Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:44 pm
#1875085
AlanM wrote:The future - be it F1 racing, CAT or driving and home heating is gonna change. Whether we like it or not. Every major company has a huge Environmental slant now.
Whilst every major company might have a huge Environmental slant, I wonder what proportion are really just playing lip service to it for Political Correctness as they dont have the resources to fund it?
The change comes with huge cost, and major companies are likely to have a proportionately larger expenditure to cover related to covid delays, PPE costs, pay rises, ... whilst some might be struggling to deliver products at a fixed contractual price based on a pre-pandemic cost base.
Obviously cant simply pass on increased costs to customers as some customers are not getting any pay rises.... and struggling with the energy price rises... and most companies need customers that can still afford to buy the products/services.
As much as the environmentalists (the fun police?) dislike motor sports as a non-essential use of transport making lots of noise, burning lots of fuel, developing materials, and consuming lots of tyres etc, it is the motor sports teams such as in F1 and Formula E that are the ones that seem to obtain big budget investment that will drive the technology forwards to be used in domestic/commercial vehicles.
Surely some of the development is going to come from aviation although the big ticket customers are still going to be airlines and governments.