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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Price is the #1 factor affecting EV adoption. You think the Leaf wouldn't sell any better if it could be bought new for $5,000?
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Sure, and they'd sell even more if they were given away in a box of cereal :-) (Like digital watches: the first ones were a status symbols costing many hundreds of 1970s dollars. Couple of decades later I got one in a cereal box.) But the reality is that the Leaf and other non-Tesla EVs are priced comparably to other new cars, so if new car buyers are choosing not to buy them, it must be for reasons other than price.
Now those reasons might be limited range, or a limited choice of models, or just (as with Harleys and a lot of diesel pickups) the desire to drive a 'macho' vehicle that makes lots of noise and stink :-)