• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    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.

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      19 hours ago

      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.

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        9 hours ago

        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…