Hold your horses: Electric cars won’t go mainstream, Honda says
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Hold your horses: Electric cars won’t go mainstream, Honda says https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/h...ainstream/?amp Quote:
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And... Don’t ditch gasoline just yet: BMW argues electric cars are overhyped https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/b...are-overhyped/ Quote:
Well, at least for Honda and BMW. :turtle: > |
Well, obvi.
EVs have a $7,500+ subsidy and represent 1% of US sales. Can you imagine what would happen, if for instance, the Honda Accord was given a $7,500 subsidy. 90% of all vehicles sold would be a Honda Accord then. The batteries have to get better/cheaper. If it's just incremental improvements like we've seen, it will be some time before they overtake ICE sales. On the other hand, if a breakthrough occurs, such as the hype surrounding solid state batteries, then they might overtake ICE sales relatively quickly. My WAG is 2035 to hit 50% sales. We'll see more plug-in hybrids in the meantime. |
Toyota said the same thing.
Then you combine the limited winter range with local governments taxing the **** out of them and you get what we have. |
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Hmmm... Ford and GM’s decision to abandon small cars is already costing them. https://jalopnik.com/ford-and-gms-de...ady-1839858417 :turtle: |
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Not for a long time.
Today electric makes up less than 3% of new car sales, still less than 1% of cars on the road are electric. Heck even the DoE figures by 2030 that 70% of new cars sold will still be straight gas burners, 10% will be all electric and the rest will be some made up of hybrid and plug in hybrid. |
Yes, but Toyota, F-C, and GM are against California maintaining its own standards, so it is costing them?
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It's a matter of battery, everything it's about battery and not the electric car itself.
If a battery with high energy density, to drive 300 miles or more, with low price, fast charging, and eco friendly arrive, electric cars will became the "electric boomer" generation of vehicles. With a affordable battery, the other components of electric car, if mass production take the helm, became quite cheap. I isn't a matter of when expect industry to start mass production of electric cars, but a matter o when affordable high density battery will become reality. |
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Yes, but actual batteries are a limitation for range. You can make something as Tesla do, but with a scarring cost.
Tesla it's as affordable as a yacht. Their batteries are ultra expensive and last just few years. But you can make a small short range electric car. Unfortunatelly people don't want small short range vehicles. Consumers, specially in USA, have that "freudian complex syndrome with big things". Quote:
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