• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The margins are thinner. There’s almost no resale value. Someone might buy a 60k car and eat the payments for a few years, knowing that they can sell it any time for a decent price.

    Buying a 60k EV is more like setting your money on fire. The car might be fine, great even, but it just won’t hold it’s value.

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      7 months ago

      Those are reasons people don’t want to buy EVs, not reasons for companies to sabotage the change over.

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        7 months ago

        Companies give zero fucks about anything but money.

        Completely retooling for EVs is expensive with a lot of risk. And they’ll make less money afterwards…

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      7 months ago

      why is that? i don’t think lithium batteries degrade THAT fast?

      if the used market had these dirt cheap evs here id probably be considering them. scratch that there is no way to charge them in my country unless you live in a house, or unless you can use regular power outlets hahaha

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      7 months ago

      There’s almost no resale value.

      That is not an EV thing, that is a new, rapidly developing technology thing.