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Electric cars are a niche market that makes sense in some market niches.

Tesla has done a great job developing a car that is workable for those who want one.

Hybrid even make some sense.

But electric semis are stupid and the hydrogen economy is a Utopian dream that will have to wait until fusion power is commercially available

I suspect that Lucid is about to become the next dead duck in the EV world. They are only selling 9000 cars a year and they are losing 800 million a year.

“I suspect that Lucid is about to become the next dead duck in the EV world. They are only selling 9000 cars a year and they are losing 800 million a year”

They are 60% Saudi owned. If anyone can throw good money after bad it’s them. Just a matter if their pride will allow them to fold the tent sooner than later.

At least 12K miles per of home charged miles. That’s the threshold where getting an EV makes economic sense. That’s based on gas vs power prices in Alabama, and based on what car prices were 3 years ago when my wife’s gas crossover needed replacing anyway and I replaced it with an EV.

I don’t know about today’s car prices. Nor did my research involve cold weather reducing miles/kWh throughput (not talking about reduced range on trips, the home charged miles is when the gas savings happens).

For us the threshold is 8K miles per year of home charged miles, but that’s because most of our power comes from decentralized solar. You must do your homework on an EV and/or solar.

3.5 miles / kWh. That’s the magic number that took forever to find. The question of how much gas savings vs increasing your power bill comes down to how many miles your realistically get for every kWh you add to your bill. I regularly get 3.9 miles per kWh, but that’s from the DC battery. Reduce that by 10% for loss while converting AC power to DC power while home charging and it comes out to 3.5 miles/kWh. Forget the most talked about numbers like range and time it takes to charge, at least when deciding if the gas savings is worth it. That 3.5 is for a crossover shape (read: less efficient than a sudan) in mostly warm weather (read: more efficient than running your heat in the cold north).