30-12-2024, 11:17 AM
Yeah I've been following the electric biking for a while, I know he is a bit biased at times but seems well researched.
As far as Nissan goes, the CEO responsible for the leaf had the right ideas well ahead of everyone else at the time even if the first generation of that vehicle was a lemon, they were a pretty early mover in the market, but he seems to have been pretty corrupt along with the CEO at Stellantis.
Company mismanagement has probably been the biggest issue in these situations.
The only way I see japan getting out of this is to liquidate as many assets as they can that are of no longer of any use, consolidate their assets and production, develop a new EV platform that can roll out across the various brands.
To do this they will need to follow china and Teslas manufacturing methods, introduce innovations such as giga casting, heavy use of robots etc.
The thing they don't have on their side is time.
Meanwhile they have a ton of petrol vehicles they need to move on and recoup the costs.
Perhaps as an interim move they can sell hybrids to buy time until they have EVs ready.
I'm surprised Toyota has rolled out an electric model here, I didn't see that coming.
I see Jaguar has taken a rather unusual move to stop all production for a whole 12 months and roll out their new models then, looks like they will be making some significant investments to refit their factories.
As far as Nissan goes, the CEO responsible for the leaf had the right ideas well ahead of everyone else at the time even if the first generation of that vehicle was a lemon, they were a pretty early mover in the market, but he seems to have been pretty corrupt along with the CEO at Stellantis.
Company mismanagement has probably been the biggest issue in these situations.
The only way I see japan getting out of this is to liquidate as many assets as they can that are of no longer of any use, consolidate their assets and production, develop a new EV platform that can roll out across the various brands.
To do this they will need to follow china and Teslas manufacturing methods, introduce innovations such as giga casting, heavy use of robots etc.
The thing they don't have on their side is time.
Meanwhile they have a ton of petrol vehicles they need to move on and recoup the costs.
Perhaps as an interim move they can sell hybrids to buy time until they have EVs ready.
I'm surprised Toyota has rolled out an electric model here, I didn't see that coming.
I see Jaguar has taken a rather unusual move to stop all production for a whole 12 months and roll out their new models then, looks like they will be making some significant investments to refit their factories.