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[Dormant] Electric Vehicles
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Why is it so difficult for these manufacturers to sell a $5000 to $10000 4-door hatchback?
Sure the margins might be razor thin but the market in NA is essentially untapped. (I am certain I am wrong here because silly Americans want big cars so there's actually no market. But let's assume we can somehow convince enough people to buy one...)
Even I, a non-industry outsider can see the great potential for a very modern petrol/EV hybrid and compact city car thats loaded with smart tech (still offline). Imagine all the cool stuff we can do with it like color themes and modern LED based lighting and good features like physical buttons and a bangin' sound system. Not to mention we can have top notch safety features and not sacrifice mileage since it will be a small car.
I don't know that a $10,000 hatchback electric would be profitable in the US.
Just my two cents
Not with the cost of the battery being more than that. We will probably see some 10k evs in the resale market eventually but I'm not sure we will ever see 10k or even sub 15k in the new vehicle market.
That's why I think we should go with a petrol or a hybrid car. Mileage would be so good that it will tide over the gap until we figure out how to make batteries economically viable.
Tell us you don't understand economics without telling us.
Also, tell us you haven't been paying attention to evs without telling us.
There are a couple of new chemistries that should be in vehicles soon that are from more abundant and lower cost ingredients.
Just like everything else over the centuries, the first iterations of a brand new technology are going to be a lot more expensive than some of us would like. Over time with enough demand and development that price will fall as it's already doing with ev batteries just not fast enough for some of you whiners.