Tesla model 3 and y are $10k cheaper than originally
we finally have a couple affordable EVs (Chevy equinox) and Nissan leaf is more usable than originally
anyone with their own home should be able to charge at home cheaply
just plugging in at home is so much more convenient than going to local gas stations all the time
every road trip I’ve taken has had a usable amount of trip chargers (admittedly along the east coast)
battery warrantees are typically longer than the first owner keeps a car, but real life shows batteries staying useful through 15 years, 250k miles
But yeah, in the us we’re not “over the hump” yet. There are still few EV models, selling for too much, and all the exciting announcements for next year have been cancelled. We’ve slowed the buildout of trip chargers and may have entirely stopped trying to find charging answers for apartments, condos, street parking. Worst of all the politicizing of EVs and cancelling the incentive means we are also not building a used EV market. Sure, there are cheap used ones now as a consequences of supply and demand, but that will constrict again with the pullback of new vehicles, while the existing used fleet rapidly obsolesces
Lot of downvotes, not one link to a sub-5k EV. “Anyone with their own home” and “batteries stay useful through 15 years” demonstrate an unimaginably privileged lifestyle from here. I rarely see vehicles that new and often end up sleeping in my car, which again cost less than a grand, a rounding error in your household budget. There are no EV options anywhere near this price point. The best deal I’ve ever seen was $950 for a Leaf self-estimating 30 miles of range. Refurbished small battery $4k, big one 6. The politicization is dumb as hell, both in terms of people they’d be a perfect fit for refusing to even consider them and the tribal immune response I got pointing out the high price floor has left me behind
I’m usually on the other side of this argument
But yeah, in the us we’re not “over the hump” yet. There are still few EV models, selling for too much, and all the exciting announcements for next year have been cancelled. We’ve slowed the buildout of trip chargers and may have entirely stopped trying to find charging answers for apartments, condos, street parking. Worst of all the politicizing of EVs and cancelling the incentive means we are also not building a used EV market. Sure, there are cheap used ones now as a consequences of supply and demand, but that will constrict again with the pullback of new vehicles, while the existing used fleet rapidly obsolesces
Lot of downvotes, not one link to a sub-5k EV. “Anyone with their own home” and “batteries stay useful through 15 years” demonstrate an unimaginably privileged lifestyle from here. I rarely see vehicles that new and often end up sleeping in my car, which again cost less than a grand, a rounding error in your household budget. There are no EV options anywhere near this price point. The best deal I’ve ever seen was $950 for a Leaf self-estimating 30 miles of range. Refurbished small battery $4k, big one 6. The politicization is dumb as hell, both in terms of people they’d be a perfect fit for refusing to even consider them and the tribal immune response I got pointing out the high price floor has left me behind