Building cars is hard, and it turns out that building electric cars may be even harder. According to number posted by eggheads at tony consulting firm PwC, roughly a third of new vehicles had their launches skewered in 2023 – with EVs not helping matters in the slightest.
Speaking to the complexity of rolling out machines with which legacy automakers are still grappling, Akshay Singh, an automotive partner at PwC, opined that the "designs are not as mature as the old traditional components," which may lead to "significant late changes and that contributes to the launch issues." We've covered numerous such examples of such delays in the past year, including the Volvo EX90 and frustrations at General Motors.
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