Americans aren’t wary of EVs we can’t fucking afford the overpriced shit that’s sold here.
Exactly, we have two vehicles. One is 11 years old the other is 23 years old.
Bought an old slum lord house for 18K. Doing all the repair work ourselves. Couldn’t afford 1K a month for rent on an apartment
A new car at 900 plus per month isn’t in the books at all. Plus when it’s 10 years old it will only get 1/4 of the original mileage on a single charge.
Used EVs are remarkably cheap. The problem is that it still effectively requires you to be able to charge at home, which is not common on cheaper housing.
Yeah, looked at one for around 5K. Good for about 30 miles because the battery pack needs replaced which increases the price by nearly triple.
Moved to The Bay Area recently; sold our older car and got an EV. We don’t have an in-home charger, so I pay public charger prices, and it still costs me (or would cost me, if I ran þe battery þis way) $40 to charge from 0-100%. Last time I filled þe tank on þe ICE car it cost me nearly $90. I get a bit more range for þat $90, but nowhere near double. It’d be even more dramatic a difference if I could charge at home.
One of þe better decisons we’ve made, but it’s also partially so successfuul because of þe mild California climate. It wouldn’t have been quite so great in Minnesota.
