1. You can buy a Mach E for a similar price to a Model Y.

EV half-tons have way MORE power and torque than ICE vehicles. They have less *energy*.

It is an issue when with gas vehicles you still have a number of options under 25k.

They’re obviously competitors and definitely get cross-shopped, even if the venn diagram of people considering Model Y and Mach E isn’t a circle.

According to the title, yes. Not clear in the actual excerpt. They’ve always wanted one, but just adopted a dog two weeks ago.

PHEVs already have the same $7500 incentive as BEVs. Why aren’t they as popular? Hard to say for sure. My guesses:

Which is in no way “affordable”.

Want this suburban commuter to get into an EV ? Great! I’d love it! But bring the purchase price down, incl having EV “economy cars” avail (something in the price range of a base to mid-level Civic or Corolla). Have a minimum 200 mi. range be the standard.

I don’t totally understand how a dog doesn’t fit in the back of a MINI (my Great Dane used to fit in mine fine), but anyway, my vote would be to stay in the MINI family, but go Clubman Wagon instead of Countryman CUV.

People can apparently afford the Model Y that’s similarly priced to the Mach E but one of the best selling vehicles in the US. The difference is that the Mach E just isn’t really competitive with the Model Y when looking at specs/price, right now, after the price cuts the first half of this year.

Yeah, Pros are virtually ALL custom orders, and XLTs aren’t far behind, so you basically have to hope someone cancelled their order, and you’d have to be an idiot to cancel a Pro order since any Pro order is still locked into the $40k original price. The ones sent for dealer stock have been mostly the high end Lariats…

You can order the cheap version of gas F-150s, and I think fleets can still order Pros, but either way, with the XLT now much closer in price, it’s less of a problem that Pros are hard to come by. Originally, the Pro was $40k and the XLT was completely inexplicably (from a value standpoint) $53k. So, $13k got you…

Technically, the standard range trucks now have 240 miles of range. But yes, you can’t actually order a Pro, now.

That truck’s price rose to more than $60,000 this year, and potential customers have responded the way you’d expect them to

It’s been clear from the beginning that the $100 reservation does not lock in the price of the Cybertruck.

If only they started doing that 10 years ago. It’s too late now. Tesla owns the charging landscape now.

1. Yes, more will have NACS in the future. But tons already have CCS. They’ll have both plugs for a while since the government is forcing CCS to get infrastructure funding.

Toyota does make an EV, now. It just happens to be arguably the worst EV available in the US.

CCS plugs are a requirement for new chargers in order to get the billions of federal infrastructure dollars. Plus, all the manufacturers that are switching have announced adapters. It’s no big deal.

Many EV owners don’t have a ICE backup, anymore. We had only EVs for a while, despite doing more/longer trips than average, and even now that we have both EV/gas, we take the EV on trips because it’s not a big deal, and our EV is way bigger than our gas MINI Cooper.