Volkswagen EVs ABANDONED By Dealers & Used EVs Are DANGEROUS to Buy!
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Are Volkswagen electric cars being abandoned by dealerships? Find out why VW EVs are sitting unsold on dealer lots and why buying a used electric car can be risky. Watch this video to learn more about the challenges of buying a pre-owned VW electric car and how to navigate the potential dangers. Stay informed and make the best decision when it comes to purchasing an electric vehicle!
The only people shocked by poor EV sales are the ones who 1) aren't paying attention and 2) believe all the media bs.
And still taking the boosters.
Poor ev sales my ass, ev sales are increasing every year by a lot , so much so that there are not enough manufactured right now to fill demand, that is why prices are so high. Took me 30 seconds to debunk this lie.
It took you 30 seconds to look up more propaganda.
At least the car a couple weeks ago and was talking to the finance guy at a Ford dealership. He told me they sell one EV a month if that and we all had a big laugh.
the propaganda started here by original poster@@wrongthinker350
Remember VW's aggressive lobbying for EVs in the European Union just a few years ago. The irony
They make expensive shit EV's, but good EV's are selling well
Now they wamt to convince EU to change rules regarding ICE cars sales ban.
The EU is a b1tch of the WEF
ICE cars have the fuel pumps that fail 8 times more often than EV battery fires and have always done so. But that's old boring new. While EVs catching fire us new and views tune in allowing the news channel to get paid more for more views.
@@stevehayward1854 Keep telling yourself that.....
The root problem is that the EV graze was pushed by bureaucrats instead of the market, which is always a recipe for failure
Yes Tesla is a Jonnie come Lately!
Correct.
Following the WEFs insane requirements can only end in disaster.
Meanwhile the PM of Canada is building a VW battery plant in Ontario using taxpayers dollars to build batteries nobody wants, this is like fertilizing the Sahara.
@barriegregory6606 your coments are brilliant all of you ,when they get it right with the new solid state battery's no body will want them 👍
Fertilizing the Sahara would be much more co2 friendly.
@@johnarnold5891 there is no solid state battery, it's just a wild goose chase, the solid electrolyte has too much internal resistance due to the low mobility of the ions to make high current batteries.
As you say, a very large block of land almost 2 rural concessions, have basically been expropriated from home owners, farmers and land owners..all for a NEW VW BATTERY PLANT. The ultra woke, ultra joke trudeau lpc has thrown BILLIONS at it, because it suits his so called green agenda.
I was by there not long after the paperwork was signed, and with all the bulldozers, land moves , backhoes..they leveled houses, garages, sheds, barns..whatever building was standing..not to mention most of the trees and bushes..leveled. It looked like a war zone.
Sounds to me like this whole thing is going to be an epic, gargantuan, fail.
@@johnarnold5891 Solid state batteries!😅
People buying EV out of concern for the environment, but no problem jumping on planes for hols.
We buy the plane tickets with money that we don't spend on petrol and oil changes. There is very little servicing on a Tesla. I would still be wary of BYD though.
The conservative government in Australia banned importing lion hunting trophies and banned airsoft, so who gives a stuff about the Planet.
I can just move somewhere cooler with decent hunting and a better lack of conservative government gun laws.
Because there are no electric planes good enough to compete with current airplanes.
@@kuro0021 So far you are correct about the planes, but they are an indication of an area that might develop, either via electricity or hydrogen. There are very small electric planes and massive numbers of useful electric drones already. Small drones can fly for days at the edge of space on solar wings and batteries already.
The environmental impact of car manufacture far outweighs the emissions from driving your existing car until it reaches the end of its life.
@@gdutfulkbhh7537 You are correct. We bought our EV, when the petrol monster was not worth re[airing. I would have preferred to wait two years, as better things were coming. None of the old school car makers are making good EVs. Large institutional institutional corporations and politicians tend to arrive at the party too late.There are much better and cheaper EVs on the way, so their is no rush.
It amazes me how such massive companies have forgotten the needs of their customers .. Affordable motoring... We are not all millionaires.... So chose a car that suits our budget... And eV..... Is a car I can't afford 😢
If I could afford one , there is no way I would play combustion roulette with the shyt things.
New modern management, no family company, not their money etc
To be fair government legislation is forcing their hand, but I do note that Toyota has resisted the panicked response to this short this sighted fiasco....
@@rob5944 Long Live Toyota !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@peternicholls50 yes, a sensible and pragmatic company.
The electric cars are a big turn off for many. I being one. I want a car that is affordable, safe and is not full of electronic gismos that I am never going to use. I want dials and switches not touch screens. The less complicated the car the more likely it will be reliable. I am in the market for a new car, just waiting for someone to build one that I like at a reasonable price.
Look at the Honda CRV. It has tech but also gas HVAC physical controls. Media and driving data screens are separate ( as they should be).
Reasonable mpg, currently getting about 42 mog, but have to drive like I'm driving Miss Daisy. My usual driving style returns about 39 mpg.
Like all the other manufacturers prices are too high.
I just bought a 2024 Nissan Versa manual transmission, out the door for under 20k. It's about as simple as you can get these days. There is still a touch screen for the radio, and a rearview camera that displays on the screen, but that's about it. The rearview camera is nice for me, I don't have a lot of flexibility in my neck. I am getting 40mpg or slightly more in a mixture of city and highway driving. It is a compact and not on the "luxury" end of the spectrum and might not be for everyone. But I like it.
I fully agree, but a lot of the electric gizmo stuff that you and I oppose are found on ICE cars too. They are shoving it down our throat, even though I don't know anyone that likes it (except writings for car magazines who are told they must be the cheerleader for the auto industry). ICE cars are also getting insanely expensive. Maybe their plan is to make ICE cars so expensive, we won't feel the pain of an EV. I'll keep driving my old S-10.
BTW, Toyota has a no-thrills truck they sell for the foreign market. This truck has absolutely nothing. If they ever introduce it here in the states, I'll buy it. Been buying GM for nearly 50 years, but they've given me the middle finger, and now with these prices, they've pulled their finger back, and formed a fist, so time to move on (if Toyota brings their no-thrills truck here).
Well said. My 8 year old vw gti had rotary dials and switches for essential info. The Mk 8 golf is an I pad screen. Stabbing away to find something ! Crap.
@@johnstudd4245or a Toyota
After last weeks software glitch, I stay with my 1979 Chevrolet caprice and 2007 Honda, both paid off and are built better then EV's
We get forced into having EV lease cars at work. Complete joke.
Reject the company car and use your own
@@theodorbean2604 not allowed, plus I don't have one.
Quit the job
@@will_dikfit2975 are you paying my mortgage?
Get a tesla great car
Sell expensive cars, win an expensive prize like debt.
be sure to note hat many gas and diesel vehicles are expensive too and not selling well, at Dometic and Japanese car makers too
Well folks this is what happens when legacy automakers cave in to government stupidity and create unusable electric lemons that spontaneously combust into flames 😂. The batteries in those cars are bombs waiting to go off because those things are not designed for extreme conditions and they can't be repaired or insured unless they are written off to the junkyard to be scrapped for parts 😮.
I actually think it was more the other way round. Governments were ‘lobbied’ by environmentalists and fed a load of BS ‘statistics’ (we all know about those!). And car manufacturers - ever keen to load out a load of b@llocks on the public that we never want as ‘progress’- jumped on the bandwagon and pushed governments harder. This whole debacle is just a prime example of why humans are doomed while governments and big companies listen to the ‘woke’ and not their public.
Wow the brainwashing is strong with you, are you really that dumb to believe this crap ?
I look at your comment and it reminds me of history , where horse and buggy salesmen tried everything to denounce cars, lol i remember comments just as arsine as you from old newspapers, the fact they tried to say if you drive over 32 miles an hour you will be unable to breath, lol. That is how stupid i think you comment is.
Except they don't do they? Hardly ever, far less often than ICE cars.
According the US insurance data for every 100,000 cars 25 EV's will catch fire and 1,532 ICE will catch fire, thats 60x less chance of an EV catching fire than an ICE car.
You have been brainwashed by the Big Oil/Legacy Car companies, how does that feel ?
Well, it had to come around like karma or Murphy's law proves. I have no sympathy for any companies that have kow-towed to political mandates and agendas that I have long suspected of being more than a passing interest in this net zero insanity. One can make of that what one will!!
Akio Toyoda was right. 🤷♂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ll never have an ev car. I own my last car.
Doesn't matter what governments and manufacturers want, I'll never buy an EV.
You will and you will love it. Many Luddites resist change because they are afraid of change but in the end you will capitulate.
It's not your fault, it's the propaganda and FUD that comes from Big Oil/Legacy Car Companies that have a lot to lose and you have fallen for it
@stevehayward1854 ,the Tesla Model Y that I drove was underwhelming. EV was OK, but only that, just ok. The rest of the vehicle was so flawed that they'll never get my money. Then there's the other negatives: fire risk, charging, resale value, insurance costs etc etc.
So, no, I'll never own an EV.
@@stevehayward1854Oil and gas will always be the norm and practical which batteries will never be. The world will never fly planes with batteries and thats why your theories will die and eventually make you hate batteries
@@stevehayward1854btw keep gazing into your so-called Luddites fantasy crystal ball. It's not gonna end well for you and your type
@@kayoarawo6116 Why ?
Everyone was afraid of mobile/cell phones when they came out, they where going to fry your brains, now everyone has one.
Admit it, your afraid of change, I bet you still have your rotary dial up phone
Am I going to buy an EV “No Chance”.
You the kinda person who said you will never get a mobile phone
You will.
I used to own a Transporter T4 some years ago. The electrics were absolute garbage. Door mirrors, break lights, windows all stopped working. Eventually it started to go into limp mode and was told it needed a new wiring loom. I’d never buy another VW.
Car manufacturers bent over and took the ev mandates up the back passage. They should have told the eu and UN to take a hike. They dug this hole for themselves. No one wants EVs.
No sane and rational thinking person , with my eyes open I looked at the way the krap things operated....horrible and dangerous.
They got massive subsidies from governments to do it, whether they sold card or not. All in the name of the green new deal
@@ejh1100 Your evidence for your statement is ?
Is it somebody told you so !!!
@@stevehayward1854 consumers , well the ones who live to make a report..
blx... wake up and smell the future... clean air and the shut down of fossil fuels
End of EVs
How much is your ev? It's free, we're giving them away, special offer. Free you say? Hummm, nah!! I wasn't thinking of paying that much.
Anything the government thinks is going to be affordable and work well usually fails.
I drive a 43 year old classic Citroen van everyday for my business, it's very light, small, simple, costs peanuts to run and it's exempt from ULEZ. Best of all is ZERO depreciation and everyone comments and loves it. I wouldn't have any modern electric vehicle instead, even if it was free! My little van is the greenest vehicle in the whole town, so much for electric cars! Always was a complete nonsense idea, we should have gone down the renewable energy/Hydrogen route.
Is your fuel free and do you still have to service it, replace brake pads etc
My fuel is free and I never have to service my EV, not in the 7 years I have been driving it. How much as your old jalopy cost you ?
@@stevehayward1854just wait till it break down and go into tbe shop for few month. Goin any where long distant, siting in cafe and wasting time is a great idea
Your Citroen will probably still be here when these modern piles of plastic have been scrapped.
@@stevehayward1854 just go check yr latest premium.
@@jamesrecknor6752 Thats if your Citroen hasnt turned into a pile of rust. 😂
P.s don't get rid of your original car 😅
There will be a glut of second hand battery powered fleet cars coming onto the market in the near future. That should make things more interesting.....🙃
You are right the second hand EV market is gonna be hot 🔥🔥🔥
The market in the UK, has absolutely tanked for them, and in another year or 2, when all these fleet vehicles come on, it will be very interesting. Charging infrastructure, is nowhere near ready, many people live in terrace houses, where you can't charge one, and same with blocks of flats, my nearest charger, is 2.1 miles from my home, don't need to be a genius, to see the issues, that they bring
Some amazing deals to be had
Mate just bought a 2 year old EV with 10k miles for 12k £
List price nee was 34k
He’s absolutely over the moon with it
Never bought a new car in my life! Why? - because no one makes what I want and need! I end up having to grossly compromise on something second hand. The first manufacturer which makes a simple car to maintain, that has no fancy electric stupidities or trick lights has my money. Air-con, good seats, ability to tow at least 2 tonnes, gives me good mpg, and electric windows would be nice. I don’t need sat nav, lights that flash on so ‘you can see better when you go round a corner’ or turn on automatically, no need for fancy brakes - just ones that work please.
I love secondhand cars, as they embody the era in which they were made. Especially 80s and 90s BMWs.
My last two cars have had adaptive lights. Both have failed. So I've paid to fix something that I didn't want on the first place.
i had a french renault ts16 1976. a perfect car.
My Morris Minor is 63 years old, it's used every day and will easily outlive me. No computer crap in this car, no ev for me.
How do you stop it rusting and does it start on cold humid mornings with its Lucas electrics? I am serious! All British Cars of the 1950s-1990 rusted away in vast numbers and the Lucas electrics didn’t help. I have my Dads Mk2 Cortina and that was a total write off until it had a labour of love rebuild. Now it is a show car / garage queen.
@@sullivanrachael the only rust was in the boot lid. I restored the car 5 years ago and changed the dynamo for an alternator, the coil and distributor were replaced with electronic versions. Always starts on the button no matter if it’s damp or cold. It’s only 948cc but quite happy at 60/65 mph. Not road tax or mot needed, fully comp insurance under £100 per year. I’m 71 so would be cheaper if I was younger.
The 100% tariff on chinese EV imports was conveniently left out in this video.
EV's are the joke nobody is laughing about.
Why are they a joke, I have been driving them for 7 years and I cant see the joke, can you let me in on it please ?
@@stevehayward1854 They are a new tred. Can't still say people have drove them 20-30 years and over 300 tmiles
@@lauriperamaki5354 My word you are brainwashed, there is no hope for someone so easily fooled by the Big Oil/Legacy Car Company propaganda/FUD.
I have been driving EV's for over 7 years and they are nothing like the media rubbish they are feeding you, I will never go back to an antiquated form of transport like an ICE car.
Best of luck in your delusion
I don't understand the push to electric cars when transportation accounts for only about 15% of world emissions and manufacturing accounts for most of the rest. Why are we so concerned with the little problem and completely ignoring the big problem. Are we crazy ... or just being lied to.
Lied to. You can see whats going on in the world at the moment. We in ireland are pissed off.
@@michaelcully1838 Ireland for the Irish...glad you are fighting back my friend!
So you’re saying we should stop the manufacturing plants and just live in a cave? Almost everything that u use daily need those manufacturing plants.
@@akmalahmad2365 It's about not letting a totalitarianNWOdictatingWhatThingsCompaniesShouldManufacture.
No I'm not, don't read shit into this that isn't there. What I AM saying is that ... just in case you didn't figure it out the first time, that the biggest polluters in the world are industrial polluters and all of our cars that the environmental crusaders are so very worried about, are peanuts compared to the amount of emissions industry is putting out. And what's this bit about stop manufacturing and living in caves? If we had DOMESTIC ( made in this country ) plants that followed environmental guidelines ( which they don't even have in india and china ) then OUR goods would be produced in a far less harmful way in respect to the environment and we could still have all our little toys.
It's not just EV's, everything these days is stuffed full of useless tech for no good reason.
I've just bought a new washing machine, touch screen with phone connectivity.
A perfect example of the over use of tech which is unnecessary.
We have to step back from the use of tech for the sake of it. I want buttons and dials, not touch screen software nonsense.
I dont see the point in buying EVs until they can do something that is so remarkable that its absolutely stupid not to buy them. And at this point. It doesn't make sense what so ever. Maybe when EVs can do 600 to 700 miles and fully charge in 10 minutes but until then, It doesn't matter how many buttons you put in them. They are still a waste of time. NEXT.
As reported 25 July 2024 in the Dailey Mail: Ford's E division has lost 2.5 Billion dollars in the first half of 2024. That fact, along with its loses in warranty work on all of its vehicles, has caused its stock shares to tumble. Also, reported Tesla, Is suffering huge sales loses. Ouch. The EV honeymoon in America is over.
EV could bankrupt VW, Ford and GM for a start.
it's the whole plan
Hope so! And Tesla, as well!!
VAG made 22.6 billion euros operating profit in 2023. In the last 14 years they have had only one annual lose due to dieselgate payouts.
THEN NO JOBS FOR WORKERS. REMOVE THE GOVERMENT WHO CREATED THIS.
I recently looked at and test drive Mercedes priced at $65,000 , I was astonished by poor quality of plastics and overall finish , and another thing, they practically giving away the extended warranty I guess to keep the dealers shops happy repairing problems , what happened to this solid brand ????
People are nuts buying EV. I would not have one as a gift
In the past 8 or 9 mon😢I have spoken to dozens of owners of EV s and everyone said never again. On depreciation alone they are a disaster never mind the hassle of trying to get them charged.
It's already happening.
Love mine
EVs are extremely bad for the environment, please look at the life of the production f the car and not measure one fact when compared to gasoline cars!
EVs take a lot of chemicals, from acids to base, elements that mining these elements alone are horrible then on top these batters are extremely dangerous, some of these batteries can burn for days and even burn under water!
Then to repair or change the batteries out is a huge cost because they want you to buy new so the can use recyclables out of the older car only cause more environmental damage!
Don’t be fooled gasoline car are better then EVs and in many ways!
Wake Up! All EVs are a disaster!
Explain why you think so, because it's not apparent to me at all and I have been driving them for 7 years now
Sales are exploding, why spout this nonsense, have you been brainwashed into believing the lies in this video, or are you a bot.
Well 3 of my mates have bought a EV and they’re absolutely over the moon with them and say they will never ever go back to ice
@@boyasaka Thats the general consensus.
I love my Tesla M3 LR
@@stevehayward1854
According to surveys 50% of owners of EV will buy ICE car the next time.
It's time to ban all ev's from the roads, it's time this eco scam came to an end!
EV = Electrically Volatile
I’ll be driving my current ICE car until it won’t anymore. If I have to ever get another car (hoping I won’t) it will be an older used ICE car. I can’t afford anything else.
I wouldn't drive an EV even if it was free, seriously. I detest them.
get on yer bike then!
@@kipper2k Ha ha yes .. well I do actually but I'll stick to my very reliable and economic diesel :-)
diesel > economic... isnt that on oxymoron lol@@mrnexus8seven949
I would have one for free - if they were safe!
@@Biosynchro Haha yes, "IF" ..
No private buyer is going to purchase an EV. They deprecated like a rock tied to a boulder dropped from 10,000 feet.
That's true, I spoke to someone recently who financed an electric BMW for 112k. In ONE year it has lost 57k of it's value. If someone tries to sell you an EV...RUN.
Sensible people never ever buy a new car
Or use pcp or lease
Sensible people like me always buy a 3 year old low Milage car and keep in 7 years
My mates just bought a 3 year old EV with 9000 miles on clock for £12000
List price new 35k
He has a 5 year warranty left on battery
He’s over moon with it
@@dazuk1969your mate is obviously a bit thick
Sensible guy buys your mates 1 year old car at a 60 percent discount against new
@@boyasaka Math - not your strength er?
@@ashleylaw ?? Explain
Forgive me if I made a typo
My eyes are not as good as my math
Why are these companies allowed to get in to so much debt !
Governments forced them in to this ev shite. They gave them money to set them up and left them high and dry.
Bring diesels back!
@jtkrpm1 - F*ck that!!!
Exploding milk floats good riddance.
They need to scrap the lot of them.
Please cancel the background music.
No mater what brand EV's are a dystopian death end... just ignore & skip.
Dont talk about percentage increae ir decrease. "Tesla's 83% increase" is highly misleading!WHAT WERE THE ACTUAL NUMBERS!
Hang on to your ICE vehicles..they are going to be worth a fortune soon
I am so tired of the miss information around EVs, I just use public transportation!
In the UK, EV's cost £10,000 more than the same model with a petrol engine and they depreciate 30% more in 2 years than the ICE car. On top of this, is the much higher insurance costs and in 2025, EV's will pay road tax the same as ICE cars, (They were free of tax) so if you like throwing money down the drain, buy an EV.
BYD has big quality control problems and has seen sales plummet in China this year, The whole EV sector is collapsing.
BYD has had more than a dozen showrooms go up in smoke.... Mobile barbecues
Nobody is talking about personal data security of the customers while using EV. This is also a kind of monitoring system that the manufacturer and government are developing silently.
Meanwhile, your posting on this.
Staright after their emission problem this will be a financial disaster for VW. Selling one of its premium brands will be needed to balance its books.
Buy an electric car don't park it in your garage find an empty field.
I park mine in my garage which is built into my house with my daughters bedroom above it
It’s safer than a ice car
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
Stop being a sheep
Don't park that EV next to my car unless it's a Tesla.
@@boyasakapeaceful protesters burned a lot of ice cars messing up the statistics. There were no EVs in Minnesota to set on fire.
The market is saturated for EVs and they would have to give them away or improve 100% to have people drive them....
E V s are no good they are not environmentally friendly the electric has to be Generated It's like passing the buck
What a BS channel 😖
When your home owners insurance won't pay if the EV burst into flames in your garage.
EVs are not for me. Not now, not in the near future. Hybrids seem to be a great idea though.
If hybrids didn't have the same dangerous lithium batteries as full EV's, they might be a bit more desirable. They are better, but still at risk of spontaneously combusting, especially the plug-in hybrids.
Should do a deal with Chinese manufacturer NIO. Battery swap is the future. Just like going to a gas/petrol station.
EV with solid state battery would be breakthrough
Well . . .
This is Adoph Hitler's car company.
Like Hugo Boss was the SS Taylor’s and AEG ovens were installed in Auschwitz it’s all a dirty business.
Total cost of ownership for an EV is nothing but pain. Depreciation is outrageous - but inevitable.
10th booster, 2nd EV. Dyeing my hair blue tonight.
I am shocked why people buy Tesla here in poorest EU country Bulgaria, as there is neither official Tesla service/dealership nor supercharger network (only 2 for people passing by).
Straight from the first sentence this video is rubbish, all car companies that provide finance for car purchase are indebted because the loan shows as a liability on their balance sheet, stop watching junk like this.
VW group (and other German brands) traded for too long on a reputation from much earlier times and shoddy design and QC crept in to the point that sales dropped steadily.
The rush to EVs was ill-conceived for the recharge and range anxiety issues mentioned but also ludicrous prices and electricity generation in Germany especially being the opposite of green. Thus, manufacture and running were and remain very dirty and carbon offset fines do not change the fact that much of Europe is still a high CO2 polluter. Only the UK with Norway, Spain and France (when its nuclear reactors are renewed) come close to the Kyoto declaration.
VW group axed the UP!, SEAT equivalent and Skoda's Yeti MPV to pay for EV production. SUVs ruled, small cars were ignored and nobody bothered to be honest about the sheer weight of EVs and how they damage European smaller roads.
Most tables of most unreliable cars show German cars to be the worst.
VW ceasing EV production at some plants will not save the group from supply train problems which are causing component makers to go bust.
Bringing back the GO! type cars and Skoda Yeti in a hybrid version could mitigate the slide but all German manufacturers must lower prices and extend warranties to Asian standards to avoid a major industrial collapse in Germany (which is already gaining pace).
My first 4 cars were VWs but when the Golf and Passat engines and finish disappointed me by loyalty collapsed. I drove Peugeots for a few years before they succumbed to lower standards with Citroen in a sad partnership then changed to Japanese cars, especially as some were assembled in my native UK and the work ethic could be viewed.
Now in old age and infirm health I use Toyota MPVs and look forward to direct import of a Sienta hybrid next year.
Unless German manufacturers address real life needs and wants and stop forcing 'aspirational' junk at us the country will lose its volume automotive industry very quickly.
Krautmobiles were never any good, however now with the battery car mayhem, the company is going down deeper than the Felicity Ace had sunk to. They are in debt to the tune of almost USD $200 billion.... Bye-bye, VW.
Who the hell would buy a used EV? spend thousands of dollars, in a car with bad batteries, and after a couple of years having to spend the same amount of money on a bettery pack, as buying a new car? its a terrible investment.
In South Korea, the first day of Augusr 2024, in one underground parking lot in a big condominium apartment, one Mercedes EQE immolated itself, destroying 140 other vehicles, also inflicting huge structural damage on the building itself. This incident was entirely recorded by CCTV. It caused the evacuation of 480 families, and they are still living in the gym near the condo. This accident is widely reported because of the scale of the damage, but the EV fire accidents are very frequent in South Korea, like once a week. The so called experts are worried about Ev Phobia arising among people, but it's not phobia it's reality that these EVs are kxlling people and inflicting huge damage.
And the British army can't save them now
Just bought a brand new Audi and it’s a petrol engine. Never even thought about an EV and never will.
Unfortunately that new Audi engine is made with so much plastic don't expect it to last 8 years. Parts like intake manifold, valve covers, oil pan , thermostat housing are now typically made of plastic.
an extremely capable administrator was already present years ago in VW, Luca De Meo now he is CEO of the Renault group and is achieving excellent results, he was let go without a reason
that ship did not sink, it made it back to port, can't even get the basics right.
Just Yesterday Volvo said they are abandoning their EV only strategy and continuing with Hybrid and gasolene cars till the bitter end
Also, reported in the Daily Mail, 25 July 2024: for the first time the average resale value on a used EV, is Less then the average resale value on a gas car.
So stop moaning about how expensive EV's are then. Modern batteries will outlast the mechanicals of the car.
@@XenonJohnD If it doesn't burn you alive first you mean? lol
the entire range is rubbish
The biggest concern when it comes to VW in modern times is and can be summed up in one word
GREED !!!
Hey folks the EV problem is over nobody wants them. VW and GM should both go bankrupt and start a revival,of smart gasoline cars with normal,size engines no more 3 cylinder crap.
The GP wants an entertainment system on wheels and is ignorant of the shortcomings of EVs.
Don't build something people don't want and can't afford and expect it to be a Sales success...
I thought about buying an EV, but found the fire lighters cheaper in the drugstores.
They need to bring back the bug.
Stick your EV up your ring piece
after owning one volkswagon I will never own another one voluntarily. even if they gave it to me
If a well known brand is having this much problems with their EV s then the cheeper ones are absolute disaster.
So who's gonna pay for all these vehicles that nobody will buy, brcause you can bet they who built them won't pay for them, The will just add the cost onto the new vehicles the are building, driving prices up. I bet the CEO will still get his eye watering bonus at the end of they year, and so will all the board members. so who'll pay for this catastrophic screw up, the people, that's who.
Send them all to the White House
ICE cars are dead, and this year several factories will close in China. One of our helpful car dealers sent a message saying: "Your EV is already 4 years old it's time to get a new one. We will give you a good deal." It turns out that in Shenzhen and other big Chinese cities, the EV market share is close to 70%, and many ICE car factories are either cutting production or closing factories. That means the suppliers are also cutting production or exiting the market. What is really happening is that the used EVs are now making people think twice should they spend the money on gas or the monthly payment of the EV.
Bet that ship belonged to VW under umbrella co.
Don't park next to an EV, well maybe next to a Tesla is ok.
It's a good thing a bunch of automobiles, including a bunch of EVs on a sinking burning ship, doesn't represent any ecological issues.
evs are not a disastrer! Electric motors are much better than ice BUT we have nothing to power those evs with. Using thoisands of small lithium cells in a vibrating vehicle is madness. There is safe battery chemistries like lto or lifepo4 but they cost a little more. Vw and other use cheap dangerous crap, its mind boggling that these unsafe cells are even allowed!
The 60’s and 70’s VW’s were fun and interesting cars. Now the end of VW is just around the corner.
All volkswagen need to do at least on the european level is to do the great renault clio competitor by doing a car more reliable, cheaper and with the same quality as a renault clio, maybe a new Golf Rabbit or something, and maintain their internal combustion cars wich are great but they need some competitive prices to renault, they need to do cars for people not luxury ones, they already got brands enough to do luxurious cars
All they have to do is reduce vw polo price and maybe I dunno ad a 6th gear disc brakes and a reverse camera, I went to skoda fabia for the price and what it provides for that very reason
@@x.kasiouris5503 you got me, but why such a small car would get rear view camera, is that really necessary? Because off Blindspots?
@SWIFT605T it has a larger chassis than the old and new cars in genral have more blind spots Polo is nowadays almost golf new gold sized plus that with parking in my city a rear camera is a huge help
@@x.kasiouris5503 thats true, a new polo might be bigger than a mk1 Golf
Tesla sales at least in North America are very good! I’ve had my model 3 for two and a half years and I’m happy with it. I never buy another gasoline car.
Got good comprehensive fire cover I hope... How fast can you all get out when it self combusts ?
If the US government invested in a society for other than the richest and for the benefit of their citizens, then they would bet on more use of renewable energy and electric cars. In Norway, more than 90% of all car sales are electric cars and that despite the fact that they have some extremely cold temperatures in the winter - in the real world it is not a problem. Here in Denmark we get tax exemption when we buy an electric car - if we buy a petrol car we pay a tax of 180%. In Denmark, there is one fast charger per 78 electric car and that means we never experience problems finding one. Drove all over Europe last week - it was never a problem to find an available charger. The risk of fire in an electric car is less than in a petrol or diesel - the fire service in Denmark keeps statistics and there is a 70 percent greater risk of fire in a petrol or diesel car.
With all these MPs cycling or walking to the office , lets allow VW to use the House of Commons underground carpark to store their EVs