Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America
Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America
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Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America
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Come on people - I want a EV, but as a used car buyer I'm stuck with the garbage you bought 3-7 years ago.
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EVs generally hold up better over time than ICE vehicles. For one thing they don't vibrate themselves to pieces. You should get the battery checked out before buying and there will be some degradation but an EV will last basically forever.
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For one thing they don’t vibrate themselves to pieces
..what?
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but an EV will last basically forever
Tell that to my 5 year old Ioniq that already had a catastrophic motor/transmission unit failure that would have totaled the car if it hadn't been covered by warranty.
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Most vibration comes from the road not the engine, and the worst is road hazzards. Engines are Carefully balanced and isolated.
Not that it matters, where I like rust from winter road salt is what kills cars. And cars still last a long time if you care for them.
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Batteries usually hold up long enough, unless you're looking at 10+ year old cars.
The real issue is that the mechanics have no clue on what to check at the annual services, so they'll let people down on the brakes, suspension, ball joints and AC fluids long before any warning lamp ever lights up on their computers. These things are assumed to break even when following the manufacturer guidelines.
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I bet it would grow a lot faster if the US got China's cheap electric cars as an option
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with how anti-EV the gop is, doub t it.
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Didn't the EV tax credits go away? I haven't been following very closely.
If so, then isn't 6% growth still kinda good? At least it didn't shrink within the first year of the "price hike", right?
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Didn't the EV tax credits go away?
End of September I think?
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Yes; you have to order by end of September.
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There's also that cultural shift that resulted in people's Teslas getting burned or vandalized. I would imagine that some many would-be Tesla buyers changed their minds because they wouldn't want their new car to get attacked.
So with the tax rebate ending and the Tesla destruction, I'm oddly kinda optimistic about that 6%. It's still progress
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The usa is on decline, so the numbers add up
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They're all expensive here. Give me a 10k China EV please