2/3 of Americans still won’t buy an EV. 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”.
They are all SUVs with 3 rows of seats and a good sized trunk. If you want to be pedantic of course you can find differences. They aren’t literally the exact same vehicle. The things you noted are not good reasons to choose an ICE vehicle over an EV though. Saying they aren’t similar sizes at all is straight up ridiculous.
Have you ever worked in car sales? Yes they’re both huge cars. But the target demographic for ridiculously big car and a ludicrously big car. An EV9 or R1S will probably fit in a modern American garage, an Escalade probably won’t. I’m not talking about EV VS ICE. I’m talking about sheer size.
I don’t work in car sales but I’m not sure how that’s relevant. What conclusion are you trying to reach here? This conversation is about EVs being better than ICE vehicles. Those big ICE vehicles not fitting in a standard garage sounds like another point for the EVs to me. Especially since there’s very little, if any, practical benefits to that additional space.
Often, people do need a lot of interior space, and the vehicle likely to give them the most amount of space without being an absurd behemoth? Especially carrying the most passengers.
A minivan. 7-8 people.
But those big SUVs are more tacticool and minivans are for soccer moms, eww, gross! Even many people that have kids don’t want to drive a vehicle that indicates that…they have kids.
And whole lotta geniuses think that they need to have an SUV to drive in like an inch of snow. Naturally, these are the same people that ignore what tires they put on their vehicles, and then I see lots of these cars abandoned along the highway (some of them even flipped) after a snow or ice storm came through…
2/3 of Americans still won’t buy an EV. 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”.
3/4 of Americans can’t even afford an EV.
The same people who buy Suburbans and Escalades could buy Rivians or a Kia EV9 instead. They’re similar sizes and price ranges. People are just dumb
The R1S is a whole foot shorter than the short wheelbase Escalade/Suburban. And the EV9 is even shorter. They are not similar sizes.
They are all SUVs with 3 rows of seats and a good sized trunk. If you want to be pedantic of course you can find differences. They aren’t literally the exact same vehicle. The things you noted are not good reasons to choose an ICE vehicle over an EV though. Saying they aren’t similar sizes at all is straight up ridiculous.
Have you ever worked in car sales? Yes they’re both huge cars. But the target demographic for ridiculously big car and a ludicrously big car. An EV9 or R1S will probably fit in a modern American garage, an Escalade probably won’t. I’m not talking about EV VS ICE. I’m talking about sheer size.
I don’t work in car sales but I’m not sure how that’s relevant. What conclusion are you trying to reach here? This conversation is about EVs being better than ICE vehicles. Those big ICE vehicles not fitting in a standard garage sounds like another point for the EVs to me. Especially since there’s very little, if any, practical benefits to that additional space.
Often, people do need a lot of interior space, and the vehicle likely to give them the most amount of space without being an absurd behemoth? Especially carrying the most passengers.
A minivan. 7-8 people.
But those big SUVs are more tacticool and minivans are for soccer moms, eww, gross! Even many people that have kids don’t want to drive a vehicle that indicates that…they have kids.
And whole lotta geniuses think that they need to have an SUV to drive in like an inch of snow. Naturally, these are the same people that ignore what tires they put on their vehicles, and then I see lots of these cars abandoned along the highway (some of them even flipped) after a snow or ice storm came through…