That comment doesn’t make the least bit of sense.
The company that currently beat everyone else thoroughly on EV in Europe is mismanaged, and didn’t do enough development on EV?
In Denmark and Germany VW group has 7 of the 10 most sold EV models! and they have 3.5 times the marketshare on EV of Tesla in January.
A larger battery is easier to get to charge at higher rates. So charging for a 50 km drive, can generally be done faster on a bigger battery.
And it will last longer, because the wear is per “full” recharge, where obviously for the same amount of distance, a bigger battery will require fewer percent of a full recharge.
That said, of course a smaller battery could in theory be of higher quality. But that’s usually not how it works.
I disagree, this was an example of the mindset, that caused electric cars to be unpopular before the Tesla S.
Because the batteries were expensive, everybody made small cars that were basically useless for anything but very short trips, and sales of them were almost non existent for good reason.
This car came out even AFTER it IMO was shown to be a bad model to make such short range cars.
Luckily today VW-group makes many attractive models, that have good range and competitive prices. With the high quality throughout all components of the car many love here in Europe.
I think it’s because he thinks it’s clever, because X marks the spot, or X is a symbol of an unknown like “Solve for X”.
And because in old school programming X was a commonly used label for a temporary variable placeholder.
X is also the Roman numeral for 10. So it could be that he figures it as a symbol of a 10 on a 10 out of 10 scale.
But all these are so common and generic it’s quite mundane, and you have to be somewhat childish to still think it’s cool when you are 50.
But there is of course also the Danish King Christian X, who was king of Denmark during WW2 and the German occupation. And quite the hero here.
But he was strongly against the Nazi’s, and protected the Jews in Denmark, so I think it’s extremely unlikely to be that.
Sorry the concept I described is what was called Self charging EV, which especially Toyota pushed. EREV is very similar but not the same.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/hybrid-cars/self-charging
It’s true the gas engine isn’t always on, but the EREV systems I know of, charge battery exclusively from the gas engine, not even a plugin option. This means an EREV at least CAN be 100% powered by gas, meaning it’s more an ICE car than an EV.
A plug-in hybrid is kinda like you built a BEV and an ICE into the same car
Absolutely, which is why it’s neither electric or ICE, it’s a hybrid.
Only one of those is an actual EV, the others are different forms of hybrid.
Which leads me to another point. That the BEV term is also ridiculous, because it’s the ONLY form of EV that is actually an EV, so the B is redundant.
This is marketing bullshit to mislead politicians to grant advantages to non EV cars. And it should be illegal to call a hybrid an EV, because it’s not.
The worst is possibly the EREV which is not just misleading, but 100% misleading, as it’s a car that drives 100% on gas only. It runs on an ICE engine that supplies continuous power. The electricity serves about the same function as a transmission does in an ICE car, transferring that power to the wheels. Who the hell would call a normal car a TRANSMISSION car? It’s obviously not TRANSMISSION powered!!!
This pisses me off, it should not be legal to use such misleading terms. They are bundling apples and oranges and calling it the same.
In an ICE car EVERYTHING except the engine is electric, and it has a battery required to work. By the above standard, an ICE car is electric too.
So whats next? ICEV!! Which in fact all but the BEV in the picture you posted are.
PS:
I’m not scolding you, you did fine posting that accurate picture of the different terms. 🥰
I’m scolding the ones bundling all of the above together as if they somehow are the same thing, when clearly they are not.
https://cleantechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-12-China-Top-20-Model-December.png
A lot of those cars are NOT electric, but ICE cars with an electric add on so we call them hybrid.
It’s complete bullshit to call a hybrid car electric. Maybe it would also be bullshit to call them ICE cars, because they are HYBRID for fucks sake.
It’s equivalent to call an 18 wheeler Truck a passenger car, because it can take 1 passenger next to the driver. But that would of course not be within the standard classification. So how is it OK to call a hybrid an electric?
https://www.acea.auto/fact/passenger-cars-what-they-are-and-why-they-are-so-important/
Maybe they are putting in an ICE engine, just for the sound. 😜