What excuse. The poor have to buy gas. You put a tax on it and its unavoidable unlike income tax which they generally don’t meet income qualifications to be required to pay.

LOL @ power grids. I work for a power company and they’re really excited to get EVs on the road. It means more demand for us which = higher revenue = more ROI on existing and new infrastructure.

I sold my Gen2 CTS-V back in 2012 after it was around $80 to fill up the tank. I had enough of that sticker shock and promptly bought a Volt. I was 95% electric and only used gas for long trips.

1st gear - im someone who believes gas should be much more expensive, like European prices, and that the increase in taxes that would make gas that expensive should be poured into making public transportation much more useful.

In a weird way, Genesis is actually perfectly positioned to become a full-EV company, because so few people who know the brand. I remember my entire Genesis ownership experience was, “It’s a what?”

Nice to see an article about my home town. My saving grace is when I relocate back there I am able to import one car under my wife’s passport with no VAT. I cant imagine otherwise how much my v10 r8 would cost lol

Reading the responses, I think it might be you that’s bad at geography, and global politics.

This is how it looks in Denmark for a Tesla Model 3:

This explains why I saw a lot of Tesla taxis in Istanbul last time I was there. If you want a large powerful car, and have a place to charge, looks like an EV is a no-brainer. A Model S Plaid gets taxed less than a car with a 1.6L gas motor.

I priced them out a few years ago, lingering around 16-18k. I exaggerated of course, but you get my point all around. When more automakers start releasing new models it’ll push the price down quite a bit. I recall seeing i3s around $10k, off lease, with only 30k miles, as well as some early e-Golf and other compliance…

Hyperbole I know, but degradation was only an issue with the early hybrids and EV’s which used more archaic technologies.  Modern EV’s are typically rated for like 10% or less degradation over 200,000 miles.  

Used BMW i3. There, I just saved you $20k :)

Range anxiety is a real concern. If one lives anywhere where their commute pushes range limits, this isn’t their car. If one has unpredictable schedules, and/or kids and lives in the suburbs, this probably isn’t their car - you don’t want to be 40 miles from school when you get a call that your kid is sick or broke…

This vehicle is the gun with which Mazda shoots themselves in the foot.  All they had to do was plop the ol’ high-revvin, oil-drinkin’ rotary “range extender” in the bonnet and call it a day.  So instead of a $500 chargepoint credit, they could have have given the driver five hundred bucks of pennzoil, which should…

Yep. In practice, however, by the time the Mazda is out, the Bolt issues will be fixed. MX30 is a new model so it will have issues of its own. 

VW ID4 isn’t a better option??? Hell, what about a Kia Niro EV or Kona EV? No, the Mazda not the right answer here. Don’t be an enabler.

Wow, this thing is going to be a BARGAIN on the lease return market. I’m guessing sub $10k in 3+ years when its even less competitive, and everything else in the segment is 400 miles for $25k new. It’s competing with EVs that came out in 2013.

This is a weird car for a bunch of reasons. I love that Mazda does things differently but they would’ve been FAR better off shoving this drivetrain in a CX5 and give us a CX5 PHEV - something that’s more practical and something the market actually wants (see the continued demand for RAV4 PRIME) - A CX5 with 50-75…

It’s a PHEV right? 100 mile range works for a PHEV. 

I am replying here as Kinja will not let me post directly.