“Open up that charging network to all BEVs (a thing that should happen) and I think you’d see Tesla sales slide fairly quickly.”

I love how you basically say “maybe if anyone survives the catastrophe me and others with my attitude help cause, they’ll change the world, eventually, several generations after rebuilding what my mindset has destroyed.” By the time the effects of global warming are undeniable, it will be far too late to do anything…

Bad news: Median price is pretty much the same. Vehicles over $100,000 in price sell in such low numbers that they hardly even move the meter on, say, Toyota’s 400,000+ Rav4, 300,000+ Camry, and 200,000+ Corolla sales.

I tried to find the survey referenced, but couldn’t find it on the Autotrader UK site. The only thing I found was in March 2019 75% of “car buyers” were considering an EV. The quoted line in this article says “consumers” were surveyed in January with 16% “planning to buy” and in August down to 4% “considering”. I…

“But the market has shown that most of them (myself included) just don’t want one.”

And honestly, I’ve wondered what the impact on price would be if it didn’t 97 video cameras, the computational power to do autonomous driving poorly, and in general didn’t do things any more complex than a current entry level ICE vehicle.

Most people who buy EVs don’t exactly care about the additional cost because most realize they are- as you stated- paying for the technology. But OTOH its not like Americans aren’t already spending luxury car prices on vehicles already. In a day in age where trucks are costing on average $50,000 with the factories…

that’s what financing is for?

EVs make a ton of sense for a large swath of the population. There are just a big and vocal-enough group of them that wants their vehicle to do literally everything and refuse to accept anything less. The irony is that, as a 2nd vehicle, an EV makes a ton of sense for that population, too.

“Scrapping all CAFE and CARB regulations and replacing them with a flat fuel tax.”

1st gear: The real background story here is the trust Euro regulators had with the auto industry is now gone.

I’d really like to see a carbon tax that redistributed the proceeds to each consumer. Heavy consumers would end up being out of pocket, light users would end up “earning” money. The goal is to ultimately reduce emissions. CAFE regulations simply make larger cars more desirable because it’s easier to hit fuel economy…

Neutral:

We need pedestrian impact safety standards. That would lower those hood lines quickly.

Neutral: I hope someone at the NHTSA figures out these trucks are getting too monstrously huge. I shouldn’t have to climb on top my car to see where I am going or to back out of a parking lot. 

Not really. First off, how would they explain suddenly having $1 million in their bank account.

“...an agent of a Russian criminal organization”. Wouldn’t that be the current Russian government under Putin??

Only a million dollars? GTFO. You want me to do something that will ruin my life and end my chances of having a job, you need to be taking care of me and my family for life. It’s going to cost you a lot more than $20 million, but just know that any initial offer below that is just going to get your ass turned over to…

A million dollars doesn’t go as far as it used to. S/

People seem to forget that these more expensive EVs also have better maintenance and cheaper fueling. People should expect to save about $5k-$10k in usage costs compared to a gas equivalent across 5 years. The tech and infrastructure isnt there yet, but its working well to replace $30k cars right now, soon it will do…