Germany has a nationwide roadside assistance organization that categorizes the vehicles which require help on their highways.
Setting aside the gas/diesel powered cars which utterly dominate the stranded autos, I found one statistic particularly interesting … although electric cars are an extreme minority of cars in distress, there is a HUGE discrepancy between them. Most notably, the brands Hyundai and Kia are almost FIFTY times more likely to break down than a Tesla. Bear in mind that the amount of Tesla’s vs. Hyundai/Kias on the road in Germany is a wide gulf, with Tesla utterly dominating the sales. Anyone who has spent anytime watching Sandy Monro on YouTube tear down all types/brands of cars, will be stunned at the crudeness of all other manufacturers electric or otherwise. Those two aforementioned auto brands have a history of battery issues dating back over a decade as I have personally witnessed. Wholly inadequate battery cooling and other major design issues currently plague those cars in the US as well.
I’m not surprised that the major news companies, particularly in the US, don’t have this as a front page story since Musk doesn’t follow the liberal hivemind orthodoxy. Recall that a couple of years ago during the Biden regime, Tesla was front page news with a 100% recall … that recall was because the NTSA claimed the speed display less than three millimeters too small. Not a joke … this is the official NTSA statement: This smallness could “reduce the driver’s detection of it when illuminated, increasing the risk of a collision,” according to the NHTSA. Never mind that 15,000,000+ Ford cars are in danger of bursting into flames or that they have total motor replacement recalls well into the hundreds of thousands, a two-point something millimeter display in Tesla is what they were they focusing on. That “problem” was fixed in a few days by a simple over-the-air update … something that no other car company in the world can do to this day.
Even as the Musk haters line up to try to destroy the company, the sales are growing and the new Model Y continues the record sales of the previous model as the best-selling car in the world. Having just purchased two more Tesla’s in the last few months, I sincerely believe it’s the best car in the history of autos sold in the US … coming from a longtime Mercedes/BMW/Cadillac owner that should speak volumes. It’s impossible to imagine going back to an ordinary car any longer. The other BEV makers are just as impossible to imagine owning also … after spending time in them, it’s obvious “they just don’t get it”. Time is running out for those legacy makers. In Germany alone, the Tesla juggernaut is causing the direct loss of 956,000+ auto jobs from various auto companies. The clock is ticking for all the other companies outside Germany …
The complete collapse of GM is now being examined by economists as a probable, not possible, outcome. Saddled with an impossible amount of debt ($133,000,000,000!!!) to pay and constant substantial decline in sales each year, it appears the mighty GM may soon be a mere footnote in the history of personal transportation. With less than a sixth of that debt, available in cash, no other car company can afford to bail it out. Here is the amount of debt the largest car companies currently have according to their own financial statement reports:
Toyota and VW- $252,000,000,000+ each! … Cash reserve of much less than a third of this …
Ford – $157,000,000,000+ … Cash reserve of much less than a seventh of this …
Mercedes – $93,000,000,000+ … Cash reserve of much less than a third of this …
BMW $89,000,000,000+ … Cash reserve of about than a quarter of this …
Stellantis – $38,000,000,000+ … if the company was completely liquidated, it’s estimated it may possibly cover its debt. How they stay in business is beyond me …
Honda – $68,000,000,000+ … Cash reserve of much less than half of this …
Nissan – $51,000,000,000+ … Cash reserve of about a quarter of this …
Tesla – $13,000,000,000 (but actually has CASH, not receivables, reserves of almost $30,000,000,000)
Looking at the above numbers, it should be obvious GM isn’t the only auto company that has failed to understand the following statement: tech never sleeps.