The batteries on some of these SUV EVs weigh as much as a car. It’s pretty silly.
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FMT99@lemmy.world 10 months agoWould be interesting to see. The Chinese EVs being pushed on the market here (Europe) are the typical ugly huge American SUV style.
cyd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
demlet@lemmy.world 10 months 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@programming.dev 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.