• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Most EVs still cost 10-20K more than their conventional counterparts. Most working class people simply cannot afford an EV, end of story. It has very little to do with “choice” and “awareness” or whatever.

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      13 days ago

      Working class people rarely can afford new cars anyway and this ban targets initial registrations, not the already existing market of second hand cars.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
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      13 days ago

      Most EVs still cost 10-20K more than their conventional counterparts.

      Which is entirely bullshit and partly caused by misplanning proper production numbers and mostly by just plain anti-EV propaganda that unneccessarily reduces demand by making you believe in actual desinformation.

      From an economical perspective we knew for many years that EVs are actually cheaper once batteries fall under ~100$/kWh… Now go lookup battery costs…

      Spoiler

      ~60$/kWh

      And alas EVs are actually cheaper already (or are we trying to pretend that people -in particular those struggling to pay the costs- are paying them with available cash and not already financing them over years?).

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      13 days ago

      End of story? Where is the fucking story?

      The car companies need to make them more affordable.