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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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What does this headline even mean?
Are electric horses better than gas powered horses or what?
Yeah, it's phrased in a weird way.
He is saying that when cars were becoming popular, lots of people insisted that horses were better. Over time, basically everyone realized that cars are better.
Now electric cars are becoming popular, although lots of people insists that ICE cars are better.
He is saying that over time, people against electric cars will change their mind, just like the horse-people did.
Cars started becoming popular around 1885, and people started to change their mind (specifically because the vehicles improved massively, not just because they were wrong initially) in maybe 1910?
Tesla made them popular in what? 2017? so we should see enough improvements for widespread adoption by 2040
Henry Ford once said somethimg like: if i had asked people what theh wanted, they would've said faster horses.
Electric engines are better than horses
Electric horses are better than engines
Even the Empire knows that!
It's a simple analogy. Cars are horses but cars are also cars. And of course cars are better than horses.