Electric Vehicles

Take the invasive piece of shit tech out and make it not a Tesla and I'm in.

Pedal, brake, steering, heater/a/c, seats, roof, windshields. That's all we need beyond the electric drive train.

The only reason I wouldn't want an EV now is that they are insanely invasive spying smartphones on wheels. Not that conventional cars are much better. I hope my "next car" isn't a car at all.

Probably because Americans aren't given access to any of the good cheap electric cars that everyone else is getting.

If you told them they could get one for like $15k I bet that number would change REAL fast.

I just want my next car to not be connected to the internet.

I live in a shitty apartment - where the hell am I supposed to charge one, even if I could afford one? I'd love a hybrid though. Unfortunately I'm disabled in America, aka below the poverty line. I can't afford jack shit.

I have an EV in Europe and for my next car I'm seriously considering going back to ICE. I really like the car but the charging network is shit. Pretty much none if it accepts card payments, you have to give all your personal info to like 10 different operators to move around. The network looks fine on a map but when you're actually trying to find a charger a lot of them are out of order. You can't trust it so I always look for a backup but this really complicates planning trips and range anxiety is still a thing. If things don't improve in the coming year I will just get a gasoline car and consider EV again some time in the future.

Fuck the 93%. I want a 6k electric car.

I don't want to use an app with my car. I want a car like I have now, with knobs and only a keyfob required to get in and go. Cars are needlessly invasive.

I would prefer public transport, but if I have to get a car.

I would want a station wagon that sits a normal height off the ground, not an SUV. I would like a volt style hybrid, saves a ton on battery weight and covers more than 95% of my driving on a single electric charge, while still allowing for longer drives without the extended wait times at charging stations.

The selection is slim and the prices are high.

It’s simple. The old guard of car manufacturers in Germany, USA, and Japan know how to build high profit cars that are differentiated. If they market electric cars, they could lose that advantage, because their electric cars don’t a lot differently than the Chinese ones. If they build great electric cars, they’ll lose that advantage because they’re behind the Chinese in r&d, and their manufacturing an R&D costs are much higher.

Then Trump comes along and eliminates all reason to build EVs for the USA market.

So they spend a lot of effort marketing conventional vehicles. Surprised? Not really.

Many Canadians and USAians also travel hundreds of km on road trips as part of their vacations, driving kids to college, family reunions, thanksgiving, etc., and the charging infrastructure isn’t there even if charge times come way down. Sure, it’s occasional but it’s an oversized consideration in the American mind.