I can’t speak for everybody, but EV or not, a $50,000+ vehicle is not what I’m budgeted for. Even $30,000 is within my means, it is still a little north of my comfort level.
The sticker price is just the beginning
1. Totally unreliable and unpredictable
2. FIRE
3. $$$$$$>$$$$$$
4. We as a nation do not have an electric grid to support them
5. I am not an idiot
Where I live I can drive three hours to a drs appointment and return home in the same day. With range limitations of an electric car that becomes at least, an overnight trip.
Finding a working charging station away from home is a random risk issue. I would be subject to availability of a functioning and available station sometimes changing my route significantly to find that unicorn.
I’ll take “because they suck and spontaneously combust” for $50, Alex.
“Even $30,000 is within my means, it is still a little north of my comfort level.”
Other thoughts. Anything new is going to have a lot of things that will break and probably be expensive to repair or in few years, impossible to repair. A woman came into Oreily’s. Her smile was a rictus of frustration and anger. (I retreated out of range.) The collision alarm in her 2016 Passport was going off continuously and she’d tried all the fixes in the manual and off the internet. Oreily’s did some research and the list of things that might be the cause was long and expensive. (Taking a car to a dealership means around $150 per hour for labor plus a diagnosis fee. A former service writer at the local VW dealership said they were required to get $1500 out of everyone who brought a car in. It required lying and he quit.) Imagine when features like lane maintenance devices malfunction. The car won’t be drivable. I had trouble fixing even mundane things on cars ten to fifteen years old as the parts are nonfunctional out of the box or not available.
I’m currently searching for a used luxury station wagon from the late nineties as they were bought by old men and lightly used. Or a truck built before 2010 but with under 100k on the clock. I’ve had my last “new” car as I ended up spending thousands fixing the six-speed transmission twice.
I can do ALOT of maintenance on my 1976 1 ton dually 4 speed Chevy truck &
MY 1979 Buick station wagon for $30,000 to $50,000 & UP.
Complete NEW build 454 engine in truck cost me $6700-—and it was built by a racing engine builder. Truck chassis has over 348,000 miles on it.
4 gallons of gas has more energy then the entire battery pack of the electric Ford F-150.
That's about right for us, so a couple years ago we paid cash for an inexpensive car to ferry us to the market, the kids' homes, and our sundry appointments, and pocketed the difference. When we go somewhere far we rent an SUV.
They could be free and I wouldn’t want one. How is AAA going to bring me a cup of electrons?
Plus, quick charging isn’t recommended- so waiting for hours and/or planning on getting back home before the battery is low just isn’t reasonable