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Electric Dodge Chargers Now On Sale for Less Than Half of MSRP, or $28,935 (fuelarc.com)

submitted 3 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Woof. They drive really well, but the market just isn't ready for a $60K+ fast car.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol they’re notoriously not a good car. Have you seen the reviews of them? Has nothing to do with being a 60k fast car. The ioniq 5 is 60k and is selling like hot cakes. Teslas sold for years at that price point.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ioniq 5 is not 60K. MSRP is currently... what... $35,000? Makes sense it would sell like hotcakes at that price. Maybe you're thinking the Ioniq 6? That's a car I like, but it's not selling great, probably for the exact same reason.
Teslas sold for years at that price, but their most popular model is by far and away the Model Y, with its MSRP starting at $40,000. Seeing a trend here? EVs that sell decently tend to be cheap.
As for it being notoriously not a good car... that one, depends what you're looking for! It's a muscle car. It's fast and sexy looking and unreliable. Folks who've driven one tend to like it, from what I saw. I tend to skip professional reviewers/cartube, it's hard to tell who's paying them to say what

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ioniq 5 is $65k for the fully specced version. How do I know? I own one. Nobody is buying base model anything.

Once again, nobody is buying base spec cars, especially not teslas, who’s only selling points are long range (not available in base spec) and ‘self driving’ (once again not available in base spec)

Not really any good response for the last one, besides watch a video and decide for yourself. Articles might say something is good but then a video shows an entirely different story.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago

Most folks don't buy self-driving anything. It's about 12% for Tesla, and Tesla probably has the highest uptake rate: https://carbuzz.com/12-percent-tesla-owners-choose-full-self-driving/

For buying the base spec cars, Troy Teslike reports on that (i know more about Tesla off the top of my head, been doing research, their new average sale price has been cratering), and Tesla's most popular models are the cheap ones. That's important to folks like me because it kills profitability and so is newsworthy.

No judgement, that's just the cards as they lay. I like knowing things, I'm a bit "special" that way, particularly for statistics.

Yeah, it's a matter of taste on this vehicle being nice. Honestly? I'd get a lightly used Ioniq 6 for the same price, I like the Charger body shape, but if it's equally fast, I think the 6 will be more reliable.