2/3 of Americans still won’t buy them. They love overpaying for overpriced, oversized gas guzzlers. This has all happened before and will probably happen again. This is the country that elects people who want to tear down windmills and solar panels so they can “drill baby drill”.
Make the price of gasoline $25 dollars a gallon, if they refuse to buy Electric Vehicles then make sure the price of gas is higher than that
evs are somewhat overpriced as well.
Only in USA. But just add that to the list of USA suckage.
Everyone I know is jealous of EVs but can’t afford one. Regular cars break down all kinds of dumb ways and there’s great deals to be had if you can fix simple shit. EVs the battery just goes eventually and there’s an inevitable ~$5k bill so that’s kinda the price floor. Not much else to go wrong. 30 year old gas car I’m driving was $100 to haul out of someone’s yard and $600 to get back on the road
Statically, that’s not true, and is bordering on decades-old fear mongering about EVs.
In modern EVs, the battery will likely outlast the car body it is sitting installed in, or at least match the expected lifespan of the vehicle. There are a few EVs on the road right now with battery packs that have been driven many hundreds of thousands of miles.
The upfront cost of EVs is still a problem, but most people won’t need to spend thousands on a new or refurbished battery pack after a few years.
Here’s a well-made (and broadly pessimistic) source if you’re interested: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01698-1
decades-old fear mongering about EVs.
All coming from one PR firm in NY botting Reddit and Youtube.
Every month some Boomer tells me how my hybrid battery wiill last 2 years and cost $50,000 to replace.
Meanwhile, it has an 8 year warranty and in 8 years I saved enough $$$ that the car is free. Math, bitches.Statistically you’re using statistics wrong, that’s my directly observed experience of vehicle salvage and the extreme low end of the used market. Show me a $1k EV that’s still usable. Much less than 5 or so is because it needs a battery that costs around that. I’ve stripped packs for cells and know what even a dead core goes for/how common they are too. “Expected lifespan” is unsustainable nonrepairable anticonsumer bullshit whatever tech it’s applied to, some of us are still trying to use this stuff after the lease is up and warranty’s expired.
I think hybrids are better because there is no reliance on an external electric source.