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Ford CEO Jim Farley is warning that Europe could undermine its own carmakers if it keeps setting ambitious EV rules and then backing away from them when buyers do not follow
That stop-start approach, he says, leaves automakers designing products and plants for targets that may not stick, all while dealing with tariffs, content rules and rising costs.
The complexity isn’t in the motors anyway, but in the batteries and the contollers and the truckload of bullshit gadgetry that comes with a modern car.
The products of the automotiv industry are becoming increasingly unrepairable and unmaintaineable, and that on purpose. Unfortnately, hybrid and electric vehicles only made their breakthroygh when the enshittification was already thoroughly in progress. Unless the entire mindset of the industry and the insane regulatory demands for ever more gadgetry stops, you won’t be able to buy a decent new car in the EU, regardless of its drive train.