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Cars delivered by Tesla and 50% yearly growth curve from 2013:

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2017 was planned to be above the curve, but then production hell come.
 
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2015 - 10% = +700,000,000 people [10% of ~7,500,000,000]
1900 - 70% = ~700,000,000 people [70% of ~1,000,000,000]
Just to point out that a hell of a lot of people are still suffering.

Population realities - not as bad as you might think - consider Hans Rosling
Reminder of Buckminster Fuller lessons of doing more with less is real progress.
Someone else might post a Bucky clip.
 
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2015 - 10% = +700,000,000 people [10% of ~7,500,000,000]
1900 - 70% = ~700,000,000 people [70% of ~1,000,000,000]
Just to point out that a hell of a lot of people are still suffering.

Population realities - not as bad as you might think - consider Hans Rosling
Reminder of Buckminster Fuller lessons of doing more with less is real progress.
Someone else might post a Bucky clip.
I love Has Rosling. He's done incredible work on demographics and he explains it clearly.
Check out GapMinder Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
 
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Industry profitability is largely influenced by truck revenues. When a performance-competitive electric truck is available, the industry will be at greatly increased financial risk. The exception being BMW, which does not offer a truck-thus making it a risk for an earlier demise.
 
Industry profitability is largely influenced by truck revenues. When a performance-competitive electric truck is available, the industry will be at greatly increased financial risk. The exception being BMW, which does not offer a truck-thus making it a risk for an earlier demise.
Volvo Truck and Volvo Cars are now two completely separate companies, since 1999. [not the same owners]
for those interested in details see Volvo - Wikipedia

Again, how many will be electrified (hybrids) and how many electric (BEV - Battery Electric Vehicles)
Perhaps full BEV are only "practical" in industrialized countries and elsewhere hybrids are the most practical solutions??
 
Volvo Truck and Volvo Cars are now two completely separate companies, since 1999. [not the same owners]
for those interested in details see Volvo - Wikipedia

Again, how many will be electrified (hybrids) and how many electric (BEV - Battery Electric Vehicles)
Perhaps full BEV are only "practical" in industrialized countries and elsewhere hybrids are the most practical solutions??
Non industrialized area might not have fuel distribution network or it is inefficient making fuel expensive. So solar electric charging might be best solution. This depends on area and transportation needs. My guess is: When battery price drops enough, many non industrialized area will change to EVs.

Hybrid has both EV and ICE tech, so it cannot be cheap to buy and maintain.
 
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Non industrialized area might not have fuel distribution network or it is inefficient making fuel expensive. So solar electric charging might be best solution. This depends on area and transportation needs. My guess is: When battery price drops enough, many non industrialized area will change to EVs.

Hybrid has both EV and ICE tech, so it cannot be cheap to buy and maintain.
I think especially true if those areas can get solar for electricity production.
solar + storage vs fossil fuel transporting + filling stations
 
How many models does volovo currently sell? 4?

In the US 7, globally 9

Industry profitability is largely influenced by truck revenues. When a performance-competitive electric truck is available, the industry will be at greatly increased financial risk. The exception being BMW, which does not offer a truck-thus making it a risk for an earlier demise.

Are you talking about pickups or commercial trucks? Pickups are a huge factor in North America, but only a tiny sliver of the non-commercial market in most of the rest of the world. I think the only other place that sells many pickups is Australia (where they are called utes). In NA sales of light duty trucks is what is keeping the Big 3 in business.

Commercial trucks are needed all over the world and they are significant, but total sales of commercial trucks is less than private car sales in most countries.
 
In the US 7, globally 9



Are you talking about pickups or commercial trucks? Pickups are a huge factor in North America, but only a tiny sliver of the non-commercial market in most of the rest of the world. I think the only other place that sells many pickups is Australia (where they are called utes). In NA sales of light duty trucks is what is keeping the Big 3 in business.

Commercial trucks are needed all over the world and they are significant, but total sales of commercial trucks is less than private car sales in most countries.
U.S. and global commercial vehicle production 2016 | Statistic

about 6 - 7 million in US and around 20 - 22 million world wide annually (internet searches for more info)
 
U.S. and global commercial vehicle production 2016 | Statistic

about 6 - 7 million in US and around 20 - 22 million world wide annually (internet searches for more info)

And the global passenger car and light truck market is around 100 million vehicles a year. Commercial vehicles are a fair percentage of the passenger vehicle market and each commercial vehicle usually costs a lot more, but in pure numbers, there are fewer sales of commercial vehicles a year.
 
Two years ago, I made a prediction/extrapolation about the Canadian EV sales market share with the intention to check each year if I was correct. Last year I reported that data were indeed following the trend, and that they were behaving a bit like Moore's law for the number of transistors on a chip: it was doubling every 1.8 years.

Well, I was wrong, it goes quite faster!
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Probably an effect of the M3 (and the Bolt?). It remains to be seen if the abolition of the generous EV grant program in Ontario (up to 12 k$CAD) will impact the increase of 2019 sales. On the other hand, a federal program (up to 5 k$CAD), which applies Canada-wide, just started a months ago. According to CanadaEVSales.com estimates, so far in 2019 (first 3 months), EV sales share is at 1.8%. Last year for the same period, it was at 1.6% and ended up at 2.23% for the full year. A rule of 3 brings the sales market share at 2.5% for 2019, still quite above the trend I predicted. We'll see...
 
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Returning to this old post a few years later, and it aged reasonably well!

The fit (orange curve) was on the data until 2016 (blue dots), the rest of the curve being an extrapolation, compared to actual data (in red). The data points from 2018-2022 are from StatCan, considering both BEV and PHEV, as I did since the beginning.

So we are still in a regime where the market share of pluggable cars increases exponentially. My prediction was that it was doubling every 1.8 year. It turned out to be a bit faster, doubling every 20 months (dashed green curve).

However, my other point on companies not developing pluggable cars being in the same position as Nokia 10 years ago didn't materialize yet...

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