Comment on In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars

• demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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…

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  • snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨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+

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨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

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    • demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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• cyd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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