Tesla being dicks again
Not limited to Tesla, I agree.
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And that is just one sector of use, chip shortages everywhere are pushing up prices of goods like inverters etc.
Yes, I bought a 20TB RAID last year for backups from Amazon and I just happened to stumble across it on there earlier this week and it’s 20% more expensive.
My son went to buy a new car last summer and fancied VW. Before he had even had a good look round the showroom the salesman had jumped on him and began to steer him towards the electric models of the big family car he was looking for. Basic model was over €35k as against approx €25k petrol model and the best bit was that after “the salesman thought,but not sure” approx 6 years it would cost another €8k plus to replace the batteries!. Won’t print what my son said but outside they had some of the models he liked and marked occasion because they had been delivered and only done 50 kilometers as test cars, he got a very good deal, less than the €25k and all for just 50km plus as he says, its sits in a car park five days a week andhe wasn’t going to get into big debt just to have an EV. The business over the batteries having to be replaced has put him off buying electric and if power supplies are cut this winter,there will be many wishing they had kept their petrol or diesel engines instead.
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Sadly your Son doesnt know any different and neither did the salesperson.
Now just take a minute to think who in the world would by an expensive to purchase (but v cheap to charge at home) recouping the additional expense quite quickly. IF the batteties only lasted 6 years,
Average life excluding nissan leaf is 500,000 miles with a slow reduction in mileage after about 250-300, 000 miles. So you loose around 20% of the mileage around 400,000 miles
But and the manufacturers are constantly surprised as the bateries go on even longer than predicted causing several to revise their estimates.
Extremely unlikely, a few of my friends are choosing/chosen their 2nd EV, one is on his way to france this weekend in his latest one.
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Well you would have thought the salesperson would know what he was talking about, my boy knows nothing about electric cars and for a young family its an expensive outlay when buying any sort of vehicle now. No one I know will touch or even be able to afford to buy one to say nothing of the family in Texas with their muscle cars who laugh at the thought of it. Rich pensioners and well paid workers seem to be the only ones who can afford them.
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Really? I think thats more hope rather than thought, sad though isnt it. You should be able to rely on the staff but sadly that is a rare one.
Yes as a relatively new addition to transport they do cost more at the moment. Just as with anything new. There are big savings in runnong costs and home charging so you layout more initially which if interest rates keep rising put more pressure folk.
Give it a few more years and they will be more affordable. I really wanted to change but what I wanted isnt made and close is way more than I would ever pay at £67,000
From shopping recently it seems all new cars have gone up. My friends car eas on finance and he took it in for a pre holiday service, the lady at the dealers worked out he equity, crunched the numbers and he left with a new car for £15 less per month than the old one!
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My son in law in the US was invited by Harley Davidson to test drive their new electric bike. Out of his chapter of bikers he was the only one and was so impressed with the speed it gave,he bought it there and then so had two Hogs sitting in his garage (my daughter was not best pleased ). Anyway all went well for a couple of months then Harley decided they were not going to produce electric bikes after all due to lack of interest and their heritage, so he quickly traded it back in and got a new Ducati which he did not like so traded in for a Triumph which was nice but the service and parts cost made him think again so traded it in for more than he paid originally and now has a new custom built Harley based on the one same as Arnie’s from the Terminator’s model . The moral of the story for him was not the bike but future problems regarding parts and servicing and possibly being left with something he liked but could not use any longer.
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Yes but we have gone from the future of motoring to the mid life crisis hardly worth it brigade. They actually make the electroglide which wasnt electric hahaha. Noisy bikes are a bit safer as they alert car drivers to their presence.
Ask him to look at fords F150 lightning, sales for the electric pickup that beats its petrol version in all quarters. Pretty good for macho men.
His wife (my daughter) actually bought a F150 but petrol and loved every inch of it and then became a Jeep convert so it had to go for one of them instead. As for the son in law, he bought a new Dodge Challenger trans am last year and loves that like a baby so no conversion to electric for him especially in Texas with petrol cheaper than electricity and water.
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Precisely why the world is on route to disaster but no worry.
just your opinion of course
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Not known for sitting on a fence 
Not even an electric fence?…
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Hahaha
Longer range coming from next year.
Electrek.co: CATL’s energy dense Qilin batteries one-up the 4680 cell and will debut in the ZEEKR 009.
CATL's energy dense Qilin batteries will debut in ZEEKR EVs
Batteries youve been dreaming of.
Seems to be a repackaging, not a new chemistry and the energy density is presumably the cell, not the battery.
One to watch - never heard of Zeekr and they only formed in 2021 but the parent company, Geely, seems to be one of those huge corporations that you’ve never heard of but is a massive manufacturer of automobiles (over 1.3 million sales in 2021 according to Wikipedia).
It seems they own Volvo, Polestar, Proton and … er … Lotus!
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