In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars::undefined

  • @FMT99@lemmy.world
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    161 year ago

    Would be interesting to see. The Chinese EVs being pushed on the market here (Europe) are the typical ugly huge American SUV style.

    • @demlet@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      Yeah, American here. This isn’t a huge mystery. Electric cars here are expensive because people refuse to give up their giant vehicles. American culture is so gross…

      • snowe
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        51 year ago

        Even small electric cars are expensive in America. The Kia ev6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 and 6 are all quite “small” for American vehicles and they’re still 45k+

      • @phx@lemmy.ca
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        31 year ago

        Shouldn’t it be the opposite? If demand is low, then prices should correspondingly be down until adoption increases.

        Certainly the opposite is often used to just y increasing prices

        • @demlet@lemmy.world
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          81 year ago

          No, what I’m saying is that American car makers aren’t producing small electric vehicles because Americans refuse to drive small cars, which makes the ridiculously large ones prohibitively expensive because the batteries have to be enormous.

          • @phx@lemmy.ca
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            51 year ago

            There are definitely a lot of oversize vehicles in North America and trucks do have high sales, there’s still plenty of people driving decent sized Japanese vehicles (Toyota, Honda).

            I do agree that the “F350 to drive to work and do grocery runs” crap is dumb as fuck though.

    • @cyd@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      The batteries on some of these SUV EVs weigh as much as a car. It’s pretty silly.