Re: Porsche Is Cutting a Bunch of Jobs Over Weak EV Demand

On 2/17/25 21:54, chrisv wrote:

-hh wrote:
 

Personally, I've looked at the tech and concluded that it is good enough
for early adopters and even some early mainstream, but from a sober
lifecycle management perspective, trade spaces need to be resolved still
before I'd really be comfortable in giving up on ICE entirely; call it
a "check back in 3, 5 years" before the political disruptions are added.

 I will never buy an electric car. 

I'm willing to buy an EV, although I'd consider it to be more of a 'transportation appliance' than a driver/enthusiast-centric ride.
I thought about it early last year, but found that the infrastructure lacked adequate standards, and current iterations are poor from an interior UI perspective ... research is documenting the obvious: touchscreens are fine when sitting in a showroom, but are inferior to buttons in the dynamics of a moving cabin.

I may never buy another car, period.  My current car is 10 years old but
has an easy 10 years of life left.  I'll probably drop dead before it does.

YMMV; I'm far more optimistic.  I expect at least another decade of independent driving, at which point I'm hoping that FSD will finally be technologically mature & reliable enough to enable us to maintain suburban independent living well into my 80s.
-hh