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Ford UK calls for incentives to buy electric cars as backlash grows (www.bbc.com)
3 points by belter 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 1 comment | favorite





Re-arranging deck chairs while China EV manufacturers hyperscale.

https://www.motor1.com/features/729443/ford-sales-tanking-eu... ("Ford Sales Are Tanking in Europe.")

https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/automoti... ("Compared to September 2023, gasoline-engine car sales dropped 9.3% to 137,793 units (50.1% share), electric vehicles (EVs) jumped 24.4% to 56,387 units (20.5% share), hybrid vehicles (HEV) increased 2.6% to 39,017 units (14.2% share), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) soared 32.1% to 24,486 units (8.9% share), and diesel-engine car sales decreased 7.1% to 17,556 units (6.4% share).")

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/ (Click "Year-To-Date By Brand ", scroll to BYD, draw attention to last column "% change", ~861% YoY increase)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228138 ("HN: The size of BYD's factory")

https://nitter.poast.org/taylorogan/status/18591462425191672...




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