RTE and EVs

What about the TOYOTA bZ4X.

Not out yet.

Maybe a Toyota dealer is a good person to ask since they can tell you how many sales they've lost to other companies because customers wanted BEVs 😁

And Toyota can't self charge without it!

Toyota don't sell diesel passenger cars any more unlike a lot of other brands who sell a limited range of EV's and continue to sell diesel.

Plus huge brand loyalty.

Not unusual to have customers buying Toyotas for 25-30 years.

Some of you are missing the point.

There is no point asking someone who doesn't sell EVs about the demand for EVs.

Nonsense, if you tow the car to the top of a hill and roll it down then it'll self charge. It's a totally valid use case 😂

They still will be a dumb choice to answer the question asked.

I don't think that was RTE intention, changing minds. It was just mindless news filler.

National broadcasters shouldn't really be doing a hatchet job of reporting though.

The one thing we're guaranteed never to have a global shortage of is idiots

In fairness that is the Motors forum.

You can expect to get a good few "petrol heads" there.

I'm not using "petrol head" as a pejorative term by the way, just as a descriptive one.

A lot of guys there love their ICE cars in way often misunderstood by the ordinary day to day motorist.

I'd safely guess that most of those would prefer to swerve €3 per litre and divert to an EV if they could afford to buy one.

I would have thought Hyundai would have been in a great position to discuss, what with them having the best selling ice (Tucson) and best selling EV (Ioniq 5) so far in 2022.

There is no doubt that Hyundai have all the bases covered with Diesel, Petrol Hybrid and EV on offer.

But given that the ICE models are outselling the the others I thought they might be walking a fine line in the PR battle to promote EV's.

But then I suppose Toyota have their problems too not even having an EV to sell until Q3.

Pretty sure the distortion is down to the waiting times for most EVs at the moment

People who don't want to wait a year might be willing to pay almost new prices for 2nd hand cars

To be fair, entire second market is mad right now. The ice we traded in recently, which we bought 4 years ago, was a whole e1500 less than what we paid. And it was due a timing belt!

Sounds like a great deal for you. However I'm not sure why someone would spend nearly €60k on such a car unless they were desperate.... seems like vfm has completely left the stage at this point. Brexit and the lack of decent supply of 2nd hand cars from the UK is really biting now. Time to dig in and try and ride out the storm if at all possible.

You realize that VW aren't the biggest seller of EVs in the world right. Everyone knows GM are leading.

Oh no wait it's actually Tesla

Who's making these decent cars you talk about? VW with the awful software, not their first terrible software? Hyundai where you can't preheat unless plugged in or see out the rear window in the rain? Audi with 40% of cars recalled for new batteries? You probably meant Toyota, oh actually they didn't sell any last year. BMW with a front only a fanboy could love?

Maybe the reason car reviewers and owners like the model 3 and think its good is because it is..... You should try one and stop believing FUD sponsored by petrified vested interests who are being left behind and trying to slow a green energy transition. Which unfortunately is paying for the likes of Putin and Saudi to slaughter innocent Ukrainians and Yemenis

2years in and nothing has fallen off mine yet. My previous VWs on the other hand, new turbos, timing belts, gear box.....