Mercedes-Benz beefs up combustion engine line-up

[Motor]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/mercedes-benz-hits-cars-returns-forecast-inflation-supply-chain-costs-bite-2024-02-22/

• MB pulls back expectations on electric sales
• MB to update combustion engine cars as EV demand slows
• Plug-in hybrids to "stay relevant" for several years: CEO
• Trade tensions, supply chain costs to weigh this year
• Targeting up to 50% electrified sales by 2030

 

[bogglo]

All this EV pull back news are music to my ears as a car enthusiast. I hope this does not delay future Lexus vehicles since they were talking about going full BEV. I am ok with more Hybrids, as long as they can include more performance hybrid in the mix i.e. more hybridized V6 and V8 and no CVT transmissions either.

I like that Toyota is working with Porsche on the eFuel. I hope they dedicate more resources into that, especially with the difficulty they are facing with making Hydrogen wildly accepted.

 

[ssun30]

When is Lexus walking back on the full electric plan?

 

[mediumhot]

When is Lexus walking back on the full electric plan?

The day they announced it! ))))))) I kid, I kid!

 

[Och]

This was easy to predict, lol. Meanwhile, is Douchewagen still going ahead with renaming itself to Voltswagen?

 

[ES300h]

So.... Toyota has been right all along?