In 2025, the automotive industry and the car economy are facing significant challenges, including regulations and pricing, as well as technology and brands straying from proven concepts. We discuss why the industry is struggling to adapt and how it affects people.
#cars #business #engineering
Index:
00:00 Intro – Opening Questions
1:22 The High-Level Problems
2:08 How it Happened
3:45 Breaking the Internal Combustion Engine
5:00 Removed from Reality
5:58 Electrifying the Problem
6:55 Mechanic Shortages and Long-Term Servicability
9:58 When All Else Fails Double Down on Broken Tech
12:48 What Can You Do?
This isn’t a car industry issue. This is affecting industry across the board, across the planet. Shareholder gains has been made priority number 1. Short term gains before all. Take any industry, prices have gone up, quality has plummeted, layoffs en masse, but shareholders and CEOs are reporting record profits. It’s a completely unsustainable system and we’re seeing the late stages of it. People can’t afford anything, products are trash, CEO’s are scrapping their own companies for parts to appease the shareholders.
maybe its time to get used not using a car for every trip and then pollution and car waste would not be a problem
It’s all about shareholder value for the company stock. Greed wins 100% all the time in the USA. Consumers will be shafted with no laws to protect the poor.
The car that you would keep for ten years is the one that:
– has the lowest running costs
– has the lowest maintenance costs
– has the most freely available service manuals
– has the longest powertrain warranty
– is the most software defined (and thus can continue to receive software and security updates)
– is the most future proof
– is the hardest to steal
– is the safest
– is the lightest in its class
The objective answer is a Tesla.
Yup, same arguments that the carriage maker and blacksmith used against the Model T. Welcome to the 21st century…