If you can make trucks for 20k and sell them for 100k, why would you make cars for 8k to sell at 10k? It’s bad economics.
I’m not saying it right. Just saying that’s what they are clearly insensitived to do.
Comment on More Gas Cars and Trucks, Fewer E.V.s as Automakers Change Plans
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
They’re simply too expensive across the board. Build me a subcompact, bare-bones street-legal EV for $10,000 and you won’t be able to make them quick enough to keep up with demand for a decade.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 2 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
China has done it, and they’ll be here soon.
American Auto Manufacturers - it’s hard to even conceive how you’ve thrown away the biggest car market in the history of the world, but. You have. Multiple times.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No they won’t, American politicians preach free market all day and night but will protect American automakers from Chinese competition at the same time. They won’t allow BYD on the streets of Michigan because the second they do, the real owners of Detroit stop donating
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BYD doesn’t pay the tariffs, and they’ll just build a plant in Juarez and boop there they are trundling around the US.
The real owners of Detroit left 30 years ago. They all live in London, or Phoenix now.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would buy one too, sounds amazing!
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hell, I’ll even take crank windows, manual locks and no key fob, just to get the cost down. AM/FM radio only, no fancy computers, just an electric drivetrain with A/C, heat and can get me too and from the store and work.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 2 months ago
The fewer features, the fewer things there are to break. That cuts into profits.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No heated seats needs as well, and no internet connectivity needed. Hell remove the Bluetooth if you give me a aux port.