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I am still not sold on it as a truck with truck use for me. I will agree the price point you have listed is much nicer.
Totally agree, it's only useful as an around town truck. I could use it to do home Depot trips and stuff like that. You know, the kind of stuff that doesn't justify owning a big money truck vs renting one for $20 an hour at home Depot.
RE: Public charging, there is a lot of weird, far from reality POV on using public chargers. I’d be hesitant to even call it etiquette. When I has a Chevy Volt 10 years ago EV people insisted it and other PHEV should not be allowed to us public chargers, as they could still use gas and EVs couldn’t. I read in the past week that somewhere with chargers with differing charge levels people are posting signs complaining about the fast chargers being used by slow charging cars.
Yea I think the full clean sheet BEV result is a Rivian or SilveradoEV. They've rethought all of the major components at some level with various levels of success. I like both of those, but use case and price point don't work for me personally. Does work for a LOT of people though.
I don't think this is the case. We're only a decade into the push towards EV at this point.
the infrastructure is still in its infancy and I would argue that it is plentiful
Eh, it's not as plentiful as it should be, and the reliability and standardization is still somewhat in shambles. NACS looks like it's going to win the protocol race, however there are multiple providers with varying levels of success. Tesla on the top end with a very reliable and robust system. Then down to Chargepoint and some of the smaller companies that have less than stellar reliability and deployment.
Our gov has all
apple.news
When has legislation ever asked the people what they want before moving forward?
I think the rampant govt spending of the past 4 years all but assured the doom of the EV push. The insanely high inflation, coupled with high interest rates has pushed them out of the realm of affordability for the people that they need to want to buy these vehicles.
That's kinda sorta exactly how our government is supposed to work. Elected officials get there by listening to, and representing what their constituents want.
It's a boondoggle, plain and simple, the "Elite" have brainwashed the masses into believing that the fate of Earth is at stake and the only cure is more socialism. Thankfully many are finally catching on to the big con...
www.wsj.com
As expected, the early adopters are driven more by virtue signaling and having the latest, greatest status item to show off. Also most EV vehicles are sold to customers as a 2nd or even 3rd vehicle, not many customers buy them as their sole mode of transportation.
In other words, most people don't want to buy our overpriced, under-performing junk and they only way we can push these on consumers is with government subsidies and peer pressure.The auto industry’s push to boost sales of electric vehicles is running into a cold, hard reality: Buyers’ interest in these models is proving shallower than expected.
While EV sales continue to grow—rising 51% this year through September—the rate has slowed from a year earlier and unsold inventory is starting to pile up for some brands. [ed. if you sold 2 last year and 3 this year it's be a 50% increase too...]
…The first wave of buyers willing to pay a premium for a battery-powered car has already made the purchase, dealers and executives say, and automakers are now dealing with a more hesitant group, just as a barrage of new EV models are expected to hit dealerships in the coming years.
“The curve isn’t accelerating as quickly as I think a lot of people expected,” said John Lawler, Ford Motor’s chief financial officer at a conference in September, on the EV adoption rate. “We’re seeing it flatten a bit.”
Auto manufacturers (except for Tesla... now) lose big money on every EV they produce, if they're forced to cut prices even more there's either going to be another big bailout or the companies are going to go bankrupt chasing this foolish endeavor. And it's not just Ford with issues selling EVs to customers who don't want them...
[ed. new sales orders are almost non-existent, VWs sales in the previous quarter were almost solely based on fulfilling their previous orders which were unfulfilled on time in previous quarters.]
Doesn't mean it does.
Shocker
They did. Nobody wanted to be seen by wall st as "falling behind". Wall St can't run a car company, but analysts there sure think they can, and if you don't do what they think you should, your stock tanks and you lose your job as CEO or any other high level exec.