Here goes the resale value of Volvo’s down the toilet https://www.wsj.com/articles/volvo-to-phase-out-conventional-car-engine-1499227202

I ain’t buyin’ it. I was able to read the other link in its entirety WITHOUT subscribing and that is not what Volvo said. Something is very fishy here.

the_same_mountainbik: I was able to read the other link in its entirety WITHOUT subscribing…Something is very fishy here. Maybe yes, maybe no. The Wall Street Journal has been owned by Rupert Murdoch for several years, and as a result of that takeover, that august publication has lost a lo…

Yeah, sorry, I noticed yours after I posted this one.

@cdaquila Hey Carolyn, could we close this thread down since it’s an accidental duplication?

Yup, same thing with NYT, WaPo, Minneapolis red star and Tribune, and even our local paper. But they do give you like 5-10 free reads a month until they cut you off. So far they haven’t caught on to incognito though. Wonder if this was the idea of the Chinese owners or not so they could sell more…

I heard this on the radio news today too. Volvo going all electric. Seems to make sense. Folks who were a little weary of buying an all electric car, but took the chance and did it anyway, must be saying it turned out to be a good decision. They didn’t have the range worry they thought, b/c they…

Wonder if their trucks will do the same, doubt it and do not blame them.

No, they aren’t. This is an excerpt from Volvo’s press release. "The Chinese-owned firm, best known for its emphasis on driver safety, has become the first traditional carmaker to signal the end of the internal combustion engine. It plans to launch five fully electric models between 2019 and 2021 …

It didn’t sound like they were going all electric but would just have electric assist on them all. At any rate count me out at this point. Last week I put on two thousand miles. I can’t imagine stopping every few hours for a re-charge. Even our second car will travel more in a day at times and I…

Oh, so they’re going to continue to sell existing models with ICE, but all the new models will be electric or hybrid. That’s different from what I heard on the radio. But either way, the industry direction seems to be the electric car.

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