[anonymousCar]

First makes 5.9M cars per year and is planning 50k Mach e. That's 0.8% of their line electric.

VW seems to be the only major manufacturer that's really going all in on electric and it's only after wringing their hands from the emissions scandal.

The old automakers seem to only want to do this in the face of bankruptcy.

[hinkley]

The cynic in me still thinks the EV1 was a honey pot engineered by GM to kill two birds with one stone.

One, get the government off their back. Two, round up all the 'whiners' lay half of them off and demoralize the rest.

It is said, with only a very small sense of irony, that the only vehicle to come from the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles was the Toyota Prius. See, Toyoda thought we were serious, was blocked from joining the partnership (Bush/Gore era protectionism at its finest) and built a brain trust to compete with what turned out to be a bluff. Detroit may be the biggest bunch of learned helplessness foot-draggers there is. It's too haaard. See? We can't do it.

[panpanna]

Didn't Volvo say they would go 100% electric before 2023?

They are not as big as VW, but that sure should "all in" to me..

[losvedir]

I think it was something like 100% of their models will have an electric option?

edit: yeah, found this: https://electrek.co/2018/04/25/volvo-electrification-plan-fu... . And their goal is 50% of sales will be electric by 2025.

[pixxel]

Looked up to see who owns Volvo, just out of interest. Ford purchased in 1999 and sold to a Chinese firm in 2010.

[panpanna]

Note that both development and production still happens in Europe.

I did some digging for my next car and this is what I found: The Chinese owner established newer companies for the Chinese market mostly in China which use their engineering. One of them is a pure EV company.

[Sebb767]

> That's 0.8% of their line electric.

And that's probably what they expect to sell. Producing 5.9M electric cars is one thing (and that's not easy on its own), but selling them is the problem.

[Kuinox]

Renault does have some electric vehicle.