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Originally Posted by Snax
I don't believe it adds enough to the cost to be concerned with it in any case. Nice little boost, but just too much ado about relatively nothing. The EV haters are certainly going to have a field day with the rare case of individual that doesn't understand that reality, but honestly, the impact of that will be insignificant against the majority of people who now actually want to drive electric.
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I went over this in detail in post
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Aptera prices solar at $700 to add 400 watts. Extrapolating that out, the customer is paying $1,575 for 700 watts ($2.25 per watt). At 10 cents per kWh, that could pay for 15,750 kWh. That is 157,500 miles in the Aptera! Aptera claims the car can gain about 10,000 solar miles per year in San Francisco. At that rate, you'd only need 16 years to break even on that investment.
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I guess solar only represents 6% of the total cost of the vehicle. Then again, the cost of manufacturing the car might be reduced by much more than 6% if solar was left off entirely, as an option.
The point is, many consumers are going to have unrealistic expectations of what solar will be capable of, and not consider the huge inconveniences they will suffer when a cloudy day prevents them from making their commute to work.
As an EV advocate, we should be setting expectations slightly low so that people are pleasantly surprised when EVs meet or exceed their expectation. The fanatics out there hype things and portray EVs in an unrealistically positive light so that when people finally experience them, their expectations are not met.
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Originally Posted by Snax
Consumer reports put interest at EV purchase for new cars at 71% back in July.
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61% of US self-report that they are Christian. Do we see 200M people at church on Sunday?
People put what they think they should say in surveys, they don't actually consider their own motivations.
We're at 3% EV market share. I use that as my criteria to assess consumer interest.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
"Crabs want to drag you back in the bucket"
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More like daydreamers' can't be dragged back to reality.