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If regulation is needed to force the existence of electric cars around the 20k mark, that means nobody wants to buy them now
It's amazing to me that people still believe markets work in 2024.
Now, is the market efficient / globally optimal? No. Welcome to complex reality.
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A Model 3 literally does all of that, except for the bit about wanting to get it at a "dealer", which I suspect you included precisely to avoid buying the Tesla. So, I guess you'll have to wait. Or you could get a car delivered to your driveway for you like the rest of us urchins. But maybe that's just a bridge too far.
I ninja-edited in a requirement that I forgot: doesn't stream video of me to someone else's computer. The Model 3 sort of meets the above but the phone-home connectivity (and poor after-sales support) are deal breakers for me.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-EDAD116...
>By default, images and video from the camera do not leave the vehicle itself and are not transmitted to anyone, including Tesla, unless you enable data sharing.
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A Model 3 literally does all of that, except for the bit about wanting to get it at a "dealer", which I suspect you included precisely to avoid buying the Tesla. So, I guess you'll have to wait. Or you could get a car delivered to your driveway for you like the rest of us urchins. But maybe that's just a bridge too far.
I ninja-edited in a requirement that I forgot: doesn't stream video of me to someone else's computer. The Model 3 sort of meets the above but the phone-home connectivity (and poor after-sales support) are deal breakers for me.
I just can’t get excited about large EVs anymore. We need cheaper, smaller EVs in the US yesterday. Looking at the options China and Europe have and comparing to what we have you can really get the sense that car companies here only care about making SUVs/trucks/and _some_ crossovers electric but don’t actually care about making small cars electric because of one thing.. profit. They know they’ll make more money on t…
I've owned a Bolt. It was $24K out the door (however, no tax credit at the time). And I really have a hard time understanding why you'd call it large?
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If regulation is needed to force the existence of electric cars around the 20k mark, that means nobody wants to buy them now
We are buying them. In the US, sales of e-bikes surpassed sales of electric cars in 2022.
They certainly make very short trips 10x easier and more fun though.
Oh boy, another unnecessarily large crossover gets stats that would have been perfectly achievable if they just made a normal-ass sedan
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If regulation is needed to force the existence of electric cars around the 20k mark, that means nobody wants to buy them now
If energy just cost what it actually cost (no fossil fuel subsidies) the rest would follow. The market distortion from gas subsidies has caused this mess, we didn't get to everyone driving a 5000 pound vehicle due to the free market. We got here because of backwards laws and automaker's exploitation of said laws. Fuel or electricity should cost what it costs. Vehicles need to be taxed according to their externalities…
I know someone with a 6 year old Tesla X that now has a range of around 120 miles. This is becoming a serious impediment for them. What happens to all the buyers of these vehicles when their range is halved before their life expectancy is up? Needing to pony up another $10-15k will probably be unaffordable for the average Joe.
https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-warranty
> 8 years or 150,000 miles, whichever comes first, with minimum 70% retention of Battery capacity over the warranty period.
So I'm guessing either your friend doesn't read their warranty or they've gone over 150K?
Wow. No way they're going to beat the #1 best selling EV in the world. GM is clearly still learning how to both make and sell EVs.
There's no way in hell they're making money at that price. They're probably not even breaking even. Even the higher trims are going to have extremely thin margins, if they're making money at all. Seeing as it's an $8K jump in price from the base model to the second level trim, I imagine dealers are going to make it very difficult to buy a base model.