I can’t afford $45000 luxury car or to maintain it so I don’t even test drive them to avoid wasting everyone’s time

Advertising funds come from vehicle profits, of which there are none on EVs.

Millennial, checking in. We’re generally stoked about electric cars. Problem is, it takes like $300k to get an electric car and a home in which to charge it, minimum. And as everyone knows, we blew all that money on avocado toast and art history undergraduate degrees. 

It’s because all the engineers know that BEVs are.....not the long term answer. It’s the marketing department trying to cash in on a craze that Tesla started, not a real, solid engineering solution.

You proved my point:  if a use-case doesn’t support an EV decision a different pitch won’t help.

With gas at $1.25, who’s thinking about EVs?

There are still a good number of sacrifices/compromises to be made with an electric vehicle. An EV may suit my needs 75% of the time, but what about the other 25%? The days when my kid has a Dr’s appointment across town, and the other one has a concert/athletic event on the other side of town? The economical EVs are…

Well maybe when fossil fuels are banned, rural America will finally adopt it.

No, I think he means it’s big out there. A 125 mile range, when the vehicle is new, and the ambient temperature is favorable, isn’t going to cut it.

Were I to have an EV I would also likely require a garage within which I could then have a high-amperage chargers installed. Since I have no room for a garage I would need a new house.

Then Renault or Peugeot. 

There are too many hurdles right now. Electric cars are too expensive, too novel and require too many changes to existing routines to achieve wide-scale adoption.

How is that working for Nissan? 

Electric vehicles do not suit the driving style of most non-coastal Americans. End of story.

Company go out of business and break contracts every day.

It really doesn’t make sense.

“I’m waiting for the Doofus in Chief to realize that if he holds on for a second term, he’ll be doing literally nothing but trying to rescue the American economy profit from the pain and suffering this pandemic has caused.*”

re: “They have a bugout clause in place.”

I’m waiting for the Doofus in Chief to realize that if he holds on for a second term, he’ll be doing literally nothing but trying to rescue the American economy... and that’s traditionally a Democrat job.

I love watching how the FRB and US government have been using the financial crisis playbook for a health crisis. This will play out well. We will never recover to “normal” from this. This is going to change a lot of people’s habits permanently.