Elon Musk’s electric car company Teslahas been a pioneer in the field of electric vehicles for years. Later, giants producing cars with both traditional combustion engines entered this field. First Chinese manufacturers While many new companies, including Togg, are entering this market, Turkey has also taken its place in this market with Togg.

Sales increase in the past two years as a percentage of sales compared to ten years ago tenfold Interest in electric cars, which reached 14%, seems to be declining according to the latest news. Although Apple has completely given up on its own electric car, some companies have chosen to expand their transition schedules to all-electric. Of course, there are reasons for this remarkable and dramatic change.

Let’s talk about the visible reasons first:

With electric cars There are a number of important issues involved. The first of these is the high cost of battery production and the need to rely heavily on China for raw materials.

Other reasons include the fact that these vehicles are expensive, people don’t trust these vehicles very much, and kind of like “The caravan is built on the road.” Companies must act with logic and rush to switch to electric vehicles electrical infrastructures Whether they are sufficient for the transition to electric driving or not.

On the other hand, my reader friend, these are already everywhere representatives of companies and consumers the issues he raises. So this time we’re going to do something different, the question behind the question We will try to answer. Our topic will not be the transition to electric vehicles, but why the transition to electric and other alternative vehicles is difficult and why the systems are not set up in the most optimal way.

Everything that has to do with money becomes political at some point.

muesli An endemic plant like worldwide “healthy breakfast/meal” When it became famous for its concept, granola resources became quite scarce, forests were destroyed for more agricultural land, and locals, who under normal circumstances ate granola, started selling granola and buying and eating other foods instead . It’s just one food and potatoes It’s not food that changes the world in that way. Now let’s consider something similar for batteries. Most raw materials come from China and logistics is one of the most important issues.

Another important point is that raw materials come directly from China. Historically, China and the West have been at opposite points in the global balance. They compete in many areas, especially in technology. That is why no one wants to surrender a critical area to a country that is their direct competitor. If electric cars required a substance called zobilium and you were the largest supplier of it, you could demand the privilege you wanted and give the price you wanted. Or more efficient batteries can be made with borafen, but no one wants to connect their hub to Turkey.

Manufacturers also believe that the transition to electric is being rushed.

The biggest problem here is this: truly electric cars Is there no alternative? Car companies are not hesitating because they want to continue using combustion engines, but because they are not sure that electric cars are the only alternative. The announced investment for this year amounts to more than $82 billion, according to statements from major companies.

Companies making such large investments are not sure that electricity is the only alternative. Electric cars and the infrastructure that will serve them have not yet been sufficiently tested. Let’s say we incurred such huge costs hydrogen powered It turned out that cars work much more efficiently and cause less damage to the environment.

What to do in this situation? What impact will closing facilities worth thousands of billions of dollars have on businesses? Every company first wants to survive, but needs facilities, raw materials, marketing, etc. to do so. If they can’t sell these vehicles after investing hundreds of billions of dollars They have to lock the doors of the companies. This is a point that makes them think.

Moreover, we do not live in a world where everything is distributed equally.

Electric cars are very expensive vehicles. Prices of even cheap electric cars high areshows that we won’t see electric cars everywhere unless something changes. In a significant part of the world, people cannot buy such expensive vehicles. Car ownership or production methods will change. Otherwise, Africa, the Balkans and a significant part of Asia will continue to use petrol vehicles.

Another problem is infrastructure imbalance. We shouldn’t see the same thing everywhere just because we would be in trouble if the internet were shut down today. Part of the world has no water. Some of them have no option. Some of them have just enough resources to survive. In this case, companies don’t have much chance to force people to use electric vehicles.

As a result of these dilemmas, both the demand and supply of electric cars are decreasing.

Sales of electric cars will no longer be as high as before at almost every company has noted. Companies are pursuing increasingly protectionist policies. Layoffs and cuts in electric vehicle production have already begun. Mercedes, Renault Many companies have abandoned their plans to switch to fully electric and have announced that they will continue to produce vehicles with combustion engines for a while.

In essence, manufacturers are not sure whether electric cars in particular are really the cars of the future your near future. Therefore, they avoid investments that will directly strengthen their competitors. Moreover, neither cities nor people are yet able to fully adapt to these technologies. This will be the main reason for the stagnation we expect in the near future in the field of electric cars, or at least for the decline in growth rates.

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