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Originally Posted by SomeGeoffGuy

That stuff you are talking about might make a tiny shift, but just doing EGR isn't going to gain you 10% of sales shifted from EV to ICE. If you read the link I posted, they even included a lot of that tech in their projections. The numbers of 67% EV by 2032 (from the chart I posted) and leaving 33% ICE, that is the MAXIMUM number of ICE vehicles you can build. a plug-In hybrid isn't a 1:1 replacement for an EV. It is roughly 2:1 in 2028, and 3:1 by 2032. So if you want to go hybrid, by 2032 your mix is 100% EV's and hybrids, and zero ICE. Or as Ford motor Company likes to say, zero profit.

The reason why Ford and GM went all in on EV, is because if they can still sell 1/3 ICE, and 2/3 EV, they can still make a profit. The push you are seeing for hybrids all of a sudden, is due to the new rule drop earlier this year (that I posted), and if you read them (which I did, and you obviously haven't), you will see that from 2028-32, doing hybrids matters. But once it is 3:1 in 2032, the OEMs are better off with a pure EV and ICE mix in terms of profit.

In summary, being forced into a bad choice isn't a choice. It is a mandate. Luckily, the mandate is going in the garbage where it belongs soon, and the big three can focus on building the cars and trucks the American people want, not what the unelected bureaucrats want.

-Geoff

So GM went all EV knowing in 4 years when they made the announcement in 2017 these rules would be put into place?