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They’re simply too expensive across the board. Build me a subcompact, bare-bones street-legal EV for $10,000 and you won’t be able to make them quick enough to keep up with demand for a decade.
But they won’t do this because they rather all compete for a small pool of luxury buyers and lobby to hold the line.
Hell, I’ll even take crank windows, manual locks and no key fob, just to get the cost down. AM/FM radio only, no fancy computers, just an electric drivetrain with A/C, heat and can get me too and from the store and work.
The fewer features, the fewer things there are to break. That cuts into profits.
No heated seats needs as well, and no internet connectivity. Hell remove the Bluetooth as well.
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If you can make trucks for 20k and sell them for 100k, why would you make cars for 8k to sell at 10k? It’s bad economics.
I’m not saying it right. Just saying that’s what they are clearly insensitived to do.
China has done it, and they’ll be here soon.
American Auto Manufacturers - it’s hard to even conceive how you’ve thrown away the biggest car market in the history of the world, but. You have. Multiple times.
No they won’t, American politicians preach free market all day and night but will protect American automakers from Chinese competition at the same time. They won’t allow BYD on the streets of Michigan because the second they do, the real owners of Detroit stop donating
BYD doesn’t pay the tariffs, and they’ll just build a plant in Juarez and boop there they are trundling around the US.
The real owners of Detroit left 30 years ago. They all live in London, or Phoenix now.
I would buy one too, sounds amazing!
Fuckers. Idiots.
I don’t dislike EVs, but I can’t see myself ever buying one, at least for the next few decades. Electric motors are fantastic; just look at locomotives, commuter trains, etc. Batteries, not so much.
A battery-powered vehicle just isn’t practical. A gas engine produces the same level of power up until the tank is empty. A battery slowly produces less and less current until the BMS shuts it off. A gas engine takes 5 minutes to pump 20 gallons into the tank. A battery takes hours to reach full charge. I can fill up one of my gas-powered vehicles anywhere. For an EV, I’d have to either find a charger somewhere likely inconvenient and/or upgrade my home electrical system and have a charger installed, which borders on the cost of a used car.
The fact is, except in rare cases, a battery-powered vehicle will never be a viable alternative until we have a major breakthrough in battery technology. I agree with auto manufacturers not producing EVs. Until battery manufacturers find a way to make batteries on-par with fossil fuels, building EVs is a waste.