A few days ago we talked about the intention of the firm Volvo to market from 2019 vehicles where electricity is a fundamental part of the vehicle's dynamics, offering only fully electric or hybrid vehicles on the market. Today this type of vehicle is still very expensive, especially those that only run on electricity. Tesla was the first manufacturer to launch an affordable model for the general public, the Model 3, a model that starts at $ 30.000 and offers us a range of close to 500 kilometers. But in the meantime, France has just announced that from 204o only electric vehicles will be able to be sold, gasoline and diesel will go down in history.
The French environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced that this is the goal that the city has set itself to comply with the environmental agreements that were set at the Paris summit last year and that Donald Trump has gone through the arch of the triumph, never better said. The whole topic of electric vehicles is fine, but it is not enough to establish these types of limitations, but rather governments have to encourage the purchase of this type of vehicle so that they become an alternative sooner rather than later.
By 2040 anything could happen, there are still more than 22 years left. According to some analysts, seeing the annual increase in sales of this type of vehicle, only 50% of the vehicles that circulate on the street will be electric, figures that do not exactly influence optimism. Maybe in a few years, about five to put a number, manufacturing costs for this type of vehicle have been reduced and the price of the same can go down considerably.
And if not, ask Elon Musk who has for years been launching electric vehicles that go over 100.000 euros at the same time I was researching how to reduce costs and innovate as much as possible to be able to offer this type of vehicle to the general public, as it has finally been possible, with the Model 3.