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Many companies are “ready” to make BEVs. Where are all the BEVs, then?

They’re coming. Mini announced all of their models would be electric in 3-5 years, I think. Most or all have some plan for BEVs in coming car generations.

Your exact comment could have been posted three years ago, and three years before that, with Chevrolet, or Audi, or Volkswagen named.

And yet, here we are, and only one company in the world is actually building the factories you’d need to sell a half million EVs in a year.

There’s too much money in not making EVs for any of these companies to start making them a day before the market forces them too.

After 10 seconds of Googling, here are the new (BEV: 11 models / PHEV: 9 models) models shipping in the US next year: https://evadoption.com/future-evs/new-electric-vehicles-in-2...

I will leave as an exercise for the two of you to Google:

1. How many new EVs arrived in 2019, in the US and worldwide? 2. How many are committed for 2021, in the US and worldwide?

You might start with VW committing to 27 models in 2022: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1118857_vw-plans-27-ele...

None of those models are planned to sell 100k let alone 500k. They are compliance cars—a tax break, basically, so they can keep selling internal combustion engines without paying penalties.

I think the answer is to time travel to the year 2020 (it should take you about two weeks) and to also be in Europe. Here's just Volkswagen's EV models for the next year or so:

- VW e-Up!: https://www.carscoops.com/2019/09/vws-updated-e-up-offers-16...

- VW e-Golf (sold over 100,000 but will be replaced by the ID.3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah4lrqWx8E0

- VW ID.3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4HO6GHC8Q

- VW ID.4: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-frankfurt-mot...

- SEAT Mii: https://www.electrive.com/2019/09/11/seat-mii-available-to-o...

- SEAT el-Born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZI7WFtwc8g

- Cupra Tavascan (maybe, not confirmed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYHRKp4n1w

- Skoda Citigo iV: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-skoda-citigo...

- Skoda Vision iV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1g9xl6W_E

- Audi e-tron (and also the new "sportsback" variant): https://www.audiusa.com/models/audi-e-tron

- Audi e-tron Q4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwevzHsCbU

- Audi e-tron GT (maybe 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEdiq2xTbQ

- Porsche Taycan (and the Sports Turismo wagon variant in future): https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/taycan/

And other manufacturers are delivering more EVs in 2020.

Lots of models, but where will the batteries come from? Only Tesla seems to have the proper vertical integration although I've heard VW group is investing in battery factories.

Sweden, Korea, and China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-batte...

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