European BEV sales in Aug 2024 declined compared to 2023.  German sales in particular according to Reuters.   https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-car-sales-3-year-low-august-ev-sales-down-439-acea-says-2024-09-19/   Comparing first 8 months of 2024 to 2023, it appears hybrid market share grew while BEVs and others declined.  Data below from Reuters article.  

Model E cannot do the things that Ford Executives want achieved, that’s the reason why Farley set up the skunkworks in early 2022, to develop affordable BEVs free of Ford’s usual constraints.   The hilarious part of the VW MEB deal is that VW is now cancelling its own MEB vehicles as failures that don’t sell and cost too much to produce….   Looks like VW is running off to Xpeng for the answer…..

I get why Ford is suing this company, but damn, that Bronco looks pretty cool.

People don’t see it yet but the Chinese government is running a national competition  to find the fittest BEV manufacturers, it’s a gladiatorial battle where the winners will have the whole Chinese domestic market and can then branch out to exports.   So yeah, the Chinese BEV automakers are already going through their own domestic  torture test, so anything western automakers throw at them will be soft ball in comparison. Europe and North America are just not ready for the coming onslaught and even with the threat of 100% tariffs, I’m wondering if the Chinese just do it all at cost simply to take market share away for European and American automakers like the Japanese manufacturers did in the 70s and 80s.

Looks pretty cool...   They even "vintage" up the speedo  

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/ford-sues-firm-that-makes-new-broncos-look-old/

Cummins is trying to get customer to bring in their Rams to address an illegal emissions defeat software problem

This article sheds light on the EV growth in China. It's largely due to suicidal cutthroat competition that will not end well for many Chinese EV manufactures.   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-ev-makers-face-die-093000537.html  

Technically it’s a different engine than the old one that had known issues. I haven’t heard of many issues with the new 3cyl version.