Can Aston Martin Survive in the Electric Vehicle Era?

Opinion: - EVs have failed many times before. Why do we think this time it will work?
The electric vehicles go back to the early 1800s

Extract;
Without government mandates or subsidies, EVs were all the rage in the U.S. by the turn of the 20th century, accounting for around a third of all vehicles on the road.

Only the future will say whether EV technology ends up competing on its own, unsubsidized. Current indications are not encouraging, however. Many EV startups are going bankrupt. among legacy players, EVs are minimally profitable or even lose money, depending on the model. Ford says its EV unit will lose $3 billion this year.

Batteries are clearly central to this generation’s version of the EV vision. There’s not much wrong with modern lithium-ion batteries per se. They do a fine job in smartphones, laptops, watches and hand tools. For cars, however, they are a profoundly misplaced application. According to Argonne National Laboratory, in 2023 it takes 100 pounds weight of battery to go a distance achieved by only one pound of gasoline — reason enough why gasoline, not batteries have dominated vehicle propulsion for the past hundred years. Batteries add an average of 33 per cent to a typical car’s weight and an average 20 per cent to the new price.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-evs-have...

50% of Ford dealers don’t want to sell EV’s.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/half-of-ford...

Here is an idea for Aston Martin.

Take a two and a half ton Range Rover, add one ton of batteries, then charge at home with electricity, of which half is often generated by burning fosil fuels.

Brilliant, now we really have found a way to save the planet.

+1

If Aston produced something like this then yes. https://youtu.be/2ViQ6bgF4K4?si=0c87IuHENArFnw7B

Biden has let in about 100 million unskilled, non English speaking migrants. Well, there’s that..

And they’re all buying electric cars no doubt.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12917047/...

The December UK new registration figures reveal a change.

Battery Electric Vehicles;

December 2022 = 42,285
December 2023 = 27,841

I think TESLA work in batches of ship arrivals, so perhaps a huge number arrived here in December 2022.
Or, it might be a decline in new EV purchasing by private buyers. I don't know.

Car registrations were up in December 2023 over 2022.

In fact, the whole year, by nearly 300,000 units.

Bit like this…. https://mol.im/a/12950765