Seems second hand EV are now the most affordable cars. Fast depreciation for the win.
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Depreciation is fast because ICE dealers jack up EV price to sell ICE instead.
Honestly I think the best way to sell Americans on electric is to let BYD enter the market and not tax them to death. Their prices would be very attractive, but they price way lower than just about anyone else. If they offered electric cars to Americans at those prices, it would shake up the industry there — both ICE and electric. Like, the Cybertruck is still gonna be the Cybertruck, nothing else looks like that, but if you want an affordable electric and Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, et al are saying $30-40K and BYD is saying $10-20K... a lot of people are gonna look good and hard at BYD.
Even with tarrifs, BYD would still be cheaper than most ICE cars... the problem is you cant register it legally in the US becuase it doesnt "meet US saftey regulations" but feel free to buy the deathtraps that are Teslas.
Deathtraps, really?! So do you mean only the Cybertrack - or Teslas in general (and what exactly dym, some stats or safety ratings)? Thanks!
good thing the rapist pedophile torpedoed EV, solar and all possible renewable energy industries in the USA before destroying oil supply to cover for said raping and pedophile activities
congrats Americans!
As someone who paid $1.50 MORE per Gallon this week then last week prices ARENT Soaring because TRUMP Told me they WERENT! STOP believing EVERYTHING you Sheeple!
-Republican Voters!
Yesterday night we charged our car for the equivalent of 6 cent per kWh.
2 days earlier we charged for free using surplus power from our solar panels.
On average in the winter we can charge during the night for around 15 cent per kWh. from April to September (both months included) we can pretty consistently charge for free from our solar panels in Copenhagen at Latitude 55° North.
If you live further south, you will be able to do even better. All of USA except Alaska has way better conditions for solar power than we do.
$0.40 per kWh here :-/
We also have that in the morning when everybody get up, and then again around dinner time. Prices often even go slightly higher than that in those periods.
Our rates are hourly, so charging the car at night you can generally get power for 15 cent per kWh.
6 cent is very cheap and does not generally occur during winter, but I bet that very soon when the spring gets milder, we will see below 10 cent regularly.
For us solar with battery is brilliant, because even when there is little to no sun at dinner, we have enough on the battery to cover both the expensive periods 6 moths of the year. Most days even when cloudy, we can still make enough to cover the entire 24 hours.
What I want is an electric car that doesn't surveil me...looking into retrofitting.
In Australia the Cupra e cars aren't connected but it's the single biggest complaint so I am sure new versions will "fix" that. Maybe the US has the non connected models?
I have a BYD and don't care if China surveils me, and i am ok to trade that off to do things like charge remotely, cool or heat the car remotely before I get in etc What I do care about is my country surveiling me, their only intention for doing that is to do me harm if I don't confrom.
on another note i always find it bemusing Americans claiming to be wary of surveillance, this the country of the NSA, Edward Snowden, Meta, Apple, Google, doorbell cams, internet cams, Amazon Echo, smart homes and on and on.
I have an old truck with a seized engine just collecting rust. I would love to convert it to an electric vehicle once I have the money and time, unfortunately in my area such a mod wouldn't be street legal so it would have to be a farm-only truck for now.
Right after I made this comment I came across this post: https://slrpnk.net/post/35311449 seems relevant.
"Hey I know. Let's pay Trump $1B to ban EVs, force everyone to buy ICE cars and gasoline, and then start a war to raise the price of gasoline, so I can make a crazy profit!" - oil tycoons and investors.
It's what they voted for, fuck em
Let's forget, for a moment, about global warming and the environment, and just forget about the fact that EVs are cheaper and better to drive. Let's talk about national security, the economy, and sovereignty. Because we can't have it while we're dependent on other nations for oil. Let's transition to electric vehicles, of all types, and then we don't have to worry about energy anymore. Of course, then we're still dependent on China for batteries but that's a different problem that we can actually solve.
Ironically the reason there’s so much lifepo4 batteries available from china despite the tech being USA invented is that there was a patent on the tech in USA, which is a factor in why nobody developed it, but china being china they didn’t care about the bourgeois patents and built up a huge industry around batteries - and now the patent expired.
And now they are starting mass production of sodium batteries that are not affected by cold, and solid state battery production begins next year.
They've been "starting production" for 20 years. I'll believe it when I see it. And by "see it" I mean cars being actively sold that have been validated by 3rd parties.
Bro ev is a bullshit solution gift to the capitalist elites. Public transportation in a reliable network is far "greener" and faster. Edit- I just looked what community this was sorry lol
Bro EV = electric vehicle
Let’s transition to electric vehicles, of all types
Public transportation either already is or can be transitioned to electric as well.
I known car icon when I sees one!
Huh?
cheaper
Are they? I'm currently looking at buying a car and according to my rough estimates, they're so much more expensive that the cost of gas doesn't really even matter much.
You have to look beyond gas and look at total cost of ownership. Not to mention the time spent taking your vehicle in for service on a regular basis.
The point is they COULD be cheaper if our current admin didn't go balls deep back into oil. Other countries make extremely affordable EV cars. The US chose to enter the EV market with 6 figure electric trucks, and "entry level" evs that cost 40k plus, and then get confused why no one buys them.
I could be wrong but I think certain battery chemistries aren't as reliant. Such as NMC.
Fuck those flatfooted eco liberals, I don't want to pay a cent extra for my energy just for sustainability and clean air. Actually I don't want it even if it's cheaper, because it's simply un-American! And also it cost jobs because my delusions say so.
-Republicans
America's dependence on cars is the real issue.
There can be more than one real issue. Not all transit is within a city or between cities, and since I need a car to get to the nearest city, I'd greatly prefer one that I can fuel with solar panels.
Nothing could make me buy a car from elon. I wouldn't drive for free.
I wouldn't buy a car from Elon either, fortunately other companies make EVs
Then don't buy from Felonia dickMusk. You've still got Lucid, and various EV models from Toyota, Kia, Hyundai, Honda, Volkswagen, etc.
Toyota and Honda have cancelled EV production.
Honda did (which doesn't surprise me, Honda is an engine company that happens to make cars), Toyota is still in the EV game, and they're dragging Subaru with them into it.
Honda's pulling back because they bet on the USA for launch, but Trump happened, and the Chinese are killing it in every other market, so they're backed in a corner and the marketing people figured it's better to take the L than try and proceed in a hostile market.
They should have come together and developed a charging system then.
Most other brands can charge at Tesla superchargers now too, and other charging networks are gradually improving, and you'll do almost all of your charging at home or work anyway.
Yeah dog just say no to the epstein empire. No tesla no musk.
Your concerns/information is outdated.
I dont want to use a tesla charger or chord. You don't understand my "concerns"