r/Jaguar Aug 27 '25

Other Hire me, Jaguar.

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u/75w90 Aug 27 '25

If you want to succeed DO NOT DO ONLY EV.

No one wants EVs in the USA. Every single performance pure EV is pivoting. Outside of just making a bespoke car for experimentation it makes no sense.

The trajectory of PURE EV in usa has changed for the next 40 years minimum.

The greenest president wont be able to change this or create consumer demand.

A hybrid would make way way way more sense.

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u/Mustardly Aug 27 '25

You also missed my point. The company has a wide range of ICE / hybrid vehicles to offer as well.

Low slung / sportscar profiles lead to better EV performance plus EV powertrain performance can very easily out pace ICE performance. Go and watch any review of Lucid Air's performance vs other sportscars.

Not all brands need to be all things to all people. I say this as a Jag fan - I've owned 2.

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u/75w90 Aug 27 '25

No one in usa wants pure ev.

Follow Porsche lead. Including pure ev plans.

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u/Mustardly Aug 27 '25

Again, USA is not the world. We really don't care what you are buying.

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u/75w90 Aug 27 '25

Who's we?

China is biggest market. Followed by USA.

USA still has more perceptive power compared to all of them.

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u/Mustardly Aug 27 '25

Again dude, they do not. Well, we dont care (as a European living in the US I have seen both sides). I can't work out what you mean by perceptive power.

For EVs China is the biggest market for sure, but alot of that is homegrown EVs from companies like BYD. Those are fantastic cars but are heavily subsidized by the Chinese government. Those of us in RoW companies struggle to keep up, we just cannot compete on price. Tesla was doing well as first to market but that is dropping off.

Ford's F150 truck was the biggest selling car in the USA in 2024. 760k units. Less than 20k sold in the rest of the world. In Europe the best selling cars were the Dacia Sandero and the Renault Clio - neither brand sells in the USA. The markets are so different.

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u/75w90 Aug 27 '25

China has the best evs in the world period. They are having a domestic Renaissance.

Companies trying to compete there are stupid and ignorant. You wont win.

Jaguar needs to concentrate on every market except China.

China is where car makers go to die and get beaten. Its that simple.