It takes a lot of resources to build an EV, so frequently replacing EVs would be bad for the environment and expensive for consumers. Biden's gasoline-powered car ban through EPA dictate needs to be reversed.
I can’t wait to buy a car that sends me to the dealer for maintenance and repairs three times as often.
Lol.
dreaming...............
Look that American reporter name
JeeJoo Lee
Those darn Mayflower Lees .
The CCP has deep plants at the Murdochs WSJ .
How nice .
As they become a bigger part of the fleet,
I guess Hertz didn’t get that memo while they’re to get rid of all the ones they bought.
Could electric vehicles bring back those glory days of brisk sales and rapid obsolescence?
No.
Cars were also a lot cheaper then, relatively speaking and most people were comfortable budgeting for a car payment, even 2.
EV’s represent a ridiculous waste of money, increased hassle and endless aggravation for less mobility and convenience. Now that the early adopters have theirs, sales will slow to a trickle.
And this next applies to all cars: I do not want my car talking to the cloud, sending info location or none of that. That’s the so called tech advancements they are talking about and it will not end well at all.
I’ll keep my old cars and keep fixing them...We will have a Cuban car culture.
I average about 4k miles per year. So I would get what, maybe 50k miles out of batteries that cost thousands of dollars to replace? That’s worse than the glory days the WSJ is talking about.
“That New Car Smell.”
ICYMI, That fragrance comes in a spray can now.
“It takes a lot of resources to build an EV, so frequently replacing EVs would be bad for the environment and expensive for consumers.”
Absolutely, considering that the largest part of an EV, the battery, cannot only be recycled for far more than the cost of the raw materials, if even that.
There are those who want nothing to do with EVs and they will do whatever's necessary to maintain and drive gas powered cars - forever.
EVs are the disposable Razor of transportation use it and throw it away
What this dope is saying is that EVs are terrible investments for their owners.
Imagine buying a Commodore 64 desktop computer, knowing that a laptop with a modern AMD microprocessor will be available in six months.
Note to Big Auto: You know what will bring private sector customers back.
Another Trump admin.
Now you have a choice to make.
Choose wisely.
It seems to me that the cost of replacing the giant batteries way too often will drive the sales of EVs.
Not to mention that in the US, the top EV makers don’t even use the dealership model. They sell cars on iPhones. Sure they have some showrooms too. Company owned. Taxpayer subsidized.
There could be a market for refurbished EVs. Slap some new batteries in there, re-warrant the drivetrain etc. The EV makers would need to run that, too - or just concede their cars are 100% disposable and not even worthy of a salvage parts yard.
One thing to note guys. The giant batteries in these EVs are made up of probably close to 1000 smaller cells. Your battery can “fail” just because a couple of these smaller cells go bad. What the writer fails to realize is that there are companies springing up that can remove those bad cells and replace them with NEW cells, causing the battery to no longer be in the “failed” state. “Electrified Garage” is one of them.
*I* don’t have an electric vehicle, nor do I have plans to buy one, but I just want you guys to understand that there’s another thing about EVs that this writer doesn’t understand.
1. Customers want to buy an expensive, highly depreciating asset more often so they can lose even more money.
2. And they want to spend time maintaining it by purchasing expensive parts, paying high labor rates, and generally not using the expensive asset they paid for while it's in the shop.
3. And for all this, they receive a "new car scent."
Detroit "iron" is gone and it's not coming back. They destroyed themselves by listening to people like Mary Barra, Nardelli, Wagoner, etc.
What an argument for a new car genre — it wears out quickly so you have to replace it more often! Even better, it costs a lot more than the gas car it replaces. AND, your EV tires will last 2/3 to 3/4 of the time that gas car tires last.
Great sales pitch!
Peak EV is over.
Nothing wrong with them, if I were retired and lived in a warm state, where golf carts weren’t street legal, I’d look at one to go to Publix or Winn Dixie.
But replacing my Suburban in February driving 50 miles to work in Central New Hampshire? Don’t be absurd!