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    European EVs doing well in EU. Headlines so far this year has been surge of Chinese EVs in EU, but EU doing better.

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    18 hours ago

    It was just charging infrastructure and reasonable range designs that were needed all along?! Who could’ve seen that coming.

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    I really hope their EVs don’t turn out to be internal combustion with fudged testing capabilities. ;)

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    Noooooooo! Demand for electric vehicles is falling! Companies are cutting back on production! Gas and ooooooiiiiilllllllll!!!

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    23 hours ago

    The prices are just off the walls these days though. I want a california but will not spend 85k on it. Same with the ID7 tourer.

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    “Gains in South America and Europe more than compensated for the expected declines in China and North America,” said Marco Schubert, member of the extended VW Group Management Board.

    In Germany, Volkswagen is a market leader with almost every second new electric car registered in Germany in the first half of the year from the company.

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    I want an electric micro van so bad 😔 but I hate the look of the the buzz. And I’ve lived out of a VW before.

    Just put me more forward in the cockpit plz

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            i wouldn’t confuse Nikola with canoo.

            Canoo actually got to having a vehicle, and it was at a very reasonable price point and was a very compelling vehicle.

            I think the real issue they hit was that they didn’t look like a 100:1 return in investment, and for predatory capitol, thats all they’ll fund. I think they found themselves needing funds exactly when inflation was going nuts.

            I mean at the end of the day these are car manufacturers. it’s a shit ton of work to design and engineer and the produce a car. And they can’t be that expensive or people just don’t buy them. So the margins are kinda crap.

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          16 hours ago

          That little front windows is adorable. It’s really cool how much innovation EVs brought but its yet to be widely available :(

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            So I lived out of something like this for a bit:

            and what I love about that era of micro vans is the visibility. I feel like cannoo reall’got’ what it was that made those vans so special, and it’s that when you are travelling, you can see everything and it feels like you are really on tour.

            I was really bummed they went out of business.

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      14 hours ago

      I want an electric micro van so bad 😔 but I hate the look of the the buzz. And I’ve lived out of a VW before.

      Then get an eqv / eVito? Or an e-spacetourer / e-traveller?