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.
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.
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’m just gonna leave this right here:
Do you honestly think Biden is making the argument that China will pay for these tariffs? So far he’s been pretty clear that it’s about giving American companies an advantage here, not about making China pay.
I’ve been actively suggesting to those who ask my opinion that they should wait until 2025 and more models coming out with NACS charging integrated. Tesla may be a shitshow but you can’t (yet) beat the charging infrastructure and adapters are never as good.
Also, the market is changing so rapidly that it’s hard to justify most of the current offerings.
Definitely a good time to consider a lease. You don’t want to be saddled with something outdated in a year or two. Leases are ok for precisely this situation where you want to get frequent new cars and not keep the old. While technology is changed by so fast, why not?
I did go ahead with a purchase but I considered it. I believe Tesla currently has a fantastic deal on A Model 3 lease so maybe that would have changed something but it’s too late for me
1 extra year will help to see how the batteries actual perform. After 10 years a Tesla’s battery is under 80% of its original capacity, you’re at the point of losing 1/4, 25%, of range. Not sure how many fail completely.
Not to mention many live in cold climates 1/3+ of the year, further impacting EV capacity. That’s the killer for me currently. I can’t not go to work for a week due to a cold snap.
I can’t not go to work for a week due to a cold snap.
Are you working 100+ miles away from home? On a 300 mile per useful charge battery, you temporarily lose about 20% usefulness to extreme cold, that still leaves you with 270 total range. So assuming you work 100 miles away, and do zero charging at work, you’d still have 170 miles of range to get back home in the cold.
If you can charge at work, this becomes even easier.
When he fired all 500 members of the Tesla supercharger team out of spite, a lot of those common plug agreements got real shakey. That team was responsible for integrating all the different manufacturers into the Tesla ecosystem, which is a much bigger lift then just a plug and some protocols.
Right now they dont even have anyone who knows who was installing what, where. Coordinating integration of a dozen billion dollar car brands into infastructure Tesla now doesnt even understand? We might be waiting till 2026 or never for that to happen.
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.
