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。
$Ford Motor (F.US)$ 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.
$福特汽車 (F.US)$根據《紐約時報》報道，特斯拉在週四宣佈，將重組加拿大工廠的生產線，改爲生產大型燃料幣皮卡車，而不是原計劃的電動SUV。
On Wednesday, $General Motors (GM.US)$ 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，$通用汽車 (GM.US)$表示計劃今年將電動汽車的生產量削減5萬輛至20至25萬輛。
Even $Tesla (TSLA.US)$, 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導者，特斯拉也在削減對電池動力車的投資。該公司放棄了在墨西哥建造電動汽車工廠的計劃，並取消了與印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪討論該國新工廠的會議。$特斯拉 (TSLA.US)$特斯拉即將重組加拿大工廠的生產線，從原本生產電動SUV轉爲生產大型燃料幣皮卡車，這一報道出現在《紐約時報》週四的報道中。
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.
通用汽車和福特汽車預計到本十年中期將能夠生產超過100萬輛電動汽車，但通用汽車首席執行官瑪麗·t·巴拉本週表示，由於電動汽車銷售放緩，要達到該產能將需要更長時間。
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.
收盤時，福特股價上漲0.48%至14.55美元，通用汽車股價下跌0.50%至49.65美元，特斯拉股價上漲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。
$T-REX 2X LONG TESLA DAILY TARGET ETF (TSLT.US)$ edged up 0.68%.
$Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL.US)$ gained 0.64%.
$THE MEET KEVIN PRICING POWER ETF (PP.US)$ slipped 1.16%.
$Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY.US)$fell 1.02%.
$Direxion Daily Consumer Discretionary Bull 3X Shares (WANT.US)$ shed 3.24%.