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Originally Posted by cellsafemode
why? because you love the increased maintenance cost of ICE powered vehicles?
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Tesla's warranty costs ( and this from a car maker with very few miles on their cars compared to the big 3) have warranty costs twice as high per vehicle as the big 3. Tesla builds cars in big tents, their quality sucks. Resale on battery cars has sucked the big one for some time, your engine is worthless in 8 yrs, that's reliable.
Let me know when they quit selling 90m IC cars a year. That's a trend you can count on. Fully autonomous cars are a very long ways away, maybe some day your George Jetson dream will come true. This isn't the first time EV's have come around , that and solar were big themes a long time ago. Fact is the very first cars were electric, then the IC engine was developed and it never looked back. Tough to pay 2x the price with subsidies for a car that has less functionality and no one knows how to service them.
From a recent article on China who is the leading buyer of EV's -
"In China, about 70% of the 1.2 million electric or gasoline-electric hybrid models sold over the past year went to government and company fleets, according to Bernstein. Almost 500,000 bought by consumers were in cities that offer incentives such as being exempt from registration fees or license plate waiting lists.
“Few real consumers buy EVs except when forced by regulations,” Bernstein researchers Robin Zhu, Luke Hong and Xuan Ji said in a report."