Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM

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• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re saying they don’t care about the cheaper segments and are just going to sell expensive vehicles. I don’t know what those of us who can’t afford 60k vehicles are expected to do for transit though… I suspect this is a ploy to get the American government to subsidize an affordable car range.

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  • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We can buy Chinese cars. They are starting to kill it on EV’s, with an already expansive supply chain. It is only a matter of time before they start showing up in the US.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they get approved by the DOT, which is unlikely both due to government sentiment towards Chinese businesses and the fact of they probably don’t actually meet our safety guidelines

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Some of BYD’s models just got 5 star ratings in the EU.

        Those super cheap, tiny, death trap looking cars, are mostly just that, but these newer EV companies are making better vehicles. They’ll be in the US soon enough.

        forbes.com/…/byd-ev-enters-europe-with-a-5-star-e…

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re also heavily subsidized by the Chinese government.

      Unless something magic happens and evs get super cheap thats eventually going to end and they’ll just be almost expensive death traps.

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    • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chinese cars like Great Wall have been a thing in New Zealand for a long time but they’re quite terrible. Chinese built Teslas seem to be reasonably built, but I would steer clear of any cars built by a Chinese brand until there are long term reliability studies.

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    • Overland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not that they’re particularly cheap at all, but Polestars are already made in China.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The EX30 is supposed to be sold for ~35k, assuming they’re not just straight up lying about it like GM and others.

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lolol and I’m sure the quality will match any day now 🙄

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  • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You buy a used car?

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    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you seen used car prices?

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Meh. That has mostly corrected. Probably 15% up from pre COVID. Down 10% yoy for the last 2 years.

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But a used car. At some point people started thinking new cars was something for people without money.

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    • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But if the base price is 60k and a replacement battery costs something like 30 even used cars are going to be too expensive. You’re thinking like they’re ICE cars where you might be able to buy an old shitbox for 5k and maybe rebuild the engine for the same amount.

      I hardly see that happening with these smartphone cars

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t buy a 60k vehicle. Batteries are more like 15k installed. Those reports of 30k batteries are edge cases.

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  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think as the infrastructure expands, those cheap cars will come. The batteries drive the cost and everyone is putting huge batteries in luxury cars to get 300+ miles of range. But imagine a decade or so from now when charging stations are as ubiquitous as gas stations. Range anxiety won’t be about breaking down on the side of the road. It’ll be about how often you have to stop and wait 10 minutes to charge. At that point, car companies will be able to make affordable new cars just by halving the battery size.

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  • Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Force your City or government to improve public transit options.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My local government keeps refusing to expand public transit options because they say it will increase crime. They’re so fucking racist they don’t want busses and trains to make it easier for people to get around because then the “wrong” people might come to the burbs

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you seen the size of most US states?

      All of England could fit in Alabama (they’re practically the same size). And it’s in the lower half of state sizes.

      Great Britain would fit in, I don’t know, Missouri?

      It takes sixteen western OECD countries to equal the land mass of the US.

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      • calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you comute going from NY to LA? No right, so what’s the point?

        Doesn’t matter if you live in USA or Switzerland, a city is a city, of course suburban sprawl doesn’t help, but this has nothing to do with the size of the country

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      • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re not referring to a specific problem here, and general size isn’t an issue.

        The comment you replied to is a bit shortsighted, public transit in more rural areas or small towns wouldn’t work that well.

        There’s absolutely room for great public transit anywhere else though, cities and more sizable towns can easily have great public transport and there’s even options for American suburbs. Trains connecting cities together in a lot of areas would also be relatively cheap for most places, and a lot of bigger cities used to have public transport that was eventually torn down to make room for cars.

        I think a lot of you forget that things don’t have to be perfect, especially first try and that things can easily be changed.

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      • Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok. While I am convinced that train is even better than planes I was talking about public transit in cities. And yes I know that conny from the rual area won’t be able to drive 100 miles by bus. But that is not your problem in the us. Your problem is, that you must use a car for 2 miles within the City because you can’t safely walk there.

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  • insomniac@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same thing they did to housing. Incoming 10 to 15 year car loans.

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  • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …you buy ICE until affordable EV is a thing? Is that so bad?

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The brands are saying they aren’t/won’t be making affordable EVs because the luxury market is too lucrative. And ICE is done in just a few years, by the time my current hybrid dies ICE won’t be sold

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      • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ICE is done in just a few years, by the time my current hybrid dies ICE won’t be sold

        You’re delusional if you actually believe this.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, they already have that down pat.

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