Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says
notonReddit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agoAaand just like thst the actual thoughtful response is downvoted in the comment section. This places becomes more reddit each day.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“Car companies needs SUVs to survive financially!” is not a thoughtful response. It can easily be disproven by looking at the first 60 or so years of the automobile industry before SUVs were even a thing. The SUV takeover is a pretty recent phenomenon which has taken shape over the last twenty years.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
But it was based on light truck exemptions from CAFE standards, so they can be cheaper to build and sell at a higher margin. But now average buyers don’t want anything smaller for fear of being run down by all the trucks and suvs.