# Ford, GM, Mercedes come clean on EV demand weakness **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 28, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732 "2023-10-28T02:38:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![H200h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732/23 "2023-11-05T03:55:42Z")
> [@Lancie01](#): > > The story of Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower is widely know in engineering circles. Many electrical engineers concluded that if Tesla had obtained funding to finish his experiments, the Tesla Tower would have worked to transmit energy between the atmosphere and Earth. 🙂 Wudda, cudda shudda… but they’ve only had **129 years** to make the thing go. Why didn’t the people of Texas tap into it in the last couple of years during all the power balckouts they suffered? I say we give’em another three weeks to get it going… deal?? ---
**Author:** ![H200h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732/24 "2023-11-05T03:59:37Z")
> [@Lancie01](#): > > This is not about magic, but about using electrical principles to make our lives better. I didn’t say “magic,” I said “[**magical thinking**](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/magical-thinking),”… there’s a difference! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OU812](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/ou812/32/1549_2.png) [@OU812](https://community.clark.com/u/OU812)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732/25 "2023-11-06T13:24:09Z")
BP recently announced it would purchase $100 million worth of Tesla Superchargers Exxon Mobil bought up 120,000 acres of land in Arkansas earlier this year with plans to extract and process lithium it’s clear that oil giants like Shell, BP, and Exxon Mobil want to profit off of how people get around — regardless of the fuel source. > **[Big Oil is all in on electric cars](https://www.businessinsider.com/big-oil-wants-to-become-big-electric-vehicle-charging-batteries-2023-11)** > > Heavyweights of the combustion-car era like Shell, Exxon Mobil, and BP could dominate the electric future. ---
**Author:** ![H200h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732/27 "2023-11-06T16:15:44Z")
> [@Lancie01](#): > > Yes, “magical thinking” is a small subset of the topic of magic “Magical Thinking” has nothing to do with magic. It does not describe something a person might mistakenly believe. It is the belief that a person’s inner thoughts can control the physical world. Your source(s) of information on the subject of electrical power production and distribution and your goofy attempt at trying to meld the subject of magical thinking into the discussion is mildly amusing. You either don’t grasp the basics of the two subjects or you are simply cutting and pasting the output of a chatbot. The output is a hodge-podge of disconnected and randomly structured statements concerning potential energy sources, basic electrical theory and physics. Your chatbot failed you again. To confuse the sources for power production with the challenges of storing electrical power itself is not something a normal thinking logical adult would do. ---
**Author:** ![OU812](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/ou812/32/1549_2.png) [@OU812](https://community.clark.com/u/OU812)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732/29 "2023-11-08T00:14:42Z")
> **[Toyota is being squeezed out of the world's largest auto market as the shift...](https://electrek.co/2023/11/07/toyota-squeezed-out-of-china-shift-to-evs-heats-up/)** > > Toyota is losing out as the world’s largest auto market accelerates its shift to EVs. The Japanese automaker informed dealers... [Previous page](https://community.clark.com/t/ford-gm-mercedes-come-clean-on-ev-demand-weakness/3732.md?page=1)