Prez wrote on Apr 3, 2024, 08:06:
...yet Apple is clearly the market leader...
Except that they're not. They certainly want you to think so, and spend a significant amount on marketing to project that they are, but they're not.
Apple controls ~28.5% of the total market share globally. Android overwhelmingly dominates with ~70.8%. The remaining percentage is split among Windows (LOL) and other niche phone OSes.
Source./---\
As for EVs, EVholics like to scream that the electrification of vehicles is inevitable and it's just not. They'll use intentionally misleading or nebulous talking points to "prove" that it is, with phrases like "EV registrations are up X% since this time last year" or talking points equivalent to that. However, the numbers don't really back up their claims of inevitability. I did a bit of a deep dive on this elsewhere a week ago and this is what I found out. Let's start with the undisputed king of vehicle sales, the Ford F-150. In the US, no other model outsells the F-150. You have sites like Electrek screaming "FORD SOLD 113% MORE LIGHTNINGS! GREATEST SALES RECORDS EVAR!" Yet you dig in to the numbers and Ford sold....4,393 units for that month. Counter to that, Ford sold 35,526 ICE F-150s in the same time period. So, a little less than 10 times the amount of EV trucks. Those are real units sold, not deliberately nebulous percentages. Trucks and SUVs are huge sellers in the US because that is what America wants. What people "ought" to buy is irrelevant in the face of actual sales. I see a lot of EVholics using hopeful prognostication phrases as if they are actual facts that almost always begin with "there will be" or "they are going to". But those are not facts in evidence. Those are hopeful wishes.
If we look at the top 10 selling vehicles in the US for 2023, we see exactly one EV*. The Tesla Model Y. The other 9 are all ICE vehicles. Here they are if you are curious:
1. Ford F-150 (750,789 units sold)
2. Chevy Silverado (543,319 units sold)
3. RAM 1500 (444,926 units sold)
4. Toyota RAV4 (434,943 units sold)
5. Tesla Model Y (385,900 units sold - estimated since Tesla is vague on its sales numbers, even on earnings calls)
6. Honda CR-V (361,457 units sold)
7. GMC Sierra (295,737 units sold)
8. Toyota Camry (290,649 units sold)
9. Nissan Rogue (271,458 units sold)
10. Jeep Grand Cherokee (244,595 units sold)
Of that list, only one is an EV and only one is a car. The other 8 are trucks and SUVs and 9 of them are ICE vehicles. America has spoken with its wallet and it has overwhelmingly still come out in favor of ICE vehicles. We can argue about it, but those are the real numbers from 2023.
As for myself, I do not see myself buying an EV truck for a long, long time to come. The capabilities aren't there to match what my current ICE trucks can do, the high cost of replacement batteries that are non-standardized puts me off (assuming, of course, I can even get that battery in a decade or more after the purchase of the truck), and the uncertainty of power availability in the future puts me off. I would consider an electric gator type of vehicle provided the batteries were swappable in a standard U1 size (or similar), didn't cost an arm and a leg to replace, and that I could recharge them with the ease of how I currently recharge some of my cordless tools.
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SourceSide note: Beamer, I am not calling you an EVholic or calling you out in particular, you just used a word I see far too often from actual EVholics who can't shut up about EVs.
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