Auto Industry Pulls Back On EVs As Consumers Hesitate Over High Price, Inconvenience
Auto Industry Pulls Back On EVs As Consumers Hesitate Over High Price, Inconvenience
Automobile manufacturers are pumping the brakes on investing in the future of electric vehicles as car buyers think twice about buying them because of the high cost and need to keep charging them.
由於汽車買家考慮到高昂的費用以及需要不斷充電的問題，汽車製造商正在減緩對新能源車未來的投資。
Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) announced on Thursday it would refit a plant in Canada to make large gas-fired pickup trucks instead of electric sport-utility vehicles originally planned for that facility, the New York Times reported.
《紐約時報》報道，福特汽車公司（NYSE：F）週四宣佈，將重建加拿大的一家工廠，生產大型燃料幣皮卡車，而不是最初計劃在該工廠生產的電動運動型多功能車。
On Wednesday, General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) said it planned to cut back this year's production of EVs by 50,000 units to a range from 200,000 to 250,000 vehicles.
週三，通用汽車（NYSE：GM）宣佈計劃今年將電動汽車生產量削減50,000輛，使量範圍從200,000至250,000輛。
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Even Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), the leading producer of electric cars that created the EV market, is pulling back on investment in battery-powered vehicles. The company backed off on plans to build an electric car factory in Mexico and canceled a meeting in April between CEO Elon Musk and Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, to discuss a new plant in that country.
即使是電動汽車市場的領先生產商特斯拉公司也在減少對電池動力汽車的投資。公司取消了在墨西哥建造電動汽車工廠的計劃，並取消了CEO伊隆·馬斯克與印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪在4月舉行的會面，討論在印度建立新工廠的計劃。
General Motors and Ford expected to be able to manufacture more than 1 million EVs a year by the middle of the decade, but General Motors CEO Mary T. Barra said this week it will take longer to reach that capacity because EV sales have slowed.
福特汽車和通用汽車原計劃在本十年中期能夠生產超過100萬輛的電動汽車，但是通用汽車CEO瑪麗·T·巴拉本週表示，要達到這樣的產能將需要更長的時間，因爲電動汽車銷量已經放緩。
Price Actions: At market close Thursday, Ford gained 0.48% to reach $14.55, while General Motors slipped 0.50% to $49.65 and Tesla went up 0.29% to $249.23.
週四收盤時，福特汽車上漲0.48％，至14.55美元，而通用汽車下跌0.50％，至49.65美元，特斯拉上漲0.29％，至249.23美元。
Exchange-traded funds that hold shares of Tesla, which has a market capitalization of $781 billion, had gains and losses on Thursday.
持有特斯拉股票的交易所交易基金在週四有漲有跌。
- T-Rex 2X Long Tesla Daily Target ETF (NASDAQ:TSLT) edged up 0.68%.
- Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (NASDAQ:TSLL) gained 0.64%.
- The Meet Kevin Pricing Power ETF (NYSE:PP) slipped 1.16%.
- Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:XLY) fell 1.02%.
- Direxion Daily Consumer Discretionary Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:WANT) shed 3.24%.
- T-Rex 2x多頭特斯拉日目標ETF（NASDAQ：TSLT）上漲0.68％。
- Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X股票（NASDAQ：TSLL）上漲0.64％。
- Meet Kevin定價能力ETF（NYSE：PP）下跌1.16％。
- 非必需消費類ETF-SPDR（NYSE：XLY）下跌1.02％。
- Direxion Daily Consumer Discretionary Bull 3X股票（NYSE：WANT）下跌3.24％。
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Photo: Ford F-150 Lightning, jluke via Shutterstock.com
圖片：福特F-150 Lightning，圖片來自shutterstock.com
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