• nxdefiant@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Dealers: We inflated the ever living shit out of the ALREADY inflated MSRP on all our EV’s during a global recession and now no one wants to buy any of them!!

    Manufacturer: The customers have spoken, EV’s are dead.

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    1 year ago

    Make. An. Affordable. Car.

    Why does every new ev for the US have to be mega deluxe luxury SUV? No one in the US is buying your affordable EV because you only sell them in Europe!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, a surprising number of people don’t want these hyper complex cars with thousands of microchips and millions of lines of code operating them. Give me an electric 2012 Honda fit/Toyota matrix equivalent that just fucking works and costs $20k or less new.

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      1 year ago

      There’s no margins there. Just like in real estate, the best margins are at the high end. They won’t make affordable cars while they can make more money on expensive ones.

      • WallEx@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Other companies can, but the big ones can’t? Yeah, no. I don’t buy that for a second.

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      I currently lease a 2 years old Renault Zoe (very compact car) for 200€ a month (0€ upfront). It was a special deal in Germany for a few months. I charge at home with solar panels and rarely drive more than the 300-350km range.

      It honestly feels like the holy grail of electro mobility.

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    Maybe it is price. Maybe we all finally realized Musk is a right wing piece of shit, even worse than all the other corporate thieves.

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      1 year ago

      … But Tesla is far from the only manufacturer, that produces totally overpriced and shitty EVs

  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Mercedes: the EV market is challenging at the moment.

    Also mercedes: pay 100k for this car with limited autonomy and dubious software in early beta stages…

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      1 year ago

      You can get an electric Benz way under 100k, probably half that. 100k is S-class pricing and it has always been this high.

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        1 year ago

        You made me check, the cheapest I can buy one here is 70k EUR for the EQA:

        EQA is the name of the new entry-level model to the all-electric world of Mercedes-EQ vehicles.

        What a bargain for an entry level model

        • WallEx@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Huh, why is no one buying it? It’s so affordable. For the low low price of ones yearly income