The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown.
Other factors contributing to waning EV demand in the United States include stubborn inflation, high interest rates and underwhelming growth in model availability, the study said.
The options are basically an SUV with a giant touch screen and data harvesting, plus a cell phone connection so they can brick your car with a software update. None of that is appealing to me.
They’re relatively pricey, they’re hard to find, you likely can’t charge one if you live in an apartment or rent a house and the economy is in the shitter.
So yeah.
Many are discounting their cars quite a bit, especially leases. My state added in an instant rebate that brings down some bz4x trims to $60/month for the years. That would actually pay for itself with gas savings.
Apartment charging is still an issue that needs to be solved. But home rental shouldn’t be much of an issue if there is an outdoor outlet. Charging at level 1 will get you between 3-5 miles per hour of charge which will top 50-80% of people up overnight.
Edit: fixed autocorrect typos.
I feel like that needs to be an option. We have had electric dogs for years. Why no electric cats?
I mean people are also probably planning on buying fewer bagels this year.
I also love carbs, but fuel injection is just more reliable and economical.
Well, when the people that could afford to buy one and were considering it in former years ended up buying one and the people who were waiting for them to become more affordable were met with the news that their only hope for a cheap option was artificially doubled in price overnight to try to prolong the death knells of American hegemony then your left with fewer people considering them.
their only hope for a cheap option was artificially doubled in price overnight
Not true.
Well make one that doesn’t fucking cost 50k and I would.
