BMW have been quoted as saying they don’t think electric vehicles are right for most people. Despite developing the ActiveE coupe and i3 electric vehicles for production later this year, they still believe battery technology and resistance from drivers of large vehicles will keep most people away from owning a fully-electric vehicle.
Clean diesel and hybrids are too tempting to let go in great volumes hence the careful side-stepping of nouns and premises so they don’t shoot themselves in their clay feet. And for that reason, we see yet again another wonderful EV development being relegated to the leasing arena. When will they learn?
BMW ActiveE AC electric motor 125 kW
With fast-charging and long range batteries imminent, the entire scene will change within the next five years, or my uncle’s a monkey, well he is anyway, but he still drives a gas guzzling BMW. In fact, the many, many BMW conversions out there I know of show that people want electric vehicles NOW, even if as a second car, which I have been saying for a while now as commuter gas vehicles replaced by electric can be a really cool thing.
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I will admit, parts industry in petrol cars are to lucrative to give up for a long time to come