It’s obsolete in the sense the range isn’t as good the tech inside isn’t as good. And if or when the battery goes bad most people can’t or won’t spend 20k to replace in a car that is worth about the same. 

I can’t afford a $32,000 car, let alone one twice that. And I drive my cars for 10+ years. In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

Let’s also not forget that dealers shot themselves in the foot with the ADM antics last year. Hell, up until ~May this year, the Ford dealer nearest to me was still putting 5k markups on non-GT Mach Es, and 15k markups on the GT variants.

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

The government has a legal mandatory requirement to citizens to purchase a for-profit product but corporations don’t have a legal requirement to provide it.

Twitter is saying this plane was shot down by an Anti Aircraft missile.

Victim-blaming.

Huh, I guess I am not the only person who can't afford $1000 car payments.

Meh, not that I’m likely to be able to afford anything soon anyway, but until one of these comes as part of the deal where I can just take it out and unfold it next to my car at an apartment complex, I can’t get that excited about one.

....or rich enough.

We had to run out of people dumb enough to take on a 1k car payment at some point.

Here’s a not so secret secret, insurance companies don’t want to cover anyone. That’s how they make money, by taking your money and giving you nothing in return, then when they do HAVE TO do something, they fight you for every penny hoping you give up. Then the next year they raise your rates because you dared to use…

I guess he’s going from Penn State to State Penn. 😝😝

Sad story. Fuck that HOA bitch. But the last part where the towing company came through?  I could die now, because I think I’ve heard it all.  Kudos to them for doing the right thing.

My mom had a Saturn Ion

I have honestly not known a single person with an ICE car that caught fire. I have also not known a single person with an EV car that caught fire. I guess I have been lucky. 

it will be forever before i get an EV. My iphone is not even 3 years old and it already only has 80 percent of it’s max capacity. I don’t want to own a vehicle that becomes less capable with age that quickly. 

Even worse, it’s like the government telling us we HAVE to smoke and that investigating other options of nicotine intake is wrong and evil.

Good point, and that’s pretty much the generation I have. Also, I agree on the technology, but that’s not my main worry.

I’ve seen it, but more importantly real engineers in the auto industry have been waving their hands for awhile about this. You look at what the Germans are doing with eFuels, they’re not stupid and they’re doing it for legitimate reasons. The EU laws are silly and are going to back them into EXTREMELY expensive…