |
| 0:55.0 | So what happened? |
| 0:57.0 | This week on check check? |
| 0:59.0 | Electric vehicles in reverse. |
| 1:02.0 | How the world's biggest automakers are scaling back their green ambitions. |
| 1:08.0 | Electric vehicles were supposed to be the wave of the future. |
| 1:10.0 | President Biden announcing that he's going to be signing an executive order setting a pretty |
| 1:14.5 | ambitious target of 50% of electric vehicles to be sold in the United States by the year 2030. |
| 1:20.0 | It's pretty clear that this transition is going to happen. |
| 1:22.8 | This is where the world is going. |
| 1:24.2 | And automakers had big plans. |
| 1:26.0 | General Motors setting a goal to sell EVs exclusively by 2035. |
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